president trump sharpens his attacks on four progressive democratic congresswomen in a series of tweets, he's calling the squad, weak, insecure, and incapable of loving the united states. plus, squad weak, insecure and incapable of loving the united states. new video and audio shows what happened before the ship was seized. and special counsel mueller will be in the hot seat. saying the hearing will show very substantial evidence of wrongdoing by president trump. >> good morning, it is july 22. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside francis rivera. trump tweeted suchbd morning,

quote, i don't believe the four congresswomen are capable of loving our country. they should apologize to america and israel for the hateful things they have said. they are insecure people who could never destroy our great nation. also this weekend, president trump shared a defense of the send her back tweets from right british commenter who in the past linked a movement to the shooting at a synagogue. a writing saying send her back is the new lock her up. also sharing a statement of a tweet, we need a final solution manchester. after the mass shootings last year in pittsburgh that left 11 people dead, she wrote, look to the chief rabbi and his support

for mass migration. there you'll find your truths. it is unclear whether trump was aware of the background. >> in a move reminiscent of his racist comments in charlottesville, he pulled back from comments about the chant send her back. he refused to call the chant racist or stand by his claim that he was not happy with it. >> president trump, you said you were unhappy with the chant, however -- >> you know what i'm unhappy with, i'm unhappy with the fact that a congresswomen can hate our country. that's what i'm unhappy with. those people in north carolina, that stadium was packed. i could have filled it ten

times. as you know. those are incredible people and patriots. i'm unhappy when a congresswomen goes, i'm going to be the president's nightmare. she's lucky to be where she is. >> the chant, send her home. is that racist? >> no, you know what is racist to me, when somebody goes out and says the horrible things about our country, the people in our country and hate everybody that speak with score and hate. that is a very dangerous thing. >> turning to a series of aggressive acts in the strait of hormuz. stopping and boarding another. the revolutionary guard said it seized the tanker for violating regulations and crashing into a

fishing vessel. that claim has been rejected. iranian state tv has released this video saying it is from the revolutionary guard showing the seizure of this tanker including when comandos repelled from a helicopter on to the vessel. reviewing audio demanding the tanker change course adding, if you obey, you will be safe. a british naval officer then responds warning the iranian forces of, quote, unlawfully attempting to board the tanker. a mediator says the incident may have been in response to of uk sei seizure and impoundment of a ship in the sea of gibraltar. iranian media also says they are

describing it as a, quote, reciprocal action. president trump discussed the situation at the white house. >> as you know, we have a very close alliance with the uk and we always have. we heard that. the united states has very few tankers going in because we are using our own energy now. we've made a lot of progress over the last two and a half years so we don't have many tankers going in about we have a lot of ships there that are warships. we'll talk to the uk. we have no written agreement but we have an agreement. they've been a great ally. they'll have a new prime minister soon which is a good thing. we have no written agreement but i think we have an agreement which is longstanding. i know it is not an american ship. it is a uk. we'll be speaking to them. they have a new prime minister soon. that's a good thing for the uk.

>> statement that iran is detaining citizens they say are cia trained spies. we are looking at new polls. in iowa, showing biden with a slim lead over sanders. warren takes 17% and harris is at 16%. buttigieg at 7% with klobuchar at 4% and booker at 3%. biden's lead is wider in new hampshire. boden at 27%. sanders at 20%. o'rourke at 2%. north carolina is biden's best state where he leads the vote. broougt is at 5%, booker at 3

and o'rourke at 2. in california, biden and harris are tied 23 to 24% with warren at 19%, sanders 16% and buttigieg at 6%. in texas, biden holds a ten-point lead over o'rourke. 27% for biden, 17 for o'rourke. warren at 16%, harris and sanders at 12% each. buttigieg and castro with 4% each. president trump could win five million fewer votes in 2020 and still secure an electoral college victory. he has a narrow path. both states are growing more diverse due to booming asian and latino populations trending towards the democrats. despite the increase in voters

neither blue california nor blue texas would play a pivotal roll. the 2016 victory relied on other states white states with the highest share of white voters without college degrees. president trump could actually lose pennsylvania and michigan. if he picks up every state he won in 2016, he could secure the victory. as we get started here, let's talk about how this potential edge in the electoral college could impact his strategy. >> i think this will impact the democrats more than the president's campaign. if you talk to his advisors, they say they are running the same race for 2016.

