thank you so much for being here with us and good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. republicans es clats testimr hours. >> plus, president trump lifts sanctions against turkey, claiming there has been a quote break through when it comes to syria, and what he called a permanent cease fire between the two sides. >> and president trump is once again touting plans to build a big beautiful wall, but this time, it is apparently for colorado. good morning, everybody.

it is thursday, october 24th, i'm yasmin vossoughian. ayman mohyeldin is out sick this morning. we begin with the wake of the escalating impeachment fight, republican strategy for defending president trump, defending, growing more frantic by the day. on capitol hill yesterday a group of gop lawmakers stormed the secure room where a deposition was set to take place, a house intelligence committee official telling nbc news more than two dozen republican members participated. the testimony of laura cooper, the top pentagon official overseeing u.s. policy toward ukraine was delayed by five hours, because of the outburst. house intelligence committee chair adam schiff suggested the demonstration was a response to ambassador bill taylor's explosive testimony just the day before. watch this. >> the testimony yesterday, they have been successful in stopping witnesses from cooperating. and so the president has elicited allies on the hill to

see what they could do to stop the witnesses but we will go forward with the testimony and make sure that the facts come to light. >> and democrats have accused republicans who participated in the outburst yesterday, of compromising security. by taking their cell phones, into the secure room, known as a skiff, which is a permitted. one house intel official telling nbc news, some republicans lawmakers refused to comply with requests to remove those devices from the room. house homeland security chair benny thompson wrote to the house sergeant at arms yesterday calling for action against the gop members from what he called a quote blatant breach of security. and several republican lawmakers have pointed to the private nature of the proceedings as unfair. but the final benghazi committee report includes a lengthy explanation about the merits of closed door interviews. the report reads this. and i quote. the committee's preference for private interviews over public hearings has been questioned.

interviews are a more efficient and effective means of discovery. interviews allow witnesses to be questioned in depth by a highly prepared member or staff person. interviews also allow thement to safeguard the privacy of witnesses who may fear retaliation for cooperating or whose work requires anonymity such as intelligence community operatives. the report goes on to say. >> this the ability to interview witnesses in private allows committees to gather information confidentially and in more depth than is possible under the five-minute rule governing committee hearings. it is worth mentioning that house rules only allow members to participate in depositions if they serve on the committee's holding those depositions. gop members who don't sit on the committees and questioning withins in the process, to protest the impeachment process as unfair. former republican congress darryl issa was kicked out after

trying to crash the deposition of former national security adviser sidney blumenthal and he was in there for a minute before escorted out by the chairman at the time, chen republican congressman trey gowdy. and democrats are looking to move the impeachment inquiry into the public as soon as mid november. the "washington post" reporting that democrats are beginning to grapple with how best to present the complex probe to the american people. multiple democratic officials told the post they hope to finish private depositions early next month. so they can use the two-week period before thanksgiving to hold public hearings. acting ambassador to ukraine bill taylor and predecessor former ambassador maria yovanovitch are among those witnesses that could be called to testify in the open public session. the paper notes another top priority for many democrats is john bolton. trump's former national security adviser. and three top house republicans are demanding that house

intelligence committee chair adam schiff call on the ukraine whistle-blower to testify. a ranking member of the committee, the ranking members of the committee, jim jordan, devin nunes and michael mccall wrote to schiff yesterday demanding he schedule an interview with the whistle-blower so the committees could fully look at the credibility of the employee. they go on to write this. we expect you to arrange for the committee to receive the testimony of the employees and all individuals he or she relied upon in formulating the august 12th complaint of the leaders say the whistle-blower's complaint contradicting the call by the white house. congressman adam schiff's office declined to comment on the letter. president trump railed against acting ukraine ambassador bill taylor's testimony yesterday in an attempt to discredit the career diplomat. and many reporters were trying

