night broadcast as we start a new week. thank you all for being here with us. good night from our nbc headquarters here in new york. for the first time. we're seeing transcripts from the etch impeachment probe. >> plus, lexington,lexington, kf today's gubernatorial election but it is clear he had the impeachment probe on his mind. >> we may be one step closer to seeing the president's finances. a federal appeals court has ruled that trump's tax returns can be turned over to prosecutors in new york. but the president's legal team says they will appeal to the supreme court.

good morning, everybody. it is tuesday, november 5th, i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. we begin with a first look at the closed door testimony in the impeachment probe. among the many revelations, ousted u.s. ambassador to ukraine, maria yovanovitch told lawmakers during her october deposition she felt threatened by the president after it was revealed that she told the president of ukraine that she would quote go through stom things. she was asked during the deposition what did you understand that to mean, she replied i didn't know what it meant, i was very concerned, i still am. did you feel threatened she was asked. she replied yes. also other concerns for the former ambassador's safety when asked about rudy giuliani's name coming up in the conversations with ukraine official, she highlighted a february conversation, saying a senior ukrainian official was quote very concerned and told me i

really need to watch my back. when asked to explain, she mentioned giuliani, his now indicted associates lev parnas and igor fruman and ex ukrainian prosecutor saying they were interested in having a different ambassador at post there is also this. yovanovitch testified that she asked the u.s. ambassador gordon sondland on how to handle attacks from sean hannity and don jr. and told lawmakers we need to go big or go home and need to tweet out there that you support the president and all these are lice a, lies and ever else and it was advice i didn't see how i could implement in my role as an ambassador as a foreign service officer. another reference to hannity. his attacks apparently went from fox news, prime time to the top of the state department. yovanovitch said she was told the secretary or someone around him would call hannity, to see if he had proof of the allegations against her. and if not, to stop it.

hannity claims the call never happened. >> so here's exactly what the president said about the former ambassador when asked by nbc's kirsten welker. >> was marie yovanovitch the target of a smear campaign -- >> i really don't know her, but if you look at the transcript, the president of ukraine was not a fan of hers either. i mean he did not exactly say glowing things. i'm sure she is very fine woman. i just don't know much about her. >> the president says he doesn't know her. but that's not what he told the president of ukraine in the call that he insists was quote perfect. trump told zelensky then, the former ambassador from the u.s., the woman, was bad news, and the people she was dealing with in the ukraine were bad news. so i just want to let you know that. >> the congressional committee released a deposition transcript of former ambassador michael mckinley who recently resigned as senior adviser to secretary of state mike pompeo. of his decision to step down, mckinley told impeachment investigators, quote, in this

context, frankly, to see the emerging information on the engagement of our missions to procure negative political information for domestic purposes combined with the failure i saw in the support for the professional cadre in a particularly trying time, i think the reason was a pretty good reason to decide that i had no long area useful role to play. >> mckinley said pompeo's decision not to issue a statement in support of former u.s. ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch following the release of the transcript of president trump's july 25th phone call with the president of ukraine, contributed to his resignation. he said he raised the issue with pompeo, during three separate conversations, but received no response. mckinley also testified that he spoke to state department officials, george kent, who felt the state department was using quote bullying tactics, to try and prevent him from cooperating with congress. according to the transcript, kent told mckinley, he thought a

state department lawyer, quote, was trying to shut him up, which led kent to write a memo, detailing allegations of bullying as well as concerns over inaccuracies in a letter written by pompeo last month accusing congress of harassing state department employees. mckinley said he shared kent's memo but referred no answers. >> and the deposition transcript reveals former ambassador michael mckinley told impeachment investigators he had three conversations with secretary of state mike pompeo about a possible public statement backing the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, pompeo last month said mckinley never raised any concerns. >> mike mckinley served me well for a year and a half, i chose him, i had people tell me he was a great foreign service officer and in fact, he served america wonderfully for 37 years. he in fact, had the office that was just behind mine, had a door that he could walk in any time and say whatever he wanted, you know, from the time that ambassador yovanovitch departed

