health agencies in this country and the administration it's something that is previously unreported. we're finishing the reporting on it tonight we will have it for you tomorrow night. i hope you will be there for us. that's going to do it for us until then we'll see you again then no social distancing and few masks. the president holds another campaign rally, this time in wisconsin, a state that's now in the middle of a record-breaking surge in covid cases. also a new report of political interference at the cdc, this one concerning covid guidelines supposedly from the agency but not written by the agency we'll explain. and democratic presidential nominee joe biden steps up his attacks on the president, saying trump should step down for his handling of the pandemic

good morning, everybody. it is friday, september 18th, and i'm yasmin vossoughian on this final edition of "morning joe" "first look." we've got a lot of exciting announcements about that coming up straight ahead. but first we want to get to the news and the president holding yet another packed airport rally last night with no social distancing and very few masks, this time in wisconsin, even as covid cases rise in that state wisconsin just hit a new record-high positivity rate. yesterday's number or more than 2,000 cases beat the previous record set sunday in marathon county where the president's rally was held health authorities deemed the covid-19 activity to be high, indicating a, quote, significant increase in covid cases in just the past two weeks and an internal email from a trump administration official

scrapped a document. the white house decided to send it to businesses and agencies and non-profit organizations the original plan showed masks were supposed to be distributed thomes in areas with the highest number of cases at the time including louisiana, washington state, michigan, and new york. when asked why the plan was janned, an hhs spokesperson said -- did not answer the question but said instead this. cloth face masks are now widely available from a number of vendors and easily accessible to the american public. additionally, many people are making their own the white house did not respond to the request for a comment a former top staffer to vice president mike pence is throwing her support behind joe biden olivia troye, who worked as homeland security counterterrorism and coronavirus task force adviser, said the

administration's response to the pandemic has cost american lives, prompt her to leave the white house last month her comments are high lifted in a new ad highlighting voters against trooper. wat trump oak. we don't have the sound. pence called her a disgrunted former employee even though he claimed not to know her. betsy devos is also defecting from the administration. josh venable who served under betsy has joined a group of other leaders who want to see trump defeated in november as an adviser. so last night joe biden appeared in his first televised town hall and called the vice president to

step down over his handling of the pandemic. >> all the way back in march i was calling for the need for us to have masks have the president stand and tell us what's going on but he knew it he knew it and did nothing it's close to criminal things get worse and worse before they get better and better, but yo've got to level with the american people, shoot from the shoulder. there's never been a time they've not been able to step up c up this president should step down. >> biden also ripped attorney general bill barr's comments likening the restrictions to slavery. >> i mean, quite frankly, they're sick think about it did you ever, ever think, any of you, you'd hear an attorney general say that following the recommendations of the scientific community to save your and other people's lives is equivalent to slavery? people being put in chains you lost your freedom because

you didn't act. >> the former vice president also reiterated his position that the president is working to undermine the legitimacy of the election and will attempt to discount the results if he does not win a second term. >> if the president had even remote confidence he was likely to win the election, he wouldn't be doing this. he's done every single thing including having a postmaster general who still doesn't know who dismantled those machines, who ordered the picking up of those places to mail your ballots. i mean, it's all about trying to delegitimize the effort. look, can any of you history majors out there think he would have said early on, it depends

what has happened to us in this country? this is not who we are this is not what america is. no president has ever said anything like that >> all right joining me now, white house correspondent and associate editor for political, anita kumar. anita, let's address some of these defections first i spoke about olivia troye working as homeland security council to counterterrorism and there was miles taylor a couple of weeks ago who was chief of staff of the department of homeland security. what do you make of these defections, the fact they're going public with them about 50 days before the election, and does it speak to a larger trend when it comes to voters? >> yeah. i do think these can be effective. we're used to people criticizing president trump, right we've seen that over and over

from democrats and republicans who didn't support trump these are trumpers these are peel who actually work there. i do think it's going to resonate with some voters that these are people who were there in the room, listening to thinks you mentioned olivia troye i thought she was particularly effective with her message because it was about the pandemic, right? that's the thing joe biden wants to talk about. that's the thing he's pushing. there are people talking about other issues the president is talking about other issues but she's putting it all back on the coronavirus. >> yeah, that's a good point there's also the president's ongoing assault on mail-in voting, joe biden mentioning it there as well in the sound i just played. you've been reporting on this. are there any signs needed that it's actually having an impact on people casting their ballots early? >> well, we're almost 45 days out this weekend and we haven't seen any signs now, what that means is there

