calls for impeachment. justin. amash accuses president trump of impeachable conduct and the president is hitting back. >> south bend mayor pete buttigieg takes on president

trump and a couple of prominent fox news host at a fox news town hall. >> president trump sends a warning to iran tweeting if teheran wants to fight the united states it will be quote the official end of iran. good morning. it is monday, may 20th. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside nbc news white house correspondent jeff bennett who is in for ayman mohyeldin. republican member of congress becoming the first member of his party to call for impeaching president trump. congressman justin amash of michigan posted his conclusions to social media. writing one, attorney general bill barr has deliberately misrepresented robert mueller's report. two, president trump has engaged in impeachable conduct. partisanship has eroded our system of checks and balances.

four, few members of congress have tread report. he went on to write this in comparing barr's principal conclusions, congressional testimony and other statements to mueller's report it's clear that barr intended to mislead the public. adding contrary to barr as portrayal mueller's report reveals that president trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment. >> president trump responded by attacking minimum and the mueller report. he quieted never a fan of justin amash, a total lightweight. if he actually read the biassed mueller report composed by 18 angry dems he would see it was strong on no collusion and no obstruction. how do you obstruct when there

were no crimes and the crimes were committed by the other side. justin the president said is a loser who plays right into our opponent's hands. >> congressman amash is a founding member of the freedom caucus that's pushed the republican party to the right and pressured house speakers john boehner and paul ryan against compromising with democrats. in an interview yesterday house minority leader kevin mccarthy took on amash with misleading claims about his fellow republicans. >> you got to understand justin amash. he's been in congress quite some time. he only asked one question. he votes more with nancy pelosi than he ever votes with me. it's a question whether he's even in our republican conference as a whole. he had a hard time winning in the last election. i wonder if he wants some type of exit strategy. very disturbing. this is exactly what you expect for justin. he never supported the president. >> while amash frequently stands apart from other republicans in his rhetoric and criticism of

the president's behavior his votes have lined up with the president's position more often than not. amash has voted with trump nearly 62 puerto rico of the time including more than 91% so far this year. amash also has high lifetime rankings from conservative groups, 99% with the club for growth. 94 for americans for prosperity. 87s from american conservative union and rated 86% by heritage action for america. senator mitt romney one of the only republicans to reiteratize president trump after the report's release say amash's opinions are principaled but not accurate. >> he reached a different conclusion than i have. i believe that to make a case for obstruction of justice you just don't have the elements that are evidenced in this

document. and i also believe an impeachment call is something that relates to the law but considers practicality and politics and the american people aren't there. those considering impeachment has to look at the jury, which is the senate. >> during a fox news town hall last night, mayor pete buttigieg slammed two of the network's post prominent hosts for divisive comments they made on air. watch this. >> especially when you see what goes on with some of the opinion hosts on this network. you have tucker carlson say immigrants make america dirty. laura ingraham comparing children iran case to summer camps. summer camps there's a reason why anybody has to swallow hard and think hard before participating in this media eco system. >> hours before the tornado hall president trump criticized fox news tweeting this.

fox is moving more to more losing wrong side in covering dems. they got dump from the democrats boring debates. fox news senior analyst brett hume defended saying this. say this for pete buttigieg he's being willing to be questioned by chris wallace something you've barely done. covering candidates of both parties is part of the job avenues channel. joining us now editorial director of politico. blake, thank you for joining us. appreciate it. what do you make of pete buttigieg's performance at the town hall last night on fox news? >> i thought for a 37-year-old guy who is the mayor of the fourth largest city in indiana, it was extraordinary. he's a guy who has shown he can go toe to toe with chris wallace one of the toughest interviewers on fox news which is traditionally a hostile environment for democrats. they accomplished what they set

out to do in that appearance. >> let's talk about justin amash's decision to criticize president trump. you saw a number of republicans are now denouncing justin amash. you were talking earlier about kevin mccarthy. he would never see nancy pelosi take on a democrat the way kevin mccarthy took on justin amash saying he's not sure he's a republican. why aren't republicans coming to justin amash's defense here? >> there are two things you need keep in mind. one is justin amash has been, i would say, a nontraditional member of the republican caucus in the house. he's a fairly libertarian guy by all accounts, very serious, takes the job incredibly seriously, studies up on the bills that he's passing, cares a lot about government spending, cares about things like the rule of law. so he's a very principled conservative and that puts him at odds sometimes with folks like kevin mccarthy. another thing you need to keep in mind president trump's

