>> i'm sorry. he had an idea for you. >> okay. >> we got served from "the new york times," i told you, regarding to unsealed divorce papers with ivana. we're fighting it. >> never be able to get that. >> never, never. they don't have any -- they don't have a legitimate purpose. >> a woman that doesn't want a -- >> correct. it's all for about two, three weeks now. >> delay it four weeks. >> even after that, it's not going to be opened. no purpose for it. told you about charleston. i need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info

regarding our friend david, you know, so that -- i'm going to do that right away. i've spoken to allen about how to set the whole thing comes ti financing, which will be -- >> what financing? >> we'll have to pay. >> cash? >> no, no, no. model's story we purchased and never published for $150,000 by the national enquirer's parent he mentioned our friend david. when the "the wall street journal" mentioned the payment, hope hicks said we have no

knowledge of any of this. >> the big question now, why release this. of why release there? they say cohen is trying to reset his life as not being donald trump's bullet-taker, or worse, a punching bag for donald trump's defense strategy where he takes the bullet. this is a turn for him. it is a new resolve to tell the truth no matter what, even if it endangers him. the white house, declining comment and referring questions to rudy guiliani, who disputed the cohen team's claims when trump said quote cash cohen urged him to use a fake check. listen to this. >> the major.is it's outrageous that someone would tape its client surreptitiously. it's fol hardy for them to yell and cream, and make believe what's on the tape. i agree it's a little hard to hear.

i assure you, we listened to it num russian, numerous times. and the transcript makes it quite clear at the end that president trump says, don't pay with cash. >> and there is some dispute to that. the political reporter for daily beast. becky, thank you for joining us early after humg news with the release of that -- after huge news with the release of the tape. what does this mean for the president? >> what it means is that michael cohen from the white house perspective is perhaps going rogue. we now know he is completely comfortable releasing the material that undermines the president for the express purpose and pushing back and criticizing and essentially to undermine the president's attorney, rudy guiliani. the reason this is happening now because last week guiliani said that michael cohen wanted to make this payment to america media incorporated for the mcdougal story in cash. but trump insisted on using a check to make the payment.

guiliani said trump wanted everything to be above board. to go the way you expect things to go, typically, when these kind of payments are made. almost immediately people in cohen's catch started pushing back saying, no, no, no, that's not what the tape says, now we have the tape. based on my listening to it, it seems to line one cohen's version of events rather than guiliani's version of events, though guiliani disputes that. essentially, we have a battle between michael cohen's lawyers and the president's lawyers. very significant. >> looming over all of this is robert mueller and his investigation. how could something like this play into the mueller investigation. does it say anything or signal anything about michael cohen's willingness to work with the special investigator? >> the legal matter related to michael cohen was initially unearthed by mueller's probe, mueller handed it over to investigators in the southern district of new york. that said, one thing i can tell you based on a conversation last

week with a person familiar with what i'm speaking is that michael cohen's friends are urging him to affirmatively go to mueller and try to potentially bring contacts to the special counsel's attention. that doesn't mean he is going to or voluntarily is going to turn in anything. people in his orbit are pushing him to take that step. >> anyidea whether or not we see more tapes released in the future? >> my guess we will see them released if guiliani makes claims based on materials in tapes and cohen's team tries to counter. >> as a defense. thanks, betsy. a contentious georgia runoff, brian kevin secured the gop noom nomination. he beat out leiutenant conservative casey cagle. kevin, a self prescribed politically incorrect conservative, endorsed by

president trump last week. kevin's win sets up a heated battle of the bases this fall when he takes on democrat stacy abrams who was fighting to become the nation's first black female governor. >> all right. just hours of president trump praised tariffs on twitter, his administration announced a temporary $12 billion program to help american farmers who have been struckling in the wake of the president's trade policies. nbc chief white house correspondent halle jackson has more. >> reporter: before he farmed this land his dad did and his dad before that. these days, it's tougher to turn a profit. >> we need these tariffs to end southeastern rather than later. >> reporter: those tariffs triggered a trade war. >> the longer this goes on, it makes it that much harder for us. crop costs on our end seem to be going up all the time. >> reporter: producers of soy beans, dairy, cotton and more

