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good morning, everyone. i'm ayman mohyeldin here in washington, d.c. president trump and gop senators gathered at the white house yesterday for a ceremonial swearing-in for supreme court justice brett kavanagh. trump began by apologizing to kavanaugh and his family for the contentious confirmation battle where kavanaugh faced decades-old allegations of sexual misconduct. take a listen. >> on behalf of our nation, i want to apologize to brett and the entire kavanaugh family for the terrible pain and suffering you have been forced to endure. those who step forward to serve our country deserve a fair and dignified evaluation, not a campaign of political and personal destruction based on lies and deception. you, sir, under historic scrutiny were proven innocent. >> meanwhile, at a gathering of

law enforcement officials in orlando yesterday, trump slammed kavanaugh's accusers and their allegations. >> he's a great person and it was very, very unfair what happened to him. false charges, false accusations, horrible statements that were totally untrue that he knew nothing about. terms that he probably never heard in his life. he was this, he was that. he never even heard of these terms. it was a disgraceful situation brought about by people that are evil. >> president trump described the kavanaugh allegations as a hoax that will motivate voters to support republicans in the midterm elections. >> they're thinking about impeaching a brilliant jurist, a man that did nothing wrong, a man that was caught up in a hoax that was set up by the democrats, using the democrats' lawyers. now they want to impeach him. i've heard this from many

people. i think it's an insult to the american public and i think you're going to see a lot of things happen on november 6th that would not have happened before. >> now, trump went onto say the democrats are going to vote for republicans, but a new poll conducted thursday through monday shows the president's job approval rating has cratered among women. the cnn poll showing just 31% of women approve while 62% disapprove. 51% of men approve, 43% disapprove. that's a gender gap of about 39 points. even more troubling for republicans, a spike in the number of women who support the democrats over the republicans in their choice for congress. now, this chart based on nbc "wall street journal" polls shows the trend since 2010 when republicans took over going from a six-point gap that year to a 25-point one this year. patti davis, the daughter of

ronald reagan writes in part this, dear professor christine blasey ford, like millions of women i watched you testify about the worst day of your life. millions of us identified with our fear and wondered if we would be brave enough to wrestle ourselves past that grip of terror if we were in your shoes. millions of us watched how you held onto the tears that wanted to come up. we know where that place is in the body, the place that pushes down on the rising tide of remembered pain. we know how hard that is. we've been holding onto our tears for a long time. some of us, like you, for decades. i wonder how you feel now that brett kavanagh's hand, the one you say clamped down on your mouth when you were 15 is now on the scales of justice. i wonder if you feel that everything you went through wasn't worth it.

don't believe mitch mcconnell when he says this will blow over. it won't. women are not going to retreat again into silence and shame. it doesn't work like that. you helped us see that. president trump had his meeting with rod rosenstein yesterday on board air force one. it's the first time they sat down together since the story in the "new york times" that claimed rosenstein suggested secretly wearing a wiretap to record trump and discussed a plan to remove him from office. rosenstein has denied those allegations and the president says he doesn't plan to fire him. the president said they met and discussed law enforcement, border security, violence in chicago and, quote, other doj business. here's the president discussing that meeting. >> thank you as well to our deputy attorney general rod rosenstein for being here. we flew down together. the press wants to know what did you talk about. but we had a very good talk, i

will say. that became a very big story, actually, folks. we had a good talk. >> we just had a very nice talk. we actually get along. really good talk. i think we'll be treated very fairly. everybody understands there was no collusion, there's no russia. it was all made up by the democrats. they're the ones that colluded with russia. >> now, some are noting the bad optics of the president meeting with the man who oversees the russia investigation. we should know it was not a one on one meeting. the white house says chief of staff john kelly and lso attend that meeting. rick gates saw proposals in 2016 to create fake online identities and manipulate social media to help donald trump win the republican nomination and the white house. the "new york times" cites interviews and copies of

