along side yasmin ayman mohyeldin alongsi yasmin vossoughian.the wake of the growing ukraine scandal president trump is demanding to meet the whistle and wants to have adam schiff questioned for treason. in a series of tweets last night, he posted this. like every american, i deserve to meet my accuser. especially when this accuser, the so-called whistleblower, represented a perfect conversation with a foreign leader in a totally inaccurate and fraudulent way and shif's comments were in the most sinister manner ever seen in the great chamber. he wrote down and read terrible things and then said it was from the mouth of the president of the united states. i was this the highest level of fraud and treaso

i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. we begin with hurricane dorian that has gained strength own. once again, a major hurricane. category 3 now. this video from charl seston, residents there bracing for dangerous storm surges. bill, update us on how things have played out. >> good morning, last night, the hurricane center bumped it up from 105 to 115. above 110, is a category 3. it got a little more organized. the areas all the way from south carolina, charleston up the coast are going to deal with a category 2 or 3 hurricane. this will rake the coast of north carolina this morning until about friday about noon before it heads out to sea. this is the brand-new path. we don't see any land fall in the myrtle center. this evening it will be close in the wilmington area. through the middle of the night, we could see it go through moorehead city, atlantic beach. wind speeds 110, 105, 100. that will cause damage, power outages and trees down in that area. that will cause a lot of issues. it could be a weak or two. this morning

i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. on this 18th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks president trump finds himself searching for his fourth national security adviser in just three years after announcing the firing of john bolton on twitter yesterday. the president claims he informed bolton on monday night that his services are, quote, no longer needed at the white house. trump tweeted out i disagreed strong with many of his suggestions as did others in the administration. therefore, i asked john for his resignation which was given to me. those are how to handle iran, afghanistan. and reports say that bolton refused to push back on reports that he and mike pence disagreed on trump's plan to host the taliban at camp david. and then there's this from cbs news, three sources directly involved tell the network that the, quote, the main irritant that drove mr. trump to those closest asking him if he could use nuclear weapons to fight hurricanes. >> there's also dispute over whether bolton was fired and how it came about

i'm ayman mohyeldin along side yasmin vossoughian.e begin in the mild east whedd where iran is dying it was behind a series of drone attacks. the early morning attacks targeted a saudi processing field and a major oilfield. it cut the kingdom's liquefied natural gas in about half. it also destroyed more than 5% of the oil supply around the globe. oil prices have spiked more than 15% in the aftermath and u.s. gasoline futures and heating oil futures have jumped significantly on that news. yem yemen's houthi rebels have claimed responsibility. they said the attacks are related to the devastating saudi led war in yemen which has led to a catastrophic famine and a humanitarian crisis and left almost 100,000 people dead including scores of civilians. >> secretary of state mike pompeo tweeted that iran is directly to blame and quote, there is no evidence the attacks came from yemen. a senior u.s. official telling nbc news the attacks came from the direction of tehran. while tehran is denying responsibility, here is how iran's top national s

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin.begin with hurricane dorian lashing parts of florida's east coast overnight of with storm surge as far north as the carolinas. we're also following humanitarian disaster unfolding right now as we speak in the bahamas. aerial pictures showing parts of abaco islands decimated. major homes and infrastructures flattened. at least seven people have been killed and they expect that number to rise. the country's foreign minister said he went on a reconnaissance mission provided by the u.s. and found the area under water. and it, quote, looks like a lake. the red cross says 62,000 people are without clean drinking water and that 60,000 people are going to need food. here's more from the prime minister last night. >> our building codes are built to withstand about -- our building codes were built to withstand about 150 miles per hour wind. we never expected that we would one day encounter the velocity as high as 180, to 200 miles per hour. but we will take that as a lesson. >> all right. stayin

. ♪ >>> good morning, everyone, it is monday, september 30th, i'm ayman mohyeldin along side yasmin aymanohyeldin alongsi yasmin vossoughian. in the wake of the growing ukraine scandal president trump is demanding to meet the whistle and wants to have adam schiff questioned for treason. in a series of tweets last night, he posted this. like every american, i deserve to meet my accuser. especially when this accuser, the so-called whistleblower, represented a perfect conversation with a foreign leader in a totally inaccurate and fraudulent way and shif's comments were in the most sinister manner ever seen in the great chamber. he wrote down and read terrible things and then said it was from the mouth of the president of the united states. i was this the highest level of fraud and treason. in addition i want to meet not only my accuser who presented second and third hand information but also the person who illegally gave this information which was largely incorrect to the whistle blower, was this person spying on the u.s. president? big consequences. >> meanwhile, an attorney representing th

