We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect. But when we make a mistake, we'll fix it very quickly.

So, for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was Ebola prevention.

I think we all want Ebola prevention. So we restored the Ebola prevention immediately.

Okay, Elon Musk taking center stage during President Trump's first cabinet meeting of his second term.

We'll have much more from that meeting featuring someone, of course, who is not a cabinet secretary,

nor a nominee to become one.

We will also bring you the very latest on a developing story, the growing

measles outbreak in Texas as HHS Secretary. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seemed to downplay

its spread yesterday. And we'll dig into the mineral rights deal between the U.S. and Ukraine,

ahead of president for Lodomir Zelensky's visit to the White

House tomorrow. Good morning and welcome to morning, Joe. It is Thursday, February 27th. Along with

Joe, Willie and me, we have the co-host of our fourth hour contributing writer at the Atlantic,

Jonathan Lemire. MSNBC contributor Mike Barnacle is with us.

U.S. Special Correspondent for BBC News, Katty Kay, she is the host of The Rest is Politics Podcast.

And the host of way too early, Allie Vitale, joins us along with co-founder and CEO of Axis Jim Vandahi.

Joe, we have a lot of news to get to this morning, but we begin with news that broke overnight.

Very sad news.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, sad news.

Gene Hackman, Willie, Guy, one of the great actors uh... of our time

jean hackman's passed away

uh... he just uh... he's such an iconic actor in so many roles

became famous during the french connection uh...

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