e bill. and you mentioned that once, but did not mention john mccain by name. and yet, jeff flake who wrote this book that basically said republicans should have stopped trump during the primary. we need to get back to civility, and whatnot. he really could have unrailed on jeff flake, but he didn't. i think maybe that quote may have been one reason why he pulled back a little bit. >> and molly, let me just -- i want to get your reactions to something really quickly, but yesterday, louis burgdorf, our louis burgdorf, caught up with kelly ward in phoenix. here's what she had to say about the trump administration. >> despite opposition from the left and the media and republicans he's still able to accomplish a lot. imagine what he's able to accomplish when he has america first, house members and senators who are backing him up. >> the underlying message there is loyalty. obviously, we heard the

president echoing that loyalty. what does the president have to do to get him to stand down on some of these fights where the president is clearly wg chest. and we've already seen that with the senate leadership fund. they were running a super pac aligned with mitch mcconnell that was running an anti- -- web ad that was anti-kelli ward. and he actually supported luther strange, an incumbent alabama senator who was appointed to fill jeff sessions seat. over house republican mel brooks who would be seen as the america-first as kelli ward was aing senator. and trump sided with luther strange. keep in mind, he said if elected

he would vote against mitch mcconnell as leader. that says a lot. >> interesting playing out there in some of the key republican primaries. >> it seems as it trump needs mcconnell as much as trump -- in fact, trump may actually need mcconnell more. >> especially trying to get legislation pushed through. molly, thank you. minutes after president trump wrapped up his speech, the streets of in phoenix erupted in protests as police and protesters clashed in largely peaceful demonstrations. officers used combinations of smoke bombs and pepper bombs. the city's police chief said some protesters threw rocks and bottles at the demonstrators. while some demonstrators actually tossed some at police. there were arrests including aggravated assault of a police officer. thousands gathered at least a small number were involved in confrontations with police. and intelligence director

james clapper interrupted the speech in phoenix with great concerns to the president's fitness. take a listen. >> having some understanding of the levers that a president can exercise, i worry about, frankly, you know, access to nuclear codes. in a fit of peak, he decides to do something about it, there's actually very little to stop him. there's very little in the way of controls over, you know, exercising a nuclear option. which is pretty damn scary. >> pretty sobering to hear that from somebody like james clapper. also how much more is the country going to, quote, endure this nightmare. >> and secretary of state rex tillerson is works to flesh out president trump's plans in the 16-year in afghanistan.

speaking yesterday, tillerson said after an effective military effort, a political settlement would be the next step in the process. but the second also undercut the president's assurance, that the u.s. will win this war, adding that talks with the taliban may be key to that process. >> this entire effort is intended to put pressure on the taliban to have the taliban understand you will not win a battlefield victory. we may not win one, but neither will you. so, at some point, we have to come to the negotiating table and find a way to bring this to hand. pakistan and the u.s. historically had very good relationships but over the last few years there's been a real erosion of confidence between our two governments. there's been an erosion in trust. because we have witnessed terrorist organizations given safe havenen outside of pakistan to carry out attacks against u.s. servicemen, u.s. officials, disrupting peace efforts outside of afghanistan.

pakistan must adopt a different approach and we're willing to help them protect themselves. >> secretary tillerson the u.s. could cut off sanctions if it doesn't crack down on taliban and other terror groups. and the first deployment of u.s. troops to afghanistan will happen, quote, pretty quickly. the general said that the surge could occur pretty quickly or in recent days. the reports indicate roughly 4,000 additional troops are headed to afghanistan. in an address on monday, president trump reversed course after initially wanting to pull out of america's longest war although he offered few details. overseas, the president's son-in-law jared kushner is now in the middle east.

with dina powell will arrive in israel for a meeting scheduled for tomorrow with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. they also scheduled to meet separately with mahmoud abbas. the white house will focus on, how, quote, best to continue the peace effort. and to jump-start peace talks. interesting, netanyahu is in russia. china hits back after new u.s. sanctions take aim at companies with trading with north korea. and later, the president takes on two senators in arizona but tries to stay presidential in the process. we'll tell you how that worked out. those stories and more and the weather when we come back. i no longer live with