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin.n is still battering the carolina coast. want to go first to nbc meteorologist bill karins with the report. >> the winds haven't really been producing strong enough gusts for the damage. you look at this radar image, this is the eye. a good portion of the band is over land. the rest of it is here heading out towards hatteras. they're get the hardest rain and winds in the next hour. about an hour and a half, two hours, that will arrive in hatteras. it may be a landfall or not. it will quickly move off shore. the biggest concern for life and profit right now is the rain. we are mostly focused only in extreme eastern north carolina. we've taken away the flood watches. all the way up to norfolk and virginia beach. all these maroon counties. computers are really just pinpointing around the sound and areas around virginia beach. another three to five miles possible. this will head out to the open water and head for nova scotia on saturday. >> let's go live to david gura standing by. that eye

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. it is the bottom of the hour. start with the morning's top stories. senator elizabeth warren and former vice president joe biden are in a statistical tie in iowa, according to the latest des moines register cnn media com poll. warren leads the democratic field by two points at 22%. she is now up zseven points sine june. biden follows closely behind at 20% down three points. vermont senator bernie sanders sits in third place down five points since the beginning of the summer. >> that's putting bernie sanders's challenges in iowa into sharper focus. senator warren is winning a bigger share of people who caucused for sanders in 2016 and is outpacing him in voters under 35. the current indication she is eating into sanders base as well. as the sanders campaign tries to hang onto voters volatility as operations led to the quiet firing of the campaign's political director in iowa less than five months before the february caucuses. the paper reports that employee disputes and staff shake-ups have jolted the senator's org

ayman mohyeldin picks up things at 3:00. >>> another busy hour.ssing hour, we're getting more and more images out of the bahamas. hello, it's monday september 9th. i'm ayman mohyeldin in for ali velshi who is reporting live in the bahamas after hurricane dorian completely destroyed the area. we'll be getting to ali in just a moment. first, this island smells like death. that is how ali described the island in marsh harbor, the biggest town. while rescue crews continue to pull body after body out of the rubble. in the bahamas mass destruction, severe shortage of resources and the death toll that is guaranteed to dramatically rise in the coming day. now, tens of thousands of traumatized survivors are trying to get off the islands. ali is own the ground, seeing

it is september 18th, i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin.begin with yesterday's impeachment hearing before the house judiciary committee as democrats struggled to get answers from former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski, the hearing lasted for more than five hours and was contentious, to say the least. democrats tried to get information on a key part of the mueller report that claimed in a june 2017 meeting told lewandowski to announce that the president had done nothing wrong and that it was unfair here's how things played out >> poumenhow many times has the president asked you meet him in the white house -- >> white house has instructed me -- >> how many times did you meet with the president in the white house? >> i don't know the answer to that >> how many times has he directed you to deliver a message -- >> white house has directed not to disclose -- >> did he ever disclose any concerns that he may have commits a criminal offense >> the white house has -- >> did you tell the president to deliver the message. >> i can't comment, i

i'm alex along with ayman mohyeldin, we look at the bottom of the hour and the top stories. one of the big topics during last night's debate was the democratic candidates vision for the future of health care in this country. several candidates used the conversation to criticize senators bernie sanders and elizabeth warren over their support of a medicare for all style plan. >> my health care plan does significantly cut the cost of the largest out-of-pocket payment you will pay is a thousand dollars and get into anyone who can't afford it gets automatically enrolled in the medicare type option we have, et cetera, but guess what, of the 160 million people who like their health care now, they can keep it, if they don't like it, they can leave. >> well, bernie wrote the bill, i read the bill. and on page eight, on page eight of the bill, it says that we will no longer have private insurance as we know it. and that means that 149 million americans will no longer be able to have their current insurance. that's in four years. i don't think that's a bold idea. i think it is a bad id

