new developments in the disappearance of jamal kashoggi. the saudi government is discussing a plan to admit he was killed after entering the consulate in istanbul. president trump visits some of the areas hit hardest by hurricane michael and continues to down play the effects of climate change. an attorney for president trump is claiming victory after a federal judge tosses out the defamation suit brought on by stormy daniels. good to be with you on this

tuesday. it is october 16th. we begin with the latest in the disappearance of "washington post" columnist jamal kashoggi. >> i just spoke with the king of saudi arabia. he denies any knowledge of what took place with regard to, as he said, his saudi arabian citizen. we are going to leave nothing uncovered. with that being said, the king firmly denied any knowledge of it. he didn't really know. i don't want to get into his mind, but it sounded to me like maybe these could have been rogue killers. who knows? [ inaudible question ] >> all i can do is report what he told me and he told me in a very firm way that they had no knowledge of it.

he said it very strongly. his denials to me could not have been stronger that he had no knowledge. and it sounded like he and also the crown prince had no knowledge. it wasn't like there was a question in his mind. the denial was very, very strong. >> soon after that, nbc news reported that saudi arabia's government is discussing a plan to admit that kashoggi was killed after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul, according to three people with knowledge of the situation. two of those people tell nbc news that the saudis are putting together an explanation that would give the crown prince plausible deniability to say he didn't order of know about the killing. the kingdom will claim that rogue operatives killed kashoggi during an interrogation or redemption attempt that went

horribly awry. president trump was asked about that yesterday. >> there are reports that the saudis might say that kashoggi was killed during the unauthorized interrogation. >> i just saw that. i just don't know. i'm going to have to see what they say. we're work closely with saudi arabia and turkey to figure out what happened. they want to know what happened also. a lot of people are working on it, a lot of people. we'll see. i heard that report, but nobody knows if it's an official report. so far just the rumor of report coming in. >> meanwhile secretary of state mike pompeo arrived in riyadh this morning for a face to face meeting with king salman. president trump said he instructed pompeo to go on the

trip to find out what they know. 13 days after kashoggi disappearanced, the saudi government permitted turkish crime scene investigators access to the building. >> reporter: good morning. in addition to that lengthy delay, a cleaning crew was seen entering the consulate hours before the turkish investigators arrived. according to the a.p., they were carrying more mops, trash bags and what appeared to be bottles of bleach. turkish police were later scene leaving the consulate carrying files and equipment, although according to turkish media some areas remained off limits. the building is a diplomatic post considered foreign soil under international law. maybe why a cleaning crew was allowed to get onto the scene first. >> president trump suggesting

that these rogue of rperatives could be behind the disappearance of kashoggi in an interrogation gone wrong. >> reporter: why would an interrogator bring a bone saw? because we know a bone saw was on the scene. it is not what i think. it is what the american people and members of congress think. senator murphy said it's extraordinary that the president himself was parroting the talking points of the saudis after his phone call and before they came out with what seems to be their official explanation, which was that it was a rogue operation that they had no knowledge that this would be done, that the president himself was kind of previewing those talking points. we know that he had that call. and according to a lot of members of congress, this really does open the door the president himself, as well as the behavior

of his son who sent that mocking tweet on kashoggi and secretary mnuchin signaling he would still go to this congress in the desert when all kinds of corporate entities were pulling out. >> secretary of state mike pompeo was there in saudi arabia. what can come out of that? is this symbolic or is there anything tangible that can come from this trip? >> reporter: the question is whether his hands are tied by the president's rhetoric, who's already opened the door for the saudis to deny they had any knowledge of this. the stakes could not be higher when you look at the response not only by our allies but also members of congress like lindsey graham saying this has to be met with harsh penalties because this is about our role as leaders in terms of protecting human rights around the world.

i saw an op-ed yesterday from a former speech writer to president bush. he said that trump has, quote, reduced the cost of oppression and political murder in the world by declaring it none of america's business. if you see from the initial comments, the initial reaction of this president was to say, well, he was a saudi citizen, not our business. let's see what the reaction is coming out of here and whether the united states government allows the saudis to walk away from this claiming that they had no knowledge. >> thank you so much. we'll check back in with you in just a little bit. new polls show republican house members in battles to save their seats with three weeks until the polls open.