approval ratings are probably in the low 90s among republican voters right now. so republicans aren't going to line up behind amash because they are worried about being primaried who will support the president. >> it's not necessarily a watershed moment to have a republican in this case justin amash say the president could be or should be impeached for his offenses outlined in the mueller report. >> when you see the house minority leader go out there and kick him in the head on tv it's pretty clear what's going on. >> thank you. we'll talk to you again in just a bit. the fight for abortion rights could be taken up by the supreme court today. the conservative court may announce whether it will hear challenges to three provisions of indiana abortion laws on issues like the disposal of fetal remains and 18 hour

waiting period after ultrasound exams. if the court decides to take up the case it could begin the process of slowly chipping away at the constitutional right to abortion, established in roe v wade rather than to overturn it out right. president trump weighed into the debate over the weekend solidifying his pro life stance with caveats of rape, incest and protecting the life of the mother. he also noted his conservative federal and supreme court justice picks tweeting that quote the radical left with late term abortion and worse is imploding on the issue. we must stick together and win for life in 2020. a republican missouri lawmaker hassized for using the term quote consensual rape to debate a restrictive anti-abortion bill. state congressman claims he misspoke while arguing that missouri's newly passed eight week window for abortions allows rape victims ample time for the procedure. here's how he described his experience handling rape cases as a 30 year police department

veteran. watch this. >> let's just say someone goes out and they have or they are raped or sexually assaulted one night after a college party. most of rapes were not the gentleman jumping out of bushes nobody met. that was one or two times out of a hundred. most were date rapes. >> he later told "the washington post" he believed there's no such thing as consensual rape adding that in his decades in law enforcement he quote always took the testimony of rape victims seriously. still ahead everybody new reporting at deutsche bank, dismissed employee concerns about entities controlled by president trump and his son-in-law jared kushner. legal analyst danny cevallos will join us for that conversation. plus graduating students at morehouse college get a big surprise from this year's commencement speaker. those stories and more when we come back.

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welcome back. the "new york times" reports antimony laundering specialist at deutsche bank flagged multiple suspicious transactions by accounts controlled by president trump and his son-in-law jared kushner in 2016 and 2017. according to five current and former bank employees after transactions set off alerts in a computer system designed to detect illicit activity deutsche bank staff recommended it be reported to the financial crimes unit. but top executives rejected that advice. the nature of the transactions was not clear. at least some of them involved money flowing back and forth with overseas entities or individuals which bank employees considered suspicious. now a kushner company statement calls allegations involving money laundering completely made up and totally false. a spokeswoman for the trump organization said quote we have

no knowledge of any flagged transactions with deutsche bank. while a statement from deutsche bank itself reads in part we have increased our anti-financial crimes staff and enhanced controls and takes compliance with antimony laundering and bank secrecy laws very seriously. at no time was an investigator prevented from escalating activity identified as potentially suspicious. joining us on set danny cevallos. thanks for joining us. talk to me about this. what type of transactions would be flagged or set off potential money laundering alarms. >> a few different kind. anything that tends to suggest it might be the product of a criminal transaction, might set off an sar. it's important to understand suspicious activity reports are not per se evidence of a crime. and in addition, they are very, very secret. they are supposed to be kept very confidential. so for that reason if they get

to the bank and this is a bank well hey this is a customer that makes us a lot of money you can imagine the financial incentives to ignore a suspicious activity. >> if it's not a crime what it? >> suspicious. the bank secrecy act defines, requires these institutions to create these reports. it can be something as simple as the amount of money, the amount of money deposit might be, look like it's meant to evade the reporting requirements. that's a money laund, issue or a structuring issue. but the bottom line is this. it's a legal requirement that banks create this report but then what does the bank do with it? do they want to jeopardyize a very profitable customer for them. that's the problem. >> i was doing some reporting on this last night and a bank spokesperson said bank didn't prevent staff from alerting these suspicious transactions. if the bank did do that what

