tonight's tv broadcast. it's available for download now and with that, that is our broadcast for this monday night as we start a new week. thank you for being here with us. good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. who do you like more, the country or the hispanics? he says the country, i don't know, i may have to go for the hispanics, to be honest with you. we got a lot of hispanics. we love our hispanics. >> president trump campaigns in new mexico, trying to expand his base and a state that has only gotten bluer there since his floss 2016. >> sources tell nbc news that the attack from the saudi oil facility is d-in fact come from iran and the president says he is open to responding with lethal force. >> the house judiciary committee is set to hold the first impeachment hearing today and the white house is already doing what it can to slow things down.

good morning, everyone, it's tuesday, september 17, i'm yasmin vossoughian, alongside ayman mohyeldin. >> we begin with an attack on a major oil facility, and three sources tell nbc news, the attack on the saudi oil field originated from iran and that there is extremely compelling evidence showing the origination point of the strikes. one official with direct knowledge tells nbc news that the evidence is imagery. saudi arabia's ministry of foreign affairs also says in a statement that quote initial investigations have indicated that the weapons used in the attack were in fact, iranian weapons. but the investigation into the source of the attack is still ongoing. and during a u.n. security council meeting on yemen yesterday, u.s. ambassador kelly craft echoed seth of state mike pompeo's claim that quote there is no evidence that the attacks

came from yemen, adding quote, the emerging of information indicates that responsibility lies with iran. iran has denied the u.s. accusation, and yemen's houthi rebels backed by tehran have claimed responsibility for those attacks. >> while his secretary of state and u.n. ambassador state iran was behind the attack, president trump was not as emphatic. >> have you seen proof iran was behind the attacks? >> it is looking that way. we will have strong studies done but it is looking that way at this moment and we'll let you know. as soon as we find out definitively, we'll let you know but it does look that way. >> the president was asked how this latest attack compares to when iran shot down an unmanned american drone back in june. take a listen. >> after the drone was shot down --

>> would this be proportionate? is that what you're asking? i would say yes. >> amid the developing crisis, president trump is being asked to clarify his contradictory messaging about meeting with iran and he said it was fake news that he would meet with iran without pre-conditions despite his own words an his own administration. but here's what he had to say yesterday. >> are you planning to meet with iran without preconditions. >> there were always condition, because if you look at it the sanctions will not be taken off, so the sanctions, that's a condition. that's why the press misreported it. >> the manhattan district attorney's office has said the grand jury subpoena to president trump's accounting firm demanding the past eight years of his personal and corporate tax returns, according to "the new york times," the subpoena stems from prosecutor's criminal investigation into the trump organization about payments made to two women who have alleged affairs with the president which he has denied. trump's former personal attorney michael cohen last august

admitted to making an illegal payment to adult film actor stormy daniels in order to keep her quiet in the days ahead of the 2016 election. legal experts telling nbc news that the subpoena will likely also ask for the underlying financial documents used to generate the tax returns. an attorney for the president said quote, this, we are evaluating the situation, and we'll respond as appropriate. while trump yesterday denied any knowledge. >> is it legal for the new york attorney general to -- >> i don't know anything about it. >> call force supreme court justice brett kavanaugh to be impeached continue to roll in after "the new york times" went public with the uncorroborated sexual misconduct allegation. top house democrats are grappling with the idea as they forge ahead with their separate impeachment investigation into president trump. the judiciary chairman jerry nadler seemingly put the push for kavanaugh's impeachment on hold yesterday. >> the jurisdiction that we would, have with respect to a sitting supreme court nominee,

is did he lie to the senate? frankly, we are concentrating our resources on determining whether to impeach the president. we have our hands full with impeaching the president right now. >> despite nadler's assessment, the hill reports that ayanna presley plans to file an impeachment resolution, saying that the house judiciary committee investigate kavanaugh but on the senate side some top democrats don't seem to be on board, including dick dushen who said get real. >> and i promise justice kavanaugh will not be impeached over these scour louse accusations. reached through the supreme court, kavanaugh declined to comment and delivered a forceful denial of misconduct during his confirm mans hearing last year. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell for theism peechlt push of justice kavanaugh for

