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with president trump are waiting their marching orders. good morning, everyone, on this wednesday, september 11th. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. on this 18th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks president trump finds himself searching for his fourth national security adviser in just three years after announcing the firing of john bolton on twitter yesterday. the president claims he informed bolton on monday night that his services are, quote, no longer needed at the white house. trump tweeted out i disagreed strong with many of his suggestions as did others in the administration. therefore, i asked john for his resignation which was given to me. those are how to handle iran, afghanistan. and reports say that bolton

refused to push back on reports that he and mike pence disagreed on trump's plan to host the taliban at camp david. and then there's this from cbs news, three sources directly involved tell the network that the, quote, the main irritant that drove mr. trump to those closest asking him if he could use nuclear weapons to fight hurricanes. >> there's also dispute over whether bolton was fired and how it came about, as we learned from the tweet monday night that he was letting him go and that bolton hanged in his resignation letter yesterday morning. well, bolton claims that he welcome back. offered to resign monday night federal prosecutors hinted and that the president said yesterday they may no longer let's talk about it tomorrow. standing by a recommendation that president trump's former bolton said nbc news that the national security adviser president never asked for his michael flynn receive no prison time for like to fbi agents in resignation directly or indirectly. said, i slept on it and the russia investigation. flynn pleaded guilty to the crime in 2017 and made a

announced it. and said bolton would be cooperation deal intending to lighten his sentence. attending a brieflying later in but, according to the "the new the day with secretary of state york times," flynn has changed his legal strategy in recent mike pompeo and secretary months, hiring new lawyers who secretary steven mnuchin. have accused the government of here's how that played out without a national security adviser. >> president's entitled to the withholding evidence that would exonerate the former u.s. army staff that he wants, at any general. asked by a federal judge said moment. he should have people he trusts whether flynn still deserved no and values and whosests and prison time, the "times" reports judgments benefit him in prosecutors said they intend to delivering american foreign refile sentencing paperwork. the judge has set a tentative policy. there were many times ambassador bolton and i disagreed. sentencing date for december 18th. that's to be sure. >> all right. >> were you two blind sided by joining us here on set, msnbc what occurred today? >> i'm never surprised. legal analyst danny cevallos. >> republicans in north carolina what could be the prosecution's are claiming victory after desire to consider a prison sentence now and importantly the narrowly winning district 9. significance of that? >> what a difference a year republican dan bishop eked out a makes. a year ago, the parties before the court and the government had recommended a sentence that could include no prison time. this is incredibly rare. have t 51% win. flynn's sentencing guideline meanwhile democrat dan mccready range was zero to six months.

this is the kind of defendant garnered 48.7%. that would be a layup, a slam dunk, for probation only president trump relished in the sentence. and yet, he comes before the moment after campaigning in the state one day before the court, and the judge says i election. don't think you've cooperated he and vice president mike pence enough. i'm going to give you enough time to complete your broke to mr. bishop on stage. cooperation. but in the interim now, now >> what you did tonight is there's been a breakdown of -- i monumental, to come back and the guess you would call it a way you handled the pressure of relationship between the prosecutors and the defense. that was great. and it was an honor to be with and they're arguing now that, wait, he's no longer the you. i'll tell you what, we had some cooperator that he was before. time last night. so, now we may be interested in we had some time last night. seeking prison time. that was a good indication of but even if they did, you're what was going to happen. still looking at a guidelines >> hey, everybody this is vice range of zero to six months, president mike pence calling even with the prosecutors from washington, d.c. congratulations. recommending a month or two of >> and despite democrat dan prison, in all likelihood, this is still a defendant who is a mccready's apparent loss his major gains in three suburban prime candidate for a probation-only sentence. >> flynn is basically alleging that prosecutors withheld counties highlight trup trump. classified information, other evidence that basically could have helped his case. the judge has set the hearing for october 31st. if in fact the government maintains that no such evidence

