with that, that is our broadcast for this wednesday night. thank you so much for being here with us. good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. headquarters here in new york. ♪ >> it has been a week of flip flops for president trump. he's had an inconsistent message from everything from gun reform, theor economy and buying greenland. >> president trump declares himself the chosen one who will take on beijing. >> and jay inslee has dropped out of the presidential race. sources say he's now looking to stay in the governor's mansion. good morning, everybody. it's thursday, august 22.

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. it has been a week of whiplash introducing policy shifts from president trump. the president is no stranger to reversing course, this week he has contradicted aids, allies and himself multiple times when it comes to issues such as gun reform, tax cuts and his interest in purchasing greenland. some officials in recent days saidnt they were increasingly worried about the president's behavior suggesting it stems from pressure on trump as the economy seems more worry some and the election is approaching. casting off advisors who displeased him at a record rate. trump now has fewer aids around him willing or able to challenge him,ge much less restrain his me imprulsy instincts.

yesterday, he attacked the prime minister of denmark calling her, quote, nasty. he also referred to himself as, quote, the chosen one. >> only wednesday by the time alldn of this has happened. let's get into all of that. for the second day in a row, president trump accused jewish-american voters of disloyalty to jewish people for voting as democrats. >> you are being very disloyal to israel. only weak people would say anything other than that. [ inaudible question ] i haven't heard anybody say that. i think the opposite. if you vote for a democrat, you are very disloyal to israel and the jewish people. >>. [ inaudible question ] >> isn't that anti-semitic to

say? >> no. no. that's only in your head. i am the least racist person. >> his own words elicit a toxic history for jews that they have a duel loyalty. saying, quote, jewish people in israel love him like he's the king of israel. they love him like he's the second coming of god. his remarks come amid his discontain for the congress women who have been harshly critical of israel's policies. >> senate minority leader schumer released a statement warning american jews when trump uses a troep used against the jewish people for centuries, he is encouraging anti-semits

throughout the country and the world. enough. backlash of trump's comments have electrified the 2020 campaign trail. >> it document straights he doesn't know anything about the history of the jewish community in the united states or otherwise. the fact is that talking about loyalty and being disloyal, come on. that's not how the american-jewish community is. >> i can think of nothing more unamerican and anything more like what you would see in the third rooik like what the president said. >> on the republican side, new york congressman who is jewish praised trump for his support of israels writing on these policies, he is correct. and to take trump seriously, not

literally. >> so president trump continues to muddy the waters when it comes to his position on gun reform. on tuesday, he appeared to retreat on the idea of background checks. yesterday, he told reporters that background checks will happen. he also disputed reports that he told the head of the nra that background checks were off the table. >> i have an appetite for background checks. we are working with democrats and republicans. we already have very strong background checks. we had a great talk with wayne yesterday. we talked about concepts. wayne agrees things need to be done also. as i've said loudly and plainly, i don't think i've changed positions at all. we are working on background checks. there are things we can do. we already have very serious and strong background checks.

we can close up the gaps. >> trump lashed out to danish prime minister and accused her of not showing respect to the u.s. speaking to reporters, he said her response was, quote nasty. >> i thought the prime minister's statement that it was absurd was nasty. i thought it was an inappropriate statement. all she had to do was say no, we wouldn't be interested. we can't treat the united states of america the way they treated us under the president of obama. i thought it was very not nice way of saying something. >> trump took aim saying as a nata membe nato member, it did not spend enough. the comments came two days before he traveled to an international summit in france,

which also happens to be a nato member. >> the democratic presidential candidate hasc withdrawn from e race. jay inslee said while he reached the donor threshold, it was clearol he would not reach the pollingea requirement. here he is last night. >> i've been fighting climate change for 25 years. i've never been so confident of the ability of america to move the ball. i believe we are going to have a candidate toha fight this battl. i'm inspired by the people i've met. the young people. these people have given me confidence. i'm not going to be carrying the ball but we'll make sure somebody is.e' >> he is expected to send an email to supporters to announce plans to run for a third run as

governor. >> hickenlooper, it is official he will run for senate. the move expected after ending his presidential bid, here is part of that announcement video. >> i don't think cory gardener understands the games he's playing are hurting the people of colorado. we ought to be working together to move this country forward and stop the political nonsense. >> this happening as a new emerson poll showing hickenlooper leading gardener by 13 points in a hypothetical matchup. >> joining us, david mark, good to have you with us. let's talk about the shake-up in the races here. what kind of hope do these show

