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breaking news overnight from north carolina. protests turning violent after another deadly police shooting this morning. a dozen officers are injured. and also at the center of the fatal police shooting in oklahoma tells her side of the story. why she said she felt the need to shoot an unarmed man. plus -- >> our african-american communities are absolutely in the worst shape that they've ever been in before ever, ever, ever. >> donald trump once again reaches out to the black community, but in doing so seemingly forgets a critical piece of history.
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good morning, everyone, it's wednesday, september 21st, i'm alex witt alongside louis burgdorf. we're following some breaking news overnight. the city of charlotte, north carolina, is on edge after violent protests erupted over the deadly police shooting of a black man. more than 200 demonstrators gathered last night carrying signs and in some cases verbally taunting officers in riot gear. according to an nbc producer on the scene, authorities say officers used flash bangs and tear gas to disperse that crowd. they add 12 officers were hurt, including one struck in the face by a rock. the unrest began quickly after news spread about the death of 43-year-old keith lamont scott. police say they were serving a warrant on another man yesterday afternoon at an apartment complex when they came upon scott in his car. >> at this point, all we know is they are in the apartment complex parking lot and this subject gets out with a weapon,
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they engage him, and one of the officers felt a lethal threat and fired his weapon because of that. >> a social media post by a woman who said she is the daughter of scott said he was unarmed and disabled. a police source said both the man who died and the police officer who shot him were black. let's bring in chris clackum live in charlotte for the very latest on this violent night, rather, chris, things have calmed down a bit since the apex of things last night. >> reporter: they have indeed, alex, but only just a short while ago. and after -- only after a night, as you said, some very tense and very volatile standoffs between police and protesters. at one point reaching the point where they were damaging, the protesters were damaging the police cruisers, as well as throwing objects, rocks and
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bottles, at police officers, resulting in those 12 injuries that you mentioned to the officers. however, none of those injuries believed to have been serious injuries. at one point they did indeed use -- the police did use the tear gas. that seemed to disperse much of the crowd. however, several of them moved over to a major interstate running through charlotte, i-85, and blocked the road in both directions. police quickly broke that up, but that was only a short while ago, and again, the mayor and the chief of police of the city of charlotte are calling for calm, promising a thorough investigation. >> and there's going to be some cleanup, certainly, we see the broken glass and debris behind you on the roadway. chris clackum, thank you so much. also new details about a deadly shooting in tulsa, oklahoma, which sparked national outrage. video shows a white officer fatality shooting an unarmed
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african-american father of four. now we're hearing the officer's side of the story. nbc's gabe gutierrez reports. >> reporter: with terence crutcher's suv stopped in the middle of this two-lane road, a 911 caller wasn't sure what to make of him. officers responding to an unrelated call spotted him. i've got a subject who won't show me his hands. >> reporter: but said they ignored his commands for more than a minute. crutcher had his hands up as he walk back to his vehicle. an officer in the chopper makes this observation. >> looks like a bad dude, too, could be on something. >> reporter: seconds later an officer deploys her taser, another fires her gun. that officer is on paid leave. she joined the police department five years ago. >> she said she was never this scared ever in her entire life. >> reporter: her lawyer said crutcher was acting erratically and said he was trying to reach inside his vehicle for a weapon.
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>> she clearly believed him to be under the influence of some type of narcotic, possibly pcp, because she is a drug recognition expert. >> reporter: citing the lead investigator in the case that a vial of pcp was found in the suv. still, toxicology tests are not finished and no weapon was found. >> you can see that -- >> reporter: the attorney for crutcher's family argue the video show crutcher wasn't reaching inside the vehicle because his window was up. >> it shows this department, like many police departments around america, see people of color as criminals, as suspects, but not as american citizens. >> reporter: the district attorney is now reviewing the case to see if any criminal charges should be filed. >> and that was nbc's gabe gutierrez reporting. last night donald trump continued his what do you have to lose message to african-americans but speaking to a mostly white audience in north carolina last night, a city named after a slave owner, trump seemingly left out the long and seemingly sordid
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history in jim crow. >> we're going to rebuild our inner cities because our african-american communities are absolutely in the worst shape that they've ever been in before, ever, ever, ever. you take a look at the intercities, you get no education, you get no jobs, you get shot walking down the street. they are worse, i mean, honestly, places like afghanistan are safer than some of our inner cities. >> and president obama slammed this approach during a speech to the congressional black caucus on saturday. >> you may have heard hillary's opponent in this election say that there's never been a worse time to be a black person. i mean, he missed that whole civics lesson about slavery and jim crow. >> donald trump's campaign is fighting back against a report questioning whether his charity engages in self dealing. "the washington post" reports
