that will bring our wednesday night broadcast to a close. thank you for being here with us and good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. this morning, turkey says ground forces are working against kurdish fighters in northern syria days after president trump agreed to let the operation proceed. >> donald trump is down playing the alliance with the kurds saying they didn't help us in the sediment worcond world war. >> all this with record support of impeaching the president, 51% say president trump should be impeached and removed from office. good thursday morning, everybody. it is october 10. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin.

we begin with three days after the president agreed to pull back u.s. troops from northern syria, turkey launched air strikes, fired artillery, and began a ground offensive against u.s. allied kurdish fighters it views as terrorists in the region. minutes after turkish jets began pounding the suspected positions of syrian and kurdish forces president erdogan outlined a tweet, to prevent a terror corridor along the turkey southern border and bring peace to the region. terrified residents fled in panic, leaving in foot and in vehicles, piled high with belongings. accordinged to the associated press, at least seven civilians and three members of the kurdish militia known as the syrian democratic forces were killed in the turkish bombardment. kurdish activists and a syrian war monitor says. unconfirmed reports from the syrian democratic forces writing

on the official twitter account, a prison was hit during the turk irk air strike and the tweet says they believe turkey is undermining all successful efforts and achievements ganged during the fight against isis. the u.s. military has taken custody of two of those, known as the beatles were taken into u.s. custody because the turkish operation posed a security threat. it is a rare instance in which the u.s. has taken direct responsibility for isis prisoners in the region. president trump tweeted about it saying quote saying, the united states has taken the two isis militants tied to the beheadings of those known as the beatles out of a secure location, they are the worst of the worst. president trump released a statement saying the u.s. does not endorse the attack and has made it clear to turkey that this operation is a bad idea. but that contradicts this statement, from a senior

adviser, to turkish president erdogan. >> president trump and president erdogan have reached an understanding over precisely what this operation is. >> and here is how president trump defended his decision to abandon the kurds. >> the kurds are fighting for their land. just so you understand. they're fighting for their land. and as somebody wrote in a very, very powerful article today, they didn't help us in the second world war, they didn't help us with normandy, as an example. and in addition to that, we have spent tremendous amounts of money, on helping the kurds, in terms of ammunition, in terms of weapons, in terms of money, in terms of pay, with all of that being said, we like the kurds. >> speaking to reporters the white house yesterday, president trump continued to attack the whistle-blower whose complaint about a phone call with the president of ukraine kicked off the impeachment inquiry. the president once again called for the whistle-blower's

unmasking, and questioned why that person should be protected. >> did any white house official express any concern to you -- >> no. >> or speak to you about that phone call. >> it is all a big con. don't you understand? look, the phone call, you have, it it's the transcript. when you see all of the elements, when you see that schiff saw the whistle-blower, when you see what the whistle-blower said about the phone call, and it was totally different, he made it up, and i don't know why a person that defrauds the american public should be protected. okay? >> i'd like to find, who is the person in between the whistle-blower and hearing about the conversation, the conversation was, i think, a perfect conversation. but who's the person giving this information? if that person exists, i'm not sure that person exists, but i think it's important, and i say this to congress, i think it's important to find out who that person is. because we could have a spy. this was a fraud.

because that call was perk. and if you read the whistle-blower's report, that was no, it bore no resemblance to what the call was. >> the president also claimed yesterday that the whistle-blower has ties to one of his democratic opponents, lawyers for the whistle-blower released a statement, hitting back at the president yesterday, saying the whistle-blower quote never worked for or advised a political candidate, campaign or party, and spent their entire government career in apolitical roles within the executive branch. >> and over half of voters now agree that president trump should be impeached and removed from office. according to a latest fox news possible. believe it or not. 51% believe there should be removal up 9% from last year. 43% do not, down 7%. those who support the impeachment probe include 13% of republicans, 39% of independent, and a staggering 85% of democrats. since the whistle-blower

