♪ this morning, rescue operations resume to save a youth soccer team from a flooded cave in thailand. eight boys and their coach remain stranded right now. plus, we are a week away from president trump's one-on-one summit with vladimir putin, but first trump will head to europe this week to meet with nato allies in brussels. president trump is expected to announce his supreme court pick today according to nbc news, there are four serious candidates he's considering. tlum trump is focused primarily on just two of them. ♪

good morning, everybody. it is monday, july 9th. i'm actually joined this morning by nbc news international correspondent cal perry. we will begin with breaking news from thailand. rescue efforts resumed this morning for the remaining eight boys and their soccer coach who have been trapped in that cave more than two weeks now. four boys believed to have been in the weakest condition were rescued yesterday and taken to a hospital for evaluation. this is video of one of them after emerging from the cave being rushed to a waiting helicopter. joining us from the hospital in chiang rai, thailand is nbc news correspondent janis mackey frayer. some unbelievable images coming out of thailand. we are hoping and praying for the safe return of the boys and the coach as the mission continues. talk to us about the latest on this. >> reporter: well, the mission did resume today. phase two of this operation to bring the other eight boys and the coach out to safety.

divers went in about five hours ago, it got underway. they're probably just now in the chamber where the boys have been waiting, day 17 now of this effort to get them out. it will take several hours before they're able to bring the boys and coach out to the entrance. they're going to employ the buddy diving system. a bear of divers will have a boy between them, they're tethered, and they will help him get through the tricky parts we've been hearing a lot about where the kids would have to go under way, swim under water. a frighten prospect for kids who don't know how to swim. so we are waiting to hear on when there are confirmed cases of the boys coming out. so far we know that there are four that are in this hospital behind us. they're in a specialize lags unit --

isolation unit so doctors can assess them. >> we are hearing reports it was the strongest boys rescued first. do you know why that is, janis, and also the state of the boys still inside the cave? >> reporter: it was yesterday that the rescue chief had said a medical doctor was inside the cave from the morning, that they were making the determination they were going ahead with the mission because they talked to the kids about it and asked them if they were ready and they said, yes, of course we're ready. so there was the medical check. it was the decision of the doctor to send what he felt were the four healthiest boys. so maybe they're not the strongest, but they were the healthiest at the time. there could be a lot of reasons for this. it could be a motivator for the rest of the boys, knowing that they had the best chance of making it out with any complications and that would somehow inspire and motivate the other boys who might be a little bit afraid right now. >> janis, quickly, i'm seeing good weather behind you but i do know it is still rainy season there. how much of a factor is the

rising waters in the caves that could happen once again? >>. >> reporter: well, it is monsoon season so the weather can change quickly and dramatically, but officials are saying that water isn't as much of an issue in the cave system for them anymore. they continue to pump it out and they are still realizing this is a window of opportunity, that the heavy rains, the sustained rains are set to begin within the next couple of days. >> janis mackey frayer for us. thanks. moving now to the latest with north korea. the trump administration brushing off the drastic differences in opinions regarding the latest round of high-level negotiations with pyongyang. this is what secretary of state mike pompeo had to say after his two days of talks in the north korean capital. watch. >> we had many hours of productive conversations. necessary are complicated issues, but we made progress on almost all of the central issues.

some places, a great deal of progress. other places, there's still more work to be done. we talked about what the north koreans are continuing to do and how it is the case we can get our arms around achieving what chairman kim and president trump both agreed to, which was the complete denuclearization of north korea. there's no -- no one walked away from that. they're still equally committed. we had productive, good-faith negotiations. >> north korea on the other hand feels exactly the opposite. in a statement released on state-run media, the dprk says the talks were, quote, regrettable while accusing the u.s. of making unilateral and gangster-like demands in calling for completely verifiable and irreversible denuclearization. they accuse the u.s. of a tyranical tactic. they say it brought them to a dangerous situation because they

