obama for creating his own family separation policy. june ended with a trip to the g20, where trump smiled while telling vladimir putin not to intd fehr in the 2020 elections. trump then tweeted an invitation to north korea's dictator to meet him at the dmz for a handshake and then went there, shook kim jong un's hand and stepped onto north korean soil. all that in just one month of donald trump's presidency. that is our broadcast for tonight. thank you for being with us. and good night from nbc news headquarters in new york. ws headquar ♪ters in new york this morning, the department of homeland security's internal watchdog is warning of, quote, dangerous overcrowding and prolonged detention at border facilities in texas. we're getting a look at the new images there. plus, a controversial question about citizenship will be left off the 2020 census. and president trump is responding by calling it, quote, sad day. and the information escalates are, the house ways and means is now suing the treasury department and irs access for president trump's tax returns.

good wednesday morning, everybody. it is july 3rd. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside nbc news white house correspondent geoff bennett. we begin with the inspector general, the department of homeland security warning of, quote, dangerous overcrowding at migrant facilities in texas. these images, the unannounced inspections took place at five ports of entry in the rio grande area of texas during the week of june 10th. investigators found children at the facilities. they didn't have access to showers. these children had to sleep on concrete floors. they also reported single adults being held in standing-room only conditions. along with serious concerns about health risks. according to the report, senior managers at several facilities raised security concerns for their agents and detainees. one called the situation a,

quote, ticking time bomb. the acting dhs inspector general said in a report this, we encourage the department of homeland security to take immediate steps to alleviate dangerous overcrowding and prolonged attention of children and adults in the rio grande valley. >> house speaker nancy pelosi spoke to president trump. her request includes setting up requirements for the provision of water along with appropriate nutrition, hygiene and sanitation needs. house democrats are also demanding to hear from two top officials from the department of homeland security including acting dhs secretary kevin mcaleenan. and agents calling mark morgan which is consumed with another scandal, a facebook group with thousands of current and former agents posting racist and sexist images of democratic lawmakers

and joking about the deaths of migrants. elijah cummings sent a letter to facebook officials yesterday requesting all postings and comment including videos and texts and deleted content from that facebook group. all of the people in those detention facilities are migrants. all are entitled to humanity. to decent treatment. to decent judicial adjudication and not to be tortured and regards as refuse. all of the people in the administration who have done this, committed it, are guilty of child abuse which say crime. >> a group of congressional lawmakers visited a detention center for unaccompanied children in homestead yesterday.

frederica wilson who led the delegation vowed to stay there until she could speak to young girls at the facility. another said he was bothered by the lack of education available to the children being held day. lawmakers inspecting government facilities on monday, several members of congress toured border patrol stations in texas. here's what some of them told msnbc about the experience. >> as soon as i realized that we were congressmembers, tears were rolling down their faces as they talked about their conditions. they said they had no idea when they were going to leave. they had been there over 50 days. they said that they had been separated from their children. >> there was a point where one of the woman who was cuban she spoke some english, and in front of all of us, many of the legislators and several cdp officers she challenged them very directly and said that they were not telling the truth about the standard of care and the treatment. and she said that some of the

agents had used derogatory words, language, against the women. >> we saw a little boy, he must have been 4 years old. they locked up the kids at clint so members of congress could not talk to them. so, they locked these kids up. this little boy saw us, he ran up to the plexiglas, put his hands up as if he wanted to touch us. you could tell by his mouth he was asking for his dad. it's just heartbreaking. let's talk 2020 politics now. senator kamala harris begins a three-day campaign tour of iowa today, as more new polls show her rapidly overtaking much of the democratic field. a national poll from quinnipiac shows joe biden down eight points to 22%. and kamala harris just two points behind at 20%. it's a gain of 13 points since three weeks ago. senator elizabeth warren is in third place with 14th.

while senator bernie sanders dropped six points to 13% with mayor pete to 4%. and cory booker rising to 3%. now, this poll lines up with other recent polls showing biden and sanders in decline while warren and harris are on the rise. meanwhile in iowa, a "usa today" poll puts biden in the lead at 26%. harris at 26%. warren at 19%. and sanders in fourth place with 9%. buttigieg, amy klobuchar and booker also in this poll for qualifying for the third debate in september. let's also talk fundraising numbers. bernie sanders has raised nearly $18 million during the past three months according to his campaign. the senator's fundraising haul was bolstered by the second quarter alone.

