♪ new overnight, president trump lashes out at iran. he is warning president rouhani to stop threatening the united states. plus, a deadly shooting on the streets of toronto. one is dead and at least 13 others were with injured when a gunman opened fire. new questions about president trump's legal strategy after news that his former fixer michael cohen recorded a conversation with him discussing a payment involving an ex playboy model. good morning, everyone. it is monday, july 23rd.

i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside louis bergdorf. we begin with another foreign policy crisis and president trump is once again threatening the annihilation of a country. late last night trump tweeted out in all capitals, quote, to iranian president rouhani, never, ever threaten the united states again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before. we are no longer a country that will stand for your demented words of violence and death. be cautious. that came in response to a speech iranian president rouhani gave on sunday where he warned the president by name saying, quote, mr. trump, don't play with the lion's tail. this would only lead to regret. while adding, quote, america should know peace with iran is the mother of all peace and war with iran is the mother of all wars. now, yesterday secretary of state mike pompeo also criticized iran's leadership, accusing it of widespread corruption that resembles,

quote, the mafia more than a government. he also called the religious leaders, quote, hypocritical holy men. pompeo also once again pib likely backed anti--government protesters inside iran saying, quote, the united states supports you, the united states is with you. pompeo followed up his remarks in a series of tweets as well, both in english and in farsi. however, all of the tweets aimed at iran probably won't reach their intended target as twitter has been banned in iran since 2009. prior to becoming president trump often chastised president obama and accused him of wanting to start war with iran for political gain. joining us, "politico's" daniel lippman. great to have you with us. >> good to see you. >> welcome back from aspen. i believe you were there mixing it up with the elite. >> thank you. >> let's talk about this late-night barrage of tweets from both mike pompeo and the president against iran, really kind of ratcheting up the

rhetoric against it. what is the strategy here? why now? >> it reminds me of what trump did with north korea last year in threatening fire and fury and then trying to get to the negotiating table and trying to get a deal, which is still in the works because the north koreans have gone back to their usual, you know, negotiating place where they don't actually give much up. i don't know what is setting off trump now besides that speech. he takes a hit to his personal pride any time he's attacked and he thinks that rouhani is attacking him. so he wants to kind of put him in his place and really inflict some twitter, all-caps, you know, language on him. i don't know if it is going to work but he's going to try. >> it is interesting you brought up north korea because there are those that are questioning whether this has become donald trump's foreign policy strategy.

on one side he turns the, you know, heat up, the pressure up against a country, only then to turn around and cool down tensions as we saw with how he used to call the leader of north korea little rock et man and then turn around and call him a great guy. is this the beginning of this administration's attempt at reaching some kind of agreement with iran? >> it might be. he might also be trying to distract people from how his north korea policy isn't going that well, and that pompeo, you know, they've had meetings cancelled. the north koreans don't even respond half the time. you know, dealing with iran is going to be tougher in some ways than the north koreans. at least they don't have a bomb. but there's also concern that trump antagonized our european allies in ripping up the u.s. portion of the iran deal, and it is much -- it is going to be very hard to actually get a tougher deal than the one that

obama signed with iran, which had, you know, tight limits on what iran could do. so it doesn't seem like -- any deal will be compared to obama's deal if it actually is made. >> not to mention trying to get a deal back in place with any of our allies or even some of our adversaries like china and russia seems unlikely. china said they're going to stick by the obama-iran nuclear deal. touch base with you soon. >> thanks. more than a dozen were shot after a gunman opened fire in toronto, canada last night. toronto chief of police says a young woman was killed and 13 others injured in an exchange of gunfire including a young girl about eight or nine years old. police say the shooter was pronounced dead at the scene. according to the "associated press", the gunman was firing a handgun into restaurants and cafes as he walked along a toronto street. >> sir, what did you hear

tonight? >> several gunshots, lots of gunshots. that's about all i heard. then i saw -- >> reporter: how many shots would you say? >> i would say i heard at least 20 shots in intervals. you know, clippings spent. reloading, clippings spent. reloading, clippings spent. that's what i heard. >> terrifying and tragic situation there. toronto's chief of police says he's not calling the shooting random and isn't ruling out terrorism as a possible motive, eamon. back here in the u.s. for the first time in the history of the 40-year-old secret court established by the surveillance act documents supporting a warrant were released over the weekend. "the new york times" obtained the application to wire tap former trump campaign policy adviser carter page along with several renewal applications after president trump declassified their existence earlier this year. among its 400 pages, many of which are heavily redacted, the

