as an impeachment inquiry into president trump ramps up, there's new reporting that secretary of state mike pompeo was listening to the phone call where president trump asked the president of ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son. >> plus, according to "washington post," attorney general william barr has been meeting with foreign officials to ask for assistance with an investigation into the origins of the russia probe. >> and house democrats subpoena president trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani for documents as part of the impeachment inquiry into the president. good morning, everybody.

it is tuesday, october 1. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. we begin with new reporting concerning secretary of state mike pompeo's role in the july 25th phone call between president trump and the president of ukraine that is now at the center of an impeachment inquiry. a senior state department official telling "the wall street journal," and nbc news, has confirmed the reporting, that pompeo was among the administration officials who listened in on the phone call. pompeo's participation on the call has not been previously reported. in interviews last week pompeo said that he had not read the whistleblower's complaint, in its entirety, but maintained that actions by the state department had been quote entirely appropriate. >> the "the wall street journal" is reporting that pressed the president of ukraine eight times to work with rudy giuliani to investigate joe biden's son. what do you know about those

conversations. >> you gave me a complaint of a whistleblower complaint, none of which i've seen. >> are you confident that none of your staff, that you or none of your staff did anything improper in this whole situation? thank you. >> so matt, i haven't had a chance to actually read the whistleblower complaint yet. i read the first couple of paragraphs, and then got busy today, but i'll ultimately get a chance to see it, if i understand it right, it is from someone who had secondhand knowledge. to the best of my knowledge, from what i've seen so far, each of the actions that were undertaken by state department officials was entirely appropriate. >> so three house committees have subpoenaed pompeo for documents related to trump's impeachment inquiry. he has until friday to turn them over. now to the president's extensive efforts to discredit the russia investigation. sources tell "washington post," that attorney general william barr has been traveling the globe urging foreign intelligence officials to investigate the origins of the

russia investigation. in fact, the post report says that barr travelled to italy last week with the u.s. attorney john durham who barr tapped earlier this year to investigate the investigators of the russia probe and a justice department spokesman would not say whether there is an inquiry. and there is a report from "the new york times" that president trump asked the prime minister of australia to help barr in his efforts to discredit the mueller probe. that follows the revelations from the president's july 25th phone call to president zelensky of ukraine when zelensky told trump, that he was ready to buy more u.s. made jav lins and president trump said quote i would like you to do us a favor though and asked the ukrainian leader to work with the attorney general to challenge the u.s. assessment that china was behind the dnc hack. here is a flash billions back of the attorney general's move back in may. >> the attorney general is one of the most respected people in this country. he can look and i hope he looks at the u.k., and i hope he looks

at australia, and i hope he looks at ukraine, i hope he looks at everything. >> so in a statement about the president's call with the prime minister of australia, white house deputy press secretary said in part, this call relates to a d.o.j. inquiry publicly announced months ago to uncover exactly what happened. the d.o.j. simply requested that the president provide introductions to facilitate that ongoing inquiry and he did so. that's all. the chairman of the senate judiciary committee says he will write a letter to australia, italy and the u.k. asking him to work with the attorney general. and rudy giuliani was hit with multiple subpoenas yesterday demanding he turn over all records pertaining to his contacts with ukrainian officials. nbc news white house correspondent kirsten welker has more. >> reporter: rudy giuliani's push for an investigation in ukraine is putting him at the center of the impeachment fire storm. with that new demand for documents from giuliani by house democrats. giuliani is mentioned in the

whistleblower complaint more than 30 times. alleging the president's personal lawyer was in frequent contact with ukrainian officials, as giuliani spearheaded the effort to investigate hunter biden's business activities in ukraine while his father joe biden was vice president. there is no evidence of wrongdoing by biden. at one point, giuliani contradicted himself during a recent interview. >> did you ask the ukraine to investigate joe biden? >> no. >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden. >> of course i did. >> giuliani has told nbc news, the state department asked for his help and sent us text messages including this one, that he says was from the state department's former special envoy to ukraine, kurt volker. volker resigned last week. giuliani defiant, slamming house democrats and congressman adam schiff. >> i would really love to challenge the illegitimacy of this committee. i can't see how you can have a committee run by a guy who has judged the case already. >> thanks to kirsten welker for that report.