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aiding the weapons program. the president added ten companies and six individuals to china and russia to the sanctions list. china calls on the u.s., quote, to immediately correct its mistake adding it could impact cooperation on other issues. the commander of the u.s. navy's 7th treat vice admiral joseph aucoin has been removed from command for two incidents in the pacific. the 7th fleet is based out of japan. he is expected to retire next month. however, navy captains or ship captains are removed as soon as the navy loses confidence in their leadership. reared admiral will replace him. and remains have been found in the damaged section of "uss john

mccain" which collided on the straits of malacca on sunday. the number of bodies or identities has not been released. getting a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. hey, bill. >> good morning. all eyes on texas we have our tropical system that will likely become tropical storm harvey later on today and it's heading straight for texas, possibly lingering right through the weekend with automatic lot of water problems. yesterday it was over the yucatan. now, it's over the warm waters of the gulf. now, we're going to wait and see how quickly it will get organized. we want it to not be organized. we know we will have to deal with a strong storm effect. 48 hours over warmer waters to try to get stronger. this is why we are concerned. these are spaghetti lines we call them our different computer models show us where the storms will go. it still can be south texas, south houston, all pinpointing along the texas come friday

afternoon. and then it kind of lingers and loops in houston. we all know how flood-prone houston is this is like a nightmare forecast for that region. 100% chance of it becoming a tropical system in the hurricane center. 90% in the next two days. one of our computer model, the american model takes the system friday between corpus christi and visitoria. again, rain impact will be huge for this. we'll wait and see how strong it gets with the surge. this is our european model. the more active long range model. the pink coloring, that's seven inches of rain. widespread, over a half a foot of rain. from the weekend into tuesday. from victoria, houston and port author and louisiana and some areas of mississippi. we're not just talking one spot on the map. we're talking a huge area of high rainfall concerns. if this happens with predicted rainfall amounts like that, six inches to 12 inches, we will

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well in the nfl, giants star receiver odell beckham jr. may have avoided a season-ending injury during the preseason loss to the browns. after an mri confirming an ankle sprain, espn reports beckham's start in the opener is questionable. they will not receive an update until the filing of the season's initial injury report due out the wednesday before week one. they have about two weeks to figure that out. turning to baseball, record night for albert pujols, with that gorgeous swing of his, smashed the 610th home run of his career passing fellow dominican sammy sosa. the three-inning seventh inning blast propelled the angels to a win. and christian yellis takes one away from the phillies. let's grade this one. let's see how good this one is.

>> he jumps! >> oh, he didn't have to jump too many. guy's tall. or the fence is low. oh, barely squeezed it, though. he did get it. took away the home run. miami sweep philly in the double header in with a 7-4 win. how about this, atlanta, braves, branden phillips, talk about a nifty slide, right? he should have been out by a mile. let's get a closer view of that one. here we go. whoop! yeah! i made you feel silly. the swim move to avoid that tag. he reached safely. atlanta beats seattle 4-0. >> that was incredible. >> the credit definitely goes to phillips. but how about the umpire getting that call right. >> yeah. >> look where he is in relation to the play. >> wow. >> now, ayman's the expert on umpire officiating positioning

in the infield. >> i've got to get your take because i know you were a basketball player and you played the position of point guard. who are you winning this deal, kyrie or isaiah. >> kyrie is a potential hall of famer. as of now boston -- cleveland's going to get a high draft pick from the nets next year. we'll see how that ends up. you get kyrie, the best player in the nba is always the team that wins the deal. >> that's going to be fun to watch. thanks for that, bill. still ahead, a mitch mcconnell aligned super pac takes a page out of president's book. >> and more on the president including his threat and the government shutdown and the hinlt of a possible pardon for ex-sheriff joe arpaio. all that and more. we'll be right back. building on over a hundred years of heritage, craftsmanship and innovation. today we're bringing you america's number one shave at lower prices every day.

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♪ welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. it is the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top stories, white house special adviser jared kushner set to arrive in israel later today to kick off a series of meetings on mideast peace talks. kushner scheduled to meet by prime minister benjamin netanyahu tomorrow and mahmoud abbas separately. kushner met privately with. and general joseph said that

the surge could happen in days. and in phoenix, four people have been arrested during otherwise peaceful rallies that erupted in chaos. police used a combination of smoke bombs and pepper bombs. the police chief said some protesters threw rocks and bottles at officers while when demonstrators even tossed their own gas canisters. new details in a fallout from the president and a top republican in the senate. nbc news has not verified "the new york times" details of a profanity laced phone call between mitch mcconnell. during the call which trump initiated august 9th at this new jersey golf club, the president accused mcconnell of bungling the health care issue. and "the new york times" said trump was even more animated

about the senate's refusal to protect him. and saying that trump blew up and swore over the bill overwhelmingly passed congress. according to the "times," trump mcconnell has fumed over trump's and a public speech. mcconnell has made sharper comments in private. mcconnell questions whether trump will be a position to lead their republican party into next year's elections and beyond, according to people who have spoken to him directly. and then there's this from billy piper, a lobbyist and former mcconnell chief of staff who says, quote, the quickest way for him, donald trump to get impeached is for trump to knock off jeff flake and dean heller. mcconnell's spokesperson said the senator and president have a

