that is our broadcast tonight. thank you for being with us here tonight. good night from nbc news headquarters in new york. the mooch is out. >> anthony scaramucci, gone after just a week and change on the job. the mooch is toast. >> yes, the mooch is toast. >> the mooch lasted as communications director for only ten days. ten. that's not a whole pay period. his going away party consumed what's left of his welcome cake. they can change congratulations to congratu-later. >> the latest trump official to go in a series of staff shakeups.

plus, a bomb shell from "the washington post." a new report claims the misleading statement about don jr.'s meeting last year was drafted by his father. america first does not mean america alone. good morning, everybody. it's tuesday, august 1st. what a morning it is. after just ten days on the job, white house communications director anthony scaramucci has been ousted. he was pushed out the same day new chief of staff john kelly was sworn in. "the wall street journal" citing two officials that shortly after taking oath, the new chief urged him in a one-on-one meeting to

resign. his remarks last week disgusted and offended some close to the president. including melania trump and ivanka trump, who had initially advocated for scaramucci's hiring. >> you said the president found his remarks inappropriate. obviously, the president is not a stranger to salty language. >> he found it in appropriate for a person in that position. >> to do what? >> i believe the comments he made he found those comments inappropriate. i'm not sure what's unclear. i don't think it's complicated to understand that the president felt the comments were inappropriate. i can't really explain it any further than that. >> sanders made it clear that all staff will report to general kelly. scaramucci said he believed the fallout from his "new yorker"

interview would blow over. it was soon clear that mr. scaramucci would not be a fixture of the administration, but a transitory figure who created an opportunity for mr. trump, with his daughter and son-in-law, jared kushner, to undertake the far-reaching shakeup intended to purge the white house staff of leakers and aides viewed at not sufficiently loyal to his cause. they only met for the first time in november. once he took office, he became ensnared in one of the earliest changes of the administration. the travel ban. causing chaos at airports around the country. as officials scrambled to understand the order's meeting. kelly had dialed in a white house conference call from a coast guard plane as he headed back to washington. he needed guidance from the

white house, which had not asked his department for a legal review of the order. halfway into the briefing, someone on the call looked up at a television in his office. quote, the president is signing the executive order that we're discussing. the official said, stunned. secretary kelly has denied they didn't know the order was coming. >> we did know the e.o. was coming. we had people involved in the general drafting of it. you know, clearly, um, it was -- this whole approach was part of what then candidate trump talked about for a year or two. we did know it was coming. he had to issue a statement clarifying that green card holders would receive a waiver to enter the united states. something unclear in the first days of the ban. according to "the times" steve bannon oversaw the writing of the order.

joining us now, live from washington, capitol hill reporter for the hill, molly cooper. good to talk to you this morning. >> good to talk to you. >> not sure what to talk about because there's nothing going on. >> nothing to see here. >> the president's tweets yesterday, after six months of shakeup, he says there's no chaos in the white house. and that yesterday was really a great day. molly, what's going on here? talk to me. >> hey, happy days are here again. you know in it seems like president trump, in the comment he's made leading up to the decision to appoint general kelly as the new chief of staff, he really enjoys being around generals. he constantly refers to them. general "mad dog" matt irk s. one of his faith names to evoke when he's giving speeches. he likes the order and the discipline. the question is however, will general kelly have the ability

to instill order and discipline coming directly from trump? and, you know, it was unfortunate for reince priebus when he was appointed chief of staff because he didn't really have the same -- i don't know if the word is respect, because, because it's respect, it's a different kind of job being chief of staff for the president of the united states, as opposed to, you know, the head of a party getting your party elected to representative office. that's a huge deal. when it comes to instilling discipline, order, and -- you know -- order of operations, general kelly seems to be -- to keep his troops in line and has a lot of respect from the people who have worked for him and under him. >>let talk about scaramucci being forced out here. considering the new chief of staff, while it was shocking that scaramucci was push out, it wasn't surprising with a four-star general at the helm. do you think this was more kelly

