in an extraordinary news conference, president trump announced that the leader of

isis, al baghdadi is dead, but this morning, military and congressional leaders say there is still work to be done in the war on terror. >> president trump's former chief of staff john kelly says before leaving the administration he warned trump about impeachment telling him not to hire a quote yes man. wildfires in california, with some gusts of winds up to 100 miles an hour leading to a statewide emergency. good morning, everyone. it is monday, october 28, i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. an historic weekend. we begin with president trump yesterday confirming the death of the isis leader following a raid in northwestern syria by u.s. special operations forces. according to comments by trump, national security adviser robert o'brien, and nbc news's own reporting from multiple u.s.

officials familiar with the raid, at around 5:00 p.m. saturday, trump and his top national security officials gathered in the white house situation room, to watch the military operation. now, the day before, trump had given the order to launch a raid to capture or kill baghdadi after options were presented to him on thursday. now, thanks in part to information from the same syrian kurdish allies that trump is accused of abandoning, u.s. analysts believe they had found the isis leader at last. the cia had been honing in the intelligence for weeks. the man believed to be baghdadi was under u.s. surveillance and his movements were being tracked. the american commandos who conducted the operation had been staging in the region since last month. some of them were launched from the iraqi kurdish city of irbil, no hostile force nearby, given that trump had received acquiescence from the russians and the turks, who control some of the air space the u.s. needed to fly through. >> this was not the first attempt to get the isis leader

two or three previous launches had been canceled, trump said, because baghdadi changed his mind, about where he was headed. the strong implication was that the u.s. either had a human source in baghdadi's entourage or was monitoring his communications. the helicopters lifted moments after the white house meeting assembled. trump and his team watched a video feed with a definition that the president said was as clear and detailed as a man cineplex. the u.s. aircraft flew low and fast for about an hour and ten minutes over air space controlled by turkey and russia. the choppers landed and quote a large crew of brilliant fighters emerged. they blew holes into the building to avoid a bobby-trapped main door. they then began capturing fighters. killing anyone who resisted. quote, a large number of baghdadi's men were killed. trump said.

chased by u.s. special operations dogs, baghdadi fled into what the president called a dead-end tunnel with three of his children. baghdadi then detonated his suicide vest ending all four lives and collapsing the tunnel. the commando spent two hours tote until the compound collecting highly sensitive material, trump said. to be certain of baghdadi's identity, the operators had a team on-site with samples of his dna. no american was injured in the raid throw, and a military dog was wounded. >> during the announcement president trump compared taking out baghdadi to the death of another notorious terrorist, osama bin laden, although according to the president, bin laden only became known after the world trade center attacks and trump falsely claimed that he predicted a terrorist attack from osama bin laden in a book. >> osama bin laden became big

with the world trade center. if you read my book, it was before the world trade center, i never get credit for this, i never do, but here we are. i wrote a book, a really very successful book, and in that book, about a year before the world trade center was blown up, i said, there is somebody named osama bin laden, you better kill him or take him out, something to that effect, he's big trouble. and i'm saying to people, take out osama bin laden. that nobody ever heard of. nobody ever heard of. i mean al baghdadi everybody hears because he has built this monster for a long time. but nobody ever heard of osama bin laden. until really the world trade center. but about a year, you will have to check it, a year, a year and a half before the world trade center, the book came out. i was talking about osama bin laden. i said you have to kill him, you have to take him out. nobody listened to me. and to this day, i get people coming up to me, they said you know what, one of the most amazing things i've ever seen about you. is that you predicted that osama

bin laden had to be killed before he knocked down the world trade center. it's true. i made a prediction. and let's put it this way, if they would have listened to me, a lot of things would have been different. >> of course, bin laden was not unknown before the 9/11 attacks and quite well known, especially within the intelligence and military communities, in fact, he was widely responsible for the 1998 bombings against u.s. embassies, the uss cole, many other terrorist attacks on the world and the a. p. noted in a fact check, trump's book did not forshadow a bin laden attack and they wrote in part quote there was nothing original or clairvoyant in the reference to bin laden nor did it call for further u.s. action against bin laden and al qaeda. >> president trump's foreign signature achievement did not