may no longer have a desire to denuclearization. pompeo did not hit with kim jong-un during the latest trip and hit back at the statement yesterday. >> we had lengthy discussions about the scope of what complete denuclearization means over the past two days. it is a broad definition of denuclearization. the north koreans understand that and have not challenged that. they also understand that denuclearization makes no sense absent verification and they acknowledge that as well. i'm counting on chairman kim to be determined to follow through on the commitment that he made. so if those requests were gangster-like, the world is a gangster because there was a unanimous decision at the u.n. security council about what needs to be achieved. >> all of this coming just over three weeks after president trump tweeted that there no longer is a nuclear threat from north korea. meanwhile, president trump is set to sit down with russia's vladimir putin one week from day. the summit in helsinki will come at end of a foreign nation week-long european trip which

includes a stop in belgium for the nato summit, it comes amid fights trump has picked with america's closest allies and amid increasing worries from the allies what trump may say or do with putin. trump heads to the uk where he is expected to be greeted by enormous protests including a inflatable character of him. he will head to scotland to spend a weekend at one of his golf resorts. comes as new reporting showing the president's positive posture towards the russian president has left some in his inner circle puzzled. "the washington post" reporting during his time in the white house former national security advisor h.r. mcmaster would ponder why, quote, the president thinks he can be friends with putin. i don't know why or why he would want to be, according to u.s. officials. a senior u.s. official adds that trump complains about fake news and how in putin's words the,

quote, deep state is conspiring against them with putin telling trump, it is not us, it is the subordinates fighting against our friendship. i want to bring in nbc news international correspondent cal perry. this is startling news. good morning to you, by the way. >> good morning. >> this is startling news considering the off-the-record calls between vladimir putin and president trump, and also the fact we are hearing records that the president's actually reaching out to vladimir putin and asking him for advice on, say, what to do with north korea, confiding in him, shall we say, as someone who is -- who is an equal. do you think, cal, that the president is prepared to meet with someone like president vladimir putin considering his history, considering he is, of course, a former kgb spy? >> i think that president trump thinks that he's ready. he thinks that he's prepared. he thinks that the two have a good relationship, but, look,

we're going to have 28 exceptionally nervous leaders of these nato countries when president trump goes into this meeting and we don't even know what president trump is going to say about nato at the nato meetings. we know what he has said in the past, which is that he doesn't think that nato should be around. take a look at the big picture wu it comes to europe because here's what the leaders of europe are dealing with. they're dealing with new governments in italy, austria, hungary, slovakia, dealing with a new government in the united states. all of those governments are populist, right-wing governments. none of them believe nato should exist. you have an american president coming to meet with nato, and then on the heels of that going to meet with the russian president. so a referendum on nato i don't think is too far to say that's what we're gaeg to soing to see week. >> i quick lnly want to touch o north korea while i have you, cal. i had gourden on my shon and w

weekend. he feels the deal may be dead considering the rhetoric coming out of north korea. >> this is what we are alluding to. when there's no one else in the room you don't have a record said. i was joking with my boss at msnbc about this. when i'm passionate about the story and i go to meet with him, we both leave the meeting with two completely different expectations about what happened. imagine that when you are talking about nuclear weapons. you have two leaders passionate about what they need to get for their country and no one taking notes. the end result is what you see now, two countries on two completely different pages. >> i'm glad that happens to you, cal. >> every time. >> it happens to me every time. i want to talk to you in a bit. a federal judge's deadline for the trump administration to reunite some of 23,000 migrant children separated from parents at the border comes tomorrow. it comes as officials have lost track of some of the migrant

children. lawyers for the government revealed friday they cannot locate the parents of 38 migrant kids under the age of five, saying half have been released from custody into the u.s. and their whereabouts are still under known while the other half were deported. during the status hearing, government lawyers told the judge of the southern district of california who issued the initial reunification deadline that the health and human services department would only be able to reunite about half of approximately 100 kids under the age of five by the deadline. the judge said he would agree to delay that deadline for unifying the youngest children if the government could provide a master list of all children and the status of their parents. the judge has scheduled a status conference for later today. one of the government's lawyers said she could not attend a status conference over the weekend because she had, quote, out-of-town dog sitting responsibilities. meanwhile, following a call with hhs officials on friday,

democratic congressman cummings tweeted he was, quote, extremely disappointed with the lack of information they gave to members of congress. he added that, quote, they refused to answer our questions. they do not have a concrete plan to reunite these families. i am growing more concerned for the future of these children, as a lot of people are right now. still ahead, everybody, we are following the latest on a nerve agent poisoning in england. a woman has died after being exposed to novichok. plus, what we know this morning about the possibility of president trump sitting down for an interview with special counsel bob mueller. those stories and, of course, a check on your weather when we come back. ♪

