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good morning everyone. along side frances rivera. we begin with the funeral services of the pittsburgh synagogue shooting on the heel tofz president trump's visit to pay his respects to the 11 people killed. while the president, son in law, ivanka visited the synagogue. they spent just under 20 minutes inside. trrs the president also met with victims are recovering at an area hospital as well as first responders. trump's visit was marked by protests as well as push back by local officials. he offered to vizwit the family of daniel stein but his nephew says the family actually declined, in part because of the president's comments in the immediate aftermath of the shooting suggesting that the

synagogue should have had an armed guard. peter alexander yesterday. >> donald trump should have just said our hearts and prayers go out for the people in pittsburgh and everybody involved and kept his mouth shut. >> reporter: you felt like he was blaming this community. >> exactly what it felt like. and the president's plan to end birthright citizenship despite it bieng enshrined in the 14th amendment. >> we all chairnish the language of the 14th amendment but the supreme court of the united states has never ruled on whether the language, subject to the jurisdiction thereof applied specifically to people in the country illegally and i think the president's looking at executive action. >> many constitutional scholars say it's been misused in this way. there's no question there have been news reports about birth

where women pay money they really don't have to make sure that their children are born here. so the idea this isn't happening, the idea this isn't going on in the thousands, the idea that it's not unique to the u.s. and to canada and the developed world is just false. >> reporter: legal scholars say the president's proposal is unconstitutional, among them, george conway. er under president obama the conservative and liberal write this. "both proponents and opponents of the language of the 14th amendment at the time knew exactly what the meant. they um held that 14th amendment has the fundamental citizenship by birth in the territory, including all children born of resident alien. the exception children born in

foreign enemies and hostile occupation and diplomats. neither of those narrow exceptions supports what tru proposes to do. the co author of that piece bill join "morning joe." and watch this. >> you cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order. we didn't like it when obama tried changing immigration laws via executive action. and obviously as conservatives we believe in the constitution. i think in this case the 14th amendment is pretty clear. and tweeting in part a president cannot amend the constitution or laws via executive order. meanwhile trump ally says he plans to introduce legislation along the same lines as the president's executive order.

and in enin says he's open to it as long as it is constitutional. the original caravan that left honduras has arrived in southern mexico. and another group of 3,000 migrants has arrived on the guatemala/mexican border. and meanwhile the u.s. military's announcement it would send 5200 troops to the southern border marks the quick deployment since the earthquake in haiti when thousands of troops arrived within days. this is a major escalation of response with 2,000 national guard members already at the boarder. their response will exceed the

combined military foot print in iraq and syria. they had approximately 5200 u.s. troops to take on 15 to 17,000 isis fighters and 2,000 troops in syria for an estimated 14,000 ror isis fighters. and the caravan that left is still far from reach thing u.s./mexican border. that amounts to over 280 hours of walking. meanwhile the group is still over 1,000 miles away from reaching loraido or el paso, texas. good to have you with us this morn ig. let's talk a little bit about the republican's reaction to this. they're denouncing trump's proposal to end birthright citizenship. what are the chances of this law actually changing? or is it seen as a political

ploy to fire up his base by midterms? >> reporter: seen as a political move to get more out of the polls. it seems to be rallying everyone round this idea of birthright citizenship. so look what trump is going to do. he's going to try to prevent people from being citizens just be being born here. a real rallying effect, especially with kelly ann's husband, a pretty conservative lawyer. he's speaking out and saying this move would violate executive power. you don't want to have a president of the kings. i don't twubt run for a third term. is trump going to say that next? >> we've seen him put a pause on

his divisive rhetoric to visit pittsburgh. so how is that being received overall especially given the globalest comments we've heard from him? >> reporter: i think trump did as good a job as he could yesterday in not making any e -- embarrassing gasps. you normally wouldn't see tons of protests when other presidents would visit sites of tragedies. but trump is trying to clean up a week's worth of comments that weren't seen as setting the right message for the american peop people after those bombings and the synagogue massacre. he -- only a few hours after on saturday he was tweeting about baseball almost as if everything pfgs fine in america when it's

not. >> and references to his hair being messed up and all of that with it. now to the probe into the conduct of intearier secretary has refort portedly been referred by his agency's own inspector general. there are at least three probes that involve him, including his decision not to grant two native american tribe approval to operate a casino and also a foundation run by zinke's wife and land owned by the zinkes. they're looking into whether he quote used his office to help himself. there could be criminal violations and a criminal investigation may be warranted. it's unclear how many have been referred to the justice

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of false negative advertising as my opponent has, it's always going to be more competitive. >> reporter: it's true he's been spending a lot on tv ads. this in a year where they're already playing defense across the map. do you think they're feeling scared? nervous? >> no, i think they're just desperate. >> reporter: the first warning sign came when an underfunded democrat managed to get nearly 40% of the vote and in the general, he's reminded viewers of menendez's brush -- and for these diners the issue has been hard to shake. do you have any concerns about the corruption case from early this year? >> it's more perfect to have another republican.