ukraine until the time he came to tell me he was departing i never heard him say a single thing about his concerns. >> you never heard anything? >> not once, did ambassador mckinley say something to me during that entire time period. >> president trump was in lexington, kentucky, last night. and he rallied for the state's vulnerable republican governor ahead of the election today. while speaking to rally-goers trump railed against democrats in the escalating impeachment inquiry. >> in their crazed thirst for power, the democrats are trying to tear our country apart. the media and the democrats have launched an even more brazen assault on our nation, with the deranged hyper-partisan impeachment witch hunt. with last week's vote, the far left has declared war on american democracy itself. these people are lunatics.

>> you have to go vote. it's so important. sending that big message to the rest of the country. it is so important. you got to get your friends, you got to vote. because if you lose it, sends a really bad message. it just sends a bad, and they will build it up, if they win, they will make it like ho-mum and if you lose, they are going to say trump suffered the greatest defeat in the history of the world. this was the greatest. . you can't let that happen to me. >> joining us now from washington, d.c., political reporter for the washington examiner, emily, great to have you with us, on this tuesday morning, let's turn back to the former ukraine ambassador's testimony, a lot of bombshell revelations if you will, a little bit. what stuck out most to you about her testimony and the implications that it will have on the impeachment inquiry as it moves forward? >> well, i think the biggest thing about maria yovanovitch's testimony is that it creates sort of a time line of when the

trump administration was interfering in ukraine, and the effects that was having on foreign policy in ukraine, and within the state department. she was gone from ukraine, long before, months before, this ukraine call, between president trump and the president of ukraine that sort of sparked the impeachment inquiry, but what it does do is lay out sort of some patterns and statements about what was happening in the state department, how she was feeling, she said that she felt threatened by one point something that was said in the transcript of the ukraine call, between president trump and the president of ukraine, and so that sort of feeling, there is nothing in here that is really a bombshell as far as proving a quid pro quo, but it does add to sort of like the circumstances to where it can be seen, and helping democrats make a case that this is certainly something that could have happened.

>> let's also talk about former ambassador mckinley's sworn testimony that was released yesterday. where does this leave secretary of state mike pompeo here? is this really becoming sort of a he said/he said situation, because we are hearing one testimony from mckinley, basically saying he raised concerns with pompeo and then obviously hearing pompeo, or saying basically, mckinley never brought anything up about yovanovitch or his lack of defense of her. >> right now, it really is, a he said/she said, or he said/he said, and i think that the one thing that democrats could do is try to bring some other state department officials in, if they're willing to testify, and the state department officials have been discouraged from testifying in this impeachment inquiry and impeachment probe. but there could be some corroboration about this is something that mckinley wanted, and talked to pompeo about, it is unclear whether there are

people with direct knowledge of these conversations between them, but if there were, and there were more people on the side of mckinley that could spell trouble for mike pompeo, he has not testified in the impeachment inquiry, but that will be something i'm positive that this is, that democrats would ask him about, if he were to. >> all right. emily, live for us on msnbc, we will talk to you again in a little bit. today is election day as yasmin mentioned in several states across the country and voters will cast volts in mississippi, kentucky, new york, california, indiana, and washington. two important governor races today could potentially give democrats the chance to flip the states, the seats in those states, if president trump carried back in 2016, and serve as a test of trump's 2020 re-election strategy. in mississippi, democrat attorney general jim hood and republican lieutenant governor kate reeves are facing a tight

race for that state's open seat. and kentucky, matt bevin is fighting off a challenge from democratic attorney general, and in virginia, with all 140 state legislator seats on the ballot, democrats could also flip both the senate and the house. excuse me the state house and the senate in that state. the move could help virginia's democratic governor advance his policies as well as give the power more say when the state redraws its districts in 2020. >> still ahead, president trump has been dealt a blow in the fight over his tax returns. could the supreme court help him keep his finances private? we're going to ask legal analyst danny cevallos. >> later, we are looking ahead at who or may not appear on capitol hill to testify in the impeachment probe later this week. those stories, and a check on weather when we come back. ck on weather when we come back. make fitness routine with pure protein.

