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good morning, everybody, it is tuesday, october 22nd, i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman smmohyeldin. president trump is chastising republican lawmakers for not significantly defending him. during a cabinet meeting yesterday he urged members of his party to quote, get together and fight while pointing the finger athe senator mitt romney one of his most outspoken republican critics. >> i think the democrats are lousy politicians with lousy policy. they want open borders. they don't care about crime. they want sanctuary cities. they don't care about drugs. they don't care about almost anything. i think they're lousy politicians, but two things they have. they're vicious, and they stick together. they don't have mitt romney in their midst. they don't have people like that. the republicans have to get tougher and fight. we have some that are great

fighters, but they have to get tougher and fight because the democrats are trying to hurt the republican party for the election. >> senator romney spoke to reporters on capitol hill saying his fellow lawmakers should not jump to any conclusions ahead of a potential impeachment trial in the senate. >> i think most people are looking at what's going on in the house with interest, obviously with concern, but ultimately we may well become a jury, andom if that's the case, think people want to make their own decision and not jump to any conclusions at this early stage. holding up funds to a foreign nation, particularly one that's under military threat in order to full a political purpose is a real problem. >> democrats are said to be zeroing in on a framework. multiple people familiar with the deliberations tell nbc news democrats will focus n on a sime abuse of power narrative involving the president's actions regarding ukraine. house committee chairs and leaders are said to be debating the need for additional articles

or charges that extend beyond trump's dealings with ukraine. house speaker nancy pelosi has been adamant that the case against trump must be targeted and easy to communicate in order to build public support. it's too easy to discuss the specific legal framework, but one person familiar with the strategy said abuse of power when it comes to ukraine is the big point pelosi has been hammering home. >> president trump's negative view of ukraine has been shaped by the regional adversarieadver. trump's conversations with russian president vladimir putin, hungarian minister viktor orban reinforced his perception of ukraine as a hopelessly corrupt country. according to the post, the role played by putin and orban was described in closed door testimony before c house investigators last week by deputy assistant secretary of state george kent. kentke cited the influence of

those leaders as a factor that helped sour trump on the president of ukraine in the months leading up to their july 25th phone tocall. >> all this is having an impact on voters. of voters in six states that helped carry trump to victory say they support the house democrats' impeachment inquiry into the president. according to the latest "new york times," sienna college poll, 60% of voters in pennsylvania, florida, michigan, wisconsin, north carolina, and arizona said they support the impeachmentana inquiry into tr 45% said they oppose it. 43% of americans from those battleground states said they support impeaching and removing trump from office. over half, 53% said they did not.th when broken down by party lines, an effort to impeach and remove the president has the support of 5% of republicans, almost 40% of independents and a staggering 84% of democrats. >> so president trump's approval ratingpr continues to remain bew 40% heading into 2020 according

to a new prri poll. 39% of americans say they approve of the president's job performance with 26% saying there is almost nothing he could do to lose their approval. 13% aapprove, but said trump could lose their support. meanwhile, 61% disapprove of the president's job performance with 15% saying there is almost nothing he could do to win their approval. 46% disapprove saying there is almost nothing trump could do to win their approval. however, 55% of republicans who cite fox news as their primary news source said there is nothing the president could do to lose their support compared toei 29% of republicans who do t cite fox news as their primary news source. u.s. ambassador to ukraine bill taylor is set to be deposed today as house democrats continue to conduct their impeachment investigation. taylor who raised alarms about the white house withholding military aid to ukraine left for washington last week shortly

after the house requested he appear. tomorrow the housed will hear from pentagon official laura cooper and two officials tell nbc news that another state department official, ambassador phillip reeker is expected to testify in a closed door session this coming saturday. one thing house democrats won't get, however, is a response to a subpoena issued to acting director of the office of management and budget russell he wrote i saw some fake news over the weekend to correct. as the white house letter made clear two weeks h ago, omb officials, myself and mike duffey will not be complying with deposition requests this week. senior writer at roll call, neels leneils nez lieu ski. what are house investigators keen on listen to this weekend? what are they looking for?

