donald trump takes an unexpected term when donald trump gives out the senator's cell phone number. 5:30 on the east coast, 2:30 out west. it's "way too early." the show on the air six years and still trying to figure it all out. ♪ ♪ good morning everyone. it's wednesday, july 22. i'm ayman mohyeldin. donald trump went to south carolina yesterday and did not hold back. trump went hard after the state senator from south carolina and republican candidate lindsey graham for these comments he made yesterday. >> stop being a jackass. you can run and not be be a

jackass. >> i said hey, dhnt guy call me three, four years ago. i didn't know who he was. he goes mr. trump, this is senator lindsey graham i wonder if it would be possible for you to call fox? he wanted to know whether or not i could give him a good reference on fox friends. he wanted to know if i could do that. he wanted to see if he could come see me for campaign contributions. i found the card. i wrote the number down. i don't know if it's the right number. let's try it. 202 [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> it's three to four years ago. maybe it's an old number. 202 [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> the phone number was in fact senator graham's private cell phone. graham tweeted probably getting a new phone. iphone or android? this is not the first time trump published private number of someone he was feuding with.

last month he published ramos' phone number after the channel relees single digits. he says his record in the key swing state shows history of defying the odds. >> some are going to ask, as they always have why do you think you can do this? you know all of my life people have told me you can't do something. they're going to say well you know nice guy or good guy or not a good guy. whatever they're going to say. i don't know if he can win. but with you and you sweetheart okay, can you paint signs?

with all of you together we'll prove them wrong again, won't we? >> now the first republican debate is 15 days away and less than 1.5 points celebrate the candidates on the top stage. only top ten get to participate. governor chris christie and rick perry make the debate stage closely followed by rick santorum and john kasich. less than one point away from making the stage. bobby jindal is in the hunt one point down. this is raising the stakes for candidates to stand out before it's too late. president obama made his final appearance as commander-in-chief on the jon stewart show last night. the two joked about the

retirement. >> are please welcome back to the show president obama. how are you? you're also senioritis. you've got about a year? >> i can't believe you're leaving before me. in fact i'm issuing a new executive order that jon stewart cannot leave the show. it's being chalglenged in the courts. >> yes. >> with respect to iran this is adversary. they're anti-american, anti antiisrael. >> sounds like a good partner for peace. >> probably. well as has been said frequently, you don't make peace with friends.

the issue here is do we want them having a nuclear weapon? the answer is no. when you hear the critics talk about well it's a bad deal. we could have gotten a better deal. you ask them what represents a better deal? what is it you think could happen? typically they're vague and fall back on well if you had beat your chest a little more in 2011 or brought dig cheney to the negotiations -- >> let's not get crazy -- >> everything would be fine. >> stewart is set to retire from "the daily show" in two weeks. last show set for august 6th. more pieces emerges about the gunman innen the. a cousin in jordan has been taken in for questioning. uncovered evidence shows he searched the internet about

whether being a martyr would be forgiven. >> a law enforcement official tells nbc news investigators are looking into whether or not two acquaintances of the gunman that bought ammo with him knew about the attack. abdulazeez's uncle has been arrested in jordan a radical. investigators are looking at whether or not he influenced his nephew. >> nbc learned abdulazeez downloaded the american born clairic turned al qaeda recruiter. >> when you're downloading al qaeda inspired videos it's clear indication they're becoming radicalized, learning about the jihadi cause and

potentially looking to get involved in violent activity. >> a family spokesman tells us abdulazeez was last seen by his parents tuesday during a blowout argument over his dui arrest. on wednesday the suspect rented a car and went joyriding. thursday in the mustang convertible, he launched the attack leaving five dead. back at the army recruiting office where shots first rang out, some back to the crime scene for the first time. >> i'm honored to be back at work wearing this uniform everyday. >> many trying to move forward. the investigation now on two continents while here at home still so much heart break. >> the family says the uncle is a naturalized u.s. citizen who has dual citizenship in jordan. he studied chemical engineering at virginia tech in the 90s and not radical and being unfairly

detained. let's turn to business and wall street where earnings remain the focus. dow down 181 points. it's the biggest drop in nearly two weeks. apple reported a 38% rise in quarterly profit after the bell. that didn't stop the shares from falling 7% in afterhours trading. we are joined from london. big merger news. what's the latest on that front? >> yeah absolutely. as you point out, i think the markets feel a little tender after the mauling they've had around these technology stocks that are put in earnings that are not impressed. maybe there will be comforted with the fact regulators are finally green lighted this at&t deal. $48.5 billion is how much the giant will pay for directv.

it's taken 14 months for them to say this is acceptable. looks like the regulators will let this deal take place. ultimately it will meet a joint company with 26 million paid tv users. it will be quite a bigs company. regulators say as long as at&t obliges on some conditions they can't see problem for the deal to go through. obviously these conditions relate to access that other businesses will get in term the temperaturesthes of online television services. at&t making commitment it will not make life difficult for them. that story seems to be better for shareholders this will have a few scratching their heads. citi coming out saying they're going to offer refunds, at least $700 million worth of refunds to credit card users.

the company has acknowledged that maybe some of the advertising and marketing associated with these cards was misleading and may have hit some of those card holders in the pocket. they have said that they agree to start compensating card holders. if you're a citibank credit card holder expect a call or hopefully money back if you have been misled in the past through marketing provided by this company. hopefully that will be a bit of brighter news for some citibank credit card holders. back to you. >> a bit of a financial milestone here. the overhaul bill turned five this week. one of the most e significant mandates is just now taking in effect. what's that all about? >> yeah let's not get stuck in the detail here. effectively the vvolcker rule

says it should not trade. that's the nuts and bolts of it. what it means is so called prop desks, proprypropryty trading facility has been propped can down. they're whiter than white. the wall street journal saying many will take this because they have put compliance in place. we'll watch. back to you. >> live from london thanks for that update. moving on to jay johnson who admitted yesterday to using personal e-mail account on government computers but doesn't believe, he took a quote appreciable risk by doing so.