they are making a play for all of those states. they are considering a few states out side of the ones that carried trump to his narrow victory in 2016. they are focusing on north carolina, florida, wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania. all of the states he'll need to perform well in or carry to win reelection. if you look at democrats, the nominee is going to have to run a 50-state strategy. that is something we didn't see hillary clinton do and something that led to a lot of criticism after she lost to president trump. she never went to wisconsin, which was one of the biggest things democrats that were disappointed in the results last time continued to point out. >> let me get your thoughts on the new polls showing joe biden in the lead in several key battleground states. how could this impact strategy

as his lead begins to narrow a little bit? >> joe biden will be on the stage with both senators harris and booker and a number of other progressive, fiery democrats who are sort of languishing at 1% and will be looking for an opportunity to lan a moment that sticks. he's in a precarious position heading into this second round of debates. if you notice, after the last debate when he got into that tense exchange over bussing with senator harris, it allowed her to shoot up in the polls. i think there will be a lot of democrats on stage who want a similar moment. he can find himself in a position where he is emerging as a leader, he is a front-runner he is or come under attack from all different sides. that could bode not so great for joe biden in that second debate. >> i think his camp has suggestsed he'll be a little better prepared.

>> not surrender like he did during the first debate. >> thank you. still ahead, former special counsel mueller more coming up. and heat wave in the east but cooler temperatures coming. we'll have more coming up after the break. you wouldn't do only half

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most ard ant voices. others plan to go full throttle with the claims of a corrupt investigation. reportedly planning to ask whether mueller knew there was, quote, no coordination and no conspiracy by the president. reporting that the evidence found insafishent evidence of any wrongdoing. and instead give credence to the claim of an unlawful presidency. jerry nadler had this to say on fox news yesterday. >> the report presents substantial evidence that the president is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. we have to let mueller present those facts. the administration must be held accountable. no president is above the law. >> robert mueller is set to

testify on wednesday morning. >> joining us msnbc legal analyst. give me a sense of what we can expect to happen. >> if i were a betting person, i would say we are likely to hear the contents of a little thing called the mueller report. he himself said if you call me to testify, i will essentially be reading the report that has been public to everyone and apparently polls show anywhere from 2% to 5% to 10% of americans have even bothered to read. even democrats have been forth coming to say, we are really calling him so americans will see what is in the report. the report that is readily available and no one appears to have read. if i'm robert mueller, i would

be saying, couldn't you have an audio book. >> they have celebrities doing it. >> i would be saying, i created this report, now you want me to read it in my own voice. he's saying, hey, folks, everybody is really interested in obstruction where i concluded there was all this russian interference and we indicted a number of individuals. my report was a success if you -- depending on how you define success. if you just want to get the president, then maybe not but in this case, he's got to be wandering why am i here. >> you are giving us insight of what is going on in mueller's head what about the other side. what is the first line of questioning? >> for the most part will say, on page whatever, you say blank.

