Good morning and welcome to Morning, Joe. It is Monday, May 3rd, which means it's Willie's

birthday. Happy birthday, Willie. With us, we have White House reporter for the Associated Press,

Jonathan Lemire, professor at Princeton University,

Eddie Gleod Jr., founder of the conservative website, The Bullwork, and author of How the Right

Lost Its Mind, Charlie Sykes. We have a lot to talk to Charlie about this morning.

And U.S. national editor at the Financial Times, Ed Luce is with us as well.

It's really good to have you all on this Monday morning. We'll get to former President Donald

Trump continuing to perpetuate his big lie about the election fraud in a moment. But first,

over 100 million Americans are now fully vaccinated from the coronavirus

in a major milestone for President Biden's COVID response.

The U.S. reached the number on Friday, and the total U.S. population is now almost 30% fully

vaccinated.

Vaccine hesitancy remains a threat, though the country is really trying,

it is a threat to the country's chances at achieving herd immunity, which is really what the

United States needs in order to put the coronavirus behind us. A front page story in the New York

Times says scientists believe the virus will, quote, likely become a manageable threat that will

continue to circulate in the U.S. for years to come, still causing hospitalizations and deaths,

but in much smaller numbers.

All right, and we'll get to the issue with India, which is another story within itself,

which does have ramifications here in the U.S. in just a moment.

But first, former President Donald Trump continues to perpetuate his big lie about election fraud.

He is still claiming it was stolen from him.

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