kind of legal trouble if at all would the bank face? >> most of these requirements are created by the bank secrecy act. all kinds of fines. potential criminal liability. it's something that's difficult to police but when caught is policed. >> talk about the incentives for these executives ignoring these recommendations. >> imagine that you have this gigantic customer who is funneling money through your company and generating a lot of income for your bank and you get the suspicious activity report. the incentive is obvious. it's to sweep it under the rug. now i'm not saying that's what happened here but you can imagine any customer that is generating that kind of income, that kind of profit, it becomes very difficult to make the banks become their own watchman. >> does this set up deutsche bank for future investigations when you're hearing stories like this that are flagging suspicious activity from transactions made by the trump organization by by kushner and the companies that are

surrounding the kushner family, does this have authorities looking into deutsche bank even more so considering what we've seen so far? >> it's likely. i can say for sure but it is likely. >> if they are doing with it one entity, with one organization who is to say they are not doing it with other organizes. >> that's right. most of this is self-policing at least on the front end. once this becomes public you can imagine folks at the doj or treasury or any other agencies that may enforce this will the take a closer look at banks that are alleged to be doing this quite of thing. let's get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> welcome back. we're watching again life threatening weather today not just tornadoes but strong tornadoes that could be on the ground for a long period of time. high-risk situation. we haven't had one of these in two years. it shows you the atmosphere the primed for a big tornado outbreak and severe weather outbreak here. we're talking north texas almost

all of oklahoma, southern portion of kansas, greatest risk of tornadoes is in this area of pink in here just to the west of oklahoma city and wichita falls. the ground has been soaked. 6 million people are under flash flood watches. here's the timing. we had thunderstorms in north texas. by the time we head towards the noon hour one round of rain up in areas of kansas. . nothing too severe. by the time we get to mid-afternoon that's when we start to watch these individual supercells. by 4:00 p.m. numerous super cells with tornadoes on the ground. oklahoma city is here. in between oklahoma city and childress, this area of the western portion of oklahoma is most at risk. then those storms will roll through oklahoma city. notice how long it's raining in oklahoma city with heavy rain. very concerned with flash flooding in and around oklahoma city later on this evening. besides that story of severe weather in the middle of the country we have a heat wave building in areas of the east. today is warm and humid.

nothing too unusual. but then as we go through the week the heat only gets worse and more humid too. on tuesday we're at 94 in georgia. 88 in nashville. then by the time we start talking about memorial day weekend, tallahassee goes 96 to 99. we could have numerous 100s on saturday and sunday in the southeast. so just be prepared. the end of this week into the memorial day weekend exceptionally hot and record heat in area of the south. for today's forecast anyone doing any travel there will be hit or miss storms in new england. we'll keep our eyes on oklahoma and texas later on this afternoon and tonight. i'm sure we'll have numerous tornadoes. just a matter when they will hit. still ahead defending champ saw his lead evaporate but hangs

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one. that's when i left for the grocery store and ran home. i was so excited for this great finish. dustin johnson boeinged two holes in a row. koepka goes on to host the trophy for the second time. he won the tournament by two. his fourth major. johnson has now finished second at each of golf's major championships. runner up at the masters in april johnson has previously finished two at the u.s. open and british open. now go to the nba playoffs. the golden state warriors a win away from an nba following the 110-99 victory. let's go to last night in toronto. the raptors refused to make it easy for the bucks rebounding. they go double overtime last night. first basket of the second extra period. and marks toronto's first lead

of the game. and then they pull away as leonard notched a game high 36 points on the way to a 118-112 victory. hoping to make it for an interesting series bp for months running for the ripple crown saturday's preakness still offered a unique sight for spectators in baltimore. well, we saw this horse run the entire race after throwing the jockey velasquez at the starting gate. the thoroughbred raced on, even ran an extra rate. he beat a couple of horses at the end. war of will took the checkered flag and is likely to compete at the bell moan next month. war of will, actually, that's who i had my money on in the kentucky derby and national security ruined everything for me. joe biden officially kicks off his 2020 campaign with a

rally in philadelphia and casts himself as the candidate that can unify the nation. amid rising tensions, president trump issues a strong warning to teheran, quote if iran wants to fight that will be the official end of iran. your first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment. t. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ applebee's new loaded fajitas. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. i'm workin♪ to make each day a little sweeter. applebee's new loaded fajitas. to give every idea the perfect soundtrack. ♪ to make each journey more elegant.

