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that's why the world works with servicenow. former president trump was interviewed by sean hannity on fox news and when hannity brought up trump's claim he declassified the documents at mar-a-lago, he gave an interesting explanation. >> is there a process? what was your process to -- >> there doesn't have to be a process, as i understand it. different people say different things, but if you're the president of the united states, you can declassify just by saying it's declassified, even by thinking about it. [ laughter ] hannity was like, i get it, you're going to plead insanity. now it's making sense. >> welcome back to "morning joe." it is 6:00 in the morning tong west coast as you look at los angeles, 9:00 in the east on this friday, september 23rd.

a busy hour ahead, including the new pressure on donald trump's legal team to prove in a court of law the allegation trump has been making in public that the fbi planted evidence at mar-a-lago. there is also new reporting showing trump's current legal issues may impact his potential 2024 run. we'll explain. and how his $100 million war chest could affect the midterm election now only a month and a half away. this morning, new polling showing president biden with his highest approval rating of the year so far. plus, the markets open in about 30 minutes and it does not look like it will be a positive end to the week as a major announcement from fedextraders . in ukraine, russia is holding sham referendums in occupied territories as hundreds of thousands of russian military reservists leave to fight in ukraine. nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel has

the latest. >> reporter: the kremlin is dismissing as exaggerated reports that russians are trying to avoid military service, trying to escape the draft. the kremlin claims that 10,000 people have voluntarily shown up for service even as to online bloggers, activists, lawyers are posting ways that russians might be able to escape the draft by either getting phony medical records or leaving the country. facing heavy losses in ukraine, president putin announced a partial military mobilization. the russian president is looking for 300,000 reserve troops to fight his war. but instead, russians are mobilizing in the streets of moscow, chanting send putin to the trenches. hundreds of demonstrators have been detained for saying that. other russians are fleeing the country. flights from moscow to all

visa-free destinations selling out quickly. there are also long lines of cars heading to finland, which has open borders. president biden condemned putin for making nuclear threat es and for supporting a vote in russian-occupied parts of ukraine, which russia could use to justify annexing more ukrainian territory. >> president putin has made overt nuclear threats against europe. now russia's calling up more soldiers to join the fight. you cannot seize a nation's territory by force. >> reporter: hours earlier, president putin in a rare admission the war isn't going to plan, said he had no choice but to call up more troops because the west is trying to use the war in ukraine to break russia apart. putin threatened to use nuclear weapons to stop it. >> no one threatened russia, and no one other than russia sought

conflict. >> the military mobilization -- >> reporter: russia tried to block ukraine's president zelenskyy from speaking at the u.n. he received a standing ovation instead. russia is calling up more troops because it's low on soldiers, according to u.s. and nato officials. ukraine claims the war has cost russia more than 50,000 soldiers so far, about a third of the force it had when it invaded last winter. russia admits to far fewer losses. up till now, many russians have been trying to ignore the war in ukraine and get on with their lives, even though it's been on russian tv nonstop for the last seven months. most people thought it didn't impact them directly because russia was using the standing army or private security contractors. now that is no longer possible as russian officials across the country are going to door to door handing out draft cards for

the first time russia mobilizing militarily since world war ii. >> richard engel reporting from ukraine. let's bring in the editor of "the new yorker," david remnick. also moscow correspondent for "the washington post" and wrote "lenin's tomb" about the collapse of the soviet union. good to see you this morning. you've got so much experience in russia. explain to our viewers what we're seeing right now. is this real dissent? are these pictures of people fleeing the country to get out of being drafted, 300,000 reserve ipss being called up, what's going on in moscow? is it a significant moment there? >> i think it's very significant, and i would say that it's very interesting to watch your program this morning. the you put together some of the puzzle pieces, demonstrations in an authoritarian state of iran that we haven't seen in years. you have the former president of