accusations, trump's job approval has fallen two points, since september, to 43%. and compared to previous administrations, over half, that is, 51%, said that the trump administration is more corrupt, up five points since last month, and 27% said it is less corrupt and 18% said it is about the same, down six points. two-thirds of voters polled said it was inappropriate for trump to ask foreign lead torious investigate rival, 25% said they believe it was appropriate. and when asked about what trump said on the call with ukraine's president, 43% called it an impeachable offense, 27% believe it was inappropriate but not impeachable and 17% said the conversation was appropriate. and almost half of voters, 48%, said the impeachment inquiry was trump getting what he deserved. 37% of the people believe they are out to get the president. and half of registered voters say they support the current impeachment inquiry into the

president. 50% said they would support the house voting to impeach the president, and 43% opposed. president trump tweeted that despite new polls showing growing support for house democrats' impeachment inquiry, only a minority of americans support the push. the president tweeted yesterday, only 25% want the president impeached. which is pretty low, considering the volume of fake news coverage. but pretty high considering the fact that i did nothing wrong. it is all just a continuation of the greatest scam and witch hunt in the history of our country. while it is unclear which poll trump is referring to in his tweet, there are several possibility, including a recent "washington post" poll, where 25% of republicans and republican-leaning independents support that congress has begun an impeachment inquiry, into trump, or a recent usa today poll where 25% of democrats said they believe that president trump would be removed from office as the result of the impeachment process. joining us now, a reporter for the "washington post," eugene scott, eugene, good

morning to you. >> good morning. >> let's talk about some of these polls that amin and i were just ticking through. one of the more obvious ones i think we need to talk about, which is this increase in support for the impeachment inquiry, along with the removal of the president from office. over 50% of those polled, the latest fox news poll there, what do you make of it? and what do you think of the strategy of the white house will be, going forward? we are seeing some of it already. but how do they combat this? >> i think this is just a reminder that many of the swing voters, the independent voters, who helped trump win in 2016, are really interested in seeing someone new go to the oval office. these voters have previously been called trump triers, they wanted to give trump a try and wanted to see someone new and someone different at the top level in government and now they're over him and they're over him in part because they're tired of the scandals and these questions, and these concerns, and so i think it was said, you know, when reagan ran for

president, are you better off than you were four years ago? and i think what people are asking themselves right now, is can i take another four years of this? and many of them are saying no. >> so let's switch back for a moment to another thing that is getting a lot of attention, trump strategy in syria, switching the messaging or changing the messaging, i sh say, about that, the way he has been talking about the kurds in particular. what is the latest mixed messaging tell us about hit his next steps. >> it doesn't tell us much in terms of what he believes in terms of history to be factual and to be based in foreign policy president. it's not accurate, and that's why we've had people who know more about the history of this region, and worked in foreign policy areas, constantly push back on the narrative that the president is putting forward. what we are hoping, according to republicans, that are close to the white house is, that the president doesn't have that many deeply-held convictions in this area, and therefore despite continuing to put out ideas,

that aren't really supported by facts, he can be swayed. this is not an area that he is going to lose a lot of support, or from his base and so he might have some wiggle room to back away from what many of his own party members have called probleyou again in a little bit. thank you. still ahead a new accusation of sexual assault against president trump, it is all being detailed in a new book. we will talk what it means for the president and his re-election bid. >> former vice president and 0 2020 election candidate comes out with more on impeaching donald trump. donald tru mp these days, we're all stressed.

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a new book excerpt contains a new accusation of sexual assault against president donald trump. in a passage released yesterday to esquire magazine from "all the president's women," donald trump and the making of a predator, alleged victim, karen johnson, describes for the first time publicly details of a run-in with trump at a

mar-a-lago new years eve party in the early 2000s. johnson joined the party with her husband, who was dieing from multiple scler multiple sclerosis and was walking to use the bath recaroon she was grabbed and pulled behind drapery and kissed by donald trump. >> and she didn't have a say in the matter. johnson says trump began pursuing her through repeated phone calls afterwards but she declined his offers. she never wept back it mar-a-lago after that. and according to this upcoming book, a documentation and photographs corroborate johnson's general description of the evening, as well as a friend who she told about the encounter, years before trump ran for office. trump has repeatedly denied all accusations of misconduct against him previously made public and the sexual allegations against him are made up and politically motivated and