then tell us more about that. tell us about where did you get that information. you are going to hear a lot of, i can't answer that question because as you can plainly see in the report with the big blacked out area, it is redacted. it is harm to an ongoing area or invasion of privacy. we'll hear a lot of declining to answer and sticking to the letter of his own report. >> let me ask you this, many questions are out there still. why didn't he call on president trump to speak with him directly instead of written statements. will that come up? >> i think that is one of the biggest questions. he explained that in the mueller report. it is in the pages. he concludes he could have done it but it would have taken a long time and maybe he didn't need it. i'm paraphrasing because it is wrong for me to say what is in the report without reading from

it. he's saying in our process, we didn't need to do that to get to where we needed to be. >> could he be asked about the memo that essentially steers prosecutors away from indicting a sitting president? >> of course. i expect he'll be asked a lot about it, what went into his thought and how much that memo influenced him. it is not a supreme court case law, it is an office doj memo guidance that could be disobeyed if somebody wanted to. >> thank you, my friend. >> thank you. >> with that, let's get a quick check on the weather with meteorologist janessa webb. >> temperatures are really going to be different this afternoon. right now, you can see where the defined cold front is across

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>> welcome back. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside francis riviera. vice president mike pence iswaying in on the send her back chants. said he stopped far short of speaking out if it happened again. >> were those chants appropriate? if you are unhappy to them, do you want to see them repeated? is this part and parcel of the 2020 trump campaign? >> no.

the president wasn't pleased about it and neither was i. the president has been very clear about that. what we are also not pleased about -- >> but you understand the relationship with his supporters is as close as anyone has ever had. this could all go away with one simple word or phrase. you have a chance to say it now, don't do it again. is that your message? >> the president was very clear. >> was he? >> he wasn't happy about it. >> he said he will be clear about it. >> was he? >> the house oversight chairman elijah cummings said no doubt he believes president trump is a racist. >> do you believe trump is a

racist? >> yes. i tried to give him the benefit of the doubt. when i think about what he said to these young ladies who are merely trying to bring excellence to government and trying to make sure that generations yet unborn have an opportunity to experience true democracy. when i hear those things, it takes me back, like i said. i can still remember bleeding from my forehead when people were throwing bottles. these were adults throwing bottles and saying go home [ bleep ] again, the president has to set the tone. he needs to be a role model. >> the president is accusing four democratic house members of having hate for the united states but he is making false claims to back up the allegation including this reference of ilhan omar of minnesota.

>> they can't talk about evil jews, which is what they say. >> yeah omar never said evil jews. those are the works who highlighted the omar tweet during the deadly 2012 conflict when she called the violence the evil doings of israel. omar has since deleted that tweet. she unequivocally apologized as she was learning about the painful history of anti-sem et tick trots. >> when they call our country garbage. think of that. that's worse than deplorable. i don't care about politics. >> but aoc didn't call the united states garbage. here she is back in march

talking about why she says her policy agenda is not extreme. >> we've strayed so far away from what has really made us powerful and just and good and equitable and productive. i think all of these things sound radical compared to where we are but where we are is not a good thing. this idea of 10% better from garbage is -- it shouldn't be what we settle for. >> here is where it goes from there. on fox news sunday, white house aid said the congresswoman was criticizing the country compared to something president trump said. >> she's not talking about the country and the people. >> she's saying america in her view right now is garbage. >> no, no. i want to put up something. i want to put up a tweet from

trump in 2014. he wrote, the united states under president obama has truly become the dang that couldn't shoot straight, everything he touches turns to garbage. that isn't aoc. that's donald trump. >> you continue to conflate president trump's criticisms of president obama versus aoc's criticisms of the country itself. a view of the primary race. joe biden at 31%, harris at 15%, warren at 13% and sanders 12%. over in alabama, biden holds a lead of 21 points taking 36% to sanders, 15%. harris with 13% and warren at

9%. buttigieg at 5%. in tennessee, biden's lead is smaller. 33% to warren's 18%, sanders at 13, harris at 12 and buttigieg at 6, bennett at 2%. in mississippi, biden with 47% with sanders at 21%. senator harris plans to take her 2020 campaign to iowa after next week's second debates. on august 8, harris will be on a five-day bus tour of the state. marking the first of several planned campaign events throughout the country this summer through early fall. harris announced she will make stops across the state. the tour will include stops in three of iowa's congestional districts.

