you said they would have to buy in. >> they would have to buy in. qualify for medicaid -- >> are you forgetting what you said -- >> while bernie wrote the bill, i read the bill. >> i never actually met anybody who likes their health insurance company. >> i know a lot of doctors. >> hell yes, we will take your ar-15, your ak-47. >> hey, joe, instead of saying we can't, let's say yes we can. >> i remember president trump scoffed and said we like to see me making a deal with xi jingping. i with like to see him make a deal with xi jingping. >> we must and will defeat trump, the most dangerous president in the history of this

country. >> and now president trump, you can go back to watching fox news. and that is where we begin, good morning, everyone, it is friday, september 13th. quite the show last night. >> let's make sure everyone knows, you're watching msnbc. >> exactly. >> good morning to everyone. i'm ayman mohyeldin, and we want to begin yesterday with the top ten candidates for the democratic nomination facing off on the third debate of the season, the fiery evening, with julian castro trying his best to take down front-runner joe biden and a lot more on that in a moment but first the other major story line of the night, instead of running away from the obama legacy like in the last match, the audience at the historically black texas southern university saw democrats embrace the former president, especially on health

care. >> we all owe a huge debt to president obama, who fundamentally transformed health care in america. >> what i favor is something that what barack obama wanted to do from the very beginning, and that is a public option. >> i want to give credit first to barack obama for really bringing us this far. >> and of course, we owe a debt of gratitude to president barack obama. >> i'm fulfilling a legacy of barack obama and you're not. >> i stand with barack obama all eight years. good, bad, and indifferent. that's where i stand. >> you heard the start of it there, former housing secretary julian castro and former vice president joe biden clashing over health care last night, in an exchange that drew attention for perhaps some plying and attack on biden's age and memory. >> the difference between what i support and what you support, vice president biden, is that you require them to opt in, and i would not require them to opt in. they would automatically be enrolled. they wouldn't have to buy in. that's a big difference because

barack obama's vision was not to leave 10 million people uncovered. he wanted every single person in this country covered. my plan would do that. your plan did not. >> they do not have to buy in. >> you just said that two minutes ago. you said two minutes ago they would have to buy in. you said they would have to buy in. >> it's qualified for medicaid. >> are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago. are you forgetting already what you said just two minutes ago? i mean i can't believe that you said two minutes ago that they had to buy in and now you're saying they don't have to buy. in you're forgetting that. i said anybody's grandmother who has no money -- >> the health care system -- >> you're automatically enrolls. >> it automatically enrolls people regardless of whether they choose to opt in or not, if you lose your job for instance, his health care plan would not automatically enroll you, you would have to opt in. my health care plan would. that's a big difference. i'm fulfilling the legacy of barack obama and you're not. >> i'll be surprised.

>> the problem with castro's swipe is the daily piece sam stein and nbc's mike memley pointing out is biden actually said the opposite. >> my health care plan does significantly cut the cost of the largest out-of-pocket payment you will pay is $1,000 and get into, anyone who can't afford it gets automatically enrolled in the medicare type option we have. >> the exchange between castro and biden prompted other democratic candidates on stage to issue warnings about sowing division within the party. >> this is why national debates are becoming unwatchable this. reminds everybody of what they cannot stand about washington. scoring points against each other. poking at each other. and telling each other that my plan, your plan, look, we all have -- >> that's called a democratic primary election. that's called an election. that's an election. you know, this is what we're here for. it is an election. >> but a house divided cannot

stand. and that is not how we -- >> everyone, we know we're on the same team here. >> and the moderator horge ramos pressed former vice president joe biden on the number of deportations that occurred during the obama administration. >> and you served as vice president in an administration that deported three million people, the most ever in u.s. history. did you do anything to prevent those deportations? i mean you have been asked this question before and reversed to answer so let me try, refused to answer, so let me try once again, you are prepared to say tonight that you and president obama made a mistake about the deportation, why should latinos trust you? >> latinos should look at comparing this president to the president we had is outrageous, number one. we didn't lock people up in cages, we didn't separate families. you didn't answer quet. >> did you make a mistake with those deportations? >> the president did the best thing that was able to be