application states, the fbi believes page has been the subject of targeted recruitment by the russian government and identifies page as a former foreign policy adviser for a candidate for president. it also adds the fbi believes the russian government's efforts are being koort nated with page and perhaps other individuals associated with the campaign. it says the fbi believes that page has been collaborating and conspiring with the russian government. page called it ridiculous and misleading. it used the steele document saying that he spoke about lifting sanctions related to russia's actions in ukraine, though the unredacted portions show it used other materials as well. the application and renewals show all judges that signed off on the wire tapping were appointed by republican presidents. as you can imagine there were mixed reactions after the government revealed so many details from the warrant application. fran townsend, homeland security

adviser under george w. bush tweeted, having run the justice department responsible for fisa, the release of the documents is irresponsible and will irreversibly weak encounter intelligence going forward. meanwhile, president trump claimed, looking more and more like the trump campaign for president was illegally being spied upon. surveillance for the political gain of crooked hillary clinton and the dnc. republican senator marco rubio sees it differently. >> i don't think they did anything wrong. i think they went to the court. they got the judges to approve it. they laid out all of the information and there was a lot of reasons, unrelated to the dossier, for why they wanted to look at carter page. to the latest drama concerning the president and his former fixer michael cohen, donald trump has waived attorney/client privilege regarding his conversation with michael cohen where the two discussed buying the rights to the story of the former playboy model who claims she had an

affair with president trump. trump's torrey, rudy guilliani has told nbc news, quote, it was already out there so seemed no point in objecting except on principle. well, the president tweeted over the weekend, quote, inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyer's office early in the morning, almost unheard of, even more inconceivable that a lawyer would take a client. totally unheard of and perhaps illegal. the good news is your favorite president did nothing wrong. joining me here from philadelphia, msnbc legal analyst danny savalos. good to have you with us. it was a busy weekend, seeing you all over the network talking about this and other things. let's talk with a fact check here. is it illegal for cohen to have recorded his conversation with the president? >> trump's statement was partially correct, partially incorrect. he's right in that it is essentially unheard of for lawyers to -- plenty of

colleagues, i have never heard of that happening anywhere any time. any attorney will tell you, there's definitely clients they have had had they wouldn't mind having on record because maybe they waffle a little bit. but that's the part that trump is correct about. what he's not correct about is that the sur repetitiotaping byn was illegal because it comes down to where the phone call was made. states fall into one of two categories. either they're an all-party consent state where all parties to the conversation must consent to the recording or it is a one-party state where as long as one party consents it is legal to record a conversation legally. new york is a one-party state. if the conversation occurred in new york, it is probably legal. there's an additional layer. cohen as an attorney is governed by the rules of ethics in new york, and the opinions here are a little hazy. ultimately, the rule is that you

can as an attorney tape your client secretly, but you should not do it as a routine practice. >> while we're on the subject of fact checking, it is important to note that president trump's tweet about the government breaking into the lawyer's office is absolutely incorrect. they had a warrant at the time to obtain those. let's talk a little bit about the strategy here, danny. what does trump gain by waiving attorney/client privilege that rudy guilliani confirmed they have in fact done? >> as with many times i am forced to put myself into the strategic place of rudy guilliani and think about why he's made a decision or why the trump team has made a particular decision. so you balance the risk and reward. you know that this tape was deemed privileged by the special master, so had they wanted to it could have remained private. but in this case for them to come out with it, it may just be adherence to an old school trial strategy which is when there's damaging information about your client, get it out there on

direct. get it out there in your case in chief. so the damage is mitigated when the other side brings it up on cross-examination or on their case in chief. you're essentially saying, look, here is what we got. we know it. we're putting it out there, and the information in there isn't that damaging, which means we can infer that the trump team has made a decision. information establishing or even suggesting infidelity or any of this other conduct really isn't going to damage trump politically and it has no criminal liability attaching to that kind of conduct either. at least that's the risk assessment they must have made to waive privilege. >> all right, danny savalas live for us in philadelphia clocking in early. we will touch base with you in a little bit, danny. ahead after a week of cleanups and backtracking on whether he believes the intelligence community about russian interference in the 2016 election, president trump is once again dismissing the issue as a, quote, big hoax.

