wednesday night. with that, we thank you for being here with us. good night from our nbc headquarters here in new york. being with us. good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. on the campaign trail in north carolina, president trump rises his attacks to congresswoman ilhan omar with chants, send her back. >> and divisions in the democratic party. >> and a vote to hold barr and ross in contempt of congress in a failed attempt for the 2020 census question.

good morning, it isn. thursday, july 18. i'm yasmin vossoughian. at a campaign rally in greenville, north carolina, president trump launched in a five-mind broadside against ilhan omar. three of them were actually born in the united states and all are citizens of this country. as the president went on, the crowds fury increased leading to a new and very alarming rally chant. take a listen. >> representative ilhan omar. omar laughed that americans speak in al qaeda with such a tone. you don't say america with american intensity.

you say al qaeda makes you proud. you don't speak that way about america. she looks down with contempt on the hard-working americans saying ignorance is pervasive in many parts of this country. obviously and importantly omar has a history of launching vicious anti-semetic screens. >>ee send her back. send her back. >> so congresswoman omar responded with the words of the poet maya angelou. you may shoot me with your words. but like air, i will rise. the house has voted to set

aside a resolution to impeach president trump over his comments. the congressman from texas introduced the issue. voting alongside every republican to table the many ea measure for now. the measure that has caused division within the party. house speaker nancy pelosi has been hesitate. last night, the lawmaker cast the vote as a victory. >> we have just received an overwhelming vote against impeachment and that's the end of it. let the democrats now go back to work. >> we have six committees working on following the facts in terms of any abuse of power, obstruction and justice and the rest that the president may have engaged in.

that is a serious path we are on. not that mr. green is not serious. >> the house is voted to hold attorney general barr and ross in contempt of congress in connection to the attempt and failed bid to include the question in the 2020 census. yesterday citing their refusal to turnover key documents related to their efforts to have that question added to the census. democrats investigating this issue believe those documents they did not turnover and testimony being protected by the administration would confirm its actual motive. the white house has claimed the move is aimed at enforcing the voting rights act. critics have argued it is actually a cover to eliminate noncitizens used to determine

political reputation thus weakening democratic power overall. suggesting that idea last month when identifying the justification for adding this calling it contrived. the president himself had all but confirmed suspicions about the actualns motive when speaki earlier this month. >> you need it for many reasons. you need it for congress, for districting. >> joining us now white house and washington reporter for politico. daniel litman. thank you for joining us. how does the democrat's fight over this citizenship question advance especially after president trump decided not to evoke. democrats largely had this

fight. he didn't do this executive order himself. there are lawsuits ongoing filed by various individuals and institutions against the government to try to understand how this question came about. it is unlikely we'll see official e-mails where they say we are adding this to exclude minors. that's just not how they would use their email. but there is evidence of a republican consultant saying this would help the party and exclude certain groups from the census.th so that is some of the evidence. >>he this evidence was found on hard drive of a person who passedpe away and was turned ov

by his daughter, by of all people. like you say, we are not going to find n this in an email but nonetheless, the evidence does exist. >> let's talk about another topic, the impeachment vote. the house, at least the democratic party seem some what divided on this subject. what do you make of how all of this played out yesterday? >> we've seen these types of votes before. got the most number ever. 95, which is 30 more than before. i think there is significant portion of the democratic party that says this is not a good idea for 2020. the majority of americans don't support impeachment and this would not apply in the american senate. why should we spend our time

working on this. we should devote it more towards helping the american people. that's what is going to get them to support democrats in 2020. issues like health care. that's what democrats want. not impeachment and mueller. >> thank you, daniel. president trump told reporters last week that he quote, had a falling out and was not a fan of jeffery epstein, newly surfaced video from 1992 shows trump watching and commenting on women. this all happened at trump's estate in florida. the party took place the same year he hosted an off-camera affair and where they were the only male guests and had 200

calendar girls called in for entertainment. others close to epstein claim a business trans, said an issue related to a florida property caused their falling out. noting former president bill clinton had also been friends with the wealthy man. it also reports during a lawsuit in 2010, epstein declined to answer whether he and trump ever socialized in the presence in underaged girls. federal prosecutors say they are ended the investigation to campaign crimes by the president'she former fixer michl cohen. it is unclear whether they will file additional charges. the move serves as the strongest