the movie ground hog day. >> for people reading news the past few days it has felt like ground hog day, we all remember this pattern from last time around. shoot first. and find the facts later. it would be a mistake that to dismiss the fact that this is a case of sour grapes. this is not just a left wing obsession with one man. it is part of a deliberate effort to attack judicial independence. >> and 2020 democratic presidential candidate senator kamala harris says the nomination process, doubled down on investigating him last night on msnbc. >> it was a sham. we have to recognize that the process by which he was confirmed has created a crisis of confidence in that court. one of the worst things that happens is that when we are not willing to believe the victim, and take them seriously. take them seriously. investigate the case.

>> and at his campaign rally last night, the president railed against democrats, and "the new york times." >> the left tries to threaten, bully, intimidate americans into sus submission. they use democrat prosecutors, and phony congressional committees whenever they can. they will do whatever they can to demean you, to libel you, they try to blacklist, coerce, cancel, or destroy anyone who gets in their way. look at what they're doing today to justice kavanaugh. look at what they're doing. >> did you see "the new york times"? did you see what they're doing? did you see what democrats, they're calling for his resignation. they're calling for his impeachment and the woman involved said she didn't know anything. i call for the resignation of everybody at "the new york

times" involved in the kavanaugh smear story. and while you're at it, the russian witch hunt hoax, which is just as phony a story, they have taken the old gray lady, you know "the new york times," for years, the old gray lady, so prestigious, they've taken the old great lady, and broken her down, destroyed her virtue, and ruined her reputation. she can never recover, and will never return to greatness under current management. the times is dead. long live "the new york times." >> okay. let's get into it a little bit here. joining us from washington, congressional reporter for "politico," andrew. >> good morning, andrew. >> good morning. >> let's talk first about the views of bringing articles of impeachment against justice brett kavanaugh. and sort of the fractured views

that we are seeing from democrats in general on this front. what do you make of it? and do you think this can be compared to the impeachment investigation with regards to the president? >> it's strikingly similar to the current divisions we see among democrats when it comes to impeaching the president. as you note. in that you have one side saying it is a moral imperative. you have to do this. right? you have to figure out whether he lied to the senate. and then you have the other side that is saying look, it's unrealistic, politically untenable. that is essentially the same argument that folks against impeaching the president are making. the idea that of course, mitch mcconnell will not bring an impeachment of the president in the senate. and it could harm democrats politically in 2020. i will note though that jerry nadler the chairman of the house judiciary committee last year after democrats won control of the house did pledge a full investigation into how the fbi vetted brett kavanaugh, how it did the background check system, and everything related to that. and now, he's saying of course

yesterday, as you guys played earlier, that essentially they're too busy impeaching the president to focus on this. >> let me ask for a moment, and talk about the push coming out of manhattan here in new york, to try to obtain president trump's tax returns. realistically speaking, where does this go from here? i mean refresh our memories for a second. how many different attempts are ongoing to try to get the president's tax returns and why could this one be any different? >> right, so there are a few court cases right now happening at the federal level. the first one is one that's sort of most similar to what is happening with the manhattan district attorney, the house oversight committee has requested similar documents from the president's accounting firm. they requested those documents in order to corroborate claim by michael cohen, the president's former attorney and fixer, that the president was essentially artificially inflating and deflating the values of his assets in order to seek his

personal financial benefit. these allegations that the manhattan d.a. is looking into are similar in that they're looking into whether the trump organization falsified business records related to the president's reimbursement of michael cohen, for those hush money payments that you guys were discussing earlier. so the documents themselves are similar. but the allegations are slightly different at the state versus the federal level. >> andrew, live in dc for you tonight, we will talk to you again in just a little built. still ahead, the trump impeachment hearing gets under way in the house today with former trump campaign manager corey lieu wan do y core lewandowski set to testify. and it appears the white house has told him what to say and not to say. a contentious day on capitol hill. and a check on weather. when we come back.

