eliza collins, shane goldmacher, thank you both for your time >> i think it's quite tonight. that is our broadcast for this tuesday night. significant. for a while, lawmakers have thank you for being with us and wondered where can they find the good night from nbc news headquarters in new york. information that deutsche bank suggests that they actually have. information that could provide more details about financial ♪ records of the corporation as well as trump individuals. so, we can expect them to try to after polling this week get their hands on that, is showed joe biden tied with search for a few things, one of them being whether or not elizabeth warren and bernie conflicts of interest are taking sanders, new numbers this place between the trump morning, show him back on top with a wide lead among his 2020 corporation or family and businesses, as well as democratic rivals. international governments. and today is the last day white and other people, individuals house hopefuls can qualify for that could influence the september debate. policymaking coming out of the white house. plus, deutsche bank confirms >> so, eugene, i want to get back to the "usa today" suffolk some documents tied to the family business. and attorney general bill barr is stoking ethics concerns. university poll we were citing according to "the washington earlier. the candidates, getting ready post," he's holding a holiday for the third debate, what is party at the president's d.c. the leading information? how do you interpret all that's hotel that may cost upwards of $30,000. coming out of the poll in terms of the mood of primary voters? >> well, so far from what i've seen it just seems that

democratic voters are really good morning, everyone. sticking with joe biden so far. it's wednesday, august 28th, i'm they see him as someone that they know and are familiar with. ayman mohyeldin also side alex and perhaps believe has the best chances of beating donald trump. witt. joe biden retains an 18 point and so, whether or not that will change, just doesn't seem like it will be something that will lead according to a poll out differ anytime soon. we'll have to see what happens this morning. after the most recent debates. 32% of democratic voters they >> all right. let me get your thoughts really say support biden's runup two quickly on this news and the points since june. report that the president is elizabeth warren at 14%, senator trying to divert some funding away from fema to build that bernie sanders dropped to third immigration wall. place with 12% support. coming pretty swiftly from speaker of tulsi gabbard and tom steyer not the house nancy pelosi, senate majority leader, have we heard reaching next month's debate, anything from republicans from however, steyer could still areas in states that are often qualify if he reaches the 2% in affected by hurricane season? the quinnipiac out later this >> if we haven't, i think we morning. big story here is tropical will very soon, as you know, we storm dorian nears puerto rico have a major hurricane coming up this morning. that will shine light on how the nbc news has learned the trump administration is planning to white house will respond. pull millions of dollars from especially given how things fema disaster relief. happen between the white house and people of puerto rico last the administration's plan is to year this time. take $270 million in funding but the reality is, this will be

from the department of homeland telling to see whether or not security which includes fema to the trump administration will be pay for immigration detention listening to conservatives asking trump to go in another space and temporarily hearing locations for the asylum seekers direction. its people and states are looking for relief for natural who have been forced to wait in disasters more so than other mexico. according to a letter sent by a areas that the president is focusing on. >> i was going to say there's congresswoman, i.c.e. would contain $155 million all from probably very few republicans willing to criticize the 's to president on anything. pay spore temporary locations >> yeah, but it's hurricane for asylum seekers. season. >> that's what makes the optics dhs s of it even more -- eugene scott, thanks. million previously allocated for remember that submarine kim coast guard, aviation and other jong-un was inspecting back in components, this in to july? well it turns up the vessel may fund more than 6800 more beds for detainees. spined with the space, the fund be able to launch nuclear would go allow i.c.e. to detain missiles. that's the thought of a think 50,000 immigrants at one time. and reaction to the move has been swift among house tank, the report shows that saddle site photos indicate that democrats. house speaker nancy pelosi put pyongyang may be making out a statement reading in part, preparations to test a submarine stealing from appropriated funds