to interview congressman and some call it a bombshell to the im peachment inquiry. >> you have any comment on the inquiry yesterday? >> i am almost late for my own hearing. >> any reaction to bill taylor's testimony yesterday? >> i don't. >> and john thune braved questions and reacted to the picture of taylor's testimony painted for the president. >> the picture coming out of it, based on on the reporting that we've seen, is yeah, i would say it is not a good one, but i would say also, that again, until we have a process that allows for everybody to see this in full transparency, it's pretty hard to draw any hard, fast conclusions. >> and former acting u.s. attorney general matthew whittaker attempted to defend the president against the onslaught of evidence piling up as part of the impeachment

inquiry. >> i'm a former prosecutor. and what i know is this is a perfect time for plreliminary hearing where you would say show us your evidence. what evidence of a crime do you have. the constitution, sort of abuse of power is not a crime. let's, fundamentally boil it down, the constitution is very clear, that this has to be some pretty egregious behavior. >> so in reality, the impeachment article drawn bebe congress president rich nixon and bill clinton asserted an abuse of power had occurred in both of those administrations and article three of nixon's impeachment case, congress argued that nixon's refusal to produce subpoenaed documents related to the gaewatergate scal interposed the powers of the precedence. and clinton a, clinton's impeachment case, he abused his power by refusing to hand over documents. and we have andrew here with us

this morning. thanks for joining us. >> good morning. >> appreciate it. as always. >> let's talk about this abuse of power conversation as the trump white house and house democrats are conditioning to face off every single day. could the president potentially see impeachment articles here drawn up against him for abuse of power? >> well, abuse of power would be the basis for these impeachment articles. especially when we're talking about the ukraine scandal, right? the allegations, if they are true, are that essentially the president abused the power of the presidency, in order to seek political favors, politically motivated investigations, that is of his enemies, from a foreign government, to interfere in the 2020 election. so that is basically textbook abuse of power. but the second one that is really important here is to remember, is obstruction of congress. the third article of the richard nixon impeachment artdrafted before he obviously resigned. but that would be sort of a watch-all article of impeachment that lawmakers can use for

everything from ukraine, to the mueller report, even theests to add the citizenship question to the census, litigated earlier this year at the supreme court. so we're seeing two lanes emerge in the impeachment fight. one is abuse of power and the secretary is obstruction of congress. >> let's talk about ambassador taylor's testimony. we are seeing some of the reactions of republicans when asked about the testimony. pretty avoid ant, to say the least. a lot of democrats basically calling this testimony a game changer. how much of a central role is it likely to play when house democrats take their impeachment inquiry public? >> well, look, there are eventually going to have to take this inquiry public, right? the nature of an impeachment proceeding is that you have to essentially air these allegations against a president in public, and in part, to convince the american public, that the removal of a president is warranted here. and democrats are going to spend a few more weeks on these closed door depositions to try to

gather all of the facts and eventually they will evaluate where they are at that point and bring in certain witnesses that they think will buttress their case more. bill taylor is one of them. john bolton is another. mick mulvaney could be another. but it all depend on who wants to actually show up. and whether the trump administration will act in any way to block them from showing up which of course we've seen in the past here. >> andrew, i will talk to you in a little bit again. thank you. >> thank you. former president barack obama and bill clinton, set to speak tomorrow at the funeral of the late elijah cummings. hillary clinton and house speaker nancy pelosi are among those expected to speak to honor the life and leg sift baltimore congressman, cummings, a civil rights activist and former chairman of the house oversight and reform committee passed away last week at the age of 68 due to complications due to long standing heth challenges. his body has been lying in repose at morgan state university in baltimore. he will be remembered today as

he lies in state at the u.s. capitol. congressional leaders are set to speak at an arrival ceremony later this morning. still ahead, how executive privilege could complicate the campaign finance case against the two associates of rudy giuliani, legal analyst danny cevallos is joining me and president trump and members of the team appear to be at odds over reports of escaped isis prisoners in syria. those stories and a check of the weather when we come back. i can't believe it.