geten an assist from the -- get an assist from the trump administration. a $12 billion program is meant to offset the $11 billion in losses farmers face the goal in this one time aid package to hold them over until the u.s. can help with other countries. they say it will end the long term gain. >> the farmers will be the biggest beneficiary. watch. we're opening up markets. you watch what's going to happen. just be a little patient. >> reporter: but patience is running thin at the capitol where republicans from hard hit states are not happy and not hiding it. >> give me trade not aim. let us have access to them. and the trade war now. >> what i've said many times the best way to limit trade war is don't fight the thing. >> when you choose a war of choice, which is what this trade war is, then you say,

afterwards, let's just solve it by buying people gold plated crutches, the farmers of america don't want crutches. they want to work. >> reporter: as for how the eligible farmers will apply for or actually receive that money, the administration says those details are still being worked out. our thanks to you. >> our thanks to halle jackson for that report. after causing an uproar in the summit with president putin last week, president trump is raising concern russia will attempt to interfere in the mid-term election. he tweeted yesterday, i'm very concerned that russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming election. based on the fact that no president has been tougher on russia than me, they will be pushing very hard for the democrats. they definitely don't who want trump. trump offer nod evidence why he believed russia would be pushing for democrats. putin, himself, said in helsinki last week he wanted trump to win in 2016. >> president putin, did you want president trump to win the election?

and did you direct any of your officials to help you do that? >> translator: yes, i did. yes, i did. because he talked about bringing the u.s.-russia relationship back to normal. >> pretty interesting tweet to say the least from the president there. the white house said last week discussions are under way for vladimir putin to visit what ug this fall the gop leaders say they have no intention of inviting putin to the u.s. capitol. watch this. >> well, we would certainly not be giving him an invitation to do a joint session. that's something we reserve for alies. >> i can only speak for the congress. the speaker and i made it clear putin will not be welcome up here at the capitol. >> so the kremlin, meanwhile, has not yet even accepted trump's invitation for a washington summit. a kremlin aid told reporters yesterday, there are other options quote to meet. he says the upcoming g20 summit and went open to say i think it

would be wise to let the dust settle and then we can discuss all of these questions in a business-like way, but not now. >> interesting. still ahead, lawyers for the justice department say they will be able to reunite all separated migrant families by tomorrow's dead line the whereabouts of other parents remain unknown. tomorrow jeff sessions last as students chapt "lock her up" at a high school leadership summit. those stories and, of course a check on your weather when we come back.

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not provided more information on the parents whose status is unknown the judge also blamed the poor planning on the zero tolerance policy that separated parents crossing the border illegally so far. 1012 parents have been reunited with their children. it is unclear how many have been deported at least into the u.s. or remain detained. attorney general jeff sessions prepared remarks to high school students. they were briefly interrupted by political rallying cry that he's all too familiar with. watch this. >> oh, i like this bunch, i got to tell you, you are not going to be backing down. go get 'em. go get 'em. rather than molding -- lock her up well, so, i heard that a long

time over the last campaign. >> all right. so that moment as can you imagine has raised a lot of eyebrows at the washington, d.c. leadership summit hosted by conservative national group turning point usa. it features some of the most known gop faces in the nation. sessions toured youths, accusing them of creating a generation of sanctimonious snowflakes, his words, it took place at colleges after president trump's election. lawmakers are weigh income on president trump's threats to revoke clearance of several officials critical of him. here's what some top republicans had to say about that. >> i can't even believe that somebody at the white house followed up something like this. i mean, when you are going to start taking retribution against people who are your political enemies in this manner, that's the kind of thing that happens