lot of shared goals including tax reform, infrastructure, funding the government not defaulting on the debt and passing the defense authorization bill. >> and the senate majority leader is battling back against the trump with arizona as the proxy battle. "the new york times" also reporting that mitch mcconnell is bringing some reject late to kentucky on friday for a fund-raiser. and yesterday, the mcconnell-backed fund pac released an ad again kelly ward claiming she is, quote, not conservative and has crazy ideas. steve bannon may be out of the white house but sticking with the lengths that the administration will go to get that border wall. >> and we are building a wall on the southern border which is absolutely necessary. now, the obstructionist democrats would like us not to do it. but believe me, we have to close

down our government, we are building that wall. and there's the controversy of joe arpaio. last night, came the president's stronge strongest signal yet of the president to issue a pardon. >> was sheriff joe convicted for doing his job? he should have had a jury. but, you know what, i'll make a prediction, i think he's going to be just fine, okay. but i won't do it tonight because i don't want to cause any controversy. is that okay? but sheriff joe can feel good. >> all right. joining us now from washington once again, capitol hill reporter for the hill, molly hooper. molly, good to have you back with us. >> thank you. >> you heard that president went out to arizona senators john mccain and jeff flake last night, both of whom did not

actually attend that rally. >> no. >> and he spent over a minute taunting both of them, particularly mccain's vote on the health care. saying there's only one vote. and that vote was the difference. how will going after john mccain, do you think on his home state, home ground, affect the republican community back in washington, d.c.? >> well, i think that actually remains to be seen. because even though president trump did go after mccain and, to a certain extent, flake, he didn't mention them by name which is huge. because, i mean that was a 76-minute speech. and it was kind of exhausting. and he could have gone after them even more. he could have gone after mentit mcconnell. he did say certain things in reference to mitch mcconnell but he really didn't mention them by name. which is interesting because this would have been one of those places where -- i mean, it's been reported that some close to trump, the ones who want to sort of shake things up and blow things up in d.c. are saying, hey, the president needs to go in and kick out some of

these republicans and get more conservative candidates in, take out, say, jeff flake. but, really, you know, it's unclear if trump's going to do that. and he could have completely blown things up last night if he wanted to and just gone after jeff flake. but he did. it's interesting because tomorrow -- well, today, he'll be going to reno, reno, nevada,y dean heller who representing nevada, we'll see what he says in remarks there. >> molly, in regards to mitch mcconnell there, the president's sort of main public complaint is that he's failing the gop. i want to take a listen to the president from last night. and then we'll talk. >> and for our friends in the senate, oh, boy -- we have to get rid of the filibuster rule. right now, we need 60 votes and we have 52 republicans. that means that eight democrats are controlling all of this

legislation, we have over 200 bills. and we have to speak to mitch and we have to speak to everybody. >> all right. >> oh, boy. >> of course, molly, you know, six weeks is a lot of things in the docket that need to get passed in the six weeks coming up in the august recess. how does this affect things there? does it have a major impact or does it blow over? >> again, this is donald trump on the stump. he's speaking out against a lot of things he doesn't like, obviously, the 60-vote threshold is key to passing the budget and keeping the government funded. however when it comes to tax reform, the republicans want to do that which requires a majority of the senate. with 52 votes, that's a majority of the senate. it's a matter of president trump understanding how to work with and get votes from his members. something reports in that "the

new york times" article is that lisa murkowski, the senate from alaska, basically the "times" reports that murkowski wouldn't vote against this health care bill when she was threatened with the project from the interior department secretary brian zinke. now, that actually didn't work on the house side, where trump had mick mulvaney go to mark sanford, the south carolina senator to vote on the health care bill with basically the same threats. and those things aren't working and the president needs to figure out how to win over and get backing and support for these measures, as opposed to threatening to take away chairmanships which is something that he mentions and makes mitch mcconnell, i can just see him shaking his head back in kentucky. >> around wondering if this is a tactic that's going to work instead of trying to build the

threats. we'll have to see what happens there. good seeing you this morning, thank you, molly. >> the co-founder behind the political research firm behind the dossier with trump and collusion met with staff yesterday. the committee led by juk grassley is investigating fusion gps, some say a way of undermining unsubstantiated claims in the so-called trump dossier. he said his lawyer answered dozens if not hundreds of questions over the course of nine hours. he also called the investigation a, quote, smear campaign by president trump and his allies. abc is reporting that christopher steele, the former british spy who compiled the dossier has met with the fbi and has provided agents with the names of his sources. i want to turn to business where u.s. stock closed higher amid the hopes of tax returns. global markets, they're mixed. and also seem to be reacting to