is always unacceptable, but to ballistic missile, although it's unclear how soon that could pick the pockets of a disaster actually take place. relief funding in order to fund since president trump's and kim an appalling, inhumane family jong-un impromptu rendezvous at incarceration plan is the dmz back in june, north staggering. and to do so on the eve of korea has conducted tests all in hurricane season is reckless. violation of u.s. sanctions, and and chuck assumer saying, the all of which the president says he has no problem with. trump administration's plan to however, reports indicate that divert money away from fema is those tests include several now backwards and cruel. and former vice president 2020 advance missiles which use solid candidate joe biden tweeted out, fuel and mobile launchers with president trump is taking millions from fema disaster relief in the midst of hurricane sophisticated in-flight season to further fuel a crisis at the border. maneuverability. one of the authors of that it makes about as much sense as report victor cha is coming up nuking hurricanes. >> the president is politicizing later. still ahead, purdue pharma, that storm. posting on will it ever end? the maker of oxycontin is settling claims. congress approved $92 billion and we're tracking tropical for puerto rico an all-time storm dorian. the system is expected to record for anywhere. a record that the president strengthen and could possibly hit puerto rico. we're going to get a check on continues to cite for puerto the full forecast, coming up next.

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purdue pharma and its owners the sackler family are offering anywhere between 10 and $12 billion to settle two lawsuits across the company. the offer comes just one day after a landmark ruling in oklahoma where a judge ordered pharmaceutical giant johnson & johnson to pay more than $500 million in the lawsuit crisis. the lawsuit alleges that purdue and the sackler family are responsible for the practices calling their sales practices, quote, deseptember tiff. two sources saying under the settlement, the sackler family would give up ownership of purdue pharma and pay an additional $3 billion of their own money. the sacklers did not respond to a request for comment. >> and following oklahoma's ruling that johnson & johnson

intentionally downplayed the potential of opioids, several democratic senators have spoken out here in the u.s. >> i'm glad that the immunity that the drug companies have enjoyed is being shattered. that they're going to be held accountable. that there will be justice at the end of the day that's going to save lives. >> that ruling is just the beginning. i don't think that people understood, nor did doctors, nor did patients just how dangerous this was. they were playing with people's lives. >> i hope it ends up like the tobacco lawsuits where our states get billions of dollars and we can reinvest that back into the communities for, you know, prevention. law enforcement has taken a hit on this. our schools are taking a hit on this. our economy's taking a hit on this, so, we need treatment. >> presidential hopeful john delaney wrote on twitter, quote, finally, we're seeing some justice for the harm this company has caused. it's time to hold those

responsible responsible. and senator cory booker tweeted his concern, big pharma with an opioid crisis that continues to destroy lives and communities in every corner of our country. they must be held accountable. >> joining us here, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. let's see what happened here. with tobacco, you have purdue pharma, the sack letter family saying we're going to put out this much money. does this now have somewhat of a snowball effect, in terms of holding these pharmaceutical companies responsible might this be like the new norm? >> possibly, this is just an offer at this stage, though. and this is an offer that may be rejected by all of these plaintiffs and all of these lawsuits across the country. remember, too, it comes after a very large verdict and i should add, really devastating findings by the judge in oklahoma. a lot of people are saying the dollar amount was too low. you read that opinion, the

findings are what the pharmaceutical companies are talking about. if some of those findings get to another court or another jury it is going to be a major part for the industry. the judge concluded that they made a deliberate choice to market opioids for long term chronic pain in a way that was not necessary and told doctors to ignore signs of addiction and prescribe even more opioids when they saw signs of addiction which was obviously addiction. >> let me get your thoughts. understanding this is very important. "the new york times" is reporting this may not be, at least from the purdue aspect, a straightforward cash payment. >> right. >> but a restructuring of the company under chapter 11 bankruptcy. >> yes. >> transforming it from a private company to a public beneficiary one. what exactly does that mean? what is the implication of that? >> chapter 11 bankruptcy happens when a company has all of these debts and they reorganize. they say, whoa, whoa, whoa.