the united states in the crosshairs of a number of investigations and losing his standing all the time and moving farther to the margins of qanon and all the rest. and now in russia you're seeing actual politics. when an authoritarian leader cannot exert complete control, and you start to see the cracks in his facade, cracks of dissent, whether it's online or even more dangerously for the people themselveses on the streets, something is happening. you know, it's very hard for us americans since the days of vietnam to get around the notion that maybe for once we made a major foreign policy decision that was to beth correct politically and morally and at the same time well coordinated. i think that joe biden, for whatever limitations you think he might have, should be given

credit for seeing very clearly what russia was up to and coordinating a response to it that has been effective, responsive to ukrainian needs, and responsive to the notion that democracy around the world is under assault. i think today is extremely significant. >> obviously a gross miscalculation of historic proportions potentially by vladimir putin when he launched this invasion. he felt it would be a walk in the park. obviously, it's been anything but that. what happens from here in your experience, david? you have an authoritarian, a tyrant in the form of vladimir putin, who is accustomed to getting his way and squashing dissent. does that happen again this time or is it a little bit different now? >> well, there's so much that's invisible to us. a lot of the reporting that comes out of russia in russian is through sources that i would say -- i'm not saying that

they're dubious, but they're hard to know if they're correct. in other words, there are telegram channels that come from people that allegedly have insight into what's going on in the kremlin. i would be very skeptical of that, but those sources do say that there is opposition, that putin's health is poor. what we can see that's visible, and we should, you know, after all believe our own lyin' eyes is that he's in a corner, two seeming gigantic allies, india and china, made it clear last week in kazakhstan that they at the minimum have great displeasure for what russia is executing in ukraine. and china and india are two enormous states that putin thought he could depend on. and at the same time -- yeah. >> yeah. >> and at the same time the united states and nato have

shown enormous support material and otherwise for ukraine, and ukraine itself you can't say enough for the effort, the intelligence and the moral force of the ukrainian leadership and the ukrainian people in face of a full-blown invasion, which will, by the way, get worse quite possibly before it gets better. >> putin has promised that. president zelenskyy saying now that a clear condition for the end of the war is getting their territory back. here's what zelenskyy said in an interview yesterday with forbes. >> yeah. his troops here, it doesn't matter to him how many of them will be here. me being the president of the country that fights for our freedom against russian army, even i am telling it now that,

yeah, they are people that are being sent to get killed. i don't think think that the war will be over as soon as russia runs out of its -- and sooner someone has to rectify the minds of the russian federation's leaders. for us the war will be over when we have our territory reclaimed. we don't want anything more than that. >> david, it really is extraordinary to hear those comments at this point when you think back to february, and the question was will it be days or weeks before kyiv falls to the russians. now you have russia in retreat and ukrainians chasing them out of the country and talking about not just protecting what they have but getting back their territory. >> that's exactly right. it's very important to untangle what he said there. we were seeing only a part of it obviously. zelenskyy and the ukrainian leadership and ukrainian people

are intent not just in getting back to status quo but of expelling the russian forces and russian presence from crimea, which was taken in 2014, and the eastern part of the country, the donbas, which has russian soldiers all over it since 2014. putin at the same time has now upped his mobilization dramatically. he's sending not only unwilling and unsuspecting young men to the front. he's also scavenging through prisons and sending people who are prisoners, he hopes, to win the war for russia. it is a desperate time for the russian leadership. what we cannot see, and it's important to note, what we cannot see just as we couldn't see in the mid'60s, when the

president was overturned, all we see on russian tv is the front of unanimity and obedience to this very desperate, furious, angry, and i would say deluded leader of russia. it's a very, very dangerous time for the world and a very sad time for russians who don't want any part of this. >> we're seeing them emboldened speaking out in larger numbers as we don't often see. you have a couple busy weeks ahead. "the new yorker" festival kicks off in two weeks. your writers and editors sit down with big names in politics, music, film, as they do every year. that runs from october 7th through the 9th. this week's new issue of the magazine, you publish an excerpt exclusively from bono's upcoming new book. i know you i'll sit down with him at the festival. >> this is a great piece, and it