suggestion so far that they have decided not to crime criminal charges against anyone besides michael cohen. the judgeid ordered the unseali of search warrants and documents related to a 2018 raid on his home and8 office. the judgend rejected the reques by prosecutors to blackout portions ofbl documents to prott the interests adding the writers are, quote, a matter of national importance. switching to the 2020 race. the national committee and cnn have announced the 20 candidates that will be invited to the debate the end of the the month. senator bennett, biden, cory booker, mayor pete buttigieg, pete castro, senator camera harris, john hicken looper,

senator klobuchar, senator o'rourke, bernie sanders, elizabeth warren and andrew yang all made the cut. candidates needed to get support from at least 1% of voters and three national polls or raising money by 65,000 unique donors. most qualified by meeting both, six, bennett, bullock and others qualified through polling only. >>in speaking of polls, a poll shows kamala harris has taken a lead. california, the poll has harris on top at 23%, up six points since april when she was in third place after the first debates. former vice president joe biden has dropped five points to 21%. sanders is at 18.

senator warren up nine points to 16%.to mayor pete is down to 3% with andrew yang at two and no other candidate cracking 1%. the vote by mail period begins november 3, 2020 the day beginning the iowa caucuses as well. still ahead, it was the judgement day for guzman. and a new report that the pentagon is sending additional troops to the border. more on that and a check on weather when we come right back. make fitness routine with pure protein.

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saying that speed boat, that mansion, all the things you used those to help in your crime. as a defense attorney, the government is liberal in deciding what was used in the crimes. we are going to take that, sell it and use it for the government and you don't get to use it anymore. they are basically taking everything they believe is involved in the crime. >> some of the assets are overseas. the u.s. government may not be able to seize those? >> it may or may not. you are right. he probably had several different layers of ownership. >> and he's got a lot of money hidden in a lot of places if you are el chapo. >> they may never see it, right. >> let's also talk about the 60 day they are asking the judge

for for el chapo not to be transferred for 60 days so he can work on an appeal. what is the likelihood this will happen? >> a lot of people don't realize once a defendant is sentence, they no longer become property of the court. they become property or cargo of the bureau of prisons. i can tell you, it can be hard to even find out what city they are in. they get transported and moved around. it can be really difficult to get ahold of your client. representing someone when they are in custody is thousands of times more challenging than if they are out and you can call them and reach them. i understand the request by his attorneys. not likely to be granted but in a high-profile case like this maybe it will be different. >> what about the decision to send him to the alcatraz of the rockies as they call it. is that because he's made so

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that, on impeachment. many of those people who voted for us this afternoon in some what of a sneak attack. many of those people who voted for that are democrats and i want to thank them because they did the right thing for our country. we had all sorts of witch hunts over our head. could you imagine. i think we've done more in two and a half years than any president ever. can you imagine what it could have been if we didn't have the [ bleep ] witch hunt. i won't say it. it is a terrible word. i will not say that this guy said if we didn't have the [ bleep ]. >> republican senator lindsay graham is offering his insight on the president's attacks on the four congresswomen which he claims aren't based on racism.

>> i believe if you are a somali fan. a racist says go back to somali. that's the way he is. nor narsist than anything else. the senator said he was making a joke. >> more troops being sent to the border. it adds to the 1,000 guardsmen this month. adding to those on the boarder since the deployment in the fall and rerouting from the personal accounts to fund the construction of the border wall. they will be helping with intake and detention and providing help at the back up at ports of entry. providing surveillance and

support with some carrying weapons as deemed necessary. pompeo maintained he will remain secretary of state as long as president trump wants him to. since he declared he would not seek a bid for retired pat robert's seat but has softened the idea saying i always leave open the possibility that something will change. my mission set is clear. his revised stance comes after the jump into the race and other republican leaders. >> joining us now reporter from politico. let's talk about north korea and these talks that are now up in

the air. the slew of other things on the president's desk. how would an open cabinet position should pompeo decide to run for kansas hurt the administration? >> state department over the last two and a half years since trump took office has felt sidelined. there have been a lot of open positions they have not been able to find good candidates for. a lot of foreign policy leaders signed the anti-trump, never trump letters. president trump doesn't actually read a lot of the memos produced. if pompeo is well liked and respected, there aren't a ton of good options that would replace him and it would leave a gap and a void. especially with president trump who get as long with him and

