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at los angeles for you, which is where we're going to begin today. jonathan is still with us, host of msnbc's "politics nation" and reverend al sharpton joins us as well for the hour. good to have you, rev. so yet another national poll across just moments ago showing republican voters are simply turning on donald trump toward florida governor ron desantis. the latest polling from "the wall street journal" shows desantis leading trump by 14 points. the new "usa today" poll we showed earlier has desantis up by 23 points. is trump's hold on the republican party finally breaking? nicholas christoph will join us to discuss. and congress appears to be on the verge of a deal to avoid a government shutdown. we'll tell you where things stand right now as they try to hammer that out. but first, we want to start on the west coast where, in her first official act, newly sworn

in mayor karen bass declared a state of emergency on homelessness in los angeles. this comes as the state has been trying to combat the issue with over 69,000 homeless people in los angeles county this year alone. and mayor bass joins us now. first of all, may i congratulate you, just on being the first on a number of levels as mayor of los angeles. it's not the first time in your career you've been a first. but it's wonderful. we've been watching the homelessness crisis unfold across the country. new york city is trying some unconventional, controversial ways of dealing with homelessness and actually taking those who are deemed mentally ill to a hospital and holding them until a care plan is prepared. i mean, these are hard-to-execute ideas and policies. i'm wondering, as you declare a

state of emergency, how you think you will be able to get as many people off the street as possible in a short amount of time as possible. >> well, first of all, thank you so much for having me on. this has been a problem in los angeles for a while, and it has exploded to the point of the numbers that you talked about. and we know that every day, five people don't wake up off these streets. so with the emergency order, it will allow me to expedite building, expedite the building process. it will allow me to take over certain property, and it will allow me to be able to get -- building them quickly that. is one of the problems. however, in the meantime, there are still people on the streets. so while we are fast tracking building, we are going to launch a program in two days called inside safe. it's basically built upon the lessons learned from the pandemic. i mean, we have thousands of hotel rooms and motel rooms in

los angeles, and when the motels were vacant, the city and the county did master leasing, took over entire motels. that's what we need to do to get people off of the tents in the streets. just think about it, in america, you have hundreds of thousands of people around the country who pitch tents everywhere, and have started living on the streets. this is not acceptable. >> mayor bass, good morning and congratulations to you. what about the mental health piece of this? this is so much of what mayor adams is trying to get at here in new york city. obviously, mental illness surrounds so many of the cases of homelessness in this country. how do you address the root of the problem? it's great to get people shelter, that's the first step, and a critical one. but what is the next step? >> well, first of all, it is important to know that the population that are unhoused are diverse. for example, there's thousands of children who are on the streets with women who have fled

domestic violence. there's former foster youth that are on the street. there's people in los angeles who work full-time jobs who go home to tents because they can't afford the rent. when it comes to mental illness, we have seen this, people who are profoundly mentally ill and someone needs to take care of them. so in california, we passed legislation called care court, which is similar to what mayor adams is doing. i happen to believe very strongly that it's absolutely humane to allow somebody to die on the street when they are profoundly mentally ill. you can tell you can't take care of them. but here is my problem, i do believe it's important to hospitalize people when they're in a crisis, but where are they going to go after that? which then raises the issue of building facilities. we already do this, the facilities that we keep people in now who are profoundly

mentally ill, are jails. and that, i believe, in and of itself, is inhumane. >> and mayor bass, congratulations, of course. and -- >> thank you. >> it seems to me that when you look at the homeless crisis, when you look, like you said, so many homeless americans pitching tents and starting to live there in unsafe, unsanitary circumstances, just seems to be an issue that lends itself to public/private partnerships. we see -- we've seen new york city, i know you've seen it in l.a. too, but in new york city, we saw a lot of -- a lot of finance leaders step forward and help with schools in harlem and other areas. it made a real difference. what sort of public/private partnerships are possible in los angeles to help homeless people get off the streets, get help,

and get shelter? >> well, that is the only way it can be done, joe. and it is an extensive public/private partnership at work here. for example, i mentioned the motel owners who are making their entire properties available. we have independent, nonprofit organizations that actually know how to get people off the streets and into housing. they work with outreach workers who were formally unhoused. we have a lot of good organizations in los angeles, but the fundamental problem is they don't have the resources or the capacity to address the problem at the scale in which is needed. so that's part of what we have to do here. >> mayor bass, al sharpton. again, congratulations and -- >> hi, rev. >> you know our people are ecstatic that you are there.