>> democrat alan thomas won exists, what happens then? >> this is a challenge anytime 37.5% of the vote. one party says, the other party, president trump celebrated writing greg murphy is a big the government says they have documents they're not turning winner in north carolina. district three. over. much bigger margins than but the only party that nose whether or not they even exist originally anticipated, is the government. congratulation, greg. a new cnn poll says more than half of americans so the questiquestion becomes w disapprove of trump's job evidence exists. if they do exist, they're generally entitled to anythingc. performance. trump's disapproval sits at 55%. down one point. 6 in 10 registered voters polled flynn's case is unique because said that trump does not deserve there are so many sensitive a second term in office. classified documents, that you 39% says he does. have to be cautious you that don't reveal to a defendant meanwhile, new polling from new without the adequate safe guards hampshire shows joe biden and documents that could harm elizabeth warren in a tie. national security. >> it's obvious that this is the latest emerson poll has biden leading by 24%. going to make any impact on the warren follows at 21%. and bernie sanders sits in third place with 13% of new hampshire mueller probe. voters docking his run. are there any indications

the poll also takes a look at whether or not michael flynn heads to head against president gets a sentence, or prison trump, biden leading trump by 10 sentence, any other points, 45 to 55. investigations on trial, when you think of others like roger an grew yang defeating trump by stone and others cooperating eight points. with the government? elizabeth warren loses to trump >> probably not, because michael by two points. flynn was at the extreme end of joining us now from the spectrum. washington, d.c., congressional he was charged and raced to prosecutors to enter into a plea reporter for politico. agreement, to cooperate. he is, if you're a defendant andrew desidro. planning on pleading guilty and thank you. getting the lowest sentence he's >> good morning. >> i want to talk to you about a textbook example to someone. the shake-up of the firing of he pleaded only to false statements. knowledge like espionage. he raced to the courthouse to national security adviser john bolton. where does it leave the ongoing plead guilty. discussions whether it be he's on the list of defendants russian enter appearance in our elections, afghanistan or iran? who should receive the lowest >> right, on this 18th sentence. >> danny cevallos. anniversary of the september 11 a pleasure. attacks, our country is still let's get a check of weather dealing with the war in with nbc meteorologist bill afghanistan. there are obviously talks that karins. have been ongoing with the >> overnight, unfortunately, we got bad news coming out of sioux taliban, with the afghan government about the event u.s. falls, they were hit by a exit from that country. tornado. but really, the president's looks like it hit the southern

decision here to fire john half of the city, including the bolton really does further hospital area, significant expose that the fact that the damage, one of the autozone gop remains painfully divided on stores completely ripped over. national security issues. everything inside was sent just to give you an example of flying. in daylight, we'll get some this, the president seeks advice better pictures but you can see on foreign policy issues from the likes of rand paul and even from the pictures we have, significant problems there. lindsey graham who could not be that storm system continues. further apart when it comes to also nine reported tornadoes in national security and foreign areas of wyoming, too, 11 in policy issues. rand paul obviously wants us to pull out of afghanistan as soon all. a mini outbreak overnight. that pushes northern iowa, as possible. lindsey graham, on the exact southern minnesota, areas around opposite side of that, he wants us to stay there with a rochester. gusty winds could do a little transition to a new government damage today. there. things like that. then this afternoon, the same and the third symptom here that i would note, this just goes to over again. we'll get new storms forming in a pattern of this enhanced areas of nebraska, and administration, not just the high rates of turnover, but sioux city, and sioux falls having folks in these positions that are acting. that whether it's a senate could gift hit against. confirmable position or not. from lacrosse into areas of >> andy, let's talk about north carolina. we're seeing the democrats' central wisconsin. the other story, the heat that apparent losses there. won't go away. what do their gains, though, is this the last 90s of the especially in these suburban year, we'll have to see.

areas potentially highlight st. louis at 93, d.c. at 91. about president trump's 2020 chances? >> right, so a win is a win for your average last 90 degree day in washington, d.c. was republicans, right? september 10th, so if this is but the president won his district by 12 points in 2016. the last 90, it's right on and now almost three years schedule. it's going to be warm and humid later, it swung 10 points in new york city, at 88, you'll towards the democrats, not quite feel like 93 this afternoon. enough to give the democrats that seat. no relief in sight for the deep so republicans are holding the south, but other area, it's seat. coming. >> thanks, bill. but really this is a symptom of 2020 candidates are heading a broader transformation and to houston for the third shift we're seeing in the trump era where republicans are doing democratic debate but some couldn't help but wonder if the more poorly and more poorly in travel arrangements were these suburban areas all across the country. coordinated. pete buttigieg tweeted a photo that's something that the president's re-election campaign of her sitting behind amy have to be concerned about as they head into 2020. klobuchar writing very funny, especially states like north carolina and states across the united. hey, pete, we thought you two midwest where the president won and key to his victory. might want to talk debate >> i know you have new reporting strategies. on the democrats' vote tomorrow. klobuchar made light of it, and the debate begins, good sitting what are you learning aabout that? >> right. by you. this vote tomorrow is really i couldn't tell if they were just to set out the parameters