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welcome back, everybody. president trump's legal team continued to put off the possibility of an interview with special counsel bob mueller with the president's lawyer setting new conditions for the sit-down. one of the lawyers calling the probe, quote, the most corrupt he had ever seen. rudy guilliani told "the new

york times", quote, if they can come to us and show us the basis and that it is legitimate and that they have uncovered something, we can go from there and assess their object ift. guilliani urged the special counsel to wrap up his inquiry and write an investigative report. he said mr. trump's lawyers plan to write their own summary of the case. he addressed the subject again yesterday. >> have you simply determined that the president is not going to sit down for -- >> we have not. we're close to determining that. george, he wants to testify. he believes like -- >> it is hard to believe that, mr. mayor. >> it is hard to believe given all of the things showed about how tainted this investigation is. this is the most corrupt investigation i have ever seen, that the justice department is allowing to go forward. >> all right. let's head overseas once again. a woman in the uk has died after being exposed to the same nerve agent used against a former russian spy and his daughter. according to london police, dawn sturgess died at the hospital yesterday. police believe both she and a

male companion touched a contaminated item. the man is critically ill, currently in the hospital. they were sickened in amesbury, england, a town seven miles away from salisbury where former double agent sergei skripal and his daughter were poisoned last march. britain's prime minister tweeted that police are working urgently to establish the facts of the incident being investigated as a murder. i want to bring in cal perry once again. there are so many questions concerning what happened with sergei skripal and his daughter and the connection made to russia at the time that poisoning happened at the hands of russian agents. what are we hearing about why this took place, what happened? talk to me, cal. what do you know? >> reporter: you know, yeah, it seems like the incident of four months ago what this super sensational spy story about a man who used to be a spy for the kgb, being tracked down years

later with his daughter in a small town in england and poisoned by this incredibly potent means of poison. this seems like two people who have nothing to do with what we saw with serge ee skripal, nothing to do with any kind of spy ring or spy story or anything like that. it seems like this two individuals may just have come across this substance and it killed at least one of them. the other person is in critical condition. of course, this brings up a number of issues, the least of which on behalf of the uk government is how are you protecting your citizens if russia is carrying out these really sort of strange assassinations. >> but that's my big question. you may not know the answer to this, but i got to put it out there. how do you just come across a substance like novichok, that you touch something contaminated with it? >> i have no idea. remember when litvenko was poisoned years ago we saw people

tracking that radioactive yellow trail around restaurants in the uk. this was a poison you can't see, you can't smell, you can't taste it, same like the novichok. it is possible they just came across it. maybe, one of the theories is and this is reckless speculation, but maybe it was the russians trying to dispose of it on their way out of town. that's one of the theories being bantered about in england. >> reckless speculation from cal perry. >> that's right. >> i'm going the talk to you on the hour. let's get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins, you got reckless peculiar lags for us? >> that could be a new series for us, reckless speculation. over the weekend, we had decent weather across the country. it was very hot starting the weekend in areas of california and the southwest. you saw those pictures it was off-the-charts hot. we have our b storm form as we went through friday and over the weekend c storm fauld. this is tropical storm chris off

the coast of carolina. this is about as close as it will get, 200 miles off the coastline. it will accelerate to the north. 60 miles per hour winds, drifting to the south about one miles per hour. it will accelerate into wednesday and head off the coastline, creating large waves, rip current threats for beach areas but that's about it. also our friends in puerto rico have been worried about beryl. beryl was a hurricane, weakened to a tropical storm. you see the clouds coming with it, it will bring rain to puerto rico through the next couple of days. as far as the rainfall goes, it has only been ten months since maria and we are concerned as far as mudslides go. they could get up to two to three inches of rainfall in the next 24 hours. as i mention, a quiet day from coast to coast. it will be warm but we're not seeing the extreme heat as we did last weekend. summer like across the board. >> it was a gorgeous weekend here to say the least.