collins is statistic hi tied with mcmurray. kol hundrcolilins has pleaded n to insider trading charges. in utah, republican congresswoman mia love is dead even with the democratic mayor of salt lake city ben mcadams. in florida's 26th congressional district republican congressman carlos curbelo has a slight edge. defense secretary jim mattis

is responding to the president's commenting. the president also indicated he expects mattis to be leaving soon because he is, quote, sort of a democratic. a reporter asked mattis what he makes of the comments. mattis replied, nothing at all, i'm on his team. we've never talked at me leaving. asked are you a democrat? mattis said we're all built on our formative experiences. when i was 18 i joined the marine corps. in the u.s. military we are proudly apolitical. i never registered for any political party. a federal judge who has thrown out the defamation suit that adult film star stormy daniels has filed against president trump. daniels filed the suit back in april after president trump described her as a con job in a twitter post. the judge ruled that trump was

using hyperbole. the judge has also ordered daniels to pay for trump's legal fees in the case. an attorney for president trump hailed the rule iing. michael avenatti has filed an appear. president trump's former personal attorney michael cohen is willingly helping federal investigators. vanity fair reports that despite having no formal cooperation agreement with the government, cohen has assisted and provided information critical to several ongoing investigations, according to two sources familiar with the situation. in total, cohen has sat with investigators in a string of

meetings that have exceeded more than 50 hours. a spokesperson for the southern district of new york and robert mueller's office declined to comment. the alleged talks are the latest in cohen's efforts to make things right after his work for the trump organization, according to one long time friend. president trump and first lady melania trump toured the devastation caused by hurricane michael, praising first responders. the president and first lady arrived in the florida panhandle yesterday morning and took a tour of the state's devastated coastline. they then toured damage in a town north of panama city where more than 80% of homes were damaged beyond repair. trump stopped at a distribution center and passed out bottled water to residents. hurricane michael claimed at least 19 lives with dozens more still missing.

thousands still remain without power and damage from the storm is expected to total in the billions of dollars. trump down played the potential impact of climate change on the recent uptick of severe hurricanes that have devastated the south. >> is there nothing about the number of storms that come in that make you think -- >> well, we have a big number. for a long period of time we have very few. i have a home in palm beach, florida. i'm there a lot. frankly we had years where we had none and then over the last couple of years we had more. hopefully we'll go back to many years where we had none. >> you said there is something this and previously in the past you called it a hoax. >> there's no question. it is something there. m manmade or not, there is something there. it's going to go back and forth but there is something there. paul allen died yesterday

from complications of non hodgkin's lymphoma. he restarted treatment for the same cancer he battled in 2009. best known for cofounding microsoft, allen later left the tech giant and turned his focus to his other passions which ranged from launching the allen institute for brain science to purchasing the seattle seahawks. allen gave his wealth away to charitable organizations that had the potential to do good. gates said he was heartbroken by the passing. paul allen was 65 years old. still ahead, a suspicious letter sent to the home of republican senator susan collins has authorities investigating. plus, what facebook is doing to crack down on voting misinformation ahead of the midterms next month. misinformation ahead of the midterms next month. i landed.

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welcome back. a former stop staffer on the senate intelligence committee pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of lying to the fbi. james wolf a long time director of security for the body had been charged with three counts of making false statements to agents, who had seized e-mails and phone calls from his former romantic partner. prosecutors agreed to dismiss the two additional counts. wolf faces five years in prison. federal and local police are investigating a suspicious letter sent to senator susan collins yesterday. the letter is the latest in a series of threats against collins, her family and staff after she voted to confirm

supreme court justice brett kavanagh. the senator's husband, their dog and parts of their home were quarantined while the crime lab inspected the premises. while t the fbi and police say the letter does not pose a threat to public safety. collins issued a statement saying we are grateful for the assistance that we received. our friends and neighbors have been incredibly kind and have even offered to open their homes to us. the federal budget deficit swelled to $779 billion in the 2018 fiscal year according to new figures from the treasury department. the deficit rose 70% since 2017. it is the largest gap since 2012 when the economy was still recovering from the recession. officials say the rise was due

to government spending and not the tax cut. the "new york times" reports the deficit is now on pace to top a trillion dollars a year by 2020. let's bring in bill karins and get a check on our weather. >> we still have some flash flooding concerns. yesterday we managed to get through a santa ana wind event in california. we have a couple of flash flood warnings in texas. it's been pouring nonstop for the last week. if you look at the radar, the green is the light rain, the yellow is a steady soaking rain. that's what we have this morning. from dallas to ft. worth southwards almost to san antonio it's a steady soaking rain. now we've got areas of rain in

