that's our broadcast for this thursday night. . >> we whaerd -- heard what sounded like gunshots and people were rushing towards us. everyone is running, so we just started to run with them. terror in spain. at least 13 people are dead and 100 injured after a van drove through a crowded street in barcelona. this morning there are explosions and incidents all over the map, and the driver is still at large. >> plus, key republican senator bob corker slammed the president questioning his confidence and saying there needs to be radical changes. following the protest in charlottesville, president trump is defending what he calls beautiful confederate statues warning their removal is ripping apart the country.

good morning. it's friday, august 18th. well, we start with a series of suspected terror attacks in spain and a warning that some viewers may find the following footage disturbing. at least 13 people are dead and more than 1 00 injured. several seriously. now, after a person drove a rental van through a crowded pedestrian plaza in the heart of barcelona, spain's second largest city, three people have been detained relating to that attack, although police say none of them are the driver. who remains at large. the van reportedly zigzagged down the popular plaza for several hundred yards before finally stopping near a metro station. one witness said the van was "doing movements to hit as many people as possible." isis has now claimed responsibility, but as is often the case, has offered no proof, and nbc news cannot independently verify that claim.

meanwhile, one person was killed and several more injured wednesday night following an explosion in the town about 125 miles south of barcelona, and police say those involved are directly reeld to the barcelona terror attack. about 70 miles southwest of barcelo barcelona, police are working on the hypothesis that a thwarted terror attack yesterday is also reeld to the attack in barcelona and that explosion. police have revealed little about what happened except that the five alleged terrorists who were wearing fake suicide belts were killed by police in a shoot-out. the devices were later detonated by police in controlled explosions. six civilians were injured. two seriously. one police officer suffered minor injuries. joining us now live from barcelona, nbc news correspondent claudia. great to have you with us this morning. authorities say they believe all of these scenes are related. what's the latest on the investigation? >> well, the latest we heard you

mentioning to that intro is that the police believes that the vests that were found on the bodies of the five terrorists, they shot down yesterday in the town of camblis. this is southwest of barcelona, where the second terror attack was carried out were fake. now, that is a bit of a relief if you can call it that because that means that if there is, of course, the another terrorist attack because there is still a man on the run, the driver of the van. the fact that this was an organization, we don't know that yet, they don't have access to the explosive that will make that threat a little less menacing. i am on the stage of some of the worst terrorist -- one of the worst terrorist attacks in spanish history that took place here only 24 hours ago. less than 24 hours ago. now it is filled with thousands

of people. this is a great sign of defiance. >> thank you. let's talk about the security aspect. joining us now over the phone msnbc terrorism analyst and executive director of the terror asymmetric project, malcolm nance. thank you for joining us. >> this is the sixth deadliest terror attack in the past 13 months, and it seems like we ask this question over and over again, malcolm, but is there any way of preventing these sort of high impact, low planning attacks really that seems like have been happening over and over again for the last few years? >> well, unfortunately, the easiest way to deter these attacks is to have great intelligence on the terrorists. spain is a country which has an excellent counterterrorism force in la guardia.

they actualliville since 2004 when they had the madrid bombing attack had no incidents of terrorism and had arrested over 700 al qaeda and isis sympathizers. when you are talking about using a vehicle as a weapon, there's almost no deterrent to that other than to find the plot out in advance and intercept the driver before he gets to his target, but that could be just about anywhere. >> malcolm, let me ask you about president trump's reaction to this. i know that he initially condemned the attack on twitter, but then he pivoted and promoted a false claim about general and how he supposedly dealt with what he called islamic radical terror. how is this all going down in washington, especially in the wake or the lack of comments regarding charlottesville from the president? >> well, in fact, you know, tweets like that, which are based on a myth and are factu factually wrong, historically wrong, only inflame the muslim

world and actually insult the people who we're assisting, which is the other 1.6 billion muslims who reject all of these attacks by isis and al qaeda. in the counterterrorism world we find it more difficult to process that when you have a president who is attacking something,ing which is, you know -- which is not true using this mythology. at the same time we're trying to get cooperation from countries like morocco, tunisia, algeria where some of the citizens were involved in this attack and then try to work through that with a greater intelligence effort that requires the muslim world to feed into it. in washington it's not playing very well at all in the intelligence world. >> malcolm, thank you very much for that. a lot of people have been making the comparison about how quick he was to condemn this as a terror attack and then how slow he was after the charlottesville attack to say he wanted to wait for the facts. >> it doesn't bode well.

