that is going to do it for us tonight. i will see you again tomorrow night when my guest will be former i counterintelligence director peter strzok. that's an interview i think you're going to want to see. i think you'll be interested in that. "first look" is up next. this morning massive fallout after the president admitted in his own words on tape he intentionally downplayed the threat of coronavirus in order to avoid panicking the public. and in another new revelation the president told bob woodward he does not believe because of his privileged upbringing he has to understand, quote, the anger and feelings of pain by black americans. and a former official is accusing top appointees in the homeland security of destroying security and downplaying the

threat of russian inooe leelect interference. good morning, everybody. it is thursday, september 10th, and i'm yasmin vossoughian. wow, do we have a lot to cover this morning. we're going to begin with those trump tapes. he admits to intentionally misleading the public on the truth over the coronavirus contained within the 18 interviews, reportedly totally nine hours was this. >> so, give me a moment of talking to somebody going through this with fauci or somebody who kind of -- it caused a pivot in your mind, because it's clear just from what's on the public record that you went through a pivot on this to, oh, my god, the gravity is

almost inexplicable and unexplainable. >> well, i think, bob, really, to be honest with you -- >> sure, i want you to be. >> -- i wanted to always play it down. i still like playing it down. >> yes. >> because i don't want to create a panic. >> all right. so i want to get to some ways that the president carried out his plan to play it down as he puts it. one concerns the comparisons that he made to the flu that he knew were false. here's what he said to woodward on february 7th about how deadly the virus can be followed by his remarks at a campaign rally in south carolina just three weeks later. >> it goes through air, bob. that's always tougher than the tough. you know, the touch, you don't have to touch things. the air, you breathe through the air and that's how it's passed, so that's a very tricky one.

that's a very delicate one. it's also more deadly than your -- you know, even your strenuous news. this is more deadly. this is 5%, not 1% or less than 1%. this is deadly stuff. >> so a number that nobody heard of that i heard of recently and i was shocked to hear it, 35,000 people on average die each year from the flu. did anyone know that? 35,000. that's a lot of people. it can go to 100,000. it can be 27,000. they say usually a minimum of 27,000. it goes up to 100 thousand peop people a year die, and so far we have lost nobody to the coronavirus in the united states. >> 190,000 people later, we have lost a lot of folks to the coronavirus since then. so the president also

intentionally misled the public on the effects of the virus on young people. here's what he told woodward back in march followed by his remarks on fox news. >> now it's turning it it's not just old people, bob. just today and yesterday some startling facts came out. it's not just older people. >> yeah, exactly. >> it's plenty of young people. >> if you look at young children, children are almost -- i would almost say definitely, but almost immune from this disea disease. they just don't have a problem. >> all right. so according to the experts from woodward's new book, national security adviser robert o'brien warned everyone of this. this will be the biggest national security threat you'll face in your presidency. this will be the roughest thing you'll face. despite that warning, the president continued to mislead the public. here he is just a month later.

>> one of my people came up to me and said, mr. president, they tried to beat you on russia, russia, russia. that didn't work out too well. they tried the impeachment hoax, and this is their new hoax. >> so president trump acknowledged yesterday that he did downplay the coronavirus earlier this year, telling reporters that he wanted to reduce panic. he also criticized bob woodward's book as a political hit job, and in an interview last night with fox news, the president accused joe biden of also downplaying the virus. >> did you mislead the public by saying you downplayed the coronavirus and you repeat lid did that in order to reduce panic? did you mislead the public? >> i think when you said in order to reduce panic, i'm a cheerleader for this country. i love our country. i don't want people to be frightened. i don't want to create panic. and certainly i'm not going to

drive this country or the world into a frenzy. we want to show confidence. we want to show strength. we want to show strength as a nation, and that's what i've done, and we've done very well. >> on the woodward book, on the book itself, he called -- i didn't participate in his last one. he takes jabs at people. he did it with obama. i don't have time to read it, but i gave it a little bit of a shot. sounds like it's not going to be good. but if you look at what i said, i said, don't panic. we don't want you jumping up and down. don't panic. we would have lost 2 million lives instead of what we're talking about. anything above one is no good. we can't have it. it's china's fault. they sent it to us, and it's no good. but i thought i'd give bob woodward some time.

