on msnbc, what did his sister say? a new report about secret recordings and why the president's own sister said he has no principles. the countermessage, how biden and harris plan to contrast trump's week with the republican national convention kicking off. and california burning and bracing for more trouble. historic wildfires expected to get worse today. a live report ahead. plus, a danger looming in the gulf of mexico. double trouble, you might say. two tropical storms heading there and could both become hurricanes before the day's over. as we do say good morning, everybody, it is 7:00 on the east coast. it is sunday, august 23rd. i'm kendis gibson. we do say good morning to sloort, north carolina. a lot of visitors coming to town. some 300 or so delegates will be in north carolina. they'll be there for the confusion, the conviction

kicking off in a matter of hours, the rnc. first up, a bombshell article in the "washington post." it dropped overnight like a ton of led, the president's sister criticizing him. she's a retired federal judge and she spoke about her niece mary trump, unaware she was being recorded. hours of recordings in 2018 and 2019. geoff bennett has more on the story. scandalous. this is a whole other level. >> it is, kendis, thank you. trump's sister is heard on the

recordings she's simply aghast how trump has handled himself while in office. she says he has no principles, he's a phony, calls him cruel, and says, you can't trust him. and to get a sense of this, here's a clip of mary ann trump berry surreptitiously speak on these recorded trump tapes. >> [ bleep ] oh, my god. i'm talking too freely, but you know, the change of stories t lack of preparation, the lying. holy [ bleep ]. but he's appealing to the base. what they're doing with the kids at the border. i mean -- >> now, president trump in response to all this, via a white house press official says every day it's something else. who cares. i miss my brother. not even agrees. but the results are obvious. our country will soon be

stronger than ever before. and then a white house official said i can't fathom anything more despicable than surreptitiously recording an elderly relative without their knowledge. beyond that, i don't want to commend on family matters. mary trump claims the reason she recorded her aunt back in 2018 and 2019 is she was convinced family members were lying in their depositions about the estate, the estate left by mary trump's grandfather, and so she recorded her aunt, she said, for her own safety and for her own sort of legal protection. what she didn't expect was to get mary ann trump berry speaking so candidly about president trump. and what's damning and damaging about this -- i think the people's views of president trump are baked in at this point. when you take into account what michael cohen said about president trump, his former fixer who ultimately turned on

him and had a whole host of things michael cohen said the president did was basically echoed by mary ann trump berry. many have fallen out of that orbit and they criticize him in much the same way. >> it's fascinating to hear her say those words about her brother. i'm sure the lincoln project will be jumping on that any time now to make an ad. but, we know that they reached out for trump's reaction. have they reached tout h eed ou? >> i don't know. i know she has been asked about the president a number of times, and she never speaks on the record, of course, in the way she did in those tapes. so certainly she's one of the people close to the president who is protective of him, protective of the trump name, and i can imagine having these tapes come out, she's probably embarrassed and rightly angry

about it. >> no doubt. nbc's geoff bennett. appreciate. it now to the politics surrounding the post office and the rare session on capitol hill in an effort to broker a deal. lawmakers tried to block cost-cutting measures that many blame for slower mail delivery, which some say could even put the election in jeopardy. nbc news white house correspondent kelly o'donnell has more. >> reporter: protesters across the country demand action to protect the postal service from delays and to secure mail-in ballots. house speaker nancy pelosi delivered her own message about president trump. >> good afternoon. don't pay any attention to what the president is saying because it is all designed to suppress the vote. >> reporter: the speaker called congress back from august recess to pass a measure that halts changes to postal service operations and adds another $25

billion, but it's headed nowhere. the white house already threatened a veto. >> this bill on the floor today is more of a partisan bill than it is a real attempt at solving the problem. >> reporter: before heading to his private virginia gulf club, the president took a swing at one of his own agencies t food & drug administration. first, recall he said this on monday. >> i will say the fda's been great. >> reporter: but tweeted at the agency with the conspiratorial term "the deep state," claiming they're causing delays. they're hoping to delay the answer until after november 3rd. speaker pelosi called the president's tweet very scary. >> they're judging on their safety and their efficacy, not by a declaration from the white house about speed and politicizing the fda. >> our thanks to kelly o'donnell

