united states senate. so they will all have the chance to talk to voters tonight. that is a good looking. someone did you very well. thank you. have a good night. stack at the end of this hour we have to say our final farewell to willie mays, who sadly died tonight at the age of 93. the stock market hit record highs again today. something that the religion called trumpism insists is impossible because in the last presidential campaign, donald trump promised this. if he is elected, the stock market will crash. trumpism depends on stupidity. it has to because donald trump is so profoundly stupid himself. it is impossible to get stupidity out of trumpism. there was once a time when i could tell you that every republican united states senator knew donald trump was lying when he said that china paid american tariffs. american tariffs for the entire history of the american government have been paid by the american people, that is how tariffs work. they are sales taxes pai
the secretary of homeland security called it a, quote, difficult situation. question is, why won t he call it a crisis? and democrats press forward with key agenda items like immigration and voting rights but with a slim majority in the senate and the filibuster getting in their way, the question remains, what are they going to do about it? it s way too early for this. good morning! and welcome to way too early, the show that s really wondering if we could just spring forward to friday? i am kasie hunt on this thursday, march 18th. we ll start with the news. the suspect arrested in the murder spree at three spas in the atlanta area has been charged. 21-year-old robert long faces eight counts of murder and one count of aggravated assault. police say he killed four people inside one spa, three people inside another and one person inside a third spa. officials say he was arrested while on the way to florida, possibly to carry out more attacks. six of the eight victims we
with 740 deaths, and more than 41,000 hospitalizations, which is a significant reduction from peaks two months ago. but it s still far too high say health policy experts trying to prevent another surge. 11 states are reporting an uptick in new infections compared to last week. vaccinations are the bright spot here, the nation is averaging 2.4 million actual shots a day. with more than 11% of the country fully inoculated against coronavirus through the vaccine. then s senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is joining us now. i feel like this uk variant has been the tsunami we see coming at us. where is at this point in time? that s for sure. remember, brianna, when we were counting cases by variant, one by one, but now there are thousands. what we know about this uk variant, it s been spotted in 48 out of 50 states. the vaccine seems to work pretty well against it but it seems to spread more easily. and according to a new study just out, the risk of death when you get
trump, even though corcoran is still representing trump. especially one that comes to fund-raising, it seems, he s not really slow walking this thing. not at all. he is trying to leverage his criminal charges here for maximum political gain, and what we saw trump doing throughout this investigation is try to raise money off of it, and then when the indictments actually hit, he went into turbo charge with his fund-raising, raising millions of dollars from small dollar contributors around the country who, you know, are loyal to him, who are hearing messages from him and his supporters claiming that this was a witch hunt, claiming that he s been unfairly persecuted by the government, and it s paying off. he you know, we re still waiting to hear from all of the other presidential candidates how much money they ve raised in