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welcome back. the "new york times" is reporting that one of the two indicted associates of president trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani tied the case to the president himself yesterday. claim thrag some of the evidence in the campaign finance investigation could be subject to executive privilege. according to the times, a lawyer for lev parnas told the judge in the case that the potential for

the white house to invoke executive privilege that parnas hired giuliani as his own lawyer at the same time giuliani was working for the president. giuliani has denied any wrongdoing. in a tweet wrote in part this, with all of the fake news, let me make it clear that everything i did was to discover evidence to defend my client against false charges. dems would be horrified by the attacks on me if my client was a terrorist but they don't believe@real donald trump has rights. justice will prevail. giuliani recently parted ways with his lawyer and reportedly approaching other defense attorney force representation. msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos joins me now. this was some incredibly surprising developments yesterday, that the possibility of executive privilege could be claimed in the case of fruman and parnas. what do you make of that? >> i don't like to commit on this show but i will this morning. there is no imaginable way that executive privilege applies to these private criminal defendants. executive privilege exists to

protect high level communications between the president and people very, very close to him, within the executive branch. rudy giuliani himself is not within the executive branch. he is a private attorney. so his private clients who have nothing at all to do with the executive branch completely have no claim that executive privilege shields any of their documents or communications, especially in a criminal investigation, because that was the holding of the nixon case. that while there may be more protection between the branches, congress wants information from the executive branch, that privilege weakens in the case of a criminal investigation. so i can't imagine any other reason than a strategic reason for invoking executive privilege and that strategic reason is possibly to turn up the temperature on president trump, make this, this lawyer, the parnas' lawyer's clients concerns, the president's concerns, and thereby, somehow

helping his client. >> so if this idea of executive privilege, is it even being entertained at this point when brought up by the attorney? >> strangely enough, it seems that the ausa, the government prosecutors in the case are having a filter team review the documents, an independent team of prosecutors not involved in the case will go through the documents and determine whether or not there is privilege and if they see something that is privileged because they're sort of walled off from the prosecutor's handling of the case, they can see the privilege, and it won't ever get to the actual prosecutors who are prosecuting the defendants. >> is it surprising to you that they are looking at it or do they have to? >> is it obligation? >> it's due diligence. it's the right thing to do. as i sit here, i can't imagine a single document in this criminal case that will be covered by executive privilege. because it is, while executive privilege is a thing, it is relatively narrowly construed.

it is not absolute. and even where executive privilege applies, there is a balancing test that if there is some need for it, it can overcome that executive privilege. but goy back to the original point, it is reserved for the executive branch. if you're a private criminal defendant, you're going to have a real hard time claiming executive bridge because you happen to share a lawyer with the president. >> could these close ties to the president through giuliani potentially leak into the impeachment inquiry? >> potentially, but i mean congress' investigation is in many ways overlapping with some of the same information that prosecutors probably have. if they're extending their investigation out to giuliani, which we know that they're interested in giuliani. we also, we have reports that giuliani is being investigated independently, by prosecutors as well. so there has to be some overlap. as we continue to unearth what is the thorniest issue, and i've been saying this for weeks, which is what hat does rudy giuliani ultimately wear? is he a diplomat?

is he a private citizen? he is a lobbyist? is he an attorney? you can't get the benefit of all of these different hats. something's got to give. >> danny cevallos, thank you, as always, appreciate it. good seeing you. let's get a check of the weather with m weather mbs meteorologist bill karins. >> the winds are picking up, reports of trees down and now reports of one fast-moving fire. mostly in a rural area near geyserville. but we will have to watch that and monitor that. it started out last night, already up to 7,000 acres burned. so that is how ripe the conditions are. so we have extreme fire danger today, mostly the red flag warnings are in southern california. even though the fire i just told you about is north of san francisco. and sonoma county. but this is for this afternoon. and for tomorrow. 25 million people at risk. 40 to 60 mile-an-hour winds. low humidity, and hot conditions, and these are the expected peak wind gusts as we go throughout the day today and on friday. the mountainous area, 60, 67, 70, 56, you get a fire and you

