Me read this to you. President trumps responsibility for the events of january 6th is unmistakable. President trumps conduct must be declared unacceptable in the clearest and most unequivocal terms. The Trump Defense team has until noon to respond and they will argue that trying a former president out of office is unconstitutional, a process argument. Lets begin with Manu Raju On Capitol Hill on the legal brief by democrats. And it looks like what theyre trying to do here is connect the events of january 6th to all that preceded it, right, the president claiming the election was stolen and kind of riling up this group that ended up attacking the capitol. Reporter theyre trying to make a drink link to inciting his support erds suggesting there is no question that donald trump acted intentionally that led to the deadly riot on january 6th. Theyre calling this not a routine corruption charge. This is a charge of historic proportions and Impeachable Offense and they break it down into four
his mother said a lot of things. god love you, indeed. good morning, welcome to morning joe. it s friday, march 19th. with us, we have msnbc contributor, mike barnicle, and white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lamir. joe and mika have the morning off. it is a busy morning, though, as kasie just mentioned, we re getting fans in the stands for baseball. good for you. mets, yankees, 20% capacity, a few thousand fans in there. at least it s a start. i know how excited you are about the yankees hot start and spring training and seeing some of those great yankees fans populating that stadium in the bronx. as my mother would say actually, i can t say that on the air. you better no. we re going to have 12% capacity at fenway park. lamir, you excited for the yanks? they re looking good in the spring? willie, my question is, as yankee stadium fills up to 10, 15, 20% capacity, that s obviously going to leave a lot of empty seats, particularly dow
are reported, covid vaccine makers are planning to tweak their shots to try to target the variant. take a listen now to what moderna is proposing to do to improve vaccine efficacy. i think we are going to learn this more definitively over the next 7 to 10 days. we are doing the experiments needed to assert to establish whether the reduction in binding that could be there, nevertheless, allows us to be protective against this variant virus. now, earlier i asked dr. scott muskovich if testing before travel would help prevent the spread of the new variant. here s his response. for the united states to only request one day, what happens if you caught the disease two days before, three days before? you may not be positive yet, and yet another day or two later you may be just fully shedding and spreading it. so many studies have shown that one-day testing is not enough to
makers are planning to tweak their shots to target that new variant. take a listen now what moderna is proposing to do to improve vaccine efficiency and efficacy. i think we re going to learn this more definitively over the next 7 to 10 days. we re doing the experiments needed to establish whether the reduction in binding that could be there, nevertheless allows us to be protected against this variant virus. dr. scott moscowvich is a national consultant for covid-19 testing and joins me from hawaii. good to see you, doctor, as we are here on the cusp of new, extended travel bans, testing here in the united states. that testing regime for all incoming travelers now. this tightening, negative test requirements, how much do you think these measures will actually help in stopping the spread of the variant? not all that much, paula.