i'm yasmin vossoughian, alongside ayman mohyeldin. president trump rallied in north carolina last night, ahead of today's special election in the state's ninth congressional district. trump won the district by 12 points back in 2016 but polls show a neck and neck race between republican dan bishop and democratic dan mccreedy. trump tried to tip the scales from bishop but with his eye on the 2020 election the president spent much of the rally defending his rd and attacking the democratic party. >> you have a democrat named dan mccreedy, and he wants open borders, he wants sanctuary cities, he's not going to protect your second amendment. doing nothing on your second -- you know, north carolina is a very big second amendment state. the radical democrats want to dismantle, demolish and destroy everything that you've gained, and they will do it and it won't take that long. we had a very, very special day in 2016. it was a very special day. it was an incredible day, an incredible month, an incredible year. and i don't know that you can eve

. >>> good morning, everyone, it's tuesday, september 17, i'm yasmin vossoughian, alongside ayman mohyeldin. >> we begin with an attack on a major oil facility, and three sources tell nbc news, the attack on the saudi oil field originated from iran and that there is extremely compelling evidence showing the origination point of the strikes. one official with direct knowledge tells nbc news that the evidence is imagery. saudi arabia's ministry of foreign affairs also says in a statement that quote initial investigations have indicated that the weapons used in the attack were in fact, iranian weapons. but the investigation into the source of the attack is still ongoing. and during a u.n. security council meeting on yemen yesterday, u.s. ambassador kelly craft echoed seth of state mike pompeo's claim that quote there is no evidence that the attacks came from yemen, adding quote, the emerging of information indicates that responsibility lies with iran. iran has denied the u.s. accusation, and yemen's houthi rebels backed by tehran have claimed responsibility for those attacks. >> while his secr

i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. we begin with the fallout from the escalating impeachment inquiry of president trump. white house officials are scrambling to figure out their next steps for countering democrats impeachment push. one person close to the white house tells nbc news there appears to be a rising sense of anxiety, unease and concern inside the white house. that the whistleblower's allegations could seriously wound the president. one source familiar with the situation described to nbc a sense of total panic. all of this over the past week, to address this new reality. another person familiar with the discussion described the mood inside the white house as shell shocked. with increasing wariness that as the impeachment inquiry drags out, the likelihood increases that president trump could respond erratically and become quote unmanageable. according to "washington post," trump's advisers are envisioning a split screen strategy in the coming week, the post notes trump is considering stepping up the fall sched

i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. we begin in the middle east where iran denies accusations that it was behind drone attacks in saudi arabia. it targeted a saudi arabia oil processing tank facility and a major oil field and cut the kingdom's liquefied natural gas and ethane production by half and destroyed 5% of the global oil supply. oil prices have spiked more than 15% in the aftermath and gasoline futures and heating oil futures in the u.s. have jumped on the news. houthi rebels claimed responsibility. and a spokesman on the short ades on the group's sat light news channel, the attack is saudi-led war in yemen which has left to catastrophic famine and humanitarian crisis and left almost 100,000 people dead including scores of civilians. >> however, secretary of state mike pompeo tweeted that iran is directly to blame, and there is no evidence the attacks came from yemen. and a senior u.s. official tells nbc news that the attacks came from the direction of iran. and while tehran is denying responsibility, here is ho

it is friday, september 20th, i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. we are learning more about the whistleblower complaint that the trump administration is trying to keep secret from congress. two people familiar with the matter telling the "washington post" that it centers on ukraine. nbc news has not confirmed that ukraine is at the center of the issue though. and the white house did not immediately respond to a request for comment. the post citing two former u.s. officials, previously reported that the complaint was made by a u.s. intel official who was alarmed by a promise the president made to a foreign leader in a phone conversation. trump spoke with the new president of ukraine on july 25th, the whistleblower complaint was filed less than three weeks later. ukraine is significant because of reporting that the president was withholding military aid to that country. while at the same time trump's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, was pushing for the ukrainian government to investigate democratic presidential front-runner joe biden, and his son hunt