almost happen due to a decision, with multiple military and counter-terrorism officials saying this, for months, intelligence officials had kept mr. trump apprised of what he had set as a top priority for the hunt for mr. al baghdadi, but mr. trump's abrupt withdrawal order from northeast syria three weeks ago disrupted the meticulous planning under way and forced pentagon officials to speed up the plan for the risky night raid before their ability to control troop, spy, reconnaissance ended with the pullout. they said it occurred largely in spite of and not because of the president's actions. those actions include allowing the formerly u.s.-backed kurds to fend for themselves against the major turkish assault. however, the kurds continued to provide information to the cia on baghdadi's location even after trump's betrayal and the kurds provided more intelligence to the raid than any single

country. and in a tweet, the kurdish syrian democratic forces call it a five-month, quote, joint operation. >> i want to thank the nations of russia, turkey, syria, and iraq, and i also want to thank the syrian kurds for certain support they were able to give us. >> can you tell us what role the kurds played in this generally? >> they gave us not a military role at all but they gave us some information that turned out to be helpful. the kurds. the kurds have worked along incredibly with us, but in all fairness, it was much easier dealing with the kurds after they went through three days of fighting because that was a brutal three days. >> let's head overseas now and bring in nbc news national security and military correspondent courtney live for us in northern iraq in the city of irbil. great to have you with us. so let's begin with this announcement from the president, because one of the interesting things he talked about, and that news conference really made a lot of headlines, but he also talk though about the region's

oil and i understand you have new information on troop movements in the area in reference to securing the oil that the president is obsessed with. what can you tell us? >> reporter: that's right, so this region will become the hub of where u.s. troops are moving in and out of syria. we have already seen the first deployment. we watched the troops move in from irbil on of the new mission to secure the oil fields. the u.s. troops will be working with the syrian democratic forces for that. but the mission that they had been undertaking here for several years now, working with the sdf, to defeat isis, that's what's going away. the big question is now, with this smaller footprint, what exactly will the u.s. mission in syria look like. will they only be really securing oil, or will they continue to have some sort of a counter terror prens in syria. with isis. and we don't know exactly how

many troops and what the military says what flavor of troops they will be. the presence there has been largely the more elite special operations, special forces but we may see more conventional forces. so more artillery and what not with this new movement. >> there was conflicting reports yesterday as to the reasons in which al baghdadi was where he was when he was subsequently killed. richard engel was reporting yesterday it was possibly because he was trying to flee to but we are also hearing reports from the president who basically said he thought that baghdadi was there to try and rebuild isis. and not a necessarily friendly area to either isis or to baghdadi. what more are you learning about that? >> reporter: yes, so there have been a bunch of conflicting reports on that. u.s. officials are not really clearing that up for us. the two that have sort of emerged as the main theories on this are number one, what president trump said, that

actually baghdadi was there, trying to rebuild a caliphate. if that's the case, just given the neighborhood he was in, that may indicate he was trying to work more with the, with more of the terrorist organizations that are in that area, al nisra is a main one there, sort of an al qaeda affiliate, a branch of al qaeda. he was there with a bunch of family members. >> would he know at least 11 kids who the u.s. removed from the compound and three unfortunately as president trump mention wrpd killed when baghdadi detonated the suicide vest. but there were reports of several of his wives who were there. so there has been some reports, mainly in the local regional press around here, that he was trying to either move his family across the border into turkey, or even potentially flee into turkey himself. u.s. officials are not confirming any of that. and i'm not sure if that is because they really don't know what he was doing, whether he was just moving throughout the area, or whether it's because for some kind of operational security reason, they don't want to talk about it. the fact that president trump