>> there are sort of two audiences for ultimately what comes out of the testimony and these depositions. on one hand, the investigators are going to be looking for any sort of additional evidence that both could make the case to the public and the case, frankly, to someone like mitt romney. what they need is evidence that could eventually cause republican senators to want to the vote to convict to remove donald trump from office, and so they're probably going to be looking for anything that could tie these conversations to either a quid pro quo or to more evidence that there was some sort of perhaps outside actor that may have been helping to contribute to the decisions that were being made by president trump and by the state department and by omb and not releasing the money. >> let's talk about some of these numbers that ayman and i

were ticking through, and one that really stood out to me which is the approval rating of the presidentro currently sitti at around 40%. all this happening while he is lashing out at his republicans for not defending him amid this impeachment inquiry. how might this impact the president going into 2020? >> i would turn that around the other way and ask how low does the president's approval rating get ahead of the impeachment process, and does that start to affect republican senators who are on the ballot next year, so not just for president trump, butst if you think about does there become a threshold at which it becomes advisable for someone like cory gardner in colorado or susan collins up in maine to vote to remove donald trump office because his approvalis rating has gotten th bad. and that's sort of i think the

immediate threshold for the question about where the president's standing. >> what do you think that threshold, if the threshold is if there is one? >> i would gather we're probably getting close toit. it would probably have to be 33%. it's possible he could fall off a cliff in someplace like maine before he has fallen off in sort of national surveys. >> what do you make of the president's call on republicans to get tougher to fight impeachment? is that a sign that he is worried that there may be some splits among republican ranks, especially when you have people like mittal romney who are out there saying i'm keeping an open mind to this. lindsey graham said he would be open to impeachment if someone could show him there was a crime committed beyond the ukraine phone call? >> sure, i think the immediate question is trying to avoid leakage if you're trump and the white house, trying to avoid losing votes in the house and trying to convince these -- particularly the retiring house

republicans because we're already seeing a whole bunch of committee chairmen or ranking members rather and long-standing house republicans who are announcing they're notbl seekin re-election, trying to avoid losing those people on the front end when this goes through the house. >> all right, thanks so much. we're going toll talk to you in little bit. still ahead, president trump claims he's the victim of a phony emoluments clause when it comes to his scrapped plans to host the g-7 summit at his miami resort. legal analyst, danny cevallos is here to weigh in on that. what adam schiff is saying about the gop effort, those stories and a check on weather when we come right back. en we c. chevy's the only brand...

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at his private resort plablamin the constitution's phony emoluments clause for his abrupt rehearsal. >> it would have been great, but the democrats went crazy, even though i would have done it free, saved the country a lot of money. then they say, oh, but you'll get promotion. who cares? you don't think i get enough promotion? i get more promotion than any human being that's ever lived. i don't think you people with this phony emoluments clause, and by the way, i would say that it's cost me anywhere from 2 to $5 billion to be president, and that's okay. between what i lose and what i could have made. i would have made a fortune if i just ran my business. i was doing it really well. >> in a tweet yesterday trump continued his tirade writing in part, quote, the doral in miami would have been the best place to hold the g-7 and free, but too much heat from the do nothing radical left democrats and their partners, the fake news media. i'm surprised that they allow me to give up my $400,000 plus presidential salary.

we'll find someplace else. >> joining us on set, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos who has just booked a trip to doral, miami, i believe. >> can't wait, looking forward to it. >> what is your take on the president's comments to this phony emoluments clause? >> in fairness to the president, i don't think he was saying the emoluments clause doesn't exist. he's saying what's phony is the democrats' invocation of it and the litigation of it, but even then he's wrong. the emoluments clause is real. it is two provisions in the constitution. one is the foreign emoluments clause, and the other is the domestic. at their core they're about anticorruption. they're about antiforeign influence and anti, believe it or not, influence from individual states like virginia or michigan. in the past we have some context because, for example, ronald reagan was allowed to keep his california state pension. why? he wasn't being influenced by california.