with the majority of donations being $100 or less. and the senator also transferred an additional $6 million from other campaign accounts and headed into the second half of the year with about $30 million in cash to spend. joining us now from washington, political reporter for the "washington examiner" emily larson. emily, good morning to you. let's talk about sanders' latest fundraising numbers as i was just going through some of them. $18 million or so and then a total of $30 million after he transferred money from other contributions. what do you make of those numbers? especially when you see pete buttigieg who, i think, raised about $25 million over the last quarter. >> certainly, the comparison to pete buttigieg is very important. i think buttigieg sort of cemented his place in the top here with his impressive fundraising quarter. and passing sanders is impressive, too. they take very different

tactics. and another thing to note with sanders' fundraising numbers he's been pretty flat with fundraising since the first quarter of the year where he also raised about $18 million. so that, combined with his slip in the polls, is showing that he's kind of maybe losing a little momentum. but the good news is that, what his campaign says, most of these people, the vast majority are under the contribution limit and can contribute again in the future. >> yeah. and polling as you say isn't predictive but it certainly helps to clarify things. but do you think there's more pressure on the 1% and 2%, more pressure on them to get out? and for some of them to potentially run for open senate races that might be competitive. >> well, we're hearing from governor hickenlooper that his staff is wanting him to get out of the race. >> certainly, basically, everybody is running for president this cycle, it seems

like. and there's certainly pressure for them to run for senate seats and challenge republicans rather than run for president. and a lot of people and voters are overwhelmed by the gigantic fields. but as we move forward especially with the democratic national committee debate rules that set threshold limits for participation in the debates we'll start to see that witting down this fall when people are able to raise money. we're already seeing that with hickenlooper and his staff in disarray and he's having trouble fundraising and getting donors as well. >> thank you. the 2020 census has been sent to the printers without question about citizenship according to an email sent to plaintiffs in a related lawsuit. it's a victory for civil rights advocates and a major defeat for the trump administration which tried to add the controversial question to the constitutionally required count before being stopped by the supreme court last week. president trump who openly

considered postponing the census until the question was green-lit promised tweeting this, a very sad time for america when the supreme court of united states won't allow a question of, quote, is this person a citizen of the u.s. to be asked on the 2020 census. i have asked for the department of commerce and department of justice to do whatever is necessary to bring this most vital of question and this very important case to a successful conclusion. all right. still ahead, there is a new legal fight over president trump's tax returns. nbc's legal analyst danny cevallos is joining us. and vps miice president mik 3e7 pence abruptly cancelled a trip. pence abruptly cancelled a trip. 25% of your mouth.

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lawsuit in district court in an effort to the president's tax returns. issued a subpoena after months of repeatedly requesting the records from treasury secretary steven mnuchin. neal requested it in april but last month, . joining us here, is danny cevallos. danny, under u.s. tax law if the chair of the ways and means panel formally requests a person's tax return, federal officials basically must turn over the documents. they must produce those documents. so, where are we at with this

lawsuit now? >> generally speaking, the law protects against the release of all of our tax returns unless, and there are very few extensions but one of them is very clear. there are three congressional committees one of them being the house ways and means committee that can request the returns. and then she shall be returned over by treasury. not may, not if they feel like it, but shall. in the law there's a huge distinction between the word "shall" and "may." the trump administration's argument takes a step back and attacks the structure, the fundamental under pinnings, constitutional under pinnings here which are, look, congress needs a legislative purpose to inspect these tax returns. of course, congress is just going to counter that the legislative purpose is clear within the text of the statute. it allows us to look at them. it says you shall turn them over. if i were to bet, i would say the trump administration is going to find some real challenges when this case goes

to court. >> the thing is, how long, though, could that go on? >> and that's why the trump administration has really found an effective strategy on the legal battlefield and that is, go to court. because trump is long known in his private life that litigation takes time, it wears people down. and that's in the private sector. when you're litigating against congress, an interesting thing happens because if you can hang in there for two years, lo and behold, in comes a new congress and you're rolling the dice again. you have a new fresh chance. they're learning it's a benefit to litigation. >> i talked to democratic staffers on the committee who say that this whole thing could end up with the trump administration losing this and the president's tax returns finding its way into the committee in the heart of the 2020 election. >> that's absolutely right. so it's a gamble in a sense. you can bet that the trump