harris's retail operation in iowa has begun to intensify. she has more than 65 staffers in the state. >> we'll go to white house reporter. let's talk about camera harris. what is the strategy behind this late summer push? >> her campaign has always said her goal was to preserve staff and numbers so that she could make this late summer debut in a number of these prime rrry states. in iowa, this will be an opportunity to build on the momentum she gained on the first debate. some of the momentum she's likely to continue after this debate later this month, i expect she's going to join to rise in the polls there, more that the democratic voters.

after iowa, she'll be making campaign swings including her home state of california. >> i want to turn back to president trump's comments about the squad and the back and forth and the chants and not denouncing it and given the opportunity to denounce those. have the president's tweets and remarks affected the plan for 2020? >> if you look at the way his remarks evolved from the very first tweet suggesting these four women should go back to their home countries to what you heard vice president pence talking about yesterday. it is obvious republicans are trying to take the president's racialally insend arie message and refine it to being this pop u luis patriot candidate running

against these progressives including those four freshman congress women. there were polls showing president trump rising after those tweets and others including independent voters likely watching these comments very carefully and i would imagine are turned off by some of them. >> gabby orr, it is always great to have you with us. thank you. welcome back, when we come back, we'll talk about some jail records that reveal privileges granted to sex offender jeffery epstein in the custody of palm beach county during an 18-month sentence in 2008. he was kept in an unlocked cell with liberal access to a tv. allowed to leave the country's detention center 12 hours a day, six days a week for a work release program.

assigned to monitor on these outings. allowed him to enter the estate on at least nine occasions and at least once unattended and for four hours. the paper says while it is a typical for inmates to be a copped. records show he was accompanied every time he was out. he paid over $130,000 for what one deputy wrote his job was to provide security for epstein. still ahead, a group of democrats are speaking out after visiting a detention center at the border. plus, what one senator is pledging to do after mass protests. we are back in a moment. this is the couple who wanted to get away

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speaking out about, quote, awful continues they saw at a detention center. a group of 12 democrats visited the facilities in mcallen, texas to see firsthand of the treatment of the undocumented immigrants there. schumer said after seeing the conditions that are awful and that those inside are being treated like criminals. the group there was told 400 were taken out to make it, quote, look better. saying the water here is horrible. another telling the senators he has not been able to brush his teach adding these are human beings fleeing violence. this is not who we are. president trump has taken to twitter writing that it is a great thing to go to the border and since schumer wants to meet,

we'll set up a meeting asap. the embattled governor in puerto rico said he will not resign but will not seek reelection in 2020. the decision comes after more than a week of demonstrations. the leak of a profanity laced on line chat between him and close associates. protesters said they were not satisfied and are expected to take over the island's main highways to continue to demand his resignation. finally on the other end of the heat wave that gripped a chunk of the country. let's get a check now with meteorologist janessa webb. >> good morning. i feel like it spoiled a lot of plans. it was excessive feeling like

you were in the deep end of a pool with a tight turtleneck with humidity levels at an oppressive state. coastal areas of the carolinas into west virginia as well under this high alert and excessive heat concerns. we'll see the weather risk enhanced. we were dealing with this dome of high pressure. now it will complied with a cold front. those two will bump heads and it will strike up some strong storms this afternoon for 43 million from washington to new york city. we are forecasting wind gusts and the potential of large hail. spotty showers from pittsburgh to philadelphia. this cold front will slide in

