message right there on the thoroughly modern electronic beacon of american state craft around the world. that's our broadcast monday night. as we begin a new week, we're on tomorrow night the minute the cnn debate is over. thank you for being here with us. good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. the president appearing to distance himself from his own attorney at the white house. >> well, i don't know, i haven't spoken to rudy, i spoke to him yesterday briefly, he's a very good attorney, and he has been my attorney, yes. >> whoa, whoa, whoa, what? i haven't spoken to rudy, i spoke to him yesterday. donald trump is all over the place. he is like the president, we have not spoken to rudy, when we speak to rudy all the time. the president's personal attorney rudy giuliani is back in the headlines this morning with his name coming up in the trump impeachment inquiry and reportedly among federal prosecutor, now looking into his

personal business dealings. >> debate night, 12 democratic candidates will face off in ohio as joe biden, elizabeth warren and bernie sanders taking center stage, and what to watch for, and where the race stands going into tonight. >> and turkey's assault on the kurds is escalating after america's withdrawal from northern syria, and the president is now saying that, what the president is now saying after yet another phone call with turkey's president. good morning, everyone. it is tuesday, october 15. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. we begin with the impeachment push on capitol hill. fiona hill testified more more than nine hours behind closed doors yesterday, a source told nbc news, she told lawmakers that former national security adviser john bolton was so disturbed by the efforts to get ukraine to investigate the president's political opponents, that he labeled it a quote drug deal. and that he wanted no part of the effort, which reportedly involved acting white house

chief of staff mick mulvaney. hill also testified that bolton called giuliani, quote, a hand grenade, and told her to report the situation to the national security council's top lawyer. the details of the testimony were first reported by "the new york times". hill also told lawmakers that giuliani ran a shadow foreign policy on ukraine, and that she considered what was happening to be a clear counter-intelligence risk to the united states. people familiar with her testimony tell the "washington post" that hill told lawmakers giuliani's policy circumvented u.s. officials and career diplomats in order to personally benefit president trump. and was not coordinated with the officials responsible for carrying out u.s. foreign policy. giuliani told the post last night, quote, i don't know fiona and can't figure out what she is talking about, and said his contact with ukrainian officials was set up with the state department. nbc news also learned that the white house tried to limit hill's testimony by raising the issue of executive privilege with her. >> u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon sondland is expected to testify under

subpoena on thursday as part of the impeachment inquiry. a source telling nbc news that sondland will tell congress that he thought former u.s. ambassador to ukraine maria yovanovitch was an able and professional diplomat and he had no issues with her whatsoever. sondland will also testify that after he attended ukrainian president zelenski's inauguration back in may, he met with rick perry and former special envoy kurt voke ner the office and in that meeting, sonland will tell them that trump told them any in person meeting between trump and zelenski would have to be approved by rudy giuliani. sondland will testify it was only later that he became aware that a public commitment by ukraine's new government to address corruption was a prerequisite for a trump/zelensky meeting, including the ukraine gas company berisma holdings which he will say he did not know at the time was linked to hunter

biden. and house democrats impeachment probe into president trump, a majority, 51% say they approve of the probe and 45% disapprove and voters are split whether trump should be impeach and removed from office, with 46% agreeing, up one point since last week. 48% disagree, down one point. and over half, 51% said that the impeachment inquiry is an illegitimate investigation, 43% called it a witch hunt. i should say 51% say it is a legitimate investigation. meanwhile, a majority of americans support impeaching president trump, according to the calculation of 530 polls since august 1, 2018. let's turn now to syria. where president trump's decision to withdraw u.s. troops from the northern part of the country has come at a grave cost to both a former ally and the fight against terror. nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel reports. >> reporter: an historic land grab is under way, reshaping the

