you can see how extraordinarily uncomfortable i was. frankly, i didn t know how to handle that episode. i still think about it every day. it s something dr. fauci and i talked about all the time, is how to correct the record. wow. i still think about it every day. dr. deborah birx, the former white house covid response coordinator under president trump in a new interview with abc news. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it s tuesday, march 16th. so let s talk about that for one second. you know, willie, at the time, dr. birx was getting abused oh, yeah. and criticized and you know, there are some things she said and did that were concerning to me, but you know it was mostly what she didn t say. she was trying to stay in to have some influence on a guy who was erratic and crazed on this issue. and people can say, well, she people are saying, she should just quit. and you re like, okay, how could it get worse if she just quit? well, dr. scott atlas cou
the fbi believes it was an industrial type strength bear spray and according to the documents this is the this canister they were using they sprayed in the faces of these three officers. one of them is officer sicknick. i ll read you just a part of the affidavit. it says, quote, officer sicknick, edwards and chapman standing in a few feet all react one by one. they immediately retreat from the line, bring their hands to their faces and rush to find water to wash out their eyes. this is one of the many, many assaults, that we saw that day on january 6th which the fbi says that people who were in this pro-trump mob used bear spray, pepper spray and other things to attack these officers. in this case officer sicknick went back to his office. he fell ill and was taken to the hospital. he died the following day. now, one of the things that s interesting is right now they re only charged these two men are only charged with assault on a federal officer. these are nine counts in
opening act of a sweeping progressive agenda on the horizon for the country. will it backfire for democrats come 2022? karl rove is here for white board wisdom. first, as embattled new york governor andrew cuomo faces calls from more than 160 lawmakers to resign or be impeached, new allegations that his covid-19 testing czar made inappropriate calls to state officials to gauge their loyalty to cuomo with one official claiming that they feareded their counting vaccine supplies could suffer if loyalty was not offered. new york city mayor bill de blasio wants those claims looked into it. deserves an investigation immediately. because the idea that this is how we save lives and it must be handled not with politics, not for political gain, but to actually help people and to do it fairly, that is what is at stake here. and i am very worried about the corruption we re hearing about here. cuomo facing duel scandals over nursing home deaths and allegations of sexual harassment.
president, targeting july 4th for when americans can gather in small groups. that will make this independence day something truly special, where we not only mark our independence as a nation, but we begin to mark our independence from this virus. and joining me now is the most trusted figure in the country on this subject. it s dr. anthony fauci, the director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. dr. fauci, welcome back to meet the press. thank you, chuck. good to be with you. so, a year ago, literally this date, you were out there warning us. we were all contemplating how bad this would be. but i don t think anybody, any civilian thought, oh, we re going to be this is going to be a year at the time. what would you tell yourself from a year ago of what to expect and how shocked have you been about what this year s been like? you know, chuck, i knew it was going to be bad. and you know, just a couple of days ago last year, i said at a cong
interior secretary, making her the first native american secretary. all of this as two men accused of attacking capitol police officer brian sicknick who later died from his injuries with bear spray during the january 6th riot make their first court appearance later this afternoon. joining us, correspondent kara lee, covering the white house, and nbc correspondent garrett haake in el paso, texas. and the co-author of the political play book. great to have you with us. the president saying they re hitting their goals in the pandemic. then there s this. a new poll finds 30% say they will not get the vaccine, 47% of trump supporters say they will not get vaccinated. he was asked about that a short while ago. what does the biden administration plan to do about the hesitancy. look, they have been planning to do a broad national campaign, ayman, and meantime have been doing smaller, more targeted efforts to constituency that show high rate of vaccine hesitancy. when the president