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on wednesday we see who else will be in the finals when crow asia and england duke it out. crow asia topped russia with a lot of drama. they did it in penalty kicks followed a frenzy to finish the match. it is first time england has been in the semifinals since 1990. make sure to catch all of the world cup live action on telemundo. major league baseball unveiled 2018 rosters. highlights include mike trout, aaron judge, mookie betts and jose altuve who led in votes. now, the astros, red sox and -- indians led the league with five players selected from each club. how did the indians do that? it will take place at nationals park on july 17th. make sure to check out the entire roster on nbcsports.com.

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♪ welcome back, everybody. i'm joined this morning by nbc news international correspondent cal perry. it is bottom of the hour. let's start with the top stories. we begin with breaking news from thailand. rescue efforts resumed this morning for the remaining eight boys and their soccer coach who have been trapped in that cave more than two weeks now. divers have been back in the cave for more than five hours now. four boys, believed to have been the healthiest, were rescued

yesterday and taken to a hospital for evaluation. this is actually video of one of them after emerging from the cave, being rushed to a waiting helicopter as you see there. one diver involved in the rescue said, quote, the kids were all totally calm. each boy has been assigned two divers. the mission was paused after the first set of boys were rescued so depleted oxygen tanks could be replenished. one former thai navy seal samardzj died friday during a mission to place the rescue tanks along the rescue route. he ran out of oxygen. this video has emerged of him before boarding a plane to carry out the mission, vowing to bring home the boys. back in the united states though, tonight president trump is expect to announce his pick to replace retiring supreme court justice anthony kennedy. according to nbc news, trump narrowed his list of contenders to four ceasous candidates, brett kaf kavanaugh, amy coney

barrett, ray monld kethledge and thomas hardi man. >> take a listen to this. >> i believe this person will do a good job but i'm close to making a decision. i have not made it official yesterday obviously, have not made it final, but we're close to making a decision. >> meanwhile, "the new york times" is reporting that senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is supporting two particular candidates. according to the paper mcconnell told trump this past week that judges raymond kethledge and thomas hardiman presented the fewest obstacles to being confirmed. this is greg store from bloomberg news. thanks for joining us this morning. >> good morning. >> trump has narrowed down supreme court justice choices down to just a few, four specifically. mcconnell though, as i just said, is pushing hard for hardiman and kethledge as well. what makes them standout choices

over the other contenders? >> well, they might have the fewest red flags. so other than judge barrett, all three of the men that you mentioned have all been on the federal appeals court for a long time. but judge kavanaugh has the deepest record from his work before then. he worked in the george w. bush administration as staff secretary and in the white house counsel's office, and even before that he was a top deputy to ken starr in his probe of bill clinton and was a principal author of the report that led to president clinton's impeachment. all of that has a lot of potential ammunition for democrats opposing his nomination. judge barrett was an academic for a long time, wrote a lot of things particularly about the issue of abortion and other issues, and those also could provide fodder for democrats trying to oppose her. >> is hardiman a more moderate pick here if the president were to go with hardiman? i know he was also the runner-up to gorsuch.