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welcome back, everybody, i'm yasmin vossoughian. alongside ayman mohyeldin. it is the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top story. in the wake of john bolton's exit from the trump administration, the white house says that charlie cupperman is the new acting national security adviser. the second acting nsa in president trump's office. president trump saidly will be meeting his fourth national security adviser next week. the list includes rick waddell who served as deputy nsa previously in the administration but left soon after bolton came on board. keith kellogg who was trump's first acting nsa after mike flynn was fired and who was a national security adviser to vice president mike pence. and tom bossert who was the homeland security adviser in the first half of the administration but stepped down and brian hook the u.s. special enjoy for iran.

senator lindsey graham said that trump has told him that waddell and kellogg and hook are top contenders back in 2018, macron asked trump who is brian hook after he praised him on iran. and then to pay several millions to the an iranian tanker. there's been a ton of reaction on capitol hill to john bolton's departure. nancy pelo nancy pelosi has tweeted. and chuck schumer said it is just the latest example of government by chaos approach. when ambassador bolton's extreme views aren't enough for you, the

united states is headed for more chaotic times. here's how other republicans and democrats reacted. >> every president needs to have confidence in their national security adviser. i like john bolton, i think he sees the world for what it is. i appreciate what john has done for the country for a long period of time. the president will now get a chance to pick a national security adviser. >> i think it's a big loss for the country for not? john bolton as part of the senior team on foreign policy. >> i think with john bolton out of the white house, the threat of war around the world is greatly diminished. i think it's a good thing for the country. a good thing for anyone who advocates for a more realistic foreign policy. >> i'm not really sorry to see john bolton go. he never saw a diplomatic solution. it's more in line with the fact that people come and go you almost need a scorecard to see whose on first.

>> look, john bolton never met a war he didn't like. i don't think he should have been there to begin with. i'm glad he's gone. >> oh, wow, this is the year, wow. i think these are abrupt changeovers in his leadership team. while they make for great television and it might work well on a tv show when your signature line is you're fired doesn't make for predictable or steady management. >> i think we all picked up our phone and said that. amid the fallout of the split between president trump and john bolton we're learning that trump apparently reached out to bolton's predecessor about how much he missed him. sources say trump made his call to h.r. mccaster master as ear last fall. the president allegedly asked mcmaster for advice on who he

should nominate to run the pentagon. and given mcmaster's own tumultuous exit last year. during his time as nsa, mcmaster publicly disagreed with president trump on a number of matters including saying that russia's meddling was incontrovertible. and telling nbc news get that trump was barely speaking to mcmaster and regularly did derogatory impressions of him when he was not around. >> yet, it's kind of interesting to seal divisions between trump and bolton. it's interesting to see the reaction from some of the world leaders, particularly on the issue of iran, given of the fact that john bolton was one of the architects. he championed maximum pressure. even some saying he wanted to go to war with iran.

he spoke at controversial events to members of the opposition. he and rudy giuliani were seen as very anti-iran hawks. >> john bolton walked in saying he doesn't like bad deals. he was ready and willing and able to rip up the jcpoa which the president very much did that. and someone like ilhan omar saying good riddance. and hearing them saying good riddance on the same plane as the president of the united states. we're learning more about a top spot to the cia who multiple reports say was extricated from the united states in 2017. according to "the washington post" a former russian official thought to be that individual has been hiding in plane sight in a suburban neighborhood just outside of washington and has been going by his own name which nbc news is not reporting over safety concerns. it backs up nbc news reporting that current and former government official say that a

former senior russian official who had access to government secrets is currently living in the washington area under u.s. government protection. nbc news has not confirmed that this official is the cia but mentioned in the report stating that he was instrumental in helping the cia learn about russian interference. however two former fbi officials tell nbc news they believe he's the source referred to in those reports. a russian newspaper also reports that the individual disappeared in 2017 during a family vacation in montenegro. and after returning from a six weeks' summer recess, the house judiciary committee introduced three gun control measures to prevent high risk people from owning guns. the might have comes as democrat seek to apply pressure on senate republicans to respond to a series of mass shootings this summer in texas, and ohio and california. and in states that passed a,

quote, red flag law that would allow a judge to temporarily take away a gun from a person considered a threat to themselves or others. the second measure would prohibit people convicted of misdemeanor hate crimes from possessing firearms. and the final bill, to ban magazine with the capacity of holding more than ten rounds of ammunition. the judiciary committee introduced all three measures along party lines. >> and the next steps to address gun reform but with those looking to get president trump's opinion on the meeting, and saying there were no announcements to come out discussion regarding the fall agenda and declined to comment when asked about the gun debate. someone who did discuss the top was house withminority w.h.i.p. steve scalise. >> we talked about it.