or the president feeling that the remarks to "the new yorker" were inappropriate? >> i think this is more kelly. from what i understand, talking to several sources who worked with kelly back in his days in the marines, he doesn't stand for this. he does not stand for this. there is one mission. the mission is to take the hill. i mean the hill, not capitol hill, in general. out in the battlefield. but, you know, when you take that hill, if anybody is going to stop you from doing it, they're not useful. they're not going to help you reach that goal. his goal is to help the president get an agenda pushed through congress. and that's been getting sidelined because of, you know, all these distractions that have come out. president trump wanting to talk to everybody that comes into the oval office. now he'll have somebody in general kelly who is in charge of the gates. you'll know who is and who is

not going into that oval office. who is speaking for the president and who is not. it's a new day. >> it is. and it's only tuesday. i'm going to talk to you again in a bit. molly hooper, thank you. >> thank you. president trump overruled his closest advisers including family members when it came to the initial response to an article about the meeting of don jr. and the russians. the washington post citing multiple sources with direct knowledge reports the misleading four-sentence statement was personally dictated by the president flying home from the g-20 summit in july. jared kushner's lawyers knew how damaging the e-mails could be, explicitly about hillary clinton and the campaign. hope hicks, the white house director of strategic communications, huddled with the lawyers and advocated for a more

transparent approach. kushner's team talked about sharing everything, including the contents of the e-mails with main stream news organization. hicks reportedly spoke to trump jr. about the strategy of transparency believing the complete story would eventually emerge. president trump apparently intervened. he directed the statement say that the meeting was unimportant. he wanted to it say that the meeting was initiated by the russian lawyer and was primarily about her pet issue. the president dictated the statement to hick, who served as a go-between with trump jr., who was not on the plane. according to people with knowledge of discussions, john dowd called the story fake news, incorrect, and misinformed. of no consequence. don jr.'s lawyers told the paper they have no evidence of the

theory. vice president pence is in georgia this morning. he appeared to give a meaningful change to the follow si slogan. take a look. >> in a word, i'm here to say america first does not mean america alone. >> the vice president also strongly condemned russia's continued occupation in georgia before discussing new sanctions against the kremlin. >> president trump has called on russia to cease its destib lidsing activities. in a sign of our commitment, very soon, president trump will sign legislation to codify the sanctions against russia. a bet relationship will require russia to reverse the actions that caused the sanctions to be enacted in the first place. >> it comes amid reports that russia is preparing for military drills in the summer. it includes sending 100,000 troops to to area.

reports say the u.s. state and defense departments have drafted proposals to send military weapons to ukraine. as that country continues battle russian-backed separatists. the u.s. is imposing sanctions on nicholas maduro. they announced the sanctions yesterday. it comes in response to sunday's election that will rewrite the nation's constitution. mcmaster kaudle it an outrageous seizure of power. americans are prohibited from doing business with him. mnunchin warned that anyone who paratakes of the new assembly will be exposed to future sanctions. his name is added to a list of leaders under sanctions. this morning, the wife of

leopoldo lopez reported authorities have taken her husband there their home. still ahead, despite being able to pass legislation to repeal and replace obamacare, some senate republicans say the fight is not over yet. almost 50 years after, an army hero receives a medal. we'll have his story. keep it here. you're going to be hanging out in here. so if you need anything, text me.

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welcome back, everybody. despite fail together pass a plan to repeal and replace obamacare last week, health care is still an issue on the mind of many republicans. senator rand paul told reporter that the president is considering executive action to ard health care. letting organizations ban together to buy insurance. in an interview with reuters, orrin hatch said there's too much animosity. and senators like these are too divided on health care right now.

