the cofounder of axios, mike allen.see you this morning. >> good morning. >> give us the axios 1 big thing. >> it's a vaccine reality check. as we follow the market news about promising results on vaccines, i think we have the idea that this is going to be a silver bullet. that right away a vaccine, if it works, is going to solve our problems. but the axios health team dug into this and we need to have much more modest, much more realistic expectations about what a vaccine can do. we're seeing a miracle of modern science and business. the speed with which this is being done, almost 200 possible vaccines under way around the world, people starting to test for those. but what's that really going to do? the early ones may have kind of modest results. it may keep you from having to go to the hospital, it may reduce your symptoms, it may keep you from dying, which is certainly all those things are awesome and we need, but here's the why it matters. to go back to our normal communal life, the activities we used to do, full of

the cofounder of axios, mike allen.morning. >> give us the axios one big thing today? >> we blew it. how's that looking back on the past few months of how america handles the covid crisis, we had a chance to build a bridge the idea was to build a bridge to august, september, a trillion dollar -- trillions of dollars were poured into it, shutdown the economy, built the bridge and by september kids will be able to go to school and all the parents will be able to go to work of course, all of that is in doubt right now and as my colleagues put it, instead of a bridge, we built a pier. what went wrong? we blew it on public health, schools, and economics and listen to this one, we blew it on goodwill so many people sheltered down, locked down, wore masks, made sacrifices, so many people didn't, people who were essential workers went out and so many people went out without their masks. bottom line it didn't have to be this way. >> it didn't with the hundreds of thousands of lives that have been lost because of covid let's swit

. >>> welcome back, joining me now with a look at axios a.m., the cofounder of axios, mike allen goodig thing today. >> good morning, the axios one big thing is wall street winners with a blue wave so axios reports on wall street traders increasingly thinking not only will there be a biden win that they've been pricing in for a couple weeks now, but they're looking at a blue wave that takes the house and the sna senate with them why does that matter this is a change in just a couple of weeks and with an all blue government, just as president obama had an all blue government when he first came in, george w. bush had an all red government when he first came in, you can do a lot. so wall street is trying to figure out where can you place the bet. with a biden blue portfolio, which is what they're calling it, who gets bumped up, so advanced technologies including ai and 5g might get additional investments under plans that biden might propose. and lots of building and infrastructure, including broad band and engineering and materials so everything that might come with big infrastructure sp

leland: congressman, this is mike allen's reporting in terms of the ad that's airing now juxtaposed torview. the ad never mentions trump's name, but it's a stark, dramatic contrast, wear a mask, laced with a positive, hopeful message. the question would be this: right now people are looking for, perhaps, the stark contrast to president trump as his unapproval numbers are quite high. but the enthusiasm for joe biden's candidacy, for people voting for joe biden just isn't there. it's in the 30%. how to you grow that number if you don't go out and talk to people and hold rallies in the way the vice president has been loathe to do? >> and appropriately loathe to do. let us understand we're in the midst of a horrible pandemic. this pandemic is killing americans, 140,000 americans. clearly, the current administration is inept if not just plain dangerous in what it is doing. biden is doing what he should do and that is not furthering the infection by having rallies. he is out there, he is doing press, some press events, he is answering questions across the country in individual interviews whe

look at mike allen's reporting from axios, speaking of what the biden administration would look like,ne is making sure approach to covid, blah, blah, is different as well as reentering the paris accord, combat global warming. that doesn't play very well in western pa that survives in large parton coal and on fracking? >> yeah, well, a couple separate things. first pennsylvania is diverse economy. philadelphia and especial think suburbs, a lot of high-quality white-collar jobs, some other pockets to have state that you just referenced in the southwest as well as the northeast, they are heavily dependent on energy jobs. the reality is coal isn't coming back. big reason why coal has been in decline over the last decade is actually because of the second thing you said, fracking, so really, again, this is an area where donald trump talks a big game but the reality is it's quite something different. i'd also point out, again, like i said before, even before covid-19, including in pennsylvania, we were seeing a decline of manufacturing jobs and that is wrong. there's nothing that says that i

likely than not we're going to see those patients come into the hospital over the next 2 weeks mike allen joins us live from washington d.c. mike give us a recap on the situation in the west hit states. well you heard there that texas now above 10000 cases a day exactly the same reaching its highest ever level of cases and one particular day monday we're seeing arizona as well reporting massive increase in cases in florida for example the there is a complete shortage of beds in internal health clinics so certainly this is a major crisis but the connection between these states that are reporting the spike is that they are all states that opened up early back in mid april under pressure from president trump who tweeted specifically that it was time for the states to open up to get the economy going these 3 states in particular were among the 1st to open and this is the consequence that you are seeing this massive spike in terms of recorded cases in these states most of them republican controlled the federal government continuing to leave the management of the pandemic up to individual state

. >> mike allen, thank you as always my friend. i'll be reading axios a.m. in a little bit you can sign up for the newsletter at axiossignup.com. that does it for me this morning, i'm yasmin vossoughian. "morning joe" starts right now. >> good morning and welcome to "morning joe," it is monday, july 27th. with us we have national affairs analyst, executive editor of the recount, john heileman. host of politics nation and president of the national action new york, reverend al sharpton is with us. and author of "the washington post" early morning newsletter, jackie alamani is with us this morning. >>> and this morning the number of americans who die from the coronavirus is expected to cross 150,000. it is a tragic number by any account. a number that most say this did not have to happen. and for a president who has been wrong repeatedly about the death toll, who continues to claim the virus will just disappear, we're at almost 150,000 people. he perceived -- his perceived mishandling of the deadly pandemic is showing up starkly in polling. including the critic

you can turn on mike douglas and john lennon and yoko on our sitting there with mike douglas, you know? allen suits would be on laugh in. here's another question. why do we even bother with names? if there was a holiday named after you how would it be celebrated? that's a good one. kat? >> i don't know, vaping and dancing around and watching dateline murder mysteries. greg: that's on the name but that's what you would do. joey what would be the name of your holiday? >> it would be a walkathon. everybody would walk in honor for me and maybe do a little target practice. i don't know. greg: there you go. tom. >> we are to have a barbershop quartet the international trivia day in a back to next big trivia show is coming up on "fox nation" on july 9. we are doing a happy hour. greg: oh interesting. all the answers are going to be white people, knowing tom. tyrus? >> i have given this a lot of thought. justifiable homicide day. if you live to the knotty list and it gets approved by your peers once a year. >> you were offended by my vaping. >> only puts justifiable. greg: i would i would have a nati

mike pompeo has praised australia for standing up to china. as really as foreign minister and defense minister were in washington for two days of talks. paul allenwith more. how are the allies cementing this united front against china? paul: this is a modest affirmation of a long-standing alliance. both sides reiterated criticism of hong kong's national security law, 5g technology concerns, concerns about what's going on in the south china sea. there was no mention for a proposal for australia to send warships through the area. there was mention of plans to cooperate closely on the next generation of hypersonic weapons, air and missile defense, cybersecurity and rare-earth supply chains as well. the foreign minister anne-marie's pain made it clear that australia makes its own decisions and has no intention of damaging the relationship bothchina, but most -- countries should be able to articulate their differences. we have seen china putting forffs in retaliation australia's call for an investigation into origins of the coronavirus. shery: the u.s. might have an enlarged military presence in australia's northern territory. what's happening there?