people of this country also don't have confidence in their president. they can't trust him when something like this happens as well. the president began his day thursday by targeting a senator in his own party and defending confederate monuments as part of american history. now he is getting tough straight talk from a powerful senator who he vetted for vice president and later considered for secretary of state. senator bob corker, the chairman of the foreign relations committee told the chattanooga rotary club that despite his good relationship with the president, he could no longer ignore the elephant in the room. dismayed by the daily distractions, he later said to reporters that there needs to be "some radical changes in the way trump conducts himself." take a listen. >> the president has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. more republicans are speaking in unusually blunt

terms about the president defending monuments in honor of the confederacy. larry hogan said of the president's charlottesville comments, "i thought he did a really bad job responding to it. it wasn't presidential." on the tweets about confederate statu statues, "i think he probably should stop talking about the issue because not very many people are agreeing with him these days." senator tim scott of south carolina says he approaches the issue in moral terms. >> i'm not going to defend the indefensible. i'm not here to do that. i'm here to be clear and to be concise and succinct. what we want to see from our president is clarity and moral authority, and that moral authority is compromised when tuesday happens. there's in question about that. we should all call that on the carpet. >> joining us now from washington molly hooper. good morning to you. great to have you with us. let's start a little bit with the president. apparently he is increasingly at

odds with centrists in his own party, including that party's leadership. what's the calculus for people like bob corker and jeff flake to now openly question the president? do you think that there is a sense that more will follow from within the republican party? >> my word, if i was president trump, i would be getting a schedule of all the senators in the republican party and when they speak to rotary clubs because wasn't it last week that we were talking about mitch mcconnell talking to his rotary club calling the president out? you know, the calculus, it's interesting. you know, this issue has caused a lot of problems for republicans back home. they're hearing about it as well. when you see cents riss and conservatives for that fact come out and speak about the president and the way he is running things, you know, that's very telling. the other thing to note is that senator cork er, you know, was

considered for vice president, secretary of state. he actually took action as did the house and the senate, republican house and the senate, bipartisan on that matter, you know, to move a russian sanctions bill that the president really did not want to sign. in fact, was forced into signing because there was pretty much, you know, veto-proof majority. as we see more action, bipartisan votes like that, that's more telling about what's going on in the conference as opposed to just what they're saying. >> what's the likelihood then censure the president come this fall? >> well, the republicans are still in charge. >> there's been talk of it, obviously. >> the democrats are pushing that, and i think that it would be the house subpoena for

re-election every two years. they need to show thief made good on promises, that president trump pushed during the campaign because really, you know, they are athere to promote the president's agenda. they need to get something done to help with the health care system. this is according to lawmakers that i have talked to. it's going to be very important going into next year's election year. >> well, consider the conversations that have been going on. it seems like it's going to be a difficult mountain to overcome. molly hooper for us. thank you. >> thank you. the dow jones took a triple digit dive closing down 274 points. its biggest drop in three months. markets began falling over concerns that congress would be less willing to work with the president on business-friendly legislation following his most recent remarks on charlottesville. now, stocks were also rattled by speculation that white house economic advisor gary cohen would resign because of the president's comments. on top of that the white house announced yesterday that the

president's advisory council on infrastructure, which was still being formed would not be moving forward. also on wednesday, the president announced that he was ending two business advisory panels as well. at a joint appearance with their japanese counterparts, secretary of state rex tillerson and jim mattis talked about their strategy for north korea. the two made a point to say there is no military option, contrary to steve bannon. >> i don't really have a comment on what mr. bannon's remarks were in that particular interview. i read those. i think we have been quite clear as to what the policy and the posture towards north korea is. >> i judge just assure you that

in close collaboration with our allies, there are strong military consequences of dprk initiating hostilities. >> secretary mattis also reiterated there is no plan for the u.s. to strike first, but is ready to act as needed. still ahead, the effort to remove confederate statues across the country is met with resistance from president trump. later, chief strategist steve bannon gives another interview as he is feeling secure in his white house role. that and a check of weather when we come back.

