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good morning everyone. it is wednesday, september 25th. we begin with a new report overnight detailing some of what dr. christine blasey ford plans to share when she's expected to testify in tomorrow's reopen supreme court conformation hearing. they report obtaining sworn declarations that she share would the senate judiciary committee to corroborate her claim that kavanaugh assaulted her when they were teenagers a claim that kavanaugh denies. ford told her about the alleged assault and contacted ford's attorney to tell them ford had conifieded in her five years ago. during our meal christine was visibly upset.

she told me she was having a hard day because she was thinking about an assault she experienced when she was much younger. she told me she had been trapped in a room with two drunken guys and escaped, ran away and hid. the report includeses details from a male friend that she says told him in 2016 and emails they exchanged 10 days before kavanaugh was nominated and the female neighbor who says ford discussed the alleged attack with her back in 2017. meanwhile, they'll vote on his nomination just hours after christine blasey ford will testify about the alleged assault that took place more than 30 years agoe. chairman chuck grassley said they may hold a vote on friday at 9:30 a.m. they're under pressure to move kavanaugh quickly through the final stages to the supreme

court. mcconnell has warned publicly and priebtly, that he plans to hold a vote no matter what happens in the judiciary committee and possibly as soon as next week. mcconnell says he is confident going into a vote. we're going to be moving forward. i'm confident i'm going to win. confident he will be confirmed in the very near future. meanwhile murkowski was asked if there should be a full fbi investigation. >> an investigation would certainly, certainly clear up some of the questions that there out there. but as i understand how the process works, it is not for the judiciary committee to make that ask. >> murkowski later walked back that statement saying her comments were perhaps somewhat

flip and she was not calling for the fbi to investigate but that committee is investigating. meanwhile bob corkerer said many senators will be watching tomorrow's hearing before iticiding their vote. >> i'd say there are actually a large number of republicans that will play a large number -- i know the media keeps characterizing three or four people but i think there's a large number of them that want to see first hand the accusation and the rebuttal. they announced late last night they've selected arizona prosecutor to question kavanaugh and christine blasey ford, who accused kavanaugh of sexual assault in the 1980s. and senator grassley writing the goal is to depliticize the process and get to the truth, instead of grand standing and giving senators an opportunity

to launch their presidential can campaign. he had earlier refused to identify the prosecutor over safety concerns. republicans are take in the unusual step in turning to mitchell, an experienced sex crimes prosecutor and registered republican to ask ford what could be potentially painful questions, prompting the republican senators from some uncomfortable exchanges. i should say sparing some of those senators from those exchanges. and the attorney had blasted the suggestion of a prosecutor. the committee's democratic senators, four of whom are women will question kavanaugh and ford themselves tomorrow at the hearing. and ramirez, the second woman to accuse kavanaugh is speaking out. in a series of tweets jerd john clune said deborah ramirez only

came forward after being contacted by ronan pharaoh and carefully working through her memories only to insure her accuracy. they have refused to meet all scheduled appointments. we've officially requested an fbi investigation and our client remains adamant that remains the appropriate venue for her to discuss her trauma. why won't the senate judiciary committee welcome that? he elaborated further while speaking to msnbc last night >> they won't talk to us. the majority party wouldn't speak to us. the demand that they keep making of us is give us every piece of information that you have now and then we can talk about scheduling a phone call and that's just not the kind of partisan game playing that our client deserves. that's not fair to her.

i think that would be a real failure if they were not to open an fbi investigation. we've really had only one process for the background investigations into potential supreme court nominees for many, many years. trrs the only way that is actually not a partisan process is for the fbi tootoo the investigation. that would be a failure on the part of the senate if that's the route they decided. >> joining us from washington d.c., co author of the politico playback. play book. what has been the reaction from law makers of what you heard from deborah ramirez and her attorney's claim that she's been permitted to sneak judiciary committee? >> they think the republicans are trying to jam kavanaugh through and that a second accuser, like ramirez, only makes it more difficult to do