we need to reorganize and look at our finances. in this case, they're laufring offering to reorganize into an entity that is no long a for-profit company but instead, it exists for the sole purpose to helping to fix the wrongs that they arguably created. and the benefit to the individual owners of the corporation is that in chapter 11 bankruptcy, you only lose as an owner the investment you made in the company they don't reach your personal assets. which makes this offer even more interesting. because the sacklers apparently are offering to contribute their own money. a significant sum. and that's very compelling considering that chapter 11 bankruptcy, one of the chief benefits to owners is that they don't lose any more of their personal money, other than the money they invested that is in the company. >> okay. so, you said this is something that all parties have to agree to. what are the largest impediments being agreed to on all fronts? >> logistics.

that's it. you have so many different plaintiffs. some of them are political bodies, they're attorneys generals. and they have their own purpose in bringing this litigation. just of the fact that there's an offer, and a very large offer on the table at this point, doesn't necessarily mean it will be accepted. and if it is, it may take months to accept some global resolution like this. and any resolution for the defendants has to be global. they can't look to enter into these huge payouts if they think there are going to be more lawsuits coming from other states and other municipalities and other counties. >> it's fascinating. so much writing on this. >> thanks, danny cevallos. >> my pleasure. we're going to get a check with the msnbc meteorologist janessa webb. it's heating up? >> yes, in the last hour, we've gotten the recent update. unfortunately, things have changed and escalated very

quickly here. puerto rico very much on the radar here. but hispaniola, not on the radar. what we were hoping for part of it to his hispaniola mountains and break it apart. unfortunately, that's not going to hatch. by friday this is going to gain some steam. we're forecasting a cat 1 hurricane potentially near the bahamas here. now, the elevation of the bahamas is very flat. so, that's not going to break the system apart. it's actually going to give some more momentum as it sits in a body of water, with temperatures in the upper 80s to 90s here. so, by saturday, overnight, look at the rapid intensification. 90-mile-per-hour winds here. and then the track is still very uncertain. now, florida, to georgia, south carolina, this could be a cat 2 making landfall here up to 100 miles per hour. so, this is just the beginning.

now, if this veers more towards the south and east, going into the gulf, that could be another problem. as it veers more towards the north, the carolina coast to wilmington is going to be definitely on our radar. still very much uncertainty. but this is labor day weekend. people are trying to travel, be out and about. and this is going to cause some major disruptions. >> we're just getting word that the white house is keeping a pretty close eye on this. the president has just declared an emergency declaration for puerto rico which would allow federal monies. >> thanks. still ahead, some of jeffrey epstein accusers get their day in court and encourage prosecutors to go after his network of enablers. we're going to hear some of their stories, coming up next. ♪ much more ♪ much more than this ♪ i did it my way

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♪ welcome back, everyone. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside alex witt. it's the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning a's top stories. president trump is defending his florida golf club as a choice for next year's g7 summit it inspired critics to bring up an incident that according to the miami herald was settled in a confidentiality agreement after a patron sued the resort saying

he ended up with bed bug bites. trump responded no bed bugs at doral. the radical left democrats upon hearing that the perfectly located doral was under consideration for g7 spread that nasty rumor. not myself. meanwhile, local officials were surprised by the president's promotion. in fact, "the washington post" reports if the summit came to doral, the city's police chief would be part of it and that includes it with a nearby airport into a walled-all diplomatic island. >> and it raises reports whether trump is profiting. trump who has averaged two weekly visits to trump organization properties while in office, has so far name-dropped at least 70 times in white house

speeches, interviews and tweets. it all comes agency "the washington post" reports that attorney general william barr has booked the president's washington hotel for a 200-person holiday party. the post obtained what it says it barr's signatures on the contract. the party will reportedly earn the president's business $30,000 in revenue. a justice official tells the post that barr is paying for the event himself. and chose the venue only after other hotels including the willard and the mayflower were booked. officials say it's to not to curry favor with the president and does not prohibit barr from hosting the party at his hotel. we'll get more from david far n farenthold joining "morning joe" this morning. and trump now claims the fed was behind the recent slowdown until manufacturing. the sectors output committee

promised to revise as a candidate has shrunk for two consecutive quarters which meets the widely accepted definition of a recession. in a tweet, the president claimed the federal reserve loves manufacturing our manufacturers struggle with their exports to the benefit of other parts of the world. has anyone looked at what almost all countries are doing to take advantage of the good old usa. our fed has been calling it wrong for too long. >> federal reserve is rejecting a call by one of its former members to counter trump by refusing to play along. william dudley writes that trump's re-election arguably provides a threat to the economy as well as the ability for economic objectives. and arguing if trump's trade was