get the warm temperature, and you get winds gusting to 70 miles an hour, that's why they call it extreme. and here's how hot it is going to be, too. notice the temperatures are easily into the 90s. san luis obispo, 98 degrees. this is a full-fledged october heat wave with the santa ana wind event throughout this area. we will keep you updated if any new fires do form. but again, the one i just told you about is located well up to the north. they call it wine country, and they're hoping after it gets out of the mountains, the valleys, where the winds are lighter, that they can get control of it during the day today. but there are some mandatory evacuations in effect. so today's forecast, a beautiful fall day for the northeast and the east coast, no problems at all. wet weather possible new orleans. tampa, could have some showers. and eventually we will have wet weather down here in areas of texas. it snowed overnight in colorado. three to six inches on the ground in areas near denver and the cold air is heading to north texas and then tomorrow, heading into louisiana.

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian. it's the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top stories. in defense, against allegations that president trump froze $391 million in military aid intended

for ukraine, in order to pressure its government to carry out investigations for his political benefit, trump yesterday in a tweet quoting republican congressman john rat cliff wrote that quote neither ambassador taylor or any other witness has provided testimony that the ukrainians were aware that military aid was being withheld. you can't are a quid pro quo with no quo. matt mccarty made similar arguments on tuesday. >> the democrats were not able to establish that ukraine was aware that military aid was temporarily withhold, they will of course be able to not prove some extortion the president is claimed to be engaged in. >> there is a claim of quid pro quo of president trump with the president of ukraine on july 25th. we've found what they said in here, on august 29th, ukraine found out that the money was being held up from "politico." >> however, "the new york times"

is reporting that word of the aid freeze had gotten to high level ukrainian officials by the first week in august according to interviews and documents obtained by the paper. according to the times, the ukrainians were told the problem was not bureaucratic and in order to address it they were advised to reach out to acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney. the times points out that quote the timing of the communication shows that ukraine was aware the white house was holding up the funds, weeks earlier than acknowledged. it also means that the ukrainian government was aware of the freeze during most of the period in august when rudy giuliani and two american diplomats were pressing the president of ukraine to make a public commitment to the investigations. and according to acting ambassador bill taylor's opening statement in his testimony, before the impeachment investigators, taylor said, he was told by national security council aide tim morrison that eu ambassador gordon sondland directly communitied that quid

pro quo to a top aide for the president of ukraine. meanwhile the associated press reports that the ukrainian president zelensky was feeling pressured by trump more than two months before their controversial phone call on july 25th. three sources telling the a. p. that zelensky gathered a small group of advisers on may 7 in kyiev for a meeting that was supposed to be about the nation's energy needs but instead the group spent most of the three hour discussions talking about how to navigate the insistence from trump and giuliani for a probe and how to avoid being entangled in the american election, and it came before the inauguration, but two weeks after trump called to offer his congratulations on the night of the ukrainian's leader's april 21st election. >> while president trump's argued that his goal to delay the ukrainian aid was to ensure that corruption was addressed in the country, budget white house documents show his administration has repeatedly sought billions of dollars in cuts to programs aimed at doing just that.

for example, the post reports the administration sought to cut a program called international narcotics control and law enforcement. in another example, the administration sought to streamline a number of oversees democracy assistance and foreign aid accounts under one larger umbrella called the economic support and development fund. the white house believed that consolidation would cut those programs by more than $2 billion. want to turn now to the middle east, where the syrian observatory for human rights reports that at least 120 civilians have been killed since turk irk assaults on the former u.s.-backed kurdish forces starting october 9 while another 300,000 have been displaced. the u.s. envoy for syria ambassador james jeffrey told congress this week that the u.s. believes turkish-backed forces committed quote at least one war crime. during the operation. however, president trump says that turkey will face no penalty for the assault. >> the government of turkey

informed my administration that they would be stopping combat. and their offensive in syria. and making the cease fire permanent. and it will indeed be permanent. however, you would also define the word permanent in that part of the world, as somewhat questionable. we all understand that. but i do believe it will be permanent. i've therefore instructed the secretary of the treasury to lift all sanctions image posed so the sanctions will be lifted. unless something happens that we're not happy with it. this was an outcome created by us, the united states, and nobody else, no other nation, very simple. and we're willing to take blame and we're also willing to take credit. let someone else fight over this long blood-stained sand. >> we've secured the oil and therefore a small number of u.s. troops will remain in the area. where they have the oil. and we're going to be protecting

