that meeting president trump had with the taliban before announcing on twitter the meeting was canceled. the president says he canceled the meeting after for a bombing in kabul last thursday that killed an american soldier, and 11 others. trump tweeted in part, what kind of people would kill so many in order to seemingly strengthen their bargaining position? they didn't. they only made it worse. if they cannot agree to a cease fire during these very important peace talks, and would even kill 12 innocent people, they probably don't have the power to negotiate a meaningful agreement anyway. u.s. officials tell nbc news that discussions about meeting with the taliban leaders began about a week ago. we're told president trump first decided to hold a meeting with the group and the president of afghanistan in washington, but later came up with the idea of hosting them at camp david. as "the new york times" notes, quote what would have been one of the biggest headline grabbing moments of his tenure, was put together on the spur of the

moment, and then canceled, on the spur of the moment. the usual national security council process was dispensed with, only a small circle of advisers was even clued in. national security adviser john bolton vehemently opposed meeting with the taliban, while secretary of state mike pompeo went on all five sunday talk shows to defend his peace efforts and the decision to host the taliban at camp david. watch this. >> in the end, if you're going to negotiate peace, you often have to deal with some pretty bad ak tors. there have been discussions about war at camp david and discussions of peace as well and pretty bad ak tors traveled through that place throughout recorded history and an important place, a place where we thought we could convince awful leaders of the afghanistan, as well as the taliban, we could convince them to begin to head in the direction that would create better conditions on the ground in afghanistan. >> does this mean talks are off

completely? >> so for the time being, that's absolutely the case. >> if you're the taliban, conditions have been worsening and they're about to get worse. we're going to make sure that everyone in the region understands that america will always protect its national security interests. >> and back in october of 2001, president george w. bush forcefully rejected an offer from the taliban to hold talks about the surrender of osama bin laden if the u.s. stopped bombing afghanistan. president bush was clear at that time telling reporters no negotiations and demanding that bin laden be turned over. >> turn him over. turn his cohorts over. turn the hostages that they hold over. there is no need to negotiate. there is no discussions. i told him exactly what they need to do. and there is no need to discuss innocence or guilty. we know he's guilty. turn him over. if he wants us to stop our military operation, they have to meet my conditions and when i

said no negotiations, i meant no negotiations. >> hurricane dorian's death toll has risen to at least 44 in the bahamas and that number is feared to dramatically increase in the coming days. the catastrophic category five storm decimated the islands last week. leaving thousands without homes. according to "the new york times," the bahamian security forces are still responding to reports of missing and trapped people and teams of forensic investigators are still combing through the storm debris. yesterday, delta airlines brought in 5,000 pounds of relief to the bahamas and the airline planned to evacuate hundreds of haitian refugees on two flights but due to operational challenges they were only to send one. and more rescue flights are planned for today as cleanup efforts are planned for the bahamas and florida and other states hit by the hurricane. president trump expected to visit cherry point and fayetteville to survey the damage. mark sanford has officially

announced he will run for the president of the united states, challenging president trump for the party's nomination. >> i'm here to tell you now that i am going to get in. >> you're going to run for president, against donald trump and the republican party. >> i am. >> why? >> because i think we need to have a conversation on what it means to be a republican. i think the republican party, we have lost our way. and i would say some of the couple of different fronts. >> you honestly think you have a serious chance of beating -- >> i'm saying you never know. >> and mark sanford will be joining "morning joe" later this morning to talk more about his 2020 presidential campaign. republican leaders in three states have voted to cancel 2020 primaries and caucuses. gop parties in nevada, kansas, and south carolina announcing that candidates will be committed to president trump and the upcoming election cycle. among the states to mix caucuses and primary, include the expenses of associated with putting on an election when the incumbent has already

significant party support but as you can management it essentially stifled the gop opponents of the president who have since cried foul. >> elections are the most important thing we do in a democracy and even if this has happened before, it is anti-democracy. and a vote is the ultimate expression of choice. >> that is undemocratic bs. it's wrong. and that's the kind of thing that should piss off republican voters. i think they're scared to death of this president, having any other name on a primary ballot against him, because he's imploding day by day. i think they're afraid. >> despite. so outrage, canceling primaries and caucuses, it is not unusual for the party of the presidential incumbent. in fact, republicans in arizona were reportedly making a similar decision as early as today, according to a local nbc affiliate. joining us from washington, senior staff brighter for the hill, scott, writer for the hill, scott wang, thank you for joining us appreciate it. >> good morning. >> let's talk about the states

