locked and loaded. >> plus, prominent democrats both the saudis and the iranians call for the impeachment of supreme court justice brett kavanaugh after the "new york there. that seems to be where congress times" publishes a previously normally goes to, in these unreported claim of sexual circumstances, but the other misconduct. we're going to have reaction. thing, of course, is there could new overnight from detroit be some action taken regarding autoworkers at the workers in d went to the picket lines. oil prices, and effectively the very first such walkout in gasoline prices, if this is more than a decade. something that is going to be persisting for a while. there's an economic piece here, as well, that will be of good morning, everyone, it's interest to lawmakers. >> i think a lot of foreign monday, september 16th. policy experts have pointed out the war in yemen has dragged on i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside so long and we are seeing the yasmin vossoughian. ramifications of it beyond just we begin in the middle east what is taking place in the where iran denies accusations that it was behind drone attacks in saudi arabia. it targeted a saudi arabia oil arabian peninsula. >> thank you. processing tank facility and a still ahead the latest in the race for the democratic nomination, joe biden's allies major oil field and cut the go after elizabeth warren, while kingdom's liquefied natural gas pete buttigieg and beto o'rourke and ethane production by half go back and forth over guns. those stories and more w and destroyed 5% of the global oil supply.

oil prices have spiked more than 15% in the aftermath and gasoline futures and heating oil futures in the u.s. have jumped on the news. houthi rebels claimed responsibility. and a spokesman on the short ades on the group's sat light news channel, the attack is saudi-led war in yemen which has left to catastrophic famine and humanitarian crisis and left almost 100,000 people dead including scores of civilians. >> however, secretary of state mike pompeo tweeted that iran is directly to blame, and there is no evidence the attacks came from yemen. and a senior u.s. official tells nbc news that the attacks came from the direction of iran. at fidelity, we believe your money and while tehran is denying responsibility, here is how should always be working harder. that's why your cash iran's top national security automatically goes into a money market fund official, also the military when you open a new account. adviser to the ayatollah just another reminder described the strategy a months of the value you'll find at fidelity. ago in an exclusive sitdown with open an account today. nbc's lester holt. >> how far is iran willing to go

to defend its interests? >> translator: iran has multiple instruments at hands including the proxy war. >> the next step for iran? >> translator: we will make that public. we will continue and follow this act of resistance approach in all sectors. there is no doubt there will be even more decisive steps to be taken. >> for the recent tensions with tehran ignited when president trump withdrew the united states from the landmark 2015 iran nuclear deal and reapplied and but we're also a cancer fighting, added new hard-hitting sanctions. the president responded to the hiv controlling, joint replacing, weekend's attack writing in part, quote, saudi arabia oil and depression relieving company. supply was attacked. from the day you're born there is reason to believe that we never stop taking care of you. we know the culprit, are locked and loaded, depending on - [woman] with my shark, i deep clean messes like this, from the day you're born verification. however the president then continues writing the this, and even this. administration is quote waiting to hear from the kingdom as to but i don't have to clean this, who they believe was the cause because the self-cleaning brush roll of this attack, and under what removes hair while i clean. - [announcer] shark, the vacuum that deep cleans determines we would proceed. president trump has previously now cleans itself. used the term locked and loaded, in threats against north korea,

in fact he used nearly identical language aimed at iran earlier this summer. a growing number of lawmakers are throwing their support behind calls for supreme court justice brett kavanaugh to be impeached after sexual misconduct claims resurface. ahead of a new book on kavanaugh. kelly o'donnell has more. >> reporter: a divisive political fire, reignited, around supreme court associate justice brett kavanaugh. surrounding allegations that he denies, of drunken sexual misconduct as a student in the 1980s. against christine blase-ford and others. >> i have never sexually assaulted anyone. not in high school. not in college. not ever. sexual assault is horrific. >> a new book out tuesday examines past accusations against kavanaugh. describing witnesses who say they were not interviewed by the fbi before kavanaugh's senate confirmation.