came out and said he believes they were there to try and, he was there to re-establish his caliphate, probably means that he heard that in some sort of intelligence briefing, and that may be really one of the reasons the u.s. thinks he was there. >> and one of the things that the president has been criticized for is being a lot of the operational detail. >> classified information. >>. so classified information involved in this operation. >> courtney kube as always, thank you very much for the great reporting. stay safe out there. speak to you soon. at a political conference hosted by the washington examine ther weekend, president trump's former chief of staff john kelly said before leaving the white house, he had warned president trump against hiring a quote yes man. >> i said whatever you do, don't hire a yes man. someone that is going to tell you, won't tell you the truth. don't do that. because if you do, i believe you will be impeached. and someone has got to be the guy that tells you that, you know, that, you know, you either have the authority or you don't,

or you know, mr. president, don't do it, because, whatever, you know, but don't hire someone that will just nod and say, you know, that's a great idea, mr. president, because you will be impeached. >> and president trump responded in a statement saying john kelly never said that, he never said anything like that. if he would have said that, i would have thrown him out of the office. he just wants to come back into the action like everybody else does. white house press secretary stephanie grisham also weighed in, hitting back in a statement, saying, i worked with john kelly, and he was totally unequipped to handle the ge pre. >> wow. >> presidential statement. still ahead, new reporting about republican lawmakers' efforts to gather information about the whistle-blower who exposed president trump's attempts to pressure ukraine. >> later former vice president joe biden slams the president as a quote idiot for calling russian election interference a hoax. those stories and a check of weather when we come back.

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welcome back. dozens of inspectors general for the justice department have signed a letter slamming the d.o.j. legal opinion which said the original whistle-blower complaint about president trump's call with ukraine's president did not have to be turned over to congress. the strongly-worded statement rin by justice department's inspector general described the opinion by the d.o.j.'s office of legal counsel, as dangerous, wrong, and really damaging to whistle-blower protection. the independent watchdogs wrote in part this. the olc opinion, if not withdrawn or modified could seriously undermine the critical role whistle-blowers play in coming forward to report waste, fraud, abuse, and misconduct across the federal government. the olc responded to this statement, reiterating its opinion, that because the president is not part of the intelligence community, the matter was not of quote urgent concern to be shared with

congressional intelligence committees. the justice department did not immediately respond to nbc news's request for a comment about the watchdog's statement. >> and republican lawmakers are using the impeachment inquiry as an attempt to gather information on the whistle-blower who filed a complaint against president trump. the "washington post" reports that republican members and their staffers have attempted to repeatedly raise the name of the suspected whistle-blower based on interviews with ten people involved in the depositions. officials told the post that republicans have quote refrained during hearings from explicitly accusing the individual of filing the explosive complaint with the intelligence community. however, according to several officials with direct knowledge of those depositions, the questions have been interpreted as an attempt by lawmakers to unmask the whistle-blower whose identity is shielded under federal law. the line of questioning is the most direct insight into the strategy of trump's defenders, during the closed hearings so far. >> joining us here on the set, msnbc legal analyst danny

cevallos. the protections should be the whistle-blower's identity. the whistle-blower's identity should be protected here. but if republican lawmakers, if they are able to unmask this whistle-blower's identity, are there legal implications? >> it has a chilling effect on the public policy behind whistle-blower statutes. which are designed to encourage people within the government to come forward when they see waste, fraud, and abuse, and protect their identity, so that they don't suffer any adverse employment or other consequences. so this could have a potentially very adverse effect for the idea behind the law, which is to protect those people, not to punish them for coming forward. >> let me get your thoughts on this kind of internal legal battle, if you will, between the department of justice's inspector general, the independent watchdog and the office of legal counsel, the office of legal counsel saying they acted properly by not necessarily recommending that the whistle-blower complaint be handed over to congress, making