he has served alongside president trump's sister in pennsylvania. is he the more moderate pick, seeing he doesn't have the paper trail with regards to roe v. wade and that's what the democrats are going to hone in on with this pick? >> he might be perceived that way. it is a narrow band we are talking about. these are all conservative judges who in all likelihood will be conservative justices. in some ways he is a safer choice. he hasn't had as many hot button issues as some of the other people. judge kavanaugh being on the federal appeals court here in washington has had a huge number of regulatory cases that could pose issues, could let democrats portray him as anti-consumer or something like that. judge hardiman has had some second amendment cases, hasn't had to directly deal with abortion. so there might be, you know, while republicans i think would still be confident in the kind of justice he would be, he might be a little harder to oppose. >> greg store for us. thanks, greg. >> sure thing. lawyers for former trump

campaign chair paul manafort are asking a federal judge to delay his trial on bank and fraud charges, set for later this month. they also want to move it from alexandria, virginia to roanoke, citing pretrial publicity. manafort lawyers argue that the negative media coverage and the fact that alexander voted for hillary clinton in the 2016 election would make it hard for his client to get a fair trial. they also claim it has been difficult for manafort to assist in his own defense since being thrown in jail after having his bail revoked on charges of witness tampering. when that happened last month, the president tweeted, quote, wow, what was tough sentence for paul manafort, manafort's lawyer says that's to hurt their client by, quote, incorrectly suggesting he had been sentenced for committing a crime. republican congressman jim jordan is back on the hill as allegations of his knowledge of sexual abuse at ohio state university are mounting. "the washington post" reporting a seventh former osu wrestler

has come forward alleging jordan knew about the team doctor's inappropriate behavior with student-athletes in the 1980s. jordan was an assistant wrestling coach there before going into politics. the congressman has profusely denied the claims and has called the outcry politically motivated. jordan's name has been floated out as a potential speaker of the house replacement for paul ryan when he retires next year. here's what jordan had to say on fox news on friday. >> conversations in a locker room are a lot different than people coming up and talking about abuse. no one reported abuse to me. if they had, i would have dealt with it. what bothers me the most is the guys that are saying this thing, i know they know the truth. i think the timing is -- is suspect from when you think about how this whole story came together after the rosenstein interview or hearing, with this whole talk about the speaker's race. but it is just not accurate.

>> so speaker ryan's office said in a statement that they are taking the allegations seriously and are going to wait for a full review. let's talk senator ron johnson who is one of several republican lawmakers who met with russian officials in moscow last week, saying the united states should revisit the current sanctions against russia. >> we need to take a look at the sanctions. are they actually changing russia's behavior? and right now, unfortunately, i don't think they're particularly working from that standpoint. >> in an interview with the washington examiner, senator johnson said lawmakers should consider revising sanctions so they focus more on russian oligarchs. he told the paper, quote, my sense is that the targeted sanctions to the oligarchs, to the members of government are the ones that really sting and probably offer the best chance of effecting their behavior. as president trump prepares to head overseas to meet with european allies, he is facing fresh backlash over his decision

to implement tariffs on a number of trading partners. france's minister called for a united response by europe on those tariffs, insisting washington should expect retaliation from the region. his comments after german chancellor angela merkel signalled last week her country was prepared to negotiate with u.s. in efforts to avoid a full-blown trade war. so far the president has slapped tariffs on $85 billion worth of imports from all five of the top u.s. trading partners, china, canada, mexico, the eu and japan. all but japan countered with tariffs on u.s. products, bringing the total so far in the global trade dispute to $165 billion. it is mounting. according to the pearson institute for international economics, but it could be people in the states where trump won in the 2016 election that could be the biggest losers in the global trade dispute. experts say that imports and exports to republican-leaning

states totaled $2.1 trillion last year compared to 1.7 trillion for democrat leaning states. after examining the kinds of goods that could be taxed, city found that red states ship more to countries that could retaliate on u.s. tariffs. soy, for example, represents nearly half of the value on china's tariff list. in the 30 congressional districts hit hardest by new soy tariffs, 25 are represented by a republican and just five by a democrat. all 30 of those districts voted for trump back in 2016. joining me from london, nbc news international correspondent cal perry for us. set the stage for us here, because this is really as i just mentioned a mounting trade war. president trump heading into this nato meeting here. very much us against them. >> yeah. listen, headed after nato to meet with the leader of russia.