he has accused wick of w.h.o. have made, who have made accusations of seeking fame. >> and danny cevallos joins us. can what about the accounts of the victim and the accounts of the president. >> there was a time i would have said no, especially because allegations that are decades old would probably fall outside the statute of limitations. in most states. but in modern times, the trend is to expand or even do away with entirely the statute of limitations, in sexual assault cases, for both criminal cases, and even more so, in civil cases. because the law looks at the idea that it's a little harsher to defend yourself against criminal prosecution decades later but civil, just looking to take your money, we're more willing to expand that statute of limitations, and make you vulnerable to prosecution or being sued. >> what do you make of all of these new allegations, dozens or so, made in this upcoming book? >> they're obviously very bad. and the fact that they are

eerily similar to the famous access hollywood tape, where trump implies it is so easy for him to get women, he can grab them and pull them in and then you have a allegation that he may have hid behind a tapestry and done exactly that. these are very concerning allegations. i don't think they will have anything to do with the impeachment inquiry, as a very general proposition, conduct that arose before one's presidency is generally not impeachable, although there are some small exceptions to that, but this would not fall into that category. >> are s-this something that could feasibly follow him once he does eventually leave office if that is in a year or so or five years? >> yes, depending on the state where these things happen, and in fact, we know from the clinton/jones case, that if something happened before he was president, he is amenable to civil, civil litigation. not criminal litigation. not criminal prosecution. however because states are continuing to expand their

statutes of limitation, enlarge them, depending where these alleged assaults happened, after he leaves office, the statute may still be live. he may still be amenable to lawsuits, or to possibly to criminal prosecution. but again, it depends on where the state is and what its statute of limitations is. >> as an attorney, do you ever get surprised when you hear accounts of this nature come out so many years after the fact? or when someone like a president has gone from a private citizen to a more high profile public position? >> no, and in a sense, the delay in reporting fits with what we've known for a long time, which is it is very difficult to come forward with these allegations, and multiply that difficulty, times a thousand, when it's a person of power, like donald trump, who even then, long before his presidency, was a very, very powerful person, and his power was only increasing each year, as he became more famous, and more wealthy, and more known through shows like "the

apprentice". >> difficult, intimidating and scary. >> and requires a lot more courage from the women who are sharing and telling their stories. >> danny, appreciate it. thanks. >> let's get to the weather with bill karins. a wild storm in the northern plains. let's go to denver and tell you, denver yesterday at 4:00 p.m. was 80 degrees and sunny and nice and this is what denver will look like later on today. these are pictures coming to us from montana yesterday. this is where the snowstorm was just beginning to move in. and yes, this is going to be a big one. we had a huge one about ten days ago this. one could be worse in the dakotas. let me take you to the maps. in denver right now, 26 degrees. and dealing with some light freezing drizzle. as i said at 4:00 p.m. yesterday, it was 80 degrees and sunny. amazing sow quickly the weather changes in colorado. the blue is the snow on the map. get used to to start looking at the snow maps once again. this is now snowy in rapid city, heading to pierre and heading to areas of north dakota. this green is where we're dealing with rain and a lot of thunderstorms and i'm sure a lot

of people have been woke up in the middle of the night in omaha, and kansas city, also. seven million people are under winter storm warnings or watches or advisories from denver to aspen to the dakotas, this is the amazing part. we're only going to get a few inches here or there in areas of colorado. wyoming. nebraska. but once you get into the dakotas, this is where the snow really starts to add up. when you get into the pink, that's nine inches. or whatever you want to call this. that is 12, that is pink. the fuscia there. and the 18 inches is the red. and that's where we're dealing with a foot and a half of snow over the next three days with blizzard condition, and highways shut and power outages because there are still leaves on the trees in some of those areas. and good luck to the folks riding that storm out in the dakotas. later today, as the cold front slams through the middle of the country, severe weather is possible, and wind damage and an isolated tornado, just north of dallas, all the way up to here to jop lynn and springfield and mccallister and tulsa and fort

smith, arkansas. yesterday, a gloomy cold, nor'easter type day from new york city to boston. it is still drizzly out there this morning. we think the rain will increase later today and showing areas toward cape cod and be prepared for gusty winds, if you're in eastern portions of new england. and new york city should be fine, i don't think the airports will toob bad. occasional rain and some wind gusts but out here to the islands and boston, that's where the worst of the ocean storm will be, the weekend forecast coming up. did you hear about all of the people in california that lost power because of the expected santa ana winds? we will talk about that story coming up. >> pg&e deciding to turn off the electricity, i think? >> yes, almost a million people. >> we will have more on that coming up. >> thanks bill. digging into reporting that rt once asked secretary of state rex tillerson to help drop charges for one of rudy giuliani's clients. arges for on giuliani's clients s. pursuing life-changing cures in a country that fosters innovation here, they find breakthroughs... like a way to fight cancer by arming a patient's own t-cells...