joining us on the set, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. let's talk about the subpoenaing of giuliani and all documents basically pertaining to his contacts with ukrainian officials. what do you make of it? >> it raises the same question i've had for several weeks now, which is who or what is rudy giuliani. what is his role? he is a private citizen who is apparently advising or providing some kind of legal services to the president. but each his own statements contradict the idea that he is providing exclusively legal services because he said and i'm pair phasing at some point i was communicating with these foreign governments not as a lawyer but essentially as an arm of the government. but he's not a member of the government. so first, i wonder, does executive privilege apply? traditionally, executive privilege applies because the executive branch and the congress are co-equal branches of government but if you're not a member of that government, if you're not involved, if you're

not an actual government employee, then how can executive privilege ever attach? and if it is attorney-client privilege, the regular attorney-client privilege that applies to all citizens and all people retaining an attorney, most of these things didn't involve exclusive communications with an attorney and his client, which will destroy the privilege, and as he said himself, he wasn't acting as an attorney often which means none of that stuff would be subject to attorney-client privilege either. so even though they may raise certain kinds of privilege and ask for time to sort it out, ultimately, a lot of this stuff, i don't see a court deciding, is privileged. >> to that point, what legal implications could giuliani's testimony in front of a house committee have on president trump? where is the president vulnerable with a giuliani testimony? >> the president is vulnerable to the extent that giuliani was communicating with a foreign government, in order to benefit president trump in any campaign

efforts. he may be able to avoid problems if giuliani was just acting as this strange nether region of a private citizen conducting state department business. that may be strange. it might even violate some kind of, the spirit of some, the way we do business, in the government, but it's the key to this, has always been, was trump acting to benefit himself politically, and to do harm to his political opponents. if you look at the history of impeachment, that has always been a key issue, and at least several different impeachments. >> i go back to the point that if joe biden was not running for president, would this conversation have even taken place with the president asking ukraine to look into hunter biden and i think that is somewhat suggested, answers that question about, a political rival in itself. >> that goes to the heart of the matter. can the president ask ukraine to investigate corruption generally? i think there is in problem with that. does the american public reasonably believe that he

focused in on the bidens as some particular threat? >> with all of the stuff that's out there. >> that's the question. >> danny cevallos, thanks, buddy. president trump told reporters yesterday that the white house is trying to figure out the identity of the whistleblower. he also renewed his attacks on house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff. watch. >> mr. president, do you now know who the whistleblower is, sir? >> well, we're trying to find out about a whistleblower. when you have a whistleblower that reports things that were incorrect. as you know, and you probably now have figured it out, the statement i made to the president of ukraine, a good man, a nice man, knew, was perfect, it was perfect. but the whistleblower reported a totally different statement. >> the call was perfect. when the whistleblower reported it, he made it sound terrible. and then you have adam schiff who even worse made up my words, which i think is just a horrible, i've never even seen a thing like that.

adam schiff representative, congressman, made up what i said. >> all right. joining us now, national political reporter for "politico," alaina schneider, great to have you with us this morning. what could be the potential legal fallout from president trump's push to learn the identity of the whistleblower. he seems adamant that he is trying to find that out. >> what is clear there are a set of rules and guidelines and laws that protect whistle brothers that when they followed intelligence protocols, that their anonymity is protected that their protection against retribution, that's codified. what is unclear is how that might change if the president is the person himself, the president himself is the one who is seeking to unmask that whistleblower. and so the whistleblower advocates and lawyers, who have spoken on the record about this, have expressed a real concern that this might have a chilling effect, on other whistleblowers, but on top of that, it is sort of unclear how this might be read legally and certainly there

has been criticism from democrats and from a handful of republicans, who have said, you know, that this sort of tantamount to witness tampering on the part of the president, but that's not, at least at this point, having impact on the president's strategy in how he's approaching any of this. and certainly having sort of tampered down his willingness and clear eagerness to question who this person really is. >> we heard joe maguire last week, in his testimony saying the number one priority was to protect the identity of the whistleblower and it seems as if it is protecting the whistleblower from the executive branch and the president of the united states. could the president's push to learn more about this whistleblower actually impact the plans that he or she has to testify in front of the house democrats? >> well, so, the whistleblower's lawyers sent out a series of letters, both to the director of national intelligence, and to the house committees that are investigating this complaint, saying specifically, that the president's tweets, his actions and words around this whistleblower, is deeply