perfectly sort of set up i think by that sound bite from that member of the united states senate saying we should rethink sanctions on russia. what's going to happen if we see tariffs and tax and a trade war with some of america's greatest allies, is it going to be replaced by new deals with russia? look, the rhetoric is already having an effect. we heard the world trade organization say this week that donald trump's rhetoric is affecting output in factories across germany. we heard the governor of the bank of england saying this kind of rhetoric we're hearing from president trump is actually going to cause interest rates to raise around the world. so you're going to hear all of the obvious stuff from the u.s. president that the nato allies need to pay their share more, but will we see drastic new trade deals with russia? that's one of the questions. >> i'm wondering though, you know, considering the domestic fall-out from all of this, cal, if all president trump is walking into this nato meeting, this nato summit and considering

the fact that the hardest hit individuals will be from his base? >> does it matter? no, but i mean honestly, does it matter? it seems like -- >> it seems as if -- >> -- he's a teflon president. >> it seems it has mattered to president trump. it seems every policy decision he makes has to do with his base. >> but are we going to see the strong man, the president trump who says these countries aren't paying enough? we have $150 billion deficit with the european union, it is actually more like 100 and it doesn't include the math that should be done properly. i think we will hear a lot of rhetoric. we will have a lot of bombastic talk. i don't know we will see change. i think we should keep our eyes on the meeting with the russian leader. will we see an easing of sanctions? does it open the door for the president some say we're not doing as much trade with the european union but we're making up for it with russia. >> yeah. thanks, cal. still ahead, president trump

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presidency. how do you like that? let's get a check now on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karnls. go ahead, bill. >> i want to sit in the room with the people keeping track of those things. who are these people? let's get into the forecast for the week, take a look ahead. coming off the big vacation week, off the july 4th week, and we have a tropical storm off the coast of north carolina. we got the 5:00 a.m. up date. this storm is not a big concern but a sigh that, yes, the hurricane season is here and we're getting close to the peak of the season where we get the big ones. so this one has 60 miles per hour winds, is going to stay off the north carolina coast another 24 hours, should become a hurricane late tonight or early tomorrow and then it will parallel the coastline and come in close to nova scotia but should miss them. this is a quiet, nice day if you have travel plans. the only airplane problems possible are san antonio, houston, dallas, down in new orleans, possibly miami, too.

no issues in the east coast. a little hotter than over the weekend, but a good deal of sunshine. chicago warmer at 92. the real heat today, look at boise, 102, almost as warm as phoenix. the only concerns of showers and thunderstorms as i mentioned along the gulf. this is 4:00 p.m., louisiana between dallas and waco, down towards san antonio. this is your typical afternoon storms in central florida with the sea breezes. tomorrow a couple of hit-and-miss storms but nothing that bad. we're funny and warm today. by the time we get to wednesday we will see cooler air coming into the northeast. looks like a great week there. mid atlantic not bad. scattered shorms wednesd scattered storms wednesday, thursday and friday in the deep south, but a good week in areas from maine to the carolinas. >> thanks, bill. still ahead, everybody, global markets shake off concerns over ongoing trade disputes with the united states as stocks overseas are starting the week off on a higher note. we will get a report on whether the gains will find their way to

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how are markets reacting to the tariffs? >> pretty positively. if you look at asian markets we had a strong day on friday. we had japanese indexes up over 1% in every single sector. we also have chinese equities somewhat surprisingly up 2.5% in trading today. so seems to be a case of buy the rumor, sell the fact. there seems to be a lot more positive sentiment as far as chinese equities are concerned. u.s. markets let's also not forget we had a strong, payrolls print on friday that showed the economy created 213,000 jobs for the month of june versus 195 forecast. slightly stronger on the top line number. a few negatives, the first is that the wage growth came in slightly slower than expectation at 2.7% versus 2.8% and

unemployment claimed to 4% from 3.8%. the reason they moved higher is because more people are coming into the work force so there's more supply due to new people. equity markets are doing fine. >> we'll be watching this today as the markets open here in the united states. let's talk about facebook while i have you with regard to cambridge analytica. facebook had a lot of bad p.r. as of late a lot of recent financial hits as well, but mark zuckerberg seems to have finally gotten some good news with regards to facebook. what more do you have on that? >> facebook stock itself has fully recovered from the cambridge analytical scandal. it reached a low of $150. now it's trading at $200. that means that zuckerberg is officially the third wealthiest person in the world. he has a wealth of $81.6 billion. he surpassed warren buffett.