i gave him some time. but as usual with the books he writes, that didn't work out too well. perhaps. i don't know. maybe it's good. who knows. i want to show a calmness. i'm the leader of the country. i can't be jumping up and down and scaring people. i don't want to scare people. i don't want people to panic. that's exactly what i did. if you look at the representatives of joe biden, you see what they were saying. they said, no problem, this won't be a problem. he didn't think it was going to be a problem until months later. he was way late. pelosi was way, way late. >> all right. so i want to remind folks, joe biden published an op-ed in "usa today" on january 27th warning of the possibility of a pandemic. january 27th. it came just days after the first coronavirus case in the united states was announced. biden, meanwhile, lambasted the president's record, his comments, downplaying the severity of the coronavirus pandemic. >> he knew how deadly it was.

it was much more deadly than the flu. he knew and purposely played it down. worse, he lied to the american people. he knowingly and willingly lied about the threat it posed to the country for months. he had the information. he knew how dangerous it was. while this deadly disease rip tlood u oed through our nation, he failed on purpose. it was the life and death of the american people. >> by the way, i want to remind people, next wednesday coming up on "morning joe," bob woodward will join mika and joe for his first cable interview after his new book. joining me now, politico reporter daniel lippman. great to see you. wow, it's been a 24 hours or so. >> i know. >> there's so much to unpack here, but i think probably the most simple question here,

daniel, this is -- this is clearly damaging. many of these recorded phone calls between woodward and the president are clearly damaging to the president and his book. but is it enough to shake the confidence of even his most steadfast supporters? >> well, his steadfast supporters will be with him the entire way. remember his life, i could shoot someone on fifth avenue, and i wouldn't lose my supporters. so the problem with these remarks is that many americans who are on the fence -- and there's only maybe 10% of people who are swing voters and only, you know, a small section of them are in those battleground states -- they have been most affected by the pandemic, and they don't want to hear their president is playing it down. they want to hear the president is taking charge and trying to defeat it. that's why these comments, they won't be happy with them.

>> so could there be any legal blowback? could there be any investigations in the pipeline because we are hearing this president admit on tape that he purposefully downplayed the coronavirus that has killed nearly 200,000 americans and that number continues to go up? >> i don't think congress is going to launch a new investigation since they already started a number of investigations looking into how the administration has handled the pandemic, but i think it also -- the one other reason why this makes it so hard for the white house to push back against this is it's the president's own words. he's basically a co-author, shadow co-author of this book because he gave 18 interviews for it, so it's going to be hard for the kayleigh mcenanys of the world to say, oh, he didn't say

that when they have audiotapes. so it's much harder to spin and say, you know, he didn't mean that. trump himself is now admitting, oh, yeah, i did kind of play it down because i didn't want to play panic. he's trying to shade it, but he's not denying it's his own words. >> that's exactly what kayleigh mcenany tried to do yesterday in saying the president did not try to downplay the coronavirus where we all know the facts, we see it for ourselves, that the president certainly did do that when he full well knew this thing was as deadly as it is and you could get it literally by talking. daniel lippman, stay close. i'm going to talk to you again in just a little bit. still ahead, a judge denies tossing out a case. and later thick smoke turns the sky around the san francisco bay bright orange.

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welcome back. a d.c. judge yesterday ruled that a lawsuit against the president's inaugural committee for misusing non-profit funds may goforward. d.c. judge carl racine filed a lawsuit against the committee. it knew it was being charged at the hotel including for a private party for the president's oldest children. the committee proceeded to spend more than $1 million. the defense was racine's office failed to show a violation of the non-profit act and does not allege that the committee is, quote, continuing to act in a manner that violates the law, court papers say, but the judge disagreed with that. stephanie, a former friend to first lady melania trump and a

recent tell-all, "melania and me," she provided tens of thousands of documents to support it. danny cevallos joins me. good morning. great to see you. talk about this. what is alleged to have been the illegality here, and was it paying the president's hotel or just paying too much in general? >> that's a big distinction. it's paying too much. non-profits are required to not commit waste or what's called private inurement. if they have events, they have to pay for facilities and stuff like that. while it doesn't look good for the inaugural committee to go straight to the trump hotel and hold an event there, according to the kacome plant by the attorney general, the wrong was dmited when they overcharged -- when the trump hotel overcharged the inaugural committee and the