concerning not only for safety but also his ability to in fact testify. they certainly haven't given any impression that it would prevent him necessarily. but they have made it clear that this is deeply concerning. and something that they're keeping a close eye on. and in fact, ask house intelligence committee members to push back on it and it say how important it was to maintain the anonymity of this whistleblower. so certainly they are concerned about it. but whether or not it is going to have an impact on him testifying, it is sort of unclear at this point. but we know that the meeting is still tentative. that it is not official yet. >> elena schneider, thank you. we will talk to you again in a little bit. >> thanks. still ahead congress wants access to trump's communication with russian president vladimir putin and the kremlin is responding. >> new look at some new polling that continues to show growing support for impeaching president trump. we vill those stories and a whole lot more and a check on weather when we come back. we get it.

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welcome back, everyone. following the role of investigations and president trump's ties to foreign leaders the kremlin stated that the u.s. would need russian consent to publish phone calls between president trump and president putin and reuters is reporting that congress is pushing to obtain transcripts of calls between the two leaders in which house intel chairman adam schiff that trump possibly threatened national security. the kremlin spokesperson told reporters monday that a release of the transcripts without russian approval would not be appropriate diplomatic practice saying quote of cour publication is to some extent only possible by mutual agreement by the parties. this is a certain diplomatic practice. to be more specific, perhaps diplomatic practice in general does not envisage their publication. if there are some signals from americans, we will discuss that. president trump and his allies in recent days have alleged the intelligence community recently changed the rules requiring whistleblowers

to base their claims on first-hand information. a trio of top house republicans, minority leader kevin mccarthy, oversight committee jim jordan and intel member devon nunes sent a letter to the inspector general michael atkinson inquiring into whistleblower requirements changed. and according to attorneys who represent the whistleblower, the law has not changed. and there is no requirement that whistleblowers stick to first-hand information in their complaints. precisely because those filings are designed to trigger official investigations that would uncover such first-hand information. >> and the theory stems from reportingly the conservative outlet the federalist that is a previous whistleblower form stressed the importance of first-hand information in complaints sent to congress a new form which asks respondents to check a box if they are reporting first or secondhand information was posted days before the ukraine whistleblower's complaint. and a clarifying statement

yesterday, the office of the inspector general of the intelligence community said quote, by law, the complainant need not possess first-hand information in order to file a complaint. in the process of reviewing and clarifying those forms, and in response to recent press inquiries regarding the instance whistleblower complaint the icig understood that certain language in those forms could be read incorrectly as suggesting that whistleblowers must possess first-hand information in order to file an urgent concern, complaint with the congressional intelligence committees. a check of the weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> happy october. >> it doesn't feel like it. >> not yet, though. >> 90 degrees. >> well, the christmas stuff is going up in the stores. >> what about halloween and thanksgiving, bill? >> they skip right over it. >> ahead of yourself. >> have you been in the stores yet? all of the christmas stuff is up. >> exciting. >> we're getting there. let's get there in the south. we would love to have a little bit of cool air.

the big weather story as we start october ser going to be the heat. it was in september and it is continuing as of this morning, and we are starting october, and it feels like 90 degrees, in galveston, at this hour, in the middle of the night, as you walk outside, and we are still in the 70s, in many areas of the country, an one spot in michigan still feels like 80 degrees, and over the next three days, we're going to have about at least 200 weather stations, we call them our climate sites, usually they're located near the airports, are going to be at record highs or very close to it, and each of these red dots shows you those locations and you notice a lot of it is centered here, the ohio val lick the northeast, mid atlantic and even a few spots down throughout the south. let's get into some numbers for thai today. wild it is 98 degrees today in louisville kentucky. 23 degrees warmer than it should be. and notice, almost everyone is about 8 to 20 degrees warmer than they should. and in wednesday, we do the same. this is the last really hot day. washington, d.c. at 93 degrees.