nbc news reported on claims made by debra ramirez that kavanaugh welcome back. exposed himself. the authors say in an exclusive purdue farma, the drug interview to air in the third hour of the "today" show, that manufacturer known for selling the prescription pain killer they got further corroboration. oxycontin filed for bankruptcy >> with debra ramirez, we had after reaching a potential seven corroborating sources, segment with thousands of litigants. including two classmates from more than 2,000 small government plaintiffs and 24 states have ramirez and kavanaugh's year at agreed to a potential deal valued at ten to $12 billion. yale who remembered hearing about the event. however a number of states have >> reporter: and a separate not signed on to the proposal. allegation now made public. according to the associated nbc news confirms the books press, quote several of those reporting there was another states plan to object to the alleged instance of kavanaugh settlement in bankruptcy court. exposing himself in college which the fbi did not and continue litigation in other courts against members of the investigate. 2020 democrats call for sackler family which owns the condition. new york and several other kavanaugh's removal. states call the sackler family with multiple democratic proposed minimum contribution of candidates calling for kavanaugh's impeachment. $3 billion insufficient. and argue the family has far >> impeachment is something you can look at but you got to get the documents to be able to more money in a number of trusts prove the case. and investment firms that would be made, that should be made available to plaintiffs. >> president trump invokes the sackler family issued a justice kavanaugh at most statement last night calling the rallies. >> boy did he get treated badly. settlement and bankruptcy an historic step to address a tragic public health situation. >> a fierce defense on twitter.

joining us here on the set, #protect kavanaugh. msnbc legal an list danny he should start suing people for libel. when does it stop. they are trying to influence his cevallos. always a pleasure to have you. opinions. can't let that happen. >> a little more explanation. sharpest legal mind in the game, we would love to say. at least some members of the senate judiciary committee were aware of it last year before >> sharpest legal mind up this confirmation. but it's just now publicly early. known. we also reached out to justice >> lawyers are always up early. kavanaugh through the court, and >> courts start at 120k. he declined to comment. senate majority leader >> what a >>, start at 10:00. >> what are the possibilities republican mitch mcconnell spoke going forward with the settlement being announced with out on twitter writing he purdue pharma. where does it go from here? expects so see the service of >> it get a little bit harder justice kavanaugh on the bench for the states who don't approve for years to come and doesn't of the settlement. think any impeachment effort chapter 11 filing there is an would be successful. automatic stay, that means upon >> more than a day after the times article was published the filing this bankruptcy petition, all litigation gets paused until paper updated the article to include a key element of the they work out what to do with book's account that quote that the asset, until they reorganize the company, and the idea behind female student declined to be interviews and friends say she does not recall the episode. >> joining us now from that law is to prevent a company being picked apart by creditors washington, senior writer at who all say they have an roll call, niels les niewski interest in what remains of the

company. but those states that didn't want to participate in the thanks for joining us. settlement, their options just and let's look at the got a little bit more limited as allegations against justice soon as the company filed that brett kavanaugh, what are the next step force lawmakers who bankruptcy petition, because are considering moving forward now, the law prevents them from with impeachment proceeding, now proceeding with their lawsuits. that you are hearing some of the >> talk to me about your 2020 presidential candidates thoughts on the new york attorney general's allegation calling for such proceedings? that the sackler family has >> it's good to be back with basically moved a billion of you. the first thing i would say is assets out to prepare for the that the house judiciary committee already has a lot on settlement. >> some of these alleged its plate with the perhaps transfers happened as far back impeachment investigation of as 2009 and i'm not so sure the early transfers would have been president trump. and so there's going to be an eye to this settlement but the key is were the transfers effectively an issue of staffing before or after a bankruptcy and the amount of resources ta petition, because if they're after that, is a huge no-no, are even available, that are because sometimes debtors will even available to even pursue try and say, oh, i'm filing for something like that. bankruptcy but let me just take but i think the first thing the this and this and this and this, democrats particularly in the no, all of that becomes part of house will want to look at is what exactly the fbi field the bankruptcy estate. but transfers beforehand could office in new haven, be problematic as well, if they connecticut, where yale is of were made with the eye towards course, actually looked at, and avoiding an eventual bankruptcy