i won't speak about what the president would offer. but i know he's been ahaving talks, both senate, republican and democrats to see if we can come to an agreement. >> some of the discussion with senator coons, after the meeting toomey said i really thi we vot on braackground checks. >> joining us is politico reporter andrew desiderio. tell us about your your opinion about the meeting with senator toomey's confidence in background checks. >> right, senator stoomtoomey h been at this for the better part of six years and he feels this is a chance for them to get a deal on this issue. of course, most important player in any discussion revolving

around these type of issues is the president. and he's yet to sort of accentuate where he stands on gun control legislation. obviously, there is a bipartisan proposal that could likely pass both chambers on those so-called red flag law us. background checks is a big question mark right now and i think folks are looking to the president for some leadership here, especially republican senators. the president, as we know, has been very inconsistent on his views when it comes to gun control policies. he's often, in the end, sided with the nra. >> let's talk possible replacements for national security adviser john bolton. who might the president be eyeing. and where do they stand on some of the key topics, and more importantly that this would be his fourth national security adviser, what characteristics or quality is a successful national security adviser likely to have in this administration? >> so, i think there are two types of folks that the president would be looking to here. number one would be somebody in the mode of brian hook who you

guys mentioned earlier. he's currently the u.s. special representative for iran. he's someone obviously well versed not only in diplomacy with iran but also north korea, with afghanistan. he's worked at the state department for a long time. he would be someone who republicans and democrats on capitol hill would describe as a more steady hand. the other type of person that the president could pick would be someone like a richard gr grenelle. he is a u.s. ambassador to germany. he's been a trump supporter for some time now. he's only been over in germany a little bit those are two types of candidates that the president could go for here. folks on capitol hill, though, would prefer someone who would challenge the president's instincts. >> i feel like it's a two-part question, who is the president going to choose and who is actually going to say yes, considering this is the fourth. >> exactly.

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and store their belongings. >> let's get a check of the weather with bill karins. >> we're at the peak of hurricane season. this is typically where things can change in a hurry. yesterday, we had a 20% to 30% chance. now the weather center is saying the one closest to the bahamas has a 50% chance of development over the next few days it's bringing rain to the southern portion of the caicos. and the next five days, a 50% chance of development. here's that area of interest. anything heading into the warm waters of the guclf, you watch closely. no matter what, we're getting increasing rain chances. we don't want this to develop with issues as far as the wind. now, here's the rainfall forecast. of course, with all of the recovery operations we're trying to undergo it's in northern bahamas, we don't want to deal with heavy rain.

possibly one to two inches there. a little heavy rain to the south there. the heat, endless summer, whatever you want to call it. it's going to be very warm once again today. 100 to 105 from memphis to houston. tallahassee, 94 degrees once again. that heat is expanding. areas like new york city with heat index of 90. d.c. will feel like 96. cincinnati, 95, chicago, 94. you get the picture, guys. it's going to feel like the middle of july for most of the country. >> thanks, bill. >> i'm just shaking my head. still ahead, the new worries facing boeing following the grounding of a 737 max plane. plus, apple unveiling the new iphone. your stories driving your business day coming up next. but we're also a company that controls hiv, fights cancer, repairs shattered bones,

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welcome back. apple revealed its new products for the year yesterday. and the company is promoting something that may be unfamiliar to its customers lower prices. cnbc willem marx joins us live from london. talk to us about this, willem. what more do you know? >> well, you got the new iphone 11, the iphone 11 pro, the iphone 11 pro max. you've got the fifth thor race of the apple watch. you've got a surprise seventh generation ipad. now, the prices are a bit more reasonable for that lower end of the smartphone market. they're coming in just under 700

bucks. but in turn, the changes to the changes to the actual moves, longer performance, slightly better camera. more wide angle. you can shoot video in 4k. apple plus, the movie and tv show alongside the game offering, $4.99 a month. that's undercutting its competitor at disney for the time being at least. another story, though, not such great news for many planes as t hope to do so. just this past month august they delivered 18 jet liners. that's 64 for the same month last year. for the year so far they've delivered 276, 481 last year. analysts were hoping they'd get through around 500 deliveries over the course of the year. air bus their main rival has done this. this is another sign of the fallout from that grounding of