inaugural committee decided to pay the inflated fees, at least according to the congratulations, knowing they were inflated at the time. >> so we have the defense with racine's office that they failed to show a violation of the non-profit act and that they do not allege that the committee is continuing to act. the judge disagreed with that. can you talk us through that? >> right. the argument is, that well, this happened many years ago, so how can they be continuing to act? but state attorneys general and the d.c. attorney general are usually charged as watchdogs of non-profits, and they step in if the non-profit is doing something wrong, like in this case, wasting funds or privately benefiting other people, and when they do that, they can usually take over the non-profit or claw back some of those funds, and the continuing congratulations here is that the inaugural committee here

continues to fail, to recapture those funds, and the trump hotel continues to retain those funds, knowing that they overcharged the political inaugural committee. so those are the continuing violations. and they're alleged in the complaint for a very particular purpose because they need that continuing action in order to be able to maintain a lawsuit. if everything's really all done and finished, then there's nothing to really complain about anymore. >> all right. danny cevallos, thank you as always. good to see you, my friend. still ahead, everybody, disney's live action remake of "mao lan" is facing criticism over its filming location. willem marx join us us next to explain the controversy. we're back in a moment. to explain the controversy. we're back in a moment you should be mad your neighbor always wants to hang out. and you should be mad your smart fridge is unnecessarily complicated. make ice. making ice. but you're not mad because you have e*trade

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filming in china where the government is accused of serious rights against minorities. at the end of the movie disney thanks government agencies where a mostly muslim uighurs have been detained in reeducation camps. the criticism comes after more than two dozen uighurs testified and accuse chinese officials of crimes against humanity, torture, and genocide. disney did not respond to multiple request for comment on nbc news. joining us now from london, correspondent willem marx. great to see you. this was astounding to see the development of this whole thing. talk us through this. what more do you know? >> reporter: so when the movie came out, "mulan" last week, some people started seeing in the list the list of chinese agencies that were thanked by the production companies and disney as part of the

movie-making. amongst those one was called a tur pan company. we spoke recently to a man from that part of shin jong. he had moved to a neighboring country, kazakhstan. he went back and visited his pare parents. that's where he said he was arrested. he was taken to a nearby police station, tortured including being hung from the ceiling face down, chained by his hands and ankles and beaten with rods. his testify is one of a part of two dozen uighurs. it's an important complaint because it's the first chance chinese officials will be held accountable for some of the

activities inside there. i spoke to a man responsible for the legal side of it, rodney dixon in london. i asked him how significant was it that the u.s. government itself was issuing sanction, visa restrictions on officials for similar types of behavior. this is what he said. >> these tips that have been taken by the u.s. administration to sanction the chinese administration are tremendously important because they're based on evidence of human rights being violated. those are the very rights we're asking the prosecutor to investigation, and she could seek that underlying evidence as part of that investigation. she could use it and develop it. it's very important these steps are taken in different ways to ensure that the circle is being closed and that those responsible can't escape out of it. >> reporter: now, yasmin, it is important to say the chinese government has denied repeatedly

the accusations. we asked them to comment about the detailed list of allegations. the press office there told us so-called genocide was, quote, nothing but a lie and that, quote, the issue concerning the area is about combatting violent terrorism and separatism. yasmin? >> wow. unbelievable developments there. nbc's willem marx for us. thank you very much for the story. very much appreciate it. still ahead, everybody, we're going to dig dig into the new whistle-blower complaint that accusing top homeland security officials of downplaying the threat from russia on election interference. also more from bob

