Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, november 24th. Along with joe, willie and me, we have white house report for the Associated Press, jonathan lemire. Nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of way too early, kasie hunt back with us. And joe, its book day for you. Happy book day. Well get to that in a moment but first, a lot happened yesterday to clear the way for the Trump Administration to actually recognize joe biden as the president elect. Lets go through how things played out. It started with the state of michigans top election board voting yesterday to certify president elect joe bidens win over President Trump with a margin of more than 154,000 votes. Three out of four Board Members including one republican voted to certify the election results. The other gop board member withheld his vote. Last week, President Trump welcomed two other state lawmakers from michigan who had been pushing to delay certification in key counties to the white house in a move
His cabinet picks this week with veteran diplomat tony blinken expected to be named secretary of state. With the state department depleted and many of our alliances fractured, the question is, what message is biden sending to the agency and to the world . And millions of americans are traveling for thanksgiving, despite Health Officials urging everyone to stay home. With covid cases already surging, the question is whether were setting ourselves up for a nightmare before christmas . Its way too early for this. Good morning, and welcome to way too early, the show that deserves, along with all of you, seconds and maybe even thirds this thanksgiving. Im kasie hunt on this monday, november 23rd. Well start with the news. The u. S. Surpassed 12 million cases of covid19 on saturday. It followed two Straight Days of recordbreaking highs that drove the United States to a million new cases in the last week. On thursday, the cdc recommended against traveling and gathering for thanksgiving, but t
Significant stress. Weve seen that particularly in the labour market, with peoplesjobs. We know that three quarters of a Million People have tragically already lost theirjobs, with forecasts of more to come. A usjudge has dismissed president trumps latest challenge to his election defeat as a frankensteins monster of a case. And. A moment shell never forget a baby elephant is rescued afterfalling down a well in india. The Prime Minister will announce tomorrow what sort of covid 19 restrictions may be in place in england over christmas. Borisjohnson is believed to be meeting with his cabinet at the moment to discuss the details, including allowing limited household mixing over the festive period as well as a new tougher tiered system of restrictions, which will begin once englands month long lockdown ends on 2nd december. Talks also continue between the governments of the home nations to come to a common agreement for the whole of the uk over christmas. Heres our Political Correspondent
Dianne, this is remarkable. Youre basically by law in michigan asking this canvassing board to acknowledge what the votes say and yet theres a question about it. Apparently theres a question about it. This is a mundane procedure, and look, the hope for many here in michigan is that it remains that way, but at least one of the four members of this board of canvassers has indicated that they are not going to vote to certify the election. Its made up of two democrats and two republicans. They need three of the members to vote to certify for certification to happen. Now my producer, dan shepherd, went by the home of the other gop member. His wife said hes not going to talk about what hes going to do before that 1 00 p. M. Meeting today, so all eyes are on that vote. Now, here is the key thing here. Technically, all the board of canvassers are supposed to do is review and tally up each of the certified county canvases. Thats it. Theyre not supposed to be asking questions or even asking for
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