in washington. joining us now is frances cha chambers who's a white house correspondent from clachy. first the president is slated to have a 6:00 p.m. news conference about the coronavirus. we heard in that story right there about the fda and him calling the fda part of the deep state and his theory there. what more do we know about the event and will he come out against the fda? >> we don't know much about the event given that it was announced late last night in the 11:00 p.m. by the white house press secretary, but we do know it is the first time they have briefed on a sunday at the white house in a significant period of time, and also it sounds like there will be the health and human services secretary there at the very least, potentially some other health officials, and that will also be the first in a

long time. even as the president has started these coronavirus news conferences, they haven't been about the coronavirus as often frequently. they have not also had those health officials there we used to see back in the early days of the coronavirus some of if, indeed, we see those health officials tonight, that will be the first time we've heard from them at the podium with the president in a while. >> yeah, it will be interesting to see. the $25 billion postal service bill passed not only by the democrats but there were 26 republicans, what happens when it arrives at the senate or is it dead on arrival? >> it's essentially dead on arrival at the snachlt the white house will not approve the package unless it includes their spending requirements as well. they do not want to give $25 billion, but they're willing to give that 10, they said, if it includes other things like

unemployment snurngs other gop priorities like liability for businesses. but the bill the house democrats passed mainly yesterday does not include any of those things. >> so the story that we started the newscast with, yes, you have 70-plus days until election, and today we have those secret tapes from mary trump. it feels like between now and election day, we should expect ongoing bombshells and books about the president and about joe biden. do you get the sense, and how much o an impact might they actually have? get a sense that's a lot more to drop for both candidates. >> it's always about the timing, kendis, because the difficulty of when this one dropped is just after the democratic national convention when republicans are the ones who have the mike now. president trump and all of his children will be on stage. they say they'll be painting a

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well, decision day in 72 days to the election and new insight today into what voters are thinking in at least one swing state that helped determine the 2016 election. we're talking about the commonwealth of pennsylvania, which has more registered

democrats than republican voters. nearly 1 million more. but only 71% registered democrats showed up to vote for hillary clinton back in 2016. nbc's cori coffin is there and is in wilkes-barre, pennsylvania. it is predominantly a red state. many are hoping it will turn purple with joe biden being born just across the river from wilkes-barre. >> yeah. it's a little less red. i mean there are more registered democrats. but it did flip for trump in larger way than the state. in fact, let's bring up the information we have when it comes to the 2016 election results. pennsylvania, trump won by less than a percentage point. it was such a narrow lead there. and when it comes to luzerne

county, he won by 19 points. quite a big difference there. that's mostly because of manufacturing jobs, and a lot of those manufacturing jobs have traditionally gone with voters. they had gone democrat because they're union members, and they were able to be convinced by trump when it comes to the future of their job. we have a crisis economically. we have racial injustice happening. many of these issues are taking precedence for voters. i talked with voters. listen to what they told me. >> i am a democrat. i have always voted in presidential elections since i've been old enough to vote, but it was the 2016 election that turned me to activism locally. >> i'm a registered republican. i've voted in all elections since i was able to vote. >> and you're currently

undecided 230r 20? >> currently, yes. i don't know that anybody has the crystal ball that's working really well. i hope somebody does. >> yeah, and, kendis, one of our panelists said as of right now he doesn't plan on voting because he doesn't support either candidate. i think that was a big problem in 2016 for democrats as you mentioned. they could only get 71% of total democrats out to vote even though they make up more more portion of voters in the united states. that's going to be a challenge for the party moving forward is to learn from 2016 and how do they im passion voters for 2020 and inspire them to come out and vote. the panel told me how they're going to be inspired. their number one issue, coronavirus. another major issue. racial injustice. addressing that on day one. and then the third issue, of course, right here in