middle east, as the u.s. pulls out of syria. turkey is driving ahead, with the full force of its military. grabbing kurdish territory, capturing 50 villages and towns, in six days. and turkey is also using arab militias as shock troops. today, they tore down symbols of kurdish rule. u.s. officials say the militias include former isis and al qaeda members. the kurds, u.s. allies, are losing. and dying. 130,000 so far have fled turkey's advance. so the kurds made a devil's bargain, calling on their old adversary, syrian president bashar al assad, for help. the syrian army rushing in to fight with the kurds, to stop turkey from taking more syrian land. in the middle are u.s. forces, ordered to leave, already emptying some bases, as they consolidate their troops, to

depart more safely. president trump tweeting, the kurds who lost 11,000 men and women, fighting isis, with u.s. forces, are not america's responsibility. anyone who wants to assist syria in protecting the kurds is good with me. whether it's russia, china, or napoleon bonaparte. isis sees this as an opportunity. hundreds of isis prisoners have escaped camps and prisons as guard goes off to fight. in a packed prison we visited with 5,000 isis detainees, this isis member told me, now is their moment. >> everybody have a good feeling. everybody have a good feeling that somebody will take over here. >> now optimistic, isis is seeking a new lease on life. >> pretty startling images there to say the least. our thanks to nbc's richard engel for that report. meanwhile president trump is set to host turkish president erdogan at the white house in the coming weeks. per vice president pence, the two leaders spoke yesterday with trump calling for turkey end to

the invasion and agree to an immediate cease fire. pence also says trump reiterated his offer to be a mediator. and arbitrate a negotiation between the turks and the kurds. trump is also trying to insert himself as mediator in the ongoing crisis in kashmir. also, yesterday, the trump administration announced new sanctions against current and former turkish government officials, and to put any persons contributing to turkey's destabilizing actions in northeast syria. in a statement, president trump added that he is quote fully prepared to swiftly destroy turkey's economy if needed. vice president pence says no decision has been made on whether the sanctions will impact erdogan's scheduled visit to washington. trump also says he plans to increase tariffs on turkish steel up to 50% and will quote immediately stop negotiations on what the president claims is a quote $100 billion trade deal with turkey. the status of those negotiations is unknown. president trump recently declined to implement sanctions against turkey after ankara took

delivery of russian air defense systems. let's turn now to presidential politic, tonight marks the fourth democratic primary debate. joining us from washington, d.c., political reporter for the hill, julia manchester. great to have you with us this morning. actually in columbus ohio, i believe, which is really good, the site of tonight's debate. which what should we be looking for from the large group of 12 contenders on the stage, the largest i bloov in a democratic presidential primary and walk us through sox fireworks we're expecting to see. >> yes, so there are absolutely expected to be fireworks tonight, and amin, we're going to be looking for the dynamic between senator elizabeth warren, vice president joe biden and senator bernie sander, all three of these candidates are maybe coming in with slightly more baggage than they have been to previous debates. so you're seeing vice president joe biden coming in after he has been very much thrust into the middle of this impeachment inquiry, into this ukrainian controversy, with president trump, and it will be interesting to see how the other candidates very much respond to

president trump's attacks on joe biden, if they continue to defend the former vice president, or if they throw some swings of their own. you're also going to see senator bernie sanders going to try to prove himself, prove himself to be physically fit. this will be his first major campaign appearance since having his heart attack earlier this month. so he will be trying to very much try to reassert his base, reassure his base that he is very much fit to be on the debate stage and on the campaign trail. the first time elizabeth warren has really come on to the debate stage, and being a solidified front-runner, if you will, she is leading vice president biden in some state poll, and some national polls, so i think we are definitely going to be paying attention to the dynamic between these three candidates. you're also going to be seeing other candidates such as senator kamala harris, or pete buttigieg, try to stand out from the pack, if you will and try to have their own moments because they have been more mid tier candidates so they will want to try to stand out in this very

