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Inside a growing number of hospitals across the country, there is little doubt our nation has entered a Fourth Wave, an explosive Summer Surge in covid cases few predicted, fueled by the highly contagious Delta Variant now accounting for 83 of all new cases, the u. S. Is averaging 26,000 new infections a day, over 1,000 an hour. The reason its so formidable is the fact that it has the capability of transmitting efficiently from human to human in an extraordinary manner. On Capitol Hill, the nations top pandemic doctors said its tun vaccinated accelerating the pandemic as deaths skyrocket by 50 . We have things over at 100 . Nobody is wearing masks. States like missouri, arkansas and florida have Vaccination Centers that are emptying and hospital beds that are full. How concerned are you that children would be at the center of the next surge . Yes. I think that theres that concern. At the university of alabama birmingham, the pediatric Care Unit was nearly forced to shut down after a flood of children suffering from respiratory viruses that usually spike and spread in the winter. Cases of rsv are surging as restrictions loosen and more children gather together, the same Way Covid can. People just be smart, be safe, try to protect yourself. Now fearing a widespread fall surge, even vaccines are no guarantee against deltas serious threat. We learned a fully vaccinated white House Staffer and an aide to House Speaker Nancy pelosi tested positive for the virus average meeting with fully inoculated democratic texas lawmakers who flew maskless To Washington and suffered break through infections. An evolving threat as the unvaccinated face a future that look more like our past. Meanwhile, a new study released yesterday suggests the Covid Vaccine made by Johnson Johnson is proven to be much less effective against cases of the Virus Including Delta and another second variant. Still, more research is needed. Although troubling, the findings result from experiments conducted with Blood Samples in a laboratory and may not reflect the Vaccines Performance in the real world. However, the 13 Million people inoculated with the Johnson Johnson vaccine may need to receive a second dose, ideally one of the vaccines made by pfizer or moderna. Its worth noting this study has not been peer reviewed or documented in a medical journal. Joining us now, dr. Patel. Thank you so much for getting up early with us. Lets start here. With these covid variants on the rise, what do you think, what is the likelihood that all americans will eventually need a Booster Shot . Yeah, jonathan, good to be with you this morning. I do think that its an eventuality that we will all need a Booster Shot. The Critical Question is timing. The Cdc Advisory Committee is meeting tomorrow to discuss that. I have a suspicion that coming out of that meeting they will recommend a third shot if youve had the mrna or a second shot if youve had the Johnson Johnson vaccine and thats for a lot of important reasons, including the fact that as you mentioned, we dont have the real World Evidence or some of the Clinical Trial data that would support that we all need that booster today. So i do think it will be limited. But eventually, we will all need some sort of third shot or second shot. And those limited populations, you think that is is that senior citizens, is that underlying health conditions, First Responders . And what is your timing . If youve had your first shot at the beginning of the year, when would you think they recommend you get your third shot or your second shot depending which vaccine you have . Those are exactly the kind of Data Points that were going to review. I do think it is going to be the populations you mentioned, including organ transplant. 5 of the population that has, as you mentioned, the compromised Immune Systems and potentially, again, the high risk. Myself, front line workers, Grocery Store Staff workers who kind of, as youre pointing out, in the middle of a lot of people not wearing masks on a daily basis. I do think the timing is going to depend kind of when you received obviously your first doses and it should be as some of the studies have shown anywhere from 6 to 12 months. So for many people, including myself, were already in that period of time. Here is the real issue, though, jonathan. Its going to be this logistical kind of you know, we all have our cards, but verifying that youre in that population and getting whatever proof you need may prove to be challenging. So i just want to warn americans who are already kind of wondering, do i need a third shot or a second shot if you need j j, its going to have to be done consulting your medical professional because youll need some verification. So covid hot spots are popping up across the country as the Delta Variant drives the surge among those unvaccinated. How does this current surge in cases that were seeing right annoy compare to the peak of the pandemic a year ago . Yeah. Its really interesting to bring up this