good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. this morning, new information about the deadly attack in niger that left four american soldiers dead. u.s. special forces involved until the ambush may have been set up by terrorist. president trump heads to capitol hill today to tax tax reform. one republican senator saying it is just a photo op. vietnam veteran awarded the metal of honor. now received the nation's highest military honor. good morning, everyone.

it's tuesday, october 24. i'm ayman mohyeldin. along sigh yasmin vossoughian and louis burgdorf. little by little starting to learn more about what happened in fatal ambush in nigh jersey three weeks ago. three military officials that have been briefed on the incident now tell nbc news that an emerging theory among investigators from the pentagon is that the patrol may have been set up by terrorists who are ticked off in a meeting between the patrol and elders in the village. contains sympathetic and local isis affiliates. those members are believed to hold up the control of the ambush assemble. these types of meetings are routine according to officials. not clear if this part of the meeting was part of the original patrol or had prior approval. yesterday the chairman of checkpoint chief of staff gave an update on the investigation is. >> more importantly we owe the families of the fallen more information.

that's what the investigation is designed to identify. include the mission of, did our forces have adequate intelligence, equipment and training. was there preassessment of the threat in the area accurate. how did u.s. forces become separated during the engagement, specifically sergeant johnson and why did it take time and recover sergeant johnson. >> later tried to clarify questions from the widow of sergeant johnson. >> i want to know why it took them 48 hours to find my husband. why couldn't i see my husband. every time i asked to see my husband, they wouldn't let me. i don't know how he got killed. where he got killed or anything. i don't know that part. they've never told me. that's what i've been trying to find ever since day one. since october 4. >> three u.s. soldiers who were

killed in action were evacuated on the even, at that time, sergeant johnson was still missing, on the ening of the sixth of october, johnson's body was found. from the time the fire fight was initiated until sergeant johnson's body was recovered, french, nigerian, or u.s. forces remained in the area. i can tell you once we found out that sergeant johnson was missing, we brought the full weight of the u.s. government to try to recover the body. >> president trump's twitter account remaining largely silent yesterday after he challenged the statement of mrs. johnson. the widow. after she spoke about the painful conversation she had with the president. >> what he said was. >> the president. >> yes, the president, said that he knew what he signed up for, but it hurts anyways. and i was -- it made me cry because i was very angry at the

tone of his voice and how he said it. he couldn't remember my husband's name. the only way he remembered my husband's name is because he told me he had my husband report in front of him. that's when he actually said la david. i heard him stumbling on trying to remember my husband's name. and that what hurted me the most. if my husband is out here fighting for our country and he risked his life for our country, why can't you remember his name. >> is there anything you would like to say to the president now. >> no. no. i don't have nothing to say to him. >> johnson did not have anything to say to the president, but the president had a response for her, writing shortly after. i had a very respectful conversation with the widow of sergeant la david johnson and spoke his name from beginning without hesitation. meanwhile the white house did not respond to the women of the

black congress who requested an apology for chief of staff john kelly. wrongly accused federico wilson of boasting. footage of the event proved kelly wrong. white house stood by him. wilson is responding to the details of the conversation. said yesterday wilsowilson's ac of the call was accurate. joining us now is deputy news desk. david, good morning to you. in the wake of the niger investigation, senator john mccain is calling for a new debate on the war powers act. a lot of members of congress saying they didn't know there were so many u.s. soldiers in places like niger and elsewhere around the world. we know there have been previous attempts at trying to have that conversation. those have fallen flat. given that everything else we've talked about over the past several months that's on the agenda for the senate, how likely are we going to see congress debate this issue any time soon.

>> it's going to be very difficult to get this to move forward and senator tim kaine was one of the main people pushing for this said we are not setting a timeline. not saying it's by the end of this yore. we're still using authorization for 2001 to justify military actions around the world. we really need to get this up-to-date. obviously senator mccain is making it was on his priorities. president trump is not opposing it. he would rather do tax reform. >> let's switch gears and talk about tax reform. president heading to capitol hill to meet with senate republicans. at the top of the agenda, of course, tax reform. we' what's the latest. >> reporter: one thing we're hearing is that people want clarity from the president. he said he wants a whole host of things. is he really just focusing on tax reform. duds he want congress to take up a number of other issues simultaneously. where is he at on health care.

