Military as a whole, we celebrate the individuals who waive flags, go to parades, offer them solemn moments at games. We call them heroes and patriots. But for those who return, many are never the same. And all too often, we leave them alone to bear the pain. We say it all the time. But in reality, how well do we actually support our troops? san diego, california, the dichotomy. On the one hand it is known for being laid back and mellow, a sunny, sleepy hamlet. But on the other hand, there s this. Not sleepy or mellow at all. San diego is home to the navy, marines, coast guard and air force. It s got three carrier groups, the largest concentration of active and retired military personnel in the u. S. And let me check my notes, a trazillion dollars in american military hardware. Yep, san diego. Where they trade seals and seals. As a nation, our military is intertwined into almost every aspect of our lives, from little league baseball to mattress sales to movies and video games. We are t
And around 1. 2 million have paid the ultimate price for it. While there are a million different opinions in our military as a whole, we celebrate the individuals who wave flags, go to parades, offer them solemn moments at games. We call them heroes and patriots. But of those who return, many are never the same, and all too often we leave them alone to bear the pain. We say it all the time, but in reality, how well do we actually support our troops? san diego, california. A dichotomy. On the one hand, it s known for being laid back and mellow, a sunny, sleepy hamlet. But on the other hand, there s this. Not sleepy or mellow at all. San diego is home to the navy, marines, coast guard, and air force. It s got three carrier groups, the largest concentration of active and retired military personnel in the u. S. , and let me check my notes a tra zillion dollars in american military hardware. Yep, san diego, where they train seals and s. E. A. L. S. As a nation, our military is intertwined i
Really depends on what you mean by normality. Right. I want you to define it. Exactly the way. [ laughter ]. I ll be back tomorrow. We ll probably do this again. If i might, i might like to ask vice president pence to take over. You feel like you re back to normal? i think so. Grouchy fauci just like that. That s so cute. Good morning, welcome to morning joe. It s wednesday, may 5th. We have former chair of the republican national committee, now an msnbc political analyst, michael steele. And white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire. We have to get to this morning. Including house minority leader kevin mccarthy caught on a hot mic setting the stage for congresswoman liz cheney s ouster from republican leadership. President biden sets an ambitious new goal for vaccinating americans against covid19. The director of the cdc dr. Rochelle walensky will be our guest this morning. But first, a federal judge blasted former attorney general bill barr for his handling of th
i don t know, by next week, we may be going all the way back to the magna carta. i m hoping for the red sox s sake that the orioles are like the 27 yankees, because that s what they looked like in fenway. well, look, joe, i ve got to tell you, the orioles have not won a world series in my lifetime, which i think says more about them than it does about me, but who knows. i will also say that it was good i m sorry that you guys were there to witness that. i know everyone wants the home team to win. seeing trey mancini come back on the field after beating colon cancer and three runs batted in, three rbis, i think was a really great message everyone to that you can really come back strong from something tough. so i you know, let s go os. yeah, that was a positive story and a great weekend. thank you so much, kasie. we really appreciate you talking about this weekend. it was i ll tell you, it was, though, it was incredible to be back in fenway, incredible to be there, s
from msnbc world headquarters here in new york, welcome to weekends with alex witt. developing this hour, the white house is working to get its $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package through congress as it now heads to the senate this week. senators on both sides of the aisle are giving insight into how they plan to approach it as we watch to see if it can pass. we need to get the massive covid bill passed, and we know that we re going to have to do it without any republican support. there s an easy answer to this which is let s make it bipartisan. covid relief has never been a partisan issue. it just doesn t make any sense. a number of things in here that have nothing to do with covid relief. it s not targeted. meanwhile, in just over two hours donald trump will make his first appearance since leaving the white house when he gives a speech at cpac. that statue creeps me out all the time. according to experts trump plans to declare the republican party is united and