for the democrats still looking to gain another seat in 2020 now that he's officially running for senate? >> colorado is probably democrat's best pick up opportunity for the senate as we saw in that poll there. former governor hickenlooper, the democrat is really popular. the republican incumbent gardener hasn't done anything particularly wrong but that state is moving away from republicans. hickenlooper is popular and seems to have the upper hand at this point. >> does this seem some of what a strategy move from the democrats. they have to worry about keeping control of the house and trying to pick up the senate? >> in both these cases, for hickenlooper and inslee, they both have good options.

hickenlooper's senate seat is ripeat for the picking. some others don't have those goods options but it is playin out pretty well for this pair. >> let's discuss the whiplash we've seen from the president especially on policy reversals from gun legislation to greenland, really. what kind of message is this sending to americans, especially as we get closer and closer to the next election? >> it sends a message of instability. it also sends a message to allies ore seeming allies of t united states like denmark, whichte is about the most steadfast ally in the world. you can imagine they are not being treated very much. that has all kinds of ramifications internationally. >> thank you, david.

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>> welcome back, under new trump addministration rule migrant families will be detained with no limit. replacing a decades old agreement which limited the time families could be detained to 20 days and set standards for children in government care. the 20-day detention limits specifies the government may not detain children longer unless

they are housed in licensed facilities. the work around administration is proposing that i.c.e. detention centers for families are client with the agreement because they are licensed by i.c.e., not a state. speaking to a reporter, trump said he hoped the new rule would detour migrant families from risking their lives coming to the u.s. >> i am the one that kept the families together. remember i said it. now it gets even better. president obama and others brought the families apart. i'm the one that kept the families together. with what we are doing now, we'll do more of that but it will make it almost impossible for people to come into our country illegally. the new york times labels that claim made by the president as false. noting it was rare for previous administrations to break up families, yet the president

continues to repeat it. the new rule will prevent challenges from that going into place. >> joining us on set, our legal analyst. this seems really surprising to me. it seems as if, correct me if i'm wrong, they are stripping many standards in place set up by the flores rule by many of these families crossing the border. what challenges could this face? >> the challenge with the flores agreement is that it is only an agreement. it isn't even at the level of the hierarchy of laws. it means that president trump could super seed it including issuing new dhs regulations. those regulations are essentially things created that have the force of law, they are an extension of an act of congress.

so the flores agreement being a consent decree is something that could beover ruled by an act of congress or regulations implementing the acts of congress. >> what is the core of this? they want to keep families indefinitely and they think that would detour people from coming into the country? >> those are all obstacles from the government and what it wants to do. the answer is to say, well, these terms get in our way, so let's just rip it up. when p it comes to i.c.e. centers, we license them -- >> again. the agreement, who was that constructed to protect? >> the migrants being held and it was meant to bind the federal

government. but in the law, we have a hierarchy. there are certain things greater than or less than other things in the law. the flores agreement doesn't have the power. just like an agreement overseen by the courts, it is something that can easily be super seeded by any number of legal acts on the chain. >> danny, always a pleasure, thank you very much. >> let's get a check on the weather now with bill karins. >> we are watching some areas of risk. flash flooding concerns and a big change. i call today a transition day. we are cooling off a little bit. that boundary is causing all these problems. a number of thunderstorms in st.

louis and louisville waking people up. here is the map. areas of red are flash flood warnings. a couple of hit and miss warnings there north of tulsa. one more day of hot weather. new york city is under a heat advisory. amazing you can fit 13 million people in this small spot here. today will feel like maybe 95 to 100. new york city will feel like 97, boston 95. the reason we can deal with this is because friday, saturday and sunday will be about as good as it gets for august. humidity levels will plummet. heat and humidity in the south are on today. yesterday, it was like 110 in tulsa. little rock at 104. dallas at 102. today's forecast, the air from