with china, and what if the fed's accommodation encourages the fred to escalate the trade war further increasing the risk for a recession. the fed's efforts to cushion the below may not be ineffectual, they might make things worse. "the wall street journal" editorial board is dismissing the proposal. in its own op-ed, the board writes that don of this helps fed chair jerome powell navigate monetary policy at a tricky moment. urging his recent colleagues to act politically with president trump's conviction that the central bankers have it in for him. he will also damage the fed's ability to rally congress and the business community to its defense. >> all right. joining us once again, reporter for "the washington post," eugene scott. eugene, great to have you back with us. so, let's talk a little bit about how trump has continued to

blame the economy essentially on the fed and how that plays with his base. >> well, we don't expect his base to blame anyone for any challenges that this administration is having that are not affiliated with the trump administration. or more clearly, we know that his base will always support the president, when it comes to any issue in this administration. what the president has to worry about is that, there are more voters in america than within his base. and they will considering other issues, besides those coming out of the president's mouth and on his twitter feed, regarding issues related to the economy. and we do have data showing that significant percentages of the american public are actually having a much harder time economically than the president suggests. >> can we talk about essentially emollients clause. let's look at the president's promotion of his companies. bass it 70 times the president has publicly promoted his hotels or golf resorts and the like

during his presidency. but the most recent one, putting the doral course to be the site of the next g7 summit. that the violation of the emollients clause as well? >> it certainly seems to be when you see the president profiting from his business deals. this is one of the reasons democrats would like to see his tax returns, because they would like to know what other behind-the-scenes interactions could be taking place between the president's family and other businesses. but this is not something that the president has suggested he would stop doing. in fact, he has repeatedly leaned into it, and this has presented quite a bit of concerns for those who are looking for the president who will separate his business and financial dealings from his job as a policymaker. >> that was one of the points that legal experts brought out yesterday, is that the president did not put his company in a blind trust, he handed over to

his kids. it's hard to imagine that there's a fire wall between having an event at a g7 summit that didn't affect it directly. >> kids who work either within his administration or his campaign so that reinforces just how un-blind this interaction is. >> absolutely. eugene scott live in washington. thanks. brazil's president has rejected international assistance in efforts to combat the wildfires the amazon. jair bolsonaro is attached stipulations before willing to accept the billions offered to help. kerry sanders has more from brazil. >> reporter: flames are still raging in the amazon, but brazilian president jair bo bolsonaro says he'll only accept

the money if he gets an apology from french president emmanuel macron. on monday, bolsonaro presented a facebook post mocking his wife. macron saying he was disrespectful. climate scientists say one of the most immediate impacts from all of this is how much carbon is being released into the atmosphere. the immensity of the fires overwhelming brazil's emergency responders. environmentalists blame bolsonaro who wants to open up more rain foreequivalents to industry. we've reached what scientists believe could be a tipping point if another 3% of the jungle here is destroyed, the lungs of the earth, as this is called, may go to a point of no return. president trump tweeting his support for bolsonaro saying he's doing a great is job. bolsonaro responding, we're

fighting the fires with great success. even the area on fire is so vast, bolsonaro should accept the aid. brazil isn't the only president that trump is throwing his support behind. >> we're live, going to italy as trump is saying he would to like to see as the any prime minister. and plus, the impact of the storm, your "first look" at "morning joe" is back in a moment. with all day comfort for all day fun...