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the republican nominee's trump foundation used $250,000 to settle legal disputes, a potential violation of self dealing rules prohibiting nonprofit leaders from using charity money to benefit themselves. one settled unpaid fines from the town of palm beach, florida, over the height of a flag pole at trump's club. another case resolved a dispute over a hole in one golf contest at trump national in new york, requiring trump to make a $158,000 donation to the plaintiff's chosen charity. a 2013 foundation donation to the d.c. preservation league bought an ad in a gala program that was an advertisement for trump hotels. and a $10,000 check purchased a portrait of trump at a charity auction. the washington post reported trump did not respond whether it was used for a charitable purchase. readers sent a photo apparently of that portrait hanging in
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trump's doral resort in miami. speaking with brian williams last night, trump's running mate mike pence responded to the story. >> i think what we found is there's a number of factual errors in that story, as there were in previous stories about the trump foundation. i'm confident they'll be able to address those and demonstrate they fully complied with the law. >> do you know what the factual errors are the campaign is alleging in "the washington post" story? >> well, i think the foundation will be able to lay those out. there were errors in the previous "washington post" stories. >> in a statement, in typical washington post fashion they've gotten their facts wrong. it is the clinton foundation set up to make sure the clintons personally enrich themselves by selling access and political favors. the trump foundation has no board, no rent or overhead and no family members on its payroll. there was not or could not be any motive to make improper
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payments. it goes on to say the post reporting is peppered by inaccuracies by a biased reporter. trump retooled his charity to use other people's money and has not donated to it from 2008. as a matter of disclosure, our parent company made a half million donation in 2012. last night in north carolina trump spoke of fondness of using other people's money in business when approaching the crisis in syria. >> we're going to get the gulf states to pay for safe zones. we'll lead the project like it's called opm, i do that all the time in business, other people's money. nothing like doing things with other people's money, because it takes the risk. you get a good chunk of it, it takes the risk. we're going to do this, in this case, from a humanitarian standpoint. omp, other people's money. >> former president george h.w. bush plans to vote for hillary
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clinton this november, this according to a member of the kennedy family. a photo posted to facebook by kathleen kennedy, former governor and daughter of the late robert f. kennedy shows her shaking hands with the former president, along with the caption "the president told me he's voting for hillary." townsend met with bush in maine on monday and later confirmed the 41st president, also richard nixon's rnc chairman told her he planned to vote for clinton. a spokesperson for president bush said the former president would not be commenting on the presidential race between now and the election and added the vote president bush will cast as a private citizen in some 50 days will be just that, a private vote cast in some 50 days. both donald trump's campaign manager and his running mate weighed in on bush's voting decision last night. >> well, i respect the 92-year-old former president very much and his decision, and i think that americans are very grateful to the bush family for
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their public service. that's his right. it is ironic he would vote for the wife of the man who knocked him out of the race. bill clinton defeated bush 41, erin, in 1992 for his re-election. >> i have to tell you, my respect and, frankly, affection for our 41st president is boundless, but i respectfully disagree with his decision in this election. look, everywhere i go, here in virginia, campaigning across the country with donald trump and for donald trump, the american people are pining for change. >> all right, alex. let's turn to business now. the scandal at the country's biggest bank made its way to capitol hill yesterday where john stumpf was interrogated from both sides of the ale over his part in the bank's opening accounts without customers' permission. nbc's tom costello has more. >> reporter: called before congress, the ceo of wells fargo quickly fell on his sword.
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>> i accept full responsibility for all unethical sales practices in our retail banking business. >> reporter: but he faced bipartisan condemnation. >> so you haven't resigned, haven't fired a single senior executive. >> reporter: the scale of the fraud, stunning. wells fargo admits its employees fraudulently opened more than 2 million bank and credit card accounts, forging applications to boost sales figures. frank noticed he was being charged $15 to $20 a month for accounts he never opened. >> one time i remember looking at it, counting it, i had 15 accounts at once. >> reporter: the bank opened unauthorized accounts for linda and kate edwards, she says, ruining her credit rating. >> that's one heck of a birthday president. >> reporter: the chief of retail banking left in july with a $125 million parachute.
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the bank has fired 5,300 employees for the fraud. the common practice called cross-selling taken to an extreme. >> failing to notify customers about the sham accounts opened. and this isn't cross-selling, this is fraud. >> reporter: ceo stumpf insisting it was not an orchestrated standard practice. >> we never directed, nor wanted our team members to provide products and services to customers that they did not want. >> the only way that wall street will change is if executives face jail time when they preside over massive frauds. >> tom costello reporting there. wells fargo has already been hit with $185 million in fines and the executive that got that $125 million payout package, she could still get an end of the year bonus. ahead of another company embroiled in controversy is also set to testify on capitol hill today, this time the ceo of mylan over the company's price hike of the life saving epipen.