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following trump's retweet declaring him the messiah. declaring himself the chosen one. >> over the last four or five years, china has made over $$500 billion. ripped it out of the united states. not only that, if you take a look, intellectual property theft. add that to it. excuse me, somebody had to do it. i am the chosen one. somebody had to do it. i'm talking on china on trade. >> so meanwhile, the wall street journal's editorial board is out with a piece entitled, cut the trump uncertainty tax. the journal says trump is right to address china's bad

practices, he, quote, underested the harm from the trade shocks. supply chains cannot be rebuilt in under a year. in all, they can't make proper decisions if they don't know what trade policy will be in a year. so president trump continues to practice policy gymnastics over the potential for payroll tax cuts. the president floating the idea followed disputing that very same idea. >> payroll taxes, i've been thinking about payroll taxes for a long time. whether or not we do it now or not is -- it is not being done because of recession. >> i'm not looking at a tax cut now. we don't need it. we have a strong economy. >> the president continued to

hammer the federal chair chairman who he hand picked over the policy. >> jay powell and the federal reserve have totally missed the call. i was right and about everybody admits that. i was right. he did quantitative tightening. he shouldn't have done that. he raised the interest rates too fast. we have a normalized rate. you can call it that. now we have to go the other direction. >> as the associated president reports, fear trump has undercut powell's credibility. they worry his discussion of indexing or a payroll cut. >> revealing employers add a half a million jobs in 2019.

they do not change the overall picture of a healthy job market. "the new york times" is updating that evidence that economy got less of a jolt and last month lowered the economic growth from 2018. >> forecasts now reaching $960 billion for the 2019 fiscal year expanding to $1 trillion in 2020. the increase of u.s. borrowing is a result of the u.s. spending and tax cut policies. "the new york times" points out policies have largely gone along with president trump's move to add more debt. >> joining us again to talk about this from washington, from

the news examiner, david mark. we have this ballooning deficit up to $1 trillion for 2020. break down, david, what type of impact the country's deficit could inflict. >> what it means is more and more spending just goes to payoff interest. it is like when you keep borrowing on your credit card, you are not even making a debt in principal. that has costs and kicks in inflation. there are all kinds of negative ram indications that both parties are really responsible for but republicans in congress have gone along with trump's program on this. >> let's discuss trump's flip

flopping on tax cuts. what impact might have in flip flopping his positions from one day to saying he's not worried about the economy. >> it adds more and more uncertainty to the economic situations. markets are already worried about this. one of the reasons we've seen so many fluchanges in the stock market. of course, there are all kinds of down sides as well because the tax cut has to end and people's taxes go back up. it is something no politician wants to face. >> what impact will this have overall on the election when it comes to the ballooning deficit and this flip flopping back and forth. >> you'd think that is a republican talking point but it seems republicans are going

along with it. >> sure, republicans have essentially acquiesced to his policy. in the last couple of years, they wrote that tax cut law that trump signed and poured a big hole in the deficit. it did have positives in cutting business taxes and such. a payroll tax is limited. it is like an economic caffeine or sugar high. it goes away quickly and sometimes makes the problems worse. >> thank you david. two more american service members have been killed in afghanistan. they were killed in action. that brings the total number of troops killed in action this year to 14, more than all of last year. this year is already the deadliest in afghanistan since 2014. 17 total american service

members have been killed in afghan this year so far. another 77 have been wounded. here is how president trump is describing the situation and his strategy. >> what is your current thinking of pulling out the united states? is. >> we are talking to the government and the taliban and others and looking at different things. we've been there for 18 years, it is ridiculous. we are not really fighting. we are almost more of a police force over there. it has been so many years. we are like a police force. we are not supposed to be a police force. as i've said, i'll say it any number of times. this is not using nuclear. we could win that war in a week if we wanted to fight it but i'm not looking to kill 10 million people or 10 million afghans becauses that what would happen to happen.

>> president trump has tripled down on his belief that russia should be admitted to the group of 7. >> sir, you said russia was kicked out of the g 8 because they out smarted obama. in fact, that was because they an exed crimea. >> russia outsmarted president obama. they took over crimea. >> they are still there. why let them in now. >> if you'd stop being an oregon of the democrats and let me answer the question, i'll answer it easily. it is a simple question. the fact that president putin totallio totally out smarted president obama on crimea and other things. he made a living on outsmarting

president obama. obama was upset. he got obama out of what was the g8 and made it the g7. totally outsmarted obama. obama was upset. they took him out. i think russia should be a part of it because we are looking for world peace. president trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani is urging ukraine. he's spoken on the phone and held and in-person meeting encouraging his government to ramp up investigations into two 3459ers of intense interest to mr. trump. one is whether ukrainian officials took steps in 2016 to damage mr. trump's campaign and

if there was anything improper over joe biden's efforts in ukraine and his son's role with gas there. saying he's acting on his own and did not say whether president trump approves or is aware of the efforts. still away, backlash of the leader over wildfires in the amazon. >> your first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment. maria ramirez?