>> i don't know how he's running with with these charges against him. >> reporter: there's something or someone they may care more about. >> trump. >> reporter: a lot of new jersey voters are not fans of the president and they're prepared to show how they feel. it's also probably why hugen said this at a recent debate. >> i'm not a trump republican, i'm an independent republican. >> reporter: he's aware that trump may be his saving grace. >> yes, trump, in many reespects is definitely part of this election and my opponent is joined at the hip with him. switching to the race in georgia. governor has been neck in neck and a new poll puts stacey abrams nauro abrams narrowly in -- 48%.

kemp has about a one-point lead in the polling averages. but this could be heading for a run off. >> democratic senator bill nelson leads rick scott who can is spending 10 oz of millions of his own money. and 45 to 43% in the u.s.a./suffolk poll. andrew gillum has a lead over desantos. and a one-point edge in the u.s.a. today poll. president trump who is taking credit will head to fort meyers florida later today to kick off his final rally. he has another rally republican marcia blackburn has take in the lead.

she's ahead 51% to 46% to former governor phil bredesen. the democrats brushed it off with help from pop star, taylor swift writing we want leadership not fear based extremism. please don't sit this one out. let's get a check of our weather from meteorologist bill karins. >> maybe even a dangerous one too. we have a big storm system especially in areas off texas. it's snowing on interstate 25 from denver southwards. we have rain that's moved through chicago and now slicing all the way back down through missouri and starting to form on little rock. people are going to be out there trick-or-treating. we expect tornados later on today. you want to have your phone and get your weather alerts as

you're heading oout the door. all of central and southern louisiana and as far north as southern arkansas. the dallas/fort worth area you're going to get heavy rain. and possibly severe weather outbreak. the least thing you want when you're trick-or-treating. let's fast forward to 4:00 p.m. a soaking rain around dallas and fort worth. some showers and storms around houston. and start to billow and pop. these are super cells. and that will be as we go through 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. this is a solid shield of rain from little rock northward. and by 11:00 p.m. everyone's safely home and year still watch thing wind damage threat in areas of eastern texas.

obviously i already talked to the areas that are going to be more of a trick. dallas that heavy rain threat. new orleans may be a hit and miss storm. nashville you're going to have rain to deal with. cleveland, kind of cloudy on and off periods of rain. same goes for pittsburgh. everyone on the eastern seaboard, this was the day for you. 61 and mild in new york. d.c. that's 64. rich mnds, raleigh, charlotte, all the way down through south carolina and much of florida is looking really nice for this halloween. a little bit of everything today. but you don't want tornados and severe weather on -- the kids look forward to this day. >> we want everyone to be safe good weather or not. we're going to tell you who's on top coming up next in sports.

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one of the games of the year, alabama and lsu are set to meet in baton rouge. meanwhile outrage for the former football player who died in a heatstroke earlier this summer. as they've reannounced the reinstatement of head coach after 80 days of administrative leave. this didn't sit well with some members of the team as three players walked out. they're set to host michigan state on saturday. and finally the major league baseball season ended with ba s boston being crowned the champion and the folks at bad lip reading are taking one more look back at the 2018 season. >> mama needs a new hip bone. >> it's a flying shoe.

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midterms, congress member steve king is facing criticism. frrts "congressman steve king's recent comments, actions and retweets are completely inappropriate. we must stand up against white supremacy and hate lin forms. and i strongly condemn this behavior." this after steve king met with a group with historic nazi ties. he reportedly told the washington post -- told members of that group they would be republicans if they were in america. and he posted a picture saying different breeds of dogs indicated diversity. so he's hitting back at the members of his own party.

and "these attacks are orchestrated by nasty, desperate and dishonest fake news. their ultimate goal is to flip the house and over -- and king is virtually broke. he had $176,000 on hand and was badly outraise bide his challenger. one thing he has going for him is his district's 27% margin for trump. and j.d.scholten will be a guest later this morning. and a series of conference calls by roger stone. it's around wikileaks release ahead of the 2016 election. the journal reports that in at least two august 2016 conference calls, stone told callers about wikileaks plan to release

information he said would effect the campaign. august 4th, just a few weeks after wikileaks founder began release thing hacked emails, stone was quoted as saying in the back grund of this entire race going forward is the fact that julian assange is going to continue to drop information on american voters that is going to roil american voters. "since then the washington post reports that investigators have conducted interviews with witnesses about stone's private interactions with senior campaign officials around the same time as his former comments. and before wikileaks released email according to people --

when special counsel mueller has asked the fbi to investigate a possible scheme in which women were offered money to make false claims about him. it turned out multiple reporters were contacted by a woman who says she was offered money to say she had been harassed by bob mueller. one said she had been offered roughly twentd thousand dlfr by a man claiming to work for a firm called sure fire intelligence to make accusations of sexual misconduct around mueller. jack burkman began promoting on his facebook page he was investigating sexual misconduct and alcohol related investigations against mueller. he was to reveal the first of mueller's sexual assault victims.