that's been clear. the main thing we're hearing is people want more clarity. >> let me ask you quickly about ivanka trump. she's been hitting the road to hit the child care aspect. do you consider her an effective salesperson or does the white house consider her to be an effective salesperson. >> the white house certainly does. you remember she got the keynote address at the republican convention. they view her as somebody who can kind of cut through and put a more sympathetic light on the things her father is trying to do. the problem is their main selling point is this is for the middle classes, not for the wealthy people. you could certainly make the argument that sending out someone who lives on park avenue and is very wealthy along with the treasury secretary and other architects of the plan who tend to be quite wealthy themselves, are they the best people for this, perhaps not. we'll see what the response to her is. >> we'll see how that goes. live for us in washington, thank

you. disaster relief bill passed by the house cleared on the senate side of things. procedural vote passed the legislation 79-16. setting the stage for a final vote likely taking place later today. the bill would provide $36.5 billion for relief for recent hurricanes as well as wildfire recovery efforts out west. $5 billion of that measure's total could be used to assist puerto rico in the aftermath of hurricane maria. more than one month since that storm tore through the alooisla president trump's personal lawyer michael cohen is set to appear before the house intel committee later today. investigators continue to probe into russia's involvement in the 2016 presidential election. a former executive. involved to build a trump tower

in moscow. talks ended as the white house gained steam. was expected to speak in the intel committee back in september on the subject. it was canceled after cohen reportedly broke an agreement with speaking with the media. sources familiar with the probe side they cohen will talk to them in private. cohen will also appear before senate intel committee on wednesday. >> after senator john mccain spoke out about how wrong it was that someone avoided military service to get doctor's notes for bone spurs. many received that as reference to trump. yesterday, senator mccain clarified comments in an appearance on the view. take a listen. >> it still makes me mad when i think that if we all asked to serve. wonderful, but if some of us are allowed not to because of our income or position or influence, that is a disgrace. >> people thought you were

talking about trump because he had a doctor's note that said he had bone spurs. >> more than once. >> do you consider him a draft dodger. >> i don't consider him a draft dodger as much as i feel the system was so wrong that certain americans could have made their responsibilities to serve the country. >> sitting next to his daughter there on the view. president trump the metal of honor the nation's highest military decoration second time yesterday. fw gary rose, army medic. risked his life to save army comrade during the war. recounted part of the harrowing four day mission in laos where he was the only medic among 136 men. >> mike and his unit slashed through the desk jungle, dodged

bullets, dodged explosives, dodged everything that you can dodge because they threw it all at them and continuously returned fire as they moved deeper ask deeper and deeper into enemy territory throughout the engagement. mike rescued those in distress without any thought for his own safety. i will tell you, the people with him could not believe what they were witnessing. he crawled from one soldier to the next offering words of encouragement. as he tended to their wounds. soon after the helicopter lifted off the ground, the chopper was hit by enemy fire. mike, this is serious stuff. this was not a good four days. >> captain rose says he considers his war a collective metal for all who fought in the battle, adding, quote, we all deserved it. possible tornados bring down

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welcome back, everybody. new fallout over former fox news host bill o'reilly. o'reilly is speaking out in the wake of that "new york times" report on the agreement as some of his former fox colleagues weigh in about the matter of the alleged account. nbc news has more. >> i have been in the broadcast business for 43 years. 12 different companies. never one time was there any complaint filed against me. >> bill o'reilly on defense after a bombshell "new york times" report saying he reached

a $32 million sexual harassment settlement in january with a fox news analyst. times also reporting a month later 21st century fox renewed the anchor's contract. 21st century fox says it knew of the settlement, but not the details. fired o'reilly after being made aware of other allegations last spring. taken steps to change leadership. >> o'reilly's suggestion that no one ever complained about his behavior is false. i know because i complained. >> megyn kelly shared an e-mail she wrote in november 2016. complaining that o'reilly was shaming women into shutting the hell up and noting history of harassment of women. >> this must stop. the abuse of women, the shaming of them, the threatening of the retaliation, the silencing of them after the fact. it has to stop. >> o'reilly responded to kelly. >> she didn't file the

complaint. not that i know of. >> he said he confidential resolved three cases, but was unable to comment on the details. the "new york times" has reported at least six settlements, totaling $45 million. the paper releasing audio of riley meeting with reporters last week. >> we have physical proof that this is bull [ bleep ]. okay so it's on you if you want to destroy. politically and financially motivated. >> former fox news host is one of the women who settled the case with o'reilly. she too is unable to comment on the settlement. >> i'm terrified. i'm actually terrified. i think people have regrets when they sign nondisclosure agreements. >> thanks for that report. the latest involvement, new york attorney general has opened investigation into weinstein