>> is the repeal and replace effort dead? >> no. no. um -- i'm not saying that we'll return to it immediately, because we have a lot of other work to do. i don't think we ought to let anything collapse. this isn't about winning and losing. >> do you think there is time here to do health care in the next two weeks or after the august recess? >> it really depends on there needs to be another source of momentum. not from the white house or the senate. it would have to come from both sides of the senate, and/or from governors saying this is where we want to be. if you do that, it could. >> coming up on "morning joe" senator bill cassidy will be a guest. let get a check on the weather with meteorologist bill karins. tropical storm emily is exiting as quickly as it came. and it's time to turn up the a/c

units in the pacific northwest. >> if they have them. they're not used to these heat waves. emily is leaving. it's off the space coast. you can see the spin out here. that's done. there will be a few showers and storms out the the day in south florida. some of the trailing bands. the flood threat is over with. the new forecast takes it off the coast. we're done with emily. didn't cause problems. there was street flooting in florida. that was it. we have had a couple of impressive heat waves. phoenix had one elier this summer. the midwest was impressive. this one in the northwest will top them all. we have had some record highs. we haven't had monthly highs or all-time record highs set this summer. we have chance. breaking records, salem, medford, eureka. as we get into tomorrow, we have a chance for all-time record highs. this is as long as these low cases have been recording temp

which a churs. this will be the hottest ever. medford, a good chance on wednesday. salem. as we head through thourz, portland, organize porpg this is a first order climate station. we have a longer period of record there. 107 is the all-time record high. we have chance on thursday. if we don't do it thursday, we could do it on friday. the pacific northwest is the place to watch. one more for you here. an army medic who richked his life to save fellow soldiers during the vietnam war has become the first medal of honor recipient under president trump. almost 50 years ago, jim mccloughan saved ten members of his plat toon despite being wounded himself. peter alexander has his story. >> reporter: nearly 50 years later for jim mccloughan, the

memories are still vivid. >> there's two north vietnamese soldiers ak-47s staring right at me. and i'm thinking i'm a dead man. >> reporter: the 23-year-old army man, doc, they called him, over two days, rescuing comrades. as he suffered his own wounds. his commander urging him to helicopter out. >> i had blood all over me pip said, no, i'm not getting on. and he said, why not? and i looked at him, and i'll quote this. i said to him, you're going to need me. >> reporter: he braved enemy fire not once by nine time. single handedly saving the lives of ten members of the charlie company. >> i would rather be there and dead than in a hospital some place and find out x number of men were killed in this battle. >> reporter: finally, that

sacrifice was honored. >> private mccloughan carries one immortal title. that title is hero. >> reporter: this is not the jim mccloughan award. whose is this? >> to the 89 men of the battle. whether they came out or not. >> reporter: one man mccloughan credits with keeping him alive? his late father. >> my father taught me, whatever job you're assigned to, don't do it halfway. >> reporter: a selflessness that saved lives. >> that was peter alexander reporting. >> for decades, he worked as a high school teacher and a coach. >> it was an honor. still ahead, everybody, the olympics may be returning to american soil. plus an infamous chicago cubs fan receives redemption. sports is next. pampers.

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100 years after the city of light last hosted it back in 1924. the agreem needs final approval by the l.a. city council and the u.s. olympic committee and the ioc. a formal announcement is expected to come next month. l.a. and paris will be the only cities to host the on limp ux three times, including london. the los angeles dodgers acquired four-time all-star pitcher yu darvish. the move came just before yesterday's trade deadline. the 30-year-old right-hander, darvish, in the midst of his worst season in the majors, owns a 6-9 record. he's 0-5 in his past eight starts. now to the action on the diamond. the washington nationals pitcher and miami native gio gonzalez took a no-hit bid into the ninth last night. miami's dee gordon broke up the

chance at glory with a single to center to open the final frame. gonzalez walked three, struck out five. and won and retired 14 in a row. the nationals hold off the marlins, 1-0 in that one. and finally, a story for one infamous fan finally has his conclusion. beleaguered fan steve bartman is getting a world series ring from the chicago cubs. >> no way. >> i know you can't believe it if you're a chicago cubs fan. he infamously deflected a ball in game six of the 2003 n.l.c.s. with chicago just five outs from that year's world series. bartman was harassed in the years following. has avoided the spot light since that night. the ring is a gift from the family that owns the team and the cubs as well. they say they hope it provides