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welcome back, everyone. a federal appeals court ruled yesterday that president trump must turn over his personal and corporate tax returns to

manhattan district attorney cyrus vance who subpoenaed the documents in early september. vance is seeking to obtain eight years of the president's tax returns including the payouts to stormy mcdougal and affairs he has denied. the lawyer has said he will appeal the case to the supreme court. according to msnbc news, past supreme court rulings have upheld the president, but in this case, prosecutors are looking for documents from the trump organization and not directly from the president himself. this time the supreme court may decline to hear the president's appeal which would leave the appeal's court ruling intact and require the tax returns to be turned over. joining us now on the set, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos, you better hope, i'm sure the president hopes, that the supreme court is going to see and hear this appeal, but what is the likelihood that they do hear this appeal? >> i think it is likely the supreme court takes up this

appeal, but it's also possible they may decline to do so. because the issues of law decided here appear to be pretty straightforward. presidential immunity is this hazy concept that has existed since at least the time of nixon and was talked about again in the clinton case, but the importance about it is that it exist, but we don't exactly know the contours. and president trump's argument here is a real stretch of what we traditionally think about presidential immunity. he's asking the court to block a grand jury, a state grand jury subpoena of a third d branch, f nonprivileged material. so the president, the idea behind presidential immunity is if you subject the president to suit, he's going to be distracted from the day to day important job of being president. but this subpoena, the court points out, doesn't require the president to do anything. it's to a third party that doesn't involve the president. so the court narrowly holds that in the case of a state grand

jury subpoena, to a third party, a private third party, that just because it implicates the president, or may mention the president in the material, the president cannot assert immunity or privilege over those materials. >> let me pick up on that point for a moment about the issue of presidential immunity, the argument is that it is a disstraction for his day to day job but he wants to extend presidential immunity, it seems, to his businesses, to his relatives, to associates. >> really anything he touches. >> before he was president. when you think about the point that cyrus vance wants eight years of corporate tax returns, trump says no, it is presidential immunity. is there any truth to apply presidential immunity to things that have nothing to do when are president. >> probably not. that is a not a winning president. and the president's argument is even more expansive than that.

if you have a criminal investigation that some way may touch any activity of the president, presidential immunity covers that and that is not a strong argument. we've had plenty of cases where investigations touched the activity a president who isn't ultimately indicted, president nixon was famously an unindicted co con spear tore, so we don't yet know what the full extent of presidential immunity is, but it isn't this. >> we are still possibly years of way of seeing the tax returns with this decision. >> that's what i was going to ask. >> yes. >> answered both of your questions. probably yes. because a grand jury jury is covered by secrecy. this is something that is still probably going to go through the appeal process. even if it is declined. that could take some time. and in addition, the likelihood that these would be public would really only be if there was some

ultimate trial in which these documents were made public. the irs really guards the secrecy of these tax returns. and it is just not likely that they're going to leak because we haven't seen it yet in a very leak-prone administration. >> but i'm sure the president will be worried of something like that happening, especially if he doesn't win this appeal. >> clearly, he does not want his tax returns released. >> clearly. >> astonished that someone, some rogue hasn't come out and leaked. >> some rogue. >> edward snowden of the irs. i don't know why it hasn't happened yet. >> danny cevallos, thank you. as always. appreciate it. let's get a check of your weather now with our meteorologist. >> we are preparing for winter-like temperatures and the first snowfall for the ohio valley and the northeast. this is that well-defined cold front, you can see temperatures well below average, right now, and currently, 13 degrees for bismarck, no profit or freeze advisories in that area, for the front, it is going to continue to make its way through. ahead of this front is the rain

