. fall out after president trump falsely claims president obama didn't contact families of fallen soldiers. and this morning one congresswoman is accusing trump of making an insensitive remark to a slain soldier's wid yo. plus president trump and john mccain's feud erupts once again with the president this time warning he'll fight back. and u.s. backed forces seize complete control of raqqah, the de facto capital of isis. while the terrorist group is still dangerous, they no longer have that safe haven.

>> good morning, everyone. it's wednesday, october 18th. well, after president trump's executive orders threaten to spike premiums and throw health care into jeopardy, republican lamar alexander and democrat murray are nearing an agreement uncompromised. >> the next step is to take the first step that would avoid the chaos that could occur in 2018 and 2019. >> chairman alexander and i were able able to find common ground on a number of steps to stabilize the markets and protect families from premium spikes as a result of things we have seen from this administration. >> what it would do is fund the affordable care act, let people

with catastrophic funding plans, while making it easier for states to get aca waivers, getting rid of the so-called lines. senate minority leader chuck schumer said the senatepresiden executive orders help bring negotiations to the table. speaking at a heritage foundation dinner last night the president said he had brought the democrats to the table. >> i'm pleased that democrats have finally responded to my call for them to take responsibility for their obamacare disaster and work with republicans to provide much needed relief to the american people. while i commend the bipartisan work done by senator alexander and murray -- and i do commend it -- i continue to believe congress must find a solution to

the obamacare mess instead of providing bail outs to insurance companies. >> and despite praising the deal affairs director mike schwartz says in no uncertain times the white house is absolutely not endorsing the funding deal. the widow was in the car on the way to the arrival of her husband's body when the president called. now, sergeant johnson's pregnant widow spoke to the president on speakerphone surrounded by -- who recounted to reporters what the president said after offering his condolences. >> he said but you know he must have known what he signed up for. like how could you say that to a grieving widow?

i couldn't believe it. and he said it more than once. >> what did she say? >> she didn't say anything. she simply listened to what he was saying. and he just talked and talked and talked. and he really never showed any real compassion for what she was feeling. >> what the family wants to hear, they want to hear words of encouragement, words of how he fought for his country, what his sacrifice meant to this country. not you know what you signed up for. >> and congresswoman fred reeka wilson joins to talk about the president's comments later this morning. well, president trump invoked the afghanistan war death john kelly, a eretired marine general after the up roar he created. in a radio interview trump defend fd his comments.

take a listen. >> they asked me that the question and for the most part to the best of my knowledge, i think i've called every family of a member that died. i don't know what obama's policy was. >> now, soon after an anonymous white house official told nbc news president obama never called kelly -- white house video log showed president obama hosted a breakfast at the white house six months after their son died. and president trump and john mccain are trading jabs against. that after accepting the prestigious liberty medal in philadelphia mccain made a veiled attack on the president. trump followed up yesterday, but

mccain seemed undaunted. here's how it all played out. >> to abandon the ideals we haved vanced around the globe, to refuse the duties our our national leadership for the sake of some half-baked nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats. >> you heard what he said yesterday. >> yeah, i hear it. and you have to be careful because at some point i fight back. i'm being very nice. but at some point i fight back and it won't be pretty. >> mr. trump said on the radio you have to be careful because at some point i fight back. you have to be careful because at some point i fight back. talking about you. >> i don't comment on what the president does. and i will say i have faced some

pretty tough adversaries in the past. i'm not interested in confronting the president. i'm interested in working with the president. >> moments after saying that mccain was asked another question that didn't go so well. take a listen. >> has your relationship with the president raised to the point that you're not going to support anything when he comes to you -- >> why would you say something that stupid? why would you say something that dumb? you mean that i'm somehow going to behave in a way i'm going to block everything because of some personal disagreement? that's a dumb question. >> so a very angry senator mccain there. joining me now the author of the politico cobook. i want to talk to you about the issue of health care. it's sponsored by the senator

lamar alexander. but how likely are congressional republicans likely to get behind this t this? >> they spent months on obamacare, didn't work out. and even though president trump praised the deal, he still says he has some reservations about bailing out insurance companies. so i think it's likely to pass, but they're probably going to tuck it into a defense reauthorization bill. they're not going to have an up and down vote on this. they just want to get this passed. and they don't want to have a lot of fanfare about helping obamacare stay alive. >> he obviously in that interview we just played said he looks forward to voting despite the fact he's continuing to clash with the president at least on big foreign policy issues. do you think that that feud between these two men is actually having an impact or are

people just kind of tuning it out saying you know what, let's focus on the issues and get between the feud of mccain and president trump? >> we should remember trump has been feuding with mccain for two years ago since trump said mccain wasn't a war hero. i think mccain's feud with trump has made it easier for some some senators, bob corker and ben sass, to have their feuds with trump. most of them kind of just swallow their pride. >> thanks, daniel. >> thank you. earlier this year a federal judge in hawaii has once again blocked president trump's travel

