because i won it during the day because i won a grammy that nobody wants to see a performance about. so it was like on the earlier part of the day when they do like the smaller grammys kind of yes. you are very nice, lawrence. i was susan and i were on a beer run and we had driven to a local brewery to pick up some hooch and we were driving down the massachusetts turnpike when we heard the news streaming on susan s cell phone and it was very surreal. i can imagine. and so the audience should know that this is not an easy category. you were in the audiobook category. by the way, your director scott also i believe gets a grammy for his role in this, the greatest he deserves them all. he is fantastic, yes. he has directed my audiobooks and of course has gotten so recognition for it because why would he? because they re me. but but, rachel, so here s who else was in the field you were nominated with. okay? because wait. i lost you. oh. rachel has to hear this.
good morning! and welcome to way too early, the show that wants to hear more about this four-day workweek idea. we re going to tell you about that little bit later on in the show. i am kasie hunt on this tuesday, march 16th. we ll start with the news. europe s fight against coronavirus just hit another snag as more countries hit pause on the astrazeneca vaccine due to concerns about side effects. germany, france, italy and spain have halted use of the vaccine after reports of blood clots in some people who had recently received shots. denmark and norway halted the shots last week. astrazeneca says a review of 17 million people found no increased risk of blood clots and the world health organization is urging countries to continue using it. this comes as europe faces a third wave of coronavirus amid a slow vaccine rollout. the shot, which was developed with oxford university, has not yet been approved for use in the united states. the fda is still reviewing data to determi
you can see how extraordinarily uncomfortable i was. frankly, i didn t know how to handle that episode. i still think about it every day. it s something dr. fauci and i talked about all the time, is how to correct the record. wow. i still think about it every day. dr. deborah birx, the former white house covid response coordinator under president trump in a new interview with abc news. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it s tuesday, march 16th. so let s talk about that for one second. you know, willie, at the time, dr. birx was getting abused oh, yeah. and criticized and you know, there are some things she said and did that were concerning to me, but you know it was mostly what she didn t say. she was trying to stay in to have some influence on a guy who was erratic and crazed on this issue. and people can say, well, she people are saying, she should just quit. and you re like, okay, how could it get worse if she just quit? well, dr. scott atlas cou
that saw the highest number of votes in u.s. history. we re also following the latest on the capitol riots. two men now facing charges of assault in connection with the death of capitol police officer brian sicknick. why did it take more than two months to arrest these guys? and why aren t they charged with murder? we ll have more on that in just a minute plus, the latest on the covid pandemic. numbers continue to go down in the u.s. but they re spiking over in europe, leading to tighter restrictions in several countries. to make matters worse, the vaccine rollout is on hold in several places in europe after officials stopped using one of the approved vaccines. we re going to dig into all of that. but we have to start with breaking news connected to one of the big of the trials in recent memory, the trial of former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin. as we speak, the judge is gaveling in and he s got a big question on his plate, whether to even move forward or put t
the biden administration wants to see made permanent. so, i think this is part of building that for them. and the questions are whether or not they actually get there, but also how the execution of it goes. so, that s how you saw president biden say he s tapping gene sperling, this long-time democratic economic aide to oversee the spending here. he was talking about how when he oversaw the stimulus bill in 2009 amid the great recession, how crucial it was to just be on the phone, have these conversations at a granular level to make sure there is no fraud or abuse or mis-spending. i think that s the next big tactic for them to go after because, of course, republicans are going to be watching very closely for any kind of a misstep and if they haven t properly communicated it. be cautious, fullcourt press, that s number one. number two, what s the story out of the cdc today? we re getting new reporting that some of the covid guidelines put in place by the trump administration