johnson is suspending the practice. >> at my desk top at work i was via internet accessing my personal g mail account so i could see who was sending me stuff on g mail my personal account. not to be confused with my dhs e-mail i use all the time. there are -- i received a waiver from our chief information officer to do that so to the rules. there are some security risks that have been raised concerning that. i'm suspending that. probably should have done it sooner. when i read the story i said oops, this is not a good practice and should discontinue it. >> johnson went on to say moving forward, he'll use his iphone to access the g mail account at work. still ahead on "way too early." the death of an activist in a texas jail.

plus the connection # to baseball's home run leader and a conviction. does that mean barry bonds is in the clear? have you seen this drone firing in midair? it's terrifying but is it illegal. those stories and a check on weather when "way too early" comes back. ♪

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we're getting our first look at key video in the death of 28-year-old activist sandra bland, found dead in a texas jail cell three days after being arrested in a traffic stop. the manner of death is ruled suicide, but the district attorney says they're handling the case as a homicide investigation as is procedure.

we have more on the latest case involving race and law enforcement. >> do you have a driver's license? >> the texas state police dash cam video shows a routine traffic stop for failing to signal lane change escalating into a confrontation that lasted 15 minutes. >> i'm in my car. >> nbc news edited the exchange. >> wow. >> they go out of view of the camera. the dash cam picks up bland 's voices also shot on this video shot by a bystander. bland was arrested on a charge of assaulting an officer. >> i cannot wait until we go to court. >> state officials are investigating his behavior and placed him on desk duty. bland's sister hasn't been ready to see the tape. >> her impact in this last week is far beyond what any of us could have thought. she's going to rest well. >> authorities released security

video of the corridor outside the cell. it shows no one entered the cell between 7:05 am and 7:58. we were taken down to cell 95 showing bland's untouched meal from the night before. on the bunk a bible and booklet, 101 way to find god's purpose in your life. she was slumped down behind this a trash bag around her neck. >> family members plan to lay her to rest this week in chicago. >> the texas department of public safety is investigating alleged edits to dash cam video

seen in the report. there are cuts in scenes as the audio continue uninterrupted. hoping for an earlier release after the appeals court threw out five of 18 convictions against flagblagojevichflag blagojevich. the judge says this kind of exchange is common in politics writing in the opinion the current secretary of state was appointed to that position from seat in senate. this wouldn't surprise us if this happened at at least in point because he performed public service. he's currently in three of 14 year sentence. he will be resentenced but now ordered to remain in prison. time for sports. department of justice dropped

the criminal case against barry bonds after a decade long steroids investigation. the home run leader was convicted in 2011 for obstruction of justice after he gave the answer to a question about injections. that ruling was overturned in april. federal prosecutors announced yesterday the reversal of bond's conviction would stand. bonds never failed a performance enhancing drug test. he said quote, the finality of today's decision gives me great peace. rockies leading 8-0 in the top of the ninth. rangers already a double homer, single and then this. >> hits well to center field. at the track, off the wall. he is going for three. he's going to be in with a dive.

>> chu caps off the triple from the center field wall. rangers win 9-0. >> do you think he's upset he didn't get the home run? >> matter of inches you know. off to houston the astros trailing red sox with men on the corners, bottom of the fifth. >> he's going. here's the throw from hanigan. >> off the helmet. >> wow. look at that. he can throw better than the left fielder did. that went off the side of his held -- helmet. he wasn't hurt. he manages to get up and continue to score the tying run.

>> yeah. >> went off his elbow? okay. >> he's okay. mike is not. update on weather. bill? >> rain in the ozarks. quiet day. east coast is looking cooler. heat building through the middle of the country. extended hot weather pattern. heat index 110. mississippi, 112 in jackson. beautiful weather if you're manyin mid atlantic d.c. gorgeous day. still ahead, nikki minaj slams the music awards. her comments didn't sit well with taylor swift. stay here and we'll take a listen.

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all right. time to get a check on other headlines from the control room. we go to the best drone operator there is lewis. >> i don't know about that. this is a terrifying video as you said before. a connecticut teen is now being investigated after posting this video of shots fired from a gun that's attached to a drone. the father of the 18-year-old college student says his son created the drone with the help of a central connecticut state university professor and told a

local tv station his son broke no laws. faa says the investigation of the teen they're seeing if he violated regulations that prohibit careless or reckless use of a model aircraft. that's kind of scary there's not legislation about putting a gun on a drone. we'll see if they change the consumer drone regulation afs that -- regulations after that. now to music news. the music nominations were announced yesterday. nikki minaj took to twitter saying. taylor swift who has nine nominations thought the tweet was aimed at her. she responded saying this.

minage invited her to join her on stage. we'll see what happens when miley cyrus hosts the vmas. >> a lot between those two. >> a lot of back and forth. >> interesting the drone shooting is investigated for the drone not the shooting. that does it for me and "way too early." now mika in for a preview of "morning joe." good morning. we'll find out what cantor has been doing since the upset by the tea party last year. his brother is held in iran. we'll get ali rezaaian's reaction. the 2016 republican field gets bigger with entrance of governor john kasich. bill de blasio roman holiday. he was 80 minutes late for his speech at the vatican.

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