washington, president biden just convened a meeting with his top immigration advisers and announced vice president kamala harris will lead the administration s efforts, to lead those efforts with mexico and central american chris to try to stem the flow of migrants coming into the u.s. i think the best thing to do is put someone who, when she or he speaks, they don t have to wonder about is that what the president thinks? when she speaks, she speaks for me. moving a series of bills to the floor only to be blocked by democrats. we are covering this situation from coast to coast with our team of nbc news reporters. joining us now, nbc news correspondent garrett haake on capitol hill. nbc news dasha burns is in texas outside a customs and border facility housing unaccompanied children and digital white house reporter shannon pettypiece. also jacob soboroff. talk to us about the delegation in terms of what the white house is hoping to achieve with this, what is the delegation
around 2:30 early this morning when an irate angry inmate attacked correctional officer. the officer then got jumped by other inmates and everything just escalated from there. now nobody was tiebl break free from the jail but it was a dangerous situation. this is what people could see from outside of the building. keep in mind, this facility is located in the heart of downtown st. louis just blocks away from bush stadium where the st. louis cardinals play, and near other businesses, and city hall. there were 633 inmates in the jail when the attack happened. but the inmate uprising was contained to fourth floor of the building. the situation wasn t fully under control until hours later around 10 a.m. this morning. 65 inmates were transported to another jail and remaining inmates who participated in the revolt were moved to different areas within the facility. so the big question here, how were the inmates even able to do all of this? well city official say there s an issue wit
entire four years. now what they re going to continue to say is this is the presidency that s trying to work for you and do things. politico s eugene daniel, we appreciate. thank you all of you for waking up way too early for us. merry christmas everybody, see you at morning joe in just a minute. starts now. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it s the day before the day before christmas. thursday, december 23rd, it s great to have you all with us this morning, along with joe and me, we have the host of way too early, jonathan lemire and sam stein is with us. good to see you, sam. let s get started. there are promising signs in this current wave of covid-19. new researches adding to the body of evidence that omicron strain results in milder illness. the research from scotland and south africa is still preliminary. the studies also found omicron is sending fewer people to hospitals. for example, the study in scotland found if omicron behaves like the delta
jerome powell acknowledging inflation is likely to persist longer than the fed had previously expected. american voters point the finger at president biden. a new foxbusiness poll finding when it comes to rising prices twice as many think his actions are doing more harm than good. let s bring in kevin hasson who served as chair of the white house council of economic advisers under donald trump. welcome. a year ago you called it. 7% inflation and here we are. i will give you a chance, do you see this persisting and where we do we go into thousand 22? you mentioned 6.8% but that s a backward looking number. inflation hadn t taken off of it right now inflation is north of 10% if you look at the last few months but when you think of what fed policy has been when you had inflation at that level, it was very precise, very aggressive, and even at times surprising. in 1979, paul volcker did the saturday night massacre. do you remember that that is where we are. he was sure and stat
underway right now. in arkansas a tornado decimated a firsting home. in kentucky, the governor issues a state of emergency. we re seeing things we have never seen before. the damage is indescribable. it s changing the landscape of the city we know here in mayfield. president biden was briefed on the destruction, calling it an unimaginable tragedy and pledged full support for governors dealing with the disaster. allison chinchar is tracking the ongoing stores. first, to you, nadia, where we see things just flattened behind you, the destruction, tell us how people are coping. yesterday, summer-like temperatures, now it feels like december, winter-like weather. today, yesterday this building behind me up and running. overnight working on overtime. they were trying to get prepared for the christmas holiday that s just two weeks away. many more people in some 100 inside this candle factory. you really can t see anything but rubble and debris. one man described it to me, sa