wilkes-barre and luzerne counties is going to bring back jobs, not just those lost in the several month but also the future of jobs, cha they don't believe necessarily in this area is going to be manufacturing. so they need a new type of job here, ken december. >> that's a thing. so many say biden is up in the polls with younger voters. that's great. but then you have that young man who reflected so many other who say, yeah, i'm not going to vote. what will it take for them to say it's important. >> what is that challenge and what does it look like? >> that's right. thank you. on to breaking news. there are concerns over the historic wildfires in california and more extreme weather is

expected within a matter of hours. officials are warning dry winds and more lightning could make this nightmare even worse. nbc's steve patterson joins us from vacaville. steve, such a striking issue there, the fire burning down dream houses if many. >> reporter: you can see the damage the fire has brought to this area. you said it. firefighters have really been working around the clock, trying to get as much containment on as many of these fires as possible. as you mentioned, the weather is about to take a sharp turn for the worse and that could make the fires explode even further. the battle against an outbreak of catastrophic flames prove they're trying to contain more than 500 fires.

so far nearly a million acres have burned. they're larger than the state of rhode island or california. the flames are ripping through wine country, destroying homes, forcing thousands of evacuations. at least five people have died. the air quality is unhealthy. christa hayfield lost most of her livestocker horses and goats as the flames swept through her parents' ranch. >> i lost so much. if i stop to think about it too long, it overwhelms me and i try not to focus on it too much. today was a very hard day. >> residents doing everything they can to hold onto their homes. >> i stopped the fire over there, stopped the fire over there. i'm trying to save this neighborhood. >> reporter: but overnight it was the first responders who needed rescue.

>> all right, guys. i'm going to get down here, okay? >> reporter: a video shows a pair of marin county firefighters airlifted to safety after getting trapped inside the firestorm. >> they've been out here on 48-hour, 72-hour shifts fighting this fire. >> reporter: spokesperson scott mclane says resources are helping but right now his concern are those on the ground. are you worried about the firefighters on the front line doing all they're doing to battle this? >> yes, i am concerned. that's statewide. you can see how tired the folks are. you can see they're spread thin. you can see they're doing their job. life safety is their goal. >> reporter: they thanked president trump for signed a declaration freeing up funds. meanwhile firefighters are bracing for the next 24 hours as

a fresh red flag warning went into place in the last few minutes. >> i desee that alert, including the bay air yachl steve patterson joining us from northern california. thank you. there is more breaking news. the gulf coast bracing for a rare and likely historic event as two tropical storms could intensify into hurricanes and make landfall to the u.s. back to back. new orleans is warning people to prepare right now and some resident mace need to shelter in place. there are nuances and warnings posted just this morning for marko -- marco and then there's tropical storm laura. it's dropping heavy rain in the caribbean, but will soon move into the gulf of mexico, putting the u.s. once again in its path. nbc's meteorologist bill karins is live with the latest forecast

and the latest track. bill. >> good sunday morning. so we have these two storms. marco is going to make landfall sooner, in two days or a day and a half. and laura is the wild-card. laura is the one that concerns me most. actually looks amazingly impressive being over the top of 8,000- to 10,000 mountain peaks. marco could become a category 1 hurricane today. it could make landfall. we expect that to be sometime on monday around 1:00 p.m. notice how narrow that cone is. we have a very good idea where we think the storm is going to go. it should weaken as it approaches. by then, hardly any rain left with it and a very weak storm. so i think marco for southern

louisiana standards is going to be a minor event. we have the hurricane warnings along the louisiana coast, tropical storm warnings, and as far as storm surge goes, it's vulnerable, 3 to 5 feet. most of the properties are built for that. we'll have to see how that plays out. it is a minor concern. but with a category 1 storm, kendis, we do not expect a lot of evacuations. with the covid concerns, that shouldn't be an issue. as far as the computer models go, they're all sort of southeast of louisiana and taking charge toward houston or l.a. let's talk about the more questionable threat. right now, laura is a weaker storm. it's only a 45-mile-per-hour system or storm. it has a much more favorable environmental once it clears cuba to get stronger. we should be thankful that the

