president biden is urging americans not to overreact. and in particular pleading with the unvaccinated to go get their shots now to protect themselves and their families. president has also doubled the government s order of pfizer s antiviral pill, which reduces hospitalizations and severe illness for those infected. the cdc is attempting today to clarify new guidance after receiving criticism for cutting the recommended isolation time after a positive covid test, from ten days to five days. we ll have more on that in a moment, so you can have all your questions answered. the other story, of course, we re following this morning, tomorrow marks one year since trump supporters rushed the capitol, violently disrupting the peaceful transfer of power, following the 2020 election. lawmakers investigating the riot are encouraging former vice president mike pence to cooperate while revealing how top fox news personality sean hannity was sounding the alarm behind the scenes while push
to overthrow democracy is being organized right now. the question is what s his plan to top it. and divide criticism, the cdc decides not to recommend negative covid tests in updated guidelines. we ll talk to a dock doctor on that. and pressure on capitol hill to change voting rules to get voting passed. the question is has senator joe manchin shifted his stance on this at all? it s way too early for this. good morning. welcome to way too early. it s wednesday, january 5th. i m jonathan lemire. this is the show that is glad those drivers are finally off i-95 in virginia. let s start with the news and we ve got a lot to get to. former president donald trump has cancelled a knew conference planned for the anniversary of the january 6th insurrection. the new york times reports trump s initial report on december 30 toth counter the programs of the events has drawn immediate concerns have questions in our lives have questioned the wisdom for the spotlight for hills
too early on this wednesday morning. morning joe starts right now. one year later should be a simple, solemn commemoration of what happened and a collective, unified determination to never let anything like that ever happen again. i m even more worried now because the moment of unity is gone and, most importantly, the moment of moral clarity, of collective, patriotic outrage is fading. it went from republicans being apologetic about their president to voting to exonerate him. it went from republicans being angry at him and denouncing him to voting against putting a bipartisan commission together to get all of the facts out. democratic senator brian schatz warning yesterday the next attempt to overthrow american democracy is being organized right now. ahead this morning, we re going to speak with congressman jamie raskin, who led the second impeachment effort against donald trump following the january 6th attack on the capitol. and we ll be joined by one of the men who
i kind of take offense to that. because what if one of your white anchors said, well, white people eat this on new year s day? i don t think it was appropriate that she said that. she was being very asian and, i don t know. she can keep her korean to herself. wow. cari? ridiculous. ridiculous. and, by the way, i think kudos to michelle. i know this story very well. she played that because it is ridiculous, and i m sure it s not the first time she heard this in her career, as a woman of color. trust me, i know. i d like to add, for the record, i, too, loved black-eyed peas for new year s day because it is good for you. this woman made it about her. you do tell me what you d like to eat. that s fine. but good for michelle. i love the way in which the hashtag very asian became something positive, in the way people responded. it is unfortunate we live in a day and age where we can t say what we like culturally, and it becomes a versus type of situation. and it is sad. becau
dozens of miles in the middle of winter. i want to bring in first kristin powers, a reporter with wjla in washington. you have been kind of in the middle of this as you re getting reports of people being stranded. what s happening right now? yeah, kate, i was stuck in it since about 2:00 a.m. at this point though, there s some people who have been stuck on i-95 for 21 hours and counting. so right now, i actually was just able to i call it escape, vdot was saying they re letting people off the nearest exit closest to them and that was true. i got off of woodbridge. i ll turn the camera around and you can see. i see people who got off, including a lot of truck drivers, they re now lining those side roads, you know, trying to find a different route. but i also saw a truck getting gas. i saw a lot of gas canisters on the side of trucks there. so that s what s happening here, but back on i-95, i just checked in with a colleague who is closer to stafford. stafford is the area w