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the white house is claiming immunity over two former aides

subpoenaed by the house judiciary committee, now blocking them from testifying about what they told former special counsel robert mueller. the letter from white house counsel to chairman jerry nadler directions former advisers not to appear before congress saying the two are absolutely immune from testifying. both are key witnesses in several instances of potential obstruction of justice laid out by mueller. the second letter places limitations on what former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski can and cannot say. lewandowski is not allowed to answer any questions with his communications with the president beyond what was in the mueller report. nadler responded to the letter saying this is a knocking and dangerous assertion of executive privilege and absolutely immunity. the president would have us believe that he can willfully engage in criminal activity and prevent witnesses from testifying before congress, even if they did not actually work for him or his administration. >> joining us now on the msnbc set legal analyst danny

cevallos. corey lewandowski never worked for the white house, left the campaign well before trump became the president of the united states, working for cnn before he won the election in 2016. we can naturally assume that he signed an nda at one point, when he did join the campaign. so what limitations legally does corey lewandowski actually have here, especially because of the fact that he never worked in the white house? >> first, let's get rid of the nda because ndas are effective only until meet judicial process like the subpoena and throw them out the door. you raise an interesting question. a fascinating debate going on a long time between congress and the executive branch. congress says the courts have addressed this issue. there is no absolute immunity for former aide, especially in the case of liewandowski who wa never actually an aide of the white house. the executive branch takes a s

fascinating position. we know about the court decision and we disagree. we believe that aides have absolute immunity and possible executive privilege and we don't agree with the court's decision. here is our justification. >> literally does matter at what point this individual, let's say corey lewandowski, worked for the president, whether it was 20 years ago, before he had any dreams of becoming president of the united states, till now? >> it matters a lot. because absolute immunity always hinges on how close the relationship was. we know that there is such a thing as executive privilege. but we've never really fully fleshed out the contours of what it is. so as you can imagine, someone who is very close to the president and works with him hand in hand every day, there is a stronger argument to be made, that there should be some level of privilege and possibly some level of immunity, but with each step, you get farther away from the president, himself, the argument becomes substantially weaker and someone who was never a presidential adviser, but only a candidate adviser, the

argument becomes even weaker, because there is no deliberation in the white house about sensitive matters that warrant privilege and warrant immunity. >> so if it is on somewhat questionable grounds, do democrats have a realistic shot of overturning the claim by the president of executive privilege in order to continue with their impeachment proceedings? i mean how does executive privilege stand the test of criminal activity? >> congress does have an option. but we've noticed this throughout the trump presidency, that the only way congress can really enforce its right, and it has subpoena right, just like the courts but congress didn't really have a strong enforcement mechanism, they don't have a u.s. martial service, they don't have the kind of power to send people out and make things happen when they issue subpoena, so they have to go to the courts, and that takes time. the executive branch knows this. and they know that when congress files lawsuits, that congress is going to have to wait for the judges to get around to deciding it. when they do, either side can

appeal. that takes additional time. and the problem with congress is that these subpoenas essentially have a time limit. as soon as there is a new congress sworn in, with each election that subpoena essentially could just dissipate over time. >> just as an outside observer, it seems that there is something malfunctioning with the system if the name of the game is just delay, delay, delay, and not try to get to legal proceedings under way, right? >> it does. because we've avoided fleshing out the answer are what are the contours and the limits of executive privilege and immunity in the executive context. >> danny cevallos, thank you. let's get a check of the weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> good morning. still watching an active period in the tropics. one storm that could form and another one that is going to bring some nasty weather to areas around the bermudas. this is a 30% chance of development and not too worried about a strong storm but it will throw a ton of heavy rain over southeast texas and if you follow the houston area, you