done -- >> how about you? >> i'm the vice president of the united states. >> wow. biden's response elicited another swipe from julian castro who also served in the obama administration as u.s. secretary of housing and urban development. >> my problem with vice president biden and corey pointed this out last time, is every time something good about barack obama comes up, he says i was there, i was there, i was there, that's me, too and then every time somebody questions part of the administration that we were both part of, he says well, that was the president. i mean he wants to take credit for obama's work, but not have to answer to any questions. >> following last night's debate, the associated press fact checked biden's claim of not using cages during the obama administration and found the chain link enclosures inside border facilities were built and used by the obama administration. in fact, the obama administration also separated migrant children from families under certain limited circumstances. >> and in one of the more poignant moeb moments of the

night, bet yes o'rourke took a bold stance on the con fission case of assault weapons. >> if it was a weapon designed to kill people on a battlefield, if the high impact, high velocity round when it hits your body shreds everything inside of your boody bass twaus designed to do that, body, because it was designed to do that, because you would bleed to death on a battlefield and not be able to get up and kill one of our soldier, and when you see that used in odessa, a mother, a girl, shot by an ar-15, and that mother watched his daughter bleed to death in the course of an hour, because there were so many others shot and not enough ambulances to get to them in time, and hell yechld, we're going to take your ar-15 and ak-47 so you can't kill americans anymore.

and amy klobuchar directed hers to senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. >> what unites us is right now on mcconnell's desk is three bills, three bills. and domestic abusers don't get ak-47. if you want action now, we got to send a message to mitch mcconnell. we can't wait until one of us gets in the white house. we have to pass those bills right now to get this done. and spare another innocent life. >> elizabeth warren was pressed on gun control and she directed her response to the push to eliminate senate filibustering. >> we have a congress that is beholden to the gun industry. and unless we're willing to address that head-on, and roll back the filibuster, we're not going to get anything done on guns. i was in the united states senate. when 54 senators said let's do

background check, let's get rid of assault weapons, and with 54 senators, it failed because of the filibuster. until we attack the systemic problems, we can't get dogun reform this this country. >> joining us from washington, d.c. national political reporter alaina schneider, great to have you with us on this friday morning. let's start with the debates from last night. what were some of your biggest take-aways from those debates? who do you think had a great night? who do you think had a bad night? >> well, we finally had all of the front-runners on stage together on a single night. and we basically saw things stay the same, essentially the race is still status quo. joe biden continues to be the front-runner. he bear hugged the administration throughout the entire debate and took some incoming from both senator sanders and secretary castro as you osteo all just played but he was able to handle that, and he had a few fist bumps with people

pulling out their record player and showing signs a little bit that he is maybe one of the older candidates on stage but not anything that would have indicated a slip in the polls. he has basically continued to hold on to that front-runner status. and senator elizabeth warren, somebody who has been slowly creeping up in the polls, she basically walked away unsquagted. there was no one who went after her. no one who questioned her. her steady rise in this race, or any of her record. so i think that lack of attack on her front, she is going to continue to grow in this race. >> what about, elena, the president obama factor in all of this. what do you make of the top tier candidates praising the former president? do you think it is a strategy that helped or hurts them against trump? >> well, i think that they certainly got the message after the first two debates, that going after president obama and his legacy was going to be at their own peril. and i think that they all, they are also attempting to try to contrast themselves with former vice president joe biden, obviously, who has leaned hard,

into his relationship to president obama, sort of his reason for running for office, and so all of these candidates are in a sort of a delicate position where they both need to contrast and criticize joe biden and his record while also at the same time giving props to the former president, somebody who is an incredibly popular figure in the democratic party so i think they're aware that they need to be a little bit more careful about how they handle the 44th president. >> elena, we will talk to you again in a bit. thank you very much. and a lot more on last night's democratic debate coming up. talk about appointment tv, everybody, on "morning joe," kamala harris, cory booker, amy klobuchar and beto o'rourke, all joining the conversation to discuss their performances, again, coming up for you on "morning joe." and during a speech the house republicans during the annual retreat in baltimore at the same time as the third democratic debate, president trump took time to attack several of his rivals. >> african-american and hispanic-american unemployment have reached the lowest rates

ever recorded in the history of our country. i wonder if that will be mentioned tonight during the debate. i have a feeling, what do you think, steve, i don't think so. that's a good debate point. as they hit me left and right, i'll say african-american, unemployment, is the lowest it's ever been. and just leave the stage. this deal, it is so insane. but i don't want to talk about it. it is too early. i hit pocahontas way too early. i thought she was gone. she has emerged from the ashes. and now it looks like she could beat sleepy joe. he has fallen asleep and no idea what the hell he is doing or saying. >> under pressure from both parties, the trump administration wants a move or makes a move, that russia's not going to be too happy about. >> plus, a new move from the justice department could waive the way for an indictment against former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. those stories and much more. ch . johnson & johnson is a baby company.