canceling primaries, south carolina, nevada and kansas. how do you think this could feesly impact the republicans that are running against the president, especially someone like mark sanford who we just heard from in his home state of south carolina? >> well, i don't think the impact will be enormous at all. but i do think that, you know, in a place like south carolina, nevada, perhaps arizona, it would, you know, to have a primary in those states, and to have other candidates running on that ballot, it would show the level of support, or the level of opposition against donald trump, within the republican party. and i think those numbers could be significant, you know, because it would show what, you know, the advantages that democrats could take advantage of, heading into the general election. more importantly, i think the candidacy of somebody like mark sanford, or a libertarian-minded candidate like justin amash, i think the impact of their

candidacies against donald trump would erode support within the republican party for donald trump. it would give a place for voters to look to, and turn to, and it really could depress republican turnout, i think, in a general election, you know, and really help, really perhaps turn the election over to democrats. >> scott, let's switch gear force a moment and get your thoughts on this canceled meeting that the president announced over the weekend on twitter. no one knew about it until he tweeted that it in fact wasn't actually going to happen. now the question is, how might this president use the canceled taliban talks to his advantage heading into 2020? >> well, you know, i really fail to see if the silver lining in this story for the president. i fail to see how the president can spin this one, you know, you have very prominent republicans including liz cheney, former,

the daughter of former vice president dick cheney who obviously played a major role in 9/11, adam kinsinger, air national guardsman, criticizing the president i the, president, saying it is pretty tone-deaf to try to bring the taliban to camp david, to the american soldier right before the anniversary of 9/11. however, sort of stepping back, if the president is able to somehow bring troops home, bring some of these 14,000 troops home, or the bulk of them home, before the 2020 election, i think, you know, that could resonate with the american public, who is, as we know, very tired and sick of this nearly two decade long war. >> all right. scott wong live in dc for us. thanks. we will talk to you in just a bit. >> thank you. still ahead the very latest in the investigation of military spending at one of president's international resorts has

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base. >> "politico" reports the letter also cites a guardian report that they had cut rate rooms and free rounds of golf at turnbury, and taken together, the incident reports that it helps keep the resort afloat. it lost money in 2017 but went up $3 million in 2018. in a statement the air force says it doesn't appear any regulations were broken but it will review all guidance pertaining to selections of airport and lodging accommodations during international travels. joining us on the set, msnbc legal analyst, danny to help break this all doubt. this is about the foreign emoluments clause of the constitution, if in fact this stay from the air national guard actually violates that clause. so does it? >> it could be both. there are actually two emoluments clause, the foreign and the domestic. the foreign relates to the president receiving any benefit

from any foreign national, any foreign kingdom or country. the domestic emoluments clause is that the president cannot receive anything in addition to his salary, from an individual state or from the federal government. so even though this case arises in a foreign country, it maybe a violation of the domestic emoluments clause, because you have the federal government writing the check. the federal government's writing the check, to the airport, for the gas, or whatever, then you may have a foreign emoluments clause violation to the extent that that benefit trickles over to the trump hotel. but everything hingees on how we define this old-fashioned word emoluments. is it a very broad definition? meaning that any benefit that somehow finds its way to the president from any foreign country or individual state is a violation? or if you're the president, you're arguing that it must be more narrow, narrowly interpreted, because it has to be a payment for his actual services. as if he worked at the hotel,

himself. and in fact, that's not the case. there are many layers of corporate protection, before any dollar reaches the president himself. >> so late last night, the air force says that they are going to be looking into this. going to look at the guidelines, as to the guidance that they give out, in terms of where they stay, how they stay, where they can spend that money. what if any does that review process implicate or have an impact on the president going forward? >> it will be very helpful to determine what was the intent behind the decision to land at this airport and use this hotel. that in turn will be critical -- >> if in fact someone suggests that they stay there. >> exactly, right. if it came internally, if they thought boy, wouldn't this be great to impress the boss, that would be one thing. on the other hand, if it was a direct order from someone in the executive branch, shoe probably stay at this hotel, now, you have a level of intent that goes a long way towards determining whether or not there was a violation of the emoluments clause.