are ten states in the district of columbia that have these universal ballots that the president says could be fraudulent what that means is every voter is going to get a ballot in their mail what we've found is he's only pursued some of those states in litigation three of those big cases are still pending. one of them is still sending -- california is still sending out blots. so what we're finding is he hasn't been successful at this point in stops states from sending out ballots. in fact, one of them, new jersey, is all right starting to send out blotballots. it hasn't had an impact on what the states are doing yet. >> all right anita kumar, thank you stay close i'm going to talk to you again in just a little bit. still ahead, everybody, a federal judge temporarily blocks the u.s. postal service from implementing the policy changes that slowed mail delivery. we're going to discuss what this

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a federal judge yesterday ordered a reversal of reforms within the postal service that are causing significant delays this the mail delivery ahead of the november election. stanley bastian said they were pushing for enforcement against the usps and the administration. the judge called the changes which came just before an election that's expected to have a substantial number of mail-in ballots a, quote, politically motivated attack on the efficiency of the postal service. he issued a written order that instructs the postal service to stop implementing the leave-behind policy to treat all election mail as first klass

mail as election mail, to reinstall any ballot processing machines and to inform employees about the requirements of the injunction the usps is reviewing its option but is ready and committed to handle election mail a member called the belief that changes were politically motivated were, quote, completely and it literature without merit. joining me now, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos good to see you this morning. >> good morning. good to see you too. >> start out by giving us a legal lesson and tell us how a judge can issue an order that applies federally nationwide does the usps have an opening to appeal on that alone >> federal district courts occupy a very small area of

jurisdiction, and the phenomenon of nationwide injunctions by district courts is a relatively recent phenomenon. it's only been around since the '60s there really isn't a constitutional or federal stats torrey basis for it. courts just started doing it in the era of civil rights and for other reasonsing and they do have effect. is that alone a basis for appeal it's hard to see you can certainly try and argue that the appeals court, that there is no basis, but that seems to be a long shot. you're better -- the better plan on appeal is to attack the merits, attack the error of law by the lower court. >> so what about the argument from the postal service that this whole complaint was actually supposed to go to the postal commission and not to court? can the postal service just ignore the order on that basis >> no, in fact, it's a stronger argument for the plaintiff it's one of the bases for the

relief the postal service failed to submit this idea of radically changing the mail to a pestal commission and get their advisory commission saying, hey, we sign off on this. instead the postal service just implemented the changes. they didn't follow the rules and go through all the steps is a tick in the plaintiff's nation warranting an injunction. whether or not it gets appealed and is reconsidered by the appeals court altogether. >> danny cevallos, i'm disappointed that your daughter did not join us for my final "first look" show over your right shoulder. >> yasmin -- >> oh. >> i wanted to say thank you we've worked together since the beginning and to your team there, good luck on the next mission, and thank you for having me. how do i give these to you >> i'm sure you're going to be joining kasie hunt. >> thank you thank you, danny

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trump did not visit the club while it was closed, but his eldest daughter ivanka and her family reportedly did at least once over passover back in april. a spokeswoman for ivanka trump declined to comment on this report. also the president accusing schools yesterday of teaching students, quote, hateful lies about the united states and said he will be taking steps to, quote, restore patriotic education. >> we must clear away the twisted web of lies in our schools and classrooms and teach our children the magnificent truth about our country. students in our universities are inundated with critical race theory this is a marxist doctrine, holding that america is a wicked and racist nation, that even young children are complicit in oppression and that our entire

society must be transformed and i'd sign promoting a patriotic plan it. will be called the 1776 commission >> so the white house, however, has declined to say when the president will sign this executive order that he's talking about. this is following backlash from some of the right that "the new york times'" 1619 project that talks on the history of slavery would be taught in some classrooms. yosemite national park was forced to close as wildfires continue to scorch the west coast. that's because of the air quality from the toxic smoke there are two massive wildfires including the creek fire a record number of acres have been burned killing 24 people

and structures in oregon, eight people have been killed there and more than 1,000 homes destroyed there. with that let's get a first look at your forecast with nbc meteorologist bill karins. i've got to say, as we've been watching the progression of these wildfires, bill, it's really incredible to me the breadth of these things, the fact that there can be fires burning on the coast and yet the toxic smoke is basically drifting inland to areas that don't have any fires and yet are consumed by the smoke. >> yeah. the air quality has been just incredible we have so many big fires burning at once that, you know, you can't even focus on one. it used to be like we would have one big fire in the west and we'd have national news coverage and follow it and the acreage. but there's so many. every state, washington, california, oregon, all have multiple blazes burring at the same time. we show you the unhealthy air