came about in a way that i'm not used to as an editor. i was sitting at my desk right here working one sunday afternoon and i got a call from somebody who says i'm bono. that doesn't usually happen to me. he said, you know, i've got this book and would you like to hear about it? i said sure. he said, come on over. turns out he lives 15 blocks away. i walked over the his rather gigantic and impressive apartment, and he read a couple chapters to me and we agreed right then and there. then he worked with an editor named jess henderson, who did a wonderful job of excerpting the book. you know, a lot of rock stars, a lot of musicians have written memoirs lately, and this is really good and it's especially good on how he becomes himself in ireland as a kid, how a kid from really not much becomes maybe the biggest star of the '80s and has been a long lasting

presence on the scene. that's one event at the festival between october 7th and 9th. visit our website at newyorker.com and look at the events we have them. they're fantastic. hope to see you out there. >> cant wait to see it. we'll talk more when you come back on the show next week. for young journalists, you should know that's not how it happens. >> no. >> you sit at your desk and bono calls and says come to my gigantic apartment for a pr pitch. >> no. great to see you, willie. all the best. >> you as well. the special master appointed to review the documents the fbi seized from former president donald trump's mar-a-lago home and club has given former president trump's legal team until next friday to back up trump's allegation the fbi planted evidence during the search last month. he's been making that claim in interviews and on social media, but his lawyers have yet to officially make that argument in

court. judge raymond dearie also ordered trump's attorneys to state in a court filing whether they believe fbi agents lied about documents seized from mar-a-lago. judge dearie ordered the government to turn over copies of all nonclassified items seized in the case to trump's lawyers by monday. let's bring in national political reporter for "the washington post," michael sherrick, part of the team out with new reporting titled "trump faces growing legal peril as he seeks to raise profile ahead of 2024." good to see you. thanks for coming on. we were discussing this earlier in the show, the potential impact, does it weigh on donald trump at all, these, what, eight investigations all over the country in different places from new york city the to georgia and of course at the federal level, do they weigh on his decision about whether to run for president? >> well, we've definitely seen a shift. there was a lot of rumbling in the middle of the summer, july, that former president trump was getting ready to announce a

campaign to the dismay of a lot of republicans before the midterms. that has basically gone away. he's been spending more time dealing with all these legal complications. of course, those plans are being put in place before the mar-a-lago raid, before the letitia james civil suit announced this week. that doesn't mean he's -- there's much sign that' v he's backing down. you made mention of the fact that the superpac is making moves to get more involved in the midterm elections this year, and clearly the planning is still in the works. he hasn't backed away from that. i think republicans have been breathing a little bit of a sigh of relief in the last few weeks. >> is there anything that could happen here, michael? because i think the presumption, and this was said earlier, the presumption is he wouldn't be able toll resist running for president again. is there anything legally that could happen in any of these cases, talking about criminally potentially, that would prevent him from running or lead him to decide not to run?

>> well, we don't know the answer to that yet. donald trump, his entire life, not just his entire political career, his entire life has been under litigation. there have been criminal investigations of him, settlements, civil litigation, settlements. it is certainly possible there are charges that come out in the coming months that complicate a presidential run. it hasn't happened yet. the new york attorney general lawsuit is really a business matter. several of the other investigations are business matters. the matter in georgia is a little more serious. you know, that is a case in which he could be charged with trying to intervene in the vote count there. and there is a sort of novel legal theory we wrote about today that democrats are pursuing, which is, to use the third section of the 14th amendment to make a ace case to federal and state judges that he shouldn't be on the ballot because the constitution says if you've taken the oath of office and engage in insurrection

against the country you're no longer eligible for office. there was a little notice case recently in new mexico in which a judge ruled that a county commissioner who was convicted of entering the u.s. capitol could no longer stand as a candidate in that state. i think you're going to have more of these legal challenges. i mean, there hasn't been a moment in trump's political career where we haven't. whether any of them break through to a point to prevent him, we'll see. >> there is some evidence this is at least taking a toll on public perception. the marquette poll from erler has the former president down to 30% approval nationally. national political reporter michael scherer, thanks so much. still ahead, donald trump has spent millions of dollars from his save america pac on legal fees. new reporting this morning suggests he's finally ready to put some cash behind the candidates he's supporting in the midterms.