poor people are dealing with this. it would be a high storm if it wasn't over the top of the high areas. once it clears cuba, it goes over the warm water. look at what happen happs. it goes from 50 to 100 miles per hour. kendis, there are new concerns with laura. there are a lot fmore. they're moving so fast, i'm not concerned with the rainfall. the biggest concern would be how powerful can the wind and storm surge get with laura by the time we get to thursday. >> i do notice new orleans is in the northeastern quadrant. would that make it the more powerful part that's being hit right there? >> yeah. there's a lot of dry air on the west side of the gulf. and both storms will have almost

rain-free western sides of the storm. if you have that center line track, you'll be on the wet side and that's where the storm surge will be. if the storm goes -- you know, as of now, if it comes up near lake charles, yeah. that would put new orleans in the stronger storm surge and the higher winds. you don't want to be on the right dirty side of the storm. not that it's easy going through the backside. but the right side is always significant. right now marco looks to be a minor storm. laura has the potential for moderate, maybe even major. we're not going to ignore marco because it's going to make landfall in 36 hours. we could have a lot of evacuations if it does take advantage of the conditions over

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here's a look at the news this morning. it's deja vu as california goes into the second week of battling hundreds and hundreds of wildfires. and from washington, "the spokesman review" says replacing crime with approached include mounted horse patrols and volunteer org nag anizations ou

there. the "miami herald" had something as well. and refrigerators full of food are popping up across the streets to help with food insecure. and on the front of this page, 2020, when will the pan dit end? there's little the country hasn't thrown. we're still on edge. >> we still have four more months some of 2020 has plenty of time. also happening overnight, protesters faced off with police in charlotte, north carolina, for a second night in a row. this comes ahead of the republican national convention which is set to kick off tomorrow. so, amanda, you saw the protesters, do you get this is a sense that's going to happen every day throughout this

convention? >> reporter: well, kendis, there's a real possibility. we have seen consistent protest activity for the last several nights in charlotte leading up to the rnc as you mentioned. many are being led by a group called charlotte uprising. they're not only calling for a protest against donald trump but also regarding social injustice issues like many of the demonstrations we've seen in the last several months. the calls have been everything from no rnc and clt to black lives and matter and defunding the pleechlts it waspolice. it's been pretty violent. with the dnc, we need to check our internet connection so we can see everything that is taking place.

>> you might not need to check your internet connection quite as much. delegated starting pouring in over the weekend. 336 were invited to participate and much of the activity was behind closed door. tomorrow will encapsulate things. it's behind closed doors. the majority of the activity will be spread out throughout washington, d.c. many will be at the white house for president trump and first lady melania trump. some of the notable speakers that are intended to be live are everything from mike pompeo. we really will see a lot of these notable figures within

trump's orbit, expressing a lot of live television. he wants an engaging rnc to draw in viewers and his supporters >> and it was interesting that half the names on the list that have been announced so far have a similar last name, trump. we'll see who else they're calling at the rnc, but it seems like the tnc, the trump national convention. amanda golden, live for us in charlotte. thank you so much. let's go now to paris denard, senior communications adviser for the black rnc and black voices for the trump advisory. paris, thank you for being here. appreciate it. are you heading down to the convention? >> no, i will not be at the convention in charlotte. it's more the official business that's going on. because of social distancing and

the governor, i was on the reduced number. i won't be there in person but i will be participating virtually like millions will be joining us. >> no douchlt your job bt. your job is to convince the black voters the president trump is working for them. how do you make the case when the headlines like this comes out with the leaked audio where trump says low voter turnout helped name 2016 and he listens to african-americans better than they did with martin luther king jr. >> my job is to make sure they get the inform sogs the readers and viewers can see it. many times when they look at it, they don't get the information or the facts the president is doing. the headline you mentioned just before highlights the media the