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the clinton campaigned reseefl a similar briefing which is commonly provided to nominees as a way of educating the campaign and top aides about potential threats from foreign spies. both campaigns were to alert the fbi to any suspicious overtures to the campaign. >> meanwhile, sergei lavrov called secretary of state mike pompeo on saturday. according to the kremlin laugh ron demanded mariia butina be released claiming the charges are fabricated. she has been charged with acting as an unregistered russian agent while infiltrating the nra. the u.s. state department made no mention of butina in its read out of the call. syria was also discussed during the conversation per the creme lane and state department in addition to, quote, a broad range of issues some of which were follow-ups to the private

meeting president trump had with vladimir putin. in addition per the state department, quote, the need for russia to provide equal diplomatic access to the united states at a level that is fair and reciprocal was also discussed. >> now to supreme court pick brett kavanaugh who previously suggested that the unanimous higher court ruling that forced richard nixon to turn over the watergate tapes leading to the end of his presidency may have been wrong. the decisions, united states versus nixon, marked limits on a president's ability to withhold information needed for criminal prosecution. he made the comment several years ago during a round table discussion with other lawyers. in a transcript of the conversation published back in 1999, kavanaugh said, quote, but maybe nixon was wrongly decided. nixon took away the power of the president to control information in the executive branch by holding that the courts had power and jurisdiction to order the president to disclose information in response to a subpoena sought by subordinate

executive branch official. now, that was a huge step with implications to this day that most people do not appreciate sufficiently. maybe the tension of the time led to an erroneous decision. kavanaugh went on to say that the court might have been wise to stay out of the tape's dispute. the article was part of thousands of pages of documents provided by kavanaugh to the senate judiciary committee as part of the confirmation process. switch gears and get a check on your rainy forecast, at least if you're in the northeast, with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> good morning. this soupy weather pattern continues up the east coast all the way to maine. usually the air that is around florida has come all the way up the east coast, so that's what you're experiencing this week. it is a stagnant pattern meaning it will not change any time soon and the rainfall has been heavy around eastern north carolina, the norfolk/virginia beach area. it continues to spread to the north. we have had thunderstorms from the north down through central florida.

very rare this time of night to have thunderstorms in florida. usually it is late afternoon, the sea breeze stuff. the heaviest rain this morning, one batch off the coast of new jersey trying to kick through new york city heading through the rush hour. it is pretty much umbrella weather for everyone. 23 million people under flood watch. you have more rain coming today and the next couple of days. almost all of north carolina from central to eastern north carolina is under flood watches, too. let's try to time out the mess for you. regardless, it is going to be humid. on and off downpours. it will not rain continuously all day long. it is not that type of pattern. this is at 8:00 a.m. as we go through the afternoon hours, the storm will move a little further to the east. we still will continue to see the heavy downpours, and the rainfall forecast through wednesday, this area of pink, that's three-plus inches of rain. that's going to -- all of central pennsylvania, much of central new york, down through virginia, eastern north carolina, that's where the flooding concerns will be greatest. if that wasn't bad enough, if

you're not in the soup on the east coast, 63 million people are under heat warning, watches and advisories from texas through much of the west coast. for today, what you see is what you -- what you got yesterday. ayman, it is what you are going to get today. just we haven't had a week like this this summer and it is going to stay like this. it is just a sticky, hot mess. >> yeah, i was going to say it feels, as you said, soupy to say the least. bill karins, thank you very much. still ahead, some incredible weekend action from around the mlb and viva italia as the first italian takes home the claret club. all of the british open for you next in sports. i was just finishing a ride. i felt this awful pain in my chest. i had a pe blood clot in my lung. i was scared. i had a dvt blood clot. having one really puts you in danger of having another. my doctor and i chose xarelto®. xarelto®. to help keep me protected. xarelto® is a latest-generation blood thinner that's... proven to treat and reduce the risk of dvt or pe blood clots from happening again.