showers that will be sporadic, for ohio valley, to new york city. even washington, d.c. this afternoon. with mild temperatures still in place. but behind that is a very strong cold front and that's going to cause that snow that we're talking about for the northeast. so today, expect scattered showers for the northeast. it will be kind of up and down, throughout your afternoon, and the heaviest will be for your evening commute. but by wednesday, we do start to see that storm system develop in the south. where we could see two to three inches of rain from louisiana, to dallas, and this collides with that front. and look at this, the forecast has really changed in the last 24 hours. that dividing line, we never like to see peak on our radar. that is the possibility of freezing rain. a wintry mix. and that will impact the i-95 corridor, late thursday, and just in time for your early morning commute. so the snow forecast has changed

here, it is more to the north and northern new england, and where we could see moderate to heavy snow, but i do think the freezing rain really is going to be an issue for new york city, to hartford friday. so watching this pretty closely. >> thank you. still ahead, the washington nats visited the white house to celebrate the world series win yesterday but the most talked about moment from the event may have been this one from president trump. that story and much more straight ahead. re straight ahead r the holidays.♪ ♪'cause no matter how far away you roam.♪ ♪when you pine for the sunshine of a friendly gaze.♪ ♪for the holidays you can't beat home sweet home.♪ the united states postal service goes the extra mile to bring your holidays home. a new buick? for me?

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of "four more years" by a crowd on the white house south lawn were not for president trump but world series mvp pitcher stephen strasburg who recently opted out of four more years with his contract with the washington nationals and while a number of players did not attend yesterday's ceremony honoring the world champs including all-star baseman anthony rendon, trump as the new york times put it embraced the nats figuratively and literally, and curt suzuki put on a red make america great again and hugged the player from behind. >> can you give us the sound effect again? >> embraced it. >> the justice department is demanding information on the anonymous senior trump

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good morning, everyone, welcome back. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. the top stories, the republican push to identify the ukraine whistle-blower appeared to accelerate at trump's rally in kentucky last night. in fact senator rand paul who was invited oy the stage by the president demanded that the media reveal the identity of the whistle-blower. >> president trump has great courage. he faces down the fake media. every day. but congress needs to step up and have equal courage to defend

the president. hunter biden made $50,000 a month. that's the definition of corruption. we know he got it only because of his family connections. we also now know the name of the whistle-blower. i say tonight, to the media, do your job, and print his name. >> wow. interesting to note there is one person in the media who proudly claims to know the identity of the whistle-blower, and that is the president's top ally at fox news, sean hannity. >> >> i want to know who the whistle-blower is. will we actually, we actually do know, don't we? >> yes, we know. >> and confirmed independently, i actually have multiple confirmations of who the whistle-blower is, but you know what, i will play the game for a little bit and i will take the lawyer's stretch that they are going to sue me, wouldn't go anywhere. >> okay. former acting attorney general

matthew whittaker appeared on fox news as well yesterday and said the whistle-blower has no right to anonymity. >> if we break something, if we let politics interfere with outing a whistle-blower? >> well, a whistle-blower is never guaranteed anonymity. and all they're guaranteed is that they won't be retaliated against from a workplace, in a job stand point, so you know, for me, i think this whistle-blower does need to publicly testify, and be subject to cross-examination which is consistent with the american legal traditions that we all believe make this a great country. >> so according to "the new york times," this is only partly true. part of the inspector general act of 1978 states that agency watchdogs quote shall not, after receipt of a complaint, or information from an employee, disclose the identity of the employee, without the consent of the employee, unless the

inspector general determines such disclosure is unavoidable. now the legal prohibition on disclosing the whistle-blower's name only applies to inspector general for the intelligence community, michael atkinson, who did not include the name in his report to the acting director of national intelligence. however, this does not keep the president or his allies from trying to identify him. or her. or disclosing his or her name if they find out exactly who it is. >> as house democrats wrap up the private fact-finding portion of the impeachment inquiry, nbc news has learned that most of the witnesses scheduled for closed door testimony for the remainder of this week are unconfirmed to show up or not expected to appear as requested. those expected not to speak to house investigators include energy secretary rick perry, and that is scheduled for tomorrow morning. as well as former national security adviser john bolton, he was scheduled for thursday. this comes as other administration officials scheduled for depositions yesterday were also no shows. which democrats plan to hold against trump as the impeachment