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government. he said he is working to control the wildfires. the up tick in the blazes co-inside with his administration. it is unclear which fires have been set by fires to clear land and which were accidental. brazil's space research center has detected 73,000 fires. a staggering 83% increase. >> it is devistating to see some of the images and video there. >> i've seen pictures there in the middle of the day, 1,000 miles away covered in ash and dust and almost blacked out. >> let's get a check on the weather with bill karins. we are fortunate, we have not had a lot of problems with fire. this time of year we start to talk about transition. if you are one of those people

who loves summer and you like the heat and humidity, it is going. if you like the fall, cool, crisp air, from minneapolis to green bay, temperatures in the mid-50s this morning. that cool air is sweeping down. it will be throughout much of the north half of the country through the weekend. today, throughout the early fall-like air masses, the sun is warm enough to warm you up to 78 in chicago. it is cool and crisp. great sleeping weather with the windows open. you'll notice we are still hot in the southeast. philadelphi philadelphia,d.c. and new york. the reward sweeps in as we get to friday. in pittsburgh, only 75 on friday with sunshine. new york city, 78. the humidity levels will be much lower. in the shade, you'll definitely

feel cooler. not quite yet in virginia and north carolina. you have to wait until probably saturday. washington, d.c., look at saturday and sunday. low 70s on sunday and monday. that's how cool this air mass is. your weekend outlook, the cold front will stall out a little bit. on friday, still dealing with showers and storms. there is the sunny and beautiful stuff. haven't talked much about the west. you are just warm and sunny. there on saturday, still showers in the southeast. sunday, hit and miss showers in atlanta and florida. you don't get many august weekends, full weekends with sunshine, low humidity. >> i'll take it. >> still ahead, one retailer

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welcome back. market moves were modest after the federal reserve released minutes of the last meeting.

joining us live from london on this. good morning to you. talk to us about how markets are reacting this morning. >> the close for wall street yesterday was pretty positive. we had all of the three majors close up in the green. remember the volatility we had last week, we've more than compensated now. so inching back again. the focus yesterday was on those minutes. the takeaway is that the fed is not as dovish as the fed wants them to be. the last time we had this fed meeting, they talked about the midcycle adjustment which doesn't necessarily imply they are about to embark on the cycle here. certainly asian markets that trade a little softer in the news.

also news that china is looking at adding some american companies to their own form of a black list, that would be in retaliation to the u.s. black list. i want to take story that we di last week and that is of walmart. remember we talked about investors increasingly applying some pressure on the ceo of walmart to do something about their gun policy. now, walmart's employee called it thomas marshall sent a petition to the ceo and that was signed by 130,000 people so far calling for two things, one, to stop the sale of all firearms in stores and the second is to stop giving funding to politicians backed by the nra. walmart have responded saying that they will listen to a wide variety of perspectives and are still considering how they may respond. >> interesting development there. let's switch gears and get your thoughts on an interesting story involving a major franchise, if you will, across the united states, this is whole foods. in 2013 they were actually one of the first companies to give

plant based meat startup beyond meat its first shot at selling its product at stores, now the ceo is saying although plant-based meats may be good for the environment it may not be good for our health. what can you tell us about that? >> that's interesting. actually, by the way, the ceo is a vegan himself so interesting remarks coming from him, but he said if you look at the actual ingredients, what's made in these plant-based paets of impossible burger, beyond meats you will find quite a few of the inn creed dwrents are processed foods and some dieticians agree with that assessment as well. not as good for you as some people are pitching, but from an environmental perspective you could argue that, you know, there are some ethical considerations there. just to give you some stats, a plant-based burger generates 90% less greenhouse gas emissions, 45% less energy and 93% less impact on land than a traditional beef burger. if every single american

switched to plant-based patties that would be the equivalent of 12 million cars going off the road every year. >> now is your time. now is your chance to help save the environment. stop being so selfish with your real meat. >> okay. thanks for throwing me under the bus. i will say, though, when you look at the images of what is happening in the amazon and i think there was a funeral for a glacier the other day in the arctic and you see how all of this is connected -- >> the impact. >> you can't help but start to think what you can do on an individual level. >> but also weighing that to what the ceo of whole foods is saying and that it may not be as nutritionally good for you. >> the plant's health is more important than my individual health, right? thank you so much. coming up axios' knicks johnson is here with a look at this morning's one big thing. coming up on "morning joe" the

