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performance for phil mickelson. we ll talk about that in a little bit. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it s monday, may 24th. with us to kick things off, we have white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire and u.s. national editor at the financial times, ed luce joins us early this morning. so guess what, everybody. the pandemic outlook is improving nationwide as new coronavirus cases drop to rates not seen in nearly a year. death rates are also as low as they ve been since last summer, according to the cdc, 60% of people over 18 have received at least one shot and are almost half almost half are fully vaccinated, contributing to the sharp decline in covid-19 cases. the vaccine makes a huge difference. health experts do caution that the virus remains dangerous in communities with low vaccination rates. and that s that not enough americans have vaccinated to completely extinguish the virus, leaving the potential for new variants that c ....
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we ll begin today s show with a stunning announcement out of israel. is the bibi netanyahu era of israeli politics over? i ll talk to tom freidman of the new york times. then, the strong man leader of a former soviet republic scrambled a fighter jet. the foe was not a hostile neighboring nation, but rather a 26-year-old opposition journalist. will state-sponsored hijacking as some have called it become a new tactic for despots around the world? i ll talk to the belarusian journalist and hanna liubakova. and then how did america, the world s wealthiest country, so badly bungle its initial covid response. china virus. was it donald trump? people think that goes away in april with the heat. or was it something much bigger? michael lewis is here to tell us what he found. we didn t have a really respected and brave entity at the federal level to lead the response. but first, here is my take. in a country divided on almost everything, one area of bipartisanshi ....
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