inquiry continues. >> this will be further evidence of an effort by the administration to obstruct the lawful and constitutional duties of congress. this will only further add to the body of evidence on a potential obstruction of congress charge against the president. >> our nbc news has learned that lev parnas, the indicted ukrainian businessman with ties to rudy giuliani is preparing to comply with requests for records and testimony from congressional impeachment investigators, according to his attorney. the news was first reported by reuters. it's a 180 for parns a who last month rebuffed a request for documents and information from committees. parnas is a key figure in the impeachment inquiry. parnas's attorney is refuting president trump's claim that he does not know parnas. in a statement to the "washington post," the attorney says in part, that quote any

being looking at the public record of the president and partners together, during intimate dinners, waving to each other at rallies, taking pictures together and parnas's alleged involvement with the president's lawyer rudy giuliani, could define that the president and parnas knew each other. if the president really did not know mr. parnas, it would imply a degree of ignorance that we are not prepared to attribute to him. photos posted to social media of parnas and his associate igor fruman indicted, show they have several interactions with the president since parnas first made a sizable donation to the trump campaign in 200016, including a dinner that was tended by 20 people at the trump hotel in washington by 15 people, and that was organized by the pro-trump super pack america first and attended by trump and don trump jr. and this photo was deleted the next day. and the following among a

$325,000 donation was received from an energy company parnas and fruman recently formed. and joining us again, emily larson, let's begin with lev parnas agreeing to congressional requests for records and possibly testimony. what do you make, emily, of this move by parnas and his attorneys? >> well, i think that parnas is concerned about being held in contempt of congress, and you know there's a lot of people that the house committees want to speak to, but are declining to appear for testimony, and sort of a strategy of the president and his allies to delay and fight against the impeachment inquiry. but you know, parnas, this is a person who i can assume was frustrated by being arrested for the alleged campaign finance violations, having to do with his donation to trump group, and

then the president immediately tried to distance himself from him, and regardless of whether the president remembered interacting with him, i think that could be frustrating for parnas, so his attorney says he will invoke the fifth amendment, if there is something that he feels like he can't answer without incriminating himself, but it would be very beneficial to democrats, on these committees, to get more information about what exactly he was working on with rudy giuliani, when they were looking for information about joe biden and other democrats in ukraine that could be damaging to them. >> let's circle back for a moment to the republican push to try and reveal the whistle-blower's identity. many trump officials say he has no right to stay hidden as we played in some of the clips earlier. how is this going to affect the impeachment process? >> well, i don't think that these calls for outing the whistle-blower are going to go away. you know, the whistle-blower is

somebody that republicans argue was allowed to define the entire tone of the impeachment inquiry, when it came up, based on the complaints that he filed, and then the subsequent investigations have been based off of that. and so the democrats say that a lot of, basically a lot of what was in the whistle-blower testimony has been verified, so there is really no need to bring him up, but republicans argue that his, the right for him to be anonymous is outweighed by the need for him to be publicly exposed, because of the weight of the impeachment inquiry, of the president, which is the biggest obviously news story in the land. >> emily larsen, live for nus dc, thank you very much, emily. >> thank you. still ahead senator kamala harris weighs in on the candidate including pete

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up eight points. meanwhile, in texas, biden is in the lead at 23%. of the 2020 field by five points, falling three points since september. and the university of texas/texas tribune poll. and warren has 18% of support. and sanders rounds out the top three at 12. >> and presidential candidate kamala harris is responding to comments made by south carolina congressman jim clyburn about black voters and fellow candidate pete buttigieg. watch. >> is mayor buttigieg's struggle with black voters in your state of south carolina because he's gay? >> well, that's a generational issue. i know of a lot of people my age who feel that way. but i will say this, dana, my own grandson, who is 25, i think he is 25 years old, that guy is a big buttigieg guy, and of