know how flood prone they are. and it is already pouring this morning in galveston, and that way, so this is over the next four days, so this is going to be a slow drifting system. and this area of pink here, that's all seven inches of rain. so for this region shall the national weather service has said we are under a moderate risk of flash flooding, and it's going to be an issue as we go throughout the next couple of days on and off. as far as the big hurricane humberto, big as in size, not as intense as some of the major ones we've had, but it is a large storm, 90 mile-an-hour winds. you can see how far away it is from florida now. and all through the southeast coast. we still have rip current problems out there. large waves and swells moving onshore but the storm is heading toward an area toward the east/northeast and here's bermuda. this little island right here. so it is outside of the cone but it is such a large storm, that they still could get tropical storm force winds but they will avoid the actual core of the storm. look how strong. we do think it will become a major hurricane and take the turn to the north. our friends in nova scotia, a close call for them, too, but it

looks it avoid them and stay to the sought of areas there. and the hurricane center says there is a 90% chance of development here, the next one. the development zone, it is still the next five days safely away from puerto rico ant leeward islands but that, guys, is the next storm to watch. when we come back later, we will talk about this amazing heat that just won't go away throughout much of the southern half of the country. >> hard to imagine almost seven days away, officially from the beginning away from fall and still feels like summer. >> easily could be 100 today in montgomery, allege beam. nothing fun about that. >> thanks, bill. still ahead, a look at some of the polling states. >> and senator elizabeth warren makes fighting corruption a center piece of her campaign. while bernie sanders shakes up his operation. we'll have the latest in the race for president, coming up.

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"dancing with the stars" debut last night. and that neon green shirt and the salsa routine did not necessarily dazzle judges and he and his partner lindsey arnold landed near the bottom of the field with a score of 12. ouch. >> are they still in it? >> out of 30. >> look at some of those moves? >> are they still in it. >> i imagine they are still in it. only the first round. they are still in it. >> wow. some of those move, with the press corps. >> back and forth. dodging. >> dodging the questions. >> making things bigger than they actually are. >> switching gears for a moment. the new england patriots, overt statements of protest, like the u.s. women's national team a number of sports teams have declined to visit the trump white house, however no short average athletes in washington, as hall of famer relief pitcher

mariano rivera blks tecomes the latest sports figure to be honored. the highest civilian honor. one of the three in the past month. seven of the 12 who have received the award under president trump so far have been sports stars. >> what about that shirt again? >> too bright early this morning. still ahead, a big day on the campaign trail yesterday. we will take to you the event that hosted five presidential candidates including a republican. >> plus, president trump's pitch to voters in the democratic stronghold of new mexico last night. but first, the moment where he got a bit distracted. >> ever major, that's a nasty fly. i don't like those suckers. i don't know about you in new mexico, but i'm not into flies or mosquitoes.

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welcome back, everybody, i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. it's the bottom of the hour, start with the morning's top stories. president trump took his 2020 campaign on the road with a visit to new mexico. trump held a rally in rio rancho last night. he used the stop to try to win

over voters. specifically hispanic voters as he looks to tilt the state in his favor in next year's election despite losing new mexico by eight points back in 2016. >> we will campaign for every vote, and we will win the great state of new mexico in 2020. >> by the way, you have thousands and thousands of people outside who can't get in. so we love you. we love you. we appreciate it. we try to get the biggest arena we can get, and they're never big enough, frankly. >> i hate to say this, but we have some republicans, they're not good, you camera them a rhino, they're rhinos, they're rhinos or worse, and some of them are worse than the obama people, right? they're worse than the obama people. they're worse than the clinton people. but there aren't too many of them left. they're pretty much on

respirators. they're gasping. they're gasping for air. >> the radical left democrats want to demolish everything that we've gained. they want to raise your taxes. they want to bury you in regulation. they want to take away your health insurance. 180 million americans. they want to erase american history. crush religious liberty. indoctrinate our students with left wing ideology. and left wing democrats want to confiscate your guns and eliminate your god-given right to self-defense. you know that. as your president, i will never allow them to take away your liberty, your dignity, your social security.