crowded field. >> we looked at some polls yesterday and julia, obviously impeachment was somewhat top of mind for a lot of voters out there. i believe it was number six on the list. health care beng number one. but nonetheless, very much thought about right now oopts. how might the impeachment inquiry dictate what is happening on stage tonight. >> i think it is very much going to dictate the conversations on stage tonight. remember this is the first debate since nancy pelosi announced the impeachment inquiry just last month. so it is going to be at the top of the conversation. and like i said before, vice president biden has very much been a part of that inquiry, due to president trump's attacks, or calls for ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son hunter. so that is going to be very top of mind, and i think nancy pelosi was able to call for that inquiry, and so many other of the candidates, most notably joe biden, who called for impeachment, forcefully for the first time last week. they have been able to get cover

from those polls, who have showed that americans are more comfortable talking about impeachment. they're more moving forward on believing that maybe impeachment, an impeachment inquiry is the right way to go. so i think they're going to feel much more comfortable talking about impeachment, given those polls, then they have before. >> julia manchester, always a pleasure. talk to you again in a little bit. thank you, julia. >> thank you. much more ahead on the race for president including another possible candidate on the democratic side who is reportedly thinking about it and why. >> and plus, new reporting that democrats are returns from recess, with a renewed sense of confidence in their impeachment fight with the president. we will have those stories and of course, bill karins has a check of weather when we come back. with fidelity wealth management you get straightforward advice,

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welcome back, everyone. the former ft. worth texas police officer who shot and killed a black woman while she was inside her apartment playing video games with her nephew is facing murder charges. the white officer aaron dean

resigned yesterday just hours before he was expected to be fired. it is the latest move in the case that has sparked national outrage after atatiana jefferson was killed by police again in her home. officers were responding to a call from a concerned neighbor saturday morning. when the 28-year-old woman was shot through her bedroom window, her death comes less than two weeks after former dallas police officer amber guyger, after shooting her unarmed neighbor and mistaking him for a intruder. and in both instance, the officer was white and the victim was black and both were in their homes again. an american diplomat's wife is apologizing to the family of 19-year-old harry dunn after the teen was killed in a wrong way crash in the u.k. the 42-year-old was driving on the wrong side of the road when the suv collided with dunn riding on his motorcycle. the police superintendent in north hampshire told the nbc

news, that the department sought to conduct initial interviews but needed the u.s. embassy to waive her diplomatic immunity, the cation was denied and she returned to the u.s. according to the foreign commonwealth office, immunity was no longer relevant because she had returned to the united states. joining us now to talk more about this, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. danny, why would diplomatic immunity here no longer apply to her, even though she has returned to the united states? >> diplomats enjoy absolute immunity from criminal liability, and near absolute immunity for civil liability, while they are serving the diplomatic mission. and the vienna convention on diplomatic relations extends to members of the family. it is not really certain how far that goes, but it absolutely includes a spouse, a wife, as in this case. however, under a different principle called residual

immunity, once the diplomat leaves his or her post, that includes the wife, they are entitled to a more limited immunity for the past acts and then only acts that are part of the diplomatic mission are considered immune. so if she was driving a car and it isn't tied directly to something that was essential to the diplomatic mission, she may not enjoy immunity now that she has left the mission, left the embassy. so there's some facts that still remain to be seen, but key in determining whether or not she is immune is whether or not when she was driving the car, was she doing something on behalf of the embassy, and secondly, has her mission ended. now that she's back in the state, the answer is under the vienna convention for diplomatic relations, yes. >> this is one of those stories that is very troubling, i think, that anyone can be sympathetic toward a parent who lost their kid, and then wanting some kind of justice. the question then become, now that she is here and investigators are trying to ascertain more facts, could she

potentially down the road be extradited back to the u.k. to face some kind of justice. ax, what is the status of an extradition treaty between us and the u.k. and b, what is the likelihood if in fact there was some kind of wrong doing the u.s. government would be willing to hand over the wife of an american diplomat to face that justice in the u.k. >> this is why international law and diplomatic relations and the separate issue of extradition is more about international politics than it is about international law. because oftentimes, you have situations where a country may not want to adhere to international law, or they interpret it a different way, and there is no ultimate higher court to determine whether or not, for example, this wife should be extradited. is she, as a strategic maneuver, getting her back to the united states was probably the very best thing for her, because as we've seen in the past, once somebody is returned to their home country, it is difficult to pur suede the home country to, persuade the home country to extradite them back to face

