welcome back to morning joe. 6:34 at the white house this morning. a busy day there. we will get back to that story in a moment. meanwhile, an ugly scene in college basketball yesterday when a fight broke out during the postgame handshake line after the michigan/wisconsin game. michigan head coach jawan howard, a former nba star, a member of the fab five back in the day, was upset that wisconsin called a time-out late in a blow-out game after some heated exchanges, howard punched a wisconsin assistant in the head. players and staff from both sides then got involved. lots of pushing and shoving. in his postgame press conference howard did not apologize for the incident, saying he reacted to someone putting his hands on him. quote, at that point i felt it was time to protect myself. the big ten conference said it planned to take swift and appropriate disciplinary action when it completes its review. while michigan athletics director ward manuel said he quickly apologized to wisconsin
i think ward manuel was correct. the big ten can do its own thing. michigan can do their own thing. will there be a punishment from the school itself, do you think? . i think the big ten and michigan will probably announce the suspension together. meaning it will very likely be more than two games. i ve talked to some people who thinks it will be the rest of the regular season, five games. some think it will be the rest of the regular season and postseason. i think it is more likely it will be the rest of the regular season, five more games. then he comes back for the big ten tournament and ncaa tournament if michigan makes it. . you re a coach. you ve got kids playing for you. you ve got to behave better than this. thank you so much for being with us. appreciate it. . thanks for having me on, john. britain s queen elizabeth is battling covid-19. buckingham palace said the 95-year-old monarch is experiencing symptoms, cold-like symptoms. max foster is live in windsor,
august 31. that will be a red line. we have a member of the board of directors for the organization no one left behind, howard manuel. and chief correspondent for pbs news hour. welcome to the three of you. so matt, you ve been speaking with evacuees there who have made it out of afghanistan. what are they saying about how the u.s. is handling this process? well, there s a lot of anger and despair and also a lot of confusion. jake sullivan just mentioned how this was such a massive dup low matic security logistical undertaking here at the air base. it it s also a big bureaucratic undertaking. and just to point that we heard that there are some 6,000 to 7,000 afghans athis the base and they re coming in at least 36 flights from around the region. only two flights we confirmed so far, that number is about to be updated, only two flights have actually left onward to the states. i spoke with one man, he and a
the system. that doesn t count the tens of thousands of other afghan that s worked with u.s. affiliated projects and now consider themselves vulnerable. the big story here and big question is going to be how long will the president s commitment go to evacuate everyone who feels unsafe. such a great pount. and howard, you work with the group that coordinated a civilian effort. you chartered a private flight to an airport there. help us understand how that process worked and why it was necessary. yeah. thank you so much for having me on the air. so our organization no one left behind, we ve been around for a while. working on this issue. obviously, have put in an idea of what is going on. we partner with other organizations to form save our allies. that group together we have now chartered i believe around nine flights to the middle east. and taking afghans from there
Don’t make our endangered Afghan and Iraqi military interpreters wait one more day for visas
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What a bitter irony it is for the Afghan and Iraqi military interpreters, and their families, who served with our combat forces and now wait in line, hoping to be issued a Special Immigrant Visa to come to the United States before they are punished, even killed, by vengeful enemies for aiding our troops. All this while tens of thousands of illegal immigrants, none of whom have aided our troops, pour across our southern borders.
Howard Manuel’s April 2 commentary (“Our moral obligation to military interpreters”) makes the case for America doing far more to aid specific allies than we have done and are doing. As these men linger in long lines awaiting permission to enter America legally, the cartels are taking advantage of the current administration’s leniency at the border and, in the process, victimizing people physically, emotionally, and economically. The