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9:24 in the morning at the white house, 6:24 out west. new polling shows president biden's approval rating at its highest point in the year. in the latest emerson college survey, 45% approve, up five points from july and seven since may. a big reason for that increase, a boost in confidence from women, up ten points just from july. let's bring in white house

reporter for politico and "morning joe" senior contributor eugene daniels. good to see you. this emerson poll is in line with others we've seen lately, marquette yesterday as well that show president biden right in the mid-40s, still upside down, but certainly gaining ground from those low points of a couple months ago. >> reporter: that's absolutely true, willie. our own polling, politico, found the exact same thing with him with some of the highest numbers that he's had for many, many months, right. this is not something that the white house is celebrating first hand. they wish it was higher, but it is much better so they know it's giving them a boost, that they feel like the american people are kind of taking their opinion of the case in stride. i want to look at a poll from a pfizer superpac found in michigan, wisconsin, the president's approval rating went from 42 to 45.

56% approved of his handling of covid, 50 approved the handling of ukraine, 54 disapprove his handling of the economy, and 60% or more of the facts asked disapprove over the power over immigration and the national debt. someone covering the midterms and covering this white house looking at that, it shows there are kind of two elections going on and democrats and republicans can choose their own things on what folks care about and they are running on. for democrats it's giving them quite a bit more hope they had before this white house to turn this election from a referendum on joe biden and how people think he did over the last 19, 20 months to a choice election between they say them and a party that isn't going to protect your rights, that wanted to get -- wants to get rid of abortion. they've been hammering that varld as we get closer to the

midterms. >> and of course that persistent inflation number drags democrats down even as they see some of those positive signs. new reporting in the political playbook about former president trump and his superpac finally looks like they'll spend some of those millions of dollars they've raised to help candidates this fall. what can you tell us? >> reporter: yeah. this is something folks has been expecting. the money has been coming in. they were wondering when it would -- we're getting quite a lot of grass cutting here today. >> you're doing well with it, though. >> reporter: we'll keep going. sabotage, i say. but, you know, you have donald trump raising a lot of money. this has been going on for months and months. what you've heard from republicans is when is he going to spend that money on us? they want all of the millions of dollars to funnel into key races, so this is going to be its seems kind of the official apparatus for that to happen. this superpac, they say it's

going to be his operation for political engagement. we are just two months away from the elections. we talk to focus and they say it's a little bit late. it's important to net when he has engaged in this election season so far, it hasn't always turned out the way the republicans wanted. you look at his kind of hand-picked senate candidate who is aren't doing very well right now, and you talk to republicans behind closed doors and they say times he makes things a little harder, a lot are praying and hoping some money will work out in their favor here. it's the clearest indication also that trump is probably going the use some of this money to run in 2024, which we largely expect him to do, and we'll continue to the see him out on the road. but when you watch a trump rally with j.d. vance, for example, it turns into a trump rally talking

about himself and quote, unquote, fake news and pushing the big lie, and at times hitting the person he's talking about, saying j.d. vance was kissing his butt now, something if you're candidate you probably don't want the person up there endoring you talk about it. it's always a mixed bag with donald trump. republicans are hoping some of these key races work out in their favor. >> you general daniels reporting without breaking a stride in a an attacking landscape scene. we'll let you go before the backpack blowers come out. markets head for a losing week over fear the fed is doing too much on interest rates with more to come, perhaps. some possible good news, as american oil hits its lowest level since january. cnbc's dominic chu joins us next. er ever assembled. next is the new great garlic. the tender rotisserie style chicken is sublime