i know you've -- 20, 25 years, at heart you are a civil rights activist. so the attention with how you deal with homelessness and deal with protecting their civil rights but at the same time removing them becomes something that you have to thread the needle. eric adams, lori lightfoot is dealing wit, you dealing with it in l.a. how do you deal with the balance of removing them but not having police doing overreach, and not leave people out there to suffer and in many cases have mental health issues where they don't even know they're suffering, how do you strike that balance? >> right. once again, i'll raise the fact that the population of unhoused is very, very diverse. so if you were talking about people who are profoundly mentally ill, that is a situation, you know, because they might not know they need

help. they might not know they don't have clothes on. they might not know they're in the middle of the street. you can't let somebody hurt themselves if it's obvious that is what is going to happen. but what happens in a majority of cases is, you have outreach workers, who talk to people, who show them what their options are. a and in los angeles, like i imagine like a lot of other places, people literally choose to be in a tent rather than in a shelter, because they know that the shelters are not safe. so this is required us to have a new type of thinking for how you get people off the streets, which is why motels and hotels is an option. you know, i worked in health care for a long time. i worked in the emergency room. i worked in the psychiatric emergency room, and i saw people brought into the emergency room, they were medicated, they were treated. and then they went to a facility that was not a locked facility, but a lot of these organizations, community groups,

drug treatment programs, don't exist right now. they've been the -- the cutbacks have been so severe, that if you want residential drug treatment because you have been addicted on the street for several years, you get 30 days. nobody gets clean and sober in 30 days. then we'll send you away and back to your tent. so there needs to be some profound rethinking about a social safety net. unless we do that, there are going to continue to be people in the streets. and frankly, the problem that is huge in los angeles is, i know, getting larger and larger in cities across america. this is not america. this is not acceptable anywhere. >> mayor bass, good morning. on another topic, covid cases going up across the country. there's been a spike there in los angeles. los angeles city, and county. to the point where there's been some debate about restoring an indoor mask mandate. can you give us a sense of where things stand battling the virus in los angeles, and is a mask

mandate, other measures, what's on the table? >> right. i'm not sure that a mask mandate is going to come back. the numbers over the last couple of weeks have been going up. but there were good reports today and yesterday. so it might be stabilizing. of course, like other cities, we're dealing with the flu and rsv. so we do have the triple effect here. it's being discussed, decisions haven't been made. and by the way, that impacts the unhoused population, as well. and why we can no longer have congregant shelters with lots of people in one room. i think we are going to be in a pandemic type world for some time to come. >> that makes it even more complicated. this is a problem that we're seeing in major cities across the country. >> right. and mayor bass, one other thing too. another issue where i think sometimes people get their wires

crossed, they think it's humanitarian, that it's humane to allow people to live in tents on streets. another has to do with migrants at the border, that somehow it's humane for us to just sort of have this approach to migrants at the border. that's obviously not the case. the humanitarian crisis grows by the day. what is the answer? i mean, what does the biden administration need to start doing to -- to lessen the humanitarian crisis at the border? >> well, i mean, clearly we need comprehensive immigration reform. it was something i worked on in congress, and that absolutely causes the delay. but we really have to have the resources to make sure that people connect with their families, because a lot, i don't know if it's the majority or not, but people who come across

the border are trying to connect with families, and we need to expedite that while they go through the immigration process. >> los angeles mayor karen bass, thank you very much. congratulations, and it's really great to have you on the show. >> thank you so much. >> we appreciate it. >> thank you. thanks for having me on. all right. now to the latest in washington, where congressional leaders say they have reached a bipartisan deal on a framework to avoid a government shutdown. details have not yet been released. the deadline is friday, but the house is expected to vote on a temporary, continuing resolution, either today or tomorrow to allow another week to hammer out the full package. republican leaders have urged their members to vote against the stop gap, and allow the shutdown. i guess in some cases, they really wanted to punt this whole issue until next year, jonathan. >> there's a split with republicans how to approach