that was something he had already earned, and it was money being paid to him by the state, so strictly construed, it might have been a violation of the domestic emoluments clause, but there are two major views of the emoluments clause. one view is that any benefit whatsoever is a violation, if it comes from a foreign state or one of the united states. the other view and the one espoused by trump is that it has to be something for his personal services. if you stay at doral and he turns down the bed or brings you up room service, that might be a violation of the emoluments clause if he's getting paid for those services in his presidential capacity. ultimately these cases are before the courts and they will be litigated and in a pre-trump era, no federal court had ever really ruled on the emoluments clause. these are all cases in a sense of first impression. >> to that point, walk us through exactly how trump would have, you know, benefitted from

and he's using the word profit in a very narrow definition, making money off of it, but to host the g-7 summit with hundreds of world leaders, the security fortifications, the upkeep, the renovations, that is all -- >> the renovations they have to do to bring them in and the renovations they have to do once they leave. >> that stuff he would benefit from. wouldn't he benefit from that financially? >> here is what i think -- you know, now that he's not doing this doral trip, the -- what i think made this an emoluments clause violation is this. we know in the past that jimmy carter took his business and put it in a blind trust. he created a wall between being the president and his business, but once donald trump, even if he didn't take any profit from this -- the g-7, once he was involved as the president putting that summit, that conference at one of his hotels, he blurred the line. he scaled the wall between being president and being a hotel manager, and so when he did

that, i think that's something that spilled into the world of the emoluments clause, mainly because as the president he was involved in getting the business for his hotels. >> he knows all the millions of dollars that would go in by taxpayer dollars going into renovating. >> in spite of the fact he says it would be done for free. >> that's a small thing, the free part. he blew it off, but the promotion for a resort that has not been doing as well as it had in past years, all kinds of benefits to his company and eventually to him. >> let's not forget mick mulvaney saying this president still considers himself in the hospitality business. >> i just wondered would he not have made this decision had he not been in the midst of a impeachment inquiry. >> or weakened politically. let's get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> this time yesterday we were showing you the first pictures from the damage of the dallas

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. welcome back, everyone, i'm ayman mohyeldin along side yasmin vossoughian. it is the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top stories for you. we head to the middle east where president trump now says that he may actually leave some u.s. troops in northeastern syria after all. however, the reason is not to back up the former u.s. allied kurdish forces he is abandoning who did most of the on the ground fighting against the isis nd who guarded the 12,000 isis

u.s.-led campaign. instead, it is to appropriate the region's oil. >> i don't want to leave troops there. it's very dangerous there. you know, we had 28 troops as it turned out. people said 50. it was 28. you had an army on both sides of those troops. those troops would have been wiped out. i don't think it's necessary other than that we secure the oil. we've secured the oil. if you remember, i didn't want to go into iraq. i was a civilian, so i had no power over it. i always was speaking against going into iraq. it was not a great decision, but i always said if you're going in keep the oil. same thing here, keep the oil. keep the oil. we're working with the kurds. we have a good relationship with the kurds, but we never agreed to, you know, protect the kurds. we support with them for three and a half to four years. we never agreed to protect the kurds for the rest of their lives. they were a good help, but we were a great help to them too. they were fighting isis, you know, they hated isis, so they

were fighting isis. where is an agreement that said we have to stay in the middle east for the rest of humanity, for the rest of civilization to protect the kurds. never said that. and we have protected them. we've taken very good care of them. we helped them, don't forget. we helped the kurds. everyone said the kurds helped us. that's true. we helped the kurds. they're no angels but we helped the kurds. we never gave the kurds a commitment that we'd stay for the next 400 years and protect them. they've been fighting with the turks for 300 years that people know of, nobody ever committed if you do this, we're going to do that. we're going to stay with you forever. >> meanwhile, the trump administration's brokered pause in the turkish assault is set to end today. there have been report of intermittent fighting during that five-day pause which president trump said made all sides incredibly happy including the kurds. residents of one kurdish city

pelted the retreating u.s. troops with potatoes. others held up signs with more pointed messages aimed at the u.s. president. the associated press reports one man was even shouting at the departing u.s. troops, quote, like rats, america is running away. according to the syrian observatory for human rights, 120 civilians have been killed since the turkish assault began, and another 300,000 have been displaced. u.s. troops were seen yesterday leaving turkey and entering neighboring iraq. they are not returning to the u.s. as president trump has said for weeks. >> well, they're going to be sent initially to different parts, and then ultimately we're bringing them home, yeah. we're bringing our troops back home. we woent n't be fighting and we bring our soldiers back home. they were supposed to be there for 30 days, and they've been there for ten years. they were supposed to go in do a quick hit on isis. >> there was never a timetable

