Performance for phil mickelson. We ll talk about that in a little bit. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It s monday, may 24th. With us to kick things off, we have white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire and u. S. National editor at the financial times, ed luce joins us early this morning. So guess what, everybody. The pandemic outlook is improving nationwide as new coronavirus cases drop to rates not seen in nearly a year. Death rates are also as low as they ve been since last summer, according to the cdc, 60% of people over 18 have received at least one shot and are almost half almost half are fully vaccinated, contributing to the sharp decline in covid19 cases. The vaccine makes a huge difference. Health experts do caution that the virus remains dangerous in communities with low vaccination rates. And that s that not enough americans have vaccinated to completely extinguish the virus, leaving the potential for new variants that could extend the outbreak
Taken root abroad and at home. We have to prove to the world and to our own people that democracy can still prevail against the challenges of our time and deliver for the needs of our people. We have to root out corruption that siphons off our strength, guard against those who would stoke hatred and division for political gain as phony populism. Well, to that note we have reporting tonight as well as remarkable congressional testimony on the domestic version of what the president warned against. He had another example of how thoroughly the former president tried to coopt and recruit the justice department to help him overturn the election that he lost. First, the summit seen as kaitlan collins traveling with the president joins us from geneva. What are we hearing about the format of the summit? i think, anderson, it will be pretty tightly scripted and if you talk to the white house of they ve kind of been running through the actual format of it. But the details weren t figured out unti
tomorrow s dates. cnn s manu raju is on capitol hill. manu, yet one more official is going to sit down and tell their story of what happened on january 6th. based on the written testimony in advance, it looks like, again, differences, contradictions with what we re hearing from other people who sat in that chair. reporter: and a lot of questions about why the national guard was not called to this building much earlier. there were several hours where people like me, others, so many other people in this building were questioning why was the national guard not here to back up capitol police and perhaps major general william walker, the commanding general of the d.c. national guard could shet some lights. unlike states, the district of columbia is a district and has to rely on not its governor but actually the secretary of the army to essentially approve the national guard request, and why was that request not approved earlier. in this testimony that was released by the committ
live once the witnesses start talking and have a report coming up in just a moment. we re also following some breaking news overseas. president biden now briefed and monitoring that attack on an iraqi military base hosting american soldiers. what we know about who is responsible. that provocation another challenge for the president as he makes a surprise announcement on the one here at home, promising enough vaccine supply for every american months earlier than expected. we will talk about why some states are not waiting to start rolling back their restrictions. our live report from texas coming up. we have a lot to get to in the next few minutes, i m hallie jackson in washington with nbc s garrett haake on capitol hill and new york times reporter zolan is with us as well. garrett, talk about what we can expect to hear today and what we are hearing from some of those witness statements that have been released in the last couple of minutes. reporter: that s right. so rem
voting machines and records. a federal judge in texas blocking the vaccine mandate for federal employees. and the battle over masks in schools reaching a new low. my children will not come to school on monday with a mask on. all right? that s not happening and i will bring every single gun loaded and ready. well that virginia parent charged after threatening to bring loaded guns to school because she s against masks. so i want to bring in laura coates to talk about this and she s the author of the book just pursuit a block prosecutor s fight for fairness. so much to talk about. good evening to you. let s talk about this politico reporting, investigators are in possession of a draft report from 2020 that would have seized voting machines as part of trump s plan to overturn the election that said effective immediately, the secretary of defense should seize, analyze all machines, electronic records required for retention. laura, crazy seems like an understatement here. tha