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came into office. >> the push to dismantle symbols across the country met a series of tweets from the president yesterday. the great great grandsons of stonewall jackson even wrote an open letter in slate saying the monuments must go, and former mississippi governor and secretary of the navy ray mabus writes every single confederate statue must be removed forever. meanwhile, democrats appear to be divided of how to handle the debate on capitol hill, while minority leader nancy pelosi is talking about how paul ryan is helping to remove confederate statues from the halls of congress. chuck schumer says he supports removing the controversial monuments, but accused the president of trying to divert attention away from his refusal to unekwifically denounce white

supremacist. crews removed the statue of chief justice roger tawney who wrote the dread scott decision. let's go to nbc meteorologist bill karins. it doesn't look so bad now, but the weather in the northeast is not going to be pretty today. >> yeah. if you get through today for what should be an absolutely gorgeous weekend, but today we'll have issues of showers, thunderstorms, travel delays, and especially we're getting airport cancellations in anticipation of the storms. right now there's a few storms in areas of kentucky. you have a few storms along the pennsylvania border. then hit and miss showers up to new york. not too bad this morning. hit and miss areas of rain. no wind damage, anything like that. later this afternoon it's going to be a hot, humid day. you can step outside this morning on i- 5 and areas of the northeast. the humidity went sky-high overnight, and it's going to be hot during the day, and then we'll get the thunderstorms this afternoon. because we have all the big cities included, 36 million people po tshlly at risk of those storms from just north of new york city to philadelphia, baltimore, d.c., all the way into richmond. here's the timing of it. there's two rounds of storms.

we're getting the one that i talked about now with showers and storms from new york city through the capital district. this is 8:00 a.m. that will sweep through new england through the morning, and then this cold front, when it kicks through later today, that will be round two. this is where the storms could actually be severe. especially heading into the peak warming of the day. d.c., going to have the storms around 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. new york city, hudson valley, looks like sometime right around 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. is your timing for those storms. then that clears out for a pretty nice weekend forecast for a lot of people. for today we're going to watch heat and humidity in the southeast. hot in areas like st. louis. not bad in chicago. then the weekend forecast really looks like a piece of cake. very warm summer-like. 90 throughout much of the country. 80s northern half of the nation. we are looking for a fantastic weekend. i'm still tweaking that eclipse forecast for monday. i have all the new details coming up in a little bit. >> all right. looks like it's going to be a nice weekend, but a rough start to the weekend. travel delays as well probably. >> hope you are working on getting us some glasses too. >> i have one pair.

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statue in the downtown area. all three major tampa sports teams -- the raies, lightning, and buccaneers -- released a joint statement yesterday offering to provide the funds needed to move a confederate monument sitting outside of the city courthouse. the move came after a challenge from former bucks coach tony dungee who pledged $5,000 of his own money towards the cause in response to a wednesday vote by county commissioners to allow 30 days for fundraisers to come up with $140,000 in private money needed to relocate the statue. they were not the only ones in involved in this effort. the tampa bay times reports a $50,000 pledge by former tampa bay storm owner bob grease, and a $1,000 contribution from tampa mayor bob buckhorn. glad to see they're doing that there. the nba finals mvp kevin durant will not be joining the golden state warriors in a potential white house visit to celebrate their championship victory, telling espn, "i don't respect who is in office right

