Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. And im matt lauer. Well get to that severe flooding in northeast australia in a couple of minutes. More rescues there over the last 24 hours. Al will join us and tell us abt a powerful storm system right here at home that could be spawning some tornados in the coming days. Also ahead, strong signals from the boy scouts that it will end its nationwide exclusion of gay scouts and leaders. At least one major group is saying that may force it to move its support to other boys organizations. New questions this morning about the death of Country Singer Mindy Mcreadys boyfriend as she opens up about what happened the night he died. Well hear from her. Its an emotional and candid interview. First to that deadly flooding in australia. Sarah james is in brisbane for us this morning. S sarah, good
Good morning, it is friday, august 1st. Oh, look at that. Oh, dear lord, where did july goes . Time flies when youre having so much fun. Welcome to morning joe, everybody. Time goes a lot faster. Boom with us on set, we have Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and associate editor of the Washington Post and msnbc political analyst, euGene Robinson. Pulitzer prize winning author jon meacham is here. We have so many pulitzers here. Won the masters in 86. Wasnt it odd three or odd four . We have breaking news so if we can just move forward here. Right, willie . In washington, senior Political Editor and White House Correspondent for the Huffington Post sam stein. Never won a pulitzer. He has so many years ahead of him, though. What did we win our pulitzer for, willie . It was fan fiction we wrote. Yes that is it i think it was a how to. That was it. Did you forget what year it was . It was odd three. I cant remember what summer it was. They run together. Can we go to the breaking news now .
Welcome back, everybody. Lets get a check on the day ahead before we toss it to morning joe. President obama will deliver remarks on the ebola crisis that u. N. Before returning to the white house this afternoon. And the man arrested in connection with the abduction of university of virginia student Hannah Graham is set to appear in a Virginia Court this morning. Thats going to do it for way too early. Morning joe starts right now. No reasoning, no negotiation with this brand of evil. The only language understood by killers like this is the language of force. So, the United States of america will work with a Broad Coalition to dismantle this network of death. Those who have joined isol should leave the battlefield while they can. Those who continue to fight for a hateful cause will find
theyre increasingly alone. For we will not succumb to threats and we will demonstrate that the future belongs to those who build, not those who destroy. The president addressing the u. N. Yesterday. Goo
President trump even during this painful week we see glimmers of very strong hope and this will be a very painful week. And it next week, at least part of next week but probably all of it. Look, if one person dies, its a painful week and we know that will unfortunately happen. This is a monster we are fighting. But signs are that our strategy is totally working. Sandra we have Fox Team Coverage for you this morning. David lee miller is in new york city. We begin with dr. Anthony fauci, good morning and welcome. Thanks for being here this morning. Its good to be with you. Sandra so to use the president s own words, we are battling a monster. Where do we stand against the fight against covid19 this morning . As you correctly reported, the number on of deaths on a given day continue to increase. And at the same time, seemingly paradoxically but not, we are starting to see some glimmers of hope because the deaths generally lagged by a couple of weeks behind whats fueling the outbreak, name
Good evening, again in last 24 hours more than 4,000 people have died of coronavirus in this country. Heard a researcher talk about new modeling that shows 60,000 fatalities by early august, more than killed during 15 years of fighting in vietnam. With that as backdrop, country grappling to get back to some sort of normality, president and task force briefed the country tonight, lot of slides and details, federal backup on coronavirus testing but not a centralized federal plan for managing it, implementing it, helping pay for it, supplying materials needing to do it or taking responsibility for it. President took questions about his support for protesters in three states to resist social distancing guidelines, the guidelines his own task force is calling for. Sent out three tweets saying liberate those states. That and much more ahead. Kaitlan collins, any better sense why the president is talking about liberating certain states . From the very guidelines that he and the task force hav