it. and we'll be deciding what we're going to do with it in the future. >> so despite the president's past statements, the troops he withdrew are not heading back to the united states. but are currently going to neighboring iraq, according to the defense secretary mike es per. after that, they still aren't heading home, according to a statement released by the iraqi prime minister's office, after meeting with esper, those troops in question will lead iraq, leave iraq within four weeks and head to kuwait or qatar. 1,000 isis supporters escaped from a kurdish holding camp and about 100 isis fighters escaped from other prisons as well. and there is a serious disagreement between the president and his top team on the status of those isis terrorists. >> as you know, most of the isis fighters that we captured, we, we, not obama, we, we captured them, me. >> based on the intelligence we had, the reporting we have, of the 11,000 or so detainees that were imprisoned in northeast

syria, we have only had reports of a little bit more than 100 that have escaped. >> there were a few that got out, a small number, relatively speaking, and they have been largely recaptured. >> again, as secretary espersuaesper, said, we would say the number is over 100. and we don't know where they are. >> the withdrawal decision has received the largest swell of bipartisan backlash of his presidency to date with the harshest words coming from within the gop and including influential voices such as senator majority leader mitch mcconnell. however, texas senator john cornyn is defending the president, telling reporters shortly after trump rescinded those sanctions on turkey quote, if turkey was planning to come on to syria, northern syria and ethically cleanse the kurds, i'm not convinced it it was a bad idea to get them out of the way.

and senator mitt romney said it was the wrong choice. >> it would be unthinkable to me that turkey would not suffer consequence tore malevolent behavior kron temporary to t, contrary to the united states and our friends. andrew, hearing the comments from the gop and senator john cornyn's recent comments, could president trump's decision in removing troops from syria fracture senate republicans? >> well, it's already fractured senate republicans and i would say about senator cornyn's remark, i think it's safe to say that turkey would not have launched this operation in the first place to go into northeastern syria, and fight against the kurds, had the u.s. not pulled back, as president trump had ordered. but among all of the things that president trump has done, policy-wise, and on a personal level, i've never seen such a vociferous push-back from republicans on capitol hill, than i have seen to the syria

decision. the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is going to be introducing a resolution, actually just introduced it yesterday, rather, that strongly condemns the president's actions, and said it essentially emboldens iran and russia, and the assad regime in syria. that is some really strong language and stronger than any type of pushback i've ever heard from republicans, against the decision that president trump has made, so it is really, you know, causing problems for the president on the hill. >> what type of message is being sent to the u.s.'s allies, when you have sanctions being lifted on turkey, so swiftly, as of yesterday, but you also have the u.s. envoy for syria ambassador james jefferies saying that turkey committed at least one war crime? >> right, so turkey is a nato ally, right? and you have our envoy, james jeffery there, essentially saying, for syria, rather, saying that turkey has committed war crimes, so you can't really square those two things, with each other, without taking some sort of punitive measures,

punitive actions, on that front and i think the open question that folks on capitol hill are going to have to confront, is whether, you know, whether isis is further going to be emboldened and going to resurge in the region but secondly whether the u.s. can trust russia and iran and the assad regime and turkey rather, because they are right there in the region, to handle the potential groundswell, the potential response that is to the president's decision here to abandon the kurds. i think those things are open questions and things that senate republicans are version very worried about. >> don't we already know the answer, whether the u.s. can trust russia and iran, especially in that region and bashar al assad, the leader of syria, considering their interests in syria, and what's taking place historically the last couple of years there? >> right, and this essentially sparks at alliance, a new found alliance between president erdogan in turkey, and president buti putin, that spells bad news for the united states and that's

something that i think the president's allies on capitol hill are trying to counsel him against with actions against it and whether that is sanction, or troop movement in the region, i think that remains to be seen, but that is something that the president is going to be hearing a lot from, from republicans. >> andrew, thank you, good seeing you. >> thank you. we've heard it before, president trump is touting the idea of a big beautiful wall, but last night, he said it will be built in a state that does not border mexico. your first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment. 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.