justice somewhere else and the u.s. may be particularly shy to turn a diplomat to face justice whether it be criminal or civil liability. >> danny cevallos, thank you. >> appreciate it. still ahead, the big news involving mark zuckerberg that led to the trending hashtag dlaet facebook. >> first he was considering a presidential run and then he wasn't and now apparently it's on again. we will have the newest reporting concerning billionaire michael bloomberg. we'll be right back. we'll be ri. ♪ applebee's new pasta and grill combos. choose from up to 12 combinations starting at $9.99.

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welcome back, facebook ceo mark zuckerberg has been conducting small meetings and off the record dinners with conservative journalists, pundits and at least one republican lawmaker in recent month, "politico" insists it is a part of a broader effort by the social media giant ceo to quote cultivate friends on the right amid outrage by donald trump and his allies over alleged bias against conservatives at facebook and other major social media company, the meetings reportedly included senator lindsey graham, fox news host tucker carlson and radio shoeft steve hewitt. >> zuckerberg responded saying, there is press today discussing dinners i've had with conservative politicians immediate why and thinkers. to be clear, i have dinners with lets of people across the nation, and the spectrum, on lots of different issues all the time, meeting new people and hearing from a wide range of viewpoints is part of learning. if you haven't tried it, i suggest you do. >> wow. >> zuckerberg heads to washington next week to testify before the house financial services committee to discuss facebook's new cryptocurrency

libra. >> firing back a little bit with zuckerberg. >> yes. >> seems kind of sarcastic, to talk to viewers that way, people like that. >> and let's get a check of the weather with bill karins. >> i would never be sarcastic. >> you? >> and you are never wrong, apparently. should never be doubted. >> and what if zuckerberg had posted that on facebook, on twitter? >> i was thinking about what is not owned by facebook before i said anything. >> yes. >> it seems like everything is owned by facebook these days. all right, bill, take it away. >> the important thing that you two need to know about is the big rainstorm heading across the country, in the northeast tomorrow, high impact travel, so the bottom line from the northeast, travel plans in the airport, from about wednesday, from about 2:00 p.m., through the evening, and the potential to get canceled, because of the heavy rain, and also the strong gusty winds. and now today, all of the rain is in the southeast, and this is welcomed, as we have been very dry and this is the soaking rain, what is going to be with

us from areas of northern louisiana, southern arkansas, and right through much of mississippi, alabama, and all of the way through georgia, and it is on the stalled front and all of this moisture streams all the way, actually back to cabo, some tropical moisture streaming up through mexico, through texas and then it is just sliding through the south. so this is welcome rainfall. the deep tropical plume. but eventually it will all move northward on wednesday, and up into the northeast. and so if we have any flash flood potential today, with the slight risk and el dorado and greenville mississippi and jackson and meridian and tuscaloosa alabama. and as far as the rainfall goes, one to three inches in general in the narrow stretch and atlanta is not getting a lot of it and not a lot of airport delays there and charlotte and raleigh should be okay. it is not until tomorrow, during the morning, it will be in the mid atlantic and then in the afternoon and evening, it is one of the heavier rain events we've had in a couple of months in the northeast and unfortunately for all of the people that live, we're at peak leaves, the last weekend, it is as gorgeous as it possibly could be. amin was driving around like a crazy man trying to view all of the beautiful leaves up here and

unfortunately one of those rain and windstorms that will take a lot of the leaves down. isolated totals three to five inches. and today, beautiful in the northeast. >> i was in my zip car. going up and down. >> your dash cam? >> yes. posting some crazy footage from the weekend later this week. >> oh, for here, look here, guys. >> you did the fire tower, to get the better views? >> that's exactly what i did. how did you know? >> watching amin driving around like crazy. >> i had my popcorn. >> leaf viewing. >> bill karins, thank you very much. as always, still ahead, while rudy giuliani is looking to get an investigation going into hunter biden, "the wall street journal" reports that federal prosecutors are in fact, looking into giuliani's own business dealings in ukraine. we are going to have the very latest on that. >> plus, the latest developments overnight from syria. nbc's keir simmons will join us live from the turkish border as president trump call force a cease fire and imposes new sanctions on turkey. we're back in a moment. 're backt [ orchestral music playing ]