blowing all the way through montana, colorado, and wyoming, and here's in central california where some of the air got trapped. yesterday the air improved in los angeles because of southerly winds, but it blew all of that nasty air to central california. today with fire dangers at their highest. right here in southern portions of utah, we have fire watches in areas of wyoming, things have improved we had some rain, and that was helpful. now let's turn to the tropics. we're still dealing with what's left of sally. we have new pictures from alabama and florida. a lot of people were trying to get in to take a look at the damage the areas of orange beach, the gulf shores, it will be a long time before they get life back to normal. they're trying to clear the roadways and get sand off the beach roads. in some cases there are record flooding there are bridges that are washed out, roads that are

washed out yeah, this storm sally left its mark right now we still have a flash flood warning in the northern beach area the rain will be exiting today that's good. it's still raining in southern portions of delaware and in eastern north carolina, but that's about it. it will clear on out so what's next out there we mentioned yesterday we have hurricane teddy. this is a category 4 beast of a storm. this one is going to slide toward bermuda it looks like it's going to barely miss to the east. look at this unusual track it actually bends back and it's going to head for halifax and nova scotia possibly as a hurricane tuesday into wednesday. the last time that the halifax area and nova scotia was hit by a hurricane was 2003 with hurricane juan it's happened before, but it is very rare. this is the bad news yesterday tropical depression 22 formed. this is a new storm that's going to be heading toward the texas coast. we don't like storms in the gulf

coast. the water is very, very warm this one is going to meander the hurricane center thinks it is going to have a chance to turn into a hurricane next week. yasmin, with storms like this, we worry about the heavy rainfall potential and we know if it gets to the houston area, how prone they are to flooding this would be named wilfred. this is the last name in the alphabet, and then we go to the greek names. >> it doesn't stop kind of the theme of 20. the hits keep on coming. thank you, bill still ahead, the medical community was caught off guard when it was said those exposed to covid virus may not need to be tested. there's no word where it came from, and it's scientists at the cdc. also we're going to bring in a special guest who i worked were iffor a very long time, whr

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reporting that last month's controversial guidelines from the cdc about who shouldbe tested for the coronavirus was not written by cdc scientists and was posted to the agency's website despite serious objections the guidance says people with covid symptoms need not be tested even if exposed came from the department of health and human service. at the time, the administration told the "times" the document was a cdc product and had been revised by the agency's director dr. robert redfield. but they told "the new york times" it was redirected and dropped it on the cdc's website, flouting the process an email from dr. redfield says this, the guidelines in con jk n conjunction with the coronavirus

ta task force received appropriate attention, consultation, and input from the task force experts. they say it's sharply out of step with the agency's usually neutral and scientific tone. the revelations are coming days after reports that hhs officials have pressured the cdc to change health reports to align with president trump's more optimistic message about this outbreak. the nation's top infection out disease expert dr. anthony fauci has weighed in on a timeline for the coronavirus vaccine following a directive from dr. robert redfield and the president. while the president has recommended it could start being distributed as early as october.

here's what dr. fauci told msnbc last night. >> first of all, we have to realize, we don't know when and if there's going to be an approval for a vaccine i'm cautiously optimistic there will be. the timeline for getting data that the fda with confidence can say it's effective and safe, i have projected would more likely be november and december it could likely be october absolutely a possibility of it let's say it is. there would be doses available at the end of november, beginning of january, end of january, february. if you want to vaccinate people, you can start vaccinating in december, january, february, with a considerable number of doses. >> and house speaker nancy pelosi held firm on her demand of at least $2.2 trillion stimulus yesterday despite the white house showing its support for a smaller package. >> when we go into negotiation,

it's about the allocation of the resources, but it's hard to see how we can go any lower when you only have greater needs. the fact is we want to have an agreement, and we will stay until we have an agreement that and white house chief of staff mark meadows responded to the new request. he told reporters this, that's not a negotiation. that's an ultimatum. joining us once again from politico, anita kumar. it seems like, anita, these negotiations are no longer a negotiation and everything is just stalled and the americans are the ones suffering, american folks who need that relief, small businesses, folks who are collecting that unemployment and don't have the additional money in their bank accounts to help with any sort of household needs. what needs to be done here, if there's anything that can be done, to get something passed?

