Democracy. Threats against election workers. In a recent survey, one out of every six Election Officials reported receiving threats because their jobs are in the front lines of democracy. Many of these threats were inspired by false claims of fraud surrounding the last election. Claims that culminated in president trumps egg lie. Last summer the department of justice launched a task force to investigate the unprecedented threats that election workers across america are facing. This morning for the first Time Department motets about the progress thats been made by the task force since it was formed. We will also hear from cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency which plays an indispensable role in securing our elections. We will hear from Public Officials who received Death Threats because of the efforts to protect our boating. Before we begin i i want to pa video to put this in perspective. Its a regulation of Brooke Donald trump launching an assault on the integrity of the el
Leaves to be read here . We dont have any tea. Weve got some water here, the best i can tell. You know, this has been just the most extraordinary honor. All right. Good morning. Its monday, january 28th. Welcome to morning joe. Im going to say what . And maybe im just a jerk. Lets start there. No. What . Well just admit it. Willie asked me if i would go over and do a sitdown on 60 minutes before he goes over to the today show. I said, screw you. You want to do it . Thats fine. I just want to thank you. For the honor of serving alongside you. Okay. With us on set, we have the former governor of pennsylvania and nbc news political analyst, ed rendell. The president of the council on Foreign Relations, Richard Haass. And in washington, nbc chief Foreign Affairs correspondent and host of Andrea Mitchell reports, Andrea Mitchell. Well, la ti da. Lets hear more of this interview. What do you think, ed rendell . We want to know what this is about. Barack obama, he wouldnt i dont know that hed
Can you comment on that . I would be happy to. Its been our experience whenever federal money has come the date has stepped up to issues and made additional money available as well. In kentucky we have been able to do a lot of the Major Projects through that whole mechanism. But the one thing i would say about 45 on average the money that states have to work to build projects is federal funding and of that 45 it constitutes more of the larger projects that we actually build and so its a critical piece of where we are. The states are doing a lot and we have seen that in a number of states enacting new funding mechanisms and so forth. We applaud the state could have done that and we are certainly encouraging everyone to do what they must find th to find the mt is necessary to invest. But youre right it is a difficult advance with the state budget and so forth but we found a lot of our colleagues that are interested in spending more on transportation. You made a great point about the hars
At the top of the show we ask why are you awake. Producer got one from jorry who writes, its not way too early in the virgin islands. Just walked the beach with a full moon with debbie and joyce. So many things i could say there. I would just say im glad you watch the show, watch morning joe and then maybe go back and enjoy. Im a little jealous. Morning joe starts right now. Shake down 1979 this is very improbable. I understand, mr. President , this was your idea. Why did you want to do this, together, a joint interview . Well, the main thing is i just wanted to have a chance to publicly say thank you because i think hillary will go down as one of the finest secretaries of states weve had. It has been a great collaboration over the last four years. Theres no political tea leaves to be read here . We dont have any tea. Weve got some water here, the best i can tell. You know, this has been just the most extraordinary honor. All right. Good morning. Its monday, january 28th. Welcome to mo
This is the closest they have come. And the directors of medicaid, the largest Insurance Program and provider of any kind in the country are now screaming bloody murder about this, all 50 states. You find out how well medicare and medicaid actually work because you can talk about it either way depending on how much time you have. Heres what you would like to do better in medicare. Heres what you would like to do better in medicaid. You find out just how valuable they are and mean to people and state governments when you try to take any piece of them away. Right. Yeah. And, you know, it is one thing to i mean, the threat of taking 30 million americans and making it so they have no Health Insurance provider at all is one kind of threat and another to say, all right, those of you who remain on Health Insurance, were going to take the largest provider in the country, and we are going to cut hundreds of millions of dollars out of that provider. I mean, the cascading effects of what theyre t