State and globally the outbreak impacting more than 60 countries. They are nearly 90,000 cases and more than 3,000 deaths worldwide. The president reacting during a meeting with pharmaceutical companies earlier. We are working hard to expedite to the longer process of developing a vaccine. We are also moving with maximum speed to develop therapies so that we can help people recover as quickly as possible. We have a lot of recovering going on. We want to see if we can advance that. It is likely that therapies will be available before the vaccine is actually ready and we will seek to bring all effective treatments to market as soon as possible. To some very good work has been done on the vaccine however. Dana that was the president who met with pharmaceutical executives. It does take a while to get a vaccine done. You cannot just snap your fingers and get it done. Jesse they have to make sure that it does not kill people and that takes a year to get it to the market prior to the presiden
That letter of solidarity for israel. The same. The same thing as a clearing the rain and revolution guard a terrorist group. He was one of only four who did that. So i would only say, this is not a filibuster. Everybody knows its not a filibuster. I hope the media is listing that they are. This is the same thing required by the democrats and the cases john doe tim steve johnson, the case of rob portman. It is the prerogative of the senate. Its not a filibuster. They nearly won a 60vote margin. I commented earlier that we had a republican in the white house in a majority in the senate. I was here and never objected to that. Then of course you had Kathleen Sebelius right now, cabinet position. Secretary of commerce john brace and objected to him. So the only issue here is the 60vote margin. Its not a filibuster on the last thing i say is i will read again to their last speaker and are very good friend is the chairman of the committee when he said the other day and i wholeheartedly agree
Al frankens resignation. But at least five more congressmen are now under scrutiny for allegations of sexual muss conduct. But we start in alabama. Where we are just two days out from the special election between Democrat Doug Jones and republican roy moore. And its becoming a test of will for many republicans there. Buck the president and the party or support a man accused of Sexual Harassment and molestation. And perhaps no one explained the fundamental dilemma better than the states senior senator Richard Shelby who wrote in the name of a difference distinguished republican. I understand where the president is coming from. I understand we would like to retain that seat in the u. S. Senate. But i tell you what. I there is a time that we call it a tipping point. And i think so many accusations, so many cuts, so many drip, drip, drip. When it got to the 14yearold story, that was enough for me. I said i cant vote for roy moore. On friday, the president was in pensacola, florida, practic
Of delegates and thats just the beginning of the story this morning. Good morning, everyone, its wednesday, november 8th. I think yesterday the discussion was whether or not the democrats had anything going this morning. The story is a little different. With us this morning. We have msnbc John Heilemann, chair of the department of africanamerican studies at princeton university, cofounder and ceo of axios jim vand high and nbc correspondent yes host of casey d. C. On msnpc. Casey hunt is with us. Good morning. Good morning. Joe, wow, somethings up for us, a very, very good morning for democrats. A very good morning for democrats. They havent had a good morning like this, probably since barack obama got reelected in 2012. This has been a Long Time Coming for the Democratic Party and they actually, you can sort of see the clouds of doom coming in again a couple days ago, remember we went around the panel monday morning, asked everybody who they thought they were going to win, ed gillespi