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welcome back, everybody. we're following breaking news out of hong kong. you can see there, it seems like a pretty major fire is burning on the streets of hong kong right now, and we are following violent clashes which have reignited with police and protesters there, hours after china's government put on a parade mashing 70 years of communist party control, and riot police used a water cannon truck to deter demonstrators and reports say to "the new york times," in some instances, protesters hurled fire bombs and attacked them with a corrosive fluid causing chemical burns. would he have more from a correspondent standing by live on the streets of hong kong. appreciate you joining us this morning, and talk us through what you have been seeing so far this morning. >> reporter: well, just an hour ago, this was an all ages march that was going through the streets, protesters out, because this is china's national day. but you can see that the

situation has deteriorated. the protesters have set fires, built barriers, and what we're seeing down here now, if you look in the distance, columns of riot police, that are now moving through this main commercial district, central hong kong, trying to push protesters in all directions. this is what they've been trying to do all day is to avoid this critical mass of protesters, which inevitably leads to trouble. you can see and hear that they're firing tear gas, and have already set off hundreds of rounds, we've seen bean bag pellets that are small projectiles, that are launched as well. as a means of disbursing the crowd. if we just look over here too, we can see the riot police are setting up there, and what they're likely trying to do is a strategy that they employed on sunday, where they tried to hem in the protesters, from all sides. and then that's when they will swoop in, and they will make arrests. there were at least 150 arrests

that were made on sunday. a sign that they have no tolerance for what protesters have been doing here. this of course is significant timing, because this is china's national day. earlier, there was that huge parade and pageantry in tiananmen square, xi jingping overseeing that parade, and protesters here vowing they would do everything they could to try to embarrass him on this special occasion. >> jachld na d na . >> these protests have been going on for weeks with core deems behind the movement. are we seeing a different chapter of the protest? given the kind of low level and low intensity violence that we're seeing play out on the streets behind you? are we entering a different phase of these demonstrations? >> well, if you look at what has happened over the past 17 straight weekends of protests, we think back to june, when there were more than a million people in the streets, protests

against this extradition bill. it has gone far beyond just that bill now. these are issues that are central to people as part of their identity. they believe that the autonomy of hong kong, that it has enjoyed is being eroded under the leadership of xi jingping, and they feel the tightening grip of china and they feel they need to do everything they can to resist. they have changed tactics. over the course of the summer. and protests inevitably turned violent. we are just going to move back on to the sidewalk here to allow the fire trucks to come through. so what is difficult to understand though, is whether they still enjoy the broad-based support among hong konger, even though they have been using some tactics that have been questionable. there were hundreds of thousands of people who were out in the streets earlier today, all voicing their support, all rejecting the very communist rule that was being celebrated

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welcome back, everybody, i'm yasmin vossoughian, alongside ayman mohyeldin, it is the bottom of the hour, let's start with the morning's top story, the democrats are pushing forward on their impeachment inquiry into president trump. subpoenaing his personal lawyer, rudy giuliani. in a joint letter from house intel chair adam schiff, oversight chair elijah cummings and foreign affairs chair elliot engel, the lawmakers are seeking documents related to giuliani and the president's efforts to get ukraine's government to investigate the biden family. in the letter, the committee chairs say they're demanding the former mayor produce all text message, phone records and other communications related to the matter by october 15. the document does not ask

giuliani to testify. something he previously said he would consider doing. the president's personal lawyer acknowledged the subpoena on twitter writing in part it had been quote signed only by democratic chairs who have prejudged this case. adding that it raises significant issues concerning legitimacy and constitutional and legal issues including inter alia attorney, client, and other privileges. it will be given appropriate consideration. in a statement to nbc news, giuliani said on his tweet saying in part, i think it is extraordinary people are asking me will i comply. no one seems concerned that this is a subpoena on an attorney. giuliani says he has not made a decision yet on whether he will cooperate, appearing on fox news last night, the former mayor was pressed on whether he would testify to lawmakers. >> would you testify, but i think, jay sekulow is actually right, you don't have to do anything. >> oh, i don't know, i'm weighing the alternatives.

kind of like go through it. get all of my evidence together. i will get my charts. i don't know if they let me use video tapes and tape recordings that i have. if they let me get some of the evidence that i gathered, and i have to tell you, sean, all this nonsense about interfering in the election, i gather the all of this evidence, before the mueller probe ended. so it was clearly, under my responsibility, as the lawyer for the president of the united states. >> a new poll shows support for president trump's impeachment growing steadily for americans and a new concern in the white house, and it rose 8 points last week to 45%. 41% said that trump should not be impeached. that is down 4 points. and 47% of americans say they back impeaching trump in the latest cnn-system srs poll. and the quinnipiac university poll shows americans divided, 47 to 47%. on supporting impeachment,