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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, 12 of the democratic presidential contenders will face off in columbus, ohio, tonight in what will be the largest presidential primary debates in history. the lineup for tonight's fourth democratic debate, congressman tulsi gabbard, tom sigher, senators cory booker, kamala harris and bernie sanders. joe biden, and senator elizabeth warren, pete buttigieg, andrew yang, former congressman beto

o'rourke, senator amy klobuchar and former hud secretary julian castro a mouthful. a lot of people on the stage. >> it will be interesting to see the fireworks as we were saying earlier. we are also getting a look at where the race stands heading into tonight. in fact, a new poll shows massachusetts senator elizabeth warren and former vice president joe biden in a dead heat. according to the latest quinnipiac university poll. warren and biden are separated by three points. 30 to 27%. with both sitting within the approximatelies over five point margin of error and vermont senator bernie sanders follows in third with 11% of support as you can see there, down five points since last week. warren, biden, sanders are statistically tied in the early voting state of new hampshire. that is according to the newest franklin pierce university boston herald poll. warren on the screen has 25% of support among the state's democratic primary voters. she is up eight points since last month. biden is up three points at 24%. and sanders at 22%. is down seven points among the state's voters. however all three are within the

poll's 4.8 point margin of error. as congress prepares to return to capitol hill today, following a two-week recess, the "washington post" reports that fears of lost momentum, internal dissension, and dissipating interest in impeachment have mostly evaporated among house democrat, as many of them view the past two weeks as the most damaging to the president. a congressional leadership source telling nbc news that democrats are preparing to hold a caucus meeting tonight for a brief quote team huddle to update members on the impeachment inquiry following the recess. and following last week's report by "the new york times," a federal prosecutors in manhattan are probing rudy giuliani's dealings in ukraine. "the wall street journal." >> reporter:s that the investigation includes giuliani's business affair, and a look at giuliani's finances. meetings, and work, for a city mayor there. sources tell the journal that investigators also have examined giuliani's bank records. giuliani has denied wrong doing and said yesterday he hasn't

been involved of an nefgs. and giuliani has denied involvement of the oligarch dmitri wanted on corruption charges in the u.s. and labeled by federal prosecutors as an associate of russian organized crime. giuliani told nbc news yesterday that he was not planning on vitting firtash during a recent trip that was planned for vienna last week and he could not speak for his two business associates who were arrested last wednesday on campaign finance charges as they were about to board one-way flights to vienna austria saying they're similarly timed austrian trips were not in conjunction. from ukraine, south across the black sea where turkey has escalated the assault on syria on the former u.s. allied kurds who did most of the ground fighting against isis in the area and guarding some 12,000 isis prisoners, following president trump's decision not to support the kurds against a turkish offensive, and

yesterday, president trump tweeted this. let syria and aside protect the kurds and fight turkey for their own land. i said to my generals why should we be fighting for syria and assad to protect the land of our enemy. anyone who wants to protect syria and assisting the kurds is good with me, russia, china, or napoleon and i hope they do great and isis reporters and prisoners have reportedly been escaping due to turkish shelling of prisons and trump said yesterday, it is europe's fault because they didn't want the cost and kurds may be releasing some to get involved easily, recaptured by turkey or european nations where many came, but they should move quickly. joining us now, nbc news senior international correspondent keir simmons reporting live from turkey. just across the border from syria. keir, good to have you with us. what's the very latest this morning on what is happening there on the ground? >> reporter: hey, amin, well, we are looking across the boarder