how many of these people had petition, or defrauding reached out and were not creditors. >> how common is it for families interviewed. with this type of fortune, with i think there may be a question about the justice department's role. maybe even more than the this amount of money, to move impeachment question. money out of a company like >> let's talk about you're on purdue pharma, to an area in here for a second, obviously if which it could be more we think about the president's protected? >> it's hard to say, because i tweet, with regards to iran and could have said it's not common, saudi arabia, using the term as soon as you said families with this amount of money, there locked and loaded, you had aren't that many families with justin amash over the weekend this level of assets, but in retweeting that, under the constitution, the power to this case, moving things around commence war live with congress, from say a swiss account, from what potential action here could here to there, to different we see from congress as a result accounts, as long as they were of this strike? >> it seems like the first place proper taxable events, there's that congress may go, once they no overt problem with them. get briefed on what exactly the but there are additional rules when it comes to bankruptcy that you can't transfer things around to avoid the obligations of u.s. intelligence community knows regarding what happened a bankruptcy. >> and once that money has gone overseas it is probably hard to recuperate back into the united look at the proxy war in and t states? >> it can be much more difficult. especially depending on which country to which it went. >> it is hard to get money out of trusts as they're asking to be done. >> that's right. trusts are sort of creating an individual, like a corporation,

that goes on without the individual's actual involvement. so a trust is similar to a corporation in that it is almost like a person unto itself. >> and you can only get two questions, but we asked four or five. that's how much we enjoy talking to you. >> well, thank you. >> stick around. would very more questions. >> as many questions as possible because he comes in so early. >> that's also true. >> i love it. >> danny cevallos, thank you. and let's bring in our meteorologist bill karins for a quick update. >> a new advisory, a hurricane humberto, the third hurricane in the atlantic basin, you can see, it is not far off the southeast coast but all of the clouds are offshore and rain to the northern bahamas island and plaguing them over the last couple of days with on and off rain and now starting to head out to sea. it is up to 85 miles an hour. winds are starting to move to the northeast at 5. and it is a category one hurricane. and a slight chance of getting up there. major category three status. and here is the new forecast pass in the hurricane center and well off the east coast of the

united states, and in bermuda, they have to watch, it although the trend is a little north of there and be nice if they can avoid a direct lit. but 110 mile-an-hour hurricane is a serious deal. one tick away from a category five. the only effects we'll will have in the east coast beaches are the rough surf, the rip current threat and the high risk goes from cape hat raus down to the wilmington area to myrtle beach, all the way back down to the beaches of south carolina, georgia, and also the east coast beaches of florida. that's it. not going to watch any wind problems or rain issues. that is the time of the year, when you say what is next out there, and this area of low pressure, you can see where we're located, and here is puerto rico, the leeward and windward islands, with a ways to go, and the hurricane center says an 80% chance this is the next storm we are going to be tracking as we go through the next five-day period. the development zone takes it north of the leeward and windward islands and hopefully

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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 stories. several 2020 democrats are calling for supreme court justice brett kavanaugh to be impeached after another sexual misconduct allegation was published in "the new york times." the essay in the opinion section was adapted by an upcoming book by two "new york times" reporter was graphic, detailing an alleged interat yale university and claims a classmate max stier, saw mr. kavanaugh with his pants down at a different

drunken party where a friend pushed his penis into the hands of another student. >> the fbi was notified about the account but the fbi did not investigate and mr. stier declined to discuss this story public limit more than a day after the article was published the times updated the article to include a key element of the book's account that quote the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say she does not recall the episode. the authors also claim that they found new corroboration for accusations that kavanaugh exposed himself to yale classmate debra ramirez in the early 1980s. nbc news has not been able to verify that reporting. kavanaugh declined to comment. kavanaugh delivered a broad denial of misconduct during his confirmation hearing last year. >> and we have more on the 2020 democrats and how they're responding. elizabeth warren and kamala harris and beto o'rourke and

julian castro claiming for kavanaugh to be impeached. and pute beejz reportedly told cnn, if kavanaugh does not resign, he should be impeached and the president defending his supreme court pick tweeting out now the radical left and the lame stream media are after brett kavanaugh again, talking loudly of their favorite word, impeachment. he is an innocent man who has been treated horribly. such lies about him. they want to scare him into turning liberal. brett kavanaugh should start suing people for libel or the justice department should come to his rescue. the lies being told about him are unbelievable. false accusations without recrimination. when does it stop? they are trying to influence his opinions. can't let that happen. democratic leaders have laid down a hard line for president trump, delibing potential house gun reform litigation. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer spoke with president trump yesterday for roughly ten minutes to discuss a standing