closing a 20 point gap from a week ago. the movement in the polls is caused largely by democrats who saw a 17 point jump from last week to 90%. meanwhile, two sources with direct knowledge of the situation, tell nbc news, that president trump told allies days ago, that he would start worrying about losing republican support if national polls went above 50% of americans supporting impeachment. as cbs news you-gov released, 55% of americans say they approve that congress open an impeachment probe into president trump. president trump is seeking advice on how to move forward, as house democrats impeachment push continues. the "washington post" reports that trump has spoken to friends outside confidantes and republican lawmakers behind the scenes on how to proceed. that is according to a senior administration official. the official tells the post quote this, there are different ways to bake the cake, depending on what sort of cake you want. different flavoring, different temperatures, different ingredients yield different

types of cake and the president as the master baker is testing recipes, and deciding what type of cake he wants. >> i'm hungry. >> meanwhile, some republicans are pushing the white house to set up a more organized approach, saying so far, there has not been a clear plan or strategy to defend the president. >> and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has seemingly come to grips with the potential reality of putting president trump on trial if the house advances an impeachment probe. >> mcconnell acknowledged we be bound to an existing rule which leaves the senate in charge of overseeing a conviction process. >> under the senate rules we're required to take it up, if the house does go down that path, and we will follow the senate rules. >> it's a senate rule related to impeachment that would take 67 votes to change. so i would have no choice but to take it up. how long you're on it is a whole different matter. but i would have no choice but to take it up.

>> joining us again from washington, national political reporter for "politico," elena schneider. welcome back. how could we see a potential impeachment vote against the president impact the senate republican caucus? >> well, as mitch mcconnell has indicated, he would be in a position where we be forced to take this up. and that would then put all of this senate republicans in the position of having to take a politically dangerous vote. and in particular, i'm thinking people like susan collins of maine, and corey gardner of colorado, and tom tillis of north carolina, and martha mcsally of arizona, four senators all running for re-election in 2020, all of which are states that are battleground states where impeachment is something where as we've seen in those recent national polls, impeachment support has in fact grown of late. and so they would all be in a really difficult position where they would have to sort of weigh support among the trump base, and against support among swing voters who may want to see them take a stronger stance on

impeachment. it puts the squeeze on all of those senate republicans as they head into a very key battleground year. and in fact, even senate democrats of late, my colleagues have been reporting on the hill that senate democrats are giddy at the possibility that this gives them an opening to potentially flip the senate given that they only knee toledo seats to do so. >> we like to think that republicans or politicians and democrats in general may not necessarily be paying attention to polls or try to dismiss polls but certainly the new polls that are showing growing support for trump's impeachment among americans, that must be a cause of concern for some in the gop. what impact, if any, will it have on lawmakers and republicans on capitol hill? >> well, all politicians are keeping a close eye on where their polling is and where polling is on impeachment. and i think that it is going to have inevitably an impact as each the president himself identified. that if this gets over 50%, that is going to be a signal to not just obviously democrats who may still be, the few that may still be on the fence, but obviously

for republicans and in particular, we've seen real movement among independents shall the support for an impeachment inquiry has grown by double digits among independent voters. and on top of that, the voters who do support impeachment tend to be college educated, higher income communities, so these are places where republicans need and must make inroads to flip the house, are in those suburban districts or where those suburban republicans are most on defense. so certainly, there is a large political calculus that goes into all of this, that they're keeping a really close eye on it. >> elena schneider, always a pleasure. thanks. a pair of public rebukes of president trump as he finds himself engulfed in scandal. details on former nsa john bolton's new criticism of his former boss and a new op-ed of jeff flake calling on republicans to abandon trump in 2020. >> bill karins is back with another check of the forecast. the first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment. es rev)

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former national security adviser john bolton reportedly opposed president trump's call to ukraine. bolton argued against the july 25th phone call because he was concerned trump wasn't coordinating with advisers on what to say and might air personal grievances. the officials declined to say whether that included concerns that trump might raise questions about joe biden. speaking at a foreign policy forum in the nation's capital yesterday, bolton did not mention the ukraine controversy during his first public remarks since leaving the white house but did criticize the president's approach to north korea and iran. former republican senator jeff flake of arizona is out with a new op-ed entitled this. fellow republicans, there is still time to save your souls. he writes in part, this, if the house decides against files articles of impeachment or the senate fails to convict, senate republicans will have to decide whether given what we now know, about the president's actions, and behavior, to support his