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welcome back. time now for sports. to the carnoustie golf links in scotland for the final round of what was one of the most exciting british open in recent memory. at one point six golfers were tied for the lead with many more within several shots. among them was tiger woods who nearly was victorious in his quest for a 15th major. he was leading by a stroke at the turn before going double bogey, bogey on the 11th and 12th, killing his chances. defending champion jordan spieth also held the lead early yesterday before suffering a similar fate as tiger did and shooting a 5 over 76. meanwhile, woods' playing partner francesco molinari played brilliantly. he was mistake-free, shooting 16 pars and two birdies for a 2 under 69, finishing at 8 under

par and winning the open by two strokes. he is first italian to have his name engraved in -- on the claret jug. congratulations to him. turning now to major league baseball and the rays hosting the marlins in st. petersburg. tampa trailing by two runs with the bases loaded. >> bases single away from tying it. to left field and deep. daniel robertson with a walk-off grand slam! and the rays have stunned the marlins in the ninth inning. >> that was the first-ever walk-off grand slam in rays' history courtesy of infielder daniel robertson whose swing earns the 6-4 victory. in new york last night, the subway series finale between the mets and yankees was postponed due to rain and will be paid up next month to many fans' dismay. meanwhile, the mets have placed pitcher noah syndergaard on a ten-day disabled list after he

contracted hand, food and mouth disease, a viral infection typically affecting children which the team believes he picked up attending a youth koom p last week. got to watch out for it. >> a lot of people were talking about the british open and how exciting it was to see tiger woods get to where he got at the end of the tournament. >> it is so interesting when so many are close to the lead coming into the last round. >> yeah. thanks for that. >> still ahead, amid rising tensions, president trump is trazing threats with iranian president rouhani. more on the back-and-forth battle of words. plus, the director of national intelligence dan coates tries to explain his seemingly-surprised reaction to the news trump may meet with putin in washington this fall. we will tell you about that when we come back.

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♪ welcome back, everyone. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside louis bergdorf. it is the bottom of the hour and we begin with breaking news from overnight. president trump once again threatening the annihilation of another country. just before 11:30 p.m. late last night, trump tweeted out in all caps saying, to iranian president rouhani, never, ever threaten the united states again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before. we are no longer a country that will stand for your demented words of violence and death. be cautious. that came in response to a speech iranian president rouhani gave earlier on sunday where he warned the president by name, saying, quote, mr. trump, don't play with the lion's tail.

this would only lead to regret. he also added, quote, america should know that peace with iran is mother of all peace and war with iran is the mother of all wars. there are new questions about the president's legal strategy regarding the conversation michael cohen taped with then-republican presidential nominee donald trump. you've heard by now that the president's former fixer recorded a conversation with trump talking about buying the rights to the story of former playboy model karen mcdougal who claimed she had an affair with trump back in 2006. well, the evidence that had been protected by attorney/client privilege, but we have been told by the president's attorney rudy guilliani that protection has been waived. he says, quote, it was already out there so seemed no point in objecting except on principle. now, despite that decision, the president tweeted out over the weekend, quote, inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyer's office early in the morning, almost unheard of. even more inconceivable that a

lawyer would tape a client. totally unheard of, perhaps illegal. the good news is that your favorite president did nothing wrong. well, federal investigators are looking into the work cohen allegedly did to skill stories that could have hurt trump's chances leading up to the election and whether any campaign finance laws were violated as a result. a major question that hangs over the cohen investigation is whether he would flip on the president. our own reverend al sharp ton sat down with cohen this past friday, and the reverend said that cohen reiterated he plans to do what is right for the country and his family. there's also the tabloid angle to this story. american media, the parent company of the "national enquirer", ended up purchasing the rights to mcdougal's story but never ran it. the company's ceo, david pecker, is a good friend of the president as "the new york times" reports. investigators believe politics rather than journalism may have been behind the company's decision to buy and then kill the story. joining us from philadelphia

once again, msnbc legal analyst danny savalas. good to have you back with us. let's talk about the strategy from trump's team. waiving the attorney/client privilege means that investigators will be able to listen to the tape if they haven't done so already. what do you think they're going to be listening for? put yourselves in the shoes of the investigators and tell us what they're looking for. >> they're going to be listening for any admissions or statements by trump acknowledging anything that's arguably criminal related to their investigation. if it is mueller's team, it has to be related to russia. if it is the southern district of new york, which is currently investigating michael cohen, then it is going to be about the things michael cohen is being investigated for. most likely, possible fraud, possible that michael cohen may have obtained a loan. what did he put in those loan application forms? it certainly wasn't or at least