in venezuela. it's a banana republic kind of thing. >> i think these trolling people, honestly, this is something that's in the purview of the executive branch. i think some of these people already lost their clean, some keep their clearances, that's something the executive branch deals with. it's not in our purview. >> is it a banana public comment some of your colleagues made? >> should you revoke somebody's security clearance because they have been acting like butthead? i don't know. you know, i'm -- maybe the right thing to do is just to ignore the buttheads. >> all right the white house monday named six officials who could lose their security clearance. at least two of them don't even have clearance any more. all right, let's get a check on your weather now with meteorologist bill kierans. some good news, i hope? >> eventually. we have one more day of flooding

concerns the west coast are still dealing with that epic heat wave. as of now, 29 people in flood watches right through richmond, washington, d.c., ball more. we got drenched yesterday. philadelphia, central pennsylvania. the only flash flood warning we have is in central pa. that's the biggest concern. we've had almost a foot of rain in the last few days. we will get more thunderstorms this afternoon. this area from harrisburg to williamsport is in a risk of high flooding the rivers are already at flood stage. if we get rain on top of that we could have record stage flooding. in baltimore, the heaviest flash flooding. in new york, we have a band of rain about to move to new york city. there is rain in north carolina. d.c., richmond, that will fill in, throughout your early momplth how about the heat out west? 39 million at heat risk

advisory. it was 121 in palm prescription yesterday. today it will probably be close to that 120. phoenix record highs. same with tucson, too. the rainfall in the mid-atlantic, though, today is the last day for the rain there. is there that will be good news for us in the coming days. >> a little less humidity. >> we can deal with that. . still ahead a record breaking contract for one nfl running back. in baseball the yanks claimed victory over their rivals. details next in sports. but for cyber criminals it's plenty of time to launch thousands of attacks. luckily security analysts and watson are on his side. spotting threats faster and protecting his data with the most securely encrypted main frame in the world. it's a smart way to eat lunch in peace. sweet, oblivious peace.

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a 4-0 shutout of tampa bay, completing the sixth game of his career. what a game. all right. finally we he ed to the french countryside, you will not believe this, yesterday's 16th stage of the tour de france came to an abrupt hamtramck after police used tear gas to disperse a group of protesting farmers who blocked the route with bails of h of hay. the stage resumed after a 15-minute delay and the incident did not affect the overall standings. it's something you don't hear about that often. >> no, you are riding that hard, that long, mentally you have to deal with tear gas along the route. >> hay bails and tear gas. thanks, louis. still ahead the gop reaction, president trump offering $12 billion in aid to farmers, who have been impacted by the president's own tariff plan. plus, ivanka trump's fashion company is shutting down the first daughter and white house

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welcome back, everybody. it is the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top stories. t the trump administration announcing $12 billion aid to give to farmers. the agricultural department released the amount yesterday. sonny purdue saying it was in

line we are talliatory exports on u.s. farms. officials say the aid will be awarded to soy bean, cotton and hock farmers. it is expected to go into effect by labor day. it does not require to be a congressional approval. it's a them traer stop gap amid president trump's escalating trade war the president tweeted tariffs are the greatest. either a country which has treated the occupation unfairly on trade negotiates a fair deal, or it gets hit with tariffs. it's as simple as that -- and everybody's talking. remember, we are the piggy bank. all been great. it comes days af the members of the iowa corn grower's association met about growing concerns they will not be able to keep their businesses afloat after this year's harvest if prices continue to drop due to the trade war. >> so after the agricultural

department's announcement of the aid package for farmers, president trump awarded a crowd in missouri to be patient during his ongoing trade disputes, speaking at an annual convention, he reported abc's vaughan hilliard on "morning joe" yesterday showcasing the pressure farmers are under due to trump's tariffs. those remark versus drawn comparisons by critics to george orwell's 1984. >> just stick with us. don't believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news. i mean i saw a piece on nbc today, nbc, not just cnn, cnn is the worse. i saw a piece on nbc. it was heartthrobing. they were interviewing people. they probably go through 20 and pick the one that sounds like

