his wife and & son stayed behind initially but have now themselves moved to the white house. that is our broadcast for this evening. thank you for being here with us. good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. the russia story is a total fabrication. it's just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of american politics. that's all it is. >> president trump dismissing the russia investigation, and his latest review came hours after a special report that mueller has impanelled a grand jury in washington. new, overnight, out of dubai, a fire breaks out in one of the world's tallest buildings, and

no reports of any injuries. good morning, everybody. it is friday, august 4th. we start with reaction this morning into the investigation into russia, the 2016 election and president trump. mueller impanelled a grand jury. the "washington post" now reporteding that mueller began to issue subpoenas from the washington based grand jury according to several lawyers involved in the case. nbc reporting in may of grand jury subpoenas into flynn that began before mueller was appointed.

and a former senior intelligence official with knowledge of the discussions told nbc news is looking into whether he has obtained records. a lawyer for president trump responded, quote, we favor anything that accelerates mr. mueller's work and remain committed to fully cooperating. he added that comey told the president at least three times he is not under investigation and we have heard nothing that would change that. the only concern at the white house is this be done fast and fairly. president trump spoke out about russia last night at his campaign rally in west virginia where he and his surrogates attacked the discussion of the story as made-up or irrelevant. take a listen. >> the same people pushing this crazy story about russia and its so crazy you have no idea, and

the same people that gave us fake polls the entire election, those are the people pushing that story, so keep that in mind. >> what in the world is wrong with us as peoples? have we not heard about the russians? >> the reason why democrats only talk about the totally made-up russia story is because they have no message, no agenda, and no vision. the russia story is a total fabrication. it's just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of american politics. that's all it is. try winning at the voter booth. what the prosecutor should be looking at are hillary clinton's

33,000 deleted e-mails. have you seen any russians in wall stre west virginia, ohio or pennsylvania? are there any russians here tonight? any russians? they can't beat us at the voting booths so they are trying to cheat you out of the future and the future that you want. they are trying to cheat you out of the leadership you want with a fake story that is demeaning to all of us, and most importantly demeaning to our country and demeaning to our constitution. >> we have even more developments related to investigations of the trump administration yesterday. vox reporting yesterday that the high ranking managers were

warned they could be witnesses as to whether trump intkpwaeupbled in obstruction of justice over the investigation, and flynn is acknowledging additional payments he received, filing a new discloser report, and the analysis that worked with trump's campaign data information. and the transcripts of the sensitive and sometimes contentious conversations with mexico's president and australia's prime minister reveal eye opening comments by the president and peter alexander has more from the white house. >> the president's private calls one filters one week aftering taking office, and i have to have mexico pay for the wall. i have to. i have been talking about it for a two-year period.

>> who's going to pay for the wall? >> mexico. who? >> mexico. >> in transcripts of the calls obtained by "the posts," you cannot say that to the press. still, mr. trump concedes the money would likely come from elsewhere, and it will come out in the wash and that's okay. on the epidemic of illegal drugs smuggled into the u.s., i won new hampshire, because it's a drug-invested deny. >> i would never say it's invested but it has its problems like the rest of the country. >> and then another call with australia's prime minister -- this is going to kill me as i am the world's greatest person that does not want to let people in the country, and mr. trump

clearly exasperated, i have had it, and putin was a pleasant call, and this is ridiculous. the white house declined to confirm the authenticity of the transcripts but the president repeatedly railed against leakers. lawmakers condemning the leakers. >> these people should be fired. >> president trump back on the road in west virginia where support remains strong. >> problems face this country, and they were not built in a day and they are not going to be fixed in a day and it's going to take time. >> and these transcripts are shared, and officials tell us they have never seen leaks quite like this that seem to be focused on exposing the president's behavior. >> back to you. >> thanks to peter alexander. pretty incredible stuff.