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welcome back, everybody. it is the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top stories. the mother of the young woman killed in last weekend's violence in charlottesville says that in the wake of her daughter's death, she has received death threats. speaking exclusively with msnbc yesterday, susan said she refuses to live in fear and called for all sides to come together in the wake of her daughter heather's death. take a listen. >> there are people who feel marginalized. there are people who feel their voices are not being heard, and i think that everybody needs to sit down and have an honest and painful discourse. we need to listen to each other. as much as i detest what the nationalists seem to be trying to say, they have a voice that

they're trying to express, and somebody needs to find out what it is that is bothering them. zblierkts in the wake of president trump's comments on charlottesville this week, one of the most powerful senate republicans is not mincing words with the president following a speech yesterday to a local rotary club. senator bob corker of tennessee told reporters there needs to be "some radical changes in the way trump conducts himself." secretary of state rex tillerson if necessary the u.s. and its allies are ready to carrying every carry out a military response made by north korea. tillerson made the remarks while speaking to james mattis and japanese defense chiefs in washington yesterday. tillerson's remarks come after white house can chief strategist steve bannon said there is no viable military option for pyongyang. some viewers may find the footage disturbing. a person drove a rental van through a crowded pedestrian plaza in the heart of barcelona,

spain's second largest city. three people have been detained relating to the attack, although police say none of them are the driver who remains at lrj. isis has claimed responsibility, but as is often the case, has offered no proof, and nbc news cannot verify that claim. meanwhile, one person was killed and several more injured wednesday night following an explosion in the town 125 miles south of barcelona, and those involved are directly reeld to the barcelona terror attack. in cambril, about 70 miles southwest of barcelona, police are working on the hype thesis that another incident is also related to the attacks in barcelona. joining us once again live from barcelona, claudo. what more can you tell us about what took place there? >> well, let me just tell you what's happening right here right now. in about a half hour there will be a minute of silence observed here and beginning -- this is

the entry point of that white van that ran into this pedestrian area, this pedestrian boulevard for as much as almost half a mile running over so many people and killing at least 13. this minute of silence will be observed by the king of spain, the prime minister, and possibly probably the many thousands of people who turned up here on the plaza, less than 24 hours after one of the worst atrocities committed carried out on spanish soil. you can see it right behind me. i've rarely seen this so packed this time of year, but you wouldn't expect there to be so many people just a few hours after a terrorist attack had been carried out. among them, there are, of course, the relatives of the people that lost their lives. we spoke to an american woman, who couldn't find her husband,

following the terror attack. they were here for their first wedding anniversary. let's see what she told us. >> he said i'm going to go use the rest room, and so he left me to go use the rest room, and within seconds after that there was screaming and people running. i ended up further and further away without my husband. i vbt seen or heard from him since. the photos that i'll send you was taken moments before at the restaurant that we were at. the clothes that he is wearing was what he was wearing. >> we are ready for that minute of silence in 20 minutes from now. i expect it to be a very somber and emotional moment.

well, president trump responded to the barcelona terror attack via twitter yesterday morning. the united states condemns the terror attacks in barcelona and will do whatever necessary to help and whereby be tough and strong. we love you. then shortly he tweeted study what general per shing of the united states did to terrorists when caught. there was no more radical islamic terror for 35 years." this is not the first time he has promoted this debunked story. >> early this last century general pershing -- did you ever hear rough guy? they had a terrorism, and there's a whole thing with swine and animals and pigs and, you know the story. okay? they don't like it. they were having a tremendous problem with terrorism. by the way, this is something you can read in the history books. not a lot of history books because i don't like teaching this. he took 50 bullets, and he dipped them in pig's blood, and

he had his men load his rifles and he lined up the 50 people, and they shot 49 of those people, and the 50th person he said you go back to your people and you tell them what happened. for 25 years there wasn't a problem. >> historians say that what president trump referred to did not actually occur. bannon said his remarks drew fire away from the president, and he successfully changed the

media narrative with a single phone call. he said the democrats used every personal attack, including charges of racism against president trump. he then won awe landslide victory. as long as democrats fail to understand this, they will continue to lose, but leftist elites do not value history. why would they learn from history? >> all right. joining us now from washington capitol hill reporter for "the hill" molly hooper. good to have you back with us. the steve bannon story is on its second day. where is the stock in the white house you think this morning? >> you know, if only i was a fly on the -- >> do we? >> do we? >> you know, that's a good question. i think that a lot of it lies with this question of gary cohen whether he was going to stay or go. especially after the remarks that the president made on tuesday during the press