the worse. but they went through a group of people. in fact, i wanted to say, i got to do something about this trump. terrible. and that piece was done by the lobbyists and by the people that they hire. it was a total setup. just remember, what you are seeing and what you are reading is not what's happening. they don't want to have those tariffs put on them, they're all coming to see us. the farmers will be the biggest beneficiary. watch. we're opening up markets. you watch what's going to happen. just be a little patient. >> all right. so during some of the president's attacks, boos could be heard coming from the crowd if response, vfw tweeted today, we were disappointed to hear some of our members boo the press during president trump's remarks. we rely on the media to spread the vfw message. and cnn and npc news and abc and

others were our invited guests. we are happy to have them here. the president's tariffs are drawing plenty of criticism from a number of pro free trade republicans. speaking with politico yesterday, senator ron johnson said quote this is becoming more and more leak a soviet type of economy here. commissars sprinkleing around benefits. senator bob corker issued a statement, that read, in part, these tariffs are a massive tax increase on american consumers and businesses, and instead of offering welfare to farmers to solve a problem they themselves created, the admin strald should reverse course and end this policy. senator ben sass was as equally as blunt in his approval of the aid. >> when you choose a war of choice, which is what this trade war, you say afterwards, let's

solve it by buying people gold plated crutches. the farmers of america, they don't want crutches. they want to work. >> here's what house speaker paul ryan had to say about tariffs as well. >> the president says tariffs are the greatest at bringing negotiations to the table. >> in all caps. >> how long do you give him to see if this strategy works? >> look, i made it pretty clear, i don't think tariffs are the right answer. i they they're taxes. i think there are better tools we can use to hold abusers of trade laws and people countries that perpetuate unfair trade practices, i think there are better tools to use to get them to play fairly. >> reporting now, reporter for the daily beast, let's talk about this aid package, $12 billion the price tag there. what could the impact look like for farmers down the line after the money has run out and do we have any idea where this money is coming from?

>> reporter: the impact is likely to be extremely detrimental and unless the federal government is willing to continue re-upping this type of aid, eventually it will catch one farmers. one of the biggest problems is once pharrellers or an exporter loses access to a particular market, which appears to be happening in the case of many american formers who sold their products to china, it's difficult to regain access to that market. so even if eventually this trade war is concluded. you know all the tension is dissipated, it's likely many of these chinese import lers have found different farmers and producers from which to purchase these products. a market lost once is a market very hard to regain. that's why from a structural perspective, these tariffs are a hume problem for farmers there so let's talk about this politically, betsy. we know as we played in the segment right before trade's tariff, they are drawing criticisms from a lot of his own

gop the question, though, that going to translate into votes lost come the mid-terms? >> reporter: one thing we know is that the country of the united states has entered punitive trade relationships with are specifically looking for ways to tailor their tariffs so they are as politically potent as possible, particularly in the case of the eu. they have gone after companies like harley-davidson, trying to hit the president's base where it hurts. these economic issues, these pocketbook issues are often the ones they care about the most it can be off to game out how this will play out. we know countries are looking for ways to maximize political damage. additionally, we know the condition is escalateing, despite the fact is (handing) out $12 billion. there are reports they are considering an additional $500 billion on new tariffs on chinese imports. this trade war is not going away or getting cooler. >> that means the political impact will be magnified.