frr meanwhile the company connected to the plot listed conspiracy theorists. he said he hired sure fire but then denied anying anything about the firm's involvement in a plot. he said he doesn't have any invaufbltment in any investigations of any kind. from washington, co author of the political play book. so we have this alleged smear campaign. that shows the efforts, the lengths some are willing to go. you do more behind the scenes of these allegations. the are a lot of hole os in them. how damaging could these claims be for the special counsel investigation? >> it seems like bunch of them are lashing on to smear mueller

and normally you would think they would do a better job creating something to try and hurt them. they know robert mueller. he's testified in front of congress to them. he's not the type of person running around sexually assaulting women. it doesn't ring true. maybe they should think of something else to do. >> and this one is regarding wikileaks and connection to roger stone. if these are true, could this link the 2016 campaign with colluding with russia? would this be one of the more significant breakthroughs if roger stone is implicated? >> he had a firm in the 1980s in d.c. with with paul manafort and who was trump's campaign manager for a stint, one of three

campaign managers for trump. and so they were talking on a regular basis. i'm sure manafort would tell him what's going on. stone's work withed for trump for a long time and so it feels like stone might be in trouble. he just hired a new lawyer in florida represent him. but unsure if -- stone is a big bragger and so he might have done more of that instead off actual collusion. >> we'll see how all of this plays out when the mueller investigation gears up again. so sec refare of state mike pompeo is putting pressure. the saudi-led coalition that has u.s. backing mainly by targeting training and intelligence, often

results in high civilian casuallies including an air strike that hit a school bus. the un issued a dire warning. there is imminent danger offf a famine impacting 14 million people. despite this pompeo said we will continue to back the saudis. now what appears to be a major shift in trump's policy. he's calling on the rebels to cease hostilities including missile strikes and quote finding one with substantive consul tagszs. and the man many believe to be at the center of the jamal khashoggi incident leads defenses. and surrounding one of his

younger brothers who returned from london. he eis the king's only surviving full brother feared returning after making public comments that appeared to criticize the crown prince. this is seen as an indication the royal family is maneuvering. it's unclear if it's to increase the prince's power or limit it. and saying quote there is a game to save somebody. and the washington post marking four weeks sijs jamal khashoggi tis peers and quote rather than answer those questions, the saudi government and defacto accomplices have gone silent. and now that story has been pushed from the front pages.

that should not be allowed to happen. president erdogan has made clear he can't say who backed the murder. that suits them and they should determine what they know about the killing and that it should take decisive action on those responsible. if the evidence points to him. >> and style come i don't know eif anybody saw this coming. >> a bazar pivet for kanye. >> well, now kanye is announcing he's stepping out of the political arena. plus bill karins is back with with a check on the forecast, including what's in store for trick-or-treaters today. a migraine hope

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welcome back, everyone. rapper kanye west has decided to take a step back from politics. after candice owens used west's niem advertise marchen dice to a movement dedicated to ending african american support. he fired back saying i introduced them to the person who used the logo and she used mine. west followed up seconds later with my eyes are now wide open and now realized i've been used to spread messages i don't believe in. i'm distancing myself from politics and focusing on being creative. he infamously dawned the make america great hat. that was a bit short lived. >> what the president is going

to say about his new buddy. >> he got in his head. hi, bill. once again we're watching severe weather today. i wouldn't doubt if some communities they tell them to cancel and do it another day. so here is the area of concern. the thread off tornados today, mostly along the texas/louisiana border. we're going to get soaking rain in dallas and fort worth. could have severe wind damage in areas of -- and those that do get hit could have significant debris like falling storms. so the flood threat. this is a light rain event throughout the day. and tomorrow you're going to get soaked. so we ve10 million people along -- southern portions of

ohio. i mean this area has been pretty wet so far. that's three inches. isolated totals could be as high five inches of rain. we could get three to four inches in louisiana and then central new england too. that time of year when the sleeves -- and an af-plus all the way up the eastern seaboard. you can notice from chicago right down through texas not the best. so just urng a word of question through louisiana for seeveer storms. still ahead facebook releases its earnings report. and walmart looks to remove