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released $250 million in much-needed military assistance to ukraine, meant to counter russian aggression. the decision follows bipartisan backlash for the trump administration's withholding of the aid to the nato ally. it also comes just days after the "washington post" editorial board claimed president trump was blocking the funds in what they described as an extortion attempt to force ukraine's president to intervene in the 2020 u.s. presidential election by launching an investigation into joe biden. deputy attorney general jeff rossen informed former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe yesterday that his appeal against possible criminal charges against him has been rejected. the rejection may mean a possible indictment for mccabe which according to an inspector general report made false statements about an investigation to journalists in 2016. when then attorney general jeff sessions fired mccabe in 2018, mccabe was less than 48 hours away from retiring.

he did not receive a pension after the inspector general concluded he quote lacked candor when questioned about the incident. well, last month, mccabe sued the fbi and the justice department, claiming his firing was part of the trump administration's quote unconstitutional plan and scheme to discredit and remove d.o.j. and fbi employees who are deemed to be his partisan opponents because they were not politically loyal to him. joining us on the set, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. great to have you with us. let's talk about the significance of this. we have a u.s. attorney recommending that andrew mccabe possibly face indictment charges over that incident in 2016 where he wasn't truthful with investigators. what happens next? how significant of a development is this? is this a definite sign that he will be in fact, be indicted? >> it's an indication that it is like limit and fals statement, we have seen a lot of folks charged with this crime in the last year, a crime that most

folks weren't aware of five years ago and it involved a five-year statutory maximum but the statutory maximum is a horrible predictor of the actual sentence somebody gets. you remember general michael flynn, convicted of the exact same crime and his sentencing guidelines, zero to six months and a shot at a probation only sentence, an interesting crime with a five year statutory maximum, not very likely to spend any time in prison for a lot of folks who are charged and convicted. >> especially those who have served in high offices of government. >> exactly. because they have had, they have led exemplary lives, they have no criminal history, these are the folks that are candidates for probation only sentence. but any time a grand jury, a federal grand jury is convening, there is always a very high likelihood depending on how motivated the prosecutors are, that an indictment is coming. >> so here is a guy who spends a lifetime of service, 48 hours until he is set to retire, he gets nothing, right? so he is suing the trump administration, because of a partisan approach to this, the fact that he disagrees with the

president. where does that lawsuit stand? how viable is it? >> it is essentially a wrongful termination claim with a constitutional angle that he was fired as a pretext that this was, he really didn't do anything wrong, but that the trump administration was systematically getting rid of people that disagreed with president trump. it's just like a wrongful termination case, of a government employee, who can only be fired for cause. it's similar to that. but if he is indicted, that does not bode well for his civil case, because if he's indicted, and then ultimately convicted of that crime, then conviction of a crime committed during the course of his duties, his career, doesn't make it realistic that the whole firing, that there were no grounds for it whatsoever. in fact, there were arguably criminal grounds, if he's indicted and ultimately convicted. >> real quickly, how does that play out between the two suit, which one goes first? it is in his first as you just outline and you kind of laid out for us, he might want to have

the wrongful termination to play out first. >> civil first. >> as a criminal defense attorney, i would advise someone who has a civil lawsuit to hold off on all proceedings until the criminal case is over. why? because for example mccabe could be deposed and then everything he says is under oath and in a deposition, there are very few rules about the range of questions that can be asked. i would not want a client prosecuting a civil case, while the client is a criminal defendant, because the less they say under oath, the better. >> we always like having you with us. >> i know, right? >> keeping your number very handy. >> danny cevallos, appreciate, it my friend. we're going to check on the weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. good morning. >> good morning. all eyes yesterday turned quickly to the northern bahamas and their recovery effort as they went under tropical storm warnings for a potential tropical cyclone. it is kind of a new thing, when we have something that is close