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potential or the likelihood for more on the horizon. how has that hit the markets this week and this morning? >> it's not even just the fed. central banks around the world, norway, sweden, indonesia, they're all raising rates. things are heading south as you can see. stock index futures were pointing towards the lowest levels of the day you saw today. government bond prices falling around the world so u.s. treasury interest rates are rising. u.s. benchmark oil prices are now, believe it or not, back below $08 a barrel, making it the lowest since january 11th. now, there's a growing pessimism in the marketplace right now, like you point out, that the fed, other central banks are just going to raise interest rates to a point that's going to have no choice but to trigger a recession. and by the way, a lot of companies are dealing with this environment in different ways. fedex is also raising shipping rates, by the way, for ground and express service by an average of nearly 7% starting in

january. so the package delivery giant is dealing basically with the slowdown in its business overall, and this rate increase, by the way, is higher than it was in previous years. it also comes a week just after the company slashed its profit and sales forecast. fedex, u.p.s., other suppliers are suddenly stuck with excess capacity as holiday merchandise was shipped early and inflation hit consumer demand. that's all playing out with the fedex story. >> is wall street working on the assumption we heard from a bunch of bank ceos talking to congress this week that the fed will continue to raise rates effectively driving the economy to a recession to slam the brakes on all the way? is that the working theory that that's coming, a recession is coming down the line? >> there's a growing narrative. to that point, willie, one of the headlines that was catching a lot of wall street traders and investors this morning was a call out of analysts at goldman sachs. the team over there has now slashed its year-end forecast

for the large-cap s&p 500 stock index to 3,600. what that means is if it hits that 3,600 level that goldman is predicting, that would be at the lowest level since just around that june market sell thauf we saw. so that's 4% below where we were yesterday. in their explanation as to why they made the call, they cited an interesting anecdotal piece of evidence. they said in many of their conversations with the bank's clients an increasing number of their stock investors are saying there's no choice and that it was inevitable in their words that a hard landing, economic landing was going to happen. so that call is kind of echoing just a lot of to your point, what wall street is expecting in that the fed will trigger at some point a recession down the line. >> another interesting story, dom, that impacts media and sports, apple tv plus, making a big play around the nfl. they have major league baseball if you want to watch aaron judge try to try thai the record

tonight. you have to watch it on apple tv plus. what are they look at in terms of football and the super bowl? >> it's the most popular sport in america. the nfl to your point is saying that apple music, apple music will be the new title sponsor of the new super bowl halftime show. you may recall pepsi had been the sponsor since 2013. reports say apple may have paid as much as a reported $50 million per year for a five-year deal to be that title sponsor, and maybe for good reason. more than 120 million viewers watched the 2022 halftime show, which we all remember featured dr. dre, snoop dogg, eminem, a big rap scene, and super bowl lvii in glendale, arizona, could be another well-watched event so maybe a big play on whether or not they could reach more people with that apple music targeted marketing. >> so many sports going to streaming now like everything else. now to a book on far-right

extremism in america and a group that came into sharp focus during the last presidential election. >> you have repeatedly criticized the vice president for not specifically calling out antifa and other left-wing groups. but are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups -- >> sure. >> -- and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in kenosha and portland? >> i would say almost everything i see is from the left wing, not right wing. i'm willing to do anything -- i want to see peace. >> then do it, sir. do it. say it. >> what do you want to call them? give me a name. >> proud boys. >> proud boys, stand back and stand by, but i'll tell you what, i'll tell you what, somebody's got to do something about antifa and the left.