conference in which it was record that gary cohen was -- cohen and badgeon have been known to go back and forth. both of them are brash and they butted heads on a number of kaeshz, and cohen is really been responsible for moving and working on the tax reform infrastructure, health care, and i think that as long as congress is not able to pass those type of packages, you know, bannon and his followers in the house and senate, including mark meadows, who talks to him on a regular basis. he brags about that. he is the head of the freedom caucus. bannon is not doing too badly. >> molly, let's talk about jeff flake for a sending. surprising to see how public he was in his disappointment with the president yesterday. tweeting support and then the president, of course, then tweeting support for flake's primary challenger kelly ward. we've seen some pushback publicly for that.

take us behind the scenes of what snalt republica what senate republicans are thinking. >> when it comes down to, you know, senate republicans, senate democratic primary battle, you know, the members tend to group themselves. they support each other. they don't necessarily speak out in support of the primary challenger. it's just not something you do. the fact that president trump is actually voicing support for kelly ward who incidentally and this is another sign that bannon is not doing so poorly in the white house, you know, the robert mercer family is associated with breitbart, obviously. you know, they are the ones that have been given a lot of money to kelly ward and, you know, it's sort of an infusion of money into her campaign, and it's sort of showing that bannon is the one who is being favored when trump takes your show support for kelly ward. flake actually -- i mean, he came out with a book criticizing president trump and the republicans that were very harsh about it in saying, you know, the republicans could have done

more to stop trump during the primary. however, flake has voted with the president. he supported the health care bell. you know, it seems like this is a bit gratuitous, and senators don't like that. the republican senators don't like that. he took on mitch mcconnell. i think that's one of the reasons why you are seeing people like -- or someone like bob corker who usually is very nuanced with what he says speak out. that's not something he is likely to do unless, you know, provoked. really pushed into that position. >> as an outsider just interesting to see president trump refer to a republican senator as toxic. that in ichts says awe lot about the relationship. thank you, molly. >> thank you. vice president pence is taking his praise of president trump to new heights as he compares the current commander in chief to one of the most notable to ever hold the office.

we have a leader for not what they are, but what could be. then is now we have a president who understands, in his words, a nation is only living as long as it is striving. just as president roosevelt exerted his fellow americans dare to be great. president donald trump has dared our nation to make america great again and woel do it with all of our friends in the world. >> we should note that the vice president is cutting his trip short to head back to camp david. >> all right. 21st century fox ceo has

criticized president trump's reaction to the violence in charlottesville and pledged to donate $1 million to the anti-defamation league. in a personal e-mail yesterday to friends later confirmed by fox spokesman, the son of rupert merdock said it wasn't his habit to weigh in on current affairs, but what we watched this last week in charlottesville and the reaction by the president of the united states concerns all of us as americans and free people. he added, "i can't even believe i have to write this. standing up to nazis is essential. there are no good nazis or klansmen or terrorists. democrats, republicans, and others must all agree on this, and it compromises nothing for them to do so." murdock went on to say that he and his wife man to donate $1 million to the anti-defamation league and urge others to do the same. >> a lot of people out there echoing those sentiments. still ahead, some comedic relief. snl alum weighing in on the events of charlottesville. >> plus, all the details on your weekend forecast and a stormy

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>> i would urge people this saturday instead of participating in the screaming matches and potential violence, find a local business you support. maybe a jewish-run bakery or an african-american-run bakery. order a cake with the american flag on it. like this one. were just eat it, colin. >> wait. i'm sorry. how is that supposed to help? >> love is love, colin. >> what? >> the next time when you see a bunch of white boys, boys in polo shirts screaming about taking our country back and you want to scream it's not our country. we stole it from the native americans and stole it from the native americans, and when they have a peaceful protest at standing rock, we shoot at them