administration will use strategic appeals and take this all the way to the supreme court, if they have to. and that, even with an important case like this, could take a lot of time. and we may even be, geoff, beyond election times if appeals last longer enough. as a lawyer who has had appeals, they can last that long. >> you can't help but think and ask this question over and over again, since the beginning of this thing when the president refused to release his tax returns, what is he hiding? what is in those tax returns? because the more resistance that's out there you just always wonder there's got to be something in those tax returns the president doesn't want the public to see? >> the odds are under this statute, we will, at least the ways and means committee will find out. >> his biographer says he's not as rich as he says he is. danny cevallos, great to see you. let's get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. hey, bill. >> good morning, they call today

the busiest day of the holiday travel period if you're up early this morning in the ohio valley that's where you're going to have the worst weather. they've had thunderstorms overnight. everybody in ohio just about seeing a little wet weather, from columbus to the areas of west virginia, all of the showers, south of chicago to indianapolis are beginning to dry up a little bit. one of the other stories, the heat advisories have been spread from areas around florida, to a little spot around myrtle beach, too. but should feel like 109 in tampa. orlando, 107. it will feel lick 108 in it ft. myers. even by florida standards this is pretty oppressive. this is pretty hot. again, miami yesterday, 98 degrees. the second time it tied their all-time record. this month alone very hot in florida. here's the impacts at the airports. cincinnati could see a strong storm or two. it's kind of summertime period. we're just going to have a 20%, 30% chance of showers around storms in many areas.

possible impacts if you're driving through the carolinas, hit and miss storms. greatest concentration, kentucky through ohio. that will be the worst of it. then as we head into the fourth of july forecast. areas from i-95 back up to the carolinas towards washington, d.c. could see rain and obviously minor airport problems. and for the fourth itself anyone driving on i-95 could be in and out of the rain. i think most of that rain, guys, will over with by the time the fireworks go off in the big cities in the east. and i think everybody is going to have nice beach weather. >> beach. >> or lake or pool or here in the studio. take your choice. >> or on the ball. >> in your tank. >> yeah. >> thanks. >> let's hope geoff bennett is not doing a live shot today. >> that will not be happening. you can guarantee that. still ahead, the u.s. women's soccer team does it again. now, they're headed to the finals. we'll have the highlights from yesterday's game against england, coming up next. next. this is rick blomquist.

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gallagher walked out free because the maximum sentence he can now face is only four months and he's already spent a longer amount of time in pretrial confinement. he was turned in last spring after several s.e.a.l.s reported the young leader killed the man with a hunting night. a prosecution witness unexpectedly testified that he, not gallagher killed the teenager. the witness given immunity for his testimony may now be charged with perjury. vice president mike pence was set to be in new hampshire but the trip was mysteriously cancelled at the last minute. pence was scheduled to give a speech to 200 people many in the room waiting when they were told from a representative from pence's office that air force 2 had turned around due to an emergency call and that the vp was heading back.

something came up that required the vice president to remain in washington, d.c. there's no cause for alarm. the vice president never left washington, d.c., there was no emergency call back. a source close to pence tells nbc news that the cancellation was not caused by a medical issue. and his chief of staff told reporters it was not national security or personal or family issue either. adding the public would know what happened, quote, weeks from now. let's talk soccer, shall we? as the u.s. women's national soccer team is heading back to the world cup final. did you watch this game? >> no. but thanks for putting me on the spot. >> yesterday, the ladies beat england 2-1 at lyon olympic stadium. sending it across to christen press who heads it home. england delivered the equalizer soon after. alex morgan who celebrated her 30th birthday yesterday put the

u.s. ahead with a header in the 31-of-the-minute. with that one goal lead, things got dicey late in the contest when england drew a foul. but u.s. the u.s. goalie came up huge. that secures the victory. the u.s. will face netherlands or sweden in the game on sunday. >> i'm very proud of them. megan rapinoe spent tuesday's women's semi cup final on after suffering a minor hamstring strain. christen press replaced rapinoe after a nail-biter. rapinoe was hurt late in the second half over the team's quarterfinal win last friday. but that did not stop her from jumping off the bench yesterday, obviously to congratulate her teammates after the awesome game. she said she's confident it won't rule her out of sunday's

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♪ welcome back. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside nbc news white house correspondent geoff bennett. it is the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top story. the ongoing humanitarian crisis at the southern border continues to grow as protesters take to the streets across the country demanding overcrowded detention centers be shut down. this, as we get new looks inside of some of those facilities, and the conditions that migrants being held there are actually facing. nbc news' gabe gutierrez has more on this. >> shut it down! >> reporter: from south florida -- >> we must -- >> reporter: -- to new mexico to northern california. >> free the kids! >> reporter: protests erupted across the country, demanding the closure of migrant detention centers. these newly released picture from a government watchdog shows

the extent of overcrowding. senior managers raise security concerns, one describing a ticking time bomb. members of the congressional hispanic caucus, all democrats toured here in texas. congressman joaquin castro tweeted out these images, even though he was told not to bring in phones. you can see one woman on a blanket saying she didn't have medicine. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez calling the conditions unconscionable. >> these women were being told to drink out of a toilet. >> reporter: border patrol fought back calling it completely untrue. and a search of migrants being apprehended. 144,000 just in may. the highest in 13 years. >> we're burning the candle at the back end, while continuing to support our partners at the border and processing fairly all of the migrants at the border.