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bloomberg that during an oval office meeting, back in 2017, president trump pressed his then secretary of state, to persuade the justice department to drop a criminal case against an iranian turkish gold trader who happened to be a client of rudy giuliani. the president also reportedly asked tillerson to speak with giuliani about the case. the sources tell bloomberg that tillerson refused arguing it would be interfering in an ongoing investigation, and tillerson also reportedly reiterated his objections to then chief of staff john kelly emphasizing that the request would be illegal. the white house tillerson and kelly all refused to comment. >> nbc news first reported back in 2017, giuliani's client was being prosecuted in federal court for helping iran evade suggestion are u.s. sanctions and court documents say giuliani wanted to go around prosecutors to cut a deal with the u.s. and turkish governments. giuliani released a statement yesterday denying he ever spoke to the president about his client. the gold trade eventually, the

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. it is the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top stories. the condemnation of the president over his syrian decision by lawmakers from both sides of the aisle continues including from noted trump ally senator lindsey graham. graham remains voke number his opposition to the move yesterday, firing off a number of tweets writing this. pray for our kurdish allies who have been shamelessly abandoned by the trump administration. this move ensures rye emergence of isis. the senator called on the president to change course noting that this, quote, american isolationism did not work before world war ii, did not work before 9/11, will not work now, when it comes to fighting isis, it is a bad idea to outsource american national security to russia, iran and turkey. to believe otherwise is very dangerous. graham continued his criticism during an interview yesterday. watch this. >> president trump hasn't ended the war. he's created a bigger war. and if you think america can

withdraw from syria, and the mid east, without consequence, you're making a mistake. but you don't have to believe me. talk to the commanders. the people we trust to make these decisions. they're universally a opposed to this. and to the soldiers who have sacrificed, i am so sorry. >> senator graham along with his democratic colleague chris van holland announced yesterday an agreement on sanctions against turkey, the bill would sanction any assistants of turkish leadership within u.s. jurisdiction. target the country's energy sector and military, prohibit u.s. military sales to turkey and restrict the ability for turkey's leadership to travel to the united states. >> so meanwhile, currents and former intelligence officials tell nbc news that a sustained turkish military operation against the u.s.-backed kurds in northern syria would vastly increase the threat isis poses to americans. the kurdish fighters have done most of the on the ground fighting against isis. and are the single greatest

source of counter-terrorism pressure against the group, according to those officials, and an august report from the pentagon's inspector general, already revealed that president trump's sudden partial troop withdrawal from syria announced late last year, directly led to a new and ongoing isis resurgence in both syria and neighboring iraq. that report noted that the troop drawdown has forced the u.s. to rely on third party monitoring in some areas including 70,000 person refugee camp, that was set off by kurdish forces which "the new york times" quote is evolving into a hot bed of isis ideology and a huge breeding ground for future terrorists. now officials say the most immediate concern is what will happen with the 12,000 isis terrorists that were captured during the u.s.-led campaign. those isis fighters are currently being held in detention centers by the kurdish syrian democratic forces. however, the kurdish commander in charge says that guarding isis prisoners is now a second priority to defending themselves against the turkish assault.

and for the pentagon, of those isis captives, 10,000 are iraqi and syrian, while the remaining 2,000 are actually foreign fighters. yesterday, as you can imagine, president trump weighed in on that. >> they should go back by the way, they should go back to europe, many of them came from europe, but they should go back to germany, to france. some to u.k., actually. but they came from various parts of europe. they didn't come from our country. they're citizens in many cases of those countries. so france, germany. they didn't want to take them back. i gave them one chance, i gave them another chance, i gave them a third chance, i even gave them a fourth chance, they didn't want to take them back, not that i blame them too much, they are used to this with the united states. taking advantage of the united states. well, they're going to be escaping to europe, that's where they want to go, they want to go back to their homes but europe didn't want them from us. but as usual, it's not reciprocal. you know, my favorite word reciprocal. it's not a fair deal for the united states. >> former congressman tray dowdy