this. we heard from kevin mccarthy saying hey, let's move this to next year and let the republicans take control of the house before we hammer this out. others in the senate seem less inclined to do that. mitch mcconnell included. yes, as you just said, the framework came out last night. no topline number, which seems important, but they'll get to that. they'll probably get the house to give another week to hammer out the details. we heard this earlier this morning, about how lurching from one government shutdown crisis to another is just no way to have a government here. so there's some hope that a larger deal can be brokered. certainly, one part of that deal, the white house eyeing with great interest, ukraine funding. they want to get some of that done, a package done this year before republicans take over the house. there is a sense that the shape

and timing will change dramatically and shrink when republicans take over. so they want to get this done. >> the house oversight committee is raising new concerns about former president donald trump having more classified documents in his possession from his time at the white house. congressman -- n -- k -- at that storage facility in florida. the letters obtained by "the washington post," according to the letter, congresswoman maloney expressed concern that the storage facility may contain presidential records and have not been turned over to the federal government. the request comes after "washington post" report last week that at least two items marked classified were found by an outside firm that found the

documents and turned them over to the fbi. it's not clear if the request will get any traction here. she has two weeks left as the chair, before republicans take control of the house in january. so rev, not unreasonable to think based on what we know about the documents found inside mar-a-lago and then at the storage facility, that there might be more out there. and it ratchets up the pressure as you look at the investigation, the justice department saying did this president take classified documents from the white house to mar-a-lago? somebody did. >> absolutely somebody did. and i think the bigger concern here, which is why maloney's letter is important, is that donald trump has made -- the recklessness of a president taking classified documents to his residents, and then to a storage facility that's not even on his residents is like he has no respect or regard at all.

and i think sometimes we look at this too narrow, caught up in the personality of donald trump, the broader question is, how do we tolerate this kind of reckless disregard for government process and procedure? that alone should make him have to pay a price to restore the dignity of the government and establish the people that these things are supposed to work based on rules and based on what has been set forward. he's just thrown all that to the wind. i think that's dangerous. >> so coming up on "morning joe," a broadway show that is -- was destined to be a broadway hit. instead, closes, begging the question -- what happened? the show's star, who happens to be the youngest black american playwright in broadway history, will join us to explain. and up next, new polling shows republican voters are fed up with donald trump. they are done. but is trump's fever on america

finally breaking? nicholas christoph joins us to discuss. we'll be right back. discuss. we'll be right back.

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22 past the hour. look at that beautiful shot of san francisco. the sun has yet to come up, but it's time to get ready for work, everybody. new polling shows support for donald trump's 2024 presidential bid is shrinking. the latest numbers from "the wall street journal" shows ron desantis leading trump by 14 points. the "usa today" suffolk university poll has trump at 60% among republicans in july. that number has plummeted to just 47% now. it appears voters are flocking to the thorn in trump's side, florida governor ron desantis. he leads trump by double digits,

56% to 33%. this leads to the question, when it comes to president trump, has america's fever broken? joining us now to talk about that, columnist for "the new york times," nicholas christoph. his latest piece is "trump struggles, but america is still feverish." you write --

>> you know, nick, one of the things that i find disturbing is the fact that trump didn't rise to power when people had to carry wheel barrels of cash around to buy a loaf of bread. trump came to power when the united states economy was strong, and there are a lot of very wealthy people who are still bought in to this guy who said he wants to destroy the

u.s. constitution. how do we fix that? >> i mean, that's entirely true. look, you know, people have agency. i think trump is a charlatan. i wouldn't make excuses for people who were drawn to him. but there are also a lot of people who are struggling. even though the economy was enormously strong, you know, remember that working class men have been earning less now than they were in the 1970s after adjusting for inflation. we have 300,000 people a year who are dying from deaths of despair. you know, i'm talking to you right now from our family farm in oregon. a third of the kids who rode on the school bus with me when i was a kid are now dead from addiction, from alcohol, and from suicide. you know, one of my -- one of my friends is, you know, she believes in trump, she believes all the conspiracy theorys, and