>> reporter: this 12-year-old interviewed by her lawyer said she couldn't bathe. in el paso, this pediatrician has treated migrant children after they were released. >> children should not be in a place where they don't have access to their basic human needs. >> thank you to gabe gutierrez for that report. president trump blocked a pose that would keep thousands of asylum seekers indefinitely waiting for the case to be decided. a u.s. court ruled that the order was unconstitutionally violated the migrants' fifth amend rights. the judge said they must give asylum within seven days or release them. attorney general bill barr released in april that the u.s. would no longer offer asylum, but instead keep them in custody. democratic national committee leader, have proposed a debate specifically about climate change after weeks of

urging from environmental activists and some democratic primary candidates. while this in no way guarantees a climate-centric debate, the push reflects the growing interestest the democratic party platform. it's a concession from party leaders who had argued the topic would be covered amply in the debates. the decision to stage a climate debate or forum will be up to a full 447-member vote in its next meeting in late august. meanwhile presidential candidate john hickenlooper is reportedly facing calls to bow out of the 2020 race from within his own campaign. according to several reports, the former colorado senior team urged him to withdraw from the presidential race gracefully. the sort tells politico that the campaign only has 13,000 donors

making it impossible to qualify for the next round of presidential debates in the fall. politico also reports that the campaign only raised just over $1 million in the second quarter, about what he raised in the first 48 hours of hickenlooper's candidacy. and it will likely completely run out of money in about a month. hickenlooper spoke with msnbc yesterday and he remained optimistic about his campaign despite also losing several key staff members this week. >> you just lost your campaign manager. your finance director. you're losing your spokesperson as well. why so many changes at the top of the team right now? >> well, we thought it was time to make a change. you know, these campaigns are long, hard campaigns. you don't always get it right with the first team. it's a little bit -- you know, i used to be in the restaurant business. it's a little bit like putting a restaurant together. sometimes, you know, you don't quite get the right team at the right time. >> all right. the latest round of democratic polling further illustrates the

massive uphill battle that many of the candidates face in their bids for the white house. as a los angeles washington bureau chief david lauder explains. the latest quinnipiac poll illustrates the lower-tear candidates, the top five candidates take up 73%. that makes it hard for the candidates to hit the 2% threshold needed. several military tanks rolled into washington overnight in preparation for president trump's july 4th event. but despite claims that the celebration will be nonpartisan like in years past. democratic lawmakers may have to stake out spots hours in advance considering they have not received any tickets to the events so far. republicans, including rnc donors and trump's re-election

campaign have been granted access to a vip area near the lincoln memorial. here's the white house justification for that. listen to this. >> to supporters of the president -- >> this is a public event. it's open to the public. the public is welcome to come and celebrate our great country. the greatest democracy. i'm not going to allow you to politicize it. >> meanwhile, the national park service is diverting nearly $2.5 million in fees meant to improve parks across the u.s. all to help cover costs associated with this independence day event for the president. that's according to "the washington post." now, by comparison, past july 4th celebrations at the national mall typically cost $2 million in total. but this year is expected to be exponentially more all at taxpayers' expense. joining us here on the set, mark hannah. mark, what kind of message does this send to the country? the president, the white house said it's meant to be

bipartisan. but we just reported democrats didn't get tickets. democrats didn't have special access. it's all for the republicans. >> sure, they're getting boxed out. i think it's a feeling that the president is feeling threatened. and the democratic debates i think he's trying to portray the democratic feed is less enthusiastic about the country which is obviously absurd. and it's exclusionary and insane. >> let's talk about the recent piece in "guardian," in which you touched on the president's style. >> sure, steven worsham and i at "the guardian" basically wrote a piece that there's a case that the democrats have to go on against foreign policy. it seems that this president is so inconsistent, is he al