there at the syrian town, and if i just step out of the way, we will give you a closer look, we have been here for around an hour, and we have been watching consistent turkish shelling, shells landing with smoke billowing up, and in another direction, we have been watching a turkish tank push out from cover, fire and then pull back again. and across the plain, you can hear the sound of machine gunfire, regularly, now this town was said to have been taken by turkish forces, some days ago. and any car kara says it has he town. that is clearly not the case. and we have seen what might have been mortar fire perhaps by mostly kurdish forces in response to the turkish offensive. and of course, all of this taking place, in syria. just after a phone call between president trump and president trump erdogan, just after those

sanctions were announced, and just after vice president pence called for peace and said he would prafl to t, travel to the region to try to negotiate some kind of cease fire. >> from what we are seeing, there is no sign that that america-washington bid to try to stop the fighting is having any bit of an effect on the grund here. >> keir, talk to us about the alliance now, between syria between bashar al assad and the kurds. in foreign policy magazine yesterday, there was a quote basically talking about the fact that the kurds are choosing cooperation, or choosing compromise, over massacre. >> reporter: yes, look, the kurds, many people will think, frankly, had no choice. they were trapped between this turkish offensive, and president assad's forces.

they have, i have been in that part of syria, in the past, that they have worked alongside the syrian forces at times, particularly when they were fighting isis, at the same time, of course, damascus was their foe, but they have done this deal with president assad and that means they have done this deal with russia and there are reports this morning, of russians being seen in an american base. now we don't know if those reports are accurate, but if that is the case, i just, looking at the communication for the u.s., you know, i was saying yesterday, we were on our way to another location, we passed some kurd irk vi, kurdish villages a they asked us who we were and we said american television, and

they said cowards. >> and ke richard. -- it is a stark contrast to what is happening on the ground. >> thank you very much, keir. still ahead mike allen of axios joins us with a preview of this morning's amp yose a.m. and dig into two of the issues that are sure to come up in the democratic debate tonight. the first look at "morning joe" back in a moment. first look at back in a moment ok i'll admit. i didn't keep my place as clean as i would like 'cuz i'm way too busy. who's got the time to chase around down dirt, dust and hair? so now, i use heavy duty swiffer sweeper and dusters. for hard-to-reach places, duster makes it easy to clean. it captures dust in one swipe. ha! gotcha! and sweeper heavy duty cloths lock away twice as much dirt and dust. it gets stuff deep in the grooves other tools can miss. y'know what? my place... is a lot cleaner now. stop cleaning. start swiffering. it's how we bring hope to our patients-

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buttigieg, are rejecting calls for the tax exempt status of churches who discriminate. >> the idea you will strip churches of tax exempt status if they do not bless the saecme-se marriage, and i'm not sure he understands the implications, that may include going to war with churches and mosques and may not have the view of religious principles i do. going after the tax exemption of church, islamic centers, or other religious centers in this country, i think that will deepen the divisions we're already experiencing. >> a spokesperson tells nbc news she will quote stand shoulder to shoulder with the lbgtq community until every person is empowered and able to live their life without fear of discrimination and violence. religious institutions in america have long been free to

determine their own beliefs and practices. and she does not think we should require them to conduct same-sex marriages in order to maintain their tax exempt status. ahead of tonight's debate, some democratic candidates are once again sparring over gun buybacks, in an interview with god luck meric america on snapchat, mayor pete bujz says this, i just don't think we should wait to have a fight over confiscation when we can win on background checks and red flag laws right now. cory booker responded to the south bend mayor's's comments, calling buyback programs confiscation is doing their work for them and they don't need our help. >> and mandatory buybacks since a mass shooting rocked the hometown of beto o'rourke el paso this year and criticized buttigieg in the past for his reluctance to support the more. o'rourke says democrats who have not supported the program maybe want to get to the right place