i think it had something to do with four people in her family have killed themselves, and she once put a gun to her head. when people feel that despair, then they're more likely to turn to somebody who scapegoats others, under bringing back manufacturing and so on. >> what do you make of the most recent election? the book just closed last tuesday where election deniers were turned away and lost. some of the most extreme candidates, not all of them, but some of the most high profile extreme candidates did, in fact, lose. do you take any heart, any solace in that? >> yeah, i do take some sol necessary that. that's encouraging. but i think -- look, in journalism, we focus on politics. and that's understandable. but i think that much of the political dysfunction that we see ultimately is upstream in

social dysfunction. while the latest results were encouraging, i don't think we can fundamentally resolve the political crisis in this country, unless we do a much better job addressing this broader socioeconomic crisis that is afflicting maybe a third of america. and we've got to do a better job on republicans and democrats alike. >> you know, rev, i'm so glad people have started to talk about the epidemic of loneliness and isolation, the epidemic of depression, of anxiety. church attendance is way down. attendance for synagogues, other religious organizations, way down. and i do think that plays a huge

role in a lot of the problems that we're facing. even if you want to take a faith aspect out of it, when people went to church every sunday, or when they went to synagogues, when they went to mosques more regularly, and they would be around other people, i know in my church at least, somebody in sunday school would say something crazy, and you would be like, let's talk about that. and there was a community that kept people from going over the side of a cliff. there was a community in our church every sunday, every wednesday. people had connections. those connections are breaking apart. those connections are shattering. for me and my experience, i look at church attendance going down, and i see that as a real problem. others may look at civic organizations falling apart,

breaking apart. it's not something that government can fix, but isn't it something that, as nick said, we need to talk about a lot more. >> i absolutely think we need to talk about it a lot more. i know growing up in a single parent home, my mother put me in the church and made me continue as a boy preaching and all the activities so i wouldn't join a gang. so you're going to join something. i'm in the same community, same neighborhood that the gang bangers were in, but my mother put me in the church. so taking the faith away, aspect out of this, i think you're right. people belonging to something. i think people misunderstand, donald trump you can't measure just on political terms. he's more like a roving charlatan and evangelist i saw growing up that feeds into what people need that you can't just put on a measure of politics, because he feeds a need that

goes way beyond that. unless we unravel that and deal with that, he's going to continue to have appeal, because he didn't create the wave that he's on, he's riding the wave that he's on. >> i agree. social isolation and loneliness are a huge national problem. some experts have said that loneliness is more lethal than a -- than smoking every day. and yet i also think that we don't need to give up on the idea that there are, in fact, some remedies that can help. britain has appointed a minister for loneliness, and they have talking benches in britain where you have the bench that is designated as a place that you can talk to somebody else who was sitting there. they support senior centers. they try to create centers where people can come together and chip away at that loneliness. because social media, which we

thought might help, has turned out to magnify that kind of social isolation. >> it certainly has. nicholas christoph, thank you very much. again, the piece is really, really important for everybody to read. coming up on "morning joe" -- [ inaudible ] >> just one week after its opening, the critically acclaimed play "ain't no mo" announced it would be ending its run. so what happened to the show that should become a broadway hit? that conversation with the show's playwright, jordan e. cooper, is next on "morning

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this bag will be the carry of our entire story as a people in this country, as we make this glorious transition. anything that you have that drops into that category drop it on in and it will meet you at your final destination. i repeat, once your ticket has been scanned, please continue to walk forward into the boarding area. if you look back, the powers that be are unfortunately forced to morph your exterior into that of a privileged white male. >> that is a scene from the new broadway show "ain't no mo." despite rave reviews, just one week after opening, the show announced it will end its run this saturday after struggling at the box office. that is unless the production can rally audiences and boost ticket sales enough to change that decision. the hollywood reporter describes

the show like this, the provocative comedy, which asks the question, what if the u.s. government attempted to solve racism by offering black americans one-way plane tickets to africa, features an all-black cast playing out the character's responses over a series of sketches. joining us now, award winning performer and play right jordan e. cooper who wrote and stars in "ain't no mo" and is the youngest black american playwright in the history of broadway. good morning. thanks for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> let's get right into it. there's some urgency in this. you hope to get people into the theaters so more and more people can see this masterpiece of yours. so what do you need today? >> yeah. so today we just need community support. you know, thankfully so far, people have been showing up in droves since he announced the show is closing. people are confused, audiences