company. eric schneiderman civil rights sent a subpoena to the company yesterday seeking a number of documents to see how complaints about sexual harassment were handled by the company. coming up on morning joe, co-author of "new york times," michael schmit joins the conversation. get a check on the weather now with bill karins. streak of really nice weather is over. >> coming to an end. hopefully won't get damage out of it like we did yesterday. pictures coming out of western sections of north carolina and south carolina. significant damage. when you see all the significant damage that was done, amazing we didn't have any injuries at all reported. a lot of structural damage out of the tornados yesterday. in all, seven reports of tornados. first today watching the storm from yesterday dying off. same storm system. now the thunderstorms are over the outer banks. little area of rain that went through d.c. tonight now over the top of philadelphia.

little bit breaking out over here. everything back in the great lakes, cold chilly rain. no threat of severe whether there. as far as today goes. slight risk of severe storm. not everyone is going to experience it. 30 million people at risk of severe storm. see the slow moving line of storms go through first philadelphia and then eventually through the afternoon into the early evening right through the valley, new york city, later tonight towards probably 10:00 p.m. or so heading over the top of hartford. when it's all said and done, significant rainfall, much needed rainfall by the way. could get a quick two to three inches. get that in the mountain area, new hampshire, could get flash flooding issues. 8:00 a.m. go through this morning, the heavier rainfall in the red all of new jersey. soaked in rain. definitely have the umbrella with you. traveling in any of these areas on 95. rain is exiting north. fast forward to the drive home. the lunch hour, this is at noon today. note it doesn't move much.

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welcome back. i'm yasmin vossoughian. along with ayman mohyeldin and louis borrurgdorf. learning more detail about the fatal ambush in niger. . those village members are believed to held up the patrol. >> a disaster relief bill passed by the house has cleared a key senate. 79-16 setting the stage for a likely vote taking place later today. bill provide $36.5 million for relief if hurricanes. including money to assist puerto rico in the aftermath of

hurricane maria. president trump's personal lawyer michael cohen is set to appear before the committee today. as a former executive, he was involved in vladimir putin to build a trump tower in moscow. talks that ended as the white house came to seat. >> president trump will head to capitol hill today for republican senators weekly policy luncheon. majority seeks first legislative victory before the year is out. there is a new trepidation that the president is the undercutting would be allies like yesterday when the president issued a tweet that he would oppose a change to a lower cap on pretax income on 401(k) retirement accounts which those drafting the bill saw as a way to help pay for the $1.5 trillion tax cut. senators are eager to hear. i want him to tell us to do our

job. while the co-author of the bipartisan health bill said he would like the president to focus on tax reform. mike brown from south dakota said i would like to see him get something done on health care. chairman of the relations committee told nbc news he did not think anything will come of today's meeting. >> tomorrow is photo op. nothing more, nothing less e. i think to read anything more into it would be spending a lot of time on something that shouldn't be spending time on. it's -- this is going to be up and down for the next three years. and people just -- that's the way it's going to be. i don't read anything into tomorrow other than a photo op. you got to remember, tax reform is our agenda.

to act as if it's his agenda, it's our agenda. so. >> skeptical tone there from senator. as to the issue of changing the 401(k) structure. one of the republicans did not rule it out yesterday. in response to whether trump's tweet changes in any way what the house committee was planning to do, chairman kevin brady replied only no. >> majority with john cornyn of texas. when he was asked for his position on the bipartisan obama deal, cornyn told reports he's with the president, but asked to clarify where the president is, gop's number two leader through his hands up and disappeared

into the senate chamber. dave, good to talk to you once again this morning. coming from the white house, a lot. according to the bill and support or lack thereof for it. where do we stand on health care right now. >> trump was for this deal before he was against it. he switched back and forth from the days after it was announced. now he said he would like to make it stronger. my colleague is here. they don't want to negotiate with trump. they said he had his chance to participate in the negotiations early on. now they've reached a deal and have the votes. most of them are democratic votes. mitch mcconnell doesn't seem to want to bring up the deal until president trump is on board. >> let's switch gears for a moment. talk about democrats in 2018. politico has been reporting therein been some early fund raising figures coming in from house democratic candidates. at least 162 candidates to be precise and about 82 republican house districts. they've raised apparently more than over $100,000 each.