enough to rand, it is a potential tropical cyclone and a heads up we may have something coming. tropical storm warnings for the islands hit the hardest from dorian, grand bahama and great abaco and now tropical storm watches up north of west palm beach and daytona beach. it is only a potential tropical cyclone. just a mass of thunderstorms and heavy rain right now. 90% chance of development. it is drifting toward florida and the northern bahamas, northwest at six. and the hurricane center, it takes it close to florida and bend along the southeast coast not until wednesday of next week and this thing will linger and 50 to 60 mile-an-hour winds, so not a lot of wind issues but the possibility of heavy rain that could be starting as early as sunday. you have to watch. it the trend is further off the coast and we would lav that f, love that for the southeast u.s. but rough condition in the islands that need clear skies because of the recovery efforts from hurricane dorian. >> the worst. >> thanks. still ahead, much more from

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>> it's original. i'll give you that. >> so that was democratic presidential candidate andrew yang, using his opening statements to announce the surprise that he had been teasing for the better part of a day, part of the pilot program for his universal basic income plan, which would give every citizen over the age of 18 a $1,000 a month, yang is already testing the program with two families using money from his own pocket, this next phase, however, is coming from campaign donation, and msnbc contributor noah rockman is among those reacting and tweeted quote, literally giving away other people's money is what a republican parody of a democratic nominating contest would look like. during a question on the legacy of slavery on this country, former vice president biden focused on issues facing underfunded schools and offered a throwback when it came to helping young kids develop early learning skill s. make sure that every single child does have in fact have three, four, five-year-olds go

to school, school, not day care, school, we have been social workers, into homes with parents to help them deal with how to raise their children. it's not that they don't want to help, they don't know quite what to do. play the radio. make sure the television, excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night. the phone. make sure the kids hear words. a kid coming from a very poor school, or a very poor background will hear four million words fewer spoken by the time they get. there there is so much? i will go like the rest of them do, twice over, okay? >> you know where we're going with this. biden's record player remark was the second most tweeted and the first being julian castro's swipe about biden's memory. >> much more from last night's debate as joe biden puts elizabeth warren on the spot about her health care plan. >> and pete buttigieg got big laughs as he challenged the president's deal making skills. that and a lot more after a quick break. r a quick break. rizon.

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welcome back, everyone. i'm alex along with ayman mohyeldin, we look at the bottom of the hour and the top stories. one of the big topics during last night's debate was the democratic candidates vision for the future of health care in this country. several candidates used the conversation to criticize senators bernie sanders and elizabeth warren over their support of a medicare for all style plan. >> my health care plan does significantly cut the cost of the largest out-of-pocket payment you will pay is a thousand dollars and get into anyone who can't afford it gets

automatically enrolled in the medicare type option we have, et cetera, but guess what, of the 160 million people who like their health care now, they can keep it, if they don't like it, they can leave. >> well, bernie wrote the bill, i read the bill. and on page eight, on page eight of the bill, it says that we will no longer have private insurance as we know it. and that means that 149 million americans will no longer be able to have their current insurance. that's in four years. i don't think that's a bold idea. i think it is a bad idea. >> i want to give credit to bernie. take credit, bernie. you know, you brought us this far on medicare for all. i support medicare for all. i always have. but i wanted to make the plan better, which i did. >> the problem, senator sanders, with that damn bill that you

wrote, and that senator warren backs is it doesn't trust the american people. i trust you to choose what makes the most sense for you. not my way or the highway. now, look, i think we do have to go far beyond tinkering with the aca. i propose medicare for all who want it. we take a version of medicare, we make it available for the american people, and if we're right, as progressives, that that public alternative is better, than the american people will figure that out for themselves. >> amid his criticism of senator sanders and warren's health care plan, former vice president joe biden zeroed in on the price tag of those proposals. >> my plan for health care costs a lot of money. it cots $740 billion. it doesn't cost $30 trillion. 3.4 trillion a year it turns out is twice what the entire federal budget is. that's before it exists now, without interest on the debt. how are we going to pay for it?