is now part of president trump's legal counsel. trump's personal attorney, jay sekulow confirmed the news in a statement last night saying this, i have known trey for years and worked with him when he served in congress. his legal skills an his advocacy willing serve the president well. trey's command of the law is well known and his service on capitol hill will be a great asset, as a member of our team. the move comes as the white house prepare force an impeachment fight with congress, gowdy who led benghazi was the chair of the house oversight and reform committee up until january when he decided not to seek re-election and join fox news as a contributor, the network cut ties with him yesterday. and vice president mike pence was asked by nbc news yesterday if he knew that the trump administration's holdup of ukrainian aid money was in fact tied to president trump's desired investigation into the bidens of watch his response. watch his response.

>> i never discussed the issue of, the issue of the bidens with president zelensky -- >> are you aware -- >> what i can tell you is that all of our discussions internally, the president, our team, and our contacts, and my office with ukraine, were entirely focused on the broader issues of lack of european support and corruption. >> but you were interested in the bidens being investigated and that being tied to ukraine -- >> that's your question. >> after supporting only, a congressional inquiry, democratic presidential candidate joe biden stepped it up yesterday and called for president trump to be impeached for the first time, in a scorching speech in new hampshire. the former vice president said trump has quote indicted himself by obstructing justice and refusing to comply with congressional inquiry. watch this.

>> to preserve our constitution, our democracy, our basic integrity, he should be impeached. that's not only because of what he's done. to answer whether he's committed acts sufficient to warrant impeachment is obvious. we see it in trump's own words. but we have to remember that impeachment isn't only, isn't only about what the president's done. it's about the threat the president poses to the nation. and f-allowed to remain in office. he believes he can and will get away with anything he does. we all laughed when he said he could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot someone, and get away with it. it's no joke. he's shooting holes in the constitution. and we cannot let him get away with it. >> so unsurprisingly the president responded on twitter saying in part that he did

nothing wrong and that biden's quote failing campaign gave him no other choice but to call for impeachment. >> joining us now once again reporter for the "washington post," eugene scott, eugene, great to have you back with us. let's talk a little bit about joe biden here, what do you make of his call to im people im people president trump? what impact could it have on his 2020 campaign. >> there has been quite a bit of criticism towards biden which some people claiming he has not come out early and strong enough and he is certainly hoping this speech will reverse that and remind people who are considering him or who perhaps are on the fence that he actually believes that he will be a strong alternative to trump and believes that trump is not supposed to be in this job, because of his actions and his character. that's the whole foundation of biden's campaign. that he will be superior to trump, and many of these areas, and he tried to reinforce that. >> eugene, a number of republican lawmakers have broken with trump on his decision on syria, we heard especially from

lindsey graham, as we heard, on numerous occasions, how has this affected an already fractured gop caucus. >> it is a reminder how flosscally different the president is from the republican party as we knew it perhaps in 2014 and 2015. i think what will be interesting is to see where voter goes. we know republican voters are overwhelmingly with the president. we don't have a lot of information on how strongly they care about this issue, and many foreign policy issues. and so the president may be able to be moved a bit. based on what his fellow party members advise him towards but it will really depend i think on what voters say, who they follow, and what ideas they determine are to be most, focused and important when we head into 2020. >> let's talk quickly about trey gowdy, joining the president's legal team and what does that say where the president's head is in terms of impeachment and where he sees this going and b,

is trey gowdy a bit of a liability in the sense that he is on the record saying that congress has subpoena power and oversight and documents requested by congress should essentially be handed over to congress, now he's got to justify and explain and defend a man who does not wan to do that. >> this won't be the first time an ally of the president will have to go back and answer for something they said about him that seemed to contradict the president's current actions. i think trey gowdy joining the president's team is a reminder of how closely the president watches fox news, and determines that his allies should come from this network. trey gowdy has not demonstrated anything that should suggest to the president that he would be the best person for this position. but he has demonstrated the thing that matters most to the president and that is loyalty. and that's what the president will lean on in this moment. >> performance and loyalty. eugene scott, thank you very much. we will see you again in mojz in just a bit. don't go too far, my friend. new details in a deadly shooting at a german synagogue