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welcome back, everybody. we're going to begin this half hour with a whistle-blower accusing officials at the department of homeland security for distorting intelligence and downplaying the threat of russian election interference and domestic terrorism from white supremacists all to fit the president's political agenda. brian murphy was a top intelligence analyst at dhs and yesterday he submitted the written complaint on acts allegedly taken by kirstjien nielsen, former head of the

security department and acting secretary of state chad wolf and others. on the subject of domestic terrorism, the complaint alleges this, quote, mr. murphy was instructed by mr. wolf and/or mr. cuccinelli to modify intelligence assessments to ensure they matched up with the public comments by president trump on the subject of antifa and anarchist groups. added in there, mr. cuccinelli stated that mr. murphy needed to specifically modify the section on white supremacy in a manner that made the threat appear less severe. also, mr. murphy made several protected disclosures regarding a repeated pattern of abuse of authority, attempted censorship of intelligence analysis and improper administration of an

intelligence program related to russian efforts to influence and undermine u.s. interests. specifically, mr. wolf instructioned mr. murphy to cease providing intelligence assessments on the threat of russian interference in the united states, and instep start reporting on interference activities by china and iran. he served from march 20th until july 31st of this year and according to the complaint he was demoted in retaliation for repeatedly raising concerns. a dhs spokesman did not specifically respond to a request for comment on this. let's get to more now on the experts from bob woodward's latest book. in addition to the comments that president trump made in

downplaying the virus, according to the "washington post" in woodward's book, infectious disease expert dr. anthony fauci tells others the president is on a separate channel and unfocused meetings with rudderless leadership and his sole purpose is to get re-elected. dr. fauci distanced himself from that quote yesterday. >> you know, that quote, others said that. you can ask others. i don't recall that at all. i didn't read the book, but according to what i saw in the newspapers, it says, others have said that. i don't want to get involved in the kind of stuff that is very distracting to what i'm trying to do and we're all trying to do with this outbreak. >> so excerpts from woodward's book documents where some officials inside the trump administration wrestle with whether or not to quit like dan

coats. woodward describes coats' work as essentially tortured. he was invited in by mike pence. when coats considered resigning because of the president's handling of russia, pence said, look on the positive side of the things he's done. more attention on that. you can't go. in bob woodward's lengthy interview for the book, he repeatedly spoke on the national reckoning on racial injustice. after federal agents forcefully removed peaceful protesters to make way for president trump's staged photohe called on the law and ford stance. he said repeatedly, quote, we're going to send in the national guard for the poor bastards who don't know what they're doing,

these poor radical lefts. on july 19th, woodward asked the president about white privilege. >> let me ask you this. i mean we share one thing in common. we're white privileged who -- my father was a lawyer and judge in illinois, and we know what your dad did. do you have any sense that that privilege has isolated and put you in a cave to a certain extent as it put me and i think lots of white privileged people in a cave and that we have to work our way out of it to understand the anger and the pain particularly black people feel in this country. >> no. you really drank the kool-aid, didn't you. listen to you. wow.

no, i don't feel that at all. >> all right. so during another conversation about race on july 8th, trump complained about the lack of support among black voters. he said, quote, i've done a tremendous amount for the black community, and, honestly, i'm not feeling any love. the two spoke again on june 2nd more in depth about race in this country. >> do you think there's systematic or institutional race in this country? >> i think there is everywhere, probably less here than most places that okay, but is it here in a way that it has an impact on people's lives? >> i think it is, and it's unfortunate, but i think it is. >> joining me once again, white house and washington reporter for politico, daniel lippman. you're hearing the president finally admit there, yes, i think it is here, but still necessarily trying to downplay it. it's interesting, daniel, the president's comments on white

privilege, basically telling bob woodward he's drank the kool-aid considering what the president has done over the last few days, talking about the use of the term "white privilege" do away with any teachings based on the podca podcast which walks people through the history of slavery in this country, particularly black americans and all americans in this country. what do you make of the president's comments about race? >> well, you know, it's a sign that he thinks that his -- he's able -- he's going to try to get as many voters who are tired of hearing about all of this. they don't want to feel guilty for who they are, and he's trying to kind of add fuel to the fire in the culture war and racial divides in this country.