louisiana too. not only is it raining, but it's cold. it's only in the 40s too. it's a very rare setup for this time of year in texas. it's not going to be like historic type rains but we could still have some problems. a lot of the rivers are already in flood stage. red flag warnings continue in california for 19 million people. the means if a fire forms, it can move very quickly and be dangerous. this is really our first santa ana wind event out there. we get the strong offshore winds that come through the mountains and gust through the valleys and canyons. low moisture is in the air. that's why the fires can really take off this time of year. go to florida in october is the new thing.

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♪ welcome back. it is the bottom of the hour. let's get started with the top stories. the financial fallout for saudi arabia over jamal kashoggi's disappearance continues to grow. endeavor is considering returning a 400 million dollar

invest from saudi arabia. if the company returns the money, it would mark one of the most significant moves yet by a u.s. company trying to distance itself from saudi arabia. meanwhile, president trump revealed yesterday that treasury secretary steve mnuchin has set a deadline for when he'll decide whether to attend an investment conference in saudi arabia later this month. >> he's going to make that decision. he's got a while to go. it's friday. he has to know by the end of friday. we haven't made a decision about going yet, but he's going to make that decision sometime prior to friday. >> the family of jamal kashoggi is speaking out. in a statement published by the "washington post" they call for an independent, impartial investigation into the

journalist's disappearance. quote, we are sadly and anxiously following the conflicting news regarding the fate of our father after losing contact with him two weeks ago when he disappeared after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul. our family is traumatized. the strong moral and legal responsibility which our father instilled in us obliges us to call for a commission to inquire into the circumstances of his death. with the midterm elections just three weeks away, the department of homeland security is warning of a growing number of attempted cyber attacks on u.s. election databases. the department is working to identify who or what is behind the attacks. the assessment states that numerous actors are regularly targeting infrastructure likely for different purposes,

including sending malicious e-mails that appear to be legitimate and denial of service attacks detected as repatriacen october. facebook is taking steps to crack down on false information about the upcoming elections. company executives say facebook will ban misinformation about voting requirements or long lines at polling stations. facebook says it's banning misrepresentations about how to vote such as claims you can vote by text message and statements about whether a vote will be counted. facebook says it will also

deploy third party fact checkers to review voting related posts. back in august president trump said he would personally campaign in the texas senate race, tweeting i will be doing a major rally for senator ted cruz in october. the venue for the rally is an arena that seats 8,000 people and is not nearly the biggest in the state or even the area. nearby nrg stadium tops out around 80,000 people. just two weeks after democrat beto o'rourke and willie nelson attracted 50,000 to a rally in austin. a new ad hits cruz over his canadian roots and for attacking o'rourke's choice in fast food.

>> a triple meat water burger liberal. what does that even mean, ted? everybody i know in texas likes what a burger. >> i like their little burgers. >> i don't know what that is. there's not a white castle within 900 miles of texas, ted. now to senator elizabeth warren who has faced continuous ridicule from president trump for claiming she is of native american descent. she's releasing the results of a dna test. >> reporter: the massachusetts democrat released the findings of the test yesterday which was conducted by a stanford university professor with

expertise in gener genetics. warren had her ethnicity changed from white to native american at the university of pennsylvania law school where she taught from 1987 to 1995 and at harvard university law school where she was a tenured faculty member. following the release of the results, the senator called for the president to follow through on his pledge to donate $1 million to charity if she took a dna test. please send the check to the national indigenous resource center. here's how the president

reacted. >> no, i have no -- who cares? >> you said you'd give $1 million to charity. >> i didn't say that. >> senator warren released her dna results. >> do i owe her? she owes the country an apology. what's her percentage? >> i don't have the exact numbers. >> when you have the percentage, tell me the percentage. >> what about the money that you told her -- >> you mean if she gets the nomination in the debate where i was going to have her tested? i'll only do it if i can test her personally. that will not be something i enjoy doing either. >> so we're having this back and forth kicking up once again. who knows if we're going to hear more pocahontas. i'm curious about the timing about why this was released now. there's the belief that the

rollout of these results was senator warren making her entrance into a possible 2020 race. >> she did give her clearest indication yet when she said she'd take a, quote, hard look at that. now we're hearing that she's potentially planning to travel as early as next month to those early voting states of iowa and new hampshire. this clearly is an attempt to try and take off the table what has been an issue that president trump has mocked her about really since the 2016 election. given the results, however, and the president's response to it, i'm not sure this is actually going to take it off the table. but let's remind everybody why we're talking about this in the first place. it is not because there's a dispute over the percentage. it's because there's questions about whether she used it to benefit her ascent, her progression in her career. we've known the answer to that for quite a long time.