point. Certainly were not at the peak in terms of numbers of new cases. What is interesting is the slope. Were literally create ago vertical line of how fast our cases are ascending. That is unlike any of our countrys previous resurgences. We were all thinking this would be hanging around in terms of numbers until the fall when we started to see people returning to the workplace and school. So you have to ask what is the driver . And it is unvaccinated people that are the driver of that straight line up. Will it go to the numbers of cases that we saw in our worst kind of waves . No, i dont think so. This is going to definitely keep burning through, but it will work its way around the country but not at the peak levels. Probably about a third of the numbers of new cases is where well see as were seeing now, but i dont here is what i dont know. The next 6 to eight weeks are going to be incredibly important to see whether increased hospitalizations and deaths that we would not have expected become more likely. That tells us that this Delta Strain Knot just more infectious, but also more deadly. There was a heated Exchange Yesterday between republican Senator Rand Paul and dr. Anthony fauci. Senator paul accused him this time of lying to congress about the role played by The National Institutes Of Health in Funding Lab Research in wuhan, china. Take a look. Dr. Fauci, knowing that it is a crime to lie to congress, do you wish to retract your statement of May 11th where you claim that the nih never funded Function Research in wuhan . Senator paul, i have never lied before the congress and i do not retract that statement. Take an Animal Virus and increase its that is correct. And senator paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly. And i want to say that officially. You do not know what you are talking about. Faucis desire to say that officially, it was almost like he wanted to spell it into the record. Still ahead, well dig into the arrest of tom barrack. Well Take A Look at Last Nights Big Game and celebrations. Plus, billionaire Jeff Bezos can officially add astronaut to his very thin resume. What his History Making Flight means for the future of space travel. Plus a check on the weather when we come right back. Check when we come right back. 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The nicknamed bucks now belong to two of the major American Sports Champs as President Biden welcome the Tampa Bay buccaneers at the White House yesterday. You know, a lot is made about the fact that we have the oldest coach ever to win a Super Bowl and the oldest quarterback to ever win a Super Bowl. Ill tell you right now, you wont hear any jokes about that from me. As far as im concerned, there is nothing wrong with being the oldest guy to make it to the mountaintop. Thats how i look at it. Biden, the oldest person to assume the u. S. Presidency comparing himself to Bucks Coach Bruce arians and quarterback Tom Brady. As for brady, the very handsome seventime Super Bowl winner, it was his first visit to the White House since 2005. Bush was in office then. Brady has won the Super Bowl during four different administrations. The patriots as a team chose not to attained after winning the title in 2019. Its nice for me to be back here. We had a game in chicago where i forgot what down it was. I lost track of one down in 21 years of playing and they started calling me sleepy tom. Why would they do that to me . Not a lot of people, you know, think that we could have won and the fact i think about 40 of the people still dont think we won. I understand that. You understand that, mr. President . I understand that. Yeah. Tom brady has jokes. How do we think those played in bed minister, New Jersey . Id hazard not well. Turning now to major league baseball, for the first time, an allfemale announcing crew called a game. Yesterdays Youtube Broadcast featured sara lentz, Alanna Rizzo and heidi watner. Very cool. Team usa could lose another member of its olympic delegation because of the pandemic. Taylor crabs tested positive while in tokyo. Its unclear whether crabb will compete in the games. No replacement has been named so far. With more than 1300 new infections reported yesterday in tokyo, which remains under a State Of Emergency ahead of the Opening Ceremony these week, the chief of tokyo 2020 organized the committee at a News Conference Yesterday did not rule out canceling the games if cases spike. But Olympic Play is already under way in japan. As the u. S. Began its quest defeating italy 20. This summer, australia is now set to become a threetime olympic host as the International Olympic Committee awarded the City Of Brisbane the Summer Olympics in 2032. 