proposals by an israeli company that it undermined trump's opponent senator ted cruz. another proposal describes opposition research about hillary clinton and people close to her. and a third proposal by that very same company sketched out a months long plan to help trump by using social media to expose or amplify division. gates ultimately was uninterested in the work. a person with knowledge of the discussion said in part because other campaign aides were developing a social media strategy. now, earlier this year the times reported that a founder of the group had a meeting with donald trump jr. at trump tower back in august of 2016. one of the men said to be in that meeting george nader. he is cooperating with robert

mueller in his investigation. this morning the guardian is reporting on a new lead in the disappearance of jamal khashoggi. he walked into the saudi consulate in istanbul one week ago and hasn't been seen since. turkish officials believe he was killed inside the consulate by the squad of saudi agents. now the guardian reports that officials are searching for a black van that left the consulate two hours afriter after khashoggi entered. security footage shows boxes being loaded into the van which carries diplomatic license plated. lea investigators say one of the vehicles, a van with blacked out windows, has become the focus of the investigation and was recently tracked to a nearby motorway. saudi officials say khashoggi

left the consulate but turkish officials say that won't suffice. >> i don't like hearing about it. hopefully that will sort itself out. right now nobody knows anything about it, but there's some pretty bad stories going around. i do not like it. >> joining us now from washington, d.c. white house reporter for npr, great to have you with us this morning. let's start with the swearing-in yesterday of justice kavanaugh. he insists that he will take his position on the supreme court with, quote, gratitude and no bitterness. he said he's going to be very impartial despite all the contentious confirmation battles that we saw for him to get there. are president trump's comments at that same swearing-in ceremony derailing that underlying message that justice kavanaugh is trying to dleliver? >> it certainly doesn't help.

when he says he's apologizing on behalf of the nation, there's a large portion of the nation that was simple thympathetic to chri blasey ford's story. his approval numbers are not very high, so when president trump says he's been found innocent, that's going to rile up a lot of people who are concerned about kavanaugh's appointment to the supreme court. >> let me ask you really quickly about the meeting that took place aboard air force one yesterday with rod rosenstein and president trump. president trump striking a slightly more positive tone, says that he expects to be, quote, treated very fairly in the russia probe, this after months of calling it a witch hunt and being very critical of that mueller investigation. what has changed in his tone or why has his tone changed, do you think? >> i think his tone may be a little bit different, may have been a little bit different

yesterday. but i wouldn't be surprised he goes back to calling it a witch hunt today or tomorrow or very soon. every once in a while he says he thinks he'll be treated fairly because he says there was no collusion, we didn't do anything wrong. but when you have developments in the actual investigation, that's when he gets very worked up. right now because we're so close to the midterm elections, the thought is that mueller is not going to do anything. there won't be any developments because he doesn't want to influence the midterms. right now because the investigation is kind of quieting down, that might be pleasing to president trump. >> yeah. we know the president is hitting the campaign trail over the next couple of weeks. so he certainly feeled more b e more buoyed. the tragic limousine crash that killed 20 people in upstate new york on saturday has raised new questions over the safety and regulation of stretch

vehicles. according to new york governor andrew cuomo the 2001 ford excursion limousine involved in that deadly crash was cut from a pass vehicle and extended. experts say modified vehicles like this face fewer regulations than tip passenger cars and often have features removed that were intended to keep not only did the vehicle fail an inspection last month, but the driver did not have the correct license required to drive it in the first place. the company prestige limousine issued a statement saying it will conduct a detailed internal investigation to determine the cause of the accident and steps they can take to prevent future ones. hillary clinton and bill clinton are going back on the road, but this time it isn't campaign related. they announced monday they will visit 13 cities across the u.s. and canada over seven months in a series of paid speaking gigs. the conversations are dubbed an evening with president bill clinton and former secretary of

state hillary clinton with ticket prices ranging from $72 to $750. the couple will share stories and anecdotes that shaped their historic careers in public service while discussing pressing issues of the day and future. the tour is being produced by live nation with the first event kicking off in las vegas november 18th. still ahead, we're tracking the path of hurricane michael as it barrels down on the florida panhandle. bill karins will have the latest. and later, president trump criticizes taylor swift after the pop star endorsed two democratic candidates on the ballot this november. democratice ballot this november