remember, kellyanne conway told fox news a few weeks ago, it helps the trump campaign when there's images of cities burning on tv so they can play up the threat to the suburbs. so this is not new rhetoric for the president, but it's very rare for a president to appear so out of touch. you know, it wouldn't hurt him too much to say, of course, i want to help make their lives better instead of saying, where's the love, why didn't they all vote for me? >> yeah. this is not a president who's self-aware or in touch with what's happening in the country right now, especially when it comes to the reckoning of racial justice in this country. i think many are scratching their heads and saying where's the accountabilities, not only for the president who purposely misled americans and 190,000 folks have now died from the

coronavirus when, in fact, he very well may have been able to save lives by telling people the reality and truth of this virus and how people can get it and how they can actually protect themselves. where is the accountability across the board for the folks that surround the president that knew this information, that knew his thinking, and then knew what he was saying in public? >> well, i think the accountability is on election day. this is why elections matter. and so if you're going to have a hillary clinton versus a president trump, you would have wondered how they would have handled the pandemic dinkly. in terms of the people around the president, many are trying to do the right thing. they're constantly telling trump, take this virus seriously. mike pence is running a shadow operation in trying to work with the states and not fight with them. and so, you know, they -- it's

not a -- when you're in those jobs, unless you resign publicly and say, president trump, you know, why wasn't he taking this seriously, a lot of them feel like they can make more of an impact on the inside and try to persuade trump to do the right thing. sometimes they're successful. sometimes they're not. but that's -- from my conversations with the administration officials, that's the feeling i get. >> to be fair, though, mike pence was the head of the coronavirus task force and he had the exact information the president had. he knew exactly what his boss was saying every single day when he was up on the podium, and he did not refute him. he did not outright say this is more than the flu, especially when the president was trying to pretend this is the flu and we're not going to lose as many thousands of folks as we have lost, and that number continues to grow as i still mention. daniel lippman, thank you as always. so good to see you this morning. still ahead, everybody, more on the unprecedent wildfires

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to deliver your packages. and the peace of mind of knowing that important things like your prescriptions, and ballots, are on their way. every day, all across america, we'll keep delivering for you. welcome back. devastating wildfires continue to spread across california and the pacific northwest. at least six people were pronounced dead on wednesday two. in lions, oregon, three in california, and a child in washington state. at least 35 fires in oregon have torched more than 300,000 acres, leaving several communities completely destroyed. the state's governor has enacted an act. it's a similar state in washington, leaving neighborhoods completely

devastat devastated. and residents in california witnessed apocalyptic skies yesterday. so far the state's fires have burned over 2.5 million acres this year. with that let's get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. i mean i think the big question is here, bill, when are these fires going to be contained? >> the winds are dying down, yasmin, but, i mean, we have two months at least left in the fire season. the fact that california's already broken its record for the most acreage burned in a season and we have two months left is just eye-opening. if this is what climate change is going to look like in the future, everyone is saying no thank you. here's a map of the wildfires burning in the west. we have a total of 103 fires they're tracking, some of the biggest ones are in northern california we have numerous fires in oregon that have

exploded in the last couple of days including washington state. the smoke covered almost the entire west yesterday. the smoke is sitting there. we do have elevated fire risks still in areas of california and oregon, but we don't have the santa ana winds that would rapidly spread the fire. we saw over 2,000 acres burned by the bear fire because of the winds. we have a flash flood risk in the atlantic. we have one to the east of richmond toward chesapeake. notice the areas in yellow. those are trying to move along the jersey shore, along long island, and a couple making their way toward d.c. and baltimore. it could pour from hartford to new york to philadelphia, right down to d.c., especially coastal sections of virginia. today's forecast, downpours in the northeast. windy it will be dry. lit stay dry for a while.

here's your weekend outlook. friday we dry out in the northeast, rainy in the southeast. saturday, we watch for storms in the midwest, more of the northeast, and it looks like a soggy sunday in the northeast. if you have plans in the northeast, it looks like saturday is going to be your best day of the weekend. yasmin, we can't stress enough what's happening in the west with the fire season. this is unprecedent. we've never seen this many large fires at one time. >> it certainly is. thank you, bill. still ahead, everybody, new reporting as the trump administration tries to reach a deal with tiktok. also, the pandemic gets in the way of a major deal involving luxury retailer tiffany. those stories driving your business day coming up next. g yr business day coming up next. per. with secret, you're unstoppable. no sweat! try it and love it or get your money back.