>> that's a great question because they disagree both on what should be in the bill, but also the biggest disagreement is really how much that bill should be they're just not -- they're about a trillion at least apart, and so that's a huge, huge number i mean there are some things they disagree on, how much state and local government should get, you know, that sort of thing, whether they should send out stimulus checks, but really it's this big number that they can't agree on republicans want it to be small, and democrats say there's no point in doing it unless it's large. we're going into this weekend where the speaker said they want to stick around washington these next weeks until they get something done, but it doesn't really look like it's going anywhere it did look like briefly this week when the president said he wanted something and sort of urged evan to gses eses esest e.

there are rank and fire-members who are really pushing in the house as my colleagues reported on "tthe hill this week to get something done people are starting to feel that candidates are starting to feel that when they're back in their districts. >> who do you think is going to take the hit for this? which party will take a hit for this >> that's a good question. i think a lot of people in the country don't care if it's democrats or republicans they'll think, oh, it's washington, and they can't get anything done. when you look at the approval process, you think it's the dysfunction on capitol hill. the democrats are counting on the republicans taking the hits and the republicans are counting on the democrats to take the hits, and that's something we're going to see in november when the election comes around. >> i just played that sound from dr. anthony fauci. the president doesn't like when he hears top health experts

coming out and saying, yeah, we could see a vaccine in november, december he wants an october 1st deadline, ahead of the election, because he thinks it will bode well for him when people are voting on november 3rd how do you think this mixed messaging, shall we say, could impact the elections >> well, there's so many things that could impact it on this vaccine front. the president as you mentioned is really, really counting on this you watched the rhetoric, the language change. it was the beginning of the year, end of this year now you're right he's talking about october i do think if nothing comes out, that could impact something. if something comes out and americans are afraid to get it, they don't trust it, that could impact the situation but, listen go what joe biden said this week he's really pushing that -- you know, the president. even if something comes out, he doesn't trust it because the president doesn't trust science on this. so they're really -- no matter what happens, this is going to

be an issue for the next couple of months. >> anita kumar thank you. thank you for joining us on our last "first look." appreciate it. good to see you on this friday morning. >> still ahead, everybody. we're going to bring in a very familiar face for a look back at the last couple of years at this early hour here on msnbc your first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment. (vo) with t-mobile for business, your business has an easy choice. the largest 5g network...

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alarm was. >> must be nice, my friend it's funny because i feel like when you have -- you know, when you have a co-host in news, obviously, you bond over a lot of things and the shows that you're doing you and i were barely friends when we started the show together 3 1/2 years ago i think that's how long it's been, and we became super close. our families became super close as well. some of it is because of bonding over the fact that we were going to work at 3:00 in the morning, you know, and trudging through some of the headlines of the president being overseas, having to sit on air live reporting those stories. it has been really as you look back kind of an amazing ride and i think both of us have kind of grown in certain ways we never thought we would through it all. >> yeah, absolutely. you definitely professionally and personally professionally we've covered a lot of big stories as you mentioned, the president's trip overseas, some of the big developments overseas, even in

january this year. my god, it feels like a lifetime ago when we talked about the possibility of the u.s. going to war after the killing we covered news events, historic events, brought our expertise together, and the personal experience of going through the family moments, having children, seeing our kids going school for the first time, dealing with the pandemic, asking the question, what are you going to do about having a family. as millions of americans we're going through this in the middle of a pandemic, day care and nannies and all the problems people deal with on a daily basis in this country. been interesting to say the least. >> we've shared news stories and babysitters as well, and we actually, so everybody knows, we still share an office. >> yes. >> although, ayman i's been

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>> mike, what more can you tell us about this ad >> yeah, well, yasmin, first on this friday and this last look, i wanted to thank you for being such a great conversationalist with the axios gang. it is such a pleasure to have someone at this hour that we can have a real legit conversation with, and it's amazing with all you juggle, all you cover, the crazy axios stories come in, and you're able to bring your own perspective, your own reporting to them. it's always enjoyable. it's great for the viewers, and i wanted to say thank you for being a great friend of axios. >> thank you, mike thank you so much. and i hope that you will come on my weekend show as well, but we always having axios on. >> we are in, but we both get to sleep a little longer. >> so take it away tell us about that ad. >> yeah. so that ad shows that joe biden