president had, i think, in 2016 where he mentioned the fact that a lot of black voters did not vote for hillary clinton. well, we know why they department vote for hillary clinton. one, she didn't campaign for the vote aggressively. in many key states there was widely expressed concern and people were upset with the fact she didn't engage with the black community there, and he said in the same vote they didn't vote for hillary clinton because they liked him. ultimately in 2016, you have to remember donald trump didn't have a political record. no one knew what he was going do. yet still 8% of the black vote, which was better than mccain and romney came out to vote for him on the promise of what he could do. now in 2020 he's kept those promises. he has a long record of achievement for the black community, and i believe more are going to come out and vote for president trump because they're inspired by president trump and they're not inspired by that of joe biden and camera

harris. >> let me ask you. what has he done to be able to build his support? those numbers, at least according to the latest polling, shows biden has 94%, 93% approval among the black community. what is he going to do to say he can improve those numbers? >> well, what the president is going to do is continue to message about his record of results. whether it's his record on criminal justice reform, his record on supporting something called school choice which overwhelmingly is voted by them and joe biden. we know many black americans do not want to have their children stuck in poor performing schools. president trump has been funding universities in an unprecedent amount, being the only sitting president to speak at the

conference. permanent funding for ten years through the future act. >> parks he's also a president who couldn't say that white supremacists were bad people. >> kendis, i don't know where you got that quote from because i never heard that quote. >> the quote where youed that folks in charlottesville three weeks ago or last week -- >> kendis, everyone knows that's a debunked myth and a lie, and it's ungot gnat you continue to play that to the viewers. play the tape. >> there are people on both sides. you doily are good white supremacists on both sides? >> i think what you're doing is media malpractice, if you watch the video t transcript, he was asked. he said he was talking about the residents of charlottesville, the good people who were there to protest on -- one side wanted

to keep the statue, the other side wants to shut it down. he was asked specifically that and he said no. >> he was given the opportunity twice and he couldn't chair phi it. >> he did -- "a," he did clarify it. after that he doubled down on denouncing the kkk, denouncing white supremacy. >> eventually. eventually. >> he's been doing it for a long time. here's the funny thing -- that is not true. the president was on record denouncing those organization before he was president, while he ran for president, and after he was president. he has unilaterally denounced them. what he has not denounced is calling joe biden -- >> okay. >> calling one of your colleagues a cocaine junkie.

you do want to play that transcript. >> i know who you're referring to, and we spoke about that. he did not paint that. >> let's will it the viewers see it. >> it is the lord's day, and i don't want a black-on-black crime. i don't want to fight with you this early in this morning. >> it is the lord's day. you should be truthful. >> i know the president has said many times he is the best president for african-americans ever. i may be being impartial when i say i don't think hae has been. but you as black man who's out there supporting the president's cause do, you think that he's the best president for the african community ever, more than carter, more than johnson? >> most definitely more than carter. most definitely more than what johnson has done.

when you look at what trump has done in four years. >> carter named more black judicial nominees. clinton had more black cabinet members. lincoln had slaves. and what you guys are going to say -- >> it's a lot more than that. he's impacted the black community right where we are, where we need it on issues of criminal justice reform, education, economy. it's more than political appointments. that's a part of the problem. we think that having a number of black people in the cabinet is doing something for the black community. >> you guys have been getting black people out of jail. you're going to be like that's it. that's what we've done. >> black people live in the suburbs today. >> he needs to go with that as well. >> no. the president is doing great things. the only person who's acted

after george floyd's funeral -- excuse me, his unfortunate disgusting murder is president trump. his education on safe police and safe communities is all that's coming out of d.c. if the black community is looking for them to do something, it's president trump. it's a token process, a token process to the only black republican senator that. is disgusting, that is big gotted, that's racist, and part of the democratic takeover. president trump has led on a whole host of figures. those are the facts, and you know it, paris. >> thank, you paris. have a great day. god bless. >> i'm off to church. >> you need it. our special live coverage starts tomorrow right here on msnbc, a back-to-school message