and i will never, ever allow them to take away your sacred right to keep and bear arms. >> i show where the hispanic american, where the hispanics were up with me in a poll 17%, and everyone said, how is that? how is that? how is that? 17%. up by 17%. i won't even tell you what the final number was, because they won't believe it. but you are going to see what the final number is. but you know why? because the hispanic americans, they understand, they don't want criminals coming across the border, they don't want people taking their jobs, they want to have that security, and they want the wall. they want the wall. >> and four democratic candidates made their pitches to hundreds of south carolina voters at an historic political

stump, joe biden, amy klobuchar, mayor deblasio and pete buttigieg participated in the 143rd gallivants ferry stump meeting which for the first time ever hosted white house hopeful, the democrats made they're peels to the early state voters including taking on president trump and his administration. >> when i am the nominee, this president can talk tough, throw himself military parade, hug the flag every now and then, but i've faced worst times of incoming than a tweet full of typos. [ applause ] >> and i don't mind reminding a guy who was getting ready for season seven of celebrity apprentice while i was out here trying to figure out how to use a rifle, i don't mind having a debate about him about who is

going to be a better commander in chief. >> this can't be just a campaign to beat donald trump. this has to be a movement. grounded in the values and ideals that define this nation at its best. this has to be a moment that we stand up and let the world know who we are and what we believe. >> and republican mark sanford who is challenging trump for his party's nomination also appeared at the event. surprising some of the voters there. >> and senator elizabeth warren cemented her position against government corruption last night during a speech here in new york city where she urged democrats who embrace her call for fundamental change. also, warren spoke in washington square park near the site of the triangle shirt waist factory fire in 1911 due to corrupt working practices killed 146 garment worker, most of them women and immigrant, according to the "new york times," the new york city department of parks and recreation expected between 8,000 and 10,000 people to attend last night's speech. however, warren's campaign says the crowd exceeded 20,000.

though that estimate could not be independently verified. warren was introduced by the national director of the work families party which announced its endorsement of the senator earlier yesterday. warren unveiled an expansive plan to attack corruption in government based on wide-ranging anti-corruption package she first proposed last year. on the campaign trail, warren framed it as quote the biggest anti-corruption plan since water gate. joe biden polls, shown to lead the democratic field, 32%, a 12-point advantage over fellow conditions vermont senator bernie sanders at 20% and massachusetts senator elizabeth warren rounds out the top three at 18% up from two points before the debate. joining us from washington, d.c., congressional reporter for "politico" andrew desideio, let's break down the poll

numbers an get your reaction. are we seeing any kind of a change in the lay of the land for these candidates? >> the short answer is no. in that none of the candidates have really landed a decisive blow on joe biden, who is of course, he has been the front-runner throughout much if not all of the race. but i think the candidate that seems to be benefitting the most, from the debate process, is definitely elizabeth warren. we saw just yesterday, alone, you guys mentioned that huge rally she had in manhattan, she also secured the endorsement of the working families party, a very prominent progressive group. they of course endorsed bernie sanders in 2016. and i think this reflects the fact that elizabeth warren is actually starting to win over many of the progressive base voters that went for bernie sanders in 2016. those types of people, those types of voters in the democratic primary will be key to her coalition going forward. >> it seems as if, as the field gets whittled down, we are going to start to see more standouts with this polling, to say the least because i think this is

the first time that elizabeth warren and joe bide written on the same stage together. >> that's right. >> let's talk about new mexico, and what kind of uphill battle is the president going to face there, especially when it comes to hispanic voters after losing the state back in 2016? >> this is the president's first real attempt to expand his base from 2016. right? we've seen over the last two and a half years he has gone to more friendly state, more friendly cities and town, around the country, and this really reflects his first attempt to expand on the group of people who sent him to the white house in 2016, and especially if joe biden is the nominee in 2020, and of course, he has the potential to win those midwestern states, that trump just barely won, for example wisconsin and michigan, and of course, pennsylvania, and you know, the trump campaign is probably looking at this and saying well, okay, we need to pick a couple of states here that we might be able to flip