for the fight against isis, and the u.s. has not been fighting isis in syria for ten years. >> and president trump also credited himself for capturing isis. >> as far as isis is concerned, when i took over, november 2016, isis was all over the place. i'm the one meaning it was me, this administration working with others including the kurds that captured all of these people that you're talking about right now because president obama it was a mess, and i was told and you were told and everybody told it would be years before you ever did what i did in about a month and a half after i started. i'm the one that knows more about it than you peek or the fake pundits. as you know, most of the isis fighters that we captured, we, we, not obama, we. we captured them. me. >> meanwhile, secretary of state mike pompeo says the administration is not ruling out military action in response to

the situation in syria. >> where we see american interests at stake or fundamental norms around the world that need to be enforced, we'll use all the powers that we have. you suggested the economic powers that we've used. we'll certainly use them. we'll use our diplomatic powers as well. those are our preference. we prefer peace to war, but in the event that military action is needed, you should know that president trump is fully prepared to undertake that action. >> elsewhere in the middle east, the pentagon has recently begun making plans for an abrupt withdrawal of all troops from afghanistan. three current and former defense officials are telling nbc news saying it is a contingency plan. the officials add that at this stage the plan is a precaution, and there is currently no directive from the white house to withdraw from the country. nbc news reported over the summer that trump made clear to his team that he wants to withdraw all u.s. troops from afghanistan by the 2020

election. >> and the house voted to reject republican's resolution to condemn and censor adam schiff. the resolution was tabled with a vote of 218 to 185 along party lines yesterday. it comes after republicans spearheaded by president trump expressed dismay with congressman schiff's handling of the whistle-blower's report. congressman schiff tweeted after the vote that quote it will be said of house republicans when they found they lack the courage to confront the most dangerous and unethical president in american history, they consoled themselves by attacking those who did. it's the final days on the job for resigning acting homeland security secretary kevin mcaleenan, and now president trump will need to look beyond his top two picks to fill the role. during a meeting on friday at the white house, trump was informed by neither ken kuch nelly or mark morgan were legally eligible to lead the

agency on an acting basis. according to the journal, the federal statute, how that governs vacancies states that acting officials in cabinet level positions must either be next in line for a position or hold a senate confirmed post. under a third option, the official being elevated must have served for at least 90 years in the past day. joining us once again niels lesniewski. welcome back, niels. let's talk about the brokered cease fire with turkey in syria set to expire today. how might the alliance shift if turkey continues to bombard syria? >> well, really the conundrum that is setting up is exactly the one that basically everyone who was paying attention a week ago when all this sort of started and when president trump made his decision to pull back the u.s. special forces and the u.s. support elements from the

kurdish territory, the possibility that the u.s. would need to act against turkey, which is a member of nato, is just too much really to even contemplate, and yet, based on what secretary pompeo was saying in that clip you played just a couple of minutes ago is exactly where the united states may ultimately find itself, and that, i think, is the real question is how exactly does the trump administration find a way out of this that does not require u.s. military intervention directly against turkey. >> niels, let's talk about another area within the president's foreign policy that might draw some controversy as nbc news is reporting, the military has drawn up plans just in case the president abruptly decides to pull troops out of afghanistan. that certainly wouldn't go down

well with republican colleagues of his who are already upset about the withdrawal from syria, but when kind of impact on the area could this also stir up? >> well, obviously a precipitous u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan would seem like it would cede more territory back to the taliban and other forces that are not generally friendly to the united states, but the other thing, ayman is, of course, that it would for domestic politics back here in the u.s. be another thing that would cause republican lawmakers to have real pause about, you know, going to bat for president trump in this whole impeachment proceeding. even if it's not at all actually related to the substance of the proceedings on impeachment, it's not something that republican senators in particular are going to have very much interest in except perhaps for someone like

rand paul. so it seems like this could all sort of come together in the coming months if this were something that president trump actually decided to do. >> thank you. before we go, we also want to say congratulations. we heard you got married a couple of weeks ago or so. >> congrats niels, what are you doing here and not on a honeymoon? did you take a honeymoon? >> honeymoon's in december. >> congratulations. >> congratulations our best. justin trudeau is heading for a second term as canada's prime minister. plus, bill karins is here with another check on the forecast as a severe weather system threatens to linger across the south. we're back in a moment. i bet you lunch you can't make it in there. i'm thinkin' sushi. alexa, ask buick to start my suv. you can do that? you can do that? you can do that? yeah, with a buick. what?