course, he does it because he believes in the guy, not because he's gay. >> are you saying for older african-american, it is an issue? >> yes, it is. there's no question about that. i'm not going to sit here and tell you otherwise. because i think everybody knows that's an issue. >> i'm never going to buy into that trope and i think that is a trope that has evolved among some democrats to suggest that african-americans are homophobic or that they're transphobia in the black phobia in the community is nonsense, and i'm not saying that about representative clyburn who i respect about a lot, i'm talking about a trope that has developed among some. and the reality is that sadly, and unfortunately, in all communities, bias occurs, and in particular, homophobia and transphobia. i've spent my entire career fighting against. it i know it is a fact. but to label one community in particular as being burdened by this bias, as compared to others is misinformed, it's misdirected

and simply wrong. >> this comes after a focus group reportedly conducted by the buttigieg campaign found that the 2020 candidate's sexuality to be a barrier for some black voters in the state of south carolina. >> so the trump administration has formally notified the u.n. that the united states will no longer be a part of the pairz agreement on climate change, just yesterday, the move begins a year-long withdrawal process which would not be completed until a day after the presidential election. however, if donald trump loses, the u.s. can re-enter this agreement, which every democratic contender has pledged to do. secretary of state mike pompeo announced the move on twitter calling it a quote realistic and pragmatic model. president trump has long been for leaving the paris climate agreement, making it a campaign pledge in 2016. and just last year, he announced the plan to leave, saying this. i was elected to represent the citizens of pittsburgh, not paris. i promised i would exit or renegotiate any deal that fails to serve america's interests.

but according to the bbc, no actual efforts to negotiate by the administration have been or were made. the u.s. was one of 188 countries signed on to combat climate change, and is among bun of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world. it is responsible for about 15% of global emissions of carbon. >> let's switch gears and bring in our meteorologist with an update on weather, janessa webb, how is it looking? >> let's go to a place that is really experiencing the climate change, due to the ice melting in the area. anchorage, alaska, here, we have many locations, snowier than anchorage and typically they see about ten inches of snow for this time of the year. and how many locations do you think has seen more snow than anchorage? >> that's a tough one. >> i am going to say denver. >> how many locations in total?

>> like five. >> well, look at this. 4,000. >> 4,000. >> 4,000 locations, okay? >> have seen significant snowfall this year, more than anchorage alaska and the jet stream continues to dip here. and even new york city could possibly see their first snowfall before anchorage so we're looking at the forecast in the next 24 to 36 hours, and this could significantly change, it is well to the north, from northern new england, to syracuse, as well, we're forecasting moderate to heavy snow. the problem is the front is going to make its way through, we are not going to see significant snowfall for new york city, for washington either, but this is that band of freezing rain, so a sloppy evening commute possibility, for thursday evening, also for your morning hours. watching this closely.

>> thank you. >> five. >> close. still ahead, another record day for wall street, plus facebook facing multiple investigations and growing concerns over privacy, it says it is making changes including cosmetic. we will explain that. >> and those who can't get enough of sean spicer on "dancing with the stars" guess what, you're treated to not one but two performances last night. >> keep it coming. >> sailor outfit. >> i don't know what the other one is. >> still going. listerine® completes the job by preventing plaque, early gum disease, and killing up to 99.9% of germs. try listerine®. need stocking stuffers? try listerine® ready! tabs™. only one thing's more exciting than getting a lexus... ahhhh! giving one. the lexus december to rembember sales event lease the 2020 nx 300 for $329 a month for 27 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. for $329 a month for 27 months. until i found out what itst it actually was.ed me.

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keep throwing you out of the boat and the viewers keep throwing you ahe lifeline. look at that. just look at those moves. maybe ines no small part to president trump who, once again, urged hisn, 66 million twitter followers to vote for the, quote, very loyal guy who's working verylo hard. that's just whatin they did. he survives another week. >> he could go all thevi way, folks? seanay spicer. >> imagine if he takes home the attractive. om switching gears now to th business world, u.s. stock features are pointing to a highernt opening after yet anotr record day on wall street. cnbc's germana joins us live. what is driving all of these gains? >> yeah, you g know, it's not jt sean spicert' who has a spring his step. markets making new highs. wall street, all three of the majorsf making record highs. dow up 20% for the year.

