however, on a tuesday night, thank you so very much for being here with us. good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. they just came out with a poll. did you hear? the most popular person in the history of the republican party is trump. can you believe this? does that include honest abe lincoln? what do you think? he's tough. i admit it. abe lincoln is tough. one of these guys is on television can't miss a word. can't miss a word. they see the poll, oh my god, yeah, seven more years. seven more. >> president trump back on the company trail trying to whip up votes, ends up whipping hess

supporters into a frenzy against the media. is russia at it again, more fake accounts potentially trying to influence americans ahead of the mid-term elect. is the government taking this seriously? a jury has been seated. opening argument already over, trademark now under way in the trial against paul manafort. what we learned day one as we set the stage for day two. . >> good morning. we begin with facebook who now says it has identified a political influence campaign believed to be involved inning a activity meant to create discourse in the upcoming elections. specifically the social giant

removed eight facebook pages, 17 facebook profiles and 7 instagram accounts. first discovered about two weeks ago having engaged if divisive social issues, including white supremacy and the abolish i.c.e. movement. they have created more than 95 organic posts in addition to running about 150 ads between april 2017 and june of this year. those pages have also created 30 events over a period. including a no right to d.c. event to counter a planned white supremacist rally in washington by the same group that organized last year's deadly unite the right valley in charlottesville. up to 2600 users expressed interest in attending that

event. >> facebook says they don't know who is behind these accounts. everyday includes russia may be behind some of the activity. sthaf received a private briefing earlier this week from facebook officials. the committee is holding an open hearing on social media later today. >> listen, this is going to be a process of companies beginning to identify areas of concern. it's important this is the start of a collaboration between government and these companies to address concerns that they have and we have about the use of their platforms. >> i want people that do this to have a priechls i will be introducing thursday a sanctions bill against russia, everything but the kitchen kichg i sings in it. it will be the sanctions bill from hell. every other country sharing in

our election can share the same fate. you can only do so much on defense, it is now time to go on offense. >> they are setting up banks, electric companies and critic infrastructure from a cyber attack. our national political reporter is joining us. thank you for joining us so early. we anticipate something like this happening with regard to the mid-term election. it is now actually happening. >> exactly. what more are we learning? >> i would say yesterday i was on capitol hill and some of those skrums you sa you with those lawmakers. this had a big impact. at the same time, lawmakers saying we have not surprised. we have been saying this is coming for some time. if you look back at the special counsel dime, it specified the degree to which the research agency, the sophistication with which they were able use social

media, use our free dialogue against us to target the most sensitive and hot button political issues in the u.s. i think the number that jumped out if terms of the new information that facebook put out was the real live event these pages and accounts were posting about, that drew interest from real facebook users, trying to get them to one this weekend. the no unite rally in washington the real question going ahead as we digest what facebook announced here, just how prepared is our government to counteract this threat? we have had great reporting ability what the white house is doing or not doing to counteract this russian threat. mark warner the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee, yesterday talked about how we are building the best 21st military while oured a voebls are focusing on cyber --

advocates are focusing on cyber space? what kind of damage could these ads that are popping up in facebook actually cause? >> now, we know facebook is not identifying russia behind these specific ads. what we did see in that mueller die. it appears to be the case now. russians are showing great understanding of our political system and latching on to immigration, like the charlottesville last year and the white supremacist movement growing in the u.s. the most hotly contested issues, amplifying those messages to keep that dialogue going in a way to influence our election here. >> 98 days out, you see how important this is. stick around, we will touch base with you in a bit. ken carolinaly will be on "morning joe" later in the morning. all right, special counsel

bob mueller's first milestone as the first part of his jury selection gets under way. foreman trump manager paul manafort faces charges over his work for the russian backed government of ukraine, justice correspondent pete williams has more often day one of the proceedings. >> reporter: yasmin, this trial is under way very quickly. jury selected six men, six women, opening statements from the lawyers and we're now getting our first re-day-old look at paul manafort's defense. though, paul manafort was the trump chairman for three months, for nearly a decade robert mueller's prosecutors told the jury manafort made millions a a putin allie, stashed at least 15 million of it in overseas banks to avoid paying taxes. prosecutors say he lied to banks to get $25 million in loans on