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the gulf of mexico and taking aim at the florida panhandle where it could make landfall as a category 3. forecasters say damaging wind and heavy rain is possible and the national hurricane center is warning of storm surge that could be up to 12 feet in some areas. landfall will most likely occur wednesday afternoon or evening. governor rick scott warned residents yesterday to take the storm seriously and make all necessary preparations. >> hurricane michael is a massive storm that could bring tot total devastation to parts of our state, especially in the panhandle. the storm will be life threatening and extremely dangerous. >> president trump said his administration is working with state and local officials in florida to take all necessary precautions. for more on the storm's track, let's bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins. what more can you tell us? the hurricane really accelerated very fast from a tropical storm yesterday to a category 3

hurricane. >> currently still a category 1 but the forecast does bring it up to a 3 in the next 36 hours. overnight it didn't get that much stronger. at least that was good. every hour that goes by that it doesn't get stronger is better for areas in the northern gulf coast. here's the new 5:00 a.m. update from the hurricane center. winds at 90 miles an hour. that's a healthy category one storm. it is heading north-northwest. from here on out, it's mostly going to be a north motion heading for that general vicinity of panama city. key west and fort myers and tampa pretty far away from the storm. not expecting a lot of rainfall until you get north of tampa over the next two days. here's the forecast path.

it's still really points at panama city. a apalachicola is on the right side of the cone. if it goes right over the top of panama city, that's where the worst wind damage would be. but the worst storm surge would be down around apalachicola and the big bend. this is the least densely populated area of all of florida, this area right where my hand is. that's where the apalachicola state forest is. that's the good. if it goes further left, we got a lot more big population centers in the forecast. that's one of the questions we have to answer, is it the left side of this or is it a little further to the right? if we bring it over land into the state forest, that's kind of the best scenario. this is the areas of high density population.

this area is where we could get that 8-12 foot storm surge. there are little small fishing villages and oil communities here, but there's not a lot of big cities. we're going to get damage no matter what. it's going to be a category 2 or 3 at landfall. it's a matter of how many people get hit. >> the silver lining is you want it to be in an area where there are less people. thanks, bill. a new report from the u.n. offers a dire warning regarding climate change. according the report, if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the current rate, by 2040, the atmosphere will be as much as 2.7 degrees above preindustrial levels, which could cause a massive increase in extreme events, including flooding coastlines, intensified droughts, famines and wildfires.

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. ♪ welcome back, everyone. i'm ayman mohyeldin. it is the bottom of the hour. newly minted supreme court justice brett kavanagh is set to begin his first full day on the job. he'll join his colleagues in issuing decisions on a number of hot button issues. pete williams has more from the supreme court. pete? >> reporter: brett kavanagh will hear his first cases as a justice today. he's lucky this term is off to a low key start with no blockbuster cases on the docket. after he was sworn in over the weekend, he got to work immediately and he kept a promise that he made during his confirmation hearing. he hired only women as his law clerks. that is a first for the supreme court. four of the courts liberals were

invited to attend. two did. the other two were out of town. does the federal civil rights law that bans job discrimination on the basis of sex also apply to sexual orientation? before this term is over, the court could decide to take up the legal fight over daca. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell spoke in his home state of kentucky yesterday where he described how proud he was of the republican caucus for not being intimidated by protesters against kavanaugh. >> we were literally under assault. these demonstrators -- i'm sure some of them were well-meaning citizens. many of them were obviously trained to get in our faces, to

