diplomacy. i think tougher measures are going to be needed. they have to get tougher on this. it s happened in india. it s happened in colombia. it s happened in cuba. it s happened in russia. it s happened across the world. it seems to me, mike, i just i m having a hard time figuring out how you could have so many attacks, even one in northern virginia, and the united states government can t figure this out? you re in line with the united states government, joe, because they can t figure it out. we don t know the source of the attacks, if indeed they are attacks. you ve had all these embassies around the world, the state department employees suffering from something, and yet we can t put our finger exactly on what that is. it is a quandary for the state department, which is vastly undermanned, which i think, jonathan, is part of the story in and of itself, given the gutting of the bureaucracy in the state department the past
havana. now a widespread problem happening in colombia, happening across europe, happening to a friend of mine that went to russia on official business, on official business, was attacked. so the question is, how much longer are we going to allow people that are serving the u.s. government, representing the u.s. government, to continue to be attacked and not do something about it? with all the technology we have, we re light years ahead of the russians. we re light years ahead of the chinese still. we re light years ahead of anybody who would be attacking us. i find it hard to believe we can t figure this out. yeah. there s been a real uptick in cases lately, joe. variety of new countries. india recently. there was also in vietnam, just ahead of the vice president s visit there, there was real concern as to whether they were going to let vice president harris continue with the trip to hanoi. they did, and there were no
that s the fbi. that s what s going on on lower levels around the country. when people are more aggressive, they re more passionate, more willing to be violent if they have to be. it s happening right now, and people are being installed at state and local levels who can do things to the 2024 election, which thank god they weren t able to do to the 2020 election. all right. still ahead on morning joe, colombia is the latest country where american officials have reported incidents of the mysterious havana syndrome. what we know about that new investigation. plus, a major music festival, coachella, reverses plans to require vaccinations for ticket holders. the reasoning behind that surprise move. you re watching morning joe. we ll be right back.
40 past the hour. 20 before the top of the hour. a live look at washington as the sun is up, but very, very cloudy day. welcome back to morning joe. the state department is investigating new reports of the so-called havana syndrome. this time, at the u.s. embassy in colombia. secretary of state antony blinken is scheduled to visit the south american country next week. the president says the country would be investigating the reports. over the past five years, more than 200 u.s. government officials in several countries have reported symptoms. jonathan lemire, this is becoming obviously a very serious problem. a serious problem well, it s been serious from the start for the people that were attacked in