>> this will be a tough nut to crack for the gop. part of the platform in the mid-terms have been the economy. they want it to be the economy. they know their base cares about that. if this trade war continues to escalate, it will be a problem for them. that's right. betsy, thank you for. that we will see you on "morning joe '80s in a bit. senator republican richard berg of north carolina is breaking with devon nunez and defending the under surveillance of a former trump campaign adviser. yesterday burr said there were sound reasons for spying on carter page, it included evidence from a dossier funded by the checkpoint campaign. here's house intelligence chairman devon nunez monday night followed by burr yesterday. >> we're really happy that it came out. we have been fighting for this for months, for this nice sa application. we want those to be redacted so

the american public has a chance to see this. >> i said before there were many things that should not find their way into the public donain, nice sa applications are an awful precedent. if the american people have learned from its release is there was great justification to the courts as to why nice sa application was approved. >> all right. switching gears here, more americans believe that president trump has weakened the country than making it stronger. the latest quinnipiac university pom revealed that 35% of americans believe trump has strengthened the u.s., while 51% say the president has weakened the country. up 4 points since juvenl when asked if the president wants what's best for the country or himself, four in ten said trump wants what's best for the country. a little over half said he wanted what's best for himself. and as trump continues to royal against the mueller investigation, 55% say the probe is fair, up five points since last month.

31% said it was not. meanwhile a week after the trump-putin summit in helsinki a little over americaning polled believe the russian government has compromising information on president trump. 35% said they disagree with that. when asked who was successful in helsinki, 27% said the u.s. succeeded, while 73% said russia succeeded in those talks. >> those last two polls are quite striking there. and a new poll shows how much of an impact president trump's rhetoric has on the public image among republicans. in fact, a pugh poll shows the favorability among republicans dropped 16 percentage points shortly before trump took office. additionally, negative views have doubled in that same period. now 49% of republicans and republican leaning independents say they have a favorable penalties of the bureau while 4% say they view it negatively.

that's compared to 65% of republicans and republican-leaning independents who said they felt positive about the fbi just 18 months ago. up with% disagreed. all right. still ahead, everybody, ivanka trump announcing she is shutting down her fashion brand the reason the senior adviser is pulling the plug on the namesake company. plus, bill kierans is back with a look at the forecast including the threat for more severe weather for the east coast. stay with us.

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despite soaring sales leading up to the 2016 election, facing bioethics, deteriorates sales and dropped from major retailers, nordstroms, kneeman marcus and hudson's bay. she took manufacturers overseas and grew frustrated with the ethics she put in place to appease her critics. the company's 18 employees, she said, in part, after 17 months in walk, i do not know when or if i will ever return to the business. i do know my focus for the foreseeable future will be the work in walk. so making this decision now is the only fair outcome for my team and partners. >> all right. let's get a check on the wet weather on the east coast and the heat on the west coast, bill kierans, what do you got for us? >> overnight flooding in central pennsylvania. a lot of rivers, especially in harrisburg, what we call

moderate flood stage, we predict to go to majors. that when you get homes with problems. a lot of these pictures are coming to you from pennsylvania. this video here is from north carolina from the charlotte fire department. it wasn't just pennsylvania. that's maryland and pictures there, too, this is a mid-atlantic and north mid-atlantic problem. it continues today. it will slowly improve through the rest of the week this green shows you the first batch of rain overnight in pennsylvania. now heading into and through new york city. heavier rains to the south. we're getting a break. you will still get another round later this afternoon. 29 million people at rick of great flooding. the central risk is central pennsylvania. they've had a foot of rain, another heavy batch this afternoon will not help. heading out west now, there hasn't been that many record highs. but the duration of the heat wave is incredible in some areas. it will continue into the

weekend. fresno 19 days in a row above 20 degrees. it will be pretty incredible stuff the heat dome is sitting out here in the west. texas was a little bit cooler. they will heat up once again too. the triple digit heat is with us. 120 palmetto sprin springs. down u downtown l.a., 100 degrees. seattle should hit 90 degrees. >> almost 25 days. almost a month of triple digit heat for fresno. >> fresno is almost guaranteed now. they will finish up with their warmest july ever reported. >> still ahead, president trump bashing the sec for a major media network. >> plus the president sits down with the head of the european commission amid the ongoing trade war with america's allies. details on those and the others driving your business day next. .

