i'm betty nguyen alongside alex witt and louis burgdorf. all those stories, plus a new champion in the wnba, and we are going to share part of a powerful post game speech you won't want to miss, believe me. >>> first