bl ban. it kept some while lifting restricts on sodan. it also blocked the issuance of all visas from north korea, suspended all visas as well as nonimmigrant visas and tourist visas for chad. in a ruling the judge says the ban which effectively denies entry to 150 million people, quote, suffers from the same abnormalities of a primitive ban -- noting the judge's ruling does not apply to the restrictions on venezuela or north korea, the white house immediately condemn what it calls a quote, dangerously flawed ruling. saying, quote, it under cuts the government's efforts to keep people safe and secures minimum standards for entry into the united states. the justice department also says it will appeal the decision. >> and major victory.

the coalition fighting isis has recaptured the syrian city of raqqah. >> reporter: the black isis flag was placed by the banner of -- the table was turned. u.s. backed forces in the same spot. there was some public cheering, too. but most people in this battered city are long gone. this was perhaps the most feared place on earth with frequent public executions. and it was a base for isis to plot terrorist attacks, including intelligence services say, on the theater in paris and the instnble airport as well as to hold and murder hostages

including american james foley. the city was freed by mostly kurdish forces helped by u.s. special ops and coalition air strikes. now with the u.s. city ofrock awe and mosul this summer, the isis territory has shrunk from the size of virginia to a few scattered areas. >> isis still maintains an ability to launch smaller scale attacks, but i think their future as a large scale fighting force will largely end with the fall of raqqah. >> meanwhile in gauafghanistan, least 74 people are dead. civilians, officials, police are among those killed. several hundred people also wounded. afghanistan's deputy and interior minister says, quote, it is the biggest terrorist attack this year.

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opener and the cleveland cavaliers hosting the boston celtics. just five minutes into the boston debut, celtics forward hayward goes down and comes down horribly. the reaction from the players of both teams says it all. he was taken off in a stretcher. he suffered a dislocated ankle and a fractured tibia. ouch. the game itself was a game of two halves. the celtics charged outof the halftime gate in the third. but in the end boston could not pull off the come back there. the calves go onto win that one 102-99. the gold state warriors hosting the rockets. rockets up one in the closing seconds here. and warriors superstar kevin durant hits the baseline jumper. but not so fast.

the am reves take another look at this one. as you can see in the replay the ball is still in durant's hands as the red lights come on. the rockets win this thriller 122-121. let's go to the nfl where no resolution was reached to diffuse anthem protests in a 3 1/2 hour meeting between players and reps and owners yesterday. they released a statement yesterday. and that quote, we are coming together to find common ground and commit to the hard work required for positive change. but even as you can see there, there really isn't any headway made in that controversy. >> yeah, no resolution on that. but what about that boston celtics game? that was absolutely heart wrenching to watch. >> the ankle. >> it was kind of scary, but we wish him a speedy recovery.

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top stories for you. two senators have struck a bipartisan deal to fund two policies tied to obamacare. it includes features that fund the subsidies through 2019, lets people age 30 and over catastrophic coverage and puts plans back into promoting obamacare enrollment. while president trump has praised the deal white house officials stress it is not endorsing the deal. meanwhile, the white house trying to tamp the up roar about the president trump's comments about the four u.s. troops in niger. nbc news has learned that the president allegedly told the family of the sergeant la david david that he knew what he signed up for. and a federal judge in hawaii has once again blocked president trump's latest travel ban which was set to take effect today. the judge says the ban, quote,

suffers from the same anomalies as the previous ban. the justice department says it will appeal it. all right, so the da speaking out after its exkploesive report that its agents were handcuffed by a law that made it difficult to go after an opioid epidemic spiralled out of control. according to "the washington post" 60 minutes report, the law actually weakened the market for drug distributors from flooding the market with addictive opioids. yesterday the da pushed back. >> i should assure you that although it may have been more charlging as any kind of legislation or policy sometimes hasinate affect, we will find other ways to do our jobs. i want people to understand we did not stop doing what we were supposed to be doing at the da.