were loving it. but it just didn't have enough time to build the audience it deserved. it's a show on broadway that doesn't have the celebrity involved as far as on stage. it doesn't have any ip that people recognize, like a "back to the future" or backstreet boys song. so it takes time to build your audience, especially for a show of color. it takes more work. >> let's tell people what this is about. you walk out of 30 rock today, the streets are packed. they'll choose which shows they want to go to. tell people about your show. >> so "ain't no mo" is about an all -- all black people got an email saying you have to go back to africa, and you watch all these people decide if they're getting on a plane out of america. it's ridiculous and heart wrenching. it is a theater experience like never before. like never before. >> jordan, you know, people that

i know that have gone to see it, raves about it. and lee daniels called me to come to the opening, but i was out with a documentary. but we have to deal with the fact that this is an exceptional play with an exceptional kind of performance that the rave reviews. tell us why it is more difficult for plays that deal with black issues don't have the runway to take off that other plays may have on broadway, because i think that's part of it. and i think that what you have done and what lee daniels has done is amazing. but you don't have the long runway to take off. [ overlapping speakers ] >> come on, al. >> i just want to make sure the play is there, and i'll be there.

>> we might just put you into that role. >> tell us about the difference, because i don't think people understand the economic and business problems that are connected with broadway, particularly people of color. >> absolutely. so we see examples of this with shows like k-pop which just closed after a short run about the korean sensation. and it was the first korean composer on broadway, and they shut down. and then "ain't no mo" comes behind it and a week later, shut down. what we're seeing, especially with this show, is that the same way -- i always say the same way that the government is strategic about putting liquor stores in black neighborhoods, broadway has to be strategic about putting black shows in black neighborhoods, because we just don't have -- a lot of black folks don't think that broadway is for us, because we're not always invited. i think that this show, it takes time to build an audience. when you don't have a denzel on

stage, you're just depending on the work. and somebody had to see denzel in order for him to become denzel. but we didn't have time to put billboards on 125th and malcolm x or put billboards in the subway stations in brooklyn. >> and maybe not the budget. >> exactly, not the budget either. because once again, we are just depending on this harrowing and amazing story to get us through. so right when we opened, we discovered that hey, nobody is coming. but it's like, nobody comes when the show opens. that's not how that works. so it's like really we wanted enough time to try to build the audience that the show deserves. because we have to change the way that broadway marketing happens. they market towards the same people who want to see bette midler in "hello dolly."

but we have to really let people know who don't traditionally know that they're invited to the theater that this is for you, and i wrote this play specifically as a church sermon, each scene is like no, we're going to have a good time, shout amen, dance in the aisles if you want. and i don't think broadway is used to that. in order to get the people who the play belongs to, we need the reviews to do what they're going to do. >> we need to give rev that cameo. everything is going to change. if you're in town, "ain't no mo" is right here in new york city. the reviews are rave. it's a remarkable piece and great performance by you. jordan, thank you for being here. >> thank you. if you want to help, please send an email to the website, buy a ticket, buy a ticket, buy a ticket and come have fun with us. >> good luck with it. rooting for you. coming up next, an update of

what's happening at the world cup. and a pro baseball player bet on himself in free agency, paid off with a record setting contract. "morning joe" is coming right back. ♪♪ voltaren. the joy of movement. ♪♪

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46 past the hour. the widow of grant wahl announced this morning that her husband's death was caused by an atortic aneurysm. the 49-year-old sports writer collapsed in his seat on friday while covering the quarterfinal match between argentina and the netherlands in qatar. he was tended to on site by paramedics before being take on the a hospital. his body was returned to the u.s. on monday before an autopsy performed by the new york city medical examiner's office. as for the world cup competition in qatar, soccer legend lionel messi led argentina into the final yesterday. and later today, argentina will find out who they will be

facing. nbc news foreign correspondent megan fitzgerald has the latest. >> argentina 3, croatia nil. >> reporter: this morning, a blowout win for argentina, earning their sixth trip to the world cup final with a 3-nil victory over croatia, led by lionel messi, who scored with a penalty kick 34 minutes in. argentina netting another one minutes later. and a final goal with a brilliant run by messi, dribbling past one of the opponent's best defenders. messi celebrated what could be his last chance to clinch the cup. >> messi's the g.o.a.t. >> reporter: the victory being celebrated back in argentina. hundreds of thousands of fans gathering all over the country after the semifinal win. the team facing off sunday against the winner of today's historic game between france and the cinderella story of the

