state s attorney general. welcome to monday. it s meet the press daily. i m kacie hunt in for chuck todd. it s a very busy monday. we begin this hour with a round of applause. [ applause ] this morning cameras captures the first shipment of this country s first single dose vaccine coming off the assembly line after the fda granted johnson & johnson s request for emergency use. moments ago the first shipment left the vaccine processing facility as johnson & johnson ceo today reiterated their go to deliver four million doses this week. it can no, ma am come soon enough because cases have dropped, those declines this dire warning. these data are recent declines to be stalling over 75,000 cases. with these new cases i m really worried. we stand completely to lose the hard earned ground we have gained. these variants are a threat to our people and our progress. now is not the time to relax the critical safeguards that we know the stop the spread of covid-19 in our communitie
group but you cannot actively participate in it. we will have to see in the coming months whether that makes a fundamental difference on any trend that develops on extremism in the ranks. victor. barbara starr, thank you. top of the hour, i m victor blackwell, good to be with you. five days now until christmas, and the pandemic is taking what experts are calling a grim path forward. today the u.s. is averaging more than 130,000 new infections a day. that s a 10% increase over a week ago. new york, an early epicenter of the pandemic has seen record positive case numbers for three days in a row. mayor bill de blasio says he will decide this week whether to go forward with new york s famed new year s eve celebration in times square. cnn s jason carroll is with me now. what more are we learning from the mayor, also the governor today as they move forward on this new surge? the mayor is saying a couple of things. first and foremost, he said earlier today that there are no pl
have any idea who this individual may be and also what is the united states doing in a situation where there are no diplomatic pipelines open, no contacts that actually exist with the country where a u.s. person has been detained? yeah, well, i think we need to note that we don t know much at all about who this american is right now. we don t know if it s a male, a female, if they were just an american going on one of these joint security tours when they were visiting south korea or if they were a member of the military. we don t know right now who this person was and that is a critical question because that will influence kind of the the conversations that are had between the u.s. and south korea and then, of course, potentially north korea to try to secure their release. but to your point about the fact that the united states doesn t have regular diplomatic relations with north korea particularly right now in the biden administration, that makes a situation like this even
for someone who built his political career, of course, on the notion he is a billionaire, maybe not so much. whether or not that is literally true. none of this is final until the judge signed off on all of it, but as we saw, it has not stopped yet, the former president from making it politically. he went on social media with one of his all-time favorite charges, that phrase, say it with me now, witchhunt, and claiming there are legal systems being used as a political weapon. but here s the thing. to damages that are vastly bigger than anyone expected allow him to frame all of this as an attack against him? after all, more than half of voters in our new hampshire exit poll said donald trump would be fit for presidency, even if he is convicted of a crime. joining me now are gwendolyn, a former da in dekalb county georgia, and rena shaw. i m so glad both of you are here, but first of all i have got to get your reaction to this, when thinking about that this is an $83 million ve
including a live report from moscow and the littest from the white house. plus we re digging into the september jobs reports, which shows 263,000 new jobs added last month. matching the lowest level since 1969. so why is the the market selling off? finally, the white house raises the white flag on the war on weed. the president declaring a pardons for thousands convicted on federal charges of marijuana possession. more on the move and what will factor into the midterm races. we start with president biden s warning, one of the most chilling we have heard from anyone in the government on the subject of nuclear war. in biden s words, quote, we have not faced the prospect of armageddon since kennedy. he added putin isn t joke whg he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons. it s not clear whether biden was referencing any new intelligence in making this prediction, although we re asking that of the white house right now. in fac