his houses. he said the man that hid the money was his former business partner, rick gates, he has pleaded guilty and will intensify. manafort has defended his i don't have seas lobbying as promoting democracy. >> well the work i was doing in europe was to get them in europe and we succeeded. >> trump has distanced himself from paul manafort? he worked for us for a short period of time. 49 days. >> reporter: he tweeted mueller saying collusion isn't a crime. that doesn't matter, because there was no collusion. powell manafort is scene, if convicted, he could get ten years in prison. he faces another trial on similar charges next month in washington, d.c.. >> thank you to pete williams for that report. federal prosecutors in new york have been investigating possible illegal foreign las vegas by three washington power players

after a revel by special counsel robert mueller according to individuals tony podesta, former republican congressman vin weber, now a partner at mercury public affairs and greg craig a washington lawyer who was white house counsel during barack obama's first year as president. they work for the then victor yanukovych and whether they registered their work at foreign agents is reportedly in question none have been channelled with a crime. the. a perform reported that rick gates personally directed mercury and the podesta group to set up meetings between senators and congressmen involving the country's interests, later detailed in the manafort indictment. craig, on the other hand, oversaw a report produced by his law firm about the prosecution

of a yanukovych rival. mercury said it welcomes any inquiry and has acted appropriate appropriately. it's get to the rally last night, president trump in florida, he was touching for rick scott, running for senate. scott did not attend the rally. rally goers screamed at the pen wheel they let loose a stream of false and flawed claims. watch this. >> fake news, fake news. they are fake. every night is the same thing, wouldn't you think they get tired of these speeches? wouldn't you think? >> only american citizens should vote in american elections.

which is why the time has come for voter i.d. like etching else. voter i.d. you know, if you go out and you want to buy groceries, you need a pick or a card. you need i.d.. >> and few see some of that haunting video, i have to say, it is unbelievable. no matter what side of the aisle you stand on, you need to say that is not okay to treat that reporters and media that way. i want to bring in white house reporter for politico. welcome to the program, andrew, thank you for getting up early morning, appreciate it. besides from the medica opportunitying which was a good deal i have to say. what were the take aways from the florida rally last night? smr we will' much more from the president in the coming months. this is the president. when he's in washington, he's

feeling attacked from all sides, all the criticisms lobbed against him all day. he gets to tampa and gets inunadulterated crimes. he riles up his base and will continue doing that, including with the media, saw brutal criticisms and attacks and slurs thrown at jim acosta of cnn. which is the president's favorite punching bag, obviously, it's pretty outrageous insults you seen hurled at him. but the president's supporters and advisers, themselves this is really a good thing. they want to have this fight. they want to punch the media as much as they k. you will see more of that going into the mid-terms. >> let's talk about the mueller investigation interesting development with bob mueller

referring those three individuals investigations, their firms looking into foreign lobbying in the southern district of new york. tell us ability the significance of that and its impact on the status of the russia probe at large. >> reporter: sure, i think it says robert mueller, there are no sacred cows for him. of all criticism you hear from president trump about this investigation. it's a witch hunt. it stems from all democrats i mean he is, this turns out robert mueller is going after democrats just as much as republicans and washington insiders, he's not going to take -- he's going after the very lobbyists, forming the foundation of washington life, right? so this will be making a lot of people nervous, notably, tony modesta, he's a huge power broker. lots to watch. >> andrew, it's great to have

you with us. turning overseas now, north korea appears to be back to etc. old tricks, in this case news confirmed both satellite no as tos show the program is ongoing and continuing to produce ballistic missiles according to arms control experts. specifically this annotated photo taken one month of the summit in singapore shows missile production. it follows a washington post report stating kim jong-un's regime is producing new missiles capable of reaching the continental united states. in june, they indicated north korea was working to deceive the united states ability the stock piles. the state department was asked about those reports yesterday. >> what queer goiwe're going on commitment he made to our

president. >> that is the commitment to de-nuclearize. we certainly anticipate he will hold up his end of the bargain and commitment on that. in terms of that specific report. i've seen it. we are well aware of that report. that will follow under an intelligence matter. it's something i will not be able to get into. >> when was the last time you seen progress on discussions of de-nuclearization. >> we continue to work on that and keep pushing ahead. >> is there a progress? >> i'm not giving you a readout. off conversations continue at the working level and into the government. >> important to emphasize there a verbal agreement. >> versus the intelligence from agencies. >> it's an actual report. still ahead, the next chapter in the gun debate is under way? we're talking undetectable firearms made with 3d printers. they have been jammed up. we will explain that next. (burke) at farmers, we've seen almost everything