>> what about historical precedent? >> do we know if any air force members were staying there before this president? >> exactly. >> is that something they could take into consideration? not like do you know whether or not any air force people stayed in trump properties. >> they should absolutely take that into consideration. especially because emoluments clause litigation has almost never happened in our country's history. there are about three precedents and none of them have any relationship to this kind of activity. we're talking about, could president reagan accept his retirement benefits from the state of california. those are the issues that the court have confronted in the past. and there is nothing at all like a president with a far-reaching empire of hotels and resorts, around the globe. so we are on new ground here in many ways. >> i always feel like during his presidency, we have been getting constitution 101 class. >> learning a lot about the federal government. >> that we have never talked about in the past. >> exactly. >> five years ago, no one knew what an emolument is, or largely did not know and now we're litigating it and it is a

critical word in the constitution. it is something we should know. >> i'm glad you're helping us with constitutional law. >> i don't want to admit that i knew what emolument was, five years ago, i didn't say that, how dare you. >> thanks for joining us. with that, we switch gears now and bring in nbc meteorologist michelle grossman with a quick update on the weather. turning on the heat in the south. the south is going to be baking today. an area of high pressure pumping in the heat. and the jet stream is so far to the north and the heat will extend up to the northern plains and north of, that we have cooler air, so we are going to see a clash of air masses causing a chance for severe storms. today though, the heat is on, and it is going to continue over the next several days as well. take a look at some of these numbers. we're looking at mid to upper 90s. feeling hotter than that once you factor in the humidity though. birmingham, 98. atlanta, 97. panama city, 91. that will continue on your tuesday. temperatures also in the mid to upper 90s.

birmingham, 95. columbia, 96. with the heat indices even up to 102 in some spots. the heat expands on wednesday and thursday, and friday, into the northeast, and also parts of the upper midwest and temperatures in the upper 80s, in pittsburgh, cincinnati, and 91 on thursday, and 90 on friday. so i mentioned the heat advisory, in alabama, and also in parts of georgia, because we're looking at temperatures in the mid to upper 90s, and it is going to feel like 102 to 105 there, stay hydrated, stay out of the heat today and especially this afternoon into this evening. now, we are looking at also for the chance of some severe weather, we mentioned a clash of air masses here, so in the northern plains, we are looking at the potential for some nasty weather later on today. we can see some gusty winds, some hail, and also some flash flooding rain, and maybe the possibility of a few tornadoes of the storm prediction center has put out an alert for that. this extends into tuesday, where it looks like the dakotas is the bull's eye for the strong storms. this is what radar looks like right now. we are already seeing some stronger storms, some

thunderstorms, earlier this morning, and you can see the darker colors, those are your heavier rains, that's what we're watching throughout the day. the storm prediction center, especially looking at minneapolis, and lacrosse, sioux fall, des moines, for the chance of these strong storms. and rainfall forecast, we mentioned the possibility of flooding rain, and we could see one to three inches of rain, through wednesday, and a lot of that could fall today and quickly and watch that throughout the day here. >> thank you, michelle. still ahead, new reporting by the "washington post," the paper says it's been reliably told that president trump is withholding a white house visit and military air aid, quote, in an attempt to extort the ukrainian government into intervening in the 2020 election. the details on that story coming up next. for the hardest workers,

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because it's not just about the next breakthrough... it's all the ones after that. last november russia fired upon and seized three ukrainian vessels and their crews in the black sea. in response, this july, ukraine seized a russian tanker but not the crew. well, late last week, russia finally agreed to release the ukrainian crews in a prisoner swap. that exchange also saw ukraine release, among others, a former russian commander suspected of playing a role in shooting down malaysian airlines flight mh-17. responding, president trump tweeted that it was quote very good news, congratulations to both countries. it all comes amid these reports that rudy giuliani's ongoing efforts to push ukraine to investigate hunter biden's work in the country, as it relates to joe biden's past diplomatic