president trump's nafta comments last night. kelly joining us live from london. good morning. >> good morning to you. a lot going on in the world of business. obviously, we saw the dow jumping 200 points its best gain since the month of april. that was on reports there would be tax reform. they've turnaround, they're negative so i guess that rally has fizzled. and mario draghi didn't say much either. and of course, we have those comments from donald trump, he said he would probably end up terminating nafta. on top of that, he also raised the prospect of a government shutdown in his fight to build a wall across the u.s./mexican border. that saw gold up and the mexican peso was down. lg electronics said it will spend about $25 million to build

a factory in michigan. that could create 300 jobs. >> carolin, i love amazon's alexa. i use it constantly. i hear there's competition from alexa, google and walmart. talk to us about that. >> definitely, recode is reporting that google and walmart have entered into a partnership to make hundreds of thousands of walmart products available for google home shoppers. okay just, the future might be online or voice shopping. google has actually already introduced voice shopping with the likes of costco, walgreens and petsmart. that will be available at the start of the september. a whole new means of shopping. >> that only means that alexa will have to up its game, right? >> yeah, two giants. >> carolin roth live from london. steve thmnuchin looking to

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welcome back, everybody. hong kong is at a standstill this morning as residents there ride out a massive typhoon. the storm bringing a combination of destructive winds and waves. but so far have uprooted trees and caused massive flooding. maximum winds near the storm center have been recorded at 95 mile aass an hour. and officials warning that sea levels could rise up to 15 feet in some places before the storm arrived. more than 400 flights were cancelled. financial sites were cancelled and schools closed. and a brush fire forced residents to evacuate. crews are battling the blaze about 35 miles east of san francisco. in fact, at one point, the fire

grew to 200 acres and threatened nearby homes an an army reser reservist training facilities. the blaze is 90% contained and residents are allowed to return to their homes. let's get a quick check of weather with nbc's bill karins. all eyes on texas, right, bill? >> yeah, texas, possibly, louisiana. doesn't look like we're dealing were a high major hurricane, category 3 or 4 or 5 or anything like that. but this is a huge rainfall effect to texas and louisiana. the worst case scenario, you get a tropical system that just stalls and dumps torrential rain. the colder cloud tops are colored in. and that's where the thunderstorms are. there's no clear circulation, and we could have a tropical storm. this was harvey, and it dissipated but when if reforms it will be harvey again. and tcomputer model towards the

texas coast. the next 48 hours, and then stalls out here, friday, saturday and drifts towards louisiana on saturday. if it did come up that would be the worst case for the houston area. houston gets summertime thunderstorms and they have bad flooding concerns. all of the computer models showing the significance for flash flooding. every in pink, seven inches of ryan over the next five days. isolated totals could easily get up to 10 inches possibly a foot of rain. in the texas coast of louisiana, great weather, those thunderstorms are gone from last night. they left their mark. lots of cleanup in places like pennsylvania and new york. and the blue shows you where they're actually unseasonably cool. a little relief from the heat in areas of st. louis and ohio valley. it's the story we told you

about yesterday, the wife of treasury secretary steven mnuchin is apologizing after a woman who made a critical comment. she posted this photo while tagging the brands of her designer wardrobe. she was called out by an oregon mother of three who posted, quote, glad we could pay for your little getaway getaway, #deplorable. asking if the women had quote, given more to the economy than her and her treasury secretary husband. she said, quote, i apologize for my post on social media as well as my response it was inappropriate and highly insensitive. jenny miller the target of the tirade told nbc. >> she really, i feel like, overreacted. she said a lot of things were

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welcome back, everyone. to the latest in that fallout in the crash involving the "u.s.s. john mccain." now the commander has been reliev relieved of his command. and a commercial oil tanker off the coast of singapore. joining us, janice, good to have

you with us. give us an update on the investigation. what do they think is behind the frequency of crashes, as well as this particular incident. >> the change of command you spoke of is among the first steps of this operational pause to try and figure out what was going on. the commander was due to retire in a few weeks anyway. his replacement was captain may but that change will happen immediately because this is a time the navy will do some soul seeking. there have been two other incidents and that's just this year alone. the fleet is based in japan. it's undergone a hard year, pacific command saying it's going to be looking at all

possibilities in this investigation, as well as other investigations under way, particularly with the crash of the "u.s.s. john mccain," even cyber attack is being considered at this point. at the same time there is still this very painful search under way of those who are missing. malaysia's navy also recovered remains at sea so they are also trying to help the families of these missing crew members deal with an incredibly hard time. >> it's janice, live for us there. >> coming up next on "morning j joe," the president fakes his

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