curious to get your thoughts on what kind of message does that bode for republicans. should that be worried? >> they should be worried. i think these are pretty startling numbers. seeing democrats who are long from becoming the nominee raising incumbents from their party. pretty unusual. shows grassroots enshothusiasen or opposition to republicans. one comment the republican national committee has deep pockets. they're going to have something to say about the fundraising disparity. >> you had a sander style candidate run against a clinton style candidate. the clinton endorsed candidate, he won and so now he's up and he was supposed to be the electable

one. he's struggling a bit. if he loses, you'll have the sanders flag say, look, we'll need to move further to the left. we need to start embracing or progressive flag. that will make a big difference in terms of who gets nominated in 2018. >> spent a lot of time talking about the gop with bannon and the establishment. >> sets the stage here. >> tea party part two, maybe. so looking ahead to 2018 and perhaps to 2020, senator bernie sanders confirmed he will run for re-election to his vermont senate seat as independent. >> have you decided what you will run as in 2018. >> i've always run in vermont as an independent. while i caucused with the democrats in the united states senate, that's what i've been doing for a long time. that's what i'll continue to do. >> so you'll run in 2018 as an indent. >> marks reverse s s reversal.

>> in future election accidents, would you also run as a democratic. >> yes. >> meanwhile, the daily beast reports the sanders backed nonprofit group outer revolution will not be endorsing the democratic candidate. sanders had backed progressive. according to stein, only endorse candidates offered up by local chapters and none offered up. president trump's former chief strategist took a break battling mitch mcconnell to tackle a different subject yesterday. american foreign policy. extremism, bannon said president trump had it worse than any other prosecute aesident and ls

was not trump's fault. the genius's, what they left on trump is essentially the bay of pigs, cuban missile crisis and vietnam war in afghanistan. all at one time. president trump didn't do this. the people who voted for president trump didn't do this. this is the geniuses of both political parties. both political parties doing this. visit to afghanistan was particularly secret and only announced after he left the country. meant to in part to highlight the trump administration's strategy for america's longest war and show u.s. support for the afghan government. all of this coming after multiple terror attacks last

week by the taliban which left hundreds of people dead in several hundred more wounded. turning now to asia the crisis on the korean peninsula heats up. two leaders consolidating power in ways not seen in decades. nbc news correspondent reports from beijing. >> reporter: the biggest take away from the congress is the unparalleled authority of xi jinping. today the party voted to enshrine the political ideology into the party constitution. what that does is elevates him in status and in party history to be alongside others who have long been considered the most influential leaders here. now regionally, there are other shifts on the way that are curious to note. in japan, shinzo abe has won a snap election. mainly on his vow to deal with

north korea. you add to that the north korea threat. concerns can of an arms race in asia. as well as the joint military drills that are underway with the u.s., south korea and japan. and this is quite a regional dynamic that president trump will be coming into when he begins his asia tour the first week of november. it is also worth noting though that it has been nearly 40 days since north korea last launched a missile. september 15 was the date of the last test. yasmin. >> a lot happening there. thank you for the report. still ahead, questions of mysterious twitter account. does it belong to gym comey.

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. welcome back, everyone. french president manuel macron should have known something was up when his lab started sniffing around the room in a meeting with government staffers. check this out. louis just got a new dog. >> he could possibly learn from that dog. >> arty is doing that right. >> nemo, that dog you saw in the video, made no bones about relieving himself in the palace. he did it even in the fireplace as you can see from the video. out walking around. very causal. i wonder how much that is going

to cost french tax players to clean up. >> not much. paper towel and some cleaner. >> i will say you complain about your dog's accidents every morning. i feel you would not have taken it as coolly asthma cron did ma >> so for today, we talked earlier. we have two-stories. one of the extreme heat in southern california. the fire danger. the other is the severe weather threat today. airport delays are going to come with it. sdpant del significant delays early in california. rain is moving through southern new jersey. nothing too bad. nothing severe out of this. just couple minor downpours. it's this afternoon that will be worse. have the umbrella all areas of new england. let's talk about the critical fire danger. two dangerous days. one was yesterday.

one is today. made it through yesterday with no new fire formed. red flag warning continue. hot and dry. wind gust up to 60 miles an hour. the reason we get a santa ana wind. high pressure and low pressure. the air goes from high pressure to low pressure. to get there has to go through the mountains. the air gets funneled in and hot dry desert air warms up and compresses. that's why it gets so hot. temperatures today as we mentioned easily near 100 degrees. los angeles, first pitch of the baseball game. expect it to be one of the warmest ever. 96. critical deadline approaching this week for one of president trump's signature campaign promises. >> facing a fight over the border wall. a look at what that structure may actually look like. nbc has more from the border.

