Hill. Just days before, a resident in his home district died of coronavirus. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is monday, march 9th. With us, White House Reporter for the Associated Press, jonathan lemire. Host of politics nation and president of the National Action network, reverend al sharpton. President of the council on Foreign Relations and author of the forthcoming book, the world, a brief interjection, richard haas. Editor at the financial times, edward joins us this morning. We have fastmoving developments with the coronavirus. The number of cases are surging here in the u. S. From 230 cases on friday to at least 546 cases this morning. The virus is now in 34 states and the District Of Columbia, which reported its first case this week end. The death roll toll is 22. Anxiety has hit congress. Senator ted cruz and congressman paul gore have selfquarantined after coming in contact with someone who tested positive at cpac, the popular south by southwest festival, which bring
Yesterday. We want to remind viewers as we peel away the layers of this law from march of 2010 when then speaker of the house nancy pelosi said this about obamacare. But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it away from the fog of the controversy. Now were finding millions of americans could have their insurance dropped as a result. Steve, want to p put you on pause in a moment. When we come back well talk about the politics. 10 any hoyer said yesterday the law should have been more precise. You wonder how many more democrats are falling into that way of thinking, but, steve, standby. There is sebelius in the room. Martha has more. Martha shaking hand to say hello to everybody as she gets ready to go here. A lot of smiles and friendliness on way in. Well she as she sits at table. The lead contractor on healthcare. Gov, warned her, warned hhs, the holt and Human Services website was not ready to go. So what under after that is one of the Big Questions that we exp
Trump ridiculous. The president slamming trumps charge that the u. S. Election is rigged. Thats ridiculous. That doesnt make any sense, and i dont think anyone would take that seriously at. President also saying his job is Serious Business making it clear he doesnt trust trump with Americas Nuclear weapons. This comes as a breaking poll tonight Shows Hillary clinton nearly doubling her lead over trump. The wall street journal showing her leading by nine points and well have more on all of that in a moment. First, though, the other breaking news. The president saying it is possible there are fullblown isiscontrolled Networks Inside the United States. We have to do a better job of disrupting networks and those networks are more active in europe than they are here, but we dont know what we dont know and so its conceivable that there are some networks here that could be activated. Barbara starr was at the president s press conference moments ago and joins me now. That was a major statement
According to this report, the same man, Paul Manafort has been extensively wiretapped by Law Enforcement officials both before and after last years president ial election. Now, of course, both of these stories broke at like 7 00 tonight, which is we have had a joke on our show staff for awhile now, once you get into like 7 00ish, it becomes russiaoclock. Russiaoclock hit with a bunch of tells in toning in the distance. When we had been planning to report as the big news in the russia investigation tonight before this stuff blew it up, what we thought would be the big rush of the story tonight was about something called the Asset Recovery initiative. Which was started by attorney general eric holder during the obama administration. Last week President Trump hosted the Prime Minister of malaysia given Everything Else going on, was not the highest profile story in the world. But that visit by the malaysia Prime Minister was notable in terms of corruption and Law Enforcement and high Publi
Second. Including a live interview with one of the New York Times reporters that broke that story this evening. That broke within minutes of this report from cnn. Com from lady reporter evan lead reporter evan perez. According to this report, the same man, Paul Manafort has been extensively wiretapped by Law Enforcement officials both before and after last years president ial election. Now, of course, both of these stories broke at like 7 00 tonight, which is we have had a joke on our show staff for awhile now, once you get into like 7 00ish, it becomes russiaoclock. Once its a weeknight. Russiaoclock hit with a bunch of bells in toning in the distance. When we had been planning to report as the big news in the russia investigation tonight before this stuff blew it up, what we thought would be the big russia story tonight was about something called the kelp tocracy Asset Recovery initiative. Which was started by attorney general eric holder during the obama administration. Last week Pr