Classes. The district s board of education is meeting later today and one member tells new day that the measure is expected to pass. Now, this would be the most sweeping and aggressive safety measure instituted anywhere in the country. And it happens to be in the nation s second largest school district. Yeah. This will be a very big deal when it happens. And it does look likely to happen. We ll speak to a member of the school board coming up. Again, this could be a key turning point in terms of vaccine requirements. Children now represent more than one in four new coronavirus cases in the country. Among all age groups we should note that hospitalizations are now back up to more than 101,000. We had been watching as the numbers had dropped some, but not anymore. President biden is delivering what the white house is calling a major speech on covid later today. He s expected to lay out a new sixpart plan which will include an emphasis of extending certain vaccine requirements. So let s st
In tokyo, and vulnerable communities here at home. And back to the former guy, one of donald trump s close friends busted by the feds and it goes straight back to what was happening inside the trump administration. We ll get to that developing legal story in just a moment, and a lot more on this wednesday, july 21st, but first, willie, let s begin with the very latest on the virus. Good morning, mika, the dangerous, highly contagious delta variant as of this morning was responsible for 83% of new covid infections, a full seven months after the first highly effective vaccine became available in this country. Hospitals are inundated with a surge of patients who are very sick, and the number of cases is climbing across the country. This latest wave is impacting the most vulnerable states and communities that have low vaccination rates. In a moment, nbc s gabe gutierrez will report from louisiana on why people are deciding not to get the shot. First, miguel almaguer with the latest numbers
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
this morning. i m supposed to read, he s the greatest quarterback of all time. did you write this? he was already the greatest quarterback of all time. three super bowls ago. it s redundant. it s a waste of alerts to have to say he s the greatest quarterback. it s redonculous. regronkulous for quarterback fans. john will be in a good mood the entire show. but first, the impeachment trial of donald trump will begin tomorrow and some details are starting to leak out. we have new details this morning on how long this trial will last and whether witnesses will be called. democrats are preparing to use video and they have a lot of it, to illustrate how the former president s words, his actions, his tweets, his friends words, incited the capitol riot on january 6th. republican congresswoman liz cheney taking it a step further suggesting that the president might actually have criminal liability, separate from the impeachment trial. she s pointing to a tweet about former v
the school shooting survivor she harassed. david hogg will join us next hour. instead, she seems to blame some giant, mystical force that allowed her to believe it all and repeat it all and lie all over the place. and that leads us right to the second trump impeachment trial. house managers making a high-stakes gamble, asking the former president to testify. mr. trump s defense team shooting down that idea. and breaking this morning, moments ago, vice president kamala harris cast a tie-breaking vote to pass a budget resolution that allows president biden s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package to go forward without republican support. joining us now, cnn s senior political reporter, nia-malika henderson, and cnn political analyst, david gregory. and nia, you say, marjorie taylor greene, while she lost her committee assignments, you say qanon won and keeps winning. why? i think that s right. even if you listen to her words in that speech, at some point, she equates th