efforts. and the trump administration's slow walking of much-needed military aid to allied ukraine, mentioned to counter russian aggression. and it appears that "washington post" has made a converge ent connection writing in a new piece by the editorial board, quote, some suspect mr. trump is once again catering to mr. putin who is dedicated to undermining ukrainian democracy and independence, but we're reliably told that the president has a second and more venal agenda, attempting to force the ukrainian president to intervene in the 2020 u.s. presidential election by launching an investigation of the leading democratic candidate joe biden. mr. trump is not just soliciting ukraine's help with the presidential campaign, he is using u.s. military aid the country desperately needs in an attempt to extort it. >> let's get to an nbc news exclusive. russia appearing to be growing increasingly aggressive in the arctic. and nbc was given a rare look at

intercept videos and nuclear capable russian aircraft flying in international air space. nbc news correspondent kevin tibles has more on this. >> reporter: they fly where american fighter jets do not. norway's aging f-16s, on 15-minute alert, 24/7, above the arctic circle. the front line for the u.s. and nato. pilots scramble each and every time russian military planes are detected. nbc news was given a rare look at the intercept videos they bring back. nuclear-capable russian aircraft, flying in international air space. norway shares a 120-mile border with russia, but says russian military aircraft fly the full length of their coastline. over 500 missions a year, during the cold war. after the soviet union fell, virtually none. now, norway says they are back. >> what is that like to come up behind one of their aircraft? >> they're just exciting,

especially at night, flying out there. >> major general lars amed tracks the russians from deep inside the underground command center. >> strategic messages that the mere presence but also that this area is of their strategic interest. >> reporter: as the arctic melt, russia is flooding the rege within military and economic resources. signaling the top of the world may be become the next big strategic baelgz with, battle ground with the west. the pilots who fly these f-16s, call themselves the guardians of the north. >> certain days, there have been numerous scrambles. >> norway's foreign minister says russia is readopting a cold war tempo. >> they are doing more large-scale exercises. they are exercising to some extent also attack patterns, and many of these activities are

activities we haven't seen since the mid '80s. >> norway, a key nato ally, first to see the russians, now spotting them with increased regularity. kevin tibbles, nbc news, norway. >> thank you, kevin for that report. still ahead, looking at new polling that shows joe biden continuing to sit at the top of the democratic pack but another white house hopeful is ahead in the early voting states. >> and how the house judiciary committee is planning to normalize procedures of new reporting and much more, coming up next. our 18-year-old

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welcome back, everybody, i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. the bottom of the hour, president trump planned and canceled a meeting with the taliban and now facing bipartisan criticism from the meeting, almost no one knew about. nbc news correspondent hans nichols has more on this. >> reporter: america's preparing to inflict more pain on the taliban. >> they fear the taliban conditions have been worsening and they're about to get worse. >> reporter: america's top diplomat on all five major sunday morning shows, defending trump's plan to host the taliban, and the afghan government, at camp david, just days before the 9/11 anniversary. >> it was a useful effort to try and get all of those parties in one place, so that we could have serious conversations about how to reduce america's risk. >> the president dramatically called off the meeting after the

taliban admitted to a car bombing in kabul. that killed army first class sergeant, the 16th u.s. combat death this year in afghanistan. how many more decades are they willing to fight, the president tweeted? but the u.s. has also been hammering the taliban, which harbored al qaeda. >> in the last ten days we have killed over a thousand taliban. >> the plan to host taliban leaders at camp david angers some republicans. no member of the taliban should set foot there, ever, tweeted liz cheney. >> and democrats. >> due treat this like some kind of a game show when dealing with terrorists. >> the president said he could win the war in afghanistan in a week but a tremendous cost to life. >> if we were willing to kill ten million people in a week or two, we could clear it quickly. >> and the president has a history of restarting negotiations after calling them off. >> trump is a risk take ner that mistake and i think you could make a case that these risks are

worth taking. >> thanks to hans nichols for that report. and the remains of the serviceman killed in kabul arrived last night, the 34-year-old was assigned to the 82nd brigade support battalion in ft. bragg, north carolina. sergeant ortiz is the fourth u.s. service member killed in the last two weeks in afghanistan. about 14,000 troops are still in that country. for the latest we have the latest from ali in london. good to have you with us. first, i want to get up to speed on some new reporting that you have about these peace talks. we first heard about it from the president on twitter, saying that unbeknownst to others, he canceled those talks. you have some new reporting. >> reporter: that's right. a senior taliban leader who spoke to nbc news this morning in doha saying that the talks were not called off because a

