mcguire as he testifies in front of the house intelligence committee at 9 a.m. that is our broadcast. good night from nbc news headquarters in new york. after initially withholding a whistleblower complaint about president trump, nbc news has learned the white house could release the complaint this morning. >> president trump argues that the phone call he had with the ukrainian president was nothing and that he didn't pressure him to investigate joe biden. >> meanwhile biden is weighing in calling the allegations against trump an impeachable offense. good morning, everybody, this thursday, september 26th, i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. >> a busy day to say the least. >> we begin with breaking news

overnight. sources telling nbc news that the whistleblower complaint at the center of the ukraine scandal has been declassified with minimal redactions and expected to be released this morning. the complaint reportedly involves a promise the president made to the president of ukraine. possibly involving military aid, and an investigation to former vice president joe biden. the trump administration made it available to lawmakers yesterday after a weeks long standoff that led to an official im inquiry. the democrats who read the complaint could not say much about it but here is how they characterized it. >> i found the allegations deeply disturbing. i also found them very credible. >> i will tell people that it is deeply disturbing, it reinforces the concerns that what we previously learned. >> the complaint itself is a five alarm concern for me. >> so now to the 30-minute july 25th phone call that sparked all

of this controversy. the memo released by the white house shows president trump discussing joe biden and asking the ukrainian counterpart for a favor and begins with a congratulations on the win and zelensky is talking about reforms in his country and how much president trump says the united states does for ukraine and i would like to thank you for your great support in the area of defense, we are ready to continue to cooperate for the next steps. specifically, we are almost ready to buy more javelins from the united states for defense purposes. trump immediately follows that by saying, quote, i would like you to do us a favor, though because our country has been through a lot and ukraine knows a lot about it. i would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with ukraine, they say, crowdstrike. now crowdstrike is the name of the company that investigated the dnc server hike.

i guess you have one of your wealthy people, the server, they say, ukraine has it. there are a lot of things that went on. the whole situation. i think you're surrounding yourself with some of the same people. i would like to have the attorney general call you, or your people, and i would like you to get to the bottom of it. >> so the president then brings up bob mueller's testimony before congress, the day before, quote, as you saw yesterday, that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named bob mueller. an incompetent performance. but they say a lot of it started with ukraine. whatever you can do, it's very important that you do it, if that's possible. >> zelensky follows yes, it is very important for me and everything you mentioned earlier, for me as a president, it is very important and we are open for any future cooperation. the president then pivots to the prosecutor general, who was fired by the ukraine ongovernment, and then to joe biden, trump saying this. the other thing, there's a lot of talk about biden's son.

that biden stopped the prosecution. and a lot of people want to find out about that. so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great. biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution. so if you can look into it, it sounds horrible to me. >> dlenski then tells trump he knows all about the situation and ensures he will have his hand picked prosecutor in place, promising quote this, he or she will look into the situation, specifically to the company that you mentioned in this issue. the issue of the investigation of the case is actually the issue of making sure to restore the honesty, so we will take care of that, and we will work on the investigation of the case. >> and here are president trump and zelensky appearing together at the united nations just hours after the memo of their phone call was released. >> would you like president zelensky to do more on joe biden and investigate -- >> no i want him to do whatever he can. but whatever he can do in terms of corruption, because the corruption is massive. now, when biden's son walks away

with millions of dollars from ukraine and he knows nothing, and they're paying him millions of dollars, that's corruption. >> have you felt any pressure from president trump to investigate joe biden and hunter biden. >> i gave you everything. so i think you read text. i'm sorry, but i don't want to be involved to democratic elections of u.s. states. no i think we had a good phone call. it was normal. we spoke about many things. and so i think, and you read it, that nobody pushed it, pushed me. >> in other words, no pressure. you know what, there was no

problem. >> no pressure. >> the intelligence officer who filed the complaint not only raised alarms about the phone call between trump and the president of ukraine, but also about how the white house handled records of the conversation. those two people tell the times that the whistleblower identified multiple white house officials as witnesses to potential presidential misconduct who could corroborate the complaint, and that the inspector general for the intelligence community michael atkinson reportedly interviewed witnesses. according to a justice department memo released yesterday, the intelligence officer heard about trump's phone call second half from unidentified white house officials who expressed concern that trump had quote abused his authority or acting unlawfully in connection with foreign diplomacy. the times writes that inspector general atkinson determined the complaint met the criteria for an urgent concern. partly because it fell within the acting director of national intelligence joseph maguire's quote operational responsibility

to prevent election interference. the head of the justice department of legal counsel steven engel disagreed arguing that it did not center on intelligence activities that maguire supervises. engel also notes that the d.o.j. memo, that the inspector general found indications of an arguable political bias, suggesting that the whistleblower favored a rival political candidate. >> and former vice president 2020 candidate joe biden reacted to the release of the call between president trump and ukraine's president, telling reporters while leaving a fundraiser in california, yesterday, quote the transcripts are very revealing. biden released a statement writing quote, it is a tragedy for this country that our president put personal politics above his sacred oath. he has put his own political interests over our national security interests which is bolstering ukraine against russian pressure. it is an affront to every single american and the founding values of our country. this is not a republican issue or a democratic issue. it is a national security issue. it is a test of our democratic values. congress must pursue the facts

and quickly take prompt action to hold donald trump accountable. meanwhile, biden last night weighed in on the call. and whether trump committed an impeachable offense. >> do you think it is impeachable, this particular instance is an impeachable offense? >> based on the material that they acknowledged today, it seems to me it is awful hard to avoid the conclusion that is an im peachable offense and a violation of constitutional responsibility. but look, i am confident, in the ability of the house and the senate to deal with this. my job is just to go out and flat beat him. >> joining us from washington, senior writer at roll call, niels lesniewski, let's look at the statement from former vice president joe biden and what he said on jimmy kimmel. what do you make of his response and the memo of president trump's july phone call. >> i think the former vice

president is sort of being as measured as possible, given that he and his son are sort of the epicenter of president trump's sort of conversations with ukraine. and the potential issue that we're now realizing is certainly going to be the focus of the house. the possibility at least that it was the money for the aid to ukraine that was being held up over not investigating vice president biden's son, i think that biden is sort of going to let the house do its job here, and let nancy pelosi take the lead on this, and i think that might be the best course of action for him, because if he gets into it directly with president trump, that might further complicate matters. >> let me get your thoughts on

what the white house can do in all of this. they seem to be somewhat rattled by the speed and the pace and the intensity of all of this information coming out, that they are pushing ahead with releasing both the memo of the transcript of the call, as well as now the unclassified whistleblower complaint. what is your sense in terms of what the administration plans as house democrats move forward with this rapid impeachment probe? >> well, you know, there were the several members of congress who were at the white house, and got a preview of the release that came out yesterday of that so-called transcript. i wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happens again today, with the release of the complaint to the inspector general, or at least as much of it is as going to be declassified, or was declassified overnight. but you know, trying to get the messaging straight here is

really difficult when you have at least some republicans saying, like ben sasse, who told reporter, including one of your nbc news capitol hill producers, that there, to be careful about saying there's nothing here. republicans may be best on the hill to keep their powder dry to some extent until more of the facts come out. >> we will talk to you against in a little bit. thank you. >> thank you. ahead a majority of house members have voiced support for some type of impeachment against president trump. nbc legal analyst danny cevallos is here to talk about the next step force democrats. attorney general william barr have a role in the ukraine scandal? a new report on why he may be the spotlight in all of this. those stories and a whole lot more and a check of weather when we come back.

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n house democrats have agreed to nail the impeachment investigation of president trump to his dealings with ukraine and following the account of the july call between the two leaders yesterday, the "washington post" reports house speaker nancy pelosi and senior house democrats convened in a private meeting where pelosi told colleagues that keeping the inquiry narrowly focused on ukraine allegations could also help keep the investigation out of the courts. where a slew of investigative matters have been bogged down for months. though she did not rule out immediately, or ultimately, rather, including other episodes and potential art accounts of impeachment, according to five democrats familiar with the conversation. now, as of last night, 219 house democrats, plus one department, have so far expressed support for some type of action regarding impeachment. >> joining us here on the set, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. let's talk about next steps here, we have 219 democrats laid out as amin just talked about here, who are spring impeachment, 218, one

independent, what do you make of it? >> normally what happens is these committees would report to the house judiciary committee, then the judiciary committee would make a recommendation, but that's not necessarily required. congress has the freedom to just hold a vote, and what we're seeing is we already seem to have a head count and we know that there is enough probably to go forward with impeachment. so the next steps are articles of impeachment, the house vote, and that is very similar to an indictment, in the grand jury context, in the criminal context, and then it goes to a trial, in the senate. but i caution everyone that even though the framers made the impeachment process seem something like a criminal trial, it's cosmetic only. because ultimately, an impeachment process is anything but the impartial jury that you would have in a jury, in a grand jury, or a petit jury trial,

because, right, kpa exactly, a is supposed to be impartial. this is the most partial jury you could have on either ide. because they're elected for their comments and opinions. >> and danny, let me get a big picture, your big picture take-aways of the memo released of the july conversation. what stood out for you? and since we are about to see the whistleblower complaint, if all goes according to plan this morning, and it is released unclassified with minor redaction, what will you be looking out for? >> i'm so glad you asked those questions because the memo to me, what is this thing? as a lawyer, ideal in transcript, they're created by court reporters and they capture every single word, they're truthful, they're accurate, they're complete. i have none of those assurances with this memo. i don't know how it was made. was it made by compiling a bunch of different handwritten notes, if so it seems to have a lot of detail for just compiling handwritten notes. i don't think people are taking shorthand anymore. so did somebody record it. and then type it based on that?

we don't know anything about it. but maybe that doesn't matter. because the president at least has acknowledged or even adopted the admissions contained in that document, and maybe that alone is enough. so it could even be more. then following up, the complaint today, what you are looking at from that whistleblower complaint that could tilt this one way or the other? >> this is just my thought but in the last 24 hours, to some degree, the whistleblower complaint falls by the wayside. it may add really damning evidence against the president, but this is a very unique situation in which this memo or transcript or whatever you want to call it arguably within its four corners contains enough damaging evidence to begin an impeachment and possibly under the standards of impeachment, result in a conviction, but of course, that re mains to be seen. you can get a head count from the senate. but it is a really, really interesting situation, because the quantum of evidence in this situation is so complete, with the four corners of the

complaint, that arguably, you may not even need to know what the whistleblower said at this point. although we all should find out. >> to your point, that conversation apparently lasted about 30 minutes, when you read that transcript, and the memo of the transcript doesn't even take a couple of minutes to read. >> it doesn't seem like a 30 minute conversation. >> absolutely. >> thank you very much, danny. let's get a check of the weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> a pretty nice thursday under way in many areas of the country. we have some exceptions. some thunderstorms that have woken people up in the middle of the night, through eastern oklahoma and northern arkansas and overnight heavy rain in the desert southwest and continue with the flash flood threat and we don't have any flash flood warnings anymore but pop up more showers and storms this afternoon. so from areas just south of vegas, including the phoenix area, all the way back over towards areas, extreme portions of california, sear seven milli people at risk. a good travel day for many people of the best weather in the country, great lakes.

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin, it is the bottom of the hour. the acts intention director maguire will testify on capitol hill for the first time since

the whistleblower complaint before members of congress. he will be a closed door session before the senate intelligence committee. maguire vowed to step down if he was not allowed to appear before congress, a source familiar with the matter told nbc news. the "washington post" first reported maguire threatened resignation citing current and former white house officials and stephanie grisham disputed the account, white house spokesperson. and maguire wrote in a wrote, at no time have i considered resigning my position since assuming this role on august 16, 2019. i have never quit anything in my life and i am not going to start now. i am committed to the complex threat facing our nation. >> and the notes of the phone call reveal president trump press pressed zelenski to probe joe biden and invoking his name

twice, joe biden's name twice but the justice department quickly assured that barr was not drawn into that effort, a justice department spokesman told "politico" yesterday that the president never directly asked barr to launch any type of investigation into biden. further clarifying that barr's denial of involvement extended beyond the ukraine scandal. despite the denial, the justice department concluded yesterday that trump's request to zelenski did not violate campaign finance law. "politico" notes that suspicion of barr continues to run deep. particularly among democrats who accuse him of acting as more of an advocate for trump than the institutional interests of the department of justice. >> amid the fallout over president trump's july call with the ukrainian president, republicans were left scrambling to try to pick up the pieces. according to the "washington post" robert costa one republican senator says the transcripts released are a huge mistake that the gop has to confront and defend. the law micro told costa that republicans must now argue at the same time that house democrats are overreaching with their impeachment inquiry of

trump. costa adds that three other gop senators complained to the post that the white house made a statement by releasing the transcript, arguing that it sets a precedent for future presidents about disclosure of calls with foreign leaders. and could be seen as a concession to democrats. meanwhile, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is digging in for a fight telling "politico" in a statement that he had quote read the sum river the call, adding quote, if this is the launching point for house democrats impeachment process, they have already overplayed their hand. it is clear there is no quid pro quo. the democrats were desperately were hoping for. and meanwhile lindsey graham offering a warning for democrats. >> how do you think it will turn out for democrats? >> i don't know. i just know this. i know how it turned out for us in 1998. we got our ass kicked. so do what you think is good for the country. i think it's good for the country, for me to say to the public at large, this phone call

is not an impeachable offense and if it becomes impeachable offense, god help the next president and the ones behind. >> not all republicans were towing the party line. with bob costa pointing out that senator ben sasse's comments in particular caused a stir. amid the gop. >> relate troubling things here, republicans ought not just not circle the wagons and democrats should not use the words impeachment before they knew anything about the actual substance. the administration ought not be attacking the whistleblower as some talking points suggest they plan to do. >> i did read the transcript. it remains troubling in the extreme. it's deeply troubling. >> joining us here on the set, danny cevallos, nbc legal an sift and senior writer at roll call niels lesniewski. i want to address what mcconnell said first and foremost yesterday when he said there was not a direct quid pro quo, ie we will hold the money unless you decide to investigate what

happened here with biden. talk us through your reaction to what mcconnell had to say about this. >> first, we can't over-focus on the quid pro quo aspect of it. for two reasons. quid pro quo is not even necessarily even required to find an impeachable smartphones. the impeachable offense. quid pro quo is relevant in corruption laws, extortion, bribery and having defend the those cases quid pro quo is very broadly defined. it does not and has never really required a direct exchange of hey, if you don't give me a bag of cash, we are going to burn down your restaurant. that's not the way it happens. and anyone who watches mob movies knows that's not how it happens and the domg knows that it happens in a much more subtle fashion than that. quid pro quo can really be any benefit on each side that is related to the overall corrupt purpose. but as i said before, you may

have campaign finance law violations in requesting anything of value from a foreign government and that anything of value is also very proudly defined. criminal liability is a much higher bar than an impeachable offense. which i would say most academics agree that a crime is not required for an impeachable offense, but notable academics like alan dershowitz do argue that a crime is required for impeachment. >> niels, let me get your thoughts on the republican party here for a moment, how they have been reacting to this, as we have played obviously different ends of the spectrum to their reaction but as this drags on, as we get more reaction, as the whistleblower complaint likely becomes president, are we likely to see any positions or minds changed as a result? >> i think the people who came out quickly and said there is no quid pro quo here, there is nothing to see here, there is no way it is impeachable, it is will be difficult for some of those lawmakers both in the house and senate to reverse

course. the people who i would be looking at are, in some of the clips you played on the front end here, what does mitt romney do? what does susan collins from maine do, who says i can't comment at all because i might be a juror in this proceeding, which of course is an interesting tact to take. i think those are the people to look at, most directly, unless, and here's the obvious caveat here, unless they there all of a sudden is information that emerges beyond what was in that memo about the phone call, that points more directly toward there being some sort of assistance for assistance exchange that was being proposed. >> danny, we will be hearing from joe maguire this morning starting at 9:00 a.m. for his testimony. what you are looking to hear from him this morning? >> overall, what we're looking for in this entire analysis is

what was requested, what was in the transcript, and i keep calling it a transcript, the summary, and what is left out of that transcript, we need to collect evidence and get a much bigger picture of what is going on in this, i mean in the last couple of days, like i said, we have gotten enough from that memo alone that really damns the president, but overall there is a lot more information on the way that we need to be keeping an eye out for it. >> what do you make quickly, what do you make of the fact that william barr has been invoked by the president, in this memo, but in multiple time, but then is unaware of or has not been instructed to actually follow through. does that in itself provide a window of defense for the president or is it alarming we invoke his personal lawyer and the department of justice attorney general? >> that is really concerning this. administration is, maybe it's not unique, maybe it has happened in the past but at least in recent history, it seems strange to me that you have somebody like rudy giuliani, who is acting both as a private personal attorney, but

then he's also conducting foreign affairs? the issue of rudy giuliani is much more concerning to me than william barr because to some degree, william barr is an arm of the president, but then again, there is plenty of scholarship that argues that the head of the d.o.j., the a. g., is independent in a way that is different from all the other heads of all of the other agencies. so that concerns me. but the rudy giuliani situation is a really curious one. because was he acting at the direction or even at the orders of the chief executive? and if so, can the chief executive really order a private individual to conduct affairs of state, or foreign affairs? it is a really curious position for rudy giuliani. and arguably for bill barr, who is supposed to exercise independent judgment above and beyond that of normal agency heads. >> danny and niels, thank you, both, appreciate it. >> still ahead, lawmakers deal another political blow to

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welcome back, everyone. the senate voted for a second time to end the national emergency president trump declared at the border in a build a wall, excuse me, along the border to build the wall without the approval of congress. in a 54-41 vote consists of 11 republicans who sided with democrat, the senate approved a measure to disprove of the president's emergency declaration. the vote comes after the white house says it would divert $3.6 billion in military funds to fund the wall. however, the vote fell short of the margin needed to overcome a presidential veto. trump is likely to revo veto th resolution. and there is conversation among climate change, a sobering

new report from the united nations is looking at the sweeping consequences of climate change. the report by the inter governmental panel on climate change is having an impact on the world on the ice that makes up so much of the earth and rising seas and melting glaciers is all but certain. and the report claims that the warming climate is killing coral reefs with monster storms and deadly marine heat waves and record losses of sea ice even worse. the panel says given current emissions level, a number of series of effects are essentially avoidable including 100 year floods that will become common in some cities and small island nations including los angeles by the year 2050. >> a scary thought. >> a check of the weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> we will keep getting those reports. never going to get any more, you know, better until something happens. the scientists keep gibb giving

us the information and only a matter of time before the politicians follow-up on what the scientists are saying. keep giving us the story. >> and please, in the southeast, just a little bit of a break. it looks like a week before we finally knock down the temperatures in some areas. today, once again, atlanta, 93, and a few spots in alabama will be in the low 90s. dallas, 95. and even dc could sneak up near 90 degrees once again today. and the temperatures are all about 10 to 15 degrees warmer than normal. friday looks very warm. birmingham, mid 90s. tallahassee about 95. even st. louis will be 88 degrees. 13 degrees warmer than you should be. and let's get into the forecast for today. carry that umbrella. areas from new york city up through boston. late this saturday, a cold front will go through it. will spark just a few showers, maybe an isolated storm. not everyone is going to get wet but it is a possibility. a beautiful day in the great lakes. that's where it feels like fall. we mentioned how warm it it is in the south and the weekend outlook, it is going to be a

crazy weekend. i just mentioned how warm we are going to be in the eastern half of the country, but we have huge changes going on in the west. they are going to be equally as cold. and we are going to talk about a snowstorm, too. so on friday, this is the change beginning, in areas of the pacific northwest and also if you have travel plans from areas from kansas city up to iowa, northern peoria and illinois and chicago, and a few strong thunderstorms are possible and here is where we really get things interesting, on saturday, this storm kicks off a snowstorm in areas of idaho and montana, and mostly the northern rockies, and higher elevations especially, but it is going to be a two-day event and it will actually be a significant snow in the high elevations and at the same time, record heat will be going on in areas of the southeast. we have about 20 major climate sites break record highs on saturday and on sunday. and still a little stormy in the middle. that's what you would expect if we have extreme heat and we also still have our snowstorm going into sunday here. and heavy snow, too, at that. maybe those people are in jackson hole, some of those

great ski areas there, maybe a little early fall skiing for you. steamy in areas of the southeast. and also, pretty nice weekend in areas of the northeast. as the dry weather continues. but kind of a wild weather map this weekend. >> winter always gets started a lot earlier for folks who live in those regions but they appreciate it because they're ready for ski season at this point. >> as am i. >> yasmin is always plugging the ski season. >> thanks, bill. still ahead, u.s. farmers get much needed relef as the trump administration strikes a deal with one of its trade partner. >> juul's ceo is replaced, and details coming up on business day, coming up. details coming u day, coming up my migraine takee somewhere else, where there's pain and nausea. but excedrin pulls me back in a way others don't. and it relieves my symptoms fast for real migraine relief. - [woman] with my shark, i deep clean messes like this, and it relieves my symptoms fast this, and even this. but i don't have to clean this,

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the welcome back the ceo of the e-cigarette company juul has stepped down amid added concerns over the vaping crisis. we have more from london on this. talk about the staff shakeup here. >> well, we got a new ceo who is saying that he will conduct, quote, a broad review of the company's practices and policies to ensure alignment with the aim of responsible leadership within the industry. what does that mean? well, they've said they are going to suspend all product advertising in the u.s., they are not going to lobby the trump administration when it comes to the impending new policy that would ban flavored e-cigarettes. they said they will comply with that policy once it comes into force and won't fooid fight it in the courts. fda insists that juul has created a teen vaping epidemic that has involved the dea in the

vaping investigations saying it will prosecutor illegal sales. we've had florida and georgia announcing, with the total around the u.s. to 11 and tobacco stocks across the world down significantly. 11. tobacco down. altria own a massive stock in juul, the talks are off. president trump says will open markets up to $7 billion in u.s. products and details for this, he call it fair and reciprocal. he said gentleman panel reduce tariffs on beef and pork, will eliminate them on almonds, blue berries. they say the two countries promise to conduct around $40 billion worth of digital trade and for that to happen they're going to bar all customer's duty on things like ebooks and digital magazines.

>> they have vaping as the new ediction in this country, a very powerful read on that front. let me get your thoughts on something else. mattel, the maker of the iconic barbie doll coming out with a new doll that's going to be just as iconic. what do they have in store? >> it's a new line of gender neutral dolls. they want to make dolls more inclusive by keeping labels out. they've add more skin tones and more professions to their lineup. barbie is looking at sales up 9% which is helping the company. kids can customize the new doll's hair, clothes, accessories. you get 100 different accessories that come with each kit. and that might be something for parents to look at it and say $30 is not a bad deal. >> we appreciate it. coming up, axios's nick johnson has a look at the one

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minds of voters. they're focusing on that lentless votre every time he's asked about his role, it immediately pivots to joe biden and hunter biden. >> they're going to be relentlessly focused on it. the playbook on this is pivot to this constantly '. it's like a trump jaw jid sue. he's pivoting the conversation. they'll use social media and allies in the republican party. there have been few cracks on this issue. having them continue to reiterate that message and they're trying to keep joe biden off balance by it. it's still framing in people's minds. >> is there a risk he's overplaying his hand early someone to we're almost a year and a half out from an election. are we seeing this too aggressively and early?

>> you do it early and often. if you have to say this exact same thing for 18 months, if we're up to election day the trump campaign will be talking about hunter biden and ukraine. >> it would be a problem if elizabeth warren ends up being the nominee. >> they'll latch on to a similar thing. >> i want to ask you about the impeachment proceedings and what's taken place over the last 24 hours. we know there are enough votes in the house. they said it's dead on arrival in the senate. do you think that's true? >> what are republicans like susan collins and mitt romney, really waiting for this moment. does the republican wall in defense of president trump break? will there be testimony of the whistleblower? possibly someone saying this is a bridge too far, we'll have to turn on the president. >> to pick up on a point you raised, this is a playbook for

president trump like in 2016 going after hillary clinton, are there any democrats saying let's avoid what we did in 2016, joe biden can't be the nominee? are you starting to hear any rumblings in the democratic party? >> not on that. they're viewing this the president going after joe biden the start has been that's what they're really worried about. they want to frame him early because they know he could be a strong nominee and they are rallying to his defense right now. that hasn't tipped over and said because this is a probable candidate there could be something else. >> what else are you hear? >> dissent on republicans on whether rl releasieleasing the a good idea. people in the white house were equally was in dispute about that. some folks knew it was exculpatory but other folks are like we're providing so much information we're giving

democrats a lot zone in on. >> big day today on capitol hill. the whistleblower complaint being released possibly earlier this morning. what are you look out for in both of those events? >> the whistleblower complaint was based not on that one call we have information about. what more did we learn about the other calls? there's been some reporting about that about earlier calls in the spring immediately after the ukrainian election when the president called. are there other pieces and what happened outside of that call? >> and we'll see what happens with joseph maguire was well. of course you can be reading axio am in a bit when it comes out. sign up for that there and the newsletter. >> that does it for us this morning. "morning joe" starts right now. now, y'all need to know out there, this is basic stuff. foreign donors and certainly foreign governments cannot participate in the american political process. >> so basic stuff there from

mike pence back in 2016. not basic enough, apparently, for donald trump. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is thursday, september 26th along with joe, willie and me we have former chief of staff of the cia and department of defense nbc news national security analysts jeremy bash. political reporter for "the washington post," msnbc political analyst, and moderator of washington week on pbs, robert costa. u.s. national editor at the financial times ed is with us. nbc news and msnbc law analysts and editor and chief of law fair, benjamin whit is. and jonathan lemire or as president trump calls him, a faker. >> we'll be on the air past three hours today as we watch