background check and after co cordial talks, writing, we made it clear to the president that any proposal that he endorses that does not include the house-passed universal background checks legislation will not get the job done. as dangerous loopholes will still exist. and offered to sweeten the deal if the president would endorse the bill and get mitch mcconnell on board and join president trump in the rose garden for an historic signing ceremony. and white house tells "the new york times" that trump has instructed advisers to continue to work to find a range of policies that would go after illegal gun sales while protecting the second amendment. and expand the role of mental health professionals, he is expected to make a decision this week. mayor pete buttigieg weighed in on fellow 2020 candidate bet yes o'rourke's comments during last week's primary debate on the suggestion that the government would take away some guns. watch this. >> did beto o'rourke say

something that is playing into the hands of republicans? >> yes, look, right now, we have an amazing moment on our hands. we have agreement among the american people for not just universal background check, but we have a majority in favor of red flag laws, high capacity magazines, banning the new sale of assault weapons. this is a golden moment to finally do something because we've been arguing about this for as long as i've been alive. when even this president, and even mitch mcconnell are at least pretending to be open to reforms, we know that we have a moment on our hands, let's make the most of it, and get these things done. >> so o'rourke reacted to buttigieg's comments tweeting quote, believing millions of weapons of war on the streets because trump and mcconnell are quote at least pretending to be open to reforms, that calculation and fears are what got us here in the first place. let's have the courage to say what we believe and fight for it. >> for much of this year, president trump and the administration have called for talks with iran with both sides saying the meeting could occur

with no pre-conditions. but trump tweeted yesterday that assertion is fake news and an incorrect statement. that is not true. as demonstrated by the president's words and those from his administration. watch this. >> i would certainly meet with iran, if they wanted to nmepre. they want to meet, i'll meet. any time they want. any time they want. good for the country. good for them. good for us. and good for the world. no preconditions. if they want to meet, i'll meet. >> one-on-one talks with the ayatollah or -- >> here's what i want. anything that gets you to the result, if you want to talk, good, otherwise you can have a bad economy for -- >> no preconditions. >> not as far as i'm concerned. no pre-conditions. >> i think you know we've done more sanctions on iran than anybody. and it's absolutely working. now the president has made clear, he is happy to take a meeting with no pre-conditions. >> for clarity on, this can you

foresee a meeting between president trump and the iranian leader later this month surrounding the united nations? >> sure. >> would the president support that and do you support that action? >> the president has made very clear he is prepared to meet with no pre-conditions. >> now in what possibly could be a boost for prime minister benjamin netanyahu's bid ahead of the election, president trump has said he has spoke within benjamin netanyahu about a potential new defense agreement between the two nations and trump tweeted quote i had a call with the prime minister, to discuss the possibility of moving forward on a mutual defense treaty between the united states and israel that would further anchor these disc later this month when the two leaders meet at the united nations general assembly station here in new york. any type of formal treaty between these two countries would be needed to be sent to the senate for ratification. national security reporter for yahoo news, jenna mclaughlin, you have an

incredible piece out this morning, looking at russian counter-intelligence operations here on u.s. soil. some astounding stuff in your piece. tell us more about this. >> sure, absolutely. so my colleagues, we have been working on this story for the lant month and a half, and our story goes into extensive details about the years prior to russia's infamous election meddling in 2016. so prior to that, russia had been involved in an astounding technical break through, what many former officials told us was a very important deal, russian spies on u.s. soil, were able to compromise the fbi's radio communications, which essentially made it possible for russian spies operating in the u.s. to run around freely, in certain contexts and meet with their sources without any of the fbi agents repealing them, or knowing what is going on.

so that is obviously important in terms of figurin what russian intentions were, what information they're trying to sale within the united states. so our story goes into detail on those efforts as well as the efforts around the same time that president obama was working to reach relations are russia. >> this is an incredible piece of reporting to you and your team, i'm curious to get your thoughts about how the fallout of this, and you referenced president obama here, how much of the fallout of this breach could impact our national security, and how much did it impact our national security, around the 2016 presidential election? >> absolutely, so it absolutely is an impact to national security. we spoke with former house intelligence chairman mike rogers about this, counter-intelligence, you know, the spy versus spy, it is often considered sort of the crazy uncle, at the party, you know, people don't really get concerned about it until you have an issue.

so these sorts of compromises particularly involving technology, access to communications, are a huge deal, in terms of russia's ability to figure out what we're trying to do, to operate secretly on our grounds, so in 2016, when they were working on the election meddling, they had already gone into that with this extensive history of spying within the u.s. which is a pretty classic nature of intelligence officials, but it is a huge impact, particularly as technology continues to advance. it gets harder and harder to protect vital secrets, and that's the case into 2020 and beyond. >> thank you, jenna, for that excellent reporting. >> thank you very much. and still ahead 2020 presidential candidate andrew yang defends his idea of putting $1,000 a month into the pockets of americans and arguments why

