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And later, my conversation with senator Kiersten Gillibrand. But first we are following a wave of breaking news. Rudy giuliani tells the New York Times and nbc news Robert Mueller will seek to conclude his investigation into collusion with russia by September 1st. So far we have not heard anything from the Special Counsel ourselves. Robert costa from the Washington Post reports an important asterisk. That deadline might hold true if the president sits for an interview. At the same time, Presiden...

Remaining significantly behind the ex-president in public opinion polls. this weekend reporting finds this -- "his advisers are promising to reorient the desantis candidacy as an insurgent run, remake it into a leaner, meaner operation." okay. a look at dangerous, life-threatening covid decisions made by ron desantis as he hopes to stay alive in the republican presidential primary. its where we begin the hour with some of our favorite reporters and friends. pulmonologist, global health policy ex...

Main stream media. the push, to make desantis appear more of an insurging id an income governor. the campaign report says spend less, bring in more. joining us now is politics reporter at axios steph kite. thank you for joining us. so when you usually advertise like this that youre doing a reboot, it doesnt tend to go so well, but tell us a little bit about what the internal campaign thinking is behind this need to reboot and why they think it might actually work in improving his poll numbers? >...

That theres a backlash playing out in school politics. its going to be shaping the conversations to some extent inside the white house about what to emphasize in this speech. russia, as a new element, into what needs to get tackled in this address. bidens ability to position himself as a world leader, not just a domestic leader. then i think like covid is still the big cloud thats hanging over everything. both on the health front and the economic front. and biden has to find a way to set expecta...

A number of manchins fellow democrats in the biden administration are outraged over his decision in this act. in an interview with fox news manchin said they should be focusing their attention towards the pandemic. top u.s. health workers are warning of the omicron variant. theyre averaging 120,000 cases a day at johns hopkins. cnns natasha chen is in los angeles where theyre seeing cases rise again. >> reporter: los angeles county public health is reporting a rise in the number of confirmed d...

Paulo sandoval, cnn new york. los angeles county public health has reported quite a rise in daily confirmed cases just in the past week. tuesday there were about 1,100 positive test cases. but by the weekend, saturday and sunday seeing more than 3,500 positive cases, and sunday may be low because of the lag in weekend reporting. so, within a weeks time frame were seeing the tripling of numbers. in california overall the positivity rate is under 3%, which is relatively low compared to other sta...

Los angeles county public health has reported quite a rise in number of daily confirmed cases just in the past week. for example, on tuesday, there were about 1100 positive test cases but by the weekend on saturday and sunday, both seeing more than 3500 positive covid cases and on sunday the number may be low because of the lag in weekend reporting. within just a weeks time frame were seeing the tripling of numbers. in california, overall, the positivity rate is still under 3%, which is relative...

Find our natasha chen who is tracking the rising hospitalizations there. hi, natasha so what is the latest? >> reporter: yeah, pamela, hospitalizations havent been this high since about early october but really we need to just look at the case numbers in los angeles county to see the real story here. case numbers have tripled just bn this past week. if you look at tuesday, la county public health reported about 1,100 positive test cases, by saturday, more 2,700, now over 3,500, so we havent seen...

Feeling from people like steve bannon and john eastman that this is just the start. this was the first failed attempt and if you remember kate this memo that john eastman had provided to trumps outside legal team they can ultimately be successful in actually following through on these unsubstantiated frame. these are people not committed to the committee. >> hey, jackie, good morning. its jonathan lemire. you have done extraordinary work over the weekend reporting on january 6th and red flags th...

Fought on. a lot of republican governors are screaming about its unconstitutional, its this or that. its really a case of federal law and experts say biden has the authority in federal law to do exactly what he did. >> "new york times" reporter covering health policy, cheryl stolberg, thank you very much for coming on the show this morning. joe mentioned what the republicans are doing in texas, joining us now, new york times reporter and msnbc national security analyst michael schmidt who had ...