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looks into the camera and gives a short speech denying the holocaust and other anti-semitic comments. very disturbing developments oversea on one of the holy days. >> and back here in the united states, the power company pg&e cut power in california for areas looking at wildfires. they were scrambling for essentials after the strong winds put the state on alert for wildfires. the company's planned shutdown was a cautionary effort to prevent the fire equipment and power lines from sparking fires and could affect as many as two million customers in all. the utility company has been blamed for dozens of wildfires, including the state's deadliest that killed 86 people in the town of paradise last november. power will begin coming back to customers starting today. but it could take as long as five days to fully restore it to every household. let's bring in nbc

meteorologist bill karins. >> a wild story. in reaction to the paradise fire. and it is not just that it happens every five years. and a wind event a couple of times a year and these communities are looking at every single time having their power shut off ai any time a santa ana wind event comes? >> i wonder if that will legally challenged in courts. >> the san francisco chronicle on the front page, at midnight, the second round took effect and it was 12 hours later and universities were closed, and schools were closed, they didn't have to be because the power wasn't turned off yelt, so it is just creating this, you know -- >> you think about the devastation ha was caused by the paradise fires, and how people lost live and their home, and their way of life, and in that incident, you can imagine, sort of the precautions that they feel like they need to take right now. >> that's the result. >> i feel like there has to be a better system though. >> and they don't want to be sued. they don't want to be responsible if the high winds

cause the power lines go down and another fire. >> and can you imagine a blizzard and the northeast shut everything down. it's crazy. new policies. >> red flag warnings are up in effect because of the potential for fires in northern california, and southern vegas, and southern areas of nevada and toward los angeles and the palm springs area. the high fire danger map. all summer long things were drying out after the wet season and this is typically when we get fast-moving fires and the extreme risk right now is on this side of los angeles and areas to the north in between reading and san francisco, to the areas there, and this is the wind forecast, and the highest is going to be in the mountains outside of l.a. and the humidity is very low, and the high gusty winds, and there is a lot of fuel to burn, so the fire does form, it could, you know, move rapidly, and spread rapidly. we will wait and see how it plays out. today, 82 in areas that will get. so higher winds, could get warmer than that, in southern california. and there is the snowstorm in the middle of the country. and in the east, we're still watching an area of boston, with a little bit of wet weather and

as we go into friday, we see that exiting and all of the harsh weather, the blizzard type conditions there in the northern plains. but yes very fast and you can see how the california story -- >> hopefully it works. >> if you're in one of those area, imagine trying to sell your house in if you live in one of these houses that one or two weeks a year, you won't have power. people need generators and batteries a change of life. >> thanks, bill. still ahead, the trump administration eases its restrictions on chinese telecom giant huawei ahead of a pivotal trade talk with beijing. >> and apple finds itself em broiled in the hong kong protest as it pulls the plug on an app used by demonstrators. details on stories driving your business day coming up. coming p well, saving on homeowners insurance with geico's help was pretty fun too. ahhhh, it's a tiny dancer. they left a ton of stuff up here.

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welcome back, everyone. president trump has approved licenses to some american companies allowing them to supply goods to chinese telecom company huawei, which he had originally banned earlier this year. cnbc has more from london with the very latest on that. good to have you with us. what can you tell us about this move going into the trade talks between china and the u.s. and it seems like there was a lot of activity on the markets overseas after-hours. >> there's been a ton of conflicting messages, amin, coming into today's high level trade talks between china and the u.s., taking place in washington. now, one of the headlines grabbing investors' attention is this one around huawei.

"the new york times" has reported that the u.s. government is planning to soon issue licenses that would u.s. planning to soon issue licenses that would allow u.s. companies to sell certain nonsensitive goods to huawei. remember huawei is on a u.s. blacklist which restricts american companies from doing business with it. but trump's administration has reportedly given the green light for these licenses which would allow companies to sell certain goods to huawei. but this is just one piece of the bigger trade puzzle and we are all very closely watching those talks as they unfold in washington today. guys. >> let's talk about apple here getting involved in the conflict in hong kong. what can you tell us about the company's enough to remove one of its apps involved in the unrest there? >> well, apple is really just the latest u.s. company to really find itself in the middle somewhat of what's going on in hong kong. we have seen apple move to remove the app, hk mapp.live from its app store yesterday. this is after protesters in hong

