we ll start with the latest headlines surrounding covid s new wave. the biden administration will soon be sending a half billion free tests to american homes, as pharmacies struggle to keep up with demand. more on the biden plan in just a moment. it comes as hospitals reach a breaking point thanks to the one-two punch of delta and omicron. professional hockey is being put on ice, literally, with a game last night postponed over covid concerns. new york city s outgoing mayor is paying people 100 bucks to get boosted. i like it. that works. while the incoming mayor scrubbed plans to celebrate his inauguration. i like it. get to work, baby. get to work. that s a good idea. atlanta reinstates an indoor mask mandate as health care workers in california will be required to get an extra shot. and what about the nation s schools? we ll get to the fast-moving developments on that front straight ahead. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, decemb
bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. host of msnbc s politics nation and part of the action network, reverend al sharpton joins us. a lot of questions pertaining to congress this morning. i m going through the washington post. cooler it gets, more distracted people get. okay. mississippi, i don t see anything in here about mississippi, elise jordan. big day. they re missing out on covering mississippi drama, mississippi. we deserve full coverage as this supreme court case is center stage. what do you think? i don t really have that much faith that mississippi has terrific counsel that is going to be able to make the case, frankly, if i m going to give my brutal to get the court off of to overturn roe versus wade. i m not i don t have that much confidence. in the mississippi lawyers? yes. i ll say also, the hill is so steep. you look, and i know people don t like to think that the supreme court looks at opinion, public opinion, but you h
we ll have much more on the heartbreaking deadly attack in just a moment. also ahead, the mugshot that s worth millions of dollars. we ll have the latest from the trump fund-raising campaign. and the latest out of the suspected death of a meshsnary group leader who was once a close ally to vladimir putin. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, august 28th. i m jonathan lemire. nice to be back. thanks to you for starting your day and week with us. we begin this morning with a shooting in jacksonville, florida, where three people were killed and what police are calling a racially motivated attack. on saturday, a shoppers and an employee were shot at a dollar general store near a historically black college. all victims were black. authorities say the 21-year-old gunman who was white died of a self-inflicted gun schott wound there at the scene. they described him as a, quote, maniac who wanted to kill black people. they say they found more than 20 pages
prosecutor, viktor shokin investigating burisma was fired. nothing to see here, folks. the redacted email shows archer planned to meet with s. that s all it said in the email, s., which fox news digital has confirmed refers to kerry on march 2nd of 2016. the findings come as shokin sounded off on brian s show over the weekend about being fired arrests the top prosecutor, claiming that he was getting closer to revealing corruption within burisma house speaker kevin mccarthy says now republicans are inching closer towards articles of impeachment for biden he says also that some of the democrats are sharing their concerns as well. they will get the house. they just need to have a few democrats in the senate who agree. so, a few things are going on here. they say viktor shokin was the problem. joe biden did a great thing two years or four years ago bragging to council of foreign relations. i got rid of that prosecutor i gave him six hours to do it. we never heard from the p
what we know about secretary antony blinken s meetings today. and was baseball s biggest star swindled by his own interpreter? the bizarre, truly bizarre gambling scandal that broke around shohei ohtani. let us start with donald trump s financial state. dasha burns is with me from palm beach, florida. dasha, it s a whole lot of money, not a lot of time left. what s the latest? reporter: yeah, the clock is ticking, and the former president is growing ever more frustrated, he s lashing out once again today on social media saying this is crazy, saying he would have to sell off these assets potentially, and would not be able to get them back if he were to win on appeal. we know from our colleagues reporting that there is some gaming out happening right now, internally, trying to figure out, hey, do we hit up some high dollar donors, which according to one source is one way they re trying to figure out how to get this cash. they re also trying to figure out how to install t