Classified briefings. Also breaking. Sweeping drawdowns of american troops in afghanistan and iraq announced by President Trumps newly appointed acting defense secretary. Its the latest in a series of controversial moves by the president as his weeks in the white house dwindle. The drawdown will leave just 2,500 troops in each country by january 15th, five days before the start of the biden administration. We are also following breaking pandemic news right now that a number of americans killed by covid19 has just surpassed 248,000 as cases climb to more than 11. 2 million, prompting many states to implement new restrictions. Pfizer announced its vaccine was reached its safety milestone and the company is preparing to file with the fda for emergency use authorization. First, lets get more on the president ial transition right now with senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny is reporting from wilmington, delaware. The president wont let his experts brief the incoming president so the
Rigging, there you go. Millions voted for a ghost with a whitened smile. They had no idea who this man was or what he might do if he got elected. At the urging of the media, they voted for him anyway. Now the rest of us get to find out what they voted for. Joe biden is assembling his cabinet. We will go by his choices to let us know what to expect. Whats emerging as of tonight looks a lot like the h. R. Department at a large leftwing multinational. Heaps of woke authoritarian social policy mixed with a corporatist economic agenda. The rest of us will get stern lectures about our moral failings. Those never end. A small group of highly connected people will get even richer. Indoes that sound familiar to yr if jeff bezos and the google guys took over the entire u. S. Government, and effectively they have, this is what it would look like. Steve is the archetype to theli new biden aid, one of joe bidens closest advisors. Hes spent years as a lobbyist representing Companies Like general mot
Against the brady bill. Were not going to win these critical house and senate races if people in those races have to explain why the nominee of the Democratic Party is telling people to look at the bright side of the castro regime. I want to go now to our road warriors all across South Carolina. Shaquille brewster, let me start with you. Bernie took a lot of jobs on that debate stage. Who are than 30 by our count. How is he shaking it off this morning and looking beyond South Carolina and to super tuesday . Reporter they see last night was tough but nothing fundamentally changed last night. Today senator sanders is back on the campaign trail. Weve seen him have an event already. This was a state, an entire region where he didnt do well among black voters today he was making a direct appeal to black voters listen to that appeal earlier today. Racism is rampant in housing, in health care, in education, in Financial Services and my promise to you is that instead of dividing the American P
Up. People are now staying in the United States, spending their money in the u. S. And i like that. The head of the World Health Organization in geneva, and donald trump on fox news. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is friday, march 6th along with joe, willie and me we have donny deutsch. Republican strategist and msnbc political analyst susan del percio and associate editor of the Washington Post and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson. Great to have you all on board on this friday morning. What a week. What a week its been. We can start, of course, willie, with american politics. Which, i think, has seen one of the most dramatic changes for any candidate or even actually a president ial primary in one weeks time that weve ever seen. It was a week ago that joe biden was still considered to be on the ropes, a guy out of money, a guy with no organization to speak of, who had no offices in many of the key states. He was considered to be on his last leg. One week later he i
Campaign in the hot seat. Up in smoke, the Marijuana Law that got shut down in a deep blue state. Fox and friends first starts right now. Heather good morning, you are watching fox and friends first on this tuesday morning, thank you for starting the day with us as always, we appreciate it. Fresh followed from the Mueller Report, william barr set to testify before congress as democrats demand more information. Garrett tenney live in washington where the fight is far from over. Thank you for joining us. It is not over by a long shot. The attorney general will be on capitol hill before the House Appropriations committee not about the special counsel investigation but a regularly scheduled appearance, you can be sure the russia investigation will come up. As Congress Returns to washington democrats made clear they plan to continue their own investigation is the president and to fight for the entire Mueller Report to be released to the public. I think the Mueller Report will clear the pres