that. so i think there's a desire from democrats to hear this woman and it's pretty remarkable that according to her lawyer they would try to set up phone calls with republicans on that committee, they wouldn't show up for the phone calls or they would ask for all the evidence before such a simple phone call and so that's kind of catching eyeses on capitol hill. let's talk about the other woman who's been a focus. the outside counsel. rachel mitchell, whose identity was with held for a time yesterday before we found out who she was. talk about the dynamic and how the questioning is going to be shifted or impacted with her there, given the 11 men on the republican side, on the democrats we have four women. talk about -- excuse me the dynamic expected for thursday? >> that's going to be the first introduction to both rachel and

dr. ford for many americans. think they're strike a balance to see if there are any holes in dr. ford's story but the optics of having this random prosecutor ask all these questions when this is really the senate judiciary committee's job and -- so that is kind of interesting the fact that they have to get someone outside who's never worked in the sent before to ask simple questions to dr. ford. >> and we'll be watching her, of course, blasey ford and see how he'll hold up. we're going to talk to you again in a bit. last year at the u.n. general assembly, president trump notably calling kim jong-un little rocketman. this year he made headlines for much different reason.

>> today i stand before the united nations general assembly to share the extraordinary progress we've made. in less than two years my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country. america is so true. didn't expect that reaction but that's okay. [ laughter] >> trump later told reporters his assessment regarding the success of his administration was supposed to be a joke sfwlp i think really well. it's got quick reviews and i think it went really well. >> the laughter, what did you feel about that? >> great. it was meant to get some laughter but it was great. >> there is a trump tweet for everything.

take this one from 2014. quote we need a president who isn't a laughing stock to the entire world, we need a truly great leader, a genius at strategy and winning respect." trump will chair a meeting of the security counsel on nonproliferation. and the ongoing situation with iran and it is expected once again during his speech later this morning. president trump went after teheran as well. he outlined part of his administration's strategy. >> iran's leaders, chaos, death and destruction, they do not respect their neighbors or boarders or the sovereign rights of nations. instead they plunder the nation's resources to enrich themselves and to spread mayhem

across the middle east and far beyond. the iranian people are rightly o outraged that their leaders have embezeled billions from iran's treasury. the united states has launched a campaign of economic pressure to deny the regime the funds it needs to advance its bloody agenda. >> so trump's harsh remarks came hours after he tweeted he's sure that iran's president is an absolutely lovely man and the president's words were relatively tame compared to his national security advisor at the united against a nuclear iran summit. >> according to teheran, we are the great satan, lord of the underworld, master of the raging inferno. so i might imagine they would take me seriously when i assure

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allies of rosenstein now say he's given the impression he does not plan to quit. they tell the journal he tus cussed secretly record thing president and recruiting cabinet members. he want to hear directly from the deputy attorney general himself. meanwhile members of the house freedom caucus will force a ovote to impeach rosenstein. last night he told reporters he plans to subpoena memos that -- as the budget deficit continues to sore, the federal government may soon be paying more than it spends on any other federal programs. the cost of interest is on track to hit $390 billion by next year, making it the fastest growing government expense and as it nears $1 trillion, they're

finding it harder to allocate funds for things like the military, and infrastructure. previously gave them leeway without worrying about the debt crisis. later today the central bank is expected to push the rate said up yet again. let's get a check of your weather from meteorologist bill karins. we're going to get more storms later in the afternoon. >> it turned out to be one of the worst rain storms in southern connecticut we've had in a long time. new jersey picked up three to five inches of rain. we tell you all the time not to drive through high water. that's how we have a lot of fatalities in this country,

roads get washed out and people try to drive through. one report of eight inches of rainfall alone. so a lot of that water has moved out the way and improved. so e -- for today this cool front is going to cool everyone off. you'll get the cooler air behind it, a nice day tomorrow but first it's going to trigger severe storms. raining in st. louis and a batch in decatur. in the northeast 47 million at risk. yesterday we had 60 million people. today this is not going to be widespread but we could have an isolated tornado or two, and the storms do not reach i 95 until late. bauf low to eery to ohio,