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and contains only 1 carb choice. enjoy the balanced nutrition of boost glucose control as part of a healthy diet. welcome back. democratic presidential candidate andrew yang is defending his context to provide $1,000 to americans monthly during the year which would come from campaign donations. >> the federal election commission told cnn that what you're proposing is not legal to give families money from your campaign. are you sure you're on solid legal ground? >> we have an army of lawyers who signed off on. >> it and we're sure that this is perfectly legal. >> so during thursday's democratic primary debate, yang promised to provide ten winners of an online raffle with $1,000 a month. for an entire year. even if his presidential campaign has ended by that point. the cash contest echoes the

central proposal of his campaign, the freedom dividend, calling for the government to provide $12,000 in universal ba to all americans over the age of 18 and the federal elections commission prohibits the use of campaign fund force personal use. let's gets a check of the weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> what do you have for us? >> if you like good weather, do you have good news? >> i do. for you. as we go into the middle of september, we're still in the peak month of a hurricane season and we get a couple of big storms every year and it looks like humberto will be one of those big storms. it became a hurricane last night. but heading away from the east coast. it may give bermuda a little bit of a scare through thursday but that looks to be the worst of it. it looks mostly to be a fish storm that will not be hitting any land areas. we like those. all right, let's get to the temperatures which are way too warm. they will continue that as we go throughout this week. many areas of the south, it is

not just your imagination, this is on pace for one of the warmest september, the warmest experienced, for today, 92 kansas city. memphis has a chance of hitting 100 degrees. atlanta at 94. not exactly college in indianapolis and charleston either. upper 80s and low 90s. and in september, sometimes you get one or two or three days of heat and usually not one day after another, relentless. tomorrow, little rock, 96 and omaha at 90 and the temperatures right here they show you how much above norm tal. is 15 degrees warmer than it should be this time of the year. and wednesday, the middle of this week, still near 100 in areas near memphis. we don't have a lot of clouds and rain to cool things off. sunny and pretty nice in the areas, and the first weather to start the week are in the pra civic northwest and two storm in three days and no rain chances at all for the most part. mid atlantic, ohio valley and sunny skies and great weather

conditions. the rough stuff comes friday, the big change, northern plains and finally some rain in texas and oklahoma. >> thank you, bill. >> thanks, bill. co-founder and lead singer of the band the cars ric ocasek has died, his boddo was found in his new york townhouse yesterday afternoon and pronounced dead at the scene. while the cause of the death is not immediately clear, police say no criminality is expected. ric ocasek co-founded the cars in 1976, and merging classic guitar oriented rock with synthesizer driven pop sounds. the band recorded more than a dozen top 40 singles including "my best friend's girl," "good times roll," and "just what i needed." he was 75 years old. the highest civilian honor, as president trump is set to award former yankee pitcher mariano rivera with the presidential medal of freedom. not the first trip to the white house for rivera who participated in the fitness day

at the white house in 2018 and named a co-chair of the president's council on sports, fitness, and nutrition. he had also previously joined trump and then governor chris christie in march of 2017 at a meeting on opioid abuse. earlier this year, rivera became the first player ever to be unanimously elected to the baseball hall of fame, the 13 time all-star, 652 games with the 19 year career with the yankees, the most ever and also a five-time world series champion. still ahead, tens of thousands of auto workers hit the picket lines among stalled contract talks with general motors. >> more on the strike of the saudi oil facilities as oil prices surge following the attack. prices surge following te attack so, every day, we put our latest technology and unrivaled network to work. the united states postal service makes more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. ( ♪ )

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as 15% after that attack on saudi arabian oil facilities, we have more from london. let's talk about the markets here. after the weekend's activities. how has this spike in prices impacted the markets? >> huge move, as you say, at one point, it was up 15%, on the open, and since then, we peared some of those gains but still up about 8%, or $6, and just to give you the context of this. saudi has said that this will disrupt 5.7 million barrels a day of the daily production. that's more than half. 5% of global supply. so no wonder we are seeing this big reaction in the oil markets.