2032 feels like a long way away, bill karins. Why dont you tell us what the Weather Looks like around here today. I will. And did you notice the smokey Conditions Yesterday . Yes. And The Sun took on this long orange red hue. It was very unusual and not usually seen in areas of the east. To get the Wildfire Smoke all the way from california and all the way from areas of canada and oregon, all the way to the east coast, its highly unusual. Sometimes we get where it goes overhead, but a lot of the Smoke Particulates were down at the surface. They were saying yesterday the Air Quality is the worst in new York City in 14 years. You could smell the smoke at my house. Ive never seen that before from fires burning in the west. Lady liberty and the streets of new york looks like. So lets go to the map. Today were going to see the smokey conditions pushing to the south. We have a cold front going to the northeast so i tell wont be that same Smokey Air Mass in areas like new york and boston. We will see torms this afternoon. 37 Million people at risk, including new york, philly, down through the d. C. Area. This will clear that nasty massive Smoke Mass out. The rest of the country is looking very quiet. Still very hot and still smokey and fiery in the west. We will see that area drifting to the east all summer long. Thank you. 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These shots, you need to get in Everybodys Arm as rapidly as possible or were going to be back in a situation in the fall that we dont yearn for that we went through last year. Meanwhile, the senate will hold a procedural vote on the bipartisan Infrastructure Bill today, even though the legislation is not finished. 60 senators will need to vote in favor for the motion to move forward. But republicans seem united in opposition to the move. Even bill negotiators say theyre willing to vote against their own legislation. And a bipartisan group of senators met until late Last Night trying to resolve the issues. Republicans are asking Chuck Schumer to give the vote until monday to move more time. The washington reports that several gop senators were readying a formal letter tuesday to schumer saying they would be prepared to vote to advance the Infrastructure Package on monday according to people familiar with its contents. My hope is that Senator Schumer will delay the vote next until week. So if the Majority Leader would just agree to delay the vote until very early next week, maybe monday, then i think we could have a show of our colleagues and be able to move forward. Washington really working here, folks. If the senate does not get enough votes to move forward, Majority Leader schumer can change the vote and bring the legislation back up again. Joining us now, Jake Sherman. Thankfully, he is an msnbc political contributor. Good morning, jake. Thanks for getting up. I want to ask you first about what we jud just heard, Congressman Steve Ka Lease is a new voice pushing to get the vaccine. Weve seen some voice in the conservative media, not all, some voices, Sean Hannity among them stressing people to get the vaccine. What do you think brings on this move in terms of republicans on The Hill and what are you seeing there . Seeing reports of people putting on masks again. What is the move . Im putting a Mask Back on. I started wearing masks this week. I have young children as you do, john, and im not going to put my kids at risk because some people dont want to get vaccinated. And so im wearing a mask. I can tell you i was surprised by scalise. Oddly enough, we asked him i think monday before this news broke, we asked the staff if he had been vaccinated. They said yes. We didnt think that they meant he had been vaccinated like yesterday. We thought they meant he had been vaccinated in due course, especially given the fact that he was gravely injured a couple of years ago and still you know, and i dont know his current health condition. I know that he had been in rehab for a long time. Hes recently, thank god, gotten much better, but i would assumed that he would have taken the vaccine earlier. But listen, you take what you can get. Louisiana is a state that has a relatively low Vaccination Rate and its good, frankly, that scalise, probably the most prominent republican in the state is getting vaccinated and, by the way, getting vaccinated with a photo. Thats a big deal. So hopefully this has some positive impact in louisiana. Yeah. Lets remember that President Trump got a vaccine behind closed doors. So, this Infrastructure Bill, what is going to happen today . And if the procedural vote doesnt pass today, what does schumer do next . Okay. So about 2 35 today, Chuck Schumer is breaking up what is called a koes your vote. Its closure on the motion to proceed but it would allow the senate to get on to the Infrastructure Bill. It would allow the senate to begin the process of debating and amending an infrastructure process. So its going to go down unless something crazy happens that we dont know. Chuck schumer is not taking his cues from susan collins. So republicans are going to vote it down. If it goes down and theres a deal next week, they can bring it up again and schumer has said that he will make that immediate business of the senate, meaning he will swap in that deal for the Shell Bill for the empty legislation that they will be considering at that time. So in plain