u.s. serviceman was killed in afghanistan. but because they refused to sit in the same room with the afghan president. they don't consider him the legitimate government of afghanistan. and because of that reason, the taliban have said that they will not, were not willing to come to washington and have a meeting with the president, and have talks. now, of course, would he have to say that the taliban are not exactly known for their veracity and they are, they do tend to exaggerate a lot of what they say. but they are contradicting the reason for this meeting being called off. and their a , they're kind of saying that it is their idea the meeting is called off because they don't want to sit with him, they don't want to discuss the afghan conflict directly in his presence, as they don't consider him or his administration as legitimate. >> so whether or not it was the taliban who called off this meeting, or it was the president of the united states, who called off this meeting, we saw pompeo on a lot of the sunday shows not necessarily saying the meeting

was not going to happen at all. he didn't close the door, in any way shape or form. what do you think the likelihood is here, especially considering some of your reporting, that you're hearing, what do you think the likelihood is here that these peace talks will actually happen. >> well, it is going to be difficult. i mean even this morning, the taliban released the statement. they're saying that the cancellation of the talks is going to need lead to more losses for u.s. service men in afghanistan, it is going to discredit the united states. so if that does happen, if there are more service men killed in the coming days, weeks, months, it's going to be very, very difficult to restart talks. the image is going to look bad. there is going to be more blood on the taliban's hand, as you mentioned in that previous report, they are still harboring al qaeda terrorists. so it is going to infinitely complicate the situation. and it is going to make it much more difficult for these two sides to come together. and the sad reality is we are

just probably going to see a lot more bloodshed. >> ali, thank you in london. presidential politics, joe biden continuing to maintain his front-runner status according to the latest abc news "washington post" poll. biden at 27% and holding an eight point lead heading into thursday's third primary debate down two points since july. and senator bernie sanders follows in second place with 19%, down four points. however, senator elizabeth warren sits in third place, with a six point bump since the middle of the summer. meanwhile, a new cbs tracking poll shows elizabeth warren with a one point advantage over biden and warren 26% to biden's 25% in early states whose voters will cast ballot through super tuesday next year, including iowa, new hampshire, nevada, texas, and massachusetts. sanders comes in third with 19%

of the support. elizabeth warren received a rock star welcome at new hampshire's democratic party convention. the massachusetts senator was greeted on saturday, by a standing ovation that lasted around two minutes, that is according to "the new york times," her speech was also frequently interrupted by the roar of noise makers that the audience was given with the words, win with warren written on them. it is unclear how many warren supporters actually attended the speech, whether or not they came from out of state or not. she was one of 19 candidates including fellow senator bernie sanders, current front-runner joe biden also spoke at the gathering. and 2020 presidential candidate senator kamala harris has apologized after appearing to brush off an anti-disability slur at a campaign rally over the weekend. on friday, a man at a new hampshire event used a slur to describe president trump's actions to which harris replied, quote, well said. the senator has since received harsh criticism and quickly apologized the next day. >> i would never condone that

kind of language being spoken by anybody about anybody. it is offensive. i have worked my entire career to do a number of things, including to ensure that our disability community receives the dignity and the rights that they deserve. i would never condone anyone using that word. in any way is shape, or form. even including against the guy that i'm running against. period. >> joining us now from washington, senior staff writer for the hill, scott wong, good to have you with us. let's talk about the polls for a moment. mau what do you make of the way the race is shaping up ahead of second round of debates later this week? >> it is interesting to see warren steadily rise in these polls. joe biden is still the front-runner, with pretty significant support. but warren is rising. and i think the reason why, if you look at the numbers, as candidates like jay inslee of washington state, or eric