thinks that there's a real v vulnerability with president trump and real military families we saw the other morning the polling that 70% of military fa were polled were aware of the atlantic story about the president disparaging troops behind the scenes. now president trump has denied this, various current and former aides went on the record to say it's not true. but joe biden thinks this story breaks through with everyday americans in a way other trump scandals do not. in this ad we see this former casualty notification officer and -- air force when he was a young captain who had to do the literal knock at the door to go to military families and tell them their loved ones paid the

ultimate price this is a very tough ad and a place that the biden campaign thinks hurts president trump they're doing a heavy buy for this, as they have with other military messages around military bases including in vital states like north carolina and florida. >> you mentioned florida let's talk about the cash influx the biden camp is getting from mike bloomberg in florida. the effort he's putting forward in florida on behalf of joe biden, what are you thinking there? >> mike bloomberg has said that he's going to put $100 million into florida the news that we have for you this morning is that mike bloomberg goes on the air today with a priorities usa action ad and is going to be on the air in all ten florida media markets

solidly through election day why? the bloomberg campaigns says that florida is a toss up but winnable and a place he can make a real difference. the theory is if joe biden can put away florida that's the clearest path to avoiding post election day chaos a lot of states look red because the mail-in votes haven't been counted but then joe biden wins. you can imagine what that would do to the country. if joe biden is able to win florida there is a trump path but it's really difficult. you pair a win in florida with a win in north carolina, another state on eastern time, another state that tends to report early, that's how you avoid the

red mirage if we're going to have a clear result on election night instead of election week or election month, joe biden's theory is, mike bloomberg's theory is, his winning florida is the way to do that. >> mike allen, thank you as always good to see you on this last look i'll be reading axios a.m. in just a little bit. you can read the newsletter, signup.axios.com coming up, bill de blasio joins the conversation on the reopening of city schools and the delay in reopening classes "morning joe" is moments away. to help manage blood sugar levels. it provides 60% more protein than the leading diabetes nutrition shake. try boost glucose control. when you drink or eat something that's acidic everyone is at risk for enamel loss. it sucks the minerals out of the tooth's surface.

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the mayor said he's made the decision after warning the schools are not ready. as we mentioned, mayor bill de blasio will be a guest on "morning joe" this morning and with that we want to bring in someone you'll be seeing every morning, the new host of "way too early". kasie hunt good morning congratulations. how are you feeling this morning? have you gotten your alarm ready? do you have a new coffee maker in place >> i'm very excited, yasmin. i have huge shoes to fill. i have loved seeing you in these early mornings the past few years. and yes, i need all of your tips on alarm clock management. i think i've got the coffee down i've got a backup coffee system in place we consume a lot of caffeine

here in our household already. so i have to start earlying that up as you know, when you have kids you have built in alarm clocks anyway. >> you do. >> we're here and so excited to spend the mornings with everybody. >> i'm so excited for you. you're going to bring your capitol expertise to the show and as you are already such a huge part of the "morning joe" family i feel this is a perfect fit for you. i'm not trying to intimidate you about the early morning wakeups, although the other day i feel asleep on the bathroom floor and got a text from the ep of the show you still host the show, please dial in >> oh no. >> that happened it did i want to bring in someone else who knows a little something about waking up way too early.

that is our own willie geist willie g.. >> hey, guys. >> how are you doing this morning? any tips from kasie? >> i think he's about to wake away from the job after hearing you fell asleep on the bathroom floor. first of all, yasmin we love you so much. we've been so lucky to have you as a lead in to our show we watch your show before we come on to get a sense of what's going on thank you for everything you've done kasie, we talked the other day, there's a reason we named in 2009 the show "way too early" because it is way too early but as yasmin can tell you there's a surprising number of people up at this hour, whether up with their babies, or up on the treadmill, getting ready for work, watching the show. when we started the show i had a

2-year-old and a 2 week old, you can do it with mars, your little boy. together you guys will sort through it and hopefully you won't fall asleep on the bathroom floor too often >> you are a hero, christina is a hero for the 2 week old. >> correct. >> i'm excited we're bringing back "way too early" i love the show. my family loved the show so we're really excited to get started. yasmin, let me echo, the weekends are so much richer to have you msnbc weekends is a great place to be. i've been there three years. i'm sure the loyal viewers who tune in on the weekend are going to love having you. >> the morning viewers are loyal and they stick with you and love you. willie geist thanks for joining us this morning. kasie thank you as well. both of you stick tight. kasie we see you monday morning fo