naturing our allies? of course, he's not when it comes to israel or saudi arabia. is he appeasing our enemies? yes, you can make that case in north korea but less so in iran. there's a bevy showing that the american people, democrats specifically want to end this era of an overly militaryistic, as well as a plurality, they don't subscribe to the notions and american exceptionalism and could run on a generally pro-peace platform. that's while you'll see candidates like buttigieg and elizabeth warren gain traction. they're running against the establishment and bipartisan existence that's existed that focuses on military intervention on the world. >> setting aside the substance

of that, how do you sell a subject like that politically? you look at hot spots around the world and you have someone like donald trump who sucks up all of the oxygen in the room when it comes to making arguments like that. you can imagine how he would use that. >> but i'm also wondering where the president is considering where he is iran. as he rachets up the tension with iran. >> sure, i think the president knows there's a lot of political appeal in the message and in fact, actually ran on getting us out of the wars in the middle east. once in office, president trump like president obama ran against the national security establishment. ran on drawing down the troop presence in afghanistan. even george w. bush ran on, hey, we're going to stop nation-building around the world

before stlerc9/11. president trump has had his hands tied by people like john bolton and mike pompeo. he's handing the democrats a gift here. and if they just open that gift they're going to benefit from that. >> mark hannah, great insights. we'll see you on "morning joe." still ahead, president trump prepared to hit the road as bob mueller goes before reporters. the same day before lawmakers to testify on the russia probe. plus, bill karins with your weather forecast. your "first look" at "morning joe" is back in a bit. ♪

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welcome back. president trump plans to hold a campaign rally two weeks from today in north carolina. and it just so happens to coincide with another highly anticipated event. trump's rally is scheduled for the same day as former special

counsel robert mueller's testimony before the house judiciary and house intelligence committees. the president has spoken out several times against the july 7th hearing. he claims by democrats to have a do-over of the 2016 i election. mueller's testimony is expected to speak about the finding earlier this year which details contact between members of the trump campaign and the kremlin and ten possible instances of obstruction regarding russia's election interference. >> let's check on weather with meteorologist bill karins. >> hot weather conditions continue to build in the south. we don't have warnings, but advisories continue to spread in areas of the south and areas of south carolina and a sliver of north carolina. by the way, yesterday, miami, 98 degrees. again, that's tied their all-time record high temperature for the second time this summer season. so, yeah, it's been very hot in the sunshine state.

so the temperatures in blew today. that's 95 in orlando. gainesville will be 98. jacksonville will be 98. of course, this time of year, it's always humid in florida too. we combine that and we get the heat index that will be near 108 through 110 through much of the state. even further to the north, it's still going to be exceptionally high in areas of myrtle beach and georgetown and including wilmington. today's forecast, hit and miss forecast. chicago should be dry. st. louis, a chance of a storm. d.c., maybe a passing storm late today. new york city, boston should be dry. a little warm but not too bad. definitely more humid. for the fourth of july, hit and miss storms. ohio valley and portions of the south. if you're heading to the beach, most areas look okay from cape cod to jersey to long island, should be okay. we may be a stray storm for maybe 30 minutes or so and then

the sun will come out. additional storms from myrtle beach to hilton head to jacksonville. that's where we could see a longer period of rain. and our friends in florida, as we mentioned if it's 95 to 100 degrees, you may be actually happy if it rains for a short period of time. >> yeah, yeah. hopefully there's a lot of good air conditioners with that heat. >> that's a requirement. >> that's a requirement when you live in florida, yeah. still ahead, president trump looks to add some fresh faces to the federal reserve. >> details the president could face over this board nominees and how their policies could impact your money. we're come right back. ht back. tastes great! high protein. low sugar. so good! high protein. low sugar. mmmm, birthday cake! pure protein. the best combination for every fitness routine.

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welcome back. president trump says he will nominate two economists to fill the empty board seats of the federal reserve in an effort to get the central bank to lower interest rates ahead of the 2020 election. trump made the announcement on twitter in a series of tweets. noting that christopher waller serves as an executive. judy shelton is an executive at the european bank and a former adviser to the trump campaign. >> and cnbc willem marx joins us live from london. president trump's expected nominees were considered controversial choices. and they eventually withdrew themselves. what's been the reaction to the latest picks? >> just to say the previous two