swalwell of california begin to drop out, elizabeth warren is picking up that progressive support. and so it is interesting, we will see, all eyes on houston later this week, where the debate will unfold and this is the first matchup between joe biden and elizabeth warren. i think reporters and dc press corps certainly will be watching and interested, as well as democratic primary voters who are beginning more and more to tune in to this presidential election. >> you know what i think is pretty interesting about some of this polling scott, we have consistently seen the top three, joe biden, bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, it hasn't faltered aside from that one point kamala harris guidance after the first debate performance but since then she has basically remained at number four. what i think is really interesting about this, is also, where bernie sanders has stayed. i mean we've seen a lot of back and forth between biden and

warren, where biden has lost a bit, and warren has gained quite a bit. but bernie sanders had steady stayed within the 17 to 19 percentage point, within all of the polls that we have been seeing. really since he lost his campaign. >> yes, that's interesting. and i think what that shows, if you combine, you know, bernie sanders support, with elizabeth warren support, that's well more than what joe biden has, and obviously, we know that bernie and, bernie sanders and elizabeth warren come from the same liberal wing of the democratic party, as we get further and further into these primary contest, should one of them drop out and throw their support to the other progressive, you know, i think we could see one of these progressives be leading the ticket into 2020. so again, all eyes will be on houston this week. it will be a fascinating debate. >> let me get your thoughts

really quickly, and this is obviously anecdotal, but it is somewhat of an indication of the bigger debate taking place in the democratic party, how energetic, how excited do you need the crowds to be for the candidate, and what do you make for the turnout for elizabeth warren in new hampshire, she got a two-minute standing ovation according to the "new york times" and some of the largest crowds in any of the primary, or i should say primary campaign rallies that have happened so far. what do you make of that excitement? >> it is not unlike the debate in the democratic party that was shaping up in 2008, you had barack obama, a young relatively inexperienced senator, versus hillary clinton, who represented experience in washington, and i think that is sort of the same narrative that you're seeing shaping up in this democratic primary, with a lot of excitement for elizabeth warren. relative, you know, obviously, clearly experienced, but a

fresher face, versus joe biden who has been around dc for decades and decades, but represents sort of that dc establishment, while having enormous amount of experience, and popularity, being the right-hand man for president obama for a number of years. >> scott wong, thank you. >> thanks, scott. >> thank you. still ahead, new reporting on democrats war room against the president, heading into 2020. plus, joe biden's bad news problem. your first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment. like job. when he was diagnosed with cancer, his team at ctca created a personalized care plan to treat his cancer and side effects. so job could continue to work and stay strong for his family. this is how we inspire hope. this is how we heal. we love you, daddy. good night. i love you guys. cancer treatment centers of america. appointments available now.

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unable to come even close to getting it done, they came to me, as a group, and asked for my help. i got it done with a group of senators and others who would have never gone for it. obama could not come close to a man named van jones, and many others, profusely grateful at that time. i signed it into law. no unelse did. and republicans deserve much better. but now that it is past, people who virtually had nothing to do with it are taking the praise, guys like boring musician john legend and filthy mouth wife are talking about how great it is but i didn't see them around when we needed help getting it passed. >> imagine being the president of the whole country and spending your sunday night hate watching msnbc hoping somebody, anybody, will praise you. melania, please praise this man. he needs you. chrissy teigen responded her tweet, we cannot put on air due

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plains. we will watch that throughout the day. heat advisory in parts of georgia and alabama, and heat i indices from 102 to 105, the heat punch, with the area of high pressure bringing in the hot air from the south and keep it in place not only today but also tomorrow. the jet stream is so high to the north, we are seeing the hot air up through the central plain, and then the northern plains, we're cooler there and seeing that change, that will spark the severe weather later on today. a look at some of the numbers. birmingham, 98. feeling more like 101. and charleston, 98. this holds true tomorrow. expanding into the northeast by wednesday, thursday and friday. back to you guys. >> thank you, michelle. still ahead, the fed chair tries to eat fears , ease fears recession while signaling a possible rate hike. but we're also a company that controls hiv, fights cancer, repairs shattered bones,