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welcome back, everyone, a washington judge has blocked a 3d promoters from posting his gun blue prints online, attorneys in eight states and the district of colombia filed a nation wide restraining order to prevent plans for so-called ghost guns uploaded to the internet. they cited the inability to be detected and traced and likelihood of irreparable public harls. they reversed the ruling last month. in a tweet yesterday morning, president trump said he was looking into his decision. it follows legal battles in states of new jersey, pennsylvania and new york. cody wilson designed schematics for others on his website has agreed to not upload additional

files until a full hearing takes place in december. >> a little frightening. all right. let's get a look at your weather with bill kierans. you are tracking the weather in northern california where the wildfires are still continuing to burn. >> last report 103,000 acres. we're still trying to get the confinement numbers up. we're below 30%. right now, currently across the west, there are 95 large blazes burning. you know, we hear focus mostly on california. they have seven large fires in oregon. they have 12. it shows you, it's not just in california the car fire today 192. we bring it down to 99 thursday and friday. the ferguson fire is in the low '80s. so summer heat. there is still plenty of dry air. during the day, it will burn

good. the august heat doesn't continue of areas of the west. 103 in redding today. fresno 103. palm springs 109. we have many areas report the warmest julys in redding, fresno, seattle and portland, into thursday, this continues here. if you are on the east coast, we will talk about this it's an umbrella day. it's in the forecast from florida to the gulf all the way through the northeast. the humidity, new york city, boston, it's a different atmosphere to walk out the door. >> still ahead, did john kelly commit to becoming the longest serving chief of staff in history? we will have that. on the diamond the mets pulled off something truly amazing last night. they lost by three touchdowns. believe it or not. details next in sports.

welcome back, time now for sports, yesterday major league teams ahead of baseball's trade deadline the pittsburgh pirates pull off a last-minute deal for chris archer. there will be a new second baseman in walk after the brewers pickled up jonathan schoop for infielder johnnathany

alar and kevin gausman and darren o'day to the brafbs for four more prospects there. the dodgers have a trade with the twins for brian dozier. in a conclugd move for one of the busiest teams before this year's deadline, the rays send all star catcher wilson ramos for a player named later on. in st. petersburg, the 7th run 4th inning they beat the angels 4-678 willie mays joined in the 7k9 as the only player in history to hit 30 home runs and steal 20 bases three times before turning 26-years-old. that's a pretty nice club to be in. from glory, we go to doom. the new york mets lost to the washington nationals.

25-4. this really hurts. they score offend the infielder who came in as an emergency relieve, the most runs the national versus ever scored in a game. also the worst loss in the met's 57-year franchise history. ouch, guys. it will not be happy this mornin morning. >> i would sigh that was the scoring you saw in my little league days. >> yasmin was saying, that an nfl game? >> they could have certain will you done better. >> they are waking up as a happy catcher. still ahead, day two of the trial for paul manafort. we will tell you where his defense laying the blame in there plus facebook wastes no