pompeo can tell trump kind of what to do. he has a good relationship with him. that has helped in the moral. >> before the president's racist remarks for the four freshmen congresswomen, there was a lot of back and fourth between these women and nancy pelosi. going into 2020, we have talked about how a more unified party wins the race. how important is it for the speaker and these congresswomen to all get on the same page? >> it is super important. you don't want to have divides in the party were more progressive voters feel like the leadership of the party or whoever the democratic nominee is not listening to them. you also don't want a situation where those four progressive members are the face of the

party because donald trump wanted to make it that way. their views didn't always line up with where the american people are. it behooves the party that if kamala harris is the nominee that all of the focus is on the nominee instead of some more divisive members in the party. that makes it harder for suburban voters and people who are independents to vote for a democratic party if they thinks it becoming too socialist. >> i should give you a shout out and congratulations as a new reporter at the white house. we enjoy reading your playbook. now white house reporter. >> thank you. heading over sees now. an attack on a japanese animation video has left 23 people confirmed or presumed

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welcome back. two republican snartz have blocked attempts to pass extension of the 9/11 victim's fund after the bill overwhelmingly went through the house. both objected to the funding. watch this. >> any new spending we are approaching. any new program that will have the longevity of 70, 80 years should be offset by spending less valuable. i will offer an amendment. until then, object.

>> so jon stewart who has been one of if not the most vocal advocate had this reaction to the hold up. >> it is absolutely outrageous. pardon me if i'm not impressed in any way by rand paul. he offered tissue paper avoidance of the tax cut that added hundreds of billions to our deficit. he stands up at the last minute after 15 years of blood, sweat and tears from the 9/11 community to say it is all over now. now we are going to balance the budget on the backs of the 9/11 first responder community. >> a spokesperson for paul said he is not blocking anything. he is simply seeking to pay for it. let's get a check on the weather now with bill karins. >> dangerous heat wave is the

headline. widespread today and will continue to sunday. we get a break next week. i'm pretty sure this will be the hottest week we'll deal with this entire year. still a few sprinkles and showers out there in areas of pennsylvania, eastern pennsylvania. later on, we'll get a few storms popping up. enough left over moisture we are watching areas between washington, d.c., philadelphia atlantic city. from 3:00 p.m. this afternoon. all these dots are thunderstorms. we may not be completely done with all of the rainfall. as far as the weekend forecast goes later on today. in the southeast, you'll appreciate those and help you cool off. extreme heat in the country. dangerous stuff through the midwest and ohio valley. on saturday, the possibility of record heat in the northeast.

showers and storms cooling you off in the northern plains. those storms are in the ohio valley. today is 101 in kansas city by sunday, it is 88. significantly cooler and less humid. as far as records go, it's tough this time of year to break record highs. this is the hottest time of the year. d.c., your record high is 106. that was back in 1930. new york city has a chance, forecast is a record high. in philadelphia, we are predicting you'll break your record high with a possible high temperature of 101 degrees. take it easy, check on the elderly. >> thank you for that. still ahead, party officials are warning that the 2020 campaign over one popular mobil app. the dnc saying delete that app.

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welcome back. democratic national committee is warning against using the popular face transforming app telling staffs to delete immediately. the app allows users to up load

a photo. it has raised privacy concerns over how the company's owner, headquartered in russia could misuse these photos and your data. urging 2020 campaign staff and people in the dnc eco system not to use the app. with the security chief writing, it is not clear at this point what the privacy risks are. what is clear, the benefits of avoiding outweigh the risks. if you or any of the staff have already used, we recommend you delete it immediately. hour, the lab based in st. petersberg, russia said no images are brought into the country. we'll see come 2020. >> i'm not sure why anyone would

like to see what you look like when you are old. >> every friend of mine in my feed. >> check back with me then. netflix's stock u.s. subscribers for the first time since 2011 and fell short of its international growth estimates by millions. nbc's joanna bercetche joins us live from london. talk to us about this. obviously millions of people watch netflix and think it's doing so well with the number of shows it's putting out all year but what is the company saying about its massive miss. >> that's right, ayman. welcome back. i always say if you are going to miss you might as well miss spectacularly. what is that netflix did. they had guided to 5 million international subscribers, instead they registered 2.7 million. huge miss there. what they said is that they have lost some customers, particularly in the u.s. actually for the first time since 2011 on back of those higher prices they introduced at

