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grows only worse with the severe weather there. new reporting on the after math of saturday s deadly earthquake. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, august 18th. it s good to have us all together, joe. yeah, great to be together. we have a lot to talk about today. willie, though, let s just start by talking about and you and i maybe we shouldn t reveal this to everybody, but, you know, i m frighteningly good in two things, and we don t talk about it a lot. one is parcheesi, the second is fortune telling. i m a great fortune teller. i have been predicting the rise of a team out of the east for quite some time now. you laughed, you mocked me. lemere mocked me. the yankees were coming, what happened, of course, willie, call me dom if you would like. it did help, the trade deadline. you guys set up murderers row, and our front office decided to get a one eyed goat and a six-week subscription to popular mechanics and that was just online. it wasn t ....
and a scramble to find survivors after the earthquake in haiti. a live report ahead. we do begin with breaking news on two big stories, the pandemic and the response to the crisis in afghanistan. let s start with coronavirus. top health officials in the biden administration are expected to recommend that most americans get a coronavirus booster shot eight months after being fully vaccinated. for those who got the one dose johnson & johnson vaccine experts are still gathering data but it is expected that you will also need a booster. an official announcement could come this week and boosters could be started next month. health care and elderly are first in line. this is coming as new cases and hospitalizations and deaths are surging in the united states because of the delta variant. especially among the unvaccinated. let s get to this news and get some context around it. joining me now cnn chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta. how should people be thinking about th ....
pair of legal bombshells here in washington today that could have huge ramifications for the 2024 election. last hour, attorney general merrick garland announced a federal prosecutor who is raiding hunter biden has been special counsel, at his question. david weiss requested the status change. garland did grant that. this comes just a few hour after trump s lawyers and special counsel prosecutors appeared for the first hearing in the election interference indictment. a key ruling could come down at any moment. we re on top of this. let s star with the hunter biden news. kara, tell us about this special appointment. merrick garland announced this a little less than an hour ago, that david weiss, overseeing the investigation into hunter biden, requested special counsel on tuesday. garland said he agreed to grant that. what this special counsel status means is david weiss, the u.s. attorney for delaware, will have authority to investigate this case anywhere in the ....
hello again, welcome. it s time to get together with some smart people to break down the big stories. today we re asking following donald trump s ims pressive win in iowa and his lead in new hampshire, is the republican presidential race sench essentially over? plus a scathing report on the deadly uvalde school shooting leaves us wondering, can we keep our kids safe? and one of madonna s songs time goes by so slowly, and for her fans, that s so true. they are now suing her. our gang is here and ready to go. zit back, relax, and let s talk about it. up first, on the heels of the presidential race, donald trump is looking to sew up the republican nomination this week in new hampshire. the first in the nation primary, which could be the l to stop the former president. i m thrilled to be back in a great state of new hampshire. on tuesday donald trump is looking to become the first republican ever to win contest ed races in both iowa and new hampshire. but that may ....
today we re asking, following donald trump s impressive win in iowa, and his lead in new hampshire, is the republican presidential race essentially over? plus, a scathing justice department report on the deadly uvalde school shooting leaves us wondering, can we keep our kids safe? and one of madonna s song starts, time goes by so slowly. and for her fans, that s so true. they re now suing her. our gang is here and ready to go. so sit back, relax, and let s talk about it. first, the state of the presidential race. on the heels of a dominant victory in iowa, donald trump is looking effectively to sew up the republican nomination this week in new hampshire. the first in the nation primary which could be the last chance to stop the former president. i m thrilled to be back on tuesday, donald trump is looking to become the first republican ever to win contested races in both iowa and new hampshire. that may depend on the strength of nikki haley s momentum in the gr ....