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stranger to political turmoil. they've had a new government on average for the past 50 years. so continuation that theme is continuing, a new potential government being announced potentially this evening. i'm standing in front of the presidential palace where talks are ongoing with the political parties about the formulation of a new coalition government. let me take you back to what the old coalition government that looked like. it was a very strange alliance, you had a party, called five-star movement a lined themselves with a traditionally very hard right party led by the influential and very charismatic mateo caslini. legga went on, and he in that post led an immigration stance, was very vocal sending migrants

back, much to the consternation of european allies. he'd been the person pushing this anti-european stance. very interesting, his praise of president trump in the u.s. and praised his stance on immigration over there. in the past, italy would be a very good ally of the united states. >> joumana, you brought up president trump, we always consider it a faux pas when one overweighs one over another. what is the fact that president trump has weighed in on italian politics and essentially endorsed prime minister conte as prime minister once again? >> reporter: i have to set it was met with a lot of consternation, people were surprised that president trump weighed in. especially because prime minister conte is not associated with the party, loosely

associated with five-star, but technically, not a part of that movement either. but it was surprising that president trump would come out with such a strong endorsement of a person who would align himself with the values of mrmr. mr. selvini. it will actually constitute alliance of that fight on the left from the traditionally very pro-european party called p.d. that will certainly change the relationship that italy has had with the u.s. over the last 15 months. interesting one. very interesting as well that donald trump weighed in. >> a lot going on, thanks for joining us, joumanna bercetche. >> bringing in janessa webb for a quick check of weather. hey, good morning, we're watching the center of this storm make its way near puerto rico right now. now, the intensity for puerto rico is really not that vital.

it's the moisture we're going to see. also the storm surge. up to about a foot for puerto rico, so copious amounts of moisture about to hit that area. i do want to show you, this is the right side of this tropical storm. that's normally known as the stronger side, the dirty side of the storm system. so the hurricane-force winds potential there out towards puerto rico. this continues to move here. we're seeing sustained winds to 60 miles per hour. that continues to fluctuate here for the last 24 to 36 hours. now, the track has changed tremendously here. now, friday afternoon, potential hurricane, as this system really sits in the water here. daytime highs for these temperatures, we're talking about a water temperature that's in the upper 80s to 90 degrees. so, it's just going to fuel the storm system. if you have family and friends that are traveling to the bahamas, cancellations and warnings are going to be affecting the bahamas in the

next 36 hours. look at this, potential cat 2 by monday. now, this is labor day weekend, many people have plans. this potentially a landfall by monday. that's a major disaster here. and unfortunately, the plans for everybody is going to be ruined for this labor day. so, we're watching this very closely. if this goes into the gulf, the last time we've seen that was hurricane katrina. >> oh, man, scary situation there. >> thanks. still ahead, president trump turns his attention to republicans trying to unseat him in next year's election. plus, american farmers caught in the middle of the president's trade war with china face their growing frustration. the public warning one official recently faced over that standoff, next. out of the water. hydro boost with hyaluronic acid to plump skin cells so it bounces back... neutrogena® and try our hydrating makeup.

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welcome back, everyone. as president trump's trade war with china escalates, some american farmers who are stuck in the middle are losing patience with the administration's approach. "the new york times" reports that earlier this month in minnesota, agriculture secretary sonny perdue tried to ease tensions. >> what do you call two farmers in a basement? i said, i don't know, what you call them? he said, a wine cellar. >> awkward. as the "times" notes the trade

dispute has placed increased pressure on farmers as the sale of american soybeans, pork and wheat and other products to china have all dried up. the administration has responded by rolling out two financial packages totaling $28 billion and sending perdue across the country to ease some of those fears. president trump is testing out some new nicknames for his 2020 poe 2020 opponents. yesterday he tweeted, i'm at 94% approval in the republican party and have three running against me, a bad congressman from illinois who lost in a second term by landslide and failed in radio. the third is a man who couldn't stand up straight receiving an award. i should be able to take him. mr. appalachian trail, that refers to mark sanford who was absent for about a week in his

second term as south carolina governor. he was apparently in argentina during an extra marital affair. his office tried to cover his tracks claiming he was hiking the appalachian trail. the second rival trump is referring to is former illinois congressman joe walsh. walsh revealed on monday night that he lost his conservative radio show after announcing his go for the presidency on sunday. walsh attributed his removal from the radio show due to the president's favorability among his audience. the man who couldn't stand up straight receiving an award, trump is making an attack at bill weld who collapsed during commencement in 1996 and he was suffering from a case of the flu, so that was a really deep dive for the president to go there. >> with this president, he doesn't, you know, you can keep going lower and lower. i'm not surprised that he would do something like that. coming up, axios's jim vandehei has a look at the

