And a lot of the country is heeding that message in some way, shape, or form. Yesterday, the government announced that half of u. S. Adult population has received at least one dose of the covid19 vaccine. Thats pretty amazing. The cdc reported that almost 130 Million People 18 and older, have started the Vaccine Regimen and almost 84 million adults are fully vaccinated, which is about 32. 5 of the population. We are getting there. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. Its monday, april 19th. With us, we have White House Reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire, washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay. Professor at princeton university, eddie glaude jr. , and professor at the lyndon b. Johnson school of Public Affairs at the university of texas, victoria Defrancesco Soto. Thank you all so much for being with us this morning. Well get to that good news on the vaccine in just a moment. But first, we begin this morning with minneapolis and the whole country rea
Diamond outside the white house. How does he plan, i know it takes all of us to get there, what is the plan . Listen, the white house was on a call with us and described multiple path ways to meet this target by 2030. They say that it is an ambitious target. They believe that it is achievable. And now the president s National Climate task force over the coming weeks and months is going to be looking sector by sector at specific, putting forward specific recommendations for how to actually meet this target. But what we heard from President Biden today was talking about the idea that this is not just a u. S. Effort but this must be an international effort. It is the return of u. S. Leadership on this issue of Climate Change after four years of denial from former president trump. You heard President Biden talk about this next decade by which he wants to meet this target. As the decisive decade. Listen. No nation can sol of this crisis on our own as you all know fully understand. All of us
Cnns Jeremy Diamond is at the white house. Also joining Uchief Climate Correspondent climate correspondent bill weir. This is a very ambitious goal. 2030 is only nine years away. This is not some random date well off into the future. Is this an aspirational goal or does this Administration Believe its a practical one . Well, this Administration Believes that its an ambitious goal but also one they think is achievable. And while they havent laid out a Concrete Road Map yet for exactly how this is happening, that work is already under way. The president s National Climate task force is going to be convening sector by sector recommendations for how exactly they can meet this target. When you stack this up to the previous target which was set up by president barack obama, that was 26 to 28 reduction from 2005 levels by 2025. Were now looking at 50 to 52 just five years later. So its certainly ambitious here. What we heard from President Biden at the start of this Leaders Summit just earlie
End of the what youre hearing about light at the end of the tunnel doesnt take away from the fact that tomorrow or the next day will get really bad. The minimum number was 100,000 lives. I think well be substantially under that number. Less than 100,000 deaths. No problem. If we can stay substantial lip under the hundred, which was the original projection, i think we all did a very good job. Yes. Great work, team this has been this week in covid history. Yeah, well, you know what they say . Hindsight is infuriating. My god. They were so bad. Its tragic because its true. Its terrible. Its funny happy birthday, sweetie. Happy birthday. Light at the end of the tunnel and they were carrying the sign, less than 100,000. Dont laugh, you guys. Its funny, but dont laugh. The stupidity light at the end of the tunnel absolutely ridiculous. Willie, we have a birthday boy. I know happy birthday, joe. Happy birthday, joe. Yeah, thank you so much. I appreciate it. Ive been busy, willie. Second round
Rested their cases last week after nearly three weeks of tomorrow and 45 witnesses, most of which came from the prosecution and did not include Derek Chauvin himself. Have you made a decision today whether you intend to testify or whether you intend to invoke your Fifth Amendment Privilege . I will invoke my Fifth Amendment Privilege today. All right. So my panel is here to discuss this. Melissa murray, nyu law professor, former law clerk for Justice Sonia sotomayor. Rachel paulo, former u. S. Attorney for minnesota. And sonia pruitt, member of the Law Enforcement action partnership. Ladies, welcome, thanks for joining us. Melissa, i want to start with you. I want to talk about Closing Arguments specifically. What we can expect from both sides tomorrow. Well, i think weve already seen a little bit of what well expect from both sides. Last wednesday the defense made a motion for an acquittal from the judge on the ground the prosecution had not proven his case so in arguing that motion w