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cnbc's nancy hungerford joins us live from london. this is a story that's infuriated a lot of people. >> that is for sure. and a lot of people on capitol hill where the mylan ceo heather bresch will be appearing later today before the house, and ahead of this testimony, pressure has been building on mylan, specifically when you look at state of west virginia, which is tricky situation considering the ceo heather bresch's father serves as senator of the state. the west virginia attorney general has been calling for a subpoena on mylan looking into these price increases of the epipen, and, in fact, there is speculation of potential fraud when it comes to that state's medicaid program, so that's one to watch. also scrutiny over the exact rebate practices involved with epipen. a senate committee has called for an investigation into that one. and there's also been reports when it comes to medicare part d spending for epipens has grossly outpaced the number of users on
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the plan. if that's not enough, there's been a second report bresch's mother was leading a charge to put epipens in schools during her time as national association of the state boards of education, so plenty of discussion around that issue today on the hill. just one more for you guys, investors will be closely watching a central bank double whammy today. the bank of japan made tweaks to quantitative easing program, which has been well received by equities in japan and in europe, but next stop will be the federal reserve. markets don't expect action today, but look for comments pointing to december. guys, back to you for now. . the mylan story sounds like it's not going away any time soon. nancy live from london, thanks so much. still ahead, new violence out of syria this morning. plus, the u.s. is blaming russia for the deadly attack on a convoy trying to deliver much needed humanitarian aid. the live report on that. and the brangelina breakup
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let's get a check now on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. you're going to take this one global, huh? >> we found out yesterday that august was the warmest month of august we've ever had recorded on our planet, so we're just -- it's a good time to take a step back and analyze where we are. we're in this amazing streak here, unprecedented streak of temperatures that are well above where they should be. here's a map. this shows you over the last 16 months we've now gone 16 consecutive months of record warm monthly temperatures. in other words, each month we've broken the record for the warmest possible in may, june, july, all the way back through this winter and then over the last couple months. that's unprecedented. in other words, we're keep
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stepping up getti inting warmer warmer. they say there's a 99% chance this year will go down as the warmest year recorded on the planet. hottest years, this is our current pace right here, and we're well above the previous three, the highest on the board. shows you, you know, we mentioned yesterday just about the unprecedented el nino we had, we expected a very warm period. now the el nino has been dying down, waters have been cooling in the pacific, but temperatures are still staying up. that's why we're getting more concerned about how warm we're going to be in this warm period. we do have issues with severe storms in minnesota and wisconsin and florida, alex and louis, but interesting times when you talk about climate and climate change around the globe. >> and there's no such thing as global warming, right? yeah. >> harder and harder to make that argument. >> absolutely. thank you, bill. >> before we go to break, let's get a quick look at the stories we're not covering today. you may have heard the power
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following a developing story out of syria this morning. an observatory group says four french aide workers were killed during an air raid near aleppo. several rebels were all killed in the strike. meanwhile, russia is deny iing was to blame. a russian defense official said neither it nor its syrian air forces were the ones that hit the trucks on the outskirts of aleppo on friday. and joining us for more from
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london, matt bradley. i mean, matt, what a dark turn, trying to bring aid to one of the deadliest places in the world. >> thanks, alex. it has indeed been a horrifying last few days for international aid workers in syria and all of this added tragedy is coming at the tail end of a week long cease-fire that was supposed to open syria to safe passage for aid. the latest outrage, as you mentioned, the death of the four aid workers. a nurse is still in critical condition and it's unclear whether these aid workers were french or syrian nationals. they work for the union of syrian medical relief organizations and they had been called to a clinic to transfer wounded patients to a hospital, but just after they arrived, an air strike leveled the entire clinic. alex, this happened about 11:00 p.m. last night. anger and recriminations over that attack are still bubbling
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over nearly two days later. the russians did indeed release a video shot from an aerial drone they had been flying over this aid convoy. the video shows a small truck that appears to be hauling a mounted mortar driving alongside the convoy of aid trucks. the kremlin has been touting this as video the convoy came under fire from syrians. trying to resolve this conflict, this civil war appears to be getting worse and worse, alex? >> can't resolve it soon enough, matt bradley from london. when we come back, a look at the stories for the day ahead.
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in battleground florida. that does it for us on this wednesday. i'm alex witt. >> i'm louis burgdorf. >> "morning joe" starts right now. good morning on a wednesday morning. i'm willie geist. mika has the morning off. we have breaking news overnight to get to. the city of charlotte, north carolina, is on edge after violent protests erupted over the deadly police shooting of an african-american man. more than 200 demonstrators gathered last night carrying signs and in some cases verbally taunting officers in riot gear and physically as well throwing rocks according to an nbc producer on the scene. officers used flash bangs and tear gas disperse the crowd. 12