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seats. he was in a standstill in the polls against the conservatived leader. this campaign proved to be especially difficult of the prime minister after "time" magazine published a photo of him wearing black face. this revelation was a major blow to his progressive image, but just last week president obama showed his support for trudeau saying that he hopes, quote, our neighbors to the north support him for another term. trudeau thanked voters last night for the victory on twitter writing in part this, regardless of how you cast your vote, our team will work hard for all canadians. and ed handgheaded overseasn netanyahu announced yesterday he cannot establish a new israeli government returning the duty to a form of a coalition led by president reuben rivlin. it comes as the deadline paves the way for a different candidate to try and create a new government for the first time in over a decade.

rivlin said he intends to give the opportunity to former army chief of staff benny gantz. gantz will have 28 days to get 61 members of the parliament to support his blue and white party. if he also fails to do so, israel will find itself heading for an unprecedented third election within a year. >> very ttumultuous time. let's get a check on the weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> if you're heading to the northeast it's not raining now but it will later today. in atlanta early morning rain. middle of the country, it's a windy day in the midwest and cool chilly weather with a little bit of rain around minneapolis. as we go into this afternoon and this evening, winds will crank up. gusts up to 60 miles per hour possible. we have wind advisories from minneapolis to fargo, sioux city and omaha, des moines included in that, too. high wind warnings from mankato to fort dodge. if we get any power outages,

that's the most likely area. the other event going on this evening, you want to talk about some beautiful weather for october baseball, world series game one minute maid park 69 degrees, clear skies, and game two looks perfect, too, 68 degrees. perfect weather, should be a fantastic pitching matchup for the first two games. couldn't ask for anything better. let's sneak into tomorrow's forecast, the rain exits the northeast, no problems there, temperatures in the 60s. boston may have some early morning rain, and then clearing out quickly during the day. that's good for the east coast, where all your travel tomorrow looks just fine. one of the stories we need to watch to the end of this week, we're getting hotter in southern california. the winds are going to set up. we're going to have another santa ana wind event moving in, and of course that's going to mean more power outages. not because of the wind event but preemptive power outages. pg&e had a press conference and they're saying on wednesday up to 200,000 people could have their power cut off. that's on the heels of the event two weeks ago where they did almost a million people. there's a lot of unhappy people

with this new policy that could last a decade. crazy times. storm system drops from canada and the southern plains. the strong high pressure builds in. the winds funnel down from the mountains towards the coast, that offshore flow, and that's when we get the high wind gusts. the worst of it will be thursday and friday. people are going to lose their power because of this event, and every time we have events like this and on top of that we have the dangers if any fires form they would rapidly be spreading. imagine you're the people that live in these areas of california, this is the new normal. >> i was saying to ayman, there are countries where it is the norm power is shut off at a certain time of the day and brought back on at a certain time of the day, but it's not something you would associate with here in the united states. >> and the disruption it causes for the people and their lives. >> they got a lot of criticism for not giving people enough heads-up last tight. this time they're trying to tell people hey, thursday, friday, wednesday night you're going to lose power. >> i wonder if this encourages people to go out and buy

generators and start creating the risks of having generators on the pseudoside of your home e risks that go with that. >> generators, solar, what they can do to keep power in your homes. interesting times. >> thanks, bill. still ahead, new reporting about why the supreme court may be getting involved in the fight over president trump's tax returns. >> that story and other headlines driving your business day coming up next. ♪ - [spokeswoman] meet the ninja foodi grill. get the perfectly grilled flavors

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welcome back, everyone, the manhattan district attorney and president trump's legal team have struck a deal to temporarily welcome back. in a letter filed yesterday, the da's office intends to hold off on trying to obtain trump's tax returns until ten days after an appeals court issues a decision. that time period will allow both sides an opportunity to ask the supreme court to examine the case. if the supreme court decides to take up the case during its current term, a ruling could be issued in june. if not, it may take until after the 2020 election. in the meantime, prosecutors and trump's attorneys will meet in court tomorrow for oral arguments before the second circuit court. let's talk business. we works once valued at $47 billion could now be as low as $7.5 billion as soft bank is in line to take control of the company. cnbc juliana is joining us live from london on this.