the answer is no. if you talk to anyone on faculty or the professors and staff who worked with her and hired her at those universities, they all say it had no effect. >> the you've got -- given the timing of her coming out and doing this now and stirring up 2020, is that diluting the message from democrats ahead of the midterms? >> there are some democrats being pretty up front about this, saying this is not helpful, democrats. you've got senator warren talking about her native american heritage, hillary clinton saying her husband's affair with monica lewinsky was not an abuse of power. they're supposed to be having a unified message ahead of this consequential midterm election on the big issues like this president's track record, on the

economy as well as immigration and all of the things like health care that the democrats have wanted to hammer. >> given how consequential this election is going to be, there's threats of new warnings of cyber attacks possibly on u.s. elections database. talk about those outside forces affecting possibly this election? >> we've been in an upgraded level of concern really since 2016. now these reports coming in just validate the concerns that we've had all along that it's not just russia potentially. there are other rogue actors like iran and china, all with potentially different motivations targeting our election systems maybe to steal data, maybe to try and move votes. we have a very diverse set of systems in this country, though. so it's really hard to flip one master switch. but at the same time there's a great level of concern frances. here's why. we never got a unified,

bipartisan report autopsy on exactly what happened in 2016 and what we can do to try and prevent it. we never created a commission similar to, for example, the commission that we had around 9/11 to get those types of answers. still ahead, he is one of the hottest names in hip hop, but could chance the rapper be mulling a run for mayor in his hometown of chicago. his cryptic comments fuelling speculation. s cryptic comments speculation.

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tweeting, i'm thinking maybe i should. that had thousands of fans calling for him to complete the lyric which stats they screaming run for mayor. chance followed up hours later with a press conference. he hasn't been shy about his political aspirations. in addition to his father's career as a political operative under barack obama and rahm emanuel, chance has been advocating for criminal justice reform. let's get a check now on our weather with bill karins. >> have you changed out all your wardrobes yet for the kids? >> i'm struggling because we have some of these milder days. i've got piles and piles of it just waiting to switch out. >> it's here. freeze warnings are happening. we're seeing the end of the

growing season in many areas. this is the coldest temperatures that we've seen so far as we head through our fall season. in kansas city that's the end of the growing season, 31 for you. wichita, kansas, holding above freezing barely. so the unseasonable cold is all the way down through the south. we're going to continue to watch these temperatures well below average. typically dallas should be in the upper 60s, the 70s. dallas is rainy and 47 degrees today. oklahoma city at 54. chicago after your cold start you're recovering there in the 50s. the southeast is very warm. 94 in tampa today. we're in the 50s through the northeast. the leaves are starting to get toward their peak this weekend in the great lakes and for the northeast. we're still warm in florida.

we just can't get rid of that. of course we don't like that rain down there in the northern gulf. we continue to get more of these pictures out from the region, to believe devastatiowa -- obvious devastation. this is aerial footage of mexico beach. it was about a 20-mile-wide tornado in this area. the reason mexico beach looks so much worse, that's where they also had the storm surge on top of the winds. it's going to be incredible to see how they try to rebuild this. i like to equate it -- there was a town in kansas that was devastated by ef 5 and they rebuilt it completely after the tornado went through. they thought maybe the town would never have people again. mexico beach is looking at similar decisions to make. >> it is a long road for them to get to that point, though.