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welcome back, everybody. it is the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top stories. the trial for the president's former campaign chair took off at lightning speed yesterday with jury selection opening statements and the cross examination of the first witness, all in day one. the jury consists of six men, six women and for alternates

during opening statements the prosecution painted paul manafort as a shrewd liar who fell he was above the law as he hid money to evade taxes while living a lavish lifestyle. man for the denies any counts, including bank fraud, meanwhile the defense in its opening statement zeroed in on his former deputy in the trump campaign, rick gates, he was manafort's co-defendant until he decided to slip. the defense is pinning it all on gates claiming manafort is on trial because of one man, rick gates. democrat tad devine who worked for pro russian politics in ukraine. devine testified how manafort ran his team during cross examination. defense attorneys established devine respected manafort's work. leaving the kroocourtroom, he s

paul deserves a fair triechlal. i tried to assist in that. president trump will decide whether he will shut down of the mid-term elections for money for the border wall the president privately told aides, he was committed to keeping the government opened, telling them he recognizes the political cost of the showdown before elections. yesterday, trump es ka late his public threat of a shutdown to warn, i don't care what the political ramifications are, your immigration laws and border security have been a complete and total disaster for check canadian and there is no way that the democrats will allow it to be fexd without a government shut down. eighth small price to pay for a

safe and prosperous america. the president replicated that threat during a rally in florida last night. >> we're going to have tremendous voter security. >> that will include the wall. that will include the wall. now, a lot of people don't know it, but we've already started the wall. we got $1. billion. we've started large portions of the wall. we will need the way we negotiate. we will need more. we will get more. we may have to do some pretty drastic things, but we're going to get it. >> the white house chief of staff john kelly is seeking out his position until 2020 according to sources that spoke to the "wall street journal." kelly accepted the ongoing role at president trump's personal request. he let staff know on monday which marked his one-year i was in in the role, white house officials caution kelly's claims saying unforeseen circumstances could uproot those plans.

the four star general has had a tumultuous position at times, most notably getened flatt-- ge flattened in the trial and going without a chief of staff if he were to leave. john kelly's tenure as chief of staff would be among the longest in history if he stays on the board through 2020, guys. >> interesting, that is a long time away, especially in this white house. joining us again, white house reporter for political reporter andrew restucian, let's talk about chief kelly. this is a man bounced around for a few weeks as being checked out, so to speak. what can we see in terms of staffing personnel at the white house as this die nam wick john kelly unfolds? >> reporter: it's a notable

development one note of caution, everybody is staying until they're not. we seen repeatedly people say they are staying only to be summarily dismissed by the president. 2020 is an eternity in this white house with the staff changeover. the white house wanted the story out there. they have been struggling for months, will he, won't he? the reporting about trump pulling advisers who should -- polling advisers who should replace kelly. >> let's talk about this border wall fight that it seems like it is ramping up a bit. president trump reportedly agreeing to delay the fight. we heard mitch mcconnell on monday saying the government shutdown will not happen in september. >> that would be really bad politics. we will talk about it in the mid-term elections. now have you the president turning up the heat on twitter with regards to imgachlgs he

says this is not about politics. this is about immigration in this country. do you think we could see the president change his mind on this? >> reporter: oh, absolutely. this is another choose your own adventure moment with the president. it's difficult to tell what to believe, what he is saying at rally, on twitter and privately. he told aides he understands the political ramifications of shutting it down. republicans have repeatedly told him not to do it. he has said in the past month, there could be a political advantage, particularly among his base within it comes to immigration. he realizes this is a core issue for his base. he is seen as taking it to the mat on immigration. he feels it could be a strucktory. i think we will see a lot of fluctuations from him in a couple months. with less than 100 day noose the mid-term election, facebook is sounding the alarm on

influencing those suspects. they say they have identified and stopping the campaign to spread political messages on its platform. national correspondent peter alexander has more on this new threat. >> reporter: facebook says it's happening again, the social media giant announcing 32 accounts on facebook and instagram. an apparent influence company ahead of november's mid-term. the bogus pages stirring up a device of issues, one called resistors, against annium coming white nationalist rally. even activists facebook says unwittingly caused interest. >> that pushing them to abolish i.c.e.. a part of a growing political firestorm. >> the democrats want to abandon i.c.e.. they want to end i.c.e. >> reporter: the pages created between march of last year and this may picking up 200,000 followers? who is responsible?