go to our homes up there and basically attack us in the halls of the capitol. >> the "washington post" reports that republicans belief they can channel supporters o' outrage b recasting democrats as an angry mob. >> the radical democrats have turned into an angry mob. angry left wing mob. that's what they've become. >> they have encouraged m ed mo rule. i hope we can say no to mob rule. >> those who tried to overturn the rule of law and replace it with mob rule lost. i've never been more pissed in my life. >> i'm really proud of my members for not knuckling under to those mob rule tactics. >> the "washington post" survey

shows democrats leading by four points, 50-46% after losing these same districts by 15 points in 2016. a decisive factor appears to be women, who prefer democratic candidates by 14 points, while men favor the republicans by five points. a new ad is targeting senator ted cruz amid his fierce reelection battle, poking fun at his campaign slogan. >> somebody left a note on my door the other day. it said ted cruz, tough as texas. i mean, come on. if somebody called my wife a dog and said my daddy was in on the kennedy assassination, i wouldn't be kissing their ass. you stick a finger in their chest and give them a few choice words or you drag their ass out by the woodshed and kick their ass, ted. come on, ted. >> the ad which was released

yesterday was paid for by the political action committee fire ted cruz. it points out how the senator has aligned himself with president trump despite trump's repeated insults aimed at cruz and his family. all of that taking place during the 2016 presidential campaign. the ad was directed by richard linkletter and features the actor sonny carl davis in character as a texan. the democratic donor who formed the pac says the group has raised about half a million dollars so far. he says the group felt obliged to punch back at cruz because beto o'rourke has vowed to remain up beat despite attacks by cruz's campaign and allies. here are part of trump's remarks from a gathering of police chiefs in orlando yesterday. >> we understand that reducing

crime begins with respecting law enforcement. for too years, we have watched politicians escalate political attacks on our courageous police officers. and i've never seen it more than over the last few years. it's disgraceful. politicians who spread this dangerous anti-police sentiment make life easier for criminals and more dangerous for law-abiding citizens. >> joining us from washington once again, reporter for npr. let's talk a little bit about that orlando event. during it president trump ignited a hot button issue over chicago's violence epidemic, calling for police to bring backstop and frisk tactics. how is that going over in chicago, you think? >> it's not going over well.

chicago mayor rahm emanuel said that trump is talking about the same old failed policies. i have to say that it stands out that president trump is talking about stop and frisk and this was the very same week and last week where he kept talking about due process and how in america you're innocent until proven guilty. but yesterday he's talking about stop and frisk. the issue with stop and frisk is that courts have found it to be unconstitutional. >> it absolutely seems ironic that that point has been lost on him as a president who says he wants due process. that's a fair point. let me ask you about the phrase that republicans are using. it seems they're all on the same page when they're using the term angry mob to describe democrats. they're trying to rally their base by saying if we give up power, we're giving it to an angry mob on the left. is that going to cause more divisions in the party ahead of

the midterms? could that type of slogan backfire against the republicans? >> i think it will work among their base. the republicans will look at the democrats and these protests and they may be concerned and say these people are far to the left and we don't want them to be in power. now, it could just energize the people who do not agree with the republicans and who say that we're just exercising our constitutional rights. remember just a few years ago you had the tea party and they were doing a lot of protests and the democrats were looking at them as an angry mob. sometimes it seems like it depends what side you're on who the mob is. >> the president referred to the white racists in charlottesville as good folk on both sides, and yet referring to all of these women protesters as an angry mob, another bit of irony there. president trump is

criticizing pop star taylor swift after she endorsed a democrat over the republican in tennessee's closely watched senate race. here's how the president responded to that. >> marsha blackburn is doing a very good job in tennessee. she's leading now substantially which she should. she's a tremendous woman. i'm sure taylor swift doesn't know anything about her. let's say that i liked taylor's music about 25% less now. >> in an instagram post on sunday, swift endorsed the democrats and wrote that marsha blackburn's voting record a appalls and terrifies her. on twitter, phil brettson thanked hthank