english, they need to get a deal, they need to get 60 votes and then its off to the races with the Infrastructure Bill. That is no easy task, john, because if you think about it this way, they need to have legislative text, they need to write the bill, get it scored by the Budget Office and the joint committee on taxation. So were a long way from notching that victory for Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer. So if this accidents happen today, you think it would weve got movement next week . So were looking at a matter of days or could the ill will around this, could the whole Thing Fall apart . Oh, of course, it could fall apart at any point. If i was a gambling man today, i would say its probably 65 35 would be my guess. They seem to be moving in the right direction but, again, they need to get 10 republicans to support the bill to get to the point where they can amend it and they can consider it. You always need 60 in the united states senate. Were not sure that will happen, but we anticipate, we imagine they are closer than the theyve been before. Jake sherman of punch bowl news, we look forward to your newsletter coming out in a matter of moments. Still ahead, slowing growth pushes one popular Streaming Service into a different direction. Way too early is back in a moment. Way too early is back in a moment from Prom Dresses to workouts and new adventures you hope the more you give the less theyll miss. But even if your teen was vaccinated against meningitis in the past they may be missing vaccination for Meningitis B. Although uncommon, Up To 1 in 5 survivors of meningitis will have long term consequences. 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Tom barrack who chaired former President Trumps inaugural committee was arrested yesterday for acting as an agent of the united arab emirates. Hes accused of influencing the Foreign Policy of the campaign between 2016 and 2018. The sevencount grand Jury Indictment says barrack used his friendship with trump to get language inserted into the then Candidates Speech in 2016. It also said barrack provided the uae government officials with, quote, sensitive nonpublic information. The former trump fundraisers faces counts of Obstruction Of Justice and lying to law enforcement. A spokesman for barrack said he has, quote, made himself voluntarily available to investigators from the outset. He is not guilty and will be pleading not guilty. Two other defendants were charged with unregistered foreign agency along with barrack. Joining us now, former prosecutor charles cole. Good morning, thank you for being here. Tell us about this. Is this indictment as serious as it sounds . What are the potential penalties if hes convicted and what could be his plausible defense in this case . First of all, i think this is an indictment that needs to be taken seriously because of the amount of influence that they are alleging that mr. Barrack had on the Trump Campaign specifically in the area of energy with regard to foreign interests. I do think that at the end of the day, what we have in front of us is another situation where prosecutors are looking to charge someone who is closely affiliated with mr. Trump in a way that is potentially going to reveal some information that may be damaging. So we are looking at another example, in my opinion, of what may be a Squeeze Play by prosecutors to try and get some information which can ultimately connect Donald Trump to Criminal Activity in a way that will lead to an indictment, but these charges are relatively serious. Were talking about a sevencount indictment that could result in multiple years of jail time and upwards of ten years in jail if not more because of what mr. Barrack is accused of. So this is not something to sneeze at or to be taken lightly because of the nature of the charges that we are facing or hes facing. Right. Being a foreign agent is something i think a lot of americans dont quite understand yet. Mr. Barrack adds his name to a rather long list of associates of the former president who has faced criminal charges and certainly well be watching carefully if indeed he is used to turn on the former president. Talk to us about the indictments here and what do you think the next step might be . Do you think a congressional investigate might be on the horizon . Its likely that a lot of these charges stem from the mueller investigation. The Mueller Report ultimately turned over about eight different sealed investigations to the Department Of Justice and prosecutors and we dont know what the nature of those were, but it is possible that in terms of where we are talking about these charges coming from, i. E. That being far influence on american policy, that this could prompt a larger investigation. What we are going to see from this point is an attempt to cut a deal by barrack and his attorney as a means of securing his independence or a Plea Deal on what some of those could potentially be. But yes, because of the nature of these charges and because of the larger implications regarding