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♪ all right. welcome back, everyone. joining us here on set with a look at axios a.m. nicholas johnson. good to have you with us. >> good morning. >> it's rare to have you up here. tell us what is the one big thing. >> the me too election isn't happening. the me too standards of the last couple years, the prominent people forced out, you would think this would be a big political issue, also after 2018 when women were successful in the midterm election. 2020 with a record number of women running in the primary, you look at the campaigns, you look at the debates, ads, rallies, it's not showing up at all. i think it shows how quickly some of these massive issues can drift by the wayside in

politics. >> let's talk about the one presidential candidate who is making this an issue. >> kirsten gillibrand who played a prominent role in the senate with al franken, she has made that a cornerstone of her campaign. >> she's leading with women's issues. >> she's polling at 1%. during a recent rally she had about reproductive rights a lot of the media attention was focused on elizabeth warren. kirsten gillibrand hasn't gotten a lot of traction on this issue. >> do you think she's leading that 1% because she's leading with women's issues or for other reasons. >> it's the chicken and egg sort of thing. is the issue because she's only at 1% or is she at 1% because she's focusing on the issue. when you see the people leading the pack they are focusing on healthcare, social security, medicare. that issue hasn't taken fire. >> this is a complete sidebar off track but did you see there an opportunity for somebody like al franken to resuscitate his career and come back into the mix. >> you look at in the political sphere when mark al prison had his new book, there was a lot of backlash politically on that in

washington. a lot of people pushing back against that. al franken, a new yorker article, there wasn't a lot of desire to go back and revisit that at all. >> let me ask you, then, moving ahead to some of the reports you have about 2020, the possibility that russia may still be trying to interfere in the upcoming election, what have you learned about that. >> we are not ready. there was a mountain of evidence that russia tried to interfere in the last election, a mountain of election they will try to interfere in this one. there is no national strategy on dealing with these things and what's most fascinating if you look at the things that russia tries to use to their advantage, disinformation, fake news, deep fakes, that's going to be prevalent in our campaign this year. >> why do you think this country is not ready to combat election interference there russia at this point? is it because of the lack of acknowledgment of russian interference in the 2016 election from top down. >> there is an element in the trump administration that doesn't like talking about this. the president thinks that somehow dee legitimizes his victory. even though there were reports

it was just an element. it's our politics. we can't agree on anything right now, we couldn't get an infrastructure plan, all the proposals to get unity on any kind of election issues that hasn't happened at all. >> we will see if there's any political fallout from, you know, people like mitch mcconnell who have somewhat blocked -- >> we will see what happens in the election this year and disinformation campaign and maybe ready for 2024, we will have the strategy. >> enjoy your weekend in new york. we will be reading axios a.m. in just a bit. you, too, can sign up for the newsletter at signup.axios.com. >> i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. "morning joe" starts right now. for thousands of years a secret tribe of holy men have been searching for the one person who can save mankind from extinction. their choice has finally been made. >> i am the chosen one. >> you choo choo choose me. >> of course, the gods only send

good and useful things, however, this time they made a mistake. >> hey, i'm president, can you believe it, right? >> you know, i am the chosen one. >> i have been chosen. >> i am the chosen one. >> he's the one. >> he is the chosen one. you must see it. >> i am the chosen one. >> i'm a god. >> you are a god? >> i'm a god, i'm not the god. i don't think. >> you asked me if i have a god complex. let me tell you something, i am god. >> the gods must be crazy. >> i am the chosen one. >> he's the chosen one. >> he chose poorly. >> wow. yeah, they must be crazy. good morning, everyone. >> good morning. >> willie, i mean, donald trump yesterday embraces the title of the king