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russia. he was banned for doing so. when he was banned, he ran for mayor of moscow. he claims votes were held back and not counted. he is a thorn in vladimir putin's side. one of the reasons why there is suspicion here is that poisoning is a thing that's been used of critics or opponents of vladimir putin. it's not clear why he's in a coma or collapsed on a flight. they think he has been poisoned. a couple of things going on here. this is a week when the director of national intelligence and the senate have talked about russian involvement and there's russian involvement in this election. strangely, kendis, no comment from the president on navalny. later this morning i'm going to speak with another russian dissident, objector, critic of vladimir putin who has also incidentally been poisoned by

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georgia teachers mrs. williams and mrs. evans are internet sensation this is week. after reworking jack har low's song what's popping. it is now back in your head. it is a way to welcome high school students back to the new normal of online learning amid the covid-19 pandemic. joining me from albany, georgia, are the young women that you just saw. hey, how are you? >> good morning. >> looking amazing for so early this morning. teachers at monroe comprehensive high school. so whose idea was this? >> well, it was mine. started three years ago to do a end of the school year rap. that is how it started. to celebrate my first year teaching and i wanted to get the students and the cheerleaders involved.

and then miss evans joined me and i asked if she would mind doing a back-to-school rap with me and we've been doing it ever since and love it. >> how do you come up with the words sh the lyrics for this? >> well, we just used our creative juices. we're teachers so we already know what our students listen to, we knew the purpose of the video. we wanted to inspire and motivate. not only our students but our peers as well as the community. so we just wanted to make sure that we grasp their attention and they're ready for school and virtual learning. >> and i know you have been inspirational videos for years but you have to think given the year that we're going into and the school year that it has been, that students and america, we all kind of needed this sort of smile and this sort of video, didn't we? >> yeah. >> definitely. >> aubrey was hit by covid-19 so

we knew he to uplift them. some students may have lost parents or grandparents or aunts and uncles and not wanted to come to school because of those circumstances. so we wanted to push them and say no matter what is going on in your life, no matter where you live, you could always overcome adversity. >> few people realize that albany, georgia, was one of the first area of spreading there in the state of georgia because of a funeral and some events that took place there within the black community. so it is great that you're able to help out in whatever way you can to these students and to many people in that community. what is the reaction been like? i know you heard from jack harlo but what is the reaction from the teachers and the parents. >> the students log on for class every single day, they are sharing information with us that we haven't even seen yet. they are so excited. they feel like they are celebrities themselves.

it feels amazing to get so much love and feedback from our students and not even just our students but the parents. now they get the parent involvement and it is being shared and our community has been so supporting and encouraging. >> go ahead. >> well i was just going to say, she said our school has been supporting us. but i definitely want to give a shout out to our administration. we could not have done this without them without the approval of the principal and the assistant principal. they were amazing. so we want to thank them for allowing us to do that. >> i want to thank you guys for being such an inspiration for so many. i don't want you to put you on the spot, but miss williams, you could rap us out a little bit. >> okay.

is there a particular part. >> let's start at the top of your rap or you could freestyle. >> okay. what's popping, brand-new year and i'm popping and i'm number one of your top ten. it is a new school year you're dropping, no worried about a thing ain't no stopping. i could see -- hey hey hey -- >> and another one. i'm glad we're able to end the morning with that. thank you guys so much. i hope missy calls you, all of those folks in atlanta, they should be calling you. get your contract deal. remember us when. i'll be calling for a loan. thank you. bye guys. thank you for watching msnbc live, i'm kend is gibson and i'll be back next week at 6:00 a.m. and after that dance move i'll give away my black card. see, i told you.

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