>> says he quote, took a pass on the offer because of the perception of a conflict of interest. a primary former russian oligarch is claiming that russia most likely colluded with the trump campaign leading up to last year's prejudice election and is shining the light between a top russian banker and jared kushner. spoke exclusively with msnbc's ari melber. including his former head of human resources sergei gorkov. gorkov who now runs a kremlin bank which has been accused of providing cover for russian spies met with jared kushner in december of last year during the prejudice transition. in his conversation he suggested that banker would not have been acting alone in that meeting and

his orders would have likely come from his bank's leadership. >> translator: i have no doubt he wouldn't do anything on his own behalf. he's a man that carried out orders. if there were instructions, it came from the chairman of the board of the vtb bank or from mr. -- which isn't likely despite the two being close. >> they have been publicly linked to president trump. in fact in 2013 he organized the dinner in moskow to meet with -- after reaching out to kushner's attorney, the magazine notes that the addition of carter who has represented hulk hogan and melania trump comes after reince priebus met with special counsel robert mueller last week. meanwhile the senate has

subpoenaed carter page. adding he's expected to invoke his fifth amendment right and actually refuse to skr questions. in an e-mail page says he plans to testify but is asking to do it in public on november 1st. page who has repeatedly denied inappropriate ties to russia and he did nothing wrong during the trump campaign did not confirm or deny he has been served with a subpoena. >> and there was some back and forth bickering between two top republicans. senator rand paul accused john mccain and lindsey graham on busting the budget camp for more spending. about an hour and a half later senator graham tweeted, getting more bad info, rand paul. you already saved obamacare by

trashing john cassidy-heller-jocassidy-helle - cassidy-heller-johnson. take a look at this. >> i think senator paul is trying to find a way to vote no, and he always does. senator paul can't vote yes on anything because it's never good enough. >> lindsey graham wouldn't know a conservative if he met one. he's never been a conservative. he's probably a big part of why we have such a massive debt in this country. >> the senate voted 15-40 to begin debate. former white house chief steve bannon showed up at the white house, but he took special aim at senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and quote, elites, who look down on trump

supporters. >> they hold you in total and complete contempt. they think that you're a group of morons. but if you gave me the choice between being governed by the first hundred people that showed up for this rally or the top hundred partners at goldman sachs, i would take the first hundred people here. the last couple days mitch has been saying this big thing, hey, you got to win. hey, mitch, note to self-mitch, big luther strange and little bobby corker are both going home. these people, mitch, it's 2 to 0. >> joining us now from washington is politico's danny litman, once again coauthor of the political play book. even president trump seemed to recognize steve bannon might be going a bit too far in challenging senators across the country. he made reference to that in a

white house comment earlier in the week. >> he's made this big push of having challengers to every republican incumbent and having his own candidates and every senate race and lots of house and governor races as well. but he's actually picking some people who use the establishment resources, who are working with the nrsc, and top republican polling firms. so he's not exactly going after renegades every time. so this bannon imerture is going after people who are probably going to vote for mcconnell as leader, too. it's kind of a big show of backing these insurgents every time. >> first, let's talk about alabama there. a new fox poll of the rights state has doug jones neck and neck with roy moore.

what's happening there? >> i think two things are happening. moore is not getting a lot of support of the establishment of the republican party there. they view him as kind of out there. and he's not getting a lot of moderates. and i think doug jones is viewed as a reasonable choice in the eyes of a lot of those state's voters. and so that is weighing down on republican chances. if luther strange who bannon referenced, if he was the candidate now, he'd be blowing jones out of the water. he'd be easily re-elected. >> and let's flip the script in virginia. in that poll it shows gillaspie is actually leading. he had been actually trailing at some point. when kind of impact do you think a loss would have for democrats in a state that had been for some time trending their way. >> it'd be a big morale loss for

virginia. they know the state is changing, but it's not changing rapidly enough demographically. there's been some polls that showed raffle northam up a little bit. we should note that both candidates are pretty bland. and northamis not really a good campaigner. democrats are going to have to pour millions of dollars to have their candidate stand a chance. >> thank you. turning now to the middle east where in a major victory the u.s. led coalition fighting isis has recaptured the syrian city of roaqqah. it comes after months of brutal and devastating fighting there. and after the victory of isis's defeat in mosul over the summer, u.s. backed forces have now captured almost all of the

terror groups territory in all of the region. describe for us just how big of a defeat this is in the fight against isis worldwide and specifically against terrorism in general. >> well, there's no doubt this is a significant turning point in the war against isis and perhaps even in conventional military terms, its end. now the city forces were freed by kurdish forces led by u.s. special ops. there's still fighters hiding in tunnels. but in terms of holding territory, this was the last major isis strong hold. they do still have some border towns in between iraq and sear kbluch they are expected to fall. mosul was very much the largest city the group has eld in terms of population. but raqqah was seen as a sign of

power. without raqqa, without mosul, this was was a major loss. isis still has the ability to launch attacks. the groups might have lost territory, but the extremist ideology live on. whether it's insecurity, ethnic grievances. and in the west we've seen unfortunately that the mere idea of isis has often been enough to compel deranged individuals, for example, to plow cars into innocent people. so today we are talking about a major military victory, but there is still a long road ahead in fighting that edaelg. >> and not to mention you had the thousands of fighters fighting for isis now starting to return back to their home countries and could pose a security challenge. still ahead, a security shop of a mass shooter breaks his

