championship league series. it's 5:30 on the east coast, 2:30 out west and this is "way too early." good morning, everybody, it's wednesday, october 14th, i'm amy holmes. we begin this morning at the wynn hotel in las vegas, where last night the five democratic candidates for president came face-to-face on the debate stage for the first time. it was the question everyone knew was coming that produced the moment of the night. here's hillary clinton addressing the controversy surrounding her private e-mail server. >> well, i've taken responsibility for it. i did say it was a mistake. what i did was allowed by the state department, but it wasn't the best choice. but let's just take a minute here and point out, that this

committee is basically an arm of the republican national committee. it is a partisan vehicle, as admitted by the house republican majority leader, mr. mccarthy, to drive down my poll numbers, big surprise, and that's what they have attempted to do. i am still standing. i am happy to be part of this debate. and i intend to keep talking about the issues that matter to the american people. >> let me say -- let me say something that may not be great politics. but i think the secretary is right. and that is that the american people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn e-mails. >> thank you. me, too. me, too. >> you know. the american people want to know whether we're going to have a democracy or an oligarchy as a result of citizens united.

enough of the e-mails. let's talk about the real issues facing america. >> thank you, bernie. thank you. >> big applause. and the candidates may have been cordial when it came to clinton's e-mails. but things got a little more contentious on the issue of gun control. >> is bernie sanders tough enough on guns? >> no. not at all. i think that we have to look at the fact that we lose 90 people a day from gun violence. this has gone on too long, and it's time the entire country stood up against the nra. the majority of our country -- supports background checks, and even the majority of gun owners do. senator sanders did vote five times against the brady bill. since it was passed more than 2 million prohibited purchases have been prevented. >> as a senator from a rural state, what i can tell secretary clinton, that all the shouting

in the world is not going to do what i would hope all of us want, and that is keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have those guns. and end this horrible violence that we are seeing. i come from a rural state. and the views on gun control in rural states are different than in urban states. whether we like it or not. >> senator, it's not about rural -- senator, it's not about rural and urban. have you ever been to the eastern shore? have you ever been to western maryland? we were able to pass this and still respect the hunting traditions of people who live in our rural areas. and we did it by leading with principle. not by pandering to the nra. and backing down to the nra. >> -- voting record, i don't think i'm pandering. but you have not been in the united states congress. >> well, maybe that's a healthy thing. >> -- check it out. >> things may have gotten heated but sanders seemed to regain his footing later on in the evening when the debate turned to a core

issue of his campaign, financial regulations. >> in the 1990s, when i had the republican leadership, and wall street spending billions of dollars in lobbying, when the clinton administration, when alan greenspan said what a great idea it would be to allow these huge banks to merge, bernie sanders fought them. and helped lead the opposition to deregulation. >> i respect the passion and intensity. i represented wall street as a senator from new york, and i went to wall street in december of 2007, before the big crash that we had, and i basically said, cut it out. and my plan would have the potential of actually sending the executives to jail. nobody went to jail after $100 billion in fines were paid. and, would give regulators the authority to go after the big banks. >> in my view, secretary clinton, you do not, congress does not regulate wall street. wall street regulates congress.

and we have got to break off these banks. going to them and saying, please do the right thing -- >> no, that's not what -- >> is kind of naive. >> and according to the clock, hillary clinton dominated talk time. "the new york times" reports she spoke at least three times as long as lincoln chafee, and when she was asked directly about changing course on some positions, she may have provided more fodder for democratic opponents, and conservative admakers. >> you're against same-sex marriage, now you're for it. you defended president obama's immigration policies. now you say they're too harsh. you supported his trade deal dozens of times. you even called it the gold standard. now suddenly last week, you're against it. will you say anything to get elected? >> well, actually i have been very consistent over the course of my entire life. i have always fought for the same values and principles. but like most human beings, including those of us who run for office, i do absorb new information. i do look at what's happening in the world. you know, take the trade deal.