remember were we heard from wilbur ross over the weekend he said there's been good progress on making concession on both sidesnc of the trade talks. in terms of sectors, yesterday energy was the best performing sector year-to-date. the tech sector is above all the rest, upll 37%. huge gapes in the tech sector. yesterday we had uber results come out and even though the revenues came outou higher than expectations, about t a 30% jum from a year ago, they still posted a net loss for the quart quarter of $1.2 billion. that's an improvement of $5 billion loss but it's 30% wider from the loss they posted a year omago. it's notye moving in the right direction here. one thing i should tell you is uber stock is down 36% since the ipo at the beginning of the t year. it's not been an easy ride for investors. >> let's talk facebook here. ital seemed as if they are actually moving away from their

logo. what can you tell us about this? >> probably one of the most iconic logos too. >> the new logo is capital letters facebook in capital letters and the blog post explaining the decision, they said that the d logo was design with clarity and openness and that is uses -- >> that's the new logo of the facebook? >>f taking on the color of its environment. t yes, it's capital letters and some critics are saying that they may need to do a little bit more than change it to capital letters toan salvage the reputation. yahoo did the opposite. they went from capital letters to lower case letters. i don't know. >> can you imaginee -- guys, i know what- we need to do in ore to change the security on facebook. let's change the logo. there wet' go. we got it. >> all right. thank you so much. coming up next, mike allen of axios has a look at this morning's one big thing. coming up on "morning joe,"

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>> announcer: axios one big thing is sponsored by bp. all right, joining us now from washington, d.c., the look at axios a.m., the cofounder mr. mike allen. great to have you with us on this tuesday morning. what is the axios big thing? >> the axios one big thing is the paid race for 2020. so 90 days till the iowa caucus. today one year to the year election. and axios has exclusive figures about ad spending so far in the presidential race. here's the surprise. this race is being fought online like we've never seen before. all the time that i was covering politics it was all about the airwaves. but look at this. 57% of spending so far has been

digital and -- >> wow. >> -- and just 48% has been on tv counting both cable and broadcast. so right now the candidates are trying to find supporters and raise money. so that accounts for the big digital spending. so look, we just saw there who's spending. tom steyer -- >> incredible. >> -- the billionaire is outspending donald trump. but then look how it drops off after that. president trump spending twice as much as elizabeth warren and then the other candidates fall off quickly from there. i think we also might have a graphic showing where they're spending, dom nalgt inating so right now by iowa, new hampshire farther behind. i know there's reporting on a new shadow industry helping u.s. companies win exceptions to president trump's tariffs on china's goods.

talk to us about that. >> yeah, d.c. needed a new business, right? so this new shadow industry is trying to help companies gain the system to get exempted from president trump's tariffs. so these tariffs on goods imported from china already cost businesses billions. ceos warning they're going to have to pass it along. but you can apply to the u.s. trade representative, had is part of the white house, to get exempted. so far 44,000 people have axios courtney brown spent weeks going through this data and discovered that only 10% of people were getting those exemptions. so much money's at stake. you hire lawyers, there's new firms specializing in trying to get you exemptions. but a spoiler, it doesn't necessarily work. this process is so opaque people really aren't sure if that money's well spent. >> live in washington, d.c. for us, mike allen from axios a.m. we're going to be reading axios

a.m. in the newsletter. you too can do that by going to signup.axios.com. >> that does it for us on this tuesday morning. i'm yasmin alongside ayman. "morning joe" starts right now. he buys and sells politicians of all stripes. he's already -- >> dr. paul. >> he's already hedging his bet on the clintons. if he doesn't run as republican, maybe he supports clinton or runs as an independent, but i'd say he's already hedging his bets because he's used to buying politicians. >> well i've given you plenty of money. >> well, the rand paul of 2015 would likely not recognize the rand paul of last night's trump rally in connecticut. big difference. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is tuesday, november 6th. along with willie and me we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, national affairs analyst for nbc news and name john