i want to hear tonight, how that is happening. thus far, my distinguished friend, the senator on my left, has not indicated how she pays for it. >> how do we pay for it? we pay for it, those at the very top, the richest individual, and the biggest corporations, are going to pay more. and middle class families are going to pay less. that's how this is going to work. >> now, while the candidates argued health care proposals, senator kamala harris of california turned the conversation to president trump. >> everybody on this stage, i do believe, is well-intentioned and wants that all americans have coverage. at least five people have talked some repeatedly on this subject, and not once have we talked about donald trump. so let's talk about the fact that donald trump came into office and spent almost the entire first year of his term trying to get rid of the affordable care act. we all fought against it and the

late great john mccain at that moment at about 2:00 in the morning killed his attempt to take health care from millions of people in this country. let's focus on the end goal. if we don't get donald trump out of office, he's going to get rid of all of this. >> mayor pete buttigieg slammed the president over his trade war with china, amid a slowing global economy. >> ooiyou know, when i first go into this race, i remember president trump scoffed saying we like to see me making a deal with xi jingping. i would like to see him making a deal with xi jingping. is it just me or was that supposed to happen in like april? >> an senator bernie sanders tangled several times with joe biden and sanders highlighted his opposition to two obama administration legacies. >> there is a reason why, in the last 45 years, the average american today, despite an explosion of technology and

worker productivity is not making a penny more than he or she made 45 years ago and one of the reasons why is that for decades, we have had disastrous trade policies. and i got to say, to my good friend joe biden, joe and i strongly disagree on trade. i helped lead the opposition. nafta and more, which cost this country over four million good-paying jobs. and what happened is people who have those jobs, ended up getting other jobs, making 50% of what they made in manufacturing. >> sanders went on to propose developing a trade policy that represents workers and farmers, where as biden said the root of the issue is actually not agriculture. >> at the table has to be labor, and at the table has to be environmentalists, the fact of the matter is, china, the problem isn't the trade deficit,

the problem is they're stealing our intellectual property. the problem is they're violating the wto. they're dumping steel on us. that's a different issue than whether or not they're dumping agricultural products on us. >> we will have a lot more on last night's democratic debates coming up on "morning joe" when kamala harris, cory booker, amy klobuchar and beto o'rourke all join the conversation to discuss their performances. you do not want to miss that. meantime the president declined to clear up his position on gun reform yesterday after senior advisers briefed him on potential courses of action. >> i think we made some good progress on background checks and guns. >> are we going to get background check, yes or no. >> i think so. it depends on the democrats. it depends on whether or not they want to take your guns away, it is a possibility whether this is a ploy to take guns away or whether or not it is meaningful. if it is meaningful, we'll make

a deal. >> really? he spoke to several senators that an impression was made that an announcement could come as soon as this week and then instead, next week is a possibility. joining us from washington, national political reporter elena schneider, can i get your response to the president's comments about being open to gun reform, if democrats give him a quote meaningful offer, and the suggestion that democrats want to take your guns away. put that all together. what does this mean? >> trump always wants to be seen as making a deal. particularly on an issue like universal background checks which has wide bipartisan support, amongst americans across the country. the problem is, whether or not that is actually going to manifest itself into a real deal. and look, last night i think, continued to sort of complicate things. donald trump was in baltimore at the republican retreat and he again hit on that line of democrats may want to take your guns away. and i think that betto o'rourke's performance last

night in the democratic debate maybe confirmed some fears for republicans, you know, he had a very memorable line, talking about yes, i want to take away your ar-15,s and ak-47s because in his words those are weapons of war and i wonder and i think it is going to be undoubtable, that that coveranversation is g to have an impact on capitol hill on what meaningful gun reform can be made and the pressure is on democrats to present maybe a more, a bipartisan option. >> so let's say, if we can, for a moment, elena, turn to last night's debate. what do you make of some of the candidates turning on bernie sanders and elizabeth warren for their more left-leaning health care ideas? are we seeing the democratic party kind of swinging back a little bit on this idea of medicare for all entirely covered by the federal government? >> so any candidate not named elizabeth warren or bernie sanders on stage last night needed to contrast themselves with those two senators on health care. this has been the issue that has

dominated democratic primary politics, going back many years now. ever since sort of bernie sanders put this front and center, particularly in the 2016 primary. and i think that all of those candidates, we saw joe biden push back hard against them, but also somebody like pete buttigieg and beto o'rourke tried to present the alternative middle of the road proposals kamala harris, too, and also trying to build on the obama care legacy. this is going to continue to be an issue what is going to be a defining issue to those who support sanders and warren but also those who are afraid that running on those proposals aren't the sort of successes that are what democrats are able to use to flip the house back in 2018. >> elena, thank you very much for getting up early with us. still ahead, republicans kick off their annual retreat in baltimore. featuring an appearance by none other than president trump. two months after criticizing that city. how one top republican is