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not touch mexico. yesterday, at a speech in pittsburgh, he claimed that the wall was being built in colorado. >> new mexico, which i think we're going to win. you know why we're going to win new mexico? because they want safety on their border. and they didn't have it. and we're building a wall on the border of new mexico. and we're building a wall in colorado. we're building a beautiful wall. a big one that really works. that you can't get over. you can't get under. and we're building a wall in texas. and we're not building a war in kansas. but they get the benefit of the walls that we just mentioned. >> so it is unclear whether the president was unaware of colorado's geographical location during that speech, but he took to twitter very early in the morning today to assure everybody that he was just kidding. he wrote this. kiddingly, we're building a wall

in colorado, referred to people in the very packed auditorium from colorado and kansas, getting the benefit of the border wall. it is worth noting though, that yesterday's speech was in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. we want to get a check of the weather once again with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> i think it figured out. he needs a co-anchor. >> if amin said something like that -- >> whoa, you are saying i need checks an balances. >> it is okay to fly solo sometimes. with the help of bill karins. >> and those offset a whole team of people here. >> so i told you earlier about the fire spreading rapidly in california, and the first pictures of it. this is a time lapse video that showed it going up and over geyser peak, you can see even though it is time lapsed, you can get an idea how fast the

smoke is moving. winds gusting 40 to 50 miles an hour. and these video are from sonoma water. and the cameras are put in places like this so we can see the fires and how quickly they could be spreading. it is in a remote area and there are mandatory evacuations but heading, not to any city wis is good news. and the pink here, critical fire. and sonoma county, the fire up here. if we get fires in southern california down here today or tomorrow, they will have spread rapidly. the other weather story, friends from i-70, pueblo, to denver, they are shoveling this morning when they wake up. three to six inches of snow has fallen a slippery morning commute and some of the snow spread into kansas. as we get into the next couple of day, the storm is a big rain event that heads to texas later on tonight and dallas, the drive through much of the day, overnight the rain through dallas, tomorrow, from houston all the way through louisiana, we get a soaking rain, and mississippi is going to get soaked on friday and then as we

head to saturday, the storm heads into the tennessee and ohio valleys, a wet day and the halloween activities and college football games, and then finally for your sunday, the rain arrives in the northeast, and the east coast. >> tough morning for colorado. big snowstorm. and then a wall when they wake up in the morning. >> tough morning. >> got to shovel the snow over the wall. that's the hard part. >> thank you, bill. still ahead facebook ceo mark zuckerberg explains to congress how the social media company plans to make money over cryptocurrency. that story and other headlines driving your business day coming up. driving your business day coming up

yesterday, facebook's ceo mark zuckerberg met with the house financial services committee to discuss its>> wells certainly come in question as its key backers have pulled out after agreeing initially to partner with facebook around this project. so yesterday zuckerberg testified for over six hours in front of this house financial services committee. and ultimately it seems as though those committee members left fairly dissatisfied with his responses. policymakers are essentially concerned about regulation and governance surrounding libra. one point i want to pick up on here is zuckerberg's comments about blocking libra and how it

would be a boom to china who is pushing ahead and forging ahead with their own currencies. elsewhere, let's look at tesla. they had a surge on the back of this result. they're ahead of schedule with their new factory in shanghai and with the model cross-over. good support for tesla and that's providing a boost to stocks here in europe. >> i can't believe we're talking about this, but this year's holiday shopping season has six fewer days for shoppers to hit stores. and target preparing for that as we would expect from them. what more can you tell us about this? >> it is crazy. i agree, i can't believe we're here already. typically as you just said, typically during the holidays shoppers rush out around black friday, they take advantage of those bargains, they rush to their computers for cyber

monday, and then they take a break until the last minute and they continue shopping to get those last-minute goods for christmas. but this year is the shortest possible period, u.s. fewer dsi than usual. target will spend more than they did in last year. they will tuesday on overtime and employees to try to make up for the lack of days between thanksgiving and christmas this year. >> i think they'll probably get their money's worth. thank you. coming up, axios's nicholas johnson has a look at this morning's one big thing and coming up on "morning joe," live from capitol hill, joe and mika are standing by with coverage from the center of the impeachment fight. they're joined by leading voices from both the house and senate. "morning joe" is just moments away. e and senate. "morning joe" is just moments away.