rubber bullets, but we let you -- then when ann coulter crawls out of house of representatives roach motel and she says republicans in berkeley, you are, like, okay, barbie. the other side is nazis and klansmen, and who drove the car into the crowd? hillary's emails? sheet caking is a grassroots movement, colin. most of the women i know have been doing it once a week since the election. >> it seems like sheet caking could be a good deterrent to what's been going on. of course -- >> sugar high. >> tina fey there making out stress eating, sheetcaking, is a thing last night. she was one of the top twitter trepds across the country last night. let's get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. the bill, the bad weather is

headed our way in the northeast. >> some people had their flights canceled preemptively in areas of the northeast anticipating the storms coming through and airport closures when they do. we have a few storms out there this morning. some in northern new jersey and the hudson valley up through the adirondacks, and we have storms heading through the appalachians. this afternoon, though, is when the main deal will come through. we get the initial morning rain. it's super humid. then we're going to get some sunshine, and that will be the fuel for the storms later this afternoon. if you are in the area of yellow, you are a chance of danling wind. of course, that's a lot of the big airports too. d.c., richmond, through baltimore, philly, and new york. stray storms in florida today. warm and humid. san antonio, you've had a hot week. 1 00 again today. i know we have heat advisories, including washington d.c. today. into saturday not many problems. very summer-like weekend. you notice the 90s. the northern half of the country will be in the 80s. not many warm, hot summer weekends left.

this definitely looks like one of them. even areas to the southeast just chances of stray storms. let's get into that eclipse forecast. not a lot has changed. we're still looking pretty good here. many years of oregon and idaho. the exception being right along the coast there at newport. then as we head through areas, a lot of tennessee is looking at wufrt best states east much the rockies. looks looits it's only tennessee. south carolina, upstate looks bad. southern portions of the state look very iffy. especially our friends there in charleston. a lot of people trying to make their final destination plans to figure out where exactly to drive to. we're trying to pinpoint it for you. >> we were talking about this earlier. i saw a pair of sunglasses being sold on ebay for $900. they're iso certified. >> they have a lay-away plan.

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welcome back. we are keeping a close eye on the market after the biggest drop in three months. cnbc later confirmed that kohn doesn't intend to remain at the administration. for more on the day's other business headlines, we bring in willem marx. i guess thee seemed to calm now after the news that gary kohn is remaining at the administration. >> other story we've been following, one of the big pharma settlements involving mylan. there was an investigation in astronomical price hikes.

mylan was paying 1.27 billion less than it should have in company rebates. the settlement deal has been finalized overnight. another deal is the tie-up between time warner and at&t. you might remember president trump suggesting there would be further scrutiny on this deal because of time warner's ownership of cnn. and the soaring value of bit coin we're covering here is now up to $74 billion market value wise, up $30 billion just this month. >> wow. thanks so much. >> the navy is takings did plinry action againplin -- disciplinary action against the commander and leadership of

the ""uss fitzgerald" destroyer that left seven people dead. >> coming up next on "morning joe," officials arrested a third suspect in the van attack. >> and now republican senator bob corker is raising questions about the president's stability and competence. plus the senator's only black republican weighs in.

welcome back, everybody. before we toss it back to "morning joe," let get a look at the stories you'll hear ahead. >> the president will huddle with his national security team over their strategy for south asia, including how to deal with the ongoing threat of a nuclearized north korea. >> and one of the state troops are who died saturday whose

helicopter crashed while monitoring the events in charlottesville will be buried today. >> and malala yousafzai is going to one of the top universities. she wrote so excited to go to oxford. the hardest year, best wishes for life ahead. she said she'll be studying philosophy, economics. that does it for us on this friday. >> she has a bright future ahead. i'm yasmin vossoughian along with ayman mohyeldin and louis burgdorf, "morning joe" starts right now. >> good morning. it's friday august 18th.

welcome to "morning joe." with us we have kasie hunt, rick stengel joining willie, joe and me. viewers may find the following footage disturbing. it is. at least 13 people are dead. more than 100 injured, many seriously after a person drove a rental van through a crowded pedestrian plaza in the heart of barcelona, spain's second largest city. three people have been detained relating to the attack, though police say none of them are the driver, who remains at large. isis has claimed responsibility but as if often the case has offered no proof. one person was killed, several more injured on wednesday night following an explosion in the town about 125 miles