i did say when i was secretary of state three years ago that i hoped it would be the gold standard. it was just finally negotiated last week. and in looking at it, it didn't meet my standard. you know, everybody on this stage has changed a position or two. we've been around a cumulative quite some period of time. you know, we know that if you are learning, you're going to change your position. i never took a position on keystone until i took a position on keystone. >> polls of the democratic race taken just hours before the debate show clinton is still in a strong position. at 45%, clinton has a 20-point lead over senator bernie sanders in a race that includes vice president biden. sanders at 25 and biden pulling 19%. with biden out of the race, clinton's margin grows to 26 points. sanders with 28%, and every other contender in low single

digits. but the poll also finds clinton in a weaker position in the general election where she's losing to every top republican candidate nationally. the number of democratic debates ahead of the 2016 election has drawn criticism from some members of the democratic party. former governor martin o'malley briefly taking attention away from his democratic opponents to take aim at the party chair debbie wasserman schultz last night. >> i see the chair of the dnc here. look how glad we are, actually, to be talking about the issues that matter most to people around their kitchen table. we need to get wages to go up, college more affordable -- >> thank you, governor. >> we need to make america 100% clean electric by 2050. >> -- for more debates to give the american people the opportunity to hear from these presidential candidates, to listen to what they've got to say. >> and the vice chair of the dnc, congresswoman gabbard made headlines after saying she'd been disinvited from last

night's event because she said publicly there should be more debates. >> you know, i was on your network, msnbc, talking about "meet the press" daily about how we do need more debates. the same thing that i've been saying now for several weeks. and the very next day got a message saying that if i'm going to continue talking about that, that i shouldn't go to the debate. it's not surprising to me that she is saying things that aren't true. >> you disinvited her from coming here? >> well, first that's simply not true. herein lies the problem. you and i are now talking about tulsi gabbard rather than concentrating on our candidates. >> meanwhile, republican presidential candidate mike huckabee on twitter last night, and raising some eyebrows. at one point huckabee tweeting quote, racism exists, because we have a sin problem in america, not a skin problem. four minutes later he tweeted, quote, i trust bernie sanders with my tax dollars like i trust a north korean chef with my

labrador. after the tweet got attention, huckabee added, poor liberals think it's racist to deplore a brutal dictatorship. the latest fox news poll has the race for the republican nomination in a statistical tie. donald trump leads ben carson by just a single digit. 24% to 23%. in a poll taken saturday through monday, senator ted cruz is in a distant third at 10%. with marco rubio at 9%. and jeb bush in fifth place at 8%. carly fiorina has fallen four points since mid-september. at the bottom of the field the governors, chris christie, john kasich, bobby jindal and former three-term governor george pataki, all pulling 1%. now let's turn to the middle east, where israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is vowing to take aggressive steps to halt the recent wave of violence in israeli cities. it comes after palestinian men armed with knives and guns killed at least three people, and wounded dozens more in a

string of attacks across jerusalem yesterday. on a quote, day of rage, declared by palestinian groups. nbc's john yang reports, and a warning viewers, some of these images may be disturbing. >> reporter: it was the deadliest day yet in weeks of renewed violence. four separate attacks, including two in jerusalem. one captured on security camera video. a palestinian crashes a car into a bus stop and slashes pedestrians with a machete, one fatally, before he is shot by a security guard. prime minister benjamin netanyahu pledged to, quote, settle the score with the murderers. in the past four weeks, at least seven israelis have been killed in more than 20 attacks. mostly stabbings like this one in jerusalem. and at least 29 palestinians have died in clashes with israeli forces. jerusalem's mayor has urged

citizens to arm themselves. >> many of the cases of neutralizing terrorists was not necessarily done by the policemen, but with people that know how to use the gun very effectively. >> reporter: it's the latest flare-up between israelis and palestinians. a conflict with no viable peace process to contain it. one that exploded last year in gaza. once again, threatening to boil over. >> this is potentially a very significant, and very unsettling, and violent uprising. and it's being led by young kids on the streets. >> and still ahead on "way too early," a basketball star found unconscious at a brothel in nevada. we'll have an update on lamar odom. and later a stunning admission from one of the democratic candidates about his time in the vietnam war. those stories and a check on the weather when "way too early" comes right back.