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the risk of a recession has put the business community on edge after signs have pointed to the possibility that the economy could, in fact, be weakening. joining us live from london, julianna at that timen balm. good to have you with us. let's talk about this, juliana, because you had the fed chair jerome powell commenting on the threat of a possible recession recently. what did he say he expects the feds do about the state of our economy? >> well, he spoke on friday at an event be in zurich, switzerland, and he made clur

that the fed's main expectation is not at all that there is going to be a recession in the united states. but, did he hint that the central bank is going to proceed with further rate cuts at their meeting this month. so that's in line with what the market has been expecting. on the trade war front, which is obviously a clear risk to the u.s. economy, to the global economy, he said that this has generated business uncertainty that raises the risks of a downturn and as a result the fed will continue to act as appropriate to sustain the expansion. so he didn't give a huge amount away in terms of what the fed is thinking, but he did say a recession not their base ska narrow at this stage. i want to bring you to a story that's gaining attention in the last couple hours, and that's around apple violating chinese labor laws. apple and its manufacturing partner foxconn have violated chinese labor law. at one of their largest iphone

factory in this particular part of china, they say it has about 50% of the workforce made up of temporary workers. china labor law states that the temporary workers can only reach up to 10% of the workforce. apple denies most of what the report says but it's one to keep an eye on as the day progresses. eyes. >> let's talk jp morgan quickly. they've created a new way to monitor how the president directly affects the markets with his commentary or his tweets. what can you tell us about this? >> well, this is -- this is an index that jp morgan has created called the voll fee fee index. you may remember his tweet from a while ago but they have used that and that san index that's designed to quantity fight impact of president trump's tweets on the bond market. he causes a lot of volatility

with these tweets and they often come in an unpredictable manner. what they found was about out of 4,000 nonretweets occurring during market hours from 2018 to now, only 146 moved the market. this index is used to predict which ones will move the market. >> if there's an algorithm to predict how the president's tweets moved the market, you could make a lot of money if you could figure that out. >> i'd love to be in the brainstorming situation when they came up with volfefe. come on, let's get a name. >> julianna live for us. thanks very much. up next, coming up on "morning joe," peter baker joins us with his front-page reporting on the president's canceled meeting with the taliban at camp david. plus, we will hear from the president's newest challenging

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welcome back, everyone. joining us now from washington, d.c., the look at axios am, the cofounder mike alhe. what is the one big thing for us? >> the axios one big thing is the new fake news magnet and the new fake news magnet is instagram. so back in 2016 was facebook that got the attention for russian interference in the election. but axios's writer just popped up a story that says because misinformation, big news is being shared as images and memes rather than texts, instagram has a knnewer audiences and it's on thing to watch for if the do

these new accounts that may be based over seas feed a lot of celebrity gossip out there or spores and then switch to politics? that's a way to put your finger on somebody who's up to no good. >> darn it, instagram was like the one last social media outlet that we enjoyed escaping to and look at other people's lives. now you're ruining that for us as well. >> do they see this -- could this instagram threat be potentially greater than what we saw in 2016 with regards to facebook? >> yeah, it makes it much harder to find them, to success spespe accounts, pull them down because it's images rather than texts. it's a new way that disinformation is trying to flummox the platforms which have added tens of thousands of people to clean things up ahead of 2020. let's go to the 2020 war room. how are they preparing to take

on president trump in key battleground states? what have you learned? >> as we talked to democrats around downtown they're reld realizing that to run against president trump in 2020 they're going to have to do more than scream trump. they're going to have to go more than attack his character. this is an effort by the democratic national committee to go after his record both personal and professional. they've looked at thousands of lawsuits around the country in all 50 states that have involved the president and his companies over the years. they've tracked every single time during the 2016 campaign when he said that he built a wall that mexico was going to pay for it. of course neither of those things have proven true. and, how do you weapon eyes tiz information? now the information is going from the dnc research staff, this big book they have, their bible on trump, it will go to local politicians and local reporters on questions like money that's being diverted from local projects to the wall.

>> all right, mike allen live in washington, d.c. thank you very much as always. we're going to be reading axios a.m. in just a bit and you can sign up at a newsletter by going to axios.sign up.com. >> "morning joe" starts right now. on my orders, the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the retaliatory regime in zblans after 2014, we will support a unified afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future. >> our brave troops have now been fighting in the middle east for almost 19 years. >> and afghanistan very much in the news this morning. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it's monday, september 9th. with us we have political writer for "the new york times" and