but are afraid. michael bloomberg is still looking for running for president in 2020. sources familiar with the discussions tell cnbc that bloomberg has indicated to associates in recent weeks that joe biden struggles against elizabeth warren are making him rethink his decision to stay out of the democratic primary. people with close eyes to the 77-year-old billionaire believe a decision to run would hinge on if bide written to drop out during the early stages of the primary. representatives from bloomberg did not respond to cnbc's repeated requests for comment. that would be quite an entry if it did happen. >> i wonder what the latest is that you can enter into the race with a realistic chance that you could still win. does it have to be before the first primary in new hampshire in january or february? >> let's get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. good morning once again. a big high impact nor'easter heading up through the east coast as we go through wednesday. usually we say nor'easter and we say here comes the snow and coastal flooding and things like that. every nor easter is a little different. this is primarily a rain and wind event.

and it is going to have a lot of travel impact with it. not so much in the way of issues of, you know, wind damage, or coastal flooding, and stuff like that. so here is all of the heavy rain this morning, all the way from brunswick georgia, back to tex ar can why and everywhere in between, threw the southeast and a lot of you do need umbrellas as you head out today. and we go through today, and some of the rain will shift to atlanta later on this evening, keep that in mind for the evening travel plans and also up to savannah, and heading towards charleston. dry throughout the day in raleigh. dc, dry throughout the day. memphis can have showers and areas from new orleans to shreveport, on and off periods of some rain. as we go towards tomorrow. this is when the storm begins to strengthen, the peak of storm will be wednesday evening, and there is a couple of things going on. we have the nats game, we have that during the afternoon and it looks like the evening should be okay. but it is going to rain hard during the morning, and then during the early afternoon. and the yankees are supposed to play at 8:00 p.m. that's going to be like the peak of the heaviest rain, right around new york city, so that is

highly, you know, in jeopardy. and then by the time we get to wednesday evening, the rain begins to move up to areas of harvard. and boston, dry through 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. and then it will pour after that. and at least it is a quick-moving storm system. and by the time we get into thursday, it is all the way into northern new england, the rain is all over with. so for the most part, it is going to be everywhere up the east coast, about a six-hour period of heavy rain, gusty winds, and some travel impact. and as far as snow goes, only the highest of elevations in the adirondacks may get a little bit and that will be about it. as far as the max winds, this is not wind damage, but what this will do, is it will knock down a lot of leaves and this time of the year, when the leaves come down and you get the two to three inches of rain in a quick period of time, the leaves clog the drains and we get some flash flooding issues so we will probably be dealing with. that and nantucket, up to 50 miles an hour. i don't think we will have too many power outages. so for today, the rainy weather is in the southeast, and then tomorrow, that's your travel impact day, the airport will have significant delay, if not cancellations, in areas from dc, during the afternoon, then

getting better wednesday evening, but in areas of new york city, philadelphia, boston, and it looks like a wednesday p.m. problem, for anyone trying to drive home, and also at the airport. but again, it is not ice or snow or anything like that, it is a heavy rain event. >> just a matter of time. >> okay. >> thanks, bill. still ahead, we will take a closer look at the sanctions president trump imposed on turkey for its offensive against the kurds in syria. and the other stories driving your business day. we are back in a moment.

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he tweets everything from the kurds to supporting sean spicer and napoleon. >> vote for good guy sean spicer tonight on dancing with the stars. he has always been there for us. you've got a friend spicer and his partner, unfortunately rer unfortunately, earned the lowest score of the night but no one was eliminated last night. let's turn to business. president trump raised turkey's steel tariffs yesterday. we go to london with more on that. pretty significant development, trump opening another economic front with many of his trade wars, this one politically motivated given what is happening in syria. what more can you tell us about that? >> reporter: so these tariffs on steel he's announced, they are doubling from 25% to 50%. in terms of what he's also threatened, he's talked about

being fully prepared to destroy turk ka turkey saying that trade talks have stopped immediately. he's also imposed sanctions on turkish officials, member of certain government departments, ministers and government departments that he says are involved in than i cursing into northeastern syria. unless they have exposure to u.s. assets, that won't have much an effect. people not that concerned about these numbers when they look at the details, the banks that have exposure to the turkish economy, they're doing okay and the turkish leader after an initial fall has come back up quite a lot. another development involving authentic brands group, they're talking about buying barney's, e putting many barney's stores inside saks fifth avenue stores. including the flagship on madison avenue and opening new freestanding barney's stores.