the 737 max. that's now going into its seventh month. >> you are the in-house fast food expert. let's get your thoughts on this. i'm more of a junk food expert. let's get your thoughts on this. there's another fast food restaurant trying to breakthrough into the breakfast food game. what more can you tell us about this? >> this is wendy's. they've got breakfast at 300 stores. they want to take that nationwide by 2020. they together with their almost 7,000 franchisees will look to hire around 20,000 workers to make this possible. they're going to spend around $20 million. they tried this once in 2012. didn't go so well. analysts today are saying there are still some major risks, not only because of the upfront costs but also of course this is very complicated to get right, and it's going to take a lot of

logistical effort. >> a lot of breakfast connoisseurs are going to be criticizing wendy's move into the breakfast arena. who knows what's in store for the change. >> willem marks live in london. "axios" alaina has a look, president trump finds himself without a security adviser, the latest on john bolton's exit. we've got jeh johnson and ambassador to the united nations, samantha power. we'll weigh in on what the vacancy means. house judiciary chairman jerry nadler and e lis is a slot kin also join the conversation, "morning joe" just moments away. usaa took care of her car rental,

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. welcome back, joining us from washington, "axios" a.m. white house reporter alayna treene. good morning to you. talk to us about "axios"'s one big thing. >> today's one big thing is a closer look at ambassador john bolton's chaotic exit from the white house, which was announced yesterday. my colleagues and i are reporting that on monday around 2:00 p.m. before the president departed for north carolina, he and bolton had a meeting during which bolton had offered to resign, and so this time line obviously contradicts what the president said. the president tweeted yesterday morning that he was the one who asked for bolton's resignation, and we think that this pattern kind of underscores, especially a week after the sharpie gate stuff that happened with the path of hurricane dorian, it really underscores how the president likes to adjust facts to fit his narrative and segues into whoever is going to take bolton's place, it shows them

what they're signing up for. >> speaking of who might take bolton's place, what are you hearing about who the president is leaning on and what kind of qualities may he want if he's had generals that haven't worked out with the michael flynns and the h.r. mcmaster's and the hawks and the foreign policy experts like bolton who haven't worked out, who will work out? >> it's no secret that the president and bolton openly butt heads on a lot of issues, but in many ways the president actually enjoyed that. he liked having bolton as someone he could point to as being the bad guy in the room compared to himself, but as he looks for his replacement, we're hearing that he's really leaning on people like secretary of state mike pompeo, again, who did butt heads with john bolton as well as people like lindsey graham and his allies on the hill and the vice president mike pence. some of the names that we're hearing come up the most are people like general ricky waddell and keith kellogg. i know that nbc had some of this reporting earlier.

these are people that i think the president knows his allies trust and can lean on, and it is a departure from someone like bolton where a lot of people didn't get along with him. >> let's talk 2020 here for a moment, "axios" has some exclusive details on efforts by joe biden's campaign to focus on a key block of voters. talk to us about what you're hearing. >> so my colleague reports that biden's campaign has hired six new people to focus on specifically minority and female voters, so some of these include people like laurie yaminez who will be focusing on latinx voters. the goal here is really to kind of capture that coalition of peopleeoters that kind of gave him a leg up against other candidates. >> let me get your finals thoughts on this. i know "axios" has been looking at issues that have been dominating spending this year.

which issue is dominating advertising so far? >> so what we've found is that more than half of all issue advertising spending in the spaces like television, radio, digital has been spent on health care issues. i think that that's only going to -- it's only going to continue as we head into 2020 and get closer to the elections. we found that most of what's taking up that space are focus on surprise medical billing, which one campaign has actually spent 26 million on alone and drug prices, things that are really key, especially to democrats that they focus on in 2018 and help them really gain back the house, and an issue that a lot of voters are angry about is something republicans haven't really been able to issue on great. we saw they weren't able to do much with the affordable care act in the president's first year. as we ramp up towards the elections this will be the big

issue and continue to take up a lot of that advertising spending. >> i'm curious what you guys are going to be watching today. >> what are we going to be watching today? >> yeah. >> so i think there's going to be more fallout and more of what we're looking for with the ambassador bolton and who's going to replace him. i had a phone call with stephanie grisham and she said a lot of these front runners really aren't front runners. it did come honestly as a big surprise to people within the white house, he's kind of not been on great footing for a while now, but last week with things that went down at camp david and that taliban meeting that ended up being canceled, created a lot of issues there. i think everyone's focus will be on who can replace him. >> we can probably expect a statement next week. alayna treene, thank you so much. ouan sign up for the news letter.

that does it for us on this wednesday morning, i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. "morning joe" starts right now. >> thank you very much.