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yesterday what he thought of the democratic candidates facing off in last night's debate and his answer was so diplomatic, he seemed to surprise even himself. >> are there any democrats debating tonight that you absolutely respect? >> i respect all of them. >> all of them? >> i respect every one. let me tell you, it takes a lot of courage to run for office. i respect all of them you see that? i'm getting to be much better as a politician. you never thought you would hear that answer. >> amazing. >> i think a lot of people would be surprised to hear that answer. even the president. >> what just came out of my mouth. and let's get a check on the weather with nbc metologist bill karins. a lot of things you're keeping an eye on. >> a nuisance thing, especially if it interferes with the releave in the northern bahamas, that's a big concern. tropical storm warnings are in up. a tropical storm cyclone, in a path similar to what dorian did.

the hurricane center is not officially tracking this, it is a potential tropical system and could develop and if it does, it could be a good-sized tropical storm along the southeast coastline and rough surf and wave and possibility of heavy rains along the coast. that is not guaranteed. we will continue to track that through the weekend and if you have beach plan, especially sunday in the southeast. heavy rain overnight in wisconsin. and northern illinois. we had some rain that is cooling you off in oklahoma and north texas and no complaints there, and the brutal heat continues to end our summer, 94 dallas. 94 new orleans. a few spots with a chance at 100 today in alabama and mississippi and atlanta 95. notice where it is much cooler the mid atlantic region and the northerly winds brought down with fall-like air with temperatures in the 70s. 98 yesterday in charlotte. and talking about the weekend forecast, the obvious concern is the tropical rains and the rough surf conditions in the southeast. the rest of the country very warm in saturday in texas. a few showers rolling through areas of the appalachians and

also northern new england on saturday it won't rain out your day, by the time we get to sunday, pretty quiet, we have a new storm coming to the pacific northwest but all eye is on what happens in the coastline down here. that's what we're tracking over the weekend. >> thank you so much, bill. >> sweaters are coming up. still signs, new signs of a potential pause of the ongoing trade war between the u.s. and china. >> plus, more than 100 business leaders ha leaders make their plea on mass shooting across the country. cou. johnson & johnson is a baby company.

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welcome back, everyone. new data shows the u.s. deficit surpassed the $1 trillion mark for the first time in seven years. since last october, increased military spending, rising interest rates, on government debt, and weak revenues earlier in the year have all caused the deficit to rise by 19% to nearly now $1.2 trillion. during the 2016 campaign, the president promised economic growth that would take care of his planned tax cuts and new spending. however, the 2017 tax break for corporations and individuals helped contribute to the deficit. according to the congressional budget office, the forecast for the full year is a whopping $960 billion deficit overall. >> wow. >> the u.s. and china may be interested in finally reaching a solution to their trade war as both sides hope to relieve

tensions going into negotiations. joining us now live from london, bill, good to have you with us on this friday morning. a appears a little tit for >> if you were to look at the markets right now you'd think that's what's going on. we've had the gains on the stock markets yesterday. the dow joins jones getting back towards its record high. one of the possible reasons is that this resolution of the trade tensions we've had for the last 12 months or so could be getting a little closer. back on wednesday president trump said that he would be postponing imposition of fresh tariffs on $250 billion worth of chinese goods. yesterday he said he was open to a slightly more interim style agreement between beijing and washington, although he would prefer, he said, a long term comprehensive agreement. the chinese, meanwhile, the "wall street journal" reporting their looking at ways to limit

the negotiations to just trade issues. they'd like to keep those complex national security situations that have overshadowed the talks off the table for now. in terms of the business criticism, we've seen this again and again on president trump, that seems to have impact on him. business leaders very separately, they're 145 ceos have written a letter to the senate asking to strengthen background checks on gun purchases and also to potentially legislate a new red flag law in the would allow family members, law enforcement officers to petition courts to try to stop people who they consider to be at risk for buying new firearms. this will largely be dependent on mitch mcconnell. we heard him saying he would only introduce fresh legislation once he gets the nod from the white house. but it looks like businesses is pushing to get changes through. >> we'll see if that becomes a tipping point in this country if corporations can do what politicians have not been able to do for the past couple years.