kong were using the app to track police movements. the company said that the app violated its rules because it was used to effectively ambush police and was used by criminals to victimize residents in areas where there was no law enforcement. and the move received widespread criticism in chinese media and this decision, of course, comes just days after that criticism from the chinese media. and, as i mentioned, apple is just the latest. we of course saw the nba, probably the most prolific of the american businesses in a really ten ab really tenable situation. coming up on "morning joe," president trump defends his decision to pull u.s. troops out of northern syria. >> the very latest on the political fallout that the president is facing from republicans over the move as turkey carries out a military offensive against u.s.-backed

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welcome back, everyone. joining us now from washington, d.c. with a look at axios a.m., political reporter alexis. what is the one big thing for today? >> it's 2019 and politics seems for divisive than ever. but there was a recent project or experiment which took place over a single weekend in dallas. it showed that when democratic and republican voters alike sat down face-to-face to discuss some of the most poll risiarizi issues on the economies, they often abandon that support for these polar rising these issues when they discuss things with people from across the aisle. that matters as congress is look towards impeachment and kmerns

americans are facing another da vis sit election, this shows a way for the future in which public opinion can form around policies when we're not hunkered down in the dark and watching tv. >> how do we take this one room and then take the 300 million americans and shove them into that one room? >> so first we start by calling all of our friends. >> okay. >> that's the interesting thing, right some the reality is that this is not the way many americans live their lives. we're all tantalized by social media, we're tempted by political hot takes. people gravitate toward these so-called alternative facts at times. but the researchers and the people who led this are already thinking about ways to scale this. they're talk about doing it four times a year or once a quarter and they are also talking about doing it online so that it's easier for people who can't necessarily get up and leave their jobs for three days to talk about politics with strangers.

>> talk about some of the more interesting things that you've seen many this experiment, the findings. >> the most shocking thing to me was how republican voters softened their stance on various immigration policies. before this weekend they were very supportive of reducing the number of refugees who would be allowed to reset wi-settle in t. that's usually an issue that both sides of the aisle try to use to their benefit. there's legitimate concern for this issue in both parties, but that was something that shocked me given the way in which president trump has tried to weaponize that issue. the other thing considering what 2020 presidential candidates are proposing is how democratic voters are really not in love with the idea of a $15 minimum wage or a baby bonds program or even an expanded medicare program. when they sit down and read these policy papers and guided by the experts and think through these ideas.

that gives a lens into what this might mean in a larger context both for the presidential election and congressional elections in 2020. >> let's switch gears and talk about one of the more polarizing things taking place. the republicademocrats could be options if president trump is re-elected. >> we're always say things are unprecedented but this scenario that we're talking about today is unchartered territory. it's a look that we talk to various legal and political experts looking at whether and how president trump survives impeachment politically but it still positioned to be re-elected. that's never happened in u.s. history where a president semipeechd by the housem semican peachsem semipeechd semiis

impeached and serve a second term. it wouldn't look good for them which is what experts have told us. american people think that the impeachment is a disdraction. though the numbers are growing in support, i've talked to very swing voters who think that they are distracted by impeachment and not focusing on the issues that they care about. if the house democrats find themselves in a position where they impeach president trump, he's re-elect and they face the prospect of impeaching him again, that might be untenable for a lot of folks. >> thank you very much. always a pleasure. you can be reading aex yos a.m. in a bit. to all of our viewers, you can sign up for that newsletter by going to signup.axios.com. >> that does it for us on this thursday morning. i'm yasmin alongside ayman. "morning joe" starts right now. this is deep to center field. bellinger's back, it's a grand

slam! howie kendrick with a tenth inning grand slam to break it open! >> no team with this many wins has ever lost at this stage. the nlds or the alds. behind second and that is going to be caught by michael a. taylor! and the washington nationals have knocked out the heavyweight. >> and good morning. welcome to "morning joe." go ahead, joe. >> mika, this is very exciting for you. >> yeah. >> but if you don't mind, this morning if willie can talk a little baseball. i know you like to talk about it, but, willie, first of all, the nationals, it's just unbelievable washington fans