ed her. last day to register to vote is october 9th. rapper kanye west is set to meet with president trump at the white house later this week. according to the "new york times" west will have lunch with the president on thursday. prior to that, sit down. the times says he'll meet with jared kushner. the paper says that west wants to discuss job opportunities for former convicts as well as ways to increase the number of manufacturing jobs near his hometown of chicago. a representative for west confirmed the meeting with the times, while the white house did not immediately respond. west's wife kim kardashian also met with the president and kushner back in may to discuss overhauling the criminal justice system. west and trump previously met following the 2016 election at trump tower. on sunday, the rapper left social media again after he was criticized for delivering a pro trump speech following his recent performance on "saturday

night live." still ahead, megan mccain makes her return today time tv six weeks after losing her father to cancer. her emotional message on what she took away from her father's death. plus in texas rising flood waters force officials there to rescue residents left stranded. rescue residents left stranded benjamin franklin

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you don't do it either. you have to join me in not surrendering, okay? because i'm still here fighting. >> her words echoed the powerful eulogy she delivered at senator john mccain's funeral. she gave presidential praise to joe biden and joe lieberman for being there as her family continues to grieve. >> god is real. i wouldn't be here without my faith. i also wouldn't be there without joe biden and joe lieberman. crews in texas have been forced to carry out rescue missions as residents face rising flood waters. this was the scene yesterday in junction county as a helicopter pulled someone from a fast-moving river in the area. officials say at least two people and a dog were rescued after their rv was swept downstream. they add that area rivers have begun to crest and waters are starting to recede in junction

county, but they warn those downstreams could face rising water and even more flooding. let's get a quick check on your weather. >> what a mess. we have flood watches that go from texas all the way back up through wisconsin. we have to focus our attention on the other life threatening situation in the gulf with hurricane michael. this has the potential to be a major hurricane at landfall. those do a lot of serious wind damage, storm surge. we're talking north florida here. that's one of the most vulnerable spots for storm surge in our country. 90 miles an hour winds, healthy category 1. the hurricane center actually has it jumping up to a category 3 after midnight tonight, making landfall as a category 3 somewhere near panama city florida around noon or 1:00 p.m. and then moving into south georgia. this takes it near tallahassee

with high winds. expect a lot of problems with power outages through southern georgia and north florida with this. we hadded a tropical storm watc through areas of the east coast through south carolina. this is where we're going to expect the worst conditions. the storm surge to the right of the storm, up to 18 to 12 feet. if you're standing on the beach, that water would be four to six feet above your head at its peak. during the day today, not much of a problem, but winds begin to pick up early tomorrow morning. the peak winds will be 86 with gusts up to 120 or 130. it's not just a north florida problem. even areas through south carolina and georgia are going to have power outages from this. still ahead, netflix looks to expand its streaming empire

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values. what more can you tell us about google's decision to pull out of this? >> yes, thank you. so google has decided to drop out of this bidding contest. dr out of this bidding contest. a.i. values. their employees have also voiced concerns over the company's involvement with the government in the past. this isn't the first time that google has withdrawn from a contract lik a few months back they decided not to renew their contract with the pentagon intelligence agency duege to widespread protests amg their employees. now moving from this tech company to another tech company netflix, this company announced they will be investing in a major expansion project in albuquerque, new mexico, home to their new u.s. production site, part ofro a greater expansion initiative by netflix. they announced plans to expand in p l.a. and into europe.

ayman? >> wow.op so i guess the 800 or so netflix series have a home for their production it seems. the sparkling water brand la broix is under fire after they linked its ingredients to insecticides. how has the company responded to these charges? every time i've come back to the u.s. i've been amazed at the popularity of this company. they're facing allegations of using cockroach insecticide among other staartificial ingredients. they have taken to social media asking for their followers to help defend the brand. back to you. >> all right. juliana, live in london for us, thanks. and coming up, nicolas johnson has a look at one big thing and coming up on "morning joe," president trump going on the offensive for his new supreme court justice.