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welcome back. the dow s&p 500 and nasdaq all fell again on monday as steep losses continue from last week.

how's today looking? >> good morning. yes, so the u.s. is struggling to pare back the session was dragged down by tech stocks with apple and netflix both trading lower as analysts issued more cautious notes on both of those companies. now, today, netflix firmly in focus as they're due to report q3 earnings. this talk has really caused divided opinion among analysts with citigroup upgrading the stocks to a buy on friday. since then, we've heard a number of analysts come out against the stock saying it's run too far. it now faces continued competition in the streaming space from the likes of apple and disney and it is time to hold on or sell those netflix shares. so firmly in focus today and that will likely dick tad a lta

of what we see today. climate change, not just because of our weather, but because of our drink of choice and that's beer. what is the connection there? >> so nature magazine has just published a study on the impact of climate change on beer. and this study looks at the impact of higher temperatures and droughts on bar ly production. the idea being that over the next decade or so, the next several decades, in fact, we will see a curtailment of barley production as a result of these weather conditions and that will lead to an increase in prices of beer. they say we could see a doubling of the price of beer in the next decade. so those tailgates will become increasingly expensive, francis. >> if beer is affected, too, pure tragedy when it comes to that. jliana, thank you, as always. still to come, a look at axios' one big thing.

and more on the president changing his view of the disappearance of journalist jamaal khashoggi. republican senator ben sasse will weigh in on the president's defense and his new book, examining the existential crisis facing our nation. "morning joe" is just moments away. nation. "morning joe" is just moments away (music throughout)

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time now to take a look at axios a.m. joining us from washington, co-founder mike allen. mike, always great to see you. >> morning, francis. >> what you got for this morning's one big thing? >> one big thin is president trump's pocahontas employ. we've been hearing about senator warren announcing her dna results. even democrats are saying she's a little bit taking trump's bait here. they say that he loves it when his victims litigate his nickname. so we're told that pocahontas is

one of the nicknames that he's proudest of. he's been out on the stump talking about weepy joe biden and another thing he says he's proud of is the one for the democrat senator for connecticut and the president calls him denang richard. >> curious when it comes to this reunited back and forth pocahontas, what that is goes to go for the messaging for midterms and democrats. we're talking about big money here going through the roof. axios has inside knowledge new information from a pac. >> this is an ad running on prime time, college sports, on broadcast, on cable, spending up to $10 million. this is an ad called any democrat. and the idea here is to try to

nationalize these house and senate races. so many of the candidates deal with local issues. this is dealing with national issues like impeachment and health care. >> and talking about who is behind this. we can't listen right now, but just even watching. it seems pretty tough out there with those images. >> nailed it. it's designed to do that. it's designed to cut through. we've looked at the fact that both sides in these midterms are running on fear. there's no subtlety. there's no appeal to our higher calling. it's -- this is be scared of gangs and as part of that, this ad we just saw, that image shows former speaker nancy pelosi holding a gavel. nothing subtle about that message, francis. >> and we'll see the impact of this, that and others. it seems like now there are all indications that democrats have a solid chance to retake the

house. we've been talking about that. but the senate looks fairley safe for republicans. i know it's tough to use the word unusual, especially in the world of politics. but is that unusual? >> yeah. democrats ael hold on the house has gotten firmer. we have speaker ka pelosi with her gavel back. republicans are predicting picking up two, three seats. i was on the radio yesterday with conservative radio host hugh hewitt. he was predicting five pick ups for the republicans in the face of this blue wave. here is why they're moving in this direction. the house races are mostly concentrated in suburbs. those are the places where democrats were already excited, turning out republicans in rural

states are more likely to decide the senate. so democratic excitement here. republican excitement here. they've moved closer. democrats and polls are still more enthusiastic, but this closing the gap by republicans gives them that edge in the senate. >> we were watching the president hitting those rallies a few times at the end of the week. what are we watching at the end of that? >> so rallies by the president wednesday night, thursday night, saturday night. a long time trump aid said is it's going to be lit. the president loves these rallies. the president isn't a workout guy, but he shows remarkable stamina at these rallies, standing there talking an hour or longer. there is a prompter. but as you know, francis, he goes away from a lot. so much of these rallies are ad

libbed. there's sure to be bites out of those. >> and not only that, he is just out there. a lot of chat regarding the president. thank you so much. that does it for me on this tuesday morning. i'm frances rivera. "morning joe" starts right now. >> i have great confidence in my intelligence people, but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. his denial could not have been stronger that he had no knowledge. and it sounded like he and also the crown prince had no knowledge. >> huh. president trump struck a remarkably similar tone when pressed on russian hacking and the alleged murder by a saudi arabia of a washington post columnist. >> you know, mika,