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside nbc news white house correspondent jeff bennett. it's the bottom of the hour.

let's start with the morning's top stories. former vice president joe biden kicking off his 2020 campaign saturday with a rally in the heart of philadelphia. he spoke about party unity as well as continue to look beyond the crowded democratic field and general election fight against president trump. watch this. >> i know some of the really smart folks say democrats don't want to hear about unity. they say democrats are so angry, the angier a candidate can be the better chance he or she can win the democratic nomination. i don't believe it. i really don't. i believe democrats want to unify this nation. that's what our party has always been about. folks, let me tell you something. the single most important thing we have to accomplish to get this done, the single most important we have yet to accomplish is defeat donald

trump. >> today senator kamala harris is set to release plan that aims to lessen the disparity in pay between men and women. yesterday harris rallied for more 4,000 fired up supporters in los angeles for what was described as an organizing event in battle for california's 400 delegates to the national convenience. here's senator harris previewing today's announcement. >> in america today, women for the same work, for the equal work on average make 80 cents on the dollar, black women make 61 cents on the dollar, latina's make 53 cents on the dollar and this has got to end. tomorrow i am going to announce the first-ever national priority on closing that pay gap and

holding corporations accountable for transparency and closing that gap and you'll see the announcement tomorrow. there will be penalties if they don't. >> and on "meet the press" over the weekend u.s. senator and 2020 candidate bernie sanders argued it's not good enough to just defeat donald trump in 2020 but democrats have to take on issues such as climate change as well. >> we have got to defeat donald trump who, in my view, is the most dangerous president in the modern history of this country. if we're talking, for example, about climate change, what the scientists tell us is that we have 12 years before irreparable damage is done to this planet. beating trump is not good enough. you have to beat the fossil fuel industry. you have to take on all of those forces of the status quo who do not want to move this country to energy efficiency and

sustainable energy. >> and in an echo of his past threats aimed at north korea president trump is now threatening the total destruction of iran. tweeting this yesterday. if iran wants to fight that will be the official end of iran, never threaten the united states again. the president also addressed the situation during an interview on fox news and while speaking in front of a group of realtors in washington. >> i'm not somebody thats to go into war because war hurts economies, war kills people most importantly. i will invade if i have to economically. right now we're dealing with iran. they put out so many false messages that iran is totally confused. i don't know that might be a good thing. they put out fake news. they put out messages that i'm angry with my people. i'm not angry with them. i make my own decision. mike pompeo is doing a great job. they make it sound like it's a

conflict and the good news, i was thinking today, gee what must our adversaries think. then i look. i say it's probably a good thing. >> but there are vast differences in opinion regarding the threat level that should be raised based on the intelligence the u.s. has on iran. republican senator tom cotton a member of the armed services and tension committee says the intel shows there are multiple credible certificate threats that have been picked up the pace over the last couple of weeks. but democratic congressman who is a member of the house armed services committee and also an iraq war veteran says quote i get the same intel ascotton. he's greatly exaggerating the situation to spur us to war. don't fall for it. we're getting the same intel as senator cotton. the "wall street journal" has reported that u.s. intel appears to indicate that iran believed america was planning an attack. which prompted teheran to move defensive prep regulates and also get ready for possible

counter strikes. two american officials told the "new york times" last week that iran began mobilizing its forces after president trump issued new sanctions on teheran's metal industry and designated its revolutionary guard as terrorists. and saudi arabia says they don't want to go to war against teheran. that comes days after two saudi arabia oil tankers were sabotaged in the persian gulf. low grade rocket landed near the u.s. embassy in iraq. according to the state department the there were no casualties or significant damage. there has been no claim of responsibility but the state department is implying that the iranian proxy militia force is to blame. joining us once again editorial director at politico. blake, good to talk to you. there are some people that suggest we have never been as close to conflict with iran as

we were back in the early '80s post-the hostage crisis. others argue this is being overblown. what do you make of the threat from iran right now? >> i don't know how serious the threat is. i'm not reading the intelligence. my understanding of this is that the u.s. picked up signs that missiles were being loaded on boats and put in the persian gulf. you can read that two ways. you can read it as iran looking to retaliate against the united states or you can look at it as iran moving the missiles out of range of potential u.s. air strikes. so everyone has the same information. it's a matter of how you interpret their intentions. but if you look at what the white house is saying they are signalling they want to pressure iran. i don't think they want to go to war. trump has been very clear about that. yesterday he seemed to blow it all up with one tweet. but there are signs he was watching fox news segment about iran at the time and i don't think he was guesting a briefing