closure on an unfortunate chapter for bartman and added the organization embraces him. he says he's deeply moved an sincerely grateful for the gift. this is the most meaningful to him because he's welcomed back into the cubs family. he says he's relieved that the saga of the 2003 foul ball incident is finally in the past. a little bit of redemption for him. he's gotten a lot of hate over the years. there are cubs fans out there not happy about this. it's nice to see him go back and enjoy. >> it's been a rough 13-plus years for him. he was harassed. escorted out of the stadium. i will note, it took the cubs winning the world series to actually get this for him. >> yes, it did. we like a happy ending. >> still ahead, president trump's evolving west wing. scaramucci ousted the same day john kelly takes over as chief of staff. we're taking a look at the time

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joe arpaio was charged with criminal contempt. after potentially violating a judge's ruling to stop traffic patrols that focus on immigrants. he's set to be focused in october. his attorneys say he'll appeal. vice president mike pence is delivering a message of u.s. solidaritity in georgia this morning. he stressed no threat looms larger in the baltic regethan russia, which he accused of seeking to redraw international borders. the u.s. is impoeszing sanctions on nicholas maduro. h.r. mcmaster and steve mnunchin announced the response yesterday. it comes in response to an election on sunday. americans, they are also prohibited from doing business with him. after just ten days on the

job, white house communications director anthony scaramucci was pushed out on the same day new chief of staff john kelly was sworn in. >> we just swore in general kelly. he'll do a spectacular job. i have no doubt. as chief of staff. what he's done in terms of homeland security is record-shattering. you look at the border, the tremendous results we have had. and you look at the spirit. and with a very controversial situation, there's been very little controversy. it's pretty amazing. i want to congratulate you on having done a fantastic job, general. and we look forward to if it's possible an even better job as chief of staff. >> all right. "the wall street journal" cites to administration officials that shortly after taking the oath, the retired four-star general urged scaramucci to resign if a one-on-one meeting in his new office.

meanwhile, sarah huckabee sanders made it clear all staff reports to general kelly. he sets out to shore up a white house infamous for its leaks. they have come. he was so displayed with the firing of fbi director comey, kelly called comey himself to say he was considering resigning. a report nbc news has not yet confirmed. attorneys for president trump are pushing back on a "washington post" story that says the president personally dictated don jr.'s official misleading response about his meeting with a russian attorney, saying it was about adoption, not the campaign. apart from being of no consequence, the characterizations are misinformed, inaccurate, and not pertinent. on july 11th "the new york times" reported that trump advisers had crafted it and the president signed off on it. manager sekulow denied at the time. >> the president didn't sign off of anything. he was coming back from the g

20. the statement released op saturday was released by donald trump jr. and -- i'm sure in consultation with his lawyers. the president wasn't involved. >> "the new york times" says he was involved with it. several people on the plane were, as well. you're disputing that account from "the new york times "? >> yes. >> as more information came out, including that people with histories in russian intelligence and finance had also taken part. sekulow denied the involvement of the president in the release. >> the president did not draft the response. the response came from donald trump jr. i'm sure in consultation with his lawyer. >> you were careful to say the president didn't draft the statement. that's not what i asked. dead he get a heads up? did he sign off on it? was he asked to red it? >> i can't say whether the president was told the statement was going to be coming from his son on that. i didn't have that conversation.