and overnight the saudis released a statement saying they look to restore one-third of the production lost in the next couple of weeks and analysts warn if it goes on longer than six weeks, we could see brent prices move up north of $70, $75, as i mentioned, we're trading around $66 here. opec member, the other oil situation very closely. they have said that there's no need as of yet to call for an extraordinary meeting. they're keeping a close eye on the situation and in the u.s. of course president trump has tweeted saying. u.s. they're looking to release strategic reserves. that's something that's usually only reserved for extreme circumstance because they said they're locked and loaned ready to loaded and ready to go. >> let me get your thoughts about another big story in the u.s. auto workers have gone on strike

against general motors. what can you tell us about that? >> this strike went into action yesterday at 11:59 p.m. it is a walkout put together by the unite the auto workers union, the uaw, in protest against general motors. and 46,000 workers have walked out so far of 31 general motors factories spread across nine different states. this is a protest of their pay poll sands they're saying the company is putting profits ahead of the employees. and these are the same employees who helped turn the company around after the bailout a decade ago. the last auto walkout lasted three days long. we don't know how long. last but they've started negotiations. >> thank you. coming up, axios's mike allen as a look at the one big

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. welcome back. joining us from washington we look at axios am, the cofounder of axios. good morning to you, mike. >> good morning. >> happy monday. >> happy monday. >> tell us about the one big thing today. >> the one big thing is the democrats three villains. as democrats look ahead to their 2020 strategy, you've got three branches of government and three white guys who are going to be

their targets. president trump, of course you've already seen democratic candidates especially joe biden and kamala harris going after president trump instead of going against their democratic rivals. second, and this is new, we're seeing very much speaker pelosi going to target senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. going after him. axios reports that she has decided that because her caucus say little divided about how to go after trump maybe there's trump fatigue, maybe those attacks have a little bit of diminishing returns, she's going to go after mcconnell as the face of obstruction and as trump's enabler. and then the third villain we saw eemerge over the weekend, supreme court justice kavanaugh about the times of investigation before his nomination, six i six the 2020 democrats calling for

his impeachment. >> speaking of those three quote unquote villains as you're describing them, which one are the democrats likely to make end roads on when it comes to political fighting? >> that's a good question. the newest target is going t a t w moderate democrat can go after mitch mcconnell safely and as part of leader pelosi's they're that i they didn't win back the house, she didn't become speaker pelosi in 2018 by going after twufr trump. they did it on issues and healthcare and there's a theory among democrats that there's only so much you can move his approval rating. it's not good, but it's steady. >> i want to talk about the rally set for tonight for the president in albuquerque, new

mexico. it seems like an odd negotiation kin considering that the state has voted democrat in six of the last seven general elections. but aim but axios has exclusive knowledge here. >> president's travel is very carefully calibrated. you're right. you look at until on paper hillary clinton won it by eight points and there was a libertarian in the race, carrie johnson that made a difference there, but not promising trump country. but here's what axios learned. that the trump campaign got ton unt on to new mexico when they saw they had tons of people crossing over from new mexico. they said oh, here is an opportunity. now, they tell us that they're still unlikely to switch and flip that state, get those electoral votes because half of the residents are latino/hispanic.

but it's a place that trump is going to try and open up new territory. >> it's interesting to see democrats get bullish. let me get your thoughts on one other thing. i know axios has a sneak peek on the live aid concert. give us the details on that. >> remember will they even know it's christmas in the 1985 live aid concert for global hunger and now this there's going to be a retees new one for the digit . coming in 2020, there's going to be a concert global goal live. and it's brought by global citizen and ta nayio, the ceo adviso advisory firm. it's to raise philanthropy direct from business and government to try combat hung, he climate change, and poverty. >> it will be exciting to see

what kind of acts they get when you've got so many of these citizens concerts popping up around the world with big name headliners. >> what else are you watching this week? >> this week we're going to watch whether the president doubles down and goes even further with his threat against iran. when the president said locked and loaded, he's used that phrase in the past, just a day after secretary pompeo said iran was responsible for that attack in saudi arabia, that was an implicit threat by the president. one other key point on that. fact that drones was used here is really freaking out people in government and business. it's a new vulnerability and we've never seen it do this kind of damage. >> we'll is he see if the secretary and the president can get on the same paged on who is behind this. always a pleasure. we'll be reading axios am for in a little bit. >> that does it for us on this

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