from his national security council. >> blake, quickly, what do you make of the president defending his position in the white house with regards to the iran war hawks like john bolton? >> well, you know, there's a long history of trump as president not liking it when one of his advisers gets too close to the sun. what we're seeing he doesn't like his internal discussions are being aired in the press. he doesn't like the idea he's being led around by the nose by national security adviser john bolton. so he says look i'm the boss, i make the decisions and this is a situation where the president is telling his advisers to simmer down and that's different than the usual thing we've seen inside this white house. >> that's true. let's talk about 2020. bernie sanders and joe biden seem to have very different goal posts for what a win in. 2020 looks like for democrats. we saw this big campaign kick off for joe biden over the weekend. how big a factor is defeating

president trump for democratic voters as opposed who is the most progressive in the democratic field. >> it depends which voters you talk to. older voters that tend to support joe biden, they just want to get rid of donald trump and they are sympathic to biden's unity push. bernie sanders fires up young people even though he's an older guy. and the younger people in the activists class in the democratic party want to move things in a more progressive direction. they are pushing the party to the left. that's the sort of generational struggle i see being played out right now. >> good seeing you. thank you. still ahead an update on former president jimmy carter's health. plus a billionaire investor tells one graduating class he'll pay off their student loans. those stories plus a check of the weather coming up next. athet when i was diagnosed with breast cancer,

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welcome back. nearly 400 graduating seniors at morehouse college will leave school debt free thanks to a commencement speaker who made a promise to pay their student loans. take a look at this. >> on behalf of the eight generations of my family who have been in this country, we're going to put a little fuel in your bus. this is my class, 2019. my family is making a grant to eliminate their student loans. >> that is investor and philanthropist robert f. smith who already announceed a $1.5 million donation towards school scholarships before he promised to take on the class of 2019 student loans which drew stunned looks and cheers from students and faculty. it's hard to estimate the exact

cost of his pledge to the graduates of the all male historically black college but could total up to $40 million and he said it's the single largest gift to the president. the president called it a liberation gift because it means these graduates won't have to think about college debt in paying off their loans when they pursue careers they want to pursue. >> he talks about putting a little fuel in your bus. he just filled up the tank. think about it. you're graduating from college. likely getting entry level job. you don't have enough money or making enough money to payback these loans as quickly as you would like to and now you're starting debt free. maybe you want to go to law school or immediamedical school. >> it's a france formational gesture. making a huge difference in those students. let's get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist. >> you know what i was thinking?

there's some student that didn't for some reason didn't finish that one clarks didn't graduate, will graduate next semester. >> you had to go there. >> got to be someone. >> why can't we stay positive. >> we are positive. >> that one person. >> they didn't get the paper. running and begging the professor. sorry. so let's give you our set up for today. we're watching just classic set up for a big severe weather outbreak and positive a tornado out break. we have our one critical aspect. you need the moisture coming off the gulf of mexico. pumping that moisture up to the north. rainfall and flash flooding will be a huge issue along with the tornadoes. that's the one aspect. then you need the shear. you can have winds coming from one direction. you need them to spin. we're getting that. air coming in off the gulf. same time a strong jet stream aloft and like a top that spins

and that's how we get tornadoes to form later today. the timing today, very classic, mid to late afternoon continuing in to the early evening hours. am of these showing potential at least of these supercell thunderstorms. mostly this area from north texas border here, straight line north-south and areas to the east. that's where we're going to watch. all heading towards oklahoma city later on this evening. again, 19 million people at risk in this high-risk area in pink here. two years since we've had one of these and it usually means we'll get tornadoes, big ones. just depends if they hit tornadoes or not how bad the devastation will be. as far as flash flooding 6 million people at risk. we have a high-risk of flash flooding today in areas of oklahoma the too. so it's very rare to get both of those on the same day. as far as the forecast is going to go, we're going to don't watch the storm system later on. today and we'll talk more about a heat wave coming later this week. >> let's hope everybody stays safe. >> thanks bill.