that we lost in 2016 in order to make up for a potential loss in the midwestern states. you guys will recall in those three states that i mentioned alone, michigan, wisconsin, and pennsylvania, the margin of victory combined in those states was only around 60,000 votes and those states were key to the president's victory. so in new mexico, the effort reflects i think an attempt to grow further that base of support. >> realistically speaking though, to that point, the president trying to expand his base, a lot of people say it will come down to voter turnout, is the president reaching out to those voters or trying to win over some of his many voters, somehow tacitly acknowledging that his base is not enough to win the 2020 race? >> that's exactly what you saw him do by even making the decision to go to new mexico last night. another key voter group will be people who live in suburbs. there are so many suburban areas around the country that are trending more democratic.

the president has really been turning off female voters in particular. moderate voters. and of course, hispanic voters and other minority groups in those suburban areas which are trending more and more democratic. that is another determine can factor for the president heading into the re-election. >> early warning signs there. andrew, thank you very much. appreciate it. >> thanks, guys. president trump calls for lawmakers to shift the investigation of him to president obama instead. we will explain that. and bill karins is back with another check of the forecast including heat in some parts of the country. your first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment. ♪ run with us... on a john deere 1 series tractor. because changing your attachments... whether it's for this job... this job... or even this job... should be as easy as... ♪ what about this? changing your plans. nothing runs like a deere™. yeah.

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little more than a week after president trump called off peace negotiations with the taliban. the talks collapsed after a roun of deadly attacks by insurgents in kabul that killed 12 people, including an american soldier. president trump suggested the house judiciary committee investigate president obama's post presidency book deal including the netflix instead of various inquiries into the trump administration, and took to twitter writing, the house judiciary has given up the mueller report, sadly for them, after two years and $40 million spen, zero obstruction, collusion and okay, let's look at all of the deals over trump's lifetime. look at the obama book deal or the ridiculous netflix deal. and look at the deals made by the democrats in congress. the congressional slush fund. and lastly, the i.d. reports. take a look at that. those investigations would be over fast. trump continued his twitter tirade a few hours later where he tried to compare allegations

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sea ice melt and 30% below average and the second smallest august ice extent behind only 2012 and we continue to see the shrinking of the summer ice shield and the blue shows you where it used to be and this shows you where we are currently up will up in the arctic and of course, as we get the shorter day, we start to build it back up. and as far as september goes, this is kind of a staggering step, up to date, you know, we just passed the middle point of the month, we have 19 cities on pace for the hottest september on record, we have 54 city, all of the stops on pace for top five warmest september on record and we continue to roast. today, 29 states with a heat index above 90 and 57 million people, still feel 90 plus degrees as we end the summer season. ridiculously hot. alabama and mississippi, 99 in montgomery. birmingham, 99. nashville, 96. close to records in many of these areas. i don't know that we will quite get there in a few spots and it

doesn't look like we get that much cooler. tomorrow 91 in kansas city. 90 in st. louis. ten to 15 degrees warmer than it should be. toward the end of the week, a little bit of relief but still in the 90s in many areas here, so this september is on pace to -- >> it's incredible. >> seeing some of those map, it is quite alarming when you show the picture of the northern or the arctic circle and show that blue line and how much has kind of just melted away. >> i'm interested to know, exactly, so what's the time span, seven years that it has taken to go from that outer shield to the one that is current? >> that goes back to what the statistical average used to be. and on the satellite data, that is how we measure the ice and it only goes back 30 years. so in a 30-year period, we've seen that. >> hopefully, bill, with this climate unit, you can give us honestly some pointers on what we can do as individuals going forward. i think a lot of people what they can do to make an impact. on a local level.

