Secretary betsy devos who does not have a background in either education or medicine said its time to go back to school. Kids need to get back to school. They need to get back in the classroom. Families need for kids to get back in the classroom. And it can be done safely. I know for fact that there are many schools that have been working hard to put together their plans for moving ahead. And we want to see every school district, every state, doing the same thing. To say not what we cant do but what were going to do and what we can do. Were a country of action and doers and we need people to work hard and figure this out. Joining me now senator Debby Stabenow of michigan, a member of the budget and finance committees. Senator, when you hear by the way before we start i want to say congratulations on your new show. Im so excited for you. Its going to be great to see on at that time. Oh, thank you so much, senator. Thats very kind of you. Thank you very much. When you listen to betsy dev
Just when he thought he bowed out of public life, Robert Mueller comes back roaring back, after president commuted the sentence of his longtime friend and ally roger stone. Despite the fact that stone lied about his russian contacts and his communications with wikiileaks, the president has painted his longtime friend as something of a victim. But now the former special counsel is breaking his silence at least in print. Defending his doj colleague. Originally in an oped in the Washington Post, mueller wrote this, when a subject lies to investigators it strikes at the governments effort to hold wrong doers accountable. We made every decision in stones case as in all our cases based solely on the facts and the law and accordance with the rule of law. Claims to the contrary are false. Joining your conversation is our good friend frank figliuzzi. Lucky for us hes now an Msnbc National Security analyst. Some of the words that were like fingers in the socket for me. Donald trump suggested tha
Action to adopt a tenyear moratorium on offshore drilling. Later, the president will go to North Carolina. On thursday, hes speaking in michigan, joe biden heads to michigan tomorrow after spending yesterday in pennsylvania. Now, all of this comes as the senate makes an attempt at covid relief. Just moments ago, republicans released their skinny covid relief bill. It includes an extra 300 in weekly Unemployment Insurance down from the 600 that expired back in july, money for testing and for schools and Liability Protections for covidrelated lawsuits. Now Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says theyll vote on it this week. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the bill is just not enough. The republicans bill is less than a skinny bill. It looks like people will be needing help for a long time to come, just a short time ago, dr. Anthony fauci warned things wont go back to normal for a while. We will not really return with ease to a degree of normality that we all seek until we do get a safe and
Georgia in this final week . Plus, the president continues to say were rounding the corner on the pandemic, despite the u. S. Reporting its highest numbers of new covid cases yet. The question is, will hospitals be able to make it through the winter . And another outbreak at the white house, this time in the Vice President s office, with a close contact to mike pence testing positive. The question is, should pence be quarantined . Its definitely way too early for this. Good morning, and welcome to way too early, the show that continues to lift up the medical teams on the front lines. Thank you. Im kasie hunt on this monday, october 26th. Well start with the news. The white house is dealing with another outbreak of covid19. Five of Vice President mike pences aides have tested positive for the virus, including his chief of staff, marc short. The Vice President s office said in a statement saturday night that short began quarantine and that he was cooperating with contact tracing. A sourc
Today, lets talk about covid. Trump made the comments while blitzing the battleground state of pennsylvania. Hes at his second rally right now and will be on his way to the third stop in just a few minutes from now. Vice president mike pence, he is on the road right now in minnesota after we learned this weekend that five of his aides have contracted the coronavirus. Pence, himself, tested negative again today. Still, hes no longer planning to preside over tonights senate vote to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. The white house is planning another large event to celebrate, and the president is eager to have barrett voting on electionrelated ir ed issues i couple weeks. Pete williams will have a report on that in a moment for us. We want to begin with jake sherman, Senior Editor at politico. Peter baker, chief White House Correspondent at the New York Times, and coauthor of the new book the men who ran washington the life and times of james a. Bake r iii. And dr. Jennifer