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release last week. he underwent hip surgery after falling at his home. the 94-year-old underestimated the amount of recovery time he would need but has been progressing well as he continues to rest at home. the national republican party recently accepted nearly $400,000 donations from steve wynf. less than a year after he was syracused of sexually harassing or assaulting female employees wynn gave $248,000 to the republican national committee and $150,000 to the national republican senatorial committee in april. now wynh a long time republican party donor resigned from i had post of wynn resorts in 2018. that followed a flood of accusations which he has staunchly denied. now rnc chairwoman defended the organization to take the money claiming none of the

investigations have proven wynn broke through and quote at this point there's no reason for refusing his support. google has suspended business with huawei telecom gi around the world. cnbc's willem marx joins us from lond london. how might this affect android users? >> android is a platform created and developed by google but it won't be off limits to android users who use huawei smartphone any time soon but things like g-mail may no longer be available. around their handset sales are outside china, second only to samsung in the global smartoften

mark -- smartphone market. it's samsung that could profit. >> on friday, nike posted a statement saying it's changed its policies to support women who are pregnant but could, it acknowledged, go even further. the company says it will now add written terms to create fairness. >> go further. being someone who's had two children, go further. >> as trade tensions rose, what's on the horizon for this week? >> if you look at what happened today, the trade markets have fallen, weaker trading among the semiconductor sector here and in asia. that's all thanks to this huawei

decision and google. you've got european autos no longer facing the threat of tear yi -- tariffs, that's been postponed six months by the trump administration. in terms of the fed, you'll hear from the the chair, jerome powell and then finally the oil price we're seeing a bit of an uptick there for a number of reasons, one of which is the saudis have accused the iranians of sabotaging two of their ta tankers, that has people worried about supply and we've heard they are going to try to keep supplies low to prop up their price. >> willem marx live from london. >> coming up, axios's michael n allen has a look at this morning's "1 big thing."

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welcome back. joining us from washington with a look at axios a.m., the co-founder of actixioaxios, mik. talk to us about the axios "1 big thing" today. >> it's a scoop. president trump's big bang launch plan. axios has learned that president trump plans to officially launch his reelection campaign next month with a speight of state rallies. in his mind, the real kickoff will be june 16th, that's the fourth anniversary of the day he

walked down the golden elevator in trump tower, for his improbable run. it happens to be a sunday, happens to be father's day. it may not be the exact day but expect him around then to begin doing a series of rallies to say that trump 2020 is under way. >> that escalator moment seems so long ago, doesn't it? >> the end of june is when democrats will have their first debates. how is the president going to keep attention on his reelection bid as democrats, you know, really capture the focus on their part? >> look for a little counterprogramming. we expect both the trump campaign and the president to have their own messages, perhaps their own events, maybe a tweet here and there, to try and dilute some of that tension. and this is a very specific strategy by the president, part of his personal hands-on approach to campaigning. he wants to try to dominate as

much of the news as he can and he's going to try to sow further division in this huge democratic field. >> i'm going to go out on a limb and say it's going to be a little bit more than a tweet here and there. >> i would take the over. i'm with you. >> we also know axios is learning exclusive new details about how democrats are catching up to trump's ad spending online. who is outspending the president? >> this is data that sarah fisher got her hands on. under the radar, president trump had been spending massive amounts of money on facebook, getting new donors and supporters. and he'd been outspending all the democrats combined 2-1. in may, though, this month, though, this new data shows that both joe biden and kamala harris have been outspending him on facebook so democrats have now caught up with him and this is a sign of that race engaging, most

of the money going to find local donors. >> let's talk about the push to focus on climate change. it's also now seeing a new ally and that's corporate america. unpack the proposed climate plan for us. >> unpack is a good word. energy com today is breaking news about the corporations that are pushing congress to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions. we're going to have a bunch of corporate ceos on capitol hill, top oil companies are supporting this. this is such a change. why is this happening? a couple reasons. one is it's pressure from investors, possible legal pressure but also companies are very concerned about the progressive climate agenda, the far-reaching effects of that. this is a way to found a middle

ground. but these companies are investing big money, both their ceos time and millions in lobbying. >> we'll be reading axios am in just a little bit. you can go to signup.axios.com. >> i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside geoff bennett. "morning joe" starts right now. >> if it's hard to figure out what's going on right now, it's because we are living on one of those blanc pak pages in betwee chapte chapters. i believe running for office is an act of hope and so is voting and volunteering for somebody. i hope you'll join me in making sure that next era is better than any we've had so far. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you, mayor. and thank you -- wow, a standin