Second lieutenant. She will join us along with her mother who is a brigadier general who witnessed that explosion. They will share their memories 20 years later. Welcome to the lead. I m jake tapper and we begin today with our health lead and president biden s message to republican governors looking to challenge his new mandate on businesses to either test or vaccinate their employees. Biden saying, quote, have it. The president s new policies will affect about twothirds of the american workforce or roughly 100 million americans, forcing federal employees and federal contractors and healthcare workers, all of them to get vaccinated, even private businesses with more than 100 employees will need to make sure their workers get weekly testing or get the shot. For context, 75% of u. S. Adults already have at least one dose of the covid19 vaccine. Biden is talking specifically to the roughly 27% of eligible unvaccinated americans who are the ones keeping this pandemic going. And even though
I m breaking my cell phone out because of all the incidents we ve been seeing, just like this one. Too much booze, passengers restrained by tape. What is happening in the air? we re going to speak to the head of the flight attendants association coming up. We do say good morning, everybody, it is saturday, august 7th. I m kendis gibson. I m lindsey reiser, have you felt that way when you ve been flying? i m probably the person they re about to tape and restrain on most flights. So you re the person they cut off at the airport. Exactly. This kendis guy. Things have gotten so wild the faa is now stepping in, and actually just kind of desperately asking for airports to step in, we re going to dive into all of that. And monitor people, right, flight attendants have been taking selfdefense classes. We re going to dive into that this hour. We have a team of reporters and analysts following the lathe for us right now and we re going to begin with the bad news across the country in the delta v
mask on. the whole point of the vaccine, cdc guidance is what we re following. republican senator ted cruz refusing to wear a mask while speaking to the press yesterday. official guidance from the cdc advises to continue regular precautions in public places, like wearing a mask, even when fully vaccinated. thanks, ted cruz, for guiding us. good morning, welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, march 25th. with us, we have white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire, and president of the council on foreign relations and author of the book, the world, a brief introduction, richard haass is with us this morning. jonathan, you heard kasie just talk about it, president biden holding that press conference today. what can we expect? it s president biden s first press conference. it s 60-some odd days into the this administration. he s gone the longest without having one of these events, and there s some talk among west wing aids that this matters more insid
trapping more than 100 workers inside. in neighboring illinois, at least one person is dead after a tornado struck an amazon warehouse in edwardsville, northeast of st. louis. in arkansas, a suspected tornado destroyed a nursing home in thee city of monette killing at least one person. fox team coverage beginning with steve harrigan live in mayfield, kentucky where the factory roof collapsed, steve. steve: john, the sun has set here in mayfield, kentucky, long, cold and difficult night for first responders and national guard who are here on the scene of that candle factory. you can see behind me activity of the cranes has slowed. it s been 15 hours since anyone was pulled alive from that factory. it is one of the largest employers in this town of 10,000. more than 110 workers were inside the factory working an overnight shift. many of them trying to earn overtime to christmas when, of course, the demand for christmas candles is at its highest. people told of their ears popp
we re counting down with just hours until these records could be released to lawmakers. cnn s kara skinnel is following the breaking details. what more do we know? the former president has filed a motion with the appeals court here in washington, d.c. asking them to briefly stop the national archives from turning over records to the house committee investigating january 6th. the former president s lawyers saying there are big constitutional issues at play here and have asked the court to briefly pause these records. they were due to be turned over by 6:00 p.m. tomorrow. now in this filing the former president is saying that, you know, one of the one of the things here that they are hoping to persuade the appeals court to do is they have reached an agreement with the house but they have an expedited briefing schedule which means these briefs could be done by as early as monday or tuesday of next week which would put this before the appeals court if they agree to take it up