nominations were steven more and herman cain. one noted conservative economist who essentially withdrew because he didn't like the scrutiny that came with it. candidate, he of course said he didn't like the idea of taking a pay cut that would be necessary to take the position. we have seen the details over waller and shelton trickling out. people paying more attention to this. waller former academic, running the research team at the fed for about a decade and shelton really quite a big critic of foreign fed policy. she suggests the interest rate should be cut to 0. she has talked about unauthorized ideas, things like pegging the dollar to the gold price, so a lot of questions around her candidacy of course. one last controversial nomination process in the uk, the former french finance minister who runs the international fund, christine

lagarde. she has have questions about her role, more recently she has been regarded for her ward at the imf. her candidacy has a good chance of getting through. and french president emmanuel macron. lee iaococa, the crowe really credited for saving chrysler when they were about to go out of business quite frankly, reaching out to the government for loans there to thep save chrysler and creating -- help save chrysler. how is the business world reacting to losing leigh iacocca. >> a former chrysler executive likened him to babe ruth, he hit home runs, struck out a lot but always managed to fill the ballpark. this is a man who was larger than life, the only person historically to run two of

detroit's big three auto manufacturers and huge success in the 70s and 80s, in particular, expanding the auto industry in the u.s. until some of the overseas rivals from countries like japan started to eat into the market share. he has died at age 94. >> it's not often where you have the head of the auto industry be a household name like that. coming up on "morning joe", the crisis at migrant detention facilities reportedly being compared to a ticking time bomb. the latest on the growing concerns over dangerous overcrowding at facilities at the southern border as democratic lawmakers demand answers from trump administration officials on the matter. democrats miky sher ril and dan kildee. and republican congressman will hurd of texas joins the conversation and why he says the

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from washington with a look at axios a.m., the cofounder, mike allen. >> good morning, happy get away day. >> happy get away day. talk about axios one big thing. >> the deep fake risk to 2020. so if you look at the social online problems from 2016, the fake news, that's going to pale compared to what we have online this year. axios has an emergency tech emerging tech reporter, who looked into what the campaigns are doing to deal with these videos that can be created using artificial intelligence and they can sound like a candidate said or did something that they didn't, and we found that the campaigns are utterly unprepared for this. they don't have the money. they don't have the expertise to

deal with what's coming and it could make 2016 look very small in comparison. this time we could have domestic actors doing what foreign actors did last time, in addition to the usual fake news, the rumors online, in addition to these deep fake videos and audios, you also could have these systematic programs that use bots to make it sound like something else is taking off online when in fact, it's just a couple of people. so the campaigns have an online onslaught coming and aren't ready. >> and what you said, they're not at all prepared to deal with it. let's talk about the big take aways from last week's debates. what are americans telling axios that they remember most about this. >> if we can look at these word clou clouds, survey monkey, talked to neurosurgeon a thousa more than a thousand voters after each debate. as you see there, a couple of

things pop out from a debate, and this is what they told candidates again and again in debate prep, so this is from the first debate where we see that speaking spanish is what people were asked to describe in just a word or phrase, what do you really remember from this debate. it's not the intricacies of policy, it's not the little jabs, it's the lines like amy klobuchar and her line talking about all foam and no beer, the sort of down homey, old timy expressions, she was talking elsewhere about a deer stand. people remember that. eric swalwell, with his line, pass the torch and from night two, it was kamala harris, that was the phrase that popped out in that word cloud. a sneak preview, and a serious claim that he apparently made about former president george w. bush. what's he saying? >> this is american carnage by

tim alberta of politico who had an oval office interview with president trump for his book which looks at how the republican party has changed, what caused an opening for trump and what the president is doing with it. in a surprise, the president attacked all of his recent predecessors, he went after obama, he went after mccain. he went after the top republicans, romney. here's what he said about george w. bush, he said george w. bush in pursuing nation building over the economy at home caused tremendous monetary loss and he said tremendous debt. george w. bush caused tremendous debt, something that bush 43 people already skeptical of this president, this is going to catch fire for sure. >> mike allen, sit tight, you're going to be joining "morning joe" in just a moment. >> happy 4th. >> that does it for us on this

wednesday morning, i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside geoff bennett. "morning joe" starts right now. bennett. "morning joe" starts right now good morning to welcome to "morning joe", i'm willie geist, joe and mika have the morning off. we have professor at princeton university, eddie, and msnbc contributor, careen jean, kristen sol tis anderson, and the cofounder of axios, mike allen. you find out who your friends are when you ask them to come on the day before the fourth of july and i'm surrounded by them this morning. >> we love you willie. >> may i start please with the soccer match, kristen you watched it, i was up watching it as well. alex morgan, the decider with the header into the corner of the net, 2-1 for the american team, and the semifinal washe