the argument that the president is not a part of the intelligence community, and therefore, it did not require urgent action. obviously we read part of the letter from the inspector general. what do you make of that argument, and the office of the legal counsel? is this dangerous that they're saying the president's not part of the intelligence community? >> the olc interprets the constitution. they provide authoritative interpretation for the executive branch, well for actually the d.o.j. and the executive branch. on the other hand, the intelligence community inspector generals are saying that, look, this was a complaint that involved potential interference with election activities. this is the heart of what we do in the intelligence community. your argument then, that the president is not technically part of the intelligence community and therefore this didn't need to be forwarded to the intention committees, is ridiculous. that's the idea behind it. and i tend to agree. because it is really a stretch to say election interference is

within the intelligence community. but the person who arguably is at the head of the entire country, and head of the intelligence community, and the d.o.j., and the executive branch, is somehow outside of the intelligence community. >> the most sensitive classified information that even other members of the intelligence community don't necessarily see. he has for his eyes only so by definition seeing some of the most classified sensitive material and it would seem bizarre that he is not considered part of the intelligence community in the sense that it is not urnltd for him to have that whistle-blower -- >> it is an unworkable argument because the president can affect everything in the country including intelligence community activities, with a stroke of a pen, he is involved with them, he is debriefed on them, he can classify them and it stretches the imagination, that he is not within, in fact he is above the

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian, alongside ayman mohyeldin, it's the bottom of the hour, let's start with the morning's top stories, president trump teased yesterday's announcement in a tweet on saturday night, writing, this, i have something very big has just happened, as the "washington post" points out the white house script on the terrorist al baghdadi was short, but president trump turned the somber announcement into a vivid 40-minute plus news conference. that included bravado, detailed description of military operation, questionable statements and self promotion. >> from the first day, i came to office, and now we're getting close to three years, i would say where's al baghdadi. i want al baghdadi. and we would kill terrorist

leaders but they were names i never heard of, and names that were not recognizable and they weren't the big names, some good one, some important ones but they weren't the important names and i kept saying where is al baghdadi, and a couple of weeks ago, they were able to scope him out. you know, these people are very smart. and they're not into the use of cell phones anymore. they're very technically brilliant. you know, they use the internet better than almost anybody in the world. perhaps other than donald trump. but they use the internet incredibly well. and what they've done with the internet, through recruiting and everything, and that's why he died like a dog, he died like a coward, he was whimpering screaming and crying, and frankly, i think it is something that should be brought out. so that his followers, and all of these young kids that want to leave various countries, including the united states, they should see how he died. >> during his news conference yesterday, president trump said

many congressional leaders did not get advanced notice of the raid that killed al baghdadi and told reporters that republican senators richard burr, lindsey graham were both informed ahead of the raid but others were not due to a fear of leaks. >> have you notified the congressional -- pelosi -- >> we notified some. others are being notified now as i speak. we were going to notify them last night but we decided not to do, that because washington leaks like i've never seen before. there's nothing, there's no country in the world that leaks like we do. >> a leak, a leak could have cost the death of all of them. >> nancy pelosi says the house must be briefed on the raids, with russians but not top congressional leadership were not know fied of in advance and on the administration's overall strategy in the region, our military and allies deserve

strong smart leadership from washington. vice president mike pence was asked yesterday why top democrats specifically pelosi were not informed ahead of the raid. here is how he answered. >> does the president not trust the speaker of the house with sensitive national security information? >> chris i don't think that was the implication at all. i think from the time that we got actionable intelligence, the president's total focus here was on a successful mission, and the safety of american troops. >> why didn't the president notify the speaker of the house? >> chris, i just, i just want to emphasize the president's focus here, throughout, particularly the last several days, was on the mission to bring a man who was the most wanted man in the world, a man who had brought unspeakable violence through the isis caliphate, who was exporting violence around the world, to justice.