>> reporter: just east of san diego between the two existi ii border fences, mockups of president trump's border walls are taking shape. >> these are pretty tall. >> reporter: the full wall isn't funded. only samples built by contractors. four are constructed on concrete. the president said he'll come to see the final product scheduled to be finished on thursday. >> what happens now? does the president come out and say okay. i like that one. >> we're going to test it for breachability. for the subterranean aspect. can we dig under it. cut through it. scale over it. >> almost on cue, a group of asylum seekers jumped over to turnpike themselves in to agents on horse back. >> can you explain to me what's going on. >> this is a reality every day. >> another reality, people a stone throw away will ultimately

decide if trump's wall works. >> the primary fence. the thing trump doesn't think is big enough. it's a high wall. you think people are still going to try to cross? >> is this new big wall going to stop mexicans from coming to the u.s.? [ speaking foreign language ] >> life goes on in the shadow of the prototypes, but still missing, money for the wall itself. >> thanks for that. former fbi director james comey has kept a relatively low profile since president trump's decision to fire him back in may. comey is now back in the spotlight thanks to anonymous twitter account. accomplished three tweets over the weekend suggesting the user

was in iowa. one of the tweets included a photo with comey standing alone on the road cited. with a caption on the road home. got to get back to writing. will try to tweet in useful ways. shortly after that tweet, tweeted confirmation the account does in fact belong to the former director. earlier this year, reporter for gizmo doe discovered the twitter account which featured the name account which featured the name. still some speculation he may be milling a possible run for the white house. according to reports he was simply just visiting in-laws. i don't know about that. i think people are going to say, what was he doing in iowa. >> i agree. still ahead, dow snaps six day winning streak e. one major stock drags the index way down. wizar i don't want to sound paranoid, but d'ya think

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billion deal with boeing and singapore. he wet with that country's prime minister. he threatened boeing ceo to cancel the deal if the 70,000 jobs tied to it did not go to u.s. workers. >> we will follow that story and update you on it. yesterday, all three major indexes posted inter-day records before falling to a drop in ge shares, who saw their biggest drop in six years. how are the global markets reacting to this slight dip on wall street? >> yes, indeed so this is the first time in six days that you mentioned that stocks have had a down day. the positive factor was the utility sector you mentioned pulled down with earnings. general electric and that definitely wade on the overall index. at this point european indices are trying a little bit better.

elsewhere, let me tell you about amazon. they have received their bids for head contractors. 238 cities and regions have applied to take over or be at the next head quarter there and some of the cities include boston, new york, austin, amongst others that have applied. amazon has not revealed the namess themselves, those cities said they'd put their name forward puerto rico has applied, given they were hit by the hurricane last month. >> a saudi arabian investment firm is holding a conference in riyadh what can you tell us? >> it's been dubbed the battle of the desert. there are many officials attending from blackhawk, plaque stone, goldman sachs. it's an opportunity for the saudi investment firm to zell

tell us how they're moving away from being an oil dependent sector. they're off to a bit of a shaky start. they invested in uber last year before the ceo had to step down, they're hoping they can attract new investments on back of the finishes. >> all right. thanks so much. >> coming up next, more on the decision to challenge a gold star widow following the death of her husband in that ambush in niger, the man that challenged him during the election season, gives reaction to this controversy and along with an ad mirl. senator marc warner joins the conversation on hopes that are deming for congressional panels looking into russia's role in the election in what they may actually accomplish.

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president trump will take part in an awardser is money this morning as a part of the administration's minority enterprise development week. later in the day the president heads to capitol hill to take part in the policy luncheon meanwhile, members of the subcommerce committee will hold a hearing to this year's hurricane season. it comes after two senior democrats in the house called for an emergency hearing late last month following the devastation of puerto rico and u.s. virgin islands as we told you earlier the world series kicks off tonight as the houston astros takes off on the dodgers in game one the conditions will be tough with temperatures potentially reaching 100 degrees and wend gusts approaching 30-to-40 miles per hour. it will be hot and windy. >> the pitcher has to bring his a-game. >> "morning joe" starts right now. i encourage you to find a new friend and eat lunch and

know a friend and ask them what they like, what their hawks are so nobody becomes sad and stressed. i think it's very important that we choose passion. >> first lady melania trump visiting a detroit area middle school yesterday as part of her campaign to combat cyber bullying. during her lunchtime stop the first lady encouraged students to treat one another with kindness and respect while highlighting that no one eats alone initiative. now according to "new york times," aides say she is aware at the criticism aimed at her bullying prevention efforts, given the president's proclivity for incidents. >> for actually bullying. that's an interesting. if you are going to