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin, it is the bottom of the hour.ts intention director maguire will testify on capitol hill for the first time since the whistleblower complaint before members of congress. he will be a closed door session before the senate intelligence committee. maguire vowed to step down if he was not allowed to appear before congress, a source familiar with the matter told nbc news. the "washington post" first reported maguire threatened resignation citing current and former white house officials and stephanie grisham disputed the account, white house spokesperson. and maguire wrote in a wrote, at no time have i considered resigning my position since assuming this role on august 16, 2019. i have never quit anything in my life and i am not going to start now. i am committed to the complex threat facing our nation. >> and the notes of the phone call reveal president trump press pressed zelenski to probe joe biden and invoking his name twice, joe biden's name twice but the justice department quickly assured that barr was not drawn in

it is thursday, september 19th, i'm ayman mohyeldin, alongside yasmin vossoughian. we begin with new information on the secret whistle blower complaint that the trump administration is refusing to hand over to congress. two former u.s. officials tell the "washington post" that it involves a promise the president made to a foreign leader that was thought to be so troubling it prompted a u.s. intelligence official to file a formal whistle blower complaint with the inspector general. the post says it is unclear which foreign leader the president was speaking with or what he promised but nbc news has learned from a former u.s. intelligence official that it involves a phone conversation. the entire or deal is at the center of the latest battle between the trump administration and congress. after the acting director of national intelligence, joseph mcguir mcguire overruled the inspector general's complaint that it was urgent concern after failing to turn over to congress as require by law. adam schiff accuses the trump administration of illegally refusing to turn over the

it's tuesday, september 24, i'm yasmin vossoughian, alongside ayman mohyeldin. we begin with new reporting overnight considering the president and ukraine. three senior administration officials telling the "washington post" that the president ordered held back nearly $400 million in military aid to that country days before the call in which trump reportedly pressured ukraine's president to investigate joe biden. that reporting has since been matched by "the new york times" and "the wall street journal." >> now, according to the post, administration officials were instructed to tell lawmakers that the delays were part of an inter-agency process. but to give them no additional information, a pattern that continued for nearly two months until the white house released the funds on the night of september 11th. congress is now investigating if the president froze the military aid as a way to pressure ukraine to digging up dirt on a political rival. while the president denies a direct connection, he did connect the funding to corruption and corruption to joe biden. >>

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin.e continuing to track hurricane dorian which has now been blamed for at least five deaths in the bahamas. the prime minister there says the devastation is, quote, unprecedented and extensive. for the very latest i want to get a check on the path of hurricane dorian with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> the way i see today going is as dorian finally begins to pull away from grand bahama island we will probably start getting more pictures, especially from abacos further away from the storm and eventually we will start to get some pictures maybe by the end of today, a better idea of just how badly freeport and the grand bahama island was hit. this is where we have the hurricane warnings and watches, with he still have the hurricane warnings up for the east coast of florida. the center of it and the eye, what's left of the eye, should be about 50 to about 70 miles off the coast. so we are not expecting hurricane, you know, sustained winds on the coast, but we could get some gusts possible

alongside ayman mohyeldin. it's the bottom of the hour. let's top with the top stories. the 2020 democratic presidential candidates are set to take the stage in houston later this evening for the party's third primary debate. unlike previous debates this one will feature only the top ten polling candidates on stage for one night only. senator amy klobuchar, cory booker, kamala harris, elizabeth warren, joe biden, and julian castro among others will grace the stage. plenty of attention on joe biden as he and elizabeth warren face off for the very first time on the same stage. biden's advisers pushed back on the idea the debate would be a show down between the former vp and the senator saying he is more likely to face direct attacks from others on the stage. biden's camp also says he is eager to make a broader contrast with his more progressive rivals and that he will be ready to push back against suggestions that he is pursuing middle of the road solutions. meanwhile, yang is apparently preparing something big for the debate. a senior official tells msnbc news he will do

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin.e hour, let's start with the top stories. elizabeth warren and joe biden are in a statistical tie in iowa according to a latest des moines register cnn media poll. warren leading by two points at 22%, up seven points among iowa caucus-goer, biden follows close behind at 20%, and bernie sanders third place down five points since the beginning of the summer wrchlts four months to go until the iowa caucus, 17 of the 2020 democratic candidates took to the state and more than 20,000 people attended the steak fry in the rain to meet the presidential hopefuls. joe biden, pete buttigieg, elizabeth warren, cory booker, among those who brought their stump speeches to the first in the nation caucus state. watch. >> i'm going to call to you right now, i need everyone's help in my campaign. because we're not running an individual campaign. we will win this election not by dividing democrats, but have people that unite us and bring us together. we will win this election, not by showing the worst of