Foreign Policy and foreign entities having undue influence on american policy particularly in the areas of energy, this could ultimately result in a larger congressional investigation. All right. Charles coleman, thank you for walking us through that. Well be paying attention to it in the weeks and months ahead. Earlier in the show we asked the question, why are you awake . Victoria writes, watching the u. S. Womens national team and yes, it is way too early, but i forgot how good Womens Soccer is. Go usa. And the Womens Team certainly a favorite for a Gold Medal again. The mens team, not so much. Michelle is up way too early because these two cutis woke up. Adorable. Baby on the left, dog on the right, both great. Tom emails hes up early to train for a bikeathon to raise money for cancer research. He has to ride earlier to beat the heat. And jane writes im Up Too early because Freddy And Fiona want to watch freddy la mere. Cats to sit on the ropes, and turn on the television to this channel. Up next, a look at the Axios One Big Thing, and coming up on a special morning joe, well hear from new York City Mayor Bill de blasio on the heels of a new policy mandating Coronavirus Vaccinations for public hospital workers. 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Our thanks to nbcs Andrea Mitchell for that report. Joining us now with a look at Axios A. M. , the cofounder, mike allen. Happy wednesday. What is the axioss one big thing this morning. Happy Hump Day back at you, and the Axios One Big Thing is the capitol petri dish. Yesterday on Capitol Hill there was a long line, the longest line we have seen in a long time, and that was for covid testing. The Leadership Office is now very worried that were having a covid boomerang, so yesterday axios Hans Nichols scooped the fact that both an aide to Speaker Pelosi and a white House Aide had after being fully vaccinated gotten covid, had very mild symptoms, and that led to a lot of other concerns. Turned out at least one member of congress fully vaccinated had gotten positive test. Six members of the texas run away democrats tested positive, and theres a connection here, the biden aide and the Pelosi Aide had been at the same Rooftop Reception Outside and the Pelosi Aide had taken those texas democrats around the capitol, so we dont know yet how it transmitted but there are close connections here. And so whats happening . Leaders are talking about whether they should add back some of those protocols that had been gone. Theyre not making any changes now, but jonathan, youre seeing a lot more masks. Yeah, Jake Sherman was on a few minutes ago saying that he has started wearing his mask again, and others as well. So to recap at the moment, theres nothing mandated on that, but theyre in discussions. Quick answer there . Thats exactly right. But jonathan, think about Capitol Hill, and think of why were calling it the petri dish. You have a lot of older people. You have people in close quarters, and theyre traveling around the country. Were coming up on midterms and theyre in their states, in their districts, theyre glad handing, interacting with people that they dont know a lot about. It all adds Up To high risk. So axios, mike, has been reporting this week on democrats in rural areas, and their wariness of the progressive side of The Party. Walk us through that reporting. How are local politicians responding to this . What are you finding out . This is something youre hearing from the south, the midwest and the rockies, and what theyre saying is that in tough districts, either close districts or trump districts where democrats want to hold or upset a republican that theyre having to run against The Partys national image, that the more liberal part of The Party that as you and i have talked about, jonathan has the excitement, has the media, has the fundraising, has the merch, now as we see with aoc merch, all of that is most unhelpful to democrats in these more rural districts or in districts that are tighter. And if youre going to watch one race to see this play out, that ohio Senate Race is going to be so instructive for so many reasons, and we have talked about j. D. Vance seeking the republican nomination, will be testing a lot of the populist themes that were going to see play out elsewhere, including tech censorship, and china jobs. But look at the other side, you know representative tim ryan, hes somebody who is now seeking the democratic nomination for senate and he epitomizes this effect. Hes out with a threeminute campaign ad, and jonathan, in three minutes, he doesnt have room, runs out of time, to say one word, that one word, democrat. Mike allen, thank you so much for that great reporting. And thank you all for getting up way too early with us on this wednesday morning. Mike barnicle, sorry, we ran out of time. Morning joe starts right now. Tom brady is a very good friend of mine. Hes a great guy, for those of you who dont know him. Hes an honorable guy and truly great athlete. 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