organized by iranian-supported militia. take us through it. it s simplest to look at it this way, this region from iran to iraq into syria is the shia cres nlt, a place where iran has a tremendous amount of influence and they support proxies, provides weapons and more. that s why the message to iran comes to syria, and comes into syria. that s where we saw the military carry out its first air strike, its first offensive action under president joe biden. that s what we saw when u.s. aircraft carried out an air strike on syria, and that s the key, the strike carried out a few hours ago. a u.s. official tells us that up to a handful of militants were killed in this attack. the authorization for the strike came earlier today at the recommendation of secretary of defense lloyd austin. austin says he is confident that this site that was attacked was used by the iranian militias, the iranian-backed militias that carried out the rocket attacks in recent weeks on u.s. and coalition
theirs. it certainly is, sanjay and we re basing our assessment of 19% on the many, many surveys around prevalence, people measuring antibody tests in the population state by state over time. and we track those and put it all together with cases, deaths, and hospitalization, that s where we come up with the 19%. those higher numbers are essentially taking an assumption about what fraction of cases go undetected and then they scale across cases. so we believe in the lower number around 19%. dr. chris murray. sorry, go ahead, sanjay. i was going to say it s interesting because antibody studies could be tough, just measuring certain populations. it s a longer conversation we can hopefully have at some point. sorry, thank you, we re out of time. be sure to download dr. sanjay s podcast, coronavirus fact versus fiction. and don t miss full circle, catch it live streaming at 6:00 p.m. on cnn app watch it my time on demand. turn it over to chris for cuomo primetime. thank
acts that should never be forgotten. that is why we are in birmingham here today. i want to first take a look at the top headlines. while power has been restored for most texas residents, many communities are dealing with water shortages and property damage from the storm. now comes another nightmare situation brought about by the crisis, sky-high power bills. the recent weather has caused a huge spike in demand for fouer fouer. one customer received a bill for $10,000 for a three-bedroom house. this of course after sitting in the dark for days. plus news this weekend from the insurrectionist former presidents who hasn t appeared in public since leaving office on january the 20th. now word comes that the sore loser is expected to speak at the conservative political action conference in orlando, florida, next week. the full lineup hasn t been announced, but trump is expected to close out the meeting on the 28th. cpac is a largely far-right wing gathering. new investigation i
to this day, i don t know. okay. the doctors are now speaking out. last week we heard dr. anthony fauci talk about how liberated he feels working with the biden administration. and now dr. deborah birx is also explaining how difficult things were working under donald trump. good morning and welcome to morning joe . it is monday, january 25th. we have whose reporter for associated press, jonathan lemire, washington post david ignatius is with us this morning, founder and director of the group defending democracy together and editor-at-large at the bulwark, bill crystal is with us. and new york times reporter and msnbc national security analyst, michael schmidt. joe and willie have the morning off, which means we won t be spending the first 10 minutes of the show talking about the nfl playoffs. we ll get to tom brady and how great he is in just a moment. first, house speaker nancy pelosi said the article of impeachment accusing former president donald trump of inciting
welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is tuesday, january 11th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. new this morning, voting rights advocates in georgia are speaking out on their plans to boycott president biden s speech today in atlanta. they say without a concrete plan to pass election reform laws that have, so far, been blocked by republicans, and also some resonant democrats, the president shouldn t bother coming. here s what the founder of black voters matter told us here on new day just moments ago. he gave a very passionate speech, not only the one he gave for the commemoration last week of january 6th, but, remember, he gave a very passionate speech back in philadelphia, back in july. but then literally for seven months, we heard nothing else about voting rights from him. so now is not the time for another speech. and to be clear, we believe in using the presidency as a bully pulpit. we would have loved that the president use the pr