>> thank you, always appreciate it. coming up, axios michael len has a look at this morning's one big thing. and the top ten democratic presidents take the stage once again. we'll have much more from last night's third debate in texas and where the candidates stand after going to toe to toe on healthcare, guns, and president trump. plus, reaction from several of the candidates themselves as senators kamala harris, cory booker, amy klobuchar, and beto o'rourke are all joining the conversation. "morning joe" is just moments away. "morning joe" is just moments away 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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joining us from washington are a book at axios am, the cofounder of axios, the big kahuna himself, mike allen. a good friday morning to you. what is the axios one big thing for this morning? >> it's not just a good friday morning, alex, it is happy friday! and the axios one big thing, what we learned at the debate.

so last night we really saw the democrats healthcare argument crystallize. why this matters is that this is going to be the key issue debate as we go thank you through this and it will carry over into the main election. healthcare polls number one so we'll keep hearing about it. here's what the argument boilds boils down to. do you rebuild the system or build on obamacare? that's the debate with joe biden and amy klobuchar talking about a public option, sort of build on the system and warren and sanders talking about a much more radical change. trouble? elizabeth warren may have provoked an attack with her line when she said i've never met anybody who likes their health insurance company. >> yeah. >> but the key point is not your insurance company.

we can remember from obama times it's the people like their plans. people were very unhappy when they lost their plans. their the distinction and a thread on the sweater that i can imagine her opponents pulling. >> so could that possibly that whole debate about healthcare actually translate into a shapeup in the polls for some of these candidates? >> so, what's fascinating about this race we've seen here in first look, the data biz showing how stable thisration h race ha that warren rising has only been the change. what did we learn that might cause some change and to koh cause a shake-up? >> we see that jb still has trouble talking about race. the record player moment that will get plenty of spins and hits in the days ahead. we saw -- we saw kamala harris pivoting to attacking trump instead of other democrats. you can see her thinking, her calculation, voters like

something to do with electability and ultimately he's the real opponent. we saw bernie sanders including that clip we just saw a couple of seconds ago talking about why he's the original. so all of those are storylines that we're going to see play out. >> yeah, but you know to your point here, it's still joe biden, elizabeth warren, bernie sanders. so the other seven on stage, and the other extended candidates, have they figured out how to take those three on effectively? >> no. and it's going to be very hard for them to raise money in the days ahead. and one of the most striking things is we watched the debate was the pack hasn't figured out how to take on elizabeth warren. just in the first couple rounds everybody was on biden. elizabeth warren is now the one that's the threat and the prediction you hear from republicans, republicans are starting to think that it may be

elizabeth warren that they're against and they're worried about her. her idea of i've got a plan for everything, here's my plan, the substance that she's had mixed with personal stories. and we saw that a lot last night, is proving to be the winning formula. >> all right, mike allen, thank you very much. >> happy weekend have some happy weekend to you. you can sign up for that newsletter, do not mix it, sign up at axiosdom. >> that's going to be a wrap for us this morning. "morning joe" starts right now. you said they would have to buy in. >> it's qualified. >> forgetting what you said two weeks ago? >> while bernie wrote the bill, i've read the bill. >> let's be clear, i've never met anybody who likes their insurance company. >> for a socialist you've got a lot more confidence in corporate america than i do. >> i am asian so i know a lot of doctors. >> hell, yes, we're going to take your ar-15, ak-47.

>> hey, joe return said it of saying no with we can't, let's say yes we can. >> i represent president trump scoffed and said would like to see me making a deal with xi jinping. i'd like to see him making a deal with she jipg ping. >> we must and will defeat trump. most dangerous president in the history of this cousunt. >> now, president trump, you can go back to watching fox news. >> okay. good morning, welcome to "morning joe." it's frit 13th. are you feeling unlucky? >> no. some of the candidates last night were unlucky. >> a lot happened. >> a lot of planned quotes. >> planned lines. >> i've got to say -- >> planned, canned. >> i got to say the mayor pete line, i'd like to see donald trump make a deal with beijing this thaf was not planned that's why it was good. we have white house reporter jonathan lemire, jean yor