ayman mohyeldin picks up things at 3:00. >>> another busy hour. every passing hour, we're getting more and more images out of the bahamas. hello, it's monday september 9th. i'm ayman mohyeldin in for ali velshi who is reporting live in the bahamas after hurricane dorian completely destroyed the area. we'll be getting to ali in just a moment. first, this island smells like death. that is how ali described the island in marsh harbor, the biggest town. while rescue crews continue to pull body after body out of the rubble. in the bahamas mass destruction, severe shortage of resources and the death toll that is guaranteed to dramatically rise in the coming day. now, tens of thousands of traumatized survivors are trying to get off the islands. ali is own the ground, seeing all of the damage first hand and we'll talk to him shortly. >>> also, president trump will view the damage in north carolina. he's currently talking to reporters in the white house. we'll bring that to you as soon as we get it in the newsroom. meanwhile, trump is expected to land at c

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it is thursday, september 19th, i'm ayman mohyeldin, alongside yasmin vossoughian. we begin with new

>>> good morning, everybody, this thursday, september 26th, i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. >> a busy day to say the lst

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin.starts right now. >>> of course he's my client and therefore i can't tell you what i talked to him about, particularly at a time like this. it's attorney/client privilege. you know who i did it at the request of? the state department. i never talked to a ukraine official until the state department called me and asked me to do it. >> he can't make up his mind. by the way, hey, rudy you're doing that in public. >> that's the outside voice. >> you're claiming -- >> it's not inside your head. >> you're thinking should i go with the attorney/client privilege thing or should i go with the state department thing. you're saying both of them, so. >> so swinging wildly between two different positions. is rudy giuliani the president's private lawyer? >> says he is. >> or someone tasked by the state department to conduct government business? boy, that changes the equation. >> both of them changed the equation. >> kind of an important detail as the house of representatives launches an official impe

up next, yasmin vossoughian and ayman mohyeldin. when the storm will start to move out to sea.or so many, that cannot come soon enough. ♪ hey. you must be steven's phone. now you can know who's on your network and control who shouldn't be, only with xfinity xfi. simple. easy. awesome. >>> welcome back, everybody. hurricane dorian menacing the coast as a category 1. bill karins is going to tell us more about the storm's next path. >> heavy rain is pounding the area with absolute certainty. >> bracing for a storm surge that could leave more of the region under water. >> 20 tornadoes touching down in the carolinas. >> all of this comes as the devastation is still

. >>> welcome back, everybody, i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin.tom of the hour, president trump planned and canceled a meeting with the taliban and now facing bipartisan criticism from the meeting, almost no one knew about. nbc news correspondent hans nichols has more on this. >> reporter: america's preparing to inflict more pain on the taliban. >> they fear the taliban conditions have been worsening and they're about to get worse. >> reporter: america's top diplomat on all five major sunday morning shows, defending trump's plan to host the taliban, and the afghan government, at camp david, just days before the 9/11 anniversary. >> it was a useful effort to try and get all of those parties in one place, so that we could have serious conversations about how to reduce america's risk. >> the president dramatically called off the meeting after the taliban admitted to a car bombing in kabul. that killed army first class sergeant, the 16th u.s. combat death this year in afghanistan. how many more decades are they willing to fight, the president tweeted?

i'm ayman mohyeldin. >>> vice president joe biden lays out his vision for civil rights after debate performancetions. and michael bennet joins me to talk about his campaign as some candidates try to pull the party forth to the left. later from sea to warming sea, we travel to the pacific northwest where sea temperatures are rising, fish are

i'm ayman mohyeldin.ly asked the president of ukraine to investigate joe biden's son, hunter. and earlier today the president seemed to confirm that he did, in fact, talk about the bidens during that call. >> the conversation i had was largely congratulatory, was largely corruption, all of the corruption taking place, was largely the fact that we don't want our people, like vice president bideen and his son, creating to the corruption already in the ukraine. >> the president and his inner circle have never sounded quite so unapologetic, well, except for this time. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. >> all right. and this time. >> there's nothing wrong with taking information from russians. >> also this time. >> your campaign russia, china, someone else offers you information should they accept it or call the fbi? >> i think maybe you do both. i think you might want to listen. there's nothing wrong with listening. if somebody called from a country