just for your info, number one is amazon founder jeff bezos and two is microsoft bill gates. this is the first time in history that the top three people come from the technology sector. >> despite all that's happening to facebook it's still growing. thank you. coming up, everybody, axios's nicholas johnson looks at this morning's one big thing. coming up on "morning joe," the u.s./north korea facing diplomatic disconnect. the latest on the fresh saber rattling and what it could mean for efforts to denuclearize the rogue nation. plus, president trump prepares to head overseas to meet with european allies amid increasing tensions as he also looks to his one on one sitdown with vladimir putin. chris coons will explain what allies are telling him following his recent trip to europe. "morning joe," everybody, just moments away. but while some push high commission investment products,

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joining us from washington a look at axios am, editor in chief for axios nicholas johnson. good morning. happy monday. >> good morning. >> what is axios's one big thing? >> it's probably the one biggest thing for the rest of the year, the epic fight over donald trump's pick for the supreme court. tonight at 9:00 p.m., he'll announce his final pick and we're told within seconds the battle of the air waves will begin both online and on television with groups on the right and left prepared to spend millions of dollars pressuring senators to go one way or the other on this pick. the fight will focus on five states, three democrats, north dakota, indiana and west virginia. three states where democrats supported trump's last pick but in states where trump won. lisa murkowski in maine and susan collins. democrats think they may be able to flip them. remember the margin in the senate is razor thin.

john mccain out because of health reasons, any one of those senators could tip the balance. >> what's the democrat's move? what are they going to try to put out to make sure they keep some of the red state democrats in their corner? >> right. the big push here is to put it in the context. we have mid-terms coming up. you can pick a new president every four years and every two years in the senate. supreme court justice is a generational change, somebody who can be on the court for 25 years or more. i think what democrats are trying to do is emphasize that this is something that will long outlive donald trump's presidency. >> we've been talking about what's going to happen, how the republicans and democrats will shape their fight with regard to the midterms, will the conversation turn to the socotu

pick? >> i think the supreme court will consume the midterm debate certainly for the next couple weeks once a pick is made, that's something that will continue to hammer candidates on either side on. more longer term, like thele poing we've shown show that democrats will run a lot on health care. republicans are certainly going to focus on the on going legacy of donald trump's change for the courts. the senate under mitch mcconnell appointed more federal judges. i think republicans will hammer away on that as the importance of keeping control of the house and senate to keep that legacy going. >> let's stick with the midterms here, nick. axios is looking how the democrats plan to torment president trump if they take back the house, if being the keyword, they take back the house. what is their plan involve here? >> right. i think the fall of scott pruitt is interesting. he went under because democrats and republicans pulled his aides

before committee and compelled testimony under perjury. democrats take control of the house, look for that happening constantly and relentlessly, tormenting all members of cabinet agencies and the white house, dragging aides before committees, threatening them with lawyers, forcing them to hire counsel to hire themselves. that's where you can get leaks out to damage members of the administration and stymy their agenda. >> what's axios watching this week, nick? >> president trump is on his way to europe. look for fireworks with nato leading up to the big summit with president putin. >> thank you so much. we'll be reading axios in just a little bit. you too can sign up for the newsletter. signup.axios.com. that does it for us this morning. "morning joe" starts right now, everybody. ♪ ♪ what a beautiful morning in washington. good morning and welcome to

"morning joe." it is monday, july 9th. with us we have msnbc contributor mike barnacle and the president of the council on foreign relations and author of the book "a world in disarray" richard haass and the host of kasie-dc on msnbc kasie hunt. very good. you're doing well. >> thank you. >> we need to talk. >> world cup, boston red sox. >> no, we were watching kasie, d.c. >> it's difficult to overpoint the emphasis tonight he names his nominee. >> you have any ideas? >> i do.