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what dr. christine blasey ford will share when she's expected to testify. they obtained sworn de declarations. in seeking to corroborate her claim that judge kavanaugh assaulted her when they were teenagers. ford revealed the alleged assault to him when the two parents were watching their children play and discussing the light sentencing of brock turner. and stating she was particularly bothered by it because she was assaulted in high school by a man who was now a judge in washington d.c. 10 days before kavanaugh's nomination, ford revealed to him in an email that person who assaulted her in high school was

president donald trump's favorite for skoets. do you mind telling me so i can read about him and ford's response, kavanaugh. a neighbor also recalls ford sharing with her after a blog post about sexual assault. there are high stakes for tomorrow's supreme court hearing. in fact 58% say they plan to pay attention to the testimony. the poll finds the nation is closely divided. 43% opposed it. 38% are unopposed. and 26% believe judge kavanaugh and when ask fd it proves to be

true, 59% say he should be confirmed. so president trump is speaking out on the supreme court nominee's second accuser, slanling credibility. watch this. >> the second accuser has nothing. trrs the seco the second accuser thinks maybe it could have been him. she admits time lapses. there were time lapses. i think it's horrible what the democrats have done. they're really conartists. they're trying to convince -- they don't believe it themselves. trrs they know he's a high quality person. it's just resist and obstruct. they're playing a con game and they play it very well. cannot be allowed to happen and the democrats are playing a

congame. c-o-n, a congame. and they know it's a con game. they know he's high quality and they weaken each other. they know it's a con game. >> reporter: and many are publicly rejecting the claims. >> what we see taking place right now is a pr stunt by the democrats. it is character assassination and this is something that is dirty politics at its worst. >> even if its areler true, does disqualify him? it means he did something really bad but does it disqualify him from the supreme court? >> so you think they're making it up? >> they're having a little help.

>> well, now there may be an appetite on capitol hill to bring back the filibuster for supreme court nominees. mitch mcconnell lowered the thresh hold from 60 votes to 51 vote simple majority. and chuck todd asked number two if he'd support bringing it back if democrats regain control. >> it's interesting a republican senator in the gym this morning raised the same question with me. i think we're learning a lesson that maybe it has created a much more political process. it is better for us to move towards something bipartisan and find more moderate people to serve on our federal judiciary. >> then senate majority leader changed the filibuster rules for

lower court nominees. and back from washington, co author of the political playbook. >> i think we may well see that because i think there's a sense that this process has become much too pliticized. mcconnell always talks about we have to win, we're going to win. we're talking about a branch of government that's supposed to have some semblance of independence and not just be a partisan tool,the party in power, they just put in their people to make it easier for their laws to get constitutional approval and different courts and the supreme court and so it feels like we've gone too far in the direction of just thinking about the partisan loyalties of

judges. >> obviously with increased pressure from the white house to push kavanaugh through saying he's going to plow through this nomination quickly. is he facing a much harder nominations battle and if he does get confirmed, is this the end of the story? >> yeah, it's much harder than we had expected because this was going to be the republican legal golden boy who we've talked about for years. even george w. bush considered putting him on to the court. this is still a coin toss because if you lose two members like murkowski and collins they're done. there's lots of happy talk from republicans now about this vote on saturday but they don't have the votes yet. >> meantime definitely it

testimony that weir with 're ex to hear from cavanaugh. >> buckle up everyone. thank you. >> busy week. president trump is set to meet with world leaders again today at the united nations. thes president took his america-first agenda to the world stage and met with a surprising action as he boasted about his administration's accomplishments. >> reporter: the america-first president strutting on the world stage. >> my administration has accomplished almost more than any administration in the history of our country. >> reporter: prompting mocking laughter from the audience. >> didn't expect that reaction, but that's okay. >> reporter: a year ago at the

u.n. the president threatened north korea. >> the missiles and rockets are no longer flying in either direction. >> reporter: after withdrawing from the multi-country iran nuclear deal, promising crippling sanctions for iran's missiles and supports for terrorism. >> we can't allow the world's leading spaurns of tear are troochl have the world's most dangerous weapon president. hours later iran's president accused the u.s. of trying to topple his government and saying iran could be open to resuming talks with with the u.s. >> that bridge must be rebuilt. and he's now saying in essence it should be every country for itself. >> our thanks for that report.