likely wasn't, hey, i'm using this money to pay so-and-so to keep a story quiet. when it comes to ami, was karen mcdougal defrauded when ami promised her a writing opportunity that never materialized? there are a whole jubilee of different possibilities here. >> the one thing that rudy guilliani, the president's attorney, is saying is that the tapes are, powerful, exculpatory evidence. essentially they will exonerate the president in some capacity. explain what he means by that, and can we take guilliani for his word without having actually heard the conversations ourselves? >> again, i'm putting myself into the strategic mind of rudy guilliani, but i think i can distill it down possibly to one word, and that word is check. specifically, a written check. perhaps rudy looked at this tape or listened to the tape and concluded, well, the one thing that's good for us is that there's payment being discussed, and that payment may be in the

form of something that's traceable, which means that trump wasn't hiding anything. this was not a case of a -- of a bag of cash left by a trash can on sixth avenue for pick up. this was a check. it was out in the open so to speak, or at least in bank records, and in that sense it is exculpatory. but that would mean a strategic choice that this evidence where we can draw an inference that there was marital infidelity and agreements to pay off paramours, that's the kind of thing that isn't going to hurt our client and that he can live there, both politically and criminally. >> all right. it will be interesting to see how it pays out. danny savalas live in philadelphia for us. thanks, danny. this is also a sort that friends of michael cohen have noticed he is questioning donald trump's fitness to be president since helsinki. he says, it is one thing for cohen to be concerned about his suitability to be president, it is another thing to be concerned

about trump's loyalty to his country. according to a new "washington post"/abc news poll, half of those polled disapprove of how the president handled the summit with vladimir putin last week. 33% approve. meanwhile, 56% say they disapprove of president trump expressing doubt about u.s. intelligence agency's conclusion that russia tried to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. that's compared to 29% who say they approve. all right. it was the reaction heard around the world. director of national intelligence dan coates now trying to down play that surprised reaction to finding out that president trump is considering another meeting with vladimir putin this fall. coates was speaking with nbc's andrea mitchell at the aspen security forum last week when she informed him that the white house had just tweeted about a possible visit. watch this. >> we have some breaking news. the white house has announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. >> say that again.

>> vladimir putin coming to -- >> did i hear you? >> yeah, yeah. >> okay. >> yeah. >> that's going to be special. >> all right. so coates has now released a statement saying, in part, some press coverage has mischaracterized my intentions in responding to breaking news represented -- excuse me, presented to me during a live interview. my admittedly awkward response was in no way meant to be disrespectful or criticize the actions of the president. joining us now from washington d.'s "politico's" daniel lippman, coauthor of "the political playbook." good to have you back with us. >> good to see you. >> let's talk about the reaction. he is obviously trying to down play his response to the news that president trump invited vladimir putin to the white house. he obviously was not aware of it. he didn't even know that this was in the works, let alone the timing of it.

what does his walkback tell us about the push for loyalty within the white house among trump's advisers and what the president expects from people as powerful as dan coates. >> it tells us that trump expects his senior officials to be very deferential and not criticize him in public, and it seemed in that aspen, you know, conference that coates was laughing with the rest of the deep state crowd that was there and that he was kind of mocking the president in a number of ways. he openly disagreed with him on, you know, a good number of issues, which is good for someone who's the top intelligence official. you don't want a sycophant in that job, but there's been a lot of speculation about coates' future in washington. he turns 75 in may. does he want to really continue working, especially for a president that undercuts him in terms of not even keeping him in the loop? >> yeah, he questioned the president's one on-one meeting

with putin. he said he wasn't aware of what came out of it and probably advised against doing it again. there's been new polling that shows americans have been reacting negatively to trump's performance in helsinki. could we see the white house down play a second summit between the two leaders this fall or would they double down given the timing of their announcement they've actually invited president putin to the white house in the middle of all of the controversy last week? >> i think republican leaders on the hill will be urging the white house to proceed cautiously on this right before the midterms. you don't want to have images of putin and trump yucking it up in the oval office, you know, right before people go to the polls. i think you would have to wonder about what are going to be the results from a second summit. it doesn't seem like russia's bad behavior has improved, and that's concerning for a lot of people. in that poll, 15% of people said

that trump didn't support putin enough, which is kind of just an indication that we live in a crazy time. i saw on twitter there was a pickup truck in virginia with virginia plates with a russian flag, which might have been ironic. but, still, you know, it reminds us the americans on that tv show. >> crazy times is the understatement of the week. daniel lippman, thank you very much for joining us this morning. >> thank you. still ahead, taxi cab confessions. only this time it is uber. it is streaming live and the passengers have no idea that thousands of people are actually watching. we will have that story for you. plus, bill karins is tracking the possibility of more flash flooding for parts of the east coast. we will tell you about that when we're back. ♪