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. joining us now from washington, d.c. with a look at axios a.m., cofounder and ceo of axios, mr. jim vandehei. what is axios's one big thing. we're looking at the 2020 democratic field and how almost every candidate now is staking out positions that no democrat would have dreamed of or dared taking a lot of these positions even two or three years ago, and if you actually step back and look at the field and look at their policy positions, one way to look at it is i think hillary clinton or barack obama would be very conservative democrats in

this field, so what do i mean by that. if you look at basically the wide embrace of medicare for all, the wide embrace for multitrillion dollar climate plans. if you look at immigration, everything from creating, maybe turning it into a misdemeanor if you're coming across the border illegally or offering benefits to immigrants who come here illegally, if you look at wiping away, like i said, education debt, so you go down that list, these were positions that barack obama and hillary clinton wouldn't have dreamed of taking because they thought they would get a huge backlash among centrists and would have a hard time wooing independents. democrats are making the calculation that now is the time to sort of take a big public stand on these topics that are motivating the base, that are motivating the people who turn out, that are motivating the people who give money in democratic primaries. >> so then, jim, can you take this research and the way people are feeling and put it towards who becomes the party prospect,

as we get closer to picking the nominee. is it something that will likely be very much to the left, very liberal or will the centrists say we have to pick somebody who might be palatable for all? >> there isn't a centrist in the race. joe biden would be the closest thing to a centrist. you look at the last debate, and he has to distance himself from barack obama, and a lot of republicans who are watching, barack obama, isn't he super liberal, no, a lot of democrats are saying that he needs to do more on health care, needs to do more on immigration, and needs to be more liberal on a lot of these topics that barack obama didn't really want to touch, and so there is a centrist at the top of the field. i think the two parties have moved apart. one of the most interesting phenomenons in some ways, both parties are being reinvented in realtime before our eyes in this race, if you think about republicans becoming america first trumpers, and what's happening on the left with democrats. >> let me pick up on that

quickly and get your thoughtingthoughts. is this just a strategy for the primaries and whoever emerges will have to try to merge to the center if they want to win some of the base or some that went to trump in 2016 who may have originally been for obama in 2008. >> it's a good question. that's typically how it works. it's hard for me to see bernie sanders or elizabeth warren in particular, if they won the nomination, suddenly trying to run as a centrist, it wouldn't fit. it's not than ideology. you would see a lot of that be biden if he's able to win. you look the policy proposals, particularly that bernie sanders has been putting out, elizabeth warren has been putting out, if anything, they are pulling the party further to the left, and i think liberals are excited. to h lerell with it, let's stoph these mushy topics.

i talk to a lot of people who would elect a socialist. we didn't think we would elect donald trump but we might very well elect somebody who espouses socialist views. >> and here we are. jim vandehei, thank you so much, we'll have all of you reading axios in just a bit. sign up for the news letter at signup @axios.com. i'm ayman mohyeldin. "morning joe" starts right now. the president of the brazil is refusing to put out the fire in the amazon unless the president of france apologizes for calling him a liar. ladies and gentlemen, i don't know about you, but i am ready for women to run the world. i really am. >> definitely. it is time. good morning, and welcome to "morning joe," it is wednesday, august 28th. with us we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle,

professor at princeton university, eddie glog jr., senior adviser at move on.org, and msnbc contributor, republican communications strategist, and msnbc political contributor, rick tyler joins u. so what's the top story. that's sort of a trick question today. is it the trump administration pulling millions of dollars from fema to send to the southern border. is it the president reportedly promising to pardon aides who break the law by fast tracking the border wall for him. is it the president's push to host an international summit at his own struggling golf resort. is it the attorney general booking the president's hotel in washington, d.c. for a holiday party. is it the president's desperate attempt to keep deutsche bank from handing over his tax returns to house investigators along with family members tax returns. is