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despite the recent surge federal reserve is expected to cut not ready to take bolder action as they consider the uncertainty in trade policy a possible reduction in the inflation, and slower global growth. although the bigger debate will focus on how to signal their plans and outlook beyond this month's meeting, larger cuts seem unlikely because the u.s. economy has not signalled a major downturn. disney announced that "avengers: endgame" is now the highest grossing movie of all time, earning $2.8 billion at the global box office. let's bring in cnbc's juliana tatelbaum. so it beat out "avatar" for the highest grossing film. it came out in april and is still making money. >> that's a really good point you raised there. "end game" has been in the

theaters for under 90 days and this compares to "avatar" which ran for 244 days in first run. really limited number of days to already top that record. one thing to note here is that with the acquisition of fox earlier this year, disney how owns "avatar" and the "avengers" series and owns the four upcoming sequels that we're expecting on the "avatar" front. just to give you a little bit of color, put this in the context of the rest of the highest grossing films of all time, the top five list is rounded out by titanic, "star wars," the force awakens and "avengers infinity war." that's the top five all time grossing films. >> interesting to see "titanic" still up there. >> your heart can't go on, 1 00%. >> let's talk about something else close to our hearts. instagram announcing in april removing the number of likes on a person's post on the app.

that could go either way. it is expanding to more markets around the globe and talk about how this will impact the influencers and those who rely on this for a business perspective and also psychologically for young teens who are affected by the likes they see on instagram. >> well, to your second question, this is definitely part of their push to create a less pressurized environment, make instagram less of a competition. so with this new test that they're carrying out users will be able to see the number of likes on their own content but not the number of likes on other users' content. in terms of the impact on the business environment for influencers, this is potentially going to lead nor of a focus on -- to lead to more of a focus on content. so they can't rely on the likes to create partnerships with brands. again, this is just a test but this is in line with their broader strategy to try to shift users away from posts to stories

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so fascinating stats from new american economy which is a pro economy group and they crunch the numbers on the biggest companies by revenue and found out the 45% of them were founded by people who are either immigrants or who are the children of immigrants. so henry ford was the son of someone from ireland. jeff bezos' biological father was from syria. his adopted father was from syria. steve jobs had a parent also who was an immigrant. so we're seeing these iconic names made these big companies possible. this is at a time when the share of companies founded by immigrants is going up. and at the same time, immigration policies are making it harder for people to come in. they're an essential part of both the labor force and the brain power that creates our companies. and yet, because of the crisis at the border that's going to

get harder and harder. >> i would imagine so. talk about the insight that axios has into where the trump administration may host next year's group of 7 summit. >> okay. this is -- this is a talker. this is a scoop by jonathan swan that you're hearing for the first time. next year, the united states will host the group of 7 economies. the seven most powerful economies in the world. the u.s. is the host country and they get to pick where it will be. the trump administration has finished the site selections and has its finalists and guess what one of the finalists is? it has the name trump in it. the trump national doral in miami, his 800 acre club is a finalist for the g7. you know the president likes to show off his properties. he is not shy about the criticism that comes from it, from mixing state business and personal business. >> i would say the normal presidency that might be a shocking piece of news, but

somehow -- >> it's normal. key word. >> normal in this administration. let's talk about another member of the family, the trump family, don jr. he is expected to be coming out with a new book later this year. what is axios hearing about this book? >> yeah. at so interviews are going to see the cover of this book for the first time. the book is called "triggered" and this is a preview of what don jr. plans to be doing around the country between now and election day. he's a hunter, a fisherman, in some ways he has more of a natural affinity with the people of trump country than his father does. during the 2016 campaign, he traveled the country extensively, tons of talk radio in trump country stations. we're going to see him out there again. right now he's doing some fund-raisers and will do more of that. here with "triggered" the title which is aimed at triggering people who are -- who are -- people who don jr. would say is

overly politically correct, that anti-politically correct message is a big part of this book. we're told the topics include censorship and big tech. so that idea that conservatives are being pushed around on platforms, many of which are debunked. very little evidence of this. but we see the trump administration, the trump family, sees it as a helpful issue like with the social media summit the president had the other day. >> all right. mike allen, thank you. we'll be reading axios a.m. and have a great week as well. to our viewers, sign up for the news letter at sign-up.axios.com. >> that does it for us. i'm ayman mohyeldin with frances riviera. "morning joe" starts right now. a much cooler morning on the east coast, finally. good morning and welcome to "morning