good morning to you. we works board expected to meet today to discuss options here. what can you tell us about this deal with soft bank? >> pretty extraordinary saga. you just highlighted the two key numbers to watch out for. we were looking at $47 billion for we work, which is fair to say is an embattled work company. now, soft bank would take control of we work, they would value it on a massive step down to $8 billion. this has been a dramatic year for we work. they were supposed to come to market in an ipo. they posted a loss for the first six months of the year and that never happened. we may have movement on this as early as today.

another area of the market that we're keeping on eye on in the business world is around the poipd crisis. four large drug companies are potentially going to resume talks today around a $48 billion settlement to resolve these thousands of cases in the opioid -- in the opioid saga, really, you could call it. so this proposal, $48 billion has come just hours after the first federal opioid crisis trial due to be heard in court, was settled at the very last minute. under this new potential deal, we could see the 50 states and d.c. split the $48 billion between them. it's unclear how much support there is at this point for that settlement. one other story i want to flag for you on a lighthearted note is around a new record with movie sales. rise of the skywalker has sold 35% more tickets for its first hour on adam tickets than

avengers did during his its hour. so we're looking at a new record there. >> that franchise just cannot do anything wrong. incredible. live in london, thank you so much. coming up, axios mike allen has a look at this morning's one big thing and coming you' on "morning joe." >> democrats zero in on a framework for their case against the president, senator, and minority whip dick durbin. we'll join the discussion on "morning joe" just moments away. n "morning joe" just moments away. a bunch of money by switching your boat insurance to geico. it was easy. folks, can it get any better than this? is that what i think it is? that is an armada of tiny sushi boats. awesome! i forgot to pack lunch. you had one job... chopsticks wasabi and soy! comin' in a little hot. it only gets better when you switch and save with geico.

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>> announcer: axios one big thing is sponsored by bp. welcome back, everyone. skbro joining us from washington, d.c., the cofounder mike allen. what is the one big thing? >> good morning. world series day here in nats nation. game one tonight. the axios one big thing is speedy impeachment. so look at how fast this has moved. today it is one month, four

tuesdays since speaker pelosi announced the formal impeachment inquiry. look how fast it's gone with so many important witnesses. axios went back and from the time of the watergate break-in until the time that congress began an impeachment inquiry back in the '70s, a year and a half of reporting by woodward and bernstein. from the time that "the washington post" reported an affair between president bill clinton and monica lewinsky, six months between that -- nine months until their impeachment inquiry. but it was only six weeks between the time that we first heard about a whistleblower and the time that democrats began. so this is on a very fast schedule. they're still hoping to jam in an impeachment vote right around thanksgiving, maybe articles of impeachment right after both sides say that this would be ab

incredibly ambitious schedule. dems are still trying to do it and rs don't want to drag it out. >> talk us through more of what nixon and clinton's impeachment processes can tell us about what to expect with the timeline and what comes next. >> it's very hard go as quickly as democrats want to because here's what the two sides are thinking. republicans want to get this over as quickly as possible. think about the democratic senators who will have to vote in a trial. you have a lot of democratic senators who are running in 2020 who want to be in iowa in january. but if you look at the bill clinton trial, it was five weeks just for the trial. so trying to do that between thanksgiving and christmas, very tough. that's why you had last week the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell busting out a powerpoint at his wednesday luncheon with republicans saying this is how it will go if we have to do this. and one of the things he told

them, it's like going back to school, one of the things that mitch mcconnell told the republican senators, if we have a trial, if the house democrats vote to impeach president trump and then there's a trial in the senate, it would take 20 republicans to breakaway to convict the president and remove him from office. if that happens, and you'll have chief justice john roberts up there presiding, he said you're going to have to be there, you're going to have to attend and you're going to have to be quiet. >> all right. mike allen. thank you. we're going to be reading axios a.m. in just a little bit. 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. president obama, nancy pelosi, and hillary clinton, shifty schiff, congressman al green, joe biden and his son, a russian agent. >> almost enough to fill a

cabinet room. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is tuesday, october 22nd along with joe, willie and me we have msnbc mike barnicle. horn author of the soul of america and presidency of vanderbilt university jon meacham. and pulitzer prize columnist and msnbc political analyst, eugene robinson. and before we dive in, joe, a quick look around the world where things are shifting a little bit. in some places they're staying the same. canada's prime minister is still on top while israel's prime minister sis on his heels. justin trudeau survived scandal to win a second tem. benjamin netanyahu failed to open a new governm