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up, and i saw the blood. that's when i called it in on my radio that shots have been fired. >> campos' experience comes after speculation over his whereabouts in recent days and whether he was missing after avoiding requests from reporters. and crews in california are dealing with a new series of wildfires that have broken out. officials say the bear fire has burned more than 200 acres as of last night and it is only about 5% contained at this time. they add about 150 homes have been evacuated. so far wildfires have scorched more than 200,000 acres and killed at least 41 people. with that, let's get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill cairns. and how are conditions look on the ground? >> still dry, but not as windy.

this river of moisture comes off of china here through japan. you can see the clouds here, a couple of big storms. and this huge storm right now up in alaska. a little sliver of this is going to make it into northern california. it's not a big blockbuster event for northern california. it's at least a start, and that's what we want. there it is in portland, goose bay, and there it is in northern california. this is 8:00 p.m. thursday, finally getting a decent amount of rain. unfortunately it's not going to go back down to the areas where we had the big fires. so the rainfall totals highest up in the mountains, of course,inate cascades we could get up to 5 to 10 inches of rain. northern california here, that's only about a quarter of an inch. and also portions in the siera

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welcome back, everyone, some bad news for the commander-in-chief, forbes is reporting that donald trump lost $600 million last year dropping his estimated net worth from $3.7 billion to $3.1 billion. this was mostly due to a rough new york mark which cost him a costly lawsuit over trump university and of course his presidential campaign. trump drops on forbes' ranking of the richest people in america from 1 investigation in 2016 to 248 this year all right, let's turn to business. wall street reaches a record high t. dow hit the 23,000 mark for the first time before pulling back managing to close at its highest point ever. bill, how is the rest of the world responding to this record

close? >> well, you know, i think it's worth noting, louis, since early august within they hit 23,000 this has been a massive jump, particularly for caterpillar and boeing and united health. they had them drive the market n. asia there has been a reaction t. composites are up. here in europe, we've seen the footsie in london and the dax in germany, all in positive territory. not such positive news out of amazon, though the head of the studios there, roy price resigned amid sexual allegations, of course, this comes in the context of the allegations of harvey wine teen, more sexual harassment again him. he is in the spotlight more than before. mark faber, a bearish investor, a cnbc contributor in the past. he has been removed for making racist comments in a repeat

newsletter. >> let's talk about twitter for a second, they're releasing new guidelines, cracking down harassment. what more can you tell us about this? >> for months now, twitter championed free speech and for allowing hate speech and users being harassed, when reported, not seeing quick results. they set up a safety council last year, they got ahold of a letter, i will read out some of the things they're planning to do. they will ban potential nazi symbols, they might behind them behind safety symbols. they are stop non-consensual nudity. they haven't said they will block nazi groups, though. >> thanks so much. coming up next on "morning joe," president trump facing new backlash over his alleged remarks of families killed in niger. a woman discuss what is she

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the best hand selected picks this fall. all right, before we toss it over to "morning joe," let's get a story on the days ahead. we start at the white house with a look at what's on tap with president trump with nbc news' peteral savender. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. despite president trump repeatedly insisting obamacare is dead, he may be throwing in a new lifeline, expressing openness to reinstate those subsidy payments that nearly 6 million americans rely on. the president today expected to meet with his vice president, mike pence as well as members of the senate finance committee while he tried to nail down a new budget. that's pre requisite for sax cuts. he is still facing criticism for his latest swipe to obama over calls to the families of the fallen. back to you.

>> thank you. tomorrow jeff sessions is set to testify before the senate judiciary committee today. sessions will appear before an oversight hearing on justice. democrats are pushing for assurances the doj will not interfere with special counsel robert mueller's probe in the election the university of louisville board of trustees, was placed on administrative leave after he was linked to corruption in college basketball recruiting, involving some of the university's players. >> that does it for us on this wednesday morning, "morning joe," everyone, starts right now. >> good morning, it's wednesday, october 18th, mika has the day off. with us we have veteran columnist and newly formed yankees fan. >> no, no. >> mike barnacle. >> that's not what i said. >> i think he's a yankees fan.

>> yes, barnacle. can you believe it? >> so bipartisan. >> so last night i'm grieving over our president, i'm seeing all of his tweets and all of the terrible things that were happening yesterday and then like a lightning bolt, willie, you see mike barnacle tweeted. i might as well get on the band wagon. a fun team to watch. >> you won't be able to go home to boston today. >> they are a fun team to watch. they are. >> that's undeniable. >> mike tweetest barnacle. i don't know. >> just loves good baseball t. yankees are playing. c'mon. these upstart yankees, these scrappy little yankees. >> there is nothing fun about watching the yankees, right? >> i didn't say i enjoyed it, it would be great fun to see them lose, but they're