>> really incredible. >> this comes down to honesty, and the unpleasant call in regards to the australian prime minister. and then he said thank you to the prime minister of australia for telling the truth about our very civil conversation. when that the conversation came out that we see does not -- it does not translate to what he's tweeting about, how can you believe what he's saying about russia? >> it's very confuse to the american people. in some relations, you see him having great relationships with the foreign leaders, and then you hear about these mixed conflicting reports about how he talks to other world leaders, like this australian official. it's confusing for the american

people and it makes them hard for them to trust with anything he says about russia and the involvement with the campaign. >> you bring up macron and abe. if these things are released and it doesn't, you know, what is being translated, what accurately is not being said by the president. >> i say look at the way he enter acts with folks when he goes overseas with folks like the g20, and that's a really good way for people to see how he's engaging on a world stage, but otherwise it's hard to tell his word versus the media's word because they conflict all the time. >> these conversations are not normal? >> these are not normal. to the extent in which we see a lot of, like, you know, barrage

of not happy conversations, that doesn't happen all the time. >> some people look at the conversations and think politics aside, these are the frank conversations they have with one another when they are not in front of the cameras or looking to get votes. >> a mediation of the media is not discussed at that lent. it would not be surprised if they talk about how they are going to work together to portray things in front of the media, and the contention between the two leaders is not normal. >> officials in new hampshire are criticizing president trump for comments he made in the call with the mexican president, and according to the transcripts obtained by the "washington post," president trump said we have a massive drug problem where kids are becoming addicted to drugs, and i won new hampshire because new hampshire

is a drug invested deny, and the republican governor of new hampshire said the president is wrong, and it's disappointing his characterization of the epidemic, and so maggi hassan said instead of insulting people in the throws of addiction, he needs to stem the tide of the crisis. and then one said president trump owes new hampshire an apology. >> what he said was an outrageous, and it's an insult to all of those people who have been dealing with this epidemic. >> and ahead of his rally in west virginia, president trump teased he had a big announcement for his rally, and before bringing west virginia's democratic governor, jim justice up to the podium for this. >> like it or not like it, but

the democrats walked away from me. i will tell you, as west virginiaens, i can't help you any more being a democratic governor. so tomorrow i will be changing my registration to republican. >> as a coach, i would tell you it's time to run another play. >> this is not the first time, though, governor justice has switched party affiliation,

having been registered with being a republican, and republican governors hold control in 34 states, the most states since 1922. before entering the white house president trump was highly critical of president obama for golfing and vacationing with his family in office but today it's donald trump who is leaving the white house for a extended 17-day vacation to his golf club, and that's twice as long as president obama's august vacation during his first year in office, and when it comes to total leisure times in the presidencies, they are not even close. president trump has had 53 days of leisure, and has played at least 33 rounds of golf to president obama's 15 days and 17 rounds of golf, and the entire west wing will be vacating the premises so they can replace a

heating system. still ahead, everybody, we are learning new details about an alleged plot to bring down an aircraft in australia. 19 million people are at risk of severe weather, and we will get a check on the forecast coming up next. keep it here, everybody. you are watching msnbc. shawn evans: it's 6 am.

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about a failed bombing attack in australia as that country charged two men. they were involved allegedly in a plan to place an ied on a flight out of sidney last month. the explosive devices were sent via a cargo plane from turkey. one of the suspects asked his brother to take a piece of luggage on the flight, and it never made it past the check-in counter. let's take a turn and get a check on your weather. bonn bonnie schneider standing by. >> we are getting lightning in parts of ohio and indiana. 19 million americans facing potentially severe weather, and

that includes big cities like pittsburgh and cleveland. as the storms push to the east, we will see cooler and drier air work its way in behind it, which is great news because temperatures will get more comfortable as we get into part of next week. a lot of storms will impact areas in the northeast. we are looking at wet weather along the gulf coast, so if you are driving on i-10 towards new orleans, stormy weather is ahead, and we are looking at rain accumulating like pensacola. we could see several inches of rain before the day is over so be careful for areas that may flood. it's going to be hot especially into oregon, and most places in this part of the country don't have air-conditioning, and unfortunately, the onshore flow will start to make a difference as we go into next week, and we are looking at triple digit numbers into medford, look at that, 100 degrees on saturday and sunday, and heating up

further inland into the 90s and seeing hot weather into nevada. across the country for the afternoon, we will look at the cool spot of air coming into chicago with a high of 70, and it's stormy there. and then highs in the mid-90s for dallas. any relief ahead for saturday? depends on where you are. over all, stormy for much of the northeast including new york and into d.c., and we will watch out for the stoerplrms to persist a the gulf coast. nfl pre-season beginning, and then the mets hand the rockies a walk-off win. sports is next. do you play? ♪ ♪ use the chase mobile app to send money in just a tap, to friends at more banks then ever before.