>> it is somewhat cringe-worthy to watch that interview dodging those questions. joining us from london, senior international correspondent eir simmons, keir simmons, great to have you. and you talked to donna foley, with james foley brutally murdered by members of a british isis group. what was her reaction to baghdadi's death over the weekend? >> well, i think it's fascinating, because amid the triumphantlism and the praise for the military and the politic, we too often in these moments forget to ask the families who have been directly affected, by the violence of isis. and when you take a pause from all of that, and you actually just listen, you will hear insights you perhaps won't hear elsewhere. so for example the family is

praising the president and saying they do believe that their daughter was let down by the obama administration, that she wasn't rescued, and they are very directly saying that they believe that under the trump administration, there is more action, if you like. but on the other hand, you don't hear from those families the kind of language, despite their experience, despite the fact that they had lost people so close to them, due hear the kind of violent language that you heard from the president yesterday. what you do hear from him, as well as praise for the military and thanks to the president, is that this is not the end of the story. so the family still have questions to have answered and they spoke to the president, and james foley's mom, an incredible woman, diane foley, she immediately talks about what she really wants to see is members of isis brought to court, and specifically as you mentioned, the members of this gang, who

are allegedly, kidnapped and held her son, before he was violently murdered, on camera. take a listen. >> if they're convicted of these horrific crimes, i would prefer that they spend the rest of their lives in prison. in some ways, you know, this quick death, it appears that al baghdadi detonated himself, because he wanted to be a martyr, you know, he didn't want to be taken into custody. and obviously, it's more difficult to hold them in custody. and to make sure that they appear in a trial. but i can suggest the most important way to receive justice and contain of their threat. >> it's stunning when you talk to these families, to witness their faith, their strength, and the way that they believe that

the values of the west, like, for example, court, justice, are worth holding on to, because they are so different from the kinds of values that you saw with isis. >> you can only imagine the incredible amount of pain that that mother had to go through. james foley's mother had to go to and still able to be level-headed about all of that and the reaction in the last 48 hours or so. great reporting, keir simmons, thanks so much. appreciate it, my friend. >> thanks, keir. former michigan congressman john conyers has died, first elected in 1964, the liberal democrat was the longest-serving african-american in the history of congress with more than 50 years of election wins. and an outspoken pioneer of the civil rights movement, a founder of the congressional black caucus and a former chairman of the house judiciary committee, he stepped down from congress amid allegations of sexual misconduct by two women which he denied. he died at his detroit home yesterday of natural causes

according to police and survived by his wife and two sons. former congressman john conyers was 90 years old. thousands gathered this past weekend to honor the life and legacy of the late congressman elijah cummings in his beloved hometown of baltimore. among the eulogy, including president clinton and barack obama, who paid homage to their friend's integrity and character in the face of political opposition. >> people will look back at this moment and they will ask the question, what did you do? and hearing him, we would be reminding that it falls upon each of us to give voice to the voices. and comfort to the sick. and opportunity to those not born to it, and to preserve and nurture our democracy. >> they knew that without the constitution, the laws that will pass under it, the rights that were guaranteed by it, and the abuses it was designed to

prevent, without that constitution, he would not have been in congress, and so he said to himself, i am certain every day i will not let this promise be sullied. >> the culmination of the three-day-long funeral service which began with cummings becoming the first african-american lawmaker to lie in state at the u.s. capitol, drew an outpouring of bipartisan praise for the man known to many as a defender of democracy, through grace an dignity, congressman elijah cummings was 68 years old. still ahead, former vice president and 2020 candidate joe biden has some harsh words for president trump. when it comes to his comments about russian election interference. >> plus bill karins is back with another check of the forecast, with dangerous wildfires across northern california, spread through wine country. we're back in a moment. the bad news? your patience might not.