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. >> welcome back. let's turn to business. after two weeks calling the eu a faux. the sitdown comes after the president considers new tariffs on imported cars all on the back of vocal frustration from european allies. we are joined live from london

with more. nancy, what more can you tell us about today's meet something. >> reporter: good morning to you, louis. yes, big expectations for this meeting. however, both sides seem to be already playing down those expectations. you talked about president trump already referring as a foe on trade. on the eve of the visit, president trump referred to the european union, and cars will be at the heart of this discussion and investors have been telling me that's the big one they're looking out for, if the u.s. goes forward on 20% import tariffs for eu cars and car parts, that would really unsettled investors across the board. when it comes to the european commission standpoint, could be the beginning of talks going forward and not looking for a big deal to come out of the discussions so far. president trump took to twitter saying he's lied to see tariffs go to zero, probably not likely. also talked about the deal for

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welcome back, everybody. joining us from washington, a look at axios a.m. editor, nicholas johnson. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> i like this "one big thing" you got going. tell us about it. >> all right. it's never too early to talk about 2020. >> never too early. >> "one big thing," the candidate president trump and advisers are most worried about facing, vice president joe biden. ahead of myself there. they see biden as a person who could most likely make in-roads. white working class voters. particularly worried about pennsylvania, a key state for president trump he won in election now. they think joe biden would do very well, an effective candidate in rural pennsylvania and suburban states.

important to note recently an interview on cbs president trump was asked about joe biden, said he would love to face him. reporting say that actually means he wouldn't. >> what does the former vice president think about the potential 2020 matchup? the vice president has in the past alluded to that in not so political terms saying he'd like to take trump out back and, you know -- rough him up? >> joe biden and his advisers think he would be a competitive candidate on the exact group of voters and he passed on running, his son was sick and couldn't commit to the campaign. biden will hit the road this fall helping congressional candidates for the mid-term. a dry run, see how well he's able to handle the strains of campaigning.

keep an eye on him inial fall t to see what it looks like for 2020. >> and what flipping a state like pennsylvania? >> pretty high. democrats and republicans look at pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, states trump won narrowly. trump advisers and biden advisers think biden would be very strong in those states. >> the same subject, a welcomeness from within the democratic party to see joe biden run in 2020 given all the split we're hearing now? with progressives and the left like bernie sanders and others? >> a tough primary fight. remember? biden represents the old guard about that. elizabeth warren, camilla harris, bernie sanders making a run for this. a hell of a primary to watch. >> indeed. thank you very much live from washington, d.c. reading axios a.m. in a bit. sign up for that newsletter simply going to signu

signup@axios.com. that does it for us. "morning joe" starts right now. just remember what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening. >> and there you have it. or as george orwell wrote in the novel "1984" reject the evidence of your eyes and your ears. the president dominating airwaves this morning even when he didn't plan to be. former fixer michael cohen release add secretly recorded audiotape featuring donald trump discussing a payment involving a former playboy model. and giving a public boost to the press after the president attacked reporters as fake news during an event yesterday. and speaking of campaign lines from years ago, egging on high school students in a chant of "lock her up" and the hammering the white house for trade policies and a government bailout to farmers. one senator likens to the economic graft of the soviet union. one republican senator, i might

point out. good morning. welcome to "morning joe." it's wednesday, july 25th. i'm willie geist alongside nbc news capitol hill correspondent host of k.c. d.c., kasie hunt. >> welcome, guys. >> lightning, let us know. >> waiting for the barnicle hot tape flames. >> might be coming today. >> one today? a tease from msnbc contributor mike barnicle. also with us, national affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc john heilemann, associate editor of "common" magazine and jonathan lamere and betsy woodruff and "new york times" reporter michael schmidt. joe and mika have the morning off. a full house and a verification of a 2016 audiotape recorded by trump's former fixer. who said what, agreeing on the subj t