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welcome back, everybody. time for sports. the nfl pre-season started yesterday with dollar and the arizona cardinals facing each other, and neither team soot suited up their star players, and although they were there for practice. kurt warner and jerry jones were honored before the game. they first struck scoring two rushing touchdowns, and down 15-0, the cowboys responded with moore connecting on a pass, and d'errico made a fingertip catch

in the end zone and they finish the comeback win with cooper throwing a 13-yard touchdown pass. they clinch the victory, a 20-18 victory. now to other football, the united states soccer played in the tournament of nations. the u.s. was shocked in the opener losing to australian 1-0, and last night was a different story. in the 11th minute, they score to put the u.s. up. morgan adds another goal to go up 3-0, and the u.s. will go on to win finishing second place in the tournament. congratulations to them. in baseball a wild finish in the mets and rockies game in denver. the mets were down one when

rosario hits one, and then in the seventh, the mets were down again, and then in the bottom of the ninth, the bases were loaded and then the game-ending run is walked in. a lot of sad mets fans out there. we will talk about the fallout continuing after phone call transcripts between trump and two world leaders gets leaked, and we will delve into that next. excuse me, doctor... the genomic data came in. thank you. you can do that kind of analysis? yeah, watson. i can quickly analyze

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♪ ♪ welcome back, everybody. it's the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top stories. west virginia governor announced he is leaving the democratic party and joining the republicans and he made that announcement last night, and the republican leadership is at the highest level since 1922. and there are concerns the president would try and replace sessions, and the announcement was made with whom the president called out on twitter for voting against the republican health

care bill. john mccain is beginning his battle with brain cancer, and speaking during a facebook live event mccain says he expects to be back to work in the senate that goes against his doctor's wishes, and he's in good spirits and is in good health during his first week of radiation. and then the new developments and the ties between the trump campaign and russia. "the wall street journal" reporting mueller impanelled a grand jury to investigate moscow's role in the 2016 elections. >> the special counsel investigating russian election interference is entering a new phase, assembling a grand jury, it's a signal robert mueller's investigation, which has infuriated the president, will stretch on for months if not

longer. nbc news has not independently defended the report but the grand jury would be empowered to hear testimony and get records from people or businesses. >> the fact that mueller felt compelled to impanel a special grand jury. >> we have no reason to believe president trump is under investigation. a former senior intelligence official with knowledge of the discussions has told nbc news muller is looking at whether the president may have obstructed justice, and the white house's new lawyer said he was not aware mueller started using a new grand jury, calling those matters typically secret adding the white house favors anything and is committed to fully

cooperating. mull kwrao >> the team that mueller has assembled is varsity. >> the entire thing has been a witch hunt. >> on capitol hill, lawyers on both sides are introducing bills to protect mueller and his investigation. >> it's really just doing what the founding fathers wanted us to do, to have three strong co-equal branches. >> as we mentioned, the president rallied his base in west virginia last night, and he did not mention mueller by name but talked about the russia investigation. >> the russia story is a total fabrication, and it's just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of american politics. that's all it is.

it just makes them feel better when they have nothing else to talk about. what the prosecutor should be looking at are hillary clinton's 33,000 deleted e-mails. they can't beat us at the voting booths, so they are trying to cheat you out of the future and the future that you want. they are trying to cheat you out of the leadership that you want with a fake story that is demeaning to all of us, and most importantly demeaning to our country and demeaning to our constitution. most people know there were no russians in our campaign. there never were. we didn't win because of russia, we won because of you. that i can tell you.

have you seen any russians in west virginia or ohio or pennsylvania? are there any russians here tonight? any russians? >> important to note here west virginia is the state that gave president trump his largest margin of victory over hillary clinton, and he won by 42 points there, and this stop was all about rallying his base, and here is this report filed from huntington, west virginia. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: i am at a trump rally for west virginia, and in a state where the president has his highest approval rating, and are these supporters happy with the president? >> the president, i think he's working hard to do the american people a good job. >> i think he's doing an amazing

job. >> everybody knew what they were getting when they voted for him. >> there is a lot of scandals and stuff like that, nothing really big. >> pleased with what he has done, and as soon as he got into office he got hit the ground running. >> and then in west, 13,000 miners back to work, and that's good enough for me. >> thanks to lewis for that report. back with us, sarah fisher. i want to play more from president trump's rally last night from west virginia along with his attorney, and then we will talk about it. take a listen. >> i just hope the final determination is a truly honest one, which is what the millions of people who gave us our big win in november deserve, and what all americans who want a better future want and deserve.