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joe biden slammed president trump for downplaying russian interference for the election saying they are working to prevent him from winning in 2020. >> the russians don't want me to win and trump doesn't want me to be the nominee. >> how concerned are you about foreign interference? >> i'm very concerned about foreign interference. everybody knows what is going on. trump not only wants to not do anything about it, he is asking for help, come help me for keeping biden from being the nominee. >> how is he perpetuating is? >> by encouraging them to get involved. >> president trump says russian interference is a hoax. >> he's an idiot. everybody knows this. everybody knows it. nobody doubts it. >> tell us what you really think. >> let's get a check on the weather with nbc meteorologist

bill karins. >> over the weekend, california was the headlines for, you know, just how bad a fire situation can be, it was one of the strongest wind events we've ever recorded, during a fire season, and 100 mile-an-hour gusts yesterday in some of the mountain peaks and even air reports like sacramento, gusting to 50 miles an hour range, and numerous valley locations, had the smoke blowing down from the kincade fire with horrific air quality. the fire is burning near santa rosa. that's where they had the 200,000 people, who were told to evacuate yesterday. the fire is only 5% contained and as long as we continue to get these gusty winds, we can get these rapid fire spreads, and you know, strong gusts today up to 50 miles an hour, and low humidity, too, and then as we go towards the end of the week, especially it looks like thursday, we could see another big wind event also in california. but here is the week ahead forecast, no problems today on the east coast, some scattered storms in areas of florida, and we got a very cold snowy weather

pattern for the central rockies as we go throughout today, and tomorrow and by the time we get to wednesday, all of a sudden we get this big storm developing here in the middle of the country. cold on the backside of it. even areas of kansas. maybe once again in oklahoma. and then rain starts to move here on wednesday, and thursday, all through areas of the eastern half of the country, especially east of the mississippi, we dry it out by the time we get through friday, so here is that halloween forecast for thursday, and the worst of it is going to be in the ohio valley, on the backside of this storm, it looks like rain to snow, for areas possibly around milwaukee, and northern illinois, and possibly north of st. louis here, and i mean that's a huge change from the weather we've had recently, and the east coast is going to be warm, 70s all the way up to new york city but damp, with hon and off rain, and the steadiest rain through halloween will be areas of ohio and pennsylvania and it looks through areas of new england. >> got to love it. >> it looks yasmin's costume very appropriate for thursday. she is going as an umbrella. >> thanks, bill.

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welcome back, everyone. the u.s. budget deficit rose to

nearly $1 trillion in 2019, up 26% in just the last year. the treasury department made the announcement on friday, that the deficit has now reached $984 billion, and that is the highest it has been since 2012, and now, during trump's time in office, the deficit is up nearly 50%, due in large part to the president's endorsement of big spending policies. the current state of the u.s. economy, largely copt dicts the president's campaign promise, to eliminate the federal date within eight years. treasury secretary steve mnuchin commented on the new deficit figure on friday saying quote, in order to truly put america on a sustainable financial path, we must enact proposals like the president's 2020 budget plan to cut wasteful and irresponsible spending. breaking this morning, european ambassadors have agreed on an additional brexit extension to january 2020. julianna is joining us from london. good morning to you. it seems as this extension is likely to be approveed so what

does this mean going forward for brexit as of now? >> well, this was widely expected to come through. this is the european union, the 27 nations within europe, agreeing to grant the u.k. the extension of requests that boris johnson sent over last week. now this is not just an extension, it is a flex-tension, meaning that if the u.k. is able to agree to a deal, that the deal that prime minister boris johnson agreed with the eu earlier this month, then they can leave the european union before this january 2020 deadline. now, of course for context here boris johnson, u.k. prime minister, he won the top job, the prime minister position, under this do or die motto, that the u.k. would leave the european union by october 31. obviously, he has run into a huge number of hurdles. now, he finds himself pushing for a general election on december 12. so now we've got this movement from the european side, saying that they are willing to grant this extension. the question is, now, whether boris johnson can secure the

support that he needs to get this general election on december 12. at this point, it looks like quite a challenge. and the focus is now on westminster, and whether he will be able to drum up enough support from opposition parties to get this december 12 extension. one point i would mention on this flex-tension offered by the european union. the more we delay, the u.k.'s exit from the european union, the shorter the time span the u.k. has to negotiate trade deals and a trade deal with the european union. so it does squeeze that time line a bit and it is very important for the future of the u.k. economy. that's where things stand very much a work in progress. we'll keep a close eye on it. >> thank you. axios has a look at the one big thing coming up. and the latest on the raid that took down the leader of isis. we have it covered from all possible angles. plus where does the impeachment inquiry stand right now? leading voices from the house and the senate join the conversation. a busy monday morning joe, just

