But its a phone call with chinas president that has tons wagging. What was said about north korea and its Nuclear Ambitions . Weve got adam shapiro following all the action at the United Nations and National Security experts john hanna and larry korb on the big signal that u. S. Defense Company Stocks are giving that show fear about north korea is real and palpable. Plus, cisco, it turns out screamed out the warning but qibble fax didnt follow ciscos lead. It was cisco that discovered a major security flaw, ended up exposing telling equifax and then equifax not showing and exposing the details of 143 million americans. Cisco executive chairman john chambers, well talk to him about that, Online Security, Silicon Valley, and why hes walking away from the company that has been his home for decades. Yes, that announced just today. And on wall street, its a new week and the bulls are back. The hat trick once again in range. New intraday records for the dow, s p 500, and the nasdaq. But can
Chief of staff is saying, well, the exact opposite. Were not going to control the pandemic. We are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigation. Why arent we going to control the pandemic . Because it is a contagious vires just like the flu. Why not make efforts to contain it. He with are. By running all over the country, not wearing a mask . This morning, so the white house is now trying to clean up those claims by meadows, even as five staffers in the Vice President s inner circle have now tested positive for covid19. Still that has not stopped the Vice President from hitting the campaign trail despite the fact, let us remind you, official cdc guidance says people exposed to covid19 even with no symptoms should selfquarantine for 14 days from their last potential exposure. Right now the final sprint for both campaigns as they ramp up stops across the country. Lets begin this hour with our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. Good morning,
Big news from our closest ally, the uk is days away from distributing a vaccine. This pandemic has claimed the lives of more than one Million People worldwide. The United Kingdom is the first to approve the vaccine. Seniors will get the first of two shots. After the county will use a tiered approach to fax nating everyone else starting with the holdest residents and moving down. The decision puts enormous pressure on the fda to approve the vak seccine here in the uni states. The fda takes longer here because it goes through all of the raw data behind the findings. Still the chief sunshicience ad for warp speed hopes the approval will make americans feel comfortable that the vaccine is safe. I hope this will be evidence for the American Population that the data with these vaccines are clear. Are transparent, and they demonstrate theyre effective and safe for use in the general population. Always steven hann was summoned to the white house today and yesterday, the agency says they will c
Abroad, a political opponent at home or ally at home, you look at these numbers and this is a president who has been undercut by bad decisions, low poll numbers. Its a real crisis in the white house politically. So on this important day, welcome to morning joe. Its wednesday, april 5th. We have seen your political analyst for nbc news and msnbc Mark Halperin. Senior writer on National Security for the wall street journal shane harris along with joe, willie and me. Weve got three hours, were going to do all these stories right and lay them out in a big world. The leader of the free world is hovering under 40 Approval Ratings just months into his administration. Gallup daily tracking poll has the president at 38 . Ibd with 36 . The latest quinnipiac poll has trump at 35 . The quinnipiac pollsters note by comparison george w. Bushs lowest, 28 in their poll, came nearly eight years into office, two unpopular wars, a housing crisis that drove a deep recession. President trump is under water
President ial campaign. But first, trump exposes the fanatics is the focus of tonights angle. The president s visit to davos was by any measure a smashing success. He engaged World Leaders on the sidelines and he delivered a speech that was disciplined, serious and unapologetic. I will always put America First just like the leaders of other countries should put their Country First also. But America First does not mean america alone. Laura the president delivered a calmed and righthand defense of economic nationalism at the same time showing respect to our international allies. Despite how well the president performed, the media will never give him a fair shake. Its pathetic. Heres what some of them thought of the davos speech. Its like a tone to the more measured i guess, whats the word, sedated. If content was a victory lap i thought hed fall asleep. I was struck by the lack of verve. Id never seem him more low energy. Laura well, had the president been really animated, they would hav