care of your children they mean it like mary poppins or tony soprano. even on issues less fundamental than abortion the left just doesn t take their problems out on america s kids. their problem seems to be that there are american kids at all. radical environmentalists regard children as enemies of the climate. corporate elites see babies as expensive competitors for the time attention and creativity of professional women which they apparently feel should belong exclusively to them. critical race theory con men suggest that babies become racist as early as 3 months old. new york times columnist paul krugman pictured here holding his if you are baby apparently believes the child tax credit is racist, too because it s really about more white christians. radical feminists have built their entire brand around de-prioritizing family life and shaming happy moms as sell outs to the patriarchy. i used to wonder where this hatred came from until i became a parent last year. progress
and a lot of the country is heeding that message in some way, shape, or form. yesterday, the government announced that half of u.s. adult population has received at least one dose of the covid-19 vaccine. that s pretty amazing. the cdc reported that almost 130 million people 18 and older, have started the vaccine regimen and almost 84 million adults are fully vaccinated, which is about 32.5% of the population. we are getting there. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it s monday, april 19th. with us, we have white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire, washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay. professor at princeton university, eddie glaude jr., and professor at the lyndon b. johnson school of public affairs at the university of texas, victoria defrancesco soto. thank you all so much for being with us this morning. we ll get to that good news on the vaccine in just a moment. but first, we begin this morning with minneapolis and the who
this time to give the country an opportunity weigh in on this matter. it s literally life or death. you know, we re not asked to be successful. we re asked to be faithful. that s a quote i keep in my heart from mother teresa. we ll end on that note. thank you, both. thanks to both of you for watching this morning. we ll see you tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m. ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. right now on ana cabrera reports, the race for the presidency. a republican mega donor network now pulling its cash from nikki haley as her fight to beat donald trump moves to michigan. the chairman of the rnc announcing her resignation hours ago. did she lose trump s favor? also ahead, five days and counting, another government shutdown looming at the end of this week. can congress cut a deal in time? new fallout after the alabama court ruling on frozen embryos. fertility clinics now pausing ivf services amid mounting uncertainty. thanks for joining us. hope you had
the world. you are watching cnn newsroom and church just ahead. fox news reaches a last minute settlement with dominion voting systems, just as the jury was sworn in, and the defamation trial was about to begin how much the network is shelling out. 84 year old white man is out on bail of religiously shooting, a black teenager rang his doorbell by mistake the charges he faces in court in the coming hours. people cling to anything they can find to escape a deadly fire at a hospital in beijing. buy from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. have you with us with the jury was sworn in lawyers were ready for opening statements. but then folks news blinked, reaching a last minute settlement in a billion dollar defamation lawsuitin systems. ur the deal, fox agreed to pay almost $800 million to dominion about half of what the company had originally sought in damages. the agreement saves top fox executives and the network s most prominent stars from the embarrassment
edition of ac360. they harry interview, my conversation with prince harry that i did for cbs s 60 minutes. tonight, the interview. and we ll discuss with our correspondents and guests the potential fallout from it. and what harry revealed in his new book, which comes out on tuesday. prince harry may have stepped back from his royal duties in 2020, but he and his wife meghan, the duchess of sussex, certainly haven t stepped away from the spotlight. just last month, they appeared in a six part netflix documentary about their relationship, and their decision to leave the royal life behind. but now, the 30-year-old prince harry is telling his own story in his new memoir, spare, a nod to his backup role in the line of succession. the book is a stunning break with royal protocol. it s deeply personal, and it s an account of prince harry s long struggle with grief after the death of his mother, princess diana, and a revealing look at his fractured relationships with his father, king