facebook says it doesn't know. but on capitol hill they are reporting to russia him one republican vowing more sanctions. >> that has everything but the kitchen siveng in it. it will be the sanctions bill from hell. >> reporter: congress recently grilled mark zucker burg over facebook's handing of russia interference in 2016. >> unfortunately the process isn't per fevenlg i am committed to doing that. >> i think facebook wants to do that to restore confidence with investors. >> reporter: the white house says president trump is aware of this latest disinformation campaign and they applaud the actions facebook is taking. >> thanks, to peter alexander for that report. let's go to washington. a reporter is joining us. talk about the effect just 98 days or so i believe now. >> reporter: yes, this is interesting. what we saw in terms of the

effectiveness of these russian tactics was these pages would attempt to imitator mirror the talking.and act as a bait and switch. for instance, black lives matter in 2016. they would shift their talking points to be critical of hillary clinton in an attempt to diminish the turnout of a key part of her base. the question ahead of the mid-term elect, when you have 435 congressional race, more than 30 senate races, are these ads effective of a tactic, to affect specific parties and candidates the same way? the bottom line is they are choosing the most divisive political issues in an attempt to keep us fighting with each other. >> that's what i wonder, is this more about no cushion on a candidate or so discourse in general? >> you put the information on facebook with claire mchaskell's hacking attempt, you start to get a big pick of what is taking

place. here's the interesting thing, mike, facebook did not specifically living the pages they talked about and those accounts to russia as a government. interestingly, they noted that some of the techniques were very similar to those that was that were used by the kremlin-linked group known as the internet research achlgs could they be linked to the same russian bots? how much do we know about this round of attacks and russia? >> reporter: facebook was not specifically pointing to russia. they want the help of the fbi and intelligence agencies to work this team to identify specifically who was behind this. they did say these mirrored a lot of the tactics in 2016. in fact, they saw some activity linked to accounts they identified recently as being from the research agency in russia. what's interesting here, as we go forward the question of how

-- whether russia was involved here, whether our government will be able respond to this specifically and diminish the threat here, that we can see. and are they refining their tactics? that was one of the revthe reas they were advancing. >> that's why i wonder if we can get these mid-term reports publicly before the mid-term senate elections. >> reporter: we have a hearing with experts on social media. we will see facebook come before the panel in september. they plan to release their own report to declassify information further informative to the public about these kind of issues. >> interesting to see you as well. thank you very much. still ahead, new questions over what the trump administration knew of the migrant child separation policy the warning one top official says the white house was given. plus, bill kierans is back with a check on the forecast,

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welcome back, everyone, before the crisis that left hundreds of children separated from their parents, they said yesterday the agency warned the trump administration to not separate families crossing the border illegally. watch this. >> who thinks that family separation policy has been a success? raise your hand. did any one, any member of this panel say to anyone, maybe this isn't such a good idea? . commander? >> during the previous process over the previous year, we raised a number of concerns in the program about any policy which would result in family separation due to concerns we

had about the bests of the child. >> all right. so, over 700 migrant children remain separated from their parents according to dhs they are working to reunite more than 400 parents deport from the united states without them. let's switch gears and get a check, bill, from weather to maine, rain? >> we had a little light rain move through washington, d.c. i don't have night. it cleared you. it's now up into northern new jersey and eastern pennsylvania and do unnear tallahassee and mobile. hit and miss showers in pyeongchang no near nashville, also over the top of lexington. so a wet eve. then in the west, we still have red flag warnings and fire weather watches. so it continues to be dry we'd love to switch sides and give them a break. in all, as far as flooding

potential, 23 million people at risk from vest west virginia to southern portions of pennsylvania. it includes southwest atlanta. this is the area of greatest concern. here's the rainfall forecast the highest totals from atlanta here, west of charlotte. three inches. isolated totals of 4, the totals are lower in pennsylvania and upstate new york. only one to two inches, isolated. last week, this is the same area that got nailed with all the heavy rain. also, i'll end with this. a slight chance of severe weather today, central pa, northern virginia and upstate new york. so wind damage with those thunderstorms this afternoon and torrential rain. >> thanks for that, bill yay. still ahead, new details over talks between the u.s. and china