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joining us from washington, a look at axios a.m. editor and chief of axios, nick. good morning to you. talk about the one big thing today. >> how biden haunts biden. sometimes it feels like joe biden has to run for president against himself. it's one of the big challenges of 40 years in the public eye. there's always something from his past and history that can come up and it's one of the controversies of the day and it can make it more challenging tabbed makes him hard for him to weigh in on a tax on president trumps as the campaign begins to heat up. biggest example just this week when president trump refers to the impeachment proceedings against him as a lynching, he faced a round of criticism by that. it came out later in the day that joe biden had used similar language himself during the clinton impeachment so he was swept up into that same controversy around president trump's racially charged language around the impeachment proceedings. there's a lot of other examples like this adds wes well about u,

about how donald trump's family's involved in the business and he can always pivot it right back to hunter bide he's business dealings with ukraine and china. it's many, many years of joe biden's history in the public eye. there's many, many examples for his opponents to seize upon. the final one i want to mention is syria. whenever donald trump faces criticism is for what he took part in syria, remember the situation that created there had a lot do with president barack obama, his drawing of the red line and failure to solve thash there that issue there. it's become difficult for joe biden to differentiate himself from president trump. >> from axios's perspective, how is biden's campaign faring with his long history? >> there's the little bit of an irony in that. democratic party has been helping him. there's been a little coalescing around biden in the face of these attacks from president trump. he's got his biggest lead of the campaign season now. but what will become more interesting if joe biden is the

nominee and it's just him against donald trump, how does that play for more independent swing voters trying to make the difference between what donald trump says and what joe biden has said in 40 years of public life. >> i know we have cybersecurity risks talking us through the white house. talk us through that. >> my colleague scoops yesterday that over a dozen senior adviser cybersecurity officials have been forced out in months. this is a reorganization of the office. these are offices assigned to the white house during the 2016 election. that's being overhauled, possibly under some political appointees. one them wrote a memo which was leaked to axios calling it a warning bell or a crisis looming of what could possibly happen if these kinds of capabilities are left to wither. remember, we publicly senior intelligence officials have told congress in public hearings that expect china, expect russia, expect foreign nations to try to mess with our cybersecurity and elections in the is the

capability that folks are warning cannot be diminished. >> sticking with the cyber world here, big tech is facing battles not only in washington but also in their backyard. >> keep an eye on how the tech lash plays out on the small stage. we've been talking a lot about internationally, we're now seeing that play out among cities and city council races. it's gotten to the point where amazon is investing millions of dollars in a city council race in seattle to fight back against policies they don't like. mountain view, california, hoax google has instituted new taxes that will try to extract new money from that giant tech company. a lot of the companies are leaving entirely. we saw stripe based in san francisco said they're going to move their headquarters out of that city because they're tired of fighting with city government. you can't just keep an eye on the federal level for this, not even state ags who are suing

after them, even the city level they're going after them. >> thank you. we'll be reading axios a.m. in just a bit. you can sign up at signup.axios.com. that does it for this morning. "morning joe" starts right now. abuse of power is not a crime. let's fund meaamentally. >> they're trying to impeach a president in secret behind closed doors. >> and we're building a wall in colorado. we're building a beautiful wall. >> a quick fact check. richard nixon was looking at three articles of impeachment, including abuse of power. there was plenty of closed-door testimony during the benghazi hearings. >> constant, for years. >> and colorado does not share a border with mexico. good morning. >> but, it is going to be a beautiful wall and until is going new mexico is going to pay for i