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welcome back. time now for business. tiktok is discussing with the u.s. options to avoid a full sale of its american operations.

cnbc's julianna tatelbaum is joining us live from london on this. good morning, julianna. what is the latest on these most recent negotiations? >> so cnbc has learned from our own sources talks with the u.s. government to come up with ways to avoid a full sale of tiktok. these sources say that byte dance is ready to hand over control of the u.s. operations of tiktok to a tech firm but still wants to maintain ownership of certain assets. it remains unclear at this point whether beijing and/or washington would be okay with an arrangement. we are up against a clock. next week is the deadline for byte dance to divest tiktok's operations or expect a full shutdown there. >> another store today, lvmh and tiffany, the news that has come

out in the last 24 hours, tiffany is suing lvmh after the french luxury giant said it would not complete the takeover of the jeweller. lvmh said the reason they're intending to drop the deal all together is the government of france has requested they postpone the completion of the merger beyond the november deadline that was originally agreed in november of last year. now it's to the courts to decide whether this is a valid reason to break up the deal. usually these contracts are airtight and we know the economics have changed now that the coronavirus crisis has hit and this deal was agreed in november. >> i was curious about this, you see moving trucks everywhere in new york city right now. the rental market has seen a major nose dive. you have more than 15,000

apartments empty in the city right now. how is this affecting the overall economy? >> this is a huge change for the manhattan rental market. the number of empty rentals nearly tripled from last year. there were hopes for a rebound in the end of fall or 2020 but the number of apartments on the market means that rebound is looking increasingly unlikely. >> julianna tatelbaum live from london on this, thank you so much. good to see you this morning. up next a look at axios' 1 big thing. coming up on "morning joe," much more from bob woodward's revealing interviews. "the washington post" robert costa will join with his reporting. and chuck schumer with efforts on trying to pass another coronavirus bill. tryin another coronavirus bill

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a look at axios a.m., editor in chief for axios, nicholas johnston. give us axios' 1 one thing. >> why trump talked to woodward. the books are based on authors' own reporting that leaves to a common theme from the president and his administration that's fake news because nothing is on the record. that's different in the woodward book because he has the tapes to prove it. the president, nine hours of on the record taped interviews detailing a lot of his thinking. no president in history, where we know as much of what he's thinking in real time. the president's stream of consciousness and his twitter account gives us a minute by minute breakdown of what he's thinking, watching, talking

about. now we have more detailed records from bob woodward, more detailing of what the president is thinking, over nine hours, six months of the pandemic. why would the president grant that? but woodward is the chronicler of the president. a number of interviews wondering how it's going to play out in the book. it's reported in the first book that woodward wrote the president's staff get him from talking to woodward and the president hated that. so the president's thinking was if he were to talk to woodward, he'd be able to shape the narrative, win over bob woodward and get a better book than what he's gotten in the end. people feel they could spin bob woodward and now president trump learned a lesson that you can't.

he's talking about how that book isn't any good and told sean hannity last night he probably wouldn't have time to read it. >> it's astounding. in my head the president gave 18 hours or so -- >> 18 interviews nine hours. >> yeah, 18 interviews. you scratch your head thinking why would he do this? you're talking about the insecurity that the president has that he has shown over the last four years or so and he thought he could spin it. and the president, wondering how he's feeling now. >> he views himself as a deal maker if i can get in the room with vladimir putin, kim jong-un, then we can solve this problem one on one, that's how he viewed his real estates deals, how he views political aspirations he has and the press, if he can talk to these

people personally he can spin the conversation and get a better outcome. that's what he was thinking about the woodward book. several people on his staff didn't want him talking to woodward and blocked him the first book. and now the president went on record with woodward. i know axios is spending millions in battleground states to ward off gender bases against kamala harris. >> women's group are spending millions of dollars online pushing back against sexist smears against kamala harris. there's a number of memes on social media. these groups were prepared knowing that if joe biden picked a woman for president these were things they would have to fight back against. coming back about her

competence, romantic instances. there was an nba photographer who shared one on social media, and he lost his job on that. they're concerned how these will impact glow information voters. folks who spend their time online. particularly his panic and latino women under 40, they're concerned about turnout. this is a key group to get out to the polls. they're worried these attacks might suppress that vote. so they're trying to reach out to these voters and make sure they turn up at the polls in november. >> thank you as well. we will be reading axios a.m. in a little bit. you can sign up for the news letter at signup.axios.com. that does it for me on this thursday morning, i'm