dismantling every system in place to address this with humanity and compassion. and new warnings from health officials as more states look to ease covid restrictions. this morning, dr. anthony fauci is saying, not so fast. even though the decline was steep, we absolutely need to avoid the urge to say, oh, everything is going great, which it is going in the right direction, but once you declare victory, that metaphor that people say, if you re going for a touchdown, don t spike the ball on the five-yard lane, wait until you get into the end zone. it all comes as u.s. vaccine efforts are picking up steam. yesterday the weekly average was brought to 2.5 million vaccines per day. joining me right now is white house principal deputy press secretary, karine jean-pierre, which is the most beautiful name in the world, we ll take it from there. the president is hitting the road to promote the details of the american rescue plan. does he feel he need to sell this more than he d
knows. because he s got a team around him who knows stuff. i remember having a meeting with jared kushner very early on in the trump administration and kushner saying to me, well, we think that we can fix middle east peace, because my father-in-law is a great negotiator because of the character of the guy. the hubris in it, in a sense, the absurdity of it that one person could fix something. biden s team don t operate like that. yeah, they like personal relationships, but he knows how you get things done, and that s by building alliances. he also understands, there s history. there s diplomatic history. it s the one thing that the trump team, they had a belief that history began on january the 20th, 2017. they didn t have to worry about the history. they could have contempt. they would say repeatedly when you talked to them, oh, if they were so smart, why is everything in such a mess. we re going to do everything differently. biden s team is connected with
secretary of state rex tillerson called him a moron a bit more descriptively. but he doesn t want to learn. and because of that, because donald trump believes and many of those around him believe that history began on january the 20th, 2017, you have donny deutsch, a president who has ignored 70 years of alliances that have kept this country safe and strong and the preeminent power across the globe. and he has ignored trade policy that has made america the strongest economy in the history of this world. he has also ignored or forgotten the history from our enemies. and so think about this. i mean, there are patsies for welcome back to morning joe. joining us now, cofounder ceo of donald trump in the trumpian
he could have struck these deals, and again, the enduring mystery is why does he choose the 37% when he could get 50%. i ve been asking that question from january the 20th, 2017. i ask it again. i brought up, he could have had an immigration deal, gotten over $20 billion for his wall. supported a dreamers fix that 75% of americans supported and boom, his full numbers would have gone up, chose not to. listen to steven miller, stayed down. i don t have a ground unified field theory of the trump psyche. when trump decided to become a political figure, the first thing he did was run a racist campaign to delegitimize the first african-american president. he got convinced that the donald trump who was a pragmatic deal
physics. i never took a science class. he s got the rules. i had to get eight credit hours in under grad, so i took two classes. my first was biology, we all had to take. the last one was geography, which i thought was coloring in maps. it wasn t. oh my god. but there are certain rules. physics, certain rules also in politics. there s certain rules in diplomacy. donald trump thinks that he can shatter those rules and he go goes i ve done this my whole life. everybody cheers. i don t know why they cheer. he might as well say i m eating dog doo because it means about the same thing. he s never done this before, mike. come on. and this reminds me of what we ve talked about here since january the 20th, 2017. and that is this, the trump administration, which means donald trump and a couple of people around him, believe who clap at everything he