i want to be clear. the president was not involved in the drafting of the statement. >> joining us once again, capitol hill reporter for "the hill" molly hooper. help us understand if the president was in some way or shape involved, did he see the statement, have conversations about, draft it, what this means for bob mueller's investigation? >> well, i think it's clear there's not a lot to understand because you have all these contrary -- contradicting statements coming out about it. it leads to bob mooul mueller h to ask the question, is there something to be covered up? what is covered up? that's half the problem. according to "the washington post" sfr story, jarred kushner and hope hix wanted more transparency. in the story, donald trump is

portrayed to have wanted to highlight this was about -- it was an unimportant meeting about the russian adoption issue. this is one more facet for bob mueller to investigate. another reason it will be interesting to see how james comey, not james comey. excuse me general kelly. these "k" last names, two-syllable "k" last names. he'll play a big role in what the president sees. how he responds to things. and hopefully, you know, will button up what is going on with the president trying to act as his own attorney in the matter the. >> i want to push you on this. could there be real repercussions for the president if he was involved if the drafting of this statement in some way? >> the repercussions is it's just another line of inquiry for

bob mueller to follow. that sets the president up for what could be you know, what could be an inquiry with the committee, with the special committee looking into this. that is something you don't want the president to have to be involved with. it sounds like the president is treating this more as a p.r. problem as opposed to a legal one. it's a very serious legal problem. whether or not he believes russia meddled with the election or not, how he's responding to it and what he tells people you know behind closed doors, what he'll tell investigators. when he's ostensibly under oath will be a very important matter in clearing him. >> let's talk about the chain of command. sarah huckabee sanders saying yesterday everyone reports to john kelly as white house chief of staff. do we buy that jared kushner and

ivanka trump, daughter, are also going to report to kelly? how do you control that? considering that they're family here. >> well, that's a good question. they are family. how do you control it? there must have been some sort of verbal assurance that donald trump gave general kelly saying that, you know, all matters will go through the general. through kelly. and so, and so, yes, of course, you're going to have your dinner time conversations and what not. when it comes to white house business and policy matters, and policy matters is key here. those will go through kelly. and at the really is very important for this chain of command. >> as we know, though, often times, it's those dinner conversations, as we have seen with president trump, that a lot of things do get talked about. we'll have to see how that goes, as well. matt drudge has been in the president's corner mostly. but the man behind the website

seems to be a bit frustrated. he tweeted this 1990 "daily news" cover. trump in a slump with the caption life is a circle. despite failing to get much of his agenda legislated, he ticked off a series of accomplishments. in the morning, he tweeted highest stock market ever. best economic numbers in years. unemployment lowest in 17 years. wajs raising. border secure. supreme court. no white house chaos. there was this claim he made about the southern border. >> the border was a tremendous problem. now close to 80% stoppage. and the president of mexico call me and said their southern border, very few people are coming, because they know they're not going to get through our border. which is the ultimate compliment. >> mexico's president denies

making the call. they last spoken to sidelines of the g-20 last month. when the president shared data with president trump. and the construction company at is center of a massive power outage on the outer banks is now facing a class-action lawsuit. the suit is being filed against pcl civil constructers. the company is accused of damaging two main power lines supplying election tristy to hatteras and oak cracoke island. tens of thousands of tourists were ordered to evacuate over the weekend. power officials say it could take one to two weeks to repair the damage and begin restoring

power. let's turn to business. a megacable merger is set to happen. discovery has agreed to purchase scripps network. also in the deal, spotify. the streaming service is now twice as big as apple music. speaking of apple, the company is set to relts earnings after the bell today. cnbc's caroline roth joins us live from london. let's start with the discovery deal. >> a lot to cover today. discovery making the 11.9 billion deal to buy scripps networks interactive. both companies are struggling with the changes in the media space, such as declining ad revenue. the newly combined company will be worth some $22 billion. that's more than viacom, which is the next biggest tv company by market value.

i also want to talk about reddit. they've raised $200 million in new funding. proceeds will be invested into its business, such as building the home page. last but not least, apple is reporting numbers after the bell later on today. analysts are expecting earnings of $1.57. the focus is not so much on the actual earnings. because we're coming towards the end of a product cycle. the focus will be on the guidance for the next quarter as we see the launch for the iphone 8. there will be supply issues with some of the models. back to you. >> thank you so much. still ahead, people in florida bracing for yet another day of heavy rains as the remnants of tropical depression emily makes its way out to sea. bill karins will have the latest