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welcome back. joining us from washington, with a look at axios a.m., national political reporter for axios, jonathan swan, jonathan, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> talk to us about axios, one big thing today. >> so to kill the leader of isis, arguably the most important national security accomplishment of trump's presidency, he relied on many of the tools and assets and decisions that he has spurned in the past, so trump has continually said that the decision to enter the middle east was the worst decision in american history, he said that we should be out of iraq, you know, take the oil and get out, it was only because of that ground presence in iraq that they could launch the mission from there. it was only because of their, the u.s. presence on the ground in iraq and syria, that they ge human intelligence. and of course, the relationships with t provided

intelligence on the ground reportedly, to secure this mission, was also vital. so we're reporting on that irony. and also tied into an interview that i did in baghdad last week, with the president of iraq, where he takes us into a real big picture sense of the situation. the fears in the region about the u.s. withdrawal. and the fears that after this, we could become complacent against isis and they could re-emerge. >> and in reference to that interview, for this sunday's axios on hbo, tell us a little bit more about what he told you about president trump's decision to withdraw troops from syria, and the bigger picture of america's dependency in the middle east. >> there was some really stunning moments in that interview. he's a very careful leader, who is one of the most staunchly pro-american leaders in the region. he opened up about his fears about trump's policy. he says that he's having toreli

dependability as an ally, and he said that it is not just him, but many of the allies are worried that the u.s. will repeat the mistakes of the past, declare mission accomplished, with isis, when in fact, mission is not accomplished. the physical caliphate may be wiped out. but they could re-emerge. >> do you think that was a surprising sign of just how much the president's policies, especially in the middle east, are impacting our allies there? >> i was surprised he was so candid. this is a leader who has relied on american friendship for a long time. and it just, it really reinforced how shaken he and others are in the region about this decision. >> the iraqi president told you, a quote, that the staying power of the u.s. has been questioned in very serious ways, and that allies are worried about the dependability of the united states, was that a surprising sign do you think, of how much president trump's decisions are potentially impacting our allies

in the middle east? you travel quite a lot and speak to world leaders there. do you get a sense that many in the region also share that sentiment? >> it was a chilling moment and he used the word recalibrate. he said we are having to rethink and recalibrate our relationship with america and i said what does that mean, and he said, rethink, are you talking about russia, iran, and he said of course, and so what they are having to do is very pragmatically, very practically, listen to trump, take him at his word that he doesn't want to be in the middle east for long, he wants to get the troops home and having to rethink their relationships. probably means they are going to have to reorient, they have already developed very close ties to iran and they are probably going to double down on that. >> jonathan swan, live for us in washington, d.c., of course, we will be watching axios a.m. in a little bit. you can sign up for the news liter at axios.com. >> that does it for us. i'm yasmin vossoughian,

alongside ayman mohyeldin. "morning joe" starts right now. left center field. back at the wall. and that's gone. >> he goes deep. he let him hit him right in the chest. 2-1. the houston astros defeated the washington nationals 7-1 last night in game five of the world series. they now lead the series three games to two, after falling behind 2-0 games after the series headed to washington. game six is tomorrow night. back in houston. and meanwhile, president trump was at the game last night. where he was greeted with boos when his attendance was announced during the game. according to the "washington post," the crowd sustained booing hit almost 100 decibels, and was followed by chants of lock him up, and