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tesla. cnbc's joanna joins us live from london. let's start with tesla and the reporting from the "wall street journal." >> reporter: absolutely. this time the "wall street journal" is reporting that tesla asked some of its suppliers for cash refunds dating as far back as 2016. the request was described as being essential to tesla's continued operation. actually, elon musk has confirmed these reports and said they are actually seeking a price reduction but it would only apply from the third quarter of last year onwards. this comes at an interesting time for tesla. of course, they burned through about one billion dollars of cash per quarter. so lots of questions there. the other big story in the other space is that of fiat chrysler, there's new that the ceo has stepped down for health reasons. it comes as a bit of a surprise but the company was quit to name his replacement. he has been running their chief businesses for last couple years and that has been a strong

component of the business as a total. shareholders have not taken well to the news. shares are trading down as much as 3%. a bit of a frightening story. a st. louis lyft driver was in hot water after his live stream of passengers was discovered over the weekend. he was streaming video of people riding in his uber all day long. >> absolutely. that's the story. he was suspended now. apparently he was live streaming full conversations of passengers in the back of the car, them alone and conversations they were having with him, but on a platform where an audience could actually watch those interactions and then comment on people's appearances and conversations. but here is the twist, louis. apparently all of this is illegal in the state of missouri because it is a one-party consent state which requires only one participant in the conversation to be aware that a recording is happening for it to be legally.

in this case it was the driver, so it raises a lot of questions about the legality of all of this. but at the end of the day the driver lost his job, but many passengers are not happy with what happened there. back to you. >> yeah, i guess it makes you think twice about when you get in back of an uber, if you are going to have that conversation or, you know, you better just keep everything, you know -- >> be careful. >> yeah, be careful. exactly. live from london, thanks so much. guys, let's switch gears for a moment and get a quick check on the weather with nbc money list bill karins. what does it look like out there? >> a lot of people call it ponytail day. it is so hot and humid, yeah, a bad hair day for a lot of people. umbrella weather for just about everyone on the east coast. heavy rain coming up from eastern north carolina through the norfolk/virginia beach area and now a heavy band of rain going through washington, d.c. in about half an hour, 45 minutes from now. plan on that if you are leaving your house and driving around the nation's capital.

this area of rain is moving through new york city. it is light but still raining, and then hit-and-miss showers in numerous areas. it is so soupy out there and all of the moisture over the east coast is coming from the deep tropics. for that reason, when it rains, it can rain hard. we have 23 million people under flood watches from baltimore, washington, d.c., and many areas of north carolina including virginia beach and the norfolk area. how much rain? this is over the next three days. this is easily an inch to three inches of rainfall everywhere in the pink. this is a soaking rain. keep in mind, we had five inches of rain in the last 48 hours in washington, d.c. almost numerous rivers are in flood stage, so we're going to hear more reports of flooding unfortunately throughout the week. here is how it looks. your week ahead forecast, here is today. monday, heavy rain, east coast. dangerous heat continues in texas. we will get a break in texas though. we will see the heat shifting to the west, unfortunately for you. still steamy in the south. instead of 109, it will be 101 in dallas. areas of heavy rain in areas of

the east coast? it is not until friday we still get showers, but a little improvement, a little less humid. still very hot in the west. it is a very unusual weather pattern. usually we call it the summer doldrums where it is boring. anything but right now. a lot of extremes across the country. >> yeah, the fact it is making its way through friday, not well. thanks a lot for that. still ahead, the former head of the ntsb is calling for a ban on duck boats after last week's deadly tragedy on a missouri lake. back in a moment. ♪ i don't keep track of regrets. i never count the wrinkles. and i don't add up the years. but what i do count on... is staying happy and healthy. so, i add protein, vitamins and minerals to my diet with boost®. new boost® high protein nutritional drink now has 33% more high-quality protein, along with 26 essential and minerals your body needs. all with guaranteed great taste. the upside-