>> stand back and stand by. joining us now, author and investigative reporter andy campbell. his new book is titled "we are proud boys: how a right-wing street gang ushered in a new era of american extremism." great to see you, andy. here's how you set things up for readers -- the proud boys managed to capture the hearts and minds of a substantial slice of the american public during the trump years. they enjoyed great public power and influence despite sitting atop a colossal wave of violent extremism that was causing irreparable damage to the country. to understand how they managed to build such an empire, you have to go back to their first few months in action when they were gaining popularity on the right. they were playing a double-sided game, fighting out the right wing's grievances in the street while at the same time buttering up the right people in the upper echelon of the gop. to that point, andy, you interviewed roger stone, who admitted to you he's been

advising the proud boyings for years. tell us about that. >> right. this is about the embrace by the gop about the right-wing before. i spoke to roger stone last year when he was under intense scrutiny for his proximity to the january 6th insurrection. he admitted he's been advising the proud boys for years as they became a more political monitor and he's helped them on how to get out of trouble after their assaults. he was friends with enrique, the proud boys chairman behind bars right now waiting a sedition trial in the january 6th insurrection. the extremists have already got on the top echelon of the gop, and with the proud boys, they enjoy celebration from right-wing media and political pun difficults to the point where they look to a swath of americans like the defenders of

trump. i mean, they see themselves as an enforcement arm of the gop and they take their marching orders from trump's rhetoric and the rhetoric on fox news. so, going forward -- yeah. sorry. >> i'm sorry. i didn't mean to interrupt you. go ahead. >> going forward, we are look at political violence that's not just at maga rallies, you're seeing it in normalization brought on by republicans like stone. >> ray, culminating that moment we just showed at a presidential debate when the sitting president of the united states effectively sent up a bat signal. how significant was that moment to the proud boys? >> yeah. you can argue that the president didn't intend to activate the proud boys when he said stands back and stand by. you could argue he can't put a sentence together. it doesn't matter. the proud boys took that quote

as marching orders and started gearing up for civil war immediately and gearing up for january 6th, which they saw as their last stand for trump. the justice department believes that they not only have an outside role in showing up at the insurrection but believe they also helped plan it. these sedition trials next year are going to give us a better look at that and also give us a better look hopefully at their relationships with top-level gop officials. >> andy, what's the state of the proud boys today? obviously, they enjoyed their biggest moment at a presidential debate but under the four years of donald trump as they were validated by sitting politicians. where are they now? what are they doing now? what are their goals for future? >> even as number of their members sit in jail awaiting sedition charges, they are still committing acts of violence at a rapid clip. this goes back to that normalization of political violence. proud boys and other extremists

are showing up at regular, everyday american activities. you have them at abortion clinics, at, you know, children's hospitals, you have them at public libraries. they are fighting tucker carlson and donald trump's culture war out in the street at more rapid clip than ever. one has to hope that, you know, through this next election, we can look at, you know, the extremist candidates who are aligned with these forces and, you know, hopefully voters will ask themselves whether they want those people running the country. >> that's the thing. candidates in really important races, statewide races, have done a lot more than given a wink to the proud boys. they've supported them. "we are proud boys: how a right-wing street gang ushered in a new era of american extremism." andy campbell, thank you. >> thanks for having me. up next, the boston celtics suspend their head coach for the

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overnight the boston celtics suspended their head coach for the entire upcoming season after they say he violated team policies. nbc's stephanie gosk has the details. good morning. >> willie, good morning. the celtics war surprise in the finals last year, and their head coach is now suspended for the entire season after he reportedly had a relationship with a staff member. >> lays it up and in! >> reporter: a big shake-up this morning for a major nba team. just weeks before the league is officially set to tip off, the boston celtics head coach has been suspended for the entire upcoming season for what the celtics are calling violations

of team policies. while boston did not provide a specific reason to bench him, sources say it's for his role in an intimate relationship with a female member of the franchise's staff. >> this relationship was consensual, but there's power dynamic in play. it violated the celtics' code of conduct, and they came down pretty strongly here. >> reporter: udoka issued a policy overnight to his family, the celtics, and fans, telling espn in a statement, "i am sorry for putting the team in this difficult situation, and i accept the team's decision." i'm very excited and honored to be part of it. >> reporter: he helped lead the celtics to the finals in his first year. off the court he's been in a longtime relationship with actress neal young. the couple has a 10-year-old son. for now who ends up at the coaching helm of the franchise is uncertain. his future with the team will be decided at a later date. >> no mistake, this was not