democrat lawmakers will have to decide. they can continue their obsession with the russian hoax or they can serve the interests of the american people. >> the president is not thinking about firing bob mueller, so this is speculation that is out there and it's incorrect. >> would you advise him regardless of a grand jury that would be a bad idea? >> my job is to deal with what? i have to deal with the facts as we have them and the case as we have it, and the decisions the president makes on bob mueller are decisions i am not involved in and would not be involved in and the president has not raised with me -- >> why can't we get yes or no answers when you ask a question?

would you advise the president fire bob mueller? you can't get a yes or no there. even if the president wanted to fire bob mueller, wouldn't this news of the grand jury make that even more difficult, make it more suspect? >> certainly it implicates that bob mueller is trying to ramp up his investigation, so it would be more difficult. what nbc is reporting, john kelly, the new chief of staff said to jeff sessions your job is safe which is an indication they don't want to get rid of bob mueller, and it would be more difficult to do at this point. bringing in a new grand jury in washington brings in a whole new set of implications, right? >> let's put this grand jury thing in perspective. the former u.s. attorney that trump fired back in mercarch sa this -- the hyperventilating is

officially over. help us put this in perspective in regards to the grand jury. is this something that would be part of the normal process? >> it's expected this would happen. i don't think it would take a long time. one of the things we know is that bob mueller is trying to get through this relatively quickly, and the other thing we know is this is a compliance thing, and bob mueller is trying to get as much information and data out of anybody that has touched the trump campaign and his businesses so he will issue subpoenas to different financial institutions and banks and legal firms to get as much information as possible. these firms have special teams that manage subpoenas and deal with it all the time so i don't think it would take a long time and i think it's expected that he bring in a grand jury especially in washington where he has ties and close proximity to the white house and dealings between trump and comey. >> you don't think the total investigation will take a long

time? >> the investigation for sure, but the process of getting the data through the grand jury is not going to take a long time. >> are we going to hear from bob mueller at all? >> i don't think we will hear from bob mueller, he has been quiet and he likes to keep his head down and do things separately, and we might hear if there's something big or unusual. >> leaks are a big problem, right? the republicans want to figure out what is going on here. attorney general jeff sessions is holding a news conference today on the efforts to combat intelligence leaks. what are the leaks coming out of the white house, and a lot of people thought with kelly coming in that would help stomp it ourt, but how will they combat that? >> i think kelly coming in, it will help. john kelly is keeping strict rules as to who can see the president and who can't.

what would they do to combat it? having a more organized white house. one of the problems is the communication strategy was so fragmented. different people within the communications team were receiving conflicting and different information, and with a more organized communication team there would be less leaks and a unified message to come out of the white house. >> it's from the top down? >> yeah, and it's making sure the team is on the same page. >> sarah fisher, thank you. >> thank you. the "washington post" obtained and printed the phone calls with president trump and

mexico's president and president trump pushed his promise of a border wall saying it put both men in a political bind, and he urged pena nieto. he said believe it or not this is the least important thing we are talking about but politically it could be the most important thing to talk about. and trump said in earlier reports that the call with the australian prime minister, in a heated discussion on a refugee deal saying, quote, as far as i am concerned that is enough, malcolm, i have had it. i have been making these calls all day and this is the most unpleasant call all day, and putin was a pleasant call and this is ridiculous.

lawmakers are both sides of the aisle are denouncing the leaks of the transcripts, and mark warner is calling for an investigation, and warner expressed concern that this hurts the relationship with world leaders. >> to have people there that are leaking information that are talking to each of you to try and have their public policy implements because they are getting you to argue on their behalf, and we know it's happening, and these people should be fired and out of government and they are disloyal to our government and i hope that's what is going to happen. >> still ahead, the american people handing out a severely failing grade to congress. plus, mother nature already roasting parts of the northwestern u.s., now giving