the gng of the year. don't forget about that, prices are 18% higher than they were but they are still guiding to a stronger third quarter. said that they are forecasting 6.2 million subscribers for the next quarter and also pointing to a promising start for "stranger things" apparently that's doing very well on netflix. i think it's worth bearing in mind they have a lot of competition from the likes of hbo, disney, apple, amazon and there's certainly only a limited amount of hours in a day where you can sit down and watch all of these shows, so the competition is really beginning to get to them. >> let's talk amazon prime for a second as well as we know there were some protests happening on amazon prime day. along with that, though, amazon is reporting record breaking prime day sales but retail experts are noticing a different tornado, a spike in searches for how to actually cancel amazon prime. what more do you know about this? >> yeah, so amazon has said it

was their first day ever in terms of numbers they sold over 100,000 laptops, 200,000 tvs, over one million toys. huge volume day. part of the reason they do these prime days is to recruit people to come in and do prime subscribers, this he tend to be loyal and spend more money. data has showed that shoppers were signing up for the membership and then canceling once they had browsed the bargains. in fact, searches for canceling amazon prime were up 18 times as much as the week before on amazon prime days, so perhaps not a positive signal for amazon there. >> they are doing it in the same way, so they were searching and -- >> i guess what you're saying they were searching to see how good the deals were and deciding maybe not worth it. >> it's all about the long game. >> it's crafty. >> thank you so much, joanna. coming up, axios' mike allen has a look at this morning's one big thing. coming up on "morning joe" president trump continues to dig in with new attacks against four

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welcome back. joining us now from washington, d.c. with a look at axios a.m. the co-founder mr. mike allen himself. good to have you with us. >> welcome back. something looks right this morning. >> oh, wow, thank you so much. i appreciate it. >> i don't know what you're talking about. >> a familiar feeling. >> thanks, mike. let's talk about axios one big thing. >> the axios one big thing is republicans demographic decay. so the largest long-term threat to republicans is in population trends. it's not just that the country is getting more diverse, it's that swing states in particular are getting more diverse. listen to these stats.

every single state has gotten more hispanic since 2000, if you look at key republican states, florida a quarter hispanic, texas two-thirds hispanic, arizona a quarter hispanic and listen to this, the two states that have had the fastest growth in nonwhite population are two big states for trump, big states for republicans, florida and texas, the giants. >> interesting. >> so given what we have seen as we well know by well because we have had a lot of coverage of it from the president this last week or so and the attacks he has made against these four freshmen congress women, what do these shifting trends mean for the 2020 campaign? >> this is the difference between a short-term strategy and a long-term strategy. here is another way to say what we said at the top, theres not a single demographic trend that's favoring republicans. the country is getting younger and the country is getting more diverse. president trump is thinking very

short-term and thinking about how he can juice his specific turnout in 2020. that's a decision that could echo for generations because if you are a republican who is coming up, you realize that marginalizing minority voters that you need could be a huge problem down the road. >> so let me get your thoughts on this because i know axios has been looking at the democratic presidential candidates and the big winners for small donations which has become an important metric over the last few election is cycles, who came out on top in the second quarter for you? >> this stat is super interesting. the campaigns really pay attention to it because it indicates how you're doing with the grassroots. we will see there at the at the top is secretary julian castro who is not at the top of many other lists for 2020. look who else is pretty high end on that list, senator sanders and senator warren, they get two-thirds of their donations

from smaller donors. it can be a measure of online strength and that's what we see with donald trump there on the graphic we see president trump has a higher share of small donations than the other top tier democratic candidates, than biden, than buttigieg, than kamala harris, and they also watch it because, again, i mean, you're bringing in lower income voters. >> it's interesting when you look at that list if we could bring that back up, you guys, marianne williamson her numbers are obviously not as big as you see with bernie sanders at $18 million and elizabeth warren, but the percentage of her small donors, 70%, still pretty high as well. how critical are these small donors to the life of their campaigns? >> you were right to point to her because she got a good online buzz from that msnbc/nbc debate, people enjoyed listening to her talk about her soothing

ideas and -- >> soothing ideas. >> -- you can see how long -- you can see how that can translate online, and this helps explain why we get so many of those emails from campaigns where they say just give me a dollar or just give me $15, give me a dollar and a dream, and part of it is so that they can boost this number. if you get a lot of big donors you want to bring it down, if you don't you want to have a stat you can win. >> after a week like this we could all use a little soothing at some point. thank you very much. we will be reading axios a.m. in just a little bit. you, too, can sign up by going to signup.axios.com. >> that does it for us, i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. "morning joe" starts right now. what's your ethnicity? >> why is that relevant? >> they represent a dark underbelly in this country. >> she looks down with contempt on the hard working americans saying that