tournament morocco. the moroccan team getting in their last practice before taking the pitch as the first arab nation and african country to advance to the semifinals, defying the odds, beating a number of tough teams, including portugal. and its superstar christiano renaldo, in the last round to get here. a victory cheer across the arab world. >> my whole life, i have been watching every game, every game, and i dream of this moment! >> this afternoon's contest between france and morocco kicks off at 2:00 p.m. eastern, 11:00 a.m. pacific. >> it's going to be fascinating. now to baseball, one year after pinning down a five-year, $160 million offer from the astros, carlos correia has landed more than twice that amount on the heels of a single season that he spent in minnesota. he has agreed on a 13-year, $350

million contract with the san francisco giants, a record long deal that is the richest ever for the shortstop position. san francisco, which lost its bid to sign free agent aaron judge, gets its franchise player in the 28-year-old correa, with a guarantee that marks the fourth largest in baseball history. jonathan, really big numbers here. numbers that we don't have to worry about in boston, because the boston red sox, i've just found out, are looking to obtain the entire infield of the pensacola catholic high crusaders, along with a with a lifetime supply of barn hill country buffet coupons. 50% off for any barn hills buffet that you go to. so not quite an even payout, but

i guess he's proving that you can run boston just like you run tampa. you don't want tampa to win. >> that's just good eating though at the buffet. that's not a bad deal, honestly. >> a half dozen of the other. >> it's a toss up. the giants needed a star. they also needed to improve their team laying in a power house division with the dodgers who are are loaded, and the padres, who took our shortstop. these are teams that spend money to improve themselves. that's what's happening. correa is a member of the world series team. >> hold on. what did you just say? teams spend money to improve? >> i'm just getting this in here, joe, but thr teams in the off season, you are allowed in major league baseball to spend money to acquire players to make your teams better. i'll do it again.

you are allowed -- >> wait, does anybody in the 617 area code understand that? >> to, not recently. you are allowed to spend money on players who make your team better. >> fascinating. we're not here. so you're saying that you don't just have to sell players. >> no. >> you don't just have to let mookie go. you don't have to just let christian go. you can actually write checks now in 2022 to get players to come and play for you? >> there are two ways to do this. you can simply take out your checkbook and sign a player with money. or you can trade players to get better players, ask then potentially sign them to contracts as well. that is allowed. >> the red sox, we're a small

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the u.s. postal service will feature the late civil rights leader john lewis on a new stamp next year. the stamp features a picture of lewis used in a 2013 issue of "time" magazine. >> reverend al, what a great tribute to our friend and an extraordinary civil rights hero. >> a great tribute and a deserving one. i can honestly say as someone that has been in the civil rights movement since i was 12, john lewis was probably the one that personified the sacred commitment to human rights and civil rights in private as he was in public. you meet a the lot of people on the frontline who in private are the exact opposite. john lewis was the real deal in private and in public. he was a great man.

he stood on the principles that he preached and that he did in public. i couldn't think of anyone more deserving. >> a great man. a great man. and like you said, also a good man. and how important is that that the walk matches the talk for a civil rights leader like him? >> it's very important. i say all the time the young people, one of my big disappointments was meeting my heroes. but john lewis never let me down. i remember the last time that we were having the march across the bridge. we do it every year. it was the year that john lewis couldn't come. and as we were marching across the bridge, this is the bridge he was beaten on with jose williams in 1965, and he come across the bridge to commemorate how tar we have come.

and john lewis was ill with cancer and couldn't be there, but we got to the top of the bridge. a car pulled up and even with his body in pain, he got out that car and we held him up. one of the pictures i will always keep is we held him up as he stood on a ladder and told us, vote, vote, vote, to his dying day, he kept marching. >> what a story. >> we had to keep the movement going. >> thank you, rev. that does it for us this morning. jose diaz-balart picks up the coverage after a final short break. p the coverage after a final short break.

good morning. 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart. this morning ext