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advisory. and there's a weak ridge ucomin in, and a little bit of coastal areas will be in the mid-90s and medford into triple digits. the heat is building across nevada and places like idaho. the great lakes is where we are seeing stormy conditions, towards michigan and storms in indiana earlier this morning. 19 million people at risk for severe weather today and that will push further to the east. they are all watching out for strong storms that could produce hail and gusty winds. with the front pushing storms ahead there's cooler and drier air in behind it, and that's good news if you are looking for a breather from the heat. storms from the east as we work our way towards the weekend on

saturday. eventually the cooler air will come in, and it has been warm for the first start of august, and eventually as we go towards the weekend, as the front pushes east, you will feel it into indianapolis as well, and next week it will feel cooler with temperatures back in the upper 70s rather than the 80s and 90s. so relief is on the way, just a few more days. >> thanks, bonnie. to a story i talked about before the break, a majority of americans say lawmakers in congress are terrible when it comes to simply doing their job. 10% of those asked give congress a thumbs up while a whopping 84% give them a failing grade on how it handles its job, and when it comes to the way republicans are handling health care, and only 15% approve, while 80% say they

disapprove of the steps taken. and 62% said trump is an honest man, and 34% said he is. those numbers led to this exchange yesterday on morni"mor joe." >> can you find somebody on capitol hill that thinks the president is an honest guy? >> truly. i will start to ask that question directly. >> so she did. she asked senators directly. >> do you think president trump is honest? there have been questions about his phone calls with the boy scouts and with others? >> i know you all like talking about whether or not he actually received a phone call, and i don't think i will go down that road. >> do you think the president is an honest man? >> yes, i do. i think he has a good time sometimes, but i think basically on very important issues he is

very honest. >> do you think the president is an honest man? >> yes. >> is that a no? or a yes? >> i'm not going to play that game. >> one question, please? >> not right question, please. i just want to know if you think the president is an honest man. that's my one question. >> i'll catch ya. >> reporter: do you think the president is is an honest man? >> i think it's hard, the contradictions have been recorded. >> that's why kasie hunt is great at her job. not an easy question to ask people on capitol hill, that's for sure. and investors brace for this morning's big jobs report. we'll get a preview on what to expect and the other stories driving your business day when we come back. . even a swing set standoff.

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welcome back. a former volkswagen decision is set to plead guilty today in the emissions scandal. he was has been in custody since january in miami trying to return to germany. he faces 169 years in prison. i want to turn to wall street as investors wait for the numbers for july. and two rival ad outo makers ar

expected to announce a joint venture. good to see you. let's start with that jobs report. what can we expect? >> we're looking for more good news out of the labor market today. with unemployment set to drop to a 16-year low looking at a jobless number of around 4.3%, according to economist who is also expect around 183 jobs were added during the month of july. this is very much in line with what we saw in the first half of the year where every month nearly 180,000 jobs were added. let's also think about wage growth. that has been surprisingly subdued given how strong the labor market has been. let's turn to the auto industry. we've seen, as you mentioned that, toyota and mazda are looking at doing a $1.6 billion venture together, which would be a vehicle assembly plant

somewhere in the u.s. this is according to sources at this stage and this source wasn't able to identify exactly where in the u.s. this should be built but this should be built by 2021 and he said and 300,000 cars would be built there employing around 4,000 people. let's get to fedex, which has said it does not intend to add special charges to most of its packages shipped during the holiday period so around thanksgiving, around christmastime. you can understand why it might want to. on an average day it ships around 12 million packages, around big days around christmas, around 25 million. this is in sharp contrast to ups, which says it actually will do some surcharges. >> thank you. coming up next on "morning joe," much more on the new developments on the russia probe and bob mueller has empanelled a

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welcome back, everybody. before we toss it over to "morning joe," let's check on the stories ahead. president trump is set to begin a 17-day vacation today. he'll be briefed by fema on the upcoming hurricane season. >> and attorney general jeff sectio sessions is set to speak on combatting intelligence leaks. he'll delivery marks later this morning and after attorney general rod rosenstein is expected to speak with reporters on an off-camera pen and pad discussion. i'm yasmin vossoughian.

"morning joe" starts right now. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. it's just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of american politics. that's all it is. >> i'm kind of curious. i did not know and maybe gene robinson, you can help me out here because you and i were the only ones alive in 1936, but i didn't know that the good people of west virginia knew that much about f.d.r.'s land slide over al flandin, the greatest loss in political history. >> they teach that i think the first week in -- >> public schools. >> civics class or something. >> some would say f.d.r. in '64. >> and it was a neat trick, the popular vote. and it was