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♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ welcome back, everybody. parts of florida bracing for more heavy rain as the remnants op tropical depression emily head out to sea today. the storm brought plenty of rain and high winds to parts of the state. driver were forced to try to maneuver flooded streets. in ft. myers beach, pat of the roof of a billing was ripped off before landing on another structure. luckily, nobody was hurt there. let's check with bill karins, standing by. you have good news for florida? >> it will dry out a lot today. they don't have big storm coming their way. yesterday, some areas got damage. we had street flooding. what is left of the depression saul the way out here. it only took 12 hours to go from making landfall to almost nothing, becoming a tropical

storm, making landfall, heading off the coast. now we're turning our attention to this heat wave in the pacific northwest. northern california, too. excessive heat warnings advisories. 15 million people included. this is from today until at least friday, possibly into the weekend. no big cooldown in sight. the duration is what often makes heat waves deadly. at nighttime, it doesn't cool off enough, especially for people without air conditioning to open their windows. today, salem, 103. that sould break your record. redding, 116. breeking a record at 113. reno, nevada, is at one or two for the warmest july ever. it's not like it's been cool this summer in the west. wednesday, salem, close to the all-time record high. we're predicting 109.

all-time record high is 108. medford, 114. thursday, portland, close to your all-time record high. other areas equally as warm. it goes up to seattle. the opposite of this, usually one side of the country is very, very hot. we're cooling in areas of the east. it's not like it's fall. but it's very comfortable. 85 memphis today. 82 chicago. 88 in d.c. a nice summer day. it hasn't been fair for the west and the friends in the pacific northwest. just very hot each and every day. >> all right, bill. a sad story out of hollywood this morning. the acting world is mourning the loss of one of its most versatile stars following word sam sheparc rd has died. he died thursday at his home in kentucky from complications of lou gehrig's disease. his work in the '70s help thrust him into the spot light

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>> he's applauded them for their fight of freedom in that region. it's reported to note that georgia has seen a lot of russian encroachment in its territory over a number of years. it's an important message he's convoying to them. now, the u.s. embassy in moscow has accused of russian authorities of barring its diplomatic staff on the properties of the outskirts of moscow after having earlier agreed to grant access until midday today to retrieve their belongings. it's a tit-for-tat response against planned sanctions against moscow. so far the president hasn't signed the sanctions bill but he's likely to do so in the next few days. in a move unrelated to sanctions, russia is preparing to send as many as 100,000 troops to the eastern edge of nato territory at the end of

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this a little awkward. when scaramucci called an uber to pick him up, sean spicer was driving. >> and you know it's bad when you get fired after ten days and everyone asks what took you so long? >> we start at the white house where the folk will once again be the newly minted chief of staff, the retired general john kelly. hallie jackson has more. good morning. >> reporter: gorngs to yod morn you. as august officially begin, president trump focuses on small business. the dominant headlines still is john kelly on day two on the job, the retired marine corps general reorganizing his ranks.

you saw anthony scaramucci gone, sources in and around the administration were telling us that was really a kelly move, meant to send a very clear message that there is a new chief in town. kelly looking to have a little more authority than what you saw with reince priebus, the last chief of staff. ivanka trump, jared kushner, steve bannon all plan to look to kelly as they move forward. >> and attorney general jeff sessions is expected to speak about the justice department's commitment to support law enforcement and reinforce the rule of law. former attorney general eric holder and congressman john lewis will also be in attendance. that does it for us on this

tuesday morning. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside louis burgdorf. "morning joe," everybody, starts right now. previously on the trump administration. >> i heard that your role is changing it at the white house. >> i'm right here. >> i want to thank personally sean spicer. this is obviously a difficult situation to be in. he's a great guy. >> "reince is a paranoid schizophrenic." >> i'm not reading this. no, you're not reading this. donnie, i don't want to hear from you. >> i just think it's an annoying distraction. >> he's a billionaire. >> everyone eats cheeseburgers and pizzas. what are you talking about? >> let's see where the chips fall. thank you. ♪ u take tyou take the good, yo the bad and there you have