i'm ayman mohyeldin. >>> vice president joe biden lays out his vision for civil rights after debate performanceaised big questions. and michael bennet joins me to talk about his campaign as some candidates try to pull the party forth to the left. later from sea to warming sea, we travel to the pacific northwest where sea temperatures are rising, fish are moving farther north, and the hunt for america's seafood gets more and more dangerous. >>> also, it seemed like we got mixed messages from house leadership this week about where exactly the impeachment process stands in. just a few minutes i am going to talk to congresswoman sheila jackson lee as the number of democrats calling for impeachment continues to grow. last week political reporter natasha bertrand joined this show live. since then she has added layer upon layer of detail about american servicemen and women staying at a resort belonging to president trump. she is back with us tonight. >>> also i'm going to get some insight from former secretary of the air force deborah lee james to find out whether this is actually normal or not. and w

i'm yasmin vossoughian with ayman mohyeldin. "morning joe" starts right now. >>> where were you? >> i was by my cousin's house and that was the only roof in the neighborhood that stayed on. it was like 80 people there. and then my grandma we had to get her out of the house because her roof came off. it was just -- the pressure, the tornados, it was awful. everything is just -- everything's destroyed. everything is flattened. if it was not flattened it's just structure. people don't have homes, people don't have food. i never experienced anything like that in my life. i pray nobody ever has to again. >> a look at the aftermath of hurricane dorian in the bahamas. the death toll there is now at 30 and officials stress the number is likely to rise dramatically. "morning joe's" medical contributor dr. dave campbell will have a report straight ahead. meanwhile, the storm is lashing north carolina. and the number one concern at the moment is flash flooding. more than 6 million people are under flood watches and it's still pouring in many areas. more than 290,000 homes are currently with

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. "morning joe" starts right now. >>> we have budgets since we came into the administration, since the election, 2016, since january 20th of 2017. >> is he okay? just 19 words, but they seemed really tough to get out. >> i thought it was sort of like -- >> what's going on there? >> good morning, everybody. definitely not that. welcome -- >> that was random, but i liked it. >> yeah. it was very wayward. it's tuesday, september 3rd. with us we have -- >> shouldn't we come in with like boston and more than a feeling for radio free tom? i woke up this morning and the summer is gone. >> the hurricane or perhaps the poland, congratulations, congratulations to poland. >> because there was a lot to congratulate them for donny deutsch. september 1st, you know, 1939, on that day for the next 50 years they were enslaved by nazis or communists so i can understand why the president said congratulations on the anniversary. >> that makes sense. a landmark day, something that the president would point

. >>> that does it for us on this wednesday morning, i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. "morning joe" starts right now. >> thank you very much. >> thanks for coming, and it's good to finally meet you. >> mr. secretary, can you take questions? >> mr. ambassador? >>> jim mattis joked that he was meeting the devil incarnate when john bolton joined the administration last year, now they're both gone. gone. and no one knows what comes next. good morning, and welcome to "morning joe." it is wednesday, september 11th. along with joe, willie and me, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, juournalist alease la visit. president of the council on foreign relations and author of the book "a world in disarray" richard haass and carol lee. a lot to get to on this 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. president trump finds himself searching for his fourth national security adviser in three years. we're going to have 9/11 coverage throughout the morning leading up to the moment of silence at the moment that the first plane hit the north tower, and tom brokaw was reporting on the air

. >> i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. "morning joe" starts right now. >>> good morning, and welcome to "morning joe," it is wednesday, september 4th. with us, we have white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan la mere, and author of the book, disarray. >> we came back. >> and the yankees. >> the season is just beginning. >> oh, my god. >> for the astros. >> we'll talk about the astros. >> i heard, i heard. >> also with us, former treasury official. >> the mets have had their run. the mets have had their run. >> my son thinks they still have a shot at the second wild card spot, but it is not going to happen. >> how do you recover from that last night. >> that was rough last night. >> former treasury official, steve rattner and washington bureau chief and author of the matriarch, susan page. great to have you all this morning. we're going to start with news and politics. we're going to start with the hurricane, a little bit of music, that's fine, we can do that, but everything in its proper context and place. h