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karen cho joins us live from london. >> we did see wall street move ahead and close out the month on a high. as investors wake up to begin the trading month of august, there may not be any progress at all. we hear about 25% tariff on chinese goods, instead of threats of the initial 10%, investors are sending futures lower. despite the trade uncertainty, stocks moved higher. the dow up 4.7% on the back of earnings and a stronger economy. >> and an ohio chip poetly just reopened after customers got food poisoning working there. chip poetly just overcame the bad pr from the food-borne illnesses early this year.

what does this mean? >> investors are concerned there's another food safety scare for the company. stock down 7% yesterday. analysts remain optimistic. one upgraded their recommendation on the stock. they're hoping it might impact traffic nationwide, that it will just be contained to that one restaurant in ohio. the jury is still out. we'll have to wait and see if there are widespread illnesses. across the country. >> karen tso, thank you. coming up, a look at one big thing. coming up on "morning joe" separating fact from fiction if president trump's florida rally. he uses the event to hit on a number of familiar themes while offering up false claims to fire up supporters. a full breakdown to find the truth in trump's many claims. plus amy klobuchar and sheldon whitehouse weigh in on the president's threats to shut down the government over his border wall and whether a deal

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welcome back, everybody. joining us from washington, the co-founder of axios, mike allen. good morning. >> good morning, welcome to august. >> thank you very much. we missed that one. days are flying by on the set here. >> talk to us about axios' 1 big thing. >> you were right. it's 98 bottles of beer on the wall. 98 days until the midterm. the axios 1 big thing. the fall fore toeld. epic days to come. compressed in the amazing news events of yesterday, we have a preview of the mueller report to come. the president set the tone early in the morning by tweeting collusion is not a crime. but he still say there is was no collusion any way. then the paul manafort trial opens. the first of the mueller trials. the $15,000 ostrich coat getting

the headlines out of that. and then last night, bob costa pointing out to brian williams that president trump may have not had the chance or may not have as much likelihood of granting a pardon to paul manafort because the trial is not televised. if he's making a play for a pardon, the president's less likely to see him because it's not live on tv. >> quickly, talk about the significance of this trial on the bigger issue with the russia probe. because the specifics of this trial don't necessarily have anything to do with the russia probe. how does the impabt pact of what happens to paul manafort impact trump or impact the russia probe? >> great point. the preview of the fall. the preview of the mueller reports. this is the special prosecutor starting to show his cards. starting to show the financial crimes at t s that he looked in.

starting to show the connections to the trump campaign. this is the president's campaign chairman going out on trial right now. so it's a road map of what is coming. what we saw in the exhibits reporters got an e-mail with links to all the e-mails that were introduced in the trial yesterday. contracts from manafort consulting firm. it will be a chance for the public to see behind the curtain of how politics works, how the swamp actually works. >> as we well know, president trump had rally in florida last night. he hit on a number of familiar themes. what is the president's mind set, mike, with the paul manafort trial going on right now. and as we move closer to the midterm elections? >> i watched the rally live after i got off the train. i was just struck by the president hopping on air force one in the late afternoon, going to tampa.

for the rally. he's kind of teleporting himself to parallel universe. he gets there. he's able to talk about merry christmas on the last day of july. because of his campaign that even is happy to say merry christmas again. if it weren't for him, the stock market would be half of where it was. the a.p. calling him out in a fact check. talking about instances where people have to show a photo i.d. to buy groceries. talking about our country, his words, our culture, his words. the president down there with two of his children. in his own little bubble. another sense of what we'll see a ton of this fall and as the president gears up, revs up air force one for his own campaign. >> give us a sense of what you're tracking today and going into the end of the week. >> yeah, one more huge part of the preview of both the fall and the manafort report and what we'll learn more about today is that facebook announcement about

those fake accounts at the they have taken down. apparently linked to the kremlin. this is the first -- the why it matters. this is the first time a social platform has said there was a coordinated campaign to hack 2018 already. >> all right, mike allen, live in washington, d.c. >> thanks, mike. >> we'll read axios in just a bit. you can sign up for the news letter. >> that does it for us on this wednesday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. good morning. >> see that. >> yeah. >> no, i can't start the show once? >> i was reaching back to get something important. >> it's wednesday, august 1st the. >> juicy news here. >> i did. >> oh, my gosh. >> i'm here every day. you can see springsteen on broadway