Good evening. We begin, tonight, with covid and growing evidence the country is facing some hard weeks, ahead. At the same time, thankfully, there are signs pointing in the opposite direction. But not enough, at least not yet, to change the course that were on. So at The End of another good news bad News Day and the beginning of what looks to be another good news Bad News week, there is a lot to get to. Here is the Chief Medical Officer for our Lady Of The Lake Medical Center in baton rouge, in louisiana, where they have run out of beds in the intensivecare unit, and 23 patients are waiting in the er. There are no more beds left. Those 23 patients are a glimpse of what we have been doing, for the last two weeks, while we have been trying to get everybody vaccinated. And its not helping, enough, because its not happening fast enough. And when you come inside our walls, it is quite obvious to you that these are the darkest days of this pandemic. The darkest days of the pandemic there. An
Scene in the not so friendly skies. Whats causing people to lose their minds on planes . Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to lead. Im jake tapper. We start with the health lead. It can be done. Today the biden administration insisting that while the president s new Vaccination Goal is a search. They have confidence it can happen, but just hours after President Biden announced his target for 70 of american adults to have at least one dose of the Covid Vaccine by the fourth of july, the united states recorded another drastic decline in the number of daily covid vaccinations falling below is million shots in Arms Yesterday for the first time in months. Now the nations top doctors are warning another Virus Surge is still quite possible. Cdc director walensky saying we could see more dangerous variants emerge and a potential Winter Spike in cases still a possibility as cnns Alexandra Field reports. I wanted to sit out and wait and seat effects it had on anyone. Reporter it only gets harde
Trumps election lies. The congresswoman wrote a scathing Opinion Piece in the Washington Post and the message is aimed directly at her fellow republican colleagues. It warns them that history is watching and that embracing the former president s lies, quote, will do profound longterm damage to our party and our country, she writes. The Republican Party is at a Turning Point and republicans must decide whether they are going to choose Truth And Fidelity to the constitution. There is so much to discuss on this front this morning. Lets begin there with our Colleague Lauren Fox on capitol hill. She couldnt be clearer, and she seems very comfortable with where she sits knowing thAt This will likely cost her that seat. Thats exactly right, poppy. This really mirrors what ive been hearing from sources over the last several days, which is that cheney is not trying to fight the fact that she is going to be ousted from her position in leadership within the republican conference. Instead, her bel
concern. we have enormous crisis and we ve got to pass that legislation as soon as we possibly can. this is new day with alisyn camerota and john berman. morning, everyone. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day. and it is an historic morning in america. the second impeachment trial of former president donald trump is about to begin. security is tight at the u.s. capitol this morning. of course, trying to prevent a repeat of the deadly insurrection on january 6th. prosecutors will use donald trump s own words against him. trump told his supporters to march to the capitol and fight. he didn t say it once. he didn t say it twice. but 20 times. fight, fight, fight. fighting the fight, fighting. i d fight. i d fight their fight. fight. we fight. fight like hell. fight like hell. former aides tell cnn that mr. trump enjoyed the spectacle created by the riots and was, quote, loving watching the capitol mob. mr. trump re
widening as liz cheney is censured by her state s own party. it makes her the latest republican to face backlash from her own side over her vote to impeach trump. $509 million that s how much trump s election lies have reportedly cost american taxpayers. and the battle of the ages fwop great teams face off. we ll see the largest age gap between opposing quarterbacks in super bowl history as many gather for super bowl watch parties today, the u.s. surpasses 27 million covid cases. on this sunday, february 7th. good morning. patrick mahomes was 7 years old when tom brady won his first super bowl. no? yeah. my mind got blown. exactly. we re live at msnbc headquarters in new york. we have a team across the country for us. our correspondents and analysts are standing by following the latest including mariana sotomayor covering impeachment. monica is in west palm beach with the latest on trump s defense strategy. and we have mike in delaware following president joe bi