something they were going to tolerate. >> reporter: we reached out to udoka for comment. he's not gotten back to us. the assistant coach will take over the job for this season, willie. >> that's a long suspension for one of the bright young stars among among coaches in the league. stephanie gosk, thank you. coming up next, we'll look ahead on this friday morning to the new season of broadway. new shows, notable revivals and one legendary musical dropping the curtain for good. and coming up this weekend on sunday, my guest, he's the egot winner, the one and only john legend talking about his new album, his gig on "the voice," his las vegas residency and expecting baby number three with chrissy teigen. the great john legend, this sunday on sunday today on nbc. we'll be right back on "morning joe."

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what if juliette didn't die? that should be the start of a play. ♪♪ >>shake peer meets britney spears. joining us now to take us through the new broadway season is the host of on stage frank delela. let's talk about some of these jukebox musicals. what is this? >> max martin, who is the force behind ariana grande and katy perry, his music comes to life in this show. what would have happened if

juliette did not die at the end of romeo and juliette. it's female empowerment. it's funny. a fabulous broadway company. we're seeing betsy wolf. it's a great show. fun for the whole family. >> a beautiful noise is neil diamond. you have some movies coming to broadway including "almost famous." >> yeah, we're looking right now at neil diamond, "a beautiful noise." we have tina turner, carol king. and i have to tell you "sweet caroline" is a group number at the end of the show with audiences chiming in. you mentioned "almost famous", based on the film. it's coming to broadway. tom kit who wrote the music for "next to normal." did the score for "almost

famous." there's a breakout star to be seen in show. it's her broad way debut. she did hamilton on the road. she plays penny lane. she is a star. >> i can't wait to see that. think of the music in that show alone. that should be great. let's talk "funny girl." it's been a tumultuous run. the lead role left. lea michele comes i how is this latest version of it? >> lea michele is fannie bryce. she's breathing new life in this show. i was there on opening night. she had seven standing ovations. jonathan grof, her co-star, they were just crying watching her take on this role. i spoke to one of the producers at intermission. she said this does not happen. the fact that we are getting a

second life. normally if a show is not doing well on broadway, it closes. and ticket sales have gone through the roof. she must be seen. have you seen lea michele yet? >> i actually saw beanie in the original version. our friend jane lynch, i want to give beanie a shoutout. but i'm hearing the same things you're hearing about lea michele just blowing the roof off the place. let's talk "into the woods." >> played for two weeks in may. and it did so well they transferred it to broadway and it features this all-star broadway cast. and it keeps extending. so it is definitely a must-see. we're getting "merrily we roll along".

daniel radcliffe, and i hear that will move to broadway whether it's the spring or next september. and then looking a little bit more ahead in february, we're going to get this amazing revival of sweeney todd starring josh groban. >> it's amazing how many big stars are on broadway right now. sam jackson is going to be back in revival. before we go, shows closing, "phantom of the opera." say it ain't so after all these years. >> after 35 years come february, it will close on broadway. but cameron mcen tosh, the producer, it's been back two more times. phantom may return. they are doing a million dollars a day at the box office. it's a hot ticket. not since 1988 come february, you won't be able to get a

ticket to "phantom of of the opera." sgluk still see is in london. and "music man" wrapping as well. we love talking to you. thanks so much. we'll see you on broadway. that does it for us this morning. we'll see you right back here on monday morning. jose diaz-balart picks up the coverage live from san diego, right now. good morning, it's 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart. this morning ukrainian officials say armed groups and russian-held territories are going door to door to force participation in what the u.s. has called sham referendums to join russia. we'll talk to a former officer about the latest developments. also this hour, we'll bring you an interview with the department of of homeland security secretary. what he has to say about the record number of migrants and