i'm guessing you two don't fall into this category who are looking for the early holiday shopping, this might be something to mull over. >> are you saying we don't get ahead of things? i'd like to think here planners over here? >> reporter: just a guess. >> let's talk harley-davidson saying that it's halting production of its first ever electronic motorcycle. what can you tell us about this? >> so what they've done during testing is they've found something that they don't like the look of with the live wire electric bike. they've halted this product and also delivery to some of they're potential stockers. they've been talking about it and showing it around the u.s. for quite some time now. the customer saying it's trying to draw in new customers with this bike in this increasingly green era. also they say they want to conduct tests and do more

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all right. joining us now from washington, d.c. with a look at axios a.m., i believe we have mr. mike allen, cofounder of axios. great to have you with us. what is the one big thing for us this morning? >> good morning. the one big thing is house democrats tap a gusher. house democrats tell us that every witness who has appeared before them has bolstered their case against president trump and they say there's very little contradiction in the testimony. a scoop by axios elina. house democrats are now going for the pentagon.

we've seen this reach into the state department and the intelligence community, now the pentagon and acting assistant secretary of defense has been asked to appear in the coming days. listen to this. over the next two weeks if democrats get all the administration officials they've asked for, they will get 11 administration officials. and we've seen from their last -- these last three big appearances, including fiona hill, the former europe and russia expert in the white house, three day-long appearances. so we can see how thorough they're being in their question. >> how is the white house reacting to the latest testimony from fiona hill and what "new york times" was reporting last night? >> the inspector we're hearing is from tense to frantic. administration officials recognize they have no control over all this information that's coming put. they can see an incredible array of administration officials now being summoned, including the acting director of white house

office of management and budget also being called up there. and, we're reporting in-fighting in the white house, real scepticism by some about the strategy, including the acting chief of staff mick mulvaney and the white house counsel not getting along. those are the two most vital advisers to the president on impeachment and according to axios' sources they're not agreeing on how to go forward. we talked about the president has his own war room there is one of the consequences of that. >> let's talk about ohio potential swing voters there because as many states, but particularly ohio they're concerned about the impeachment of president trump. what are they telling axios and how significant are potentially impactful could that state be in all of this? >> so this is fascinating. i call this listening to america, because in 2016 one of the big mistakes the press made was paying too little attention to parts of the country that turned out to really matter.

we went to a focus group in youngstown, ohio, where we heard a group of 11 swing voters who in 2012 had switched parties. some of them went from d to r, some of them went from r to d. we're talking with how they're feeling about the landscape. this is not a poll, but focus groups gives you insights into what's not in polls. and what we heard, as you suggested there, is real skepticism about impeachment. nine of the 11 people in this focus group raised their hand when they asked if impeachment was a distraction from other issues that they cared about, the day-to-day issues, pocketbook issues, kitchen table issues. this is something democrats have to watch. speaker pelosi was right in the is one of the reasons that she only plunged into impeachment when the facts impelled her. it was why she was reluctant do it before she felt it was necessary. because there is this swath of swing voters, apolitical voters

who sort of see it as icky, yucky, don't like it and they're not going to like it if it flops into 2020. we are told the speaker wants to finish this up by the end of the year. >> mike allen live for us in washington, d.c. thank you very much. you can sign up for the newsletter at signup.axios.com. >> that does it for us on this tuesday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. syrian defense forces have been a strong ally of the united states. >> they didn't help us in the second world war, they didn't chep us with norm mapped did i. >> the united states of america did not give a green light to turkey to invade syria. >> he said i want to go in, but he's been telling me that for 2 1/2 years. he's ready do it. >> we have great concerns about civilian populations. >> we have spent tremendous amounts of mon