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welcome back, everyone. the u.s. coast guard will attempt to raise the duck boat that sank in tailer rock lake near branson, missouri. it went under thursday night as winds approached hurricane strength, killing 17 passengers on board. >> reporter: in a place that prides itself on family fun, branson, missouri, is facing its pain instead. >> that's all we talk about is how sad and how everybody is hurting for these people that have lost so much. ♪ >> reporter: at a memorial service sunday afternoon, crowds mourned the 17 lives lost on thursday when a duck boat capsized and sank on table rock lake during a severe storm. >> my wife and i won't allow us or our children to get on those

ducks right now. >> reporter: steven paul is a st. louis private inspector. last year the current owners of the ride the ducks hired him to inspect the vessels. in his report, he said he warned them that design flaws made the boats more susceptible to sinking and harder to escape in an emergency. >> one issue is that the canopy on the ducks as well as the curtains that come down the sides, when the curtains are down, there's no way for the people to escape. it becomes a people catcher. >> reporter: the owner of the duck boetd company insists safety is their number one priority. investigators are hoping video will shed more light. >> we have some fairly sophisticated means to dry them out, retrieve the data that's on there before we have a chance to see what's on the video. >> clues in the search for answers as loved ones seek to understand what went wrong. >> not knowing what they went through in those last few minutes, it is horrific. >> recovery efforts are set to

begin later this morning. absolutely heart breaking. up next, the editor in chief of axios has a look at this morning's one big thing. coming up on "morning joe," fire and fury. president trump thinks his tough rhetoric worked on north korea. now he's employing the same tactic against iran. could the one size fits all foreign policy backfire. plus, the legal drama between the president and his former fixer spills out into the open. the very latest on michael cohen's secret recording of the president. the reverend al sharpton joins us after his sit down with cohen on friday. plus, "the new york times" michael schmidt and emily jane fox from vanity fair will join us. another jam-packed edition of "morning joe" just moments away, everyone. e unexpected friends. e unexpected friends. these zebra and antelope. they're wearing iot sensors, connected to the ibm cloud. when poachers enter the area, the animals run for it. which alerts rangers, who can track their motions and help stop them before any harm is done.

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world leaders are using trump's tricks against him. best example so far is french president macron during the nato summit in europe recently. president trump went to macron and said he wanted macron to help the eu renegotiate some trade deals with the united states. macron said no, we'll go straight to retaliatory measures. looking how president trump responds to strength and retaliation and particularly on some of these trade deals where president trump's opponents are learning from reading his book is that they have to act strongly. that's the only thing president trump respects is strength. >> speaking of strength and the president's america first policy from singapore to helsinki, describe for us some of the global implications of how trump has gone about his america first policy. >> america first has become the reality on the earth now. look at the last 35 days the incredible meetings first at the

g7 in canada and the nato meetings in europe and summits in singapore and helsinki. president trump gone against the multilateral institutions that underpinned a lot of these agreements. turned into a much more unilateral world, one on one negotiations. had meetings with strong men and turned our allies into adversaries. it's a consequential month in his presidency on the world stage. >> let's switch gears for a moment and talk about one of the president's domestic adversaries if you can use that term. i know that axios has interesting reporting how the president views democratic critics, including representative adam schiff on the house intelligence committee. >> yeah. it's a really interesting point. our reporting on the art of the deal how the president respects strength, he went back to people in the room watching the comey testify when one of president's greatest enemies, adam schiff, constantly attacks the president on twitter and television, trump had grudging respect how strong

he was hammering comey during that hearing. trump can say he does expect other people to behave like him. >> interesting. finally, let's talk michael cohen. axios has new reporting into michael cohen's thoughts regarding trump's fitness to become commander in chief. these two guys were considered besties if you will. >> michael cohen has gone from saying he would take a bullet and defend president trump until the end and telling his friends he doesn't think that president trump is fit to be president anymore. the most interesting thing about cohen, he was involved in all of the president's dealings. he knows more about what the president was involved with personally and his business dealings more than anyone else. now he isn't defending the president, it's interest squhag he will say prosecutors say publicly. >> he will do best for his country and family first. we'll read axios am in a little bit. go to signup.axios.com.

that does it for us this morning. "morning joe," everyone, starts right now. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is monday, july 23rd. we've got three big stories this morning, each with a direct line to the next. first, president trump screaming over twitter last night. he's been screaming all weekend, but last night he was screaming instead of screaming about republican judges, he was screaming about the republican guard and his threat to wipe out iran. as we've seen in the past, he always dials up his rhetoric on foreign policy when things start falling apart here at home. in this case, it is, of course, the news that his long-time lawyer, michael cohen, recorded a conversation where he and donald trump were scheming and discussing payments involving a former playboy model. an