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talk to your doctor about xarelto®. . joining us from washington, d.c., editor in chief for axis, nicolas johnson. >> good morning. >> what is the one big thing for us? >> the kavanaugh cash surge. last week you may remember we talked about the change in polling, the big move in numbers after the confirmation hearings of brett kavanaugh. the enthusiasm gap closing. republicans log much more

confident heading into the midterms. look at what happened on the money side of the ledger on that. democrats in particular reporting a huge surge in donations, both tied to the hearings earlier this month and the final confirmation vote. sometimes individual e-mails raising six-figure sum, multimillion-dollar donations flooding in for campaigns tied to the kavanaugh confirmation. republicans saying they're seeing massive jumps in their donations, but they haven't released any figures yet. the one thing we can say, conclusion bottom line, is that like a political operative told us last week, the kavanaugh hearings were a political grenade that went off in the electorate that reshaped the midterms. we're seeing it in polling and fundraising. >> what kind of real impact is the confirmation of brett kavanaugh going to have on swaying undecided voters? >> right. >> are those people really concerned about the battle over the supreme court? is that something to mobilize people? >> no. that's exactly the question.

i don't think -- it's undecided voters at all. the way both sides are looking at this, boosting up the base. people who are motivated to vote already and give already, now they're more enthusiastic to do that using kavanaugh as a tool to drive out both sides. republicans who think he got an unfair deal or democrats who think that the allegations were taken seriously enough. folks who really believe in those issues are the ones the two parties are trying to get to the polls. you're seeing that in the enthusiasm and fundraising numbers. those are the voters likely to show up and give. this isn't something that's going to be decided by folks in the middle. >> let's talk about something that is close to both of us. i know axios has been looking at the boom that president trump has provided to media companies since taking office. is the 24-hour or 24/7 news cycle i should say of trump news all the time, now the new normal of how media in this country works? >> no sign that's changing at all. we went back and looked at a lot

of recent data from a lot of different parts of media and it shows that trump effect shows no signs of diminishing. look at website traffic, the number one traffic stories across all sorts of political news and news websites is always the trump show. if you look at what's leading cable news coverage, particularly here on msnbc, having great ratings because of the intense amount of interest in president trump. it also cascades across the landscape, not just in news but culture and politics and sports. every one becomes a trump story and people are showing they're very interested in it. >> any sign of fatigue among the audience viewers and readers that they're getting tired of the unending headlines about trump? >> not yet. we're waiting for that moment to see whenever that dips but it hasn't yet. we see it in website. even children's books the number one "new york times" book is stephen colbert about president trump relating that to younger view percent. looking ahead to the midterms

and 02020, a lot of political news organizations will emphasize that more. "the washington post" will hire six reporters for 2020. no signs of readers dialing back their enthusiasm or the publishers or print producers changing their tact at all. >> i have this conversation with friends and colleagues, how much is driven by trump as a personality things that he does and his behavior and how much is driven by the critical issues like the supreme court justice fight and health care and taxes that really affect people's lives. >> that's an interesting question. on a fundamental level people are interested in what's happening in the world around them. trump is like gasoline on the fire. the way he talks about them, weighs in the topics. you reported this hour now taylor swift is a political topic because of her weighing in on the midterms and president trump criticizing her saying her music isn't good anymore. all of the topics become

political and trump is at center of that. we will see if he's no longer president if that changes. >> justice kavanaugh that's behind us. the rod rosenstein meeting that's behind us. he wasn't fired. >> right. >> what are you looking at now when you've got these two big events expected to take place this week happened. what are you watching? >> let's see what more kauth comes out for the midterm elections. we had a couple polls last week but kavanaugh is done and we're in the home stretch of the races. let's look for are house democrats still on course to take over the house and senate still in play? >> and definitely don't forget about that kanye west lunch meeting on thursday as well. >> i forget. >> all right. nicolas johnson live for us in washington, d.c., as always, thank you. just a note, axios, a four-part documentary series debuts on hbo on sunday, november 4th, just two days before the midterm elections. you do not want to miss that. and as always we're