and in addition to trading barbs, president trump outlined several of his foreign policy positions and strategies. >> america's policies of principaled realism means we will not be held hostage to all dog mus, discredited ideologies and so-called experts that have been proven wrong over the years time and time again. the united states will not be taken advantage of any longer. america is governed by americans. we reject the ideology of globalism and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism. the united states is the world's largest giver in the world by far of foreign aid. but few give anything to us. that is why we are taking a hard

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recently found nelson jumping ahead to a seven-point lead with likely 53 to 46% in a race that was dead even earlier this month meanwhile gillum leads. florida likely voters are equally split on president trump's job performance. let's get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist, bill karins. >> pour it on in northern mississippi and alabama. right along lake shore through eery and those are trying to push up through new york. we have fall air coming down so it's the collision of the air masses and later this afternoon when this reach thsz northeast, that cold front will trigger severe storms. isolated strong storms and even a few possible tornados in areas of northern new england.

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nighting you'll likely be in your 30s. areas of the midwest and through the northern plains. >> bill and i have got our pumpkin patch weekend planned. >> i didn't get my invite. send me an invite and i'll be there. still ahead two well-known companies give their brands a major over haul, ditching what made them famous. and whether the central bank will issue another rate hike. sometimes, the pressures of today's world can make it tough

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welcome back, everyone. joining us now, et tore in chief for axios, nicholas johnson. what's the one big thing for us? >> trump style diplomacy. trump's view of the world was on show idea when he gave his speech to the united nations leaders. number one, he didn't mention at all hardly u.s. allies in

europe, didn't mention france or britain at all. just mentioned germany in the context of an energy deal with russia. he singled out praise for individual world leaders, including some u.s. adversaries, include chinese president xi jinping and kim jong-un and he attacked a list of organizations and agreements, like the w.t.o., opec, migration pacs, other things had like that. it was encapsulated in a quote you showed earlier in the hour, president trump saying the u.s. rejects globalism and embraces the doctrine of patriotism. our bottom line is that steve bannon hasn't been in the white house for a long time, but he would have loved the president's remarks yesterday. let's turn now from potus to scotus. democrats are trying to see who can fill that seat. we're talking about a female,

conservative catholic? >> absolutely. this is by far from over yet. democrats are ready for the eventuality in case kavanaugh gets pulled. they're launching a website today called stop amy barrett, probably next on the list should the kavanaugh nomination implode in the next coming days. today to the day, 1600 men are taking out a similar ad saying they believe brett kavanaugh's accuser christine blasey-ford. >> interesting how it's set up when you put them side by side.

talk about the number of the day. >> $10 million. that's the number we expect someone who wrote the anonymous op ed in the "new york times" could earn when they come forward. this person said there's a number of people inside the organization were trying to stop trump. that does it for us on this wednesday morning. i'm frances rivera alongside aman moyheldin. "morning joe" starts right now. >> in lessen than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country. america's -- so true.

didn't expect that reaction, but that's okay. >> whoa. we're going to start the show right there. what works on the campaign trail doesn't necessarily work at the united nations. good morning and welcome to ""morning joe."" it is wednesday, september 26th. joe is off today. with us we have mike barnacle, politics editor for the daily beast sam stein, author zain salbe, rick tyler and columnist and associate editor for "the washington post" david ignatius. a lot to get to especially with the brett kavanaugh hearings and potentially a vote on friday. but first, i just want everyone to stop for a second and get reaction to the sound bite you just saw and the laughter you just heard. i think it was a significant moment. what you saw there tells you a lot about how the world leaders

see donald trump. and they are openly laughing at him, at his tweets, his meetings with dictators, at his lies and his reality show policies, aren't they? the world is laughing at the united states and donald trump's america has become the butt of a big joke. >> the u.n. general assembly meeting every september was a symbol of that. what i thought we saw in watching president trump's speech was reality tv for real. the reality is that this president came before that body and made the kind of establishment he makes