Point help is on the way. We need more vaccine. We need more vaccine. We need more vaccine. Mr. Biden reverses the trump approach, launching a centralized response to fight the pandemic. If we get 70 to 85 of the country vaccinated, lets say by the end of the summer, by the time we get to the fall, we will be approaching a degree of normality. Also, impeachment part two. The senate trial begins in two weeks. What could impeachment mean for the new president s call for unity. Its unconstitutional. It sets a bad precedent for the presidency and continues to divide the nation. I dont think its very unifying to say, oh, lets just forget it and move on. Ill talk to democratic senator dick durbin of illinois and republican senator mike rounds of south dakota. Joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news chief washington correspondent andrea mitchell, the New York Times columnist david brooks, yamiche alcindor, White House Correspondent for pbs newshour and tim alberta, chief Political Co
Morning joe. It is thursday, august 23rd. Joe has the morning off. He will be back tomorrow. We have Donny Deutsch with us along with professor at Princeton University and column at New York Post and contributor editor of Weekly Standard john and sam stein and washington Anchor Katy Kay and benjamin. Good to have you all onboard with us on another very busy morning. We begin with the very latest in President Trumps former lawyer implicating him in his guilty plea yesterday. Trump appeared to acknowledge his attorneys Campaign Finance violation and then walked it back in an interview all while maintaining its not a crime and say he blamed Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his former lawyers prosecution. The president tweeted, michael
Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Didnt come out of the campaign and thats big. But they werent, its not even a campaign violation. If you look at Preside
You know what i thought made him take it seriously . The stock market. 10 drop in the stock market because thats what he pays attention to. And the second piece of it is his inclination to think that this is a foreign disease. He said it in his oval office speech, he continue to make references to china and europe and italy. At some point its a Public Health issue, just deal with it. Its here on your shores. New york, oregon, texas, florida. The idea of foreigners as dirty, germ ridden all that stuff, thats as old as the hills. Can you stick around . I will as always. I want to say good morning to all of you and welcome you to a. M. Joy. And there is no mincing words this morning as weve just discussed. We are in the midst of a Global Pandemic that shows no signs of slowing down. World wide there have been a total of 147,000 confirmed cases and more than 5,000 deaths according to John Hopkins Center for system science and engineering. Here in the u. S. There are now more than 2,200 kno
Good afternoon, im chuck todd and here are the facts at this hour just moments ago President Trump signed the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Enhancement act at the white house. This bipartisan bill really an addendum, if you will, providing an additional 500 billion in virus aid to employers and hospitals. The president also walking back sort of his comments about injections of disinfectants. He still is claiming some uv light could be injected but claims on the disinfectant front he was being sarcastic. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo maintains hospitalizations remain flat and likely had 10,000 cases of kocovid as earls february. And the death toll tops 50,000. We are going to kwaequal or surs the death toll of the vietnam war. And Scientists Say hydroxychloroquine should not be used outside of the hospital setting or a Clinical Trial due to heightened risks of heart rhythm problems. We have got a team of reporters here to help break all of this down right now. Were going to st
Good evening. We may be witnessing a humanitarian disaster in the making as a massive cyclone as powerful and broad as Hurricane Katrina has come ashore on indias densely populated coast. On the radar, its a swirling mass of bright colors. Its footprint roughly the size of france is clearly visible from space. But on the ground, the storm is whipping wind gusts of up to 150 Miles Per Hour, swamping lowlying villages and driving a towering storm surge well inland from the bay of bengal. And we are already getting reports of the first deaths. Nbcs keir simmons is monitoring it. Reporter shivering, praying for protection, children among the 12 million facing this monster cyclone as it made landfall just hours ago. Violent seas and winds gusting up to 150 Miles Per Hour are battering the eastern coast of india, expected to bring with it a devastating storm surge of up to 20 feet. Thatched homes exposed and vulnerable in lowlying ground, all relatives back home in the states can do is pray.