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welcome back. the treasury department announced it expects to borrow more than $1 trillion this year. it will likely issue $125 billion in debt from october through december which would bring the total for 2018 to over $1.3 billion.

that's more than last year's figure. the rising deficits could hinder economic growth. trrs they announced the deficit grew 17% bud ended at the end off nep. it sited the tax cut and spending increases approved by the republican-controlled congress. >> following the release of the third country results. so break this down for us a little bit. obviously a little bit mix eed. that it is offering. tell us more about that. >> so a mixed result is anticipated. and we saw upperings beat expectation and missed

expectations, this was daily and menthly active users. but to put this into context, facebook still has 2.6 billion users. is more than nine times e u.s. population. so quite huge numbers we're still seeing out of facebook. and the view in the market seems to be that results weren't as bad as they could have been. and this is why we've seen a bit of a pop in facebook after hours yesterday. so it seems like investors, a bit of relief there. shifti shifting gears, that is cvs. we learned cvs is piloting an online program designed to rival the threat from online retailers entering the pharma space, namely amazon. so in this new membership

program that cvs is launching, customers will be able to pick up their prescriptions -- excuse me, will be able to get their prescriptions delivered to them online. >> more pharma wars. let me ask you about walmart. it's looking to cut down on one of the worst parts of the holiday season, lines. how are are they manning on doing that? firstly, as you say, in order to save shoppers the agony of waiting in line, you're going to be able to pay for the items you find in the aisle that you find them. there will be people stationed around the store. then they give you a receipt. the second thing that they are initiating this november is a use of their app to locate items in the store so you don't have to wander around looking for

items. you can just pop in the item into their app and it will tell you the exact location. and this, again, a move we're seeing from a traditional retailtory try to compete with the online retailers in making that instore experiencing all the more pleasant and less agonizing this holiday season when it can get busy. >> anything to make it less of a headache when we're shopping in the stores. >> we're already talking about the holiday. it's halloween. still to come, president trump mistaking his latest bid to dismantle the country's immigration system. >> the defense the administration is offering for his plans to end birth right citizenship. plus, as steve king faces his simple to his ties over nationalism, his opponent j.d.scholten joins us.

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time for a look this morning at axios a.m. joining us from washington is political reporter for axios alexi mcken. good morning to you. as we start off with the one big thing for this morning, what is it? >> good morning and happy halloween. we clearly did a good job with our costumes today. >> what are you suggesting? >> we did not put in enough effort. today we're talking about the midterm split decision. operatives from both parties told axios that the violent events of the past week have so lid he phied this split decision midterm situation where the house looks more than likely to flip to the democrats and the senate looks like it's going to stay in republican control. and the one really telling thing we heard tell from a republican operative is it looks like the world is in case yoes and republicans, this operative said, are totally in charge and control. so they're looking at these events saying these could not have happened in a worse time in

a worse away ahead of the elections. >> let me ask you, democrats always get criticized for not winning over the latino voters want with less than a week ago, are we seeing more of an outrage to that community? >> yeah. we saw a really interesting thing yet. the dcc released its first ever multi state spanish tv ad. that's basically across four to five different states in eight cities with major markets with key battleground races and it shows latinos talking about their life aspirations, their effort that they've spent millions of dollars trying to reach out to the voters this cycle. but it is a last minute push to encourage voters to turn out. >> interesting when it comes to the president and the caravan

now that we know. axios is out with an exclusive poll regarding medicare for all. tell us about that. >> we have a new survey out and learned that a plurality of people are open to this idea of medicare for all, but voters are split on what they want it to mean or what they think it means. some people who think it's an optional public plan, this matters a little bit for the midterms. but this will really matter in the 2020 election when nearly every democrat running for president will have to take a stance on medicare for all. >> so before we let you go with the final stretch for the mitt term elections, what are you looking for in these final six days? >>. >> what i'll be watching for is

the clinton.-won districts held by staff members. we've seen ways which these republicans are distancing themselves from president trump. i think they'll be in a tricky position to make the closing argument that they are an independent actor. >> i want to ask you, knowing how the president shifted in the light of the scares and the tragedies that we've had, what do you expect from the president knowing this is his last stretch and he's doing these mull take rally messages that he's putting up? >> we see this way in which he becomes a performer at the rallies. it comes down to a tun out election from the republicans. >> is there a bit of a discontest twenty the fact that

the president is going out in these conservative districts that he has won and the messages that is coming out from the make america great again, messaging doesn't show any images of president trump. >> i think there is a bit of a disconnect there. we have seen some super pac ads with trump in their ads, but it's mostly nancy pelosi. >> alexis, you've covered so much this morning. thank you. sign up for the news left at signup.axios.com. "morning joe" starts right now. >> i can already tip you off. president trump is going to keep his promise to the american people and he's going to nomination a