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members against general motors is now in its second day and it appears the two sides may be at a standoff for some time. uaw representatives telling msnbc that while both sides are talking, they're also bracing for a long and very costly fight. they add that the strike will go on as long as it takes to achieve the uaw's goals of obtaining higher pay, more job security, and better benefits. general motors has called the walk-off, quote, disappointing saying that it put forward a fair offer. meanwhile, the "wall street journal" reporting that gm stands to lose as much as $100 million a day if the strike does continue, according to the journal auto industry analysts estimate by the weekend the stalled production could slash more than a tenth of gm's expected third quarter protest of about $3.5 billion. the paper says those analysts add the company could make up some lost production once workers do actually return. >> and three inaugural board

members of the women's march have stepped down after years of accusations of anti-semitism in fighting and management. the organization announced that cochairs bob bland, tamika mowry and linda stepped down from the board and are moving on to other commitments. the women's march said in a statement that their terms expired and that 17 new board members have been appointed after a national search. according to the wab post, their departure followings complaints that the new york-based group was to insaler to lead the movement. coming up, axios's nick johnson has a look at that morning's one big thing. coming up on "morning joe," the growing case of iran's role in the saudi oil attacks. what officials are saying about tech ron's responsibility as

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welcome back, everyone. joining us now from washington, d.c. with a look at axios am, nicholas job so nicholasonson. great to have you with us. what is the one big thing today? >> it's the next front in the war against misinformation campaign particularly ahead for 2020. we've written a lot about how russia's involvement in 2016 spreading mission information online on social networks, but we're looking ahead to 2020 as a new series looking at the age of misinformation about the next threats to politics, tech, and business. we see new threats such as russia and china as possible sources of misinformation. iran has been sachctinctioned o

twitter and they could try to meddle in the 2020 election with the increased tensions on the missile attack, saudi oil facilities and ongoing debates over the nuclear deal and sanctions. and of course china. a big activist on the online things. they haven't done anything yet as far as u.s. misinformation but have been singled out by the social media platforms withn ey. if they try to spread that misinformation campaigns into the united states and of course breaking overnight, just a couple hours ago facebook singled out accounts from the ucran a ukraine and iraq and disabled them. >> how is this going to impact the spread of mission informati misinformation on other platforms. >> facebook has set up procedures and policies to take

down the accounts. that makes them ved spread to other platforms. instagram say big focus of fake news and something that experts are looking for for next year. china's app tick tock, that's a video app for the youth, that's a big focus for a possible spread of mississipinformation year. >> we're barely getting ahead of twitter. >> what is facebook? >> exactly. we've seen some multiple agencies, including congress, launch their own probes into some of these tech giants. how are they maneuver around each other's investigations? >> what are we likely to see government play here? kind of role? >> it has all these regulatory and political bodies ramp up to look at the power of big tech they're starting to run into each other. something that's bubbling up is the ftc and the department of justice are exchanging letters trying to figure out where the lines of jurisdiction and who can go after some of these giant technology firms. now members of congress weighing in calling hearings to try to

figure out what are the lines to be drawn. who should investigate and what. this regime was built last century, it's made for investing radio stations, television stations, telephone companies. they're not made to good after shop sites and social media networks. i think a big challenge will be able to figure out where those lines are drawn. >> not to mention you've got a lot of the attorneys general across the states looking into some of the antitrust investigations as well into these tech companies. >> it seems like they're trying it figure it out as it comes up versus having a plan many place. how could these turf wars, nick, what could it mean really for these neck companies? >> tech companies? >> without any un people pi-- i result of that no action? i think for folks who are looking to rein in the powers of big tech, that's a big concern

for them. >> all right. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> we're going to be reading axios am in a bit. you can sign up for the newsletter at sign hundred.axios.com. >> that does it for us this morning. "morning joe" starts right now. ♪ ♪ green acres is the place to be ♪ >> the united states whole heartily condemns iran's attack on the kingdom of saudi arabia. >> this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period. ♪ >> okay. yes. >> wow. >> yes! >> wow. >> yes! oh my gosh. the spicer sound machine explodes on