re-election. obviously, the answer is no. my fellow republicans, it is time to risk your careers in favor of your principles. whether you believe the president deserves impeachment, you know he does not deserve re-election. our country will have more presidents, but principles, well, we get just one crack at those, for those who want to put america first, it is critically important in this moment in the life of our country that we all here and now, do just that. trust me when i say you can go elsewhere for a job, but you cannot go elsewhere for a soul. >> pretty powerful. >> pretty powerful. and oddly, such a good transition to bill karins. who is bringing us the weather. >> very powerful. >> man with a great soul. bill karins. >> bill? >> i'll take that one. but definitely not the powerful part. that's not going to happen. >> you have a power around here. right here. this little area. all right, good morning, everyone and happy october. if we have dangerous weather it is from flash flooding.

a moderate risk from omaha to ma mauka and the quad city. unbelievable heat in the eastern half of the country. the cold in areas to the west. and we showed you pictures from the montana snowstorm yesterday. in the middle is the stormy weather. numerous thunderstorms in northern iowa, southern portions of minnesota, if you're in wisconsin, bring the umbrella with you today, and we even have some downpours coming out of mexico, toward el paso, and into areas of new mexico and northern portions of texas. and flash flood watches that are up that cover about 1300 miles so again, we won't have anything that is happening quite yet but we will go through a rainy period today. and moo tonight, if we get repeated offenders where we have numerous thunderstorms over the same area, training with a little bit of a risk. so as far as the forecast goes, the heaviest rainfall totals, northern kansas, iowa, wisconsin, and even a little section there, of northern michigan. so today's forecast, it doesn't look like october. it doesn't feel like october.

95 dallas. 94 st. louis. and i know louisville will be up there, about 98 degrees today. and dc, to new york to boston, it doesn't feel exactly like october, but it is not that blistering heat. dc 84. 70s in new england. tomorrow looks like the last really hot day of the summer season in the mid atlantic region. and washington, d.c. should be 93. and new york city should be 88. the record high is 90. so it will be a close call. but by the time we get to about thursday and friday, everyone except the deep south cools off. >> i was going to say i've seen some pumpkins on the stoops of new york city and i'm worried about them getting moldy and soft and mushy. >> to the end of octoberer. >> it is not going to make it. >> bring it inside. >> it's going to make it. >> thank you very much. still ahead amazon looks to expand the presence of its cashier-less technology and offering it to other retailers. >> and credit suisse finds itself embroiled in controversy resulting in one of its executives stepping down.

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welcome back. the manhattan u.s. attorney's office is diving into the ongoing legal battle involving president trump's tax returns. in a letter to the judge overseeing the case, u.s. attorney jeffery berman indicated that his office would participate in a lawsuit filed by trump that seeks to block a subpoena on his financial documents. the office will file a submission by tomorrow, according to "the wall street journal."

last month, trump sued the manhattan district attorney's office after it sent its long-time accounting firm a grand jury subpoena for tax returns back to 2011. credit suisse's coo resigned yesterday after taking responsibility for spying on the former wealth management chief and it caused severe reputational damage to the bank. we have more from london with the latest. joanna, good to have you with us. what can you tell us about the fallout from the surveillance scandal? >> huge story here in the financial world. and so a couple of weeks ago, reports emerged that credit suisse, one of the largest banks in the euro zone, had actually hired private detectives to follow around one of their former employees, who used to run the wealth management unit and the detectives were solely, they had one purpose, to make sure that mr. kahn was not having any contact with credit suisse employees. yesterday, the coo of credit suisse resigned taking full responsibility for launching

that investigation. but still, a lot of investors have a lot of questions about whether he had anything to do about it. today, there was a board there . the board had not cleared him and has said that he knew nothing about what was going on behind the scenes. a lot of people have questions as to the management style of this company and also the represent you tooational dama reputational damage. now facebook has started excluding opinion pieces and satire from their check program. the sole purpose is to combat misinformation, but they have to make many exemptions. of course opinion pieces and politicians are being an exemption as well. there's a fine line for them on combating fake news on one hand but respecting free sfeech peec

the other. let's talk about amazon here looking to expand its go cash technology. talk to us about it. >> they have this cashier technology in stores. the way it works as a customer you'll go in, you would pick up your product off the shells, scan your phone and then you'd walk out and get an automatic receipt. what amazon is planning on doing is rolling that out to other retailers outside of amazon stores like movie theaters and the goal here is to continue with their retailing presence without having to spend on investigating in bricks and mortar businesses. and also one extra plus for them is potential partnership when it comes to their cloud business with new companies they could perhaps lure them into that technology as well. they're planning on having hundreds of stores by 2020. >> they make it so easy to spend money.