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a former pakistani defense minister appearing to confirm yesterday that his country knew that al qaeda leader osama bin laden was in pakistan at the time of his death in 2011. while it's widely assumed that parts of pakistan's military and civilian leadership were aware of bin laden's location, pakistani officials have always maintained that they didn't know until the u.s. raid. when asked if the pakistani president, the army and others in both the civilian and military chain of command had prior information about osama's location in pakistan, the defense minister's answer was, quote, yeah. now, let's turn to some business. and wall street where u.s. stocks dropped, snapping a seven-day winning streak for the dow as earnings season kicks into high gear. cnbc's nancy hugrave joins us live from london. first up for the wall street banks with jpmorgan. how did they fare?

>> that's right, amy. well it wasn't such good news out of jpmorgan chase. they did miss on both earnings and revenue, even though earnings managed to actually increase. but the real concern here was on revenue. they reported about a 6% drop in revenue on the period and a lot of this was due to both the market volatility and a hit on trading revenue that was largely due to the low interest rates. and it's expected that that low interest rate environment will continue, as you know, with the fed expected to stay on hold for rates for the foreseeable future. and the cfo at jpmorgan warning that analysts may be a little bit too optimistic about the next quarter. so that will cause some investor concerns, especially as we have several other big banks reporting earnings this week. today we hear from bank of america and wells fargo. i should mention with jpmorgan there was one bit of silver lining here and that was on mortgages. for the consumer bank division that was the only one really to report an increase in income and a lot of that came down to mortgages. the bank said it issued a 41% increase in mortgages on the

period. so obviously some consumers taking advantage of the low interest rates there. now, another stock in focus will be twitter after the company said it would lay off about 8% of its workforce as part of its broad turnaround efforts just since jack dorsey came in as a permanent ceo. amy? >> nancy hulgrave, thank you so much live from london. time now for sports, and we begin in the windy city, a day after setting an mlb postseason home run record chicago's big bats were on display again. kyle schwarber, anthony rizzo and javier baez each homered to help the clubs clinch their first ever playoff series at home with a 6-4 win over st. louis. they advanced to the n.l. championship series for the first time since 2003. and even president obama, an avitd chicago white sox fan tweeted congratulations. and here in new york, the mets are not as fortunate in their series against the dodgers. they'll have to head back to the -- to l.a. for a decisive game five on thursday after being shut down by clinton

kershaw in game four last night. the raining n.l. mvp struck out eight batters allowing just one run over seven innings of work leading the dodgers to a 3-1 victory. troubling news now about a former nba star lamar odom. the ex-player was taken to a las vegas hospital yesterday after being found unconscious at a nevada brothel. he was found unresponsive at the love ranch in the town of crystal at around 3:00 in the afternoon. his current condition is unknown. dennis hoff, the brothel's famed owner gave his account of what happened. >> when we called 911, immediately called 911, then the 911 said roll him on his left side. and my management did that, and he started throwing up all kinds of stuff. >> odom spent 14 seasons in the nba, a career cut short due to struggles with drug abuse. the former basketball standout also gave media notoriety in his

four-year marriage to reality star khloe kardashian. the couple finalized their divorce in july. now let's get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> good morning. >> good morning, bill. >> you said the contacts to the bench? >> i did. i wasn't taking any chances. >> you're one of the cool kids wearing the glasses now. >> thank you. >> good morning, everyone. very quiet weather across the country. this is a beautiful fall stuff. we know the cold stuff is not too far away. it can even snow in october. maybe get a little bit in new england this upcoming weekend. the only story this morning is rain heading for south florida. it will be each day we'll have a chance of a greater chance of rain. friday and saturday look like two rainiest days down here on south beach towards the keys, fort lauderdale and palm beach. let's get into this beautiful forecast. we have many record highs yesterday. i know a lot of people in texas were tweeting me saying all right we want our fall weather finally. you'll get it this weekend. 97 in dallas. 96 in san antonio. beautiful weather, where they're still partying up there in chicago because of the game last night. new england, not bad after the

cold front went through. it's not even that chilly. temperatures still pretty warm. as we head to the west, that's where we're going to see some scattered showers. nothing horrible. thursday looks good for your travel. look at this map. miami is the only spot i literally have any rain icon whatsoever. mild conditions continuing. this is going to go down probably as one of our warmest octobers ever in the lower 48. really no signs of any true arctic cold air coming our way. the only exception being the great lakes and the northeast and new england this weekend. we may see some snow showers. it's not unhear of in upstate new york, adirondack, toward buffalo, syracuse, saturday and sunday may see rain mixing with some snowflakes. it won't cause any problems. >> all right. thank you bill karins. i appreciate it. still ahead, some of the odder moments of the debate, including why lincoln chafee compared himself to a block of granite. maybe louis bergdorf can explain. "way too early" is back in just a moment. ♪

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now let's get a check on the morning's other headlines. for that we head to the control room and louis bergdorf. >> thanks, amy. now even though the first democratic debate wasn't as exciting as the republican debates to date, we've got substance, humor and plenty of attention, and a couple of truly baffling answers from former rhode island governor lincoln chafee who said despite his changes in political affiliation, on policy, he's as solid as a -- >> anderson you're looking at a block of granite when it comes

to the issues. >> it seems like pretty soft granite, though. you've been a republican, you've been an independent -- >> did you hear what i said? on the issues. i have not changed on the issues. >> governor chafee, you've attacked secretary clinton for being too close to wall street banks. in 1999 you voted for the very bill that made banks bigger. >> it was my very first vote, i just arrived, my dad had died in office, i was appointed to office. >> are you saying you didn't know what you were voting for? >> i just arrived to the senate. i think we get some takeovers and that was one of my very first vote and it was 95 -- 90-5 -- >> with all due respect, what does that say about you casting a vote for something you weren't really sure about? >> i think you're being a little rough. i just arrived at the united states senate. i'd been mayor of my city. my dad had died. i'd been appointed by the governor. it was the first vote and it was 9 90-5. >> i guess anderson cooper being a little rough. when it came time for democratic candidates to answer which enemy

are you most. virginia senator jim webb. >> i'd have to say the enemy soldier that threw the grenade that wounded me. but he's not around right now to talk to. >> and twitter is exploding this morning, after chris matthews sat down with las vegas entertainer wayne newton in the spin room after the debate when newton, a republican, was asked which of the gop candidates he liked, he listed a view. but one of their names seemed to escape him. >> this election we have to pick a leader. and i didn't see one up there tonight. >> okay. >> and -- but there are some among the republicans. leaders, proven -- >> and you like trump all the way, right? >> well, i like trump, i like bush. i like carson. i like the lady, i think she's brilliant. >> fiorina. >> yes. >> the lady. now, another a-list celebrity has joined the growing list of women in hollywood speaking out against the gender wage gap.

jennifer lawrence wrote an essay for nina dunham discussing how she felt once last year's sony leak revealed how much less money she made than her male co-stars. she took home 7% her male co-stars took home 9%. realizing that she failed to negotiate a better deal out of fear of looking, quote, difficult or spoiled, lawrence wrote, quote, i'm over trying to find the adorable way to state my opinion and still be likable. i don't think i've ever worked for a man in charge who spent time contemplating what angle he should use to have his voice heard. it's just heard. now lawrence is being praised for speaking out about her -- by her hollywood comrades, including actress emma watson and her co-star bradley cooper. i think it's a great letter. amy, that does it for me. that's all i got. >> all right, louis, thank you so much. that does it for me and "way too early." coming up on "morning joe," we'll be joined by governor martin o'malley, fresh off the debate performance. we'll ask him if he did enough

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