i imagine there will be an alarm going off -- >> amazon knows everything about you. >> they know where you live, they know what you're doing. >> thank you so much. coming up, axios as a look at this morning's one big thing. and the growing reach of president trump's ukraine scandal. >> more reporting on secretary of state mike pompeo's apparent role between the president and the president of ukraine as democrats ramp up the inquiry that the president's lawyer rudy giuliani. we'll have a lot more on that on "morning joe" just moments away. n "morning joe" just moments away. like job. his team at ctca treated his cancer and side effects. so job can stay strong for his family. cancer treatment centers of america. appointments available now.

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welcome back, everyone. joining us now from washington, d.c. with a look at axios am, the cofounder mark allen. what is axios's one big thing? >> good morning. and the first one big thing of october, the axios one big thing is republicans fear taxadous.

we had a fifth republican from texas, numbers that put the party in a really deep hole. this reflects a demographic reality that's going to start hitting the republicans in every growing state. so mike murphy, the republican strategist tells me that texas is the big buckle on the republicans electoral college belt and it's showing real cracks. the increase diversity that we're seeing in texas makes it much harder for republicans. and, the big weakness for republicans among suburbanites, something that's hitting the country across the build also causing them to feel it in texas. there's bane leen a lot of talk the years when does texas turn blue, it's been happening under trump and this recognize they have to do something quick. >> we do know that president trump suspect heading to texas later this month to hold a rally there. how much of this decision is based on some of the concerns

that you just laid out? >> a little bit of it is gamesmanship by the trump campaign. they know that depending on who's nominated by democrats, they know they're unlikely to take texas this year, but they want to force democrats to spend their -- democrats love that republicans having to spend time there. so texas becomes a little bit of a bigger piece on the chessboard, something that in the past a strong republican candidate would be able to ignore. now it's something that no one is ignoring at any level of the party. they know that now this could be hand-to-hand combat, whether it's the presidential race, and certainly in these tough house race where's you see senior members saying no thanks. >> let me get your thoughts on president trump's tweets. i know that you are looking at those tweets and how they may be impacting the impeachment inquiry into him. what are you finding from that

deep dive? >> axios likes to look at collisions. how the world's of business, tech, media, politics collide. here we have a real collision because you have facebook and twitter which is a that they have rules for posts, that you can't harass, you can't attack, you can't threaten. then you have president trump who since the announcement of the impeachment inquiry has had even more combative tweets. you want to talk about tweets, now the president is talking about civil car, talking about traitors. so that presents a dilemma. aethd case, as engineers would say, for the platforms. both facebook and twitter have said that there's a news maker exception, so nobody's going to go after the president's tweets. but, if you were anybody else, some of these would be in a gray area. >> mike, talk to us about the new poll axios has looking at 2020 democrats. >> yeah. this is a poll axios did with college reaction, which looks at college students.

look at that, elizabeth warren surging to the top among college students just a few months ago, joe biden was securely there as he was in other polls. so why does this matter? we see that college sentiment is falling national sentiment. so before just in july elizabeth warren was in fourth in that poll. now we see that she's up top. >> all right, michael leke alles great to have you. >> thank you. >> and to all of our viewers out you there you can sign up for it at signup.axios.com. >> "morning joe" starts right now. in what felt like a very desperate move, posted a video to twitter as if he can't get on the now's tell his supporters that he has no intention of going anywhere anytime soon. >> what's going on now is the single greatest scam in the

history of american politics. the democrats want to take away your guns, they want to take away your healthcare, they want to take away your vote, they want to take away your freedom and your judges, they want to take away everything. >> and back tomorrow you go. >> wow. >> a little late night from jimmy kimmel live. >> never saw that coming, that was fast. >> welcome to "morning joe." it's tuesday, october 1st. along with joe, willie and me we have tony deutsche. professor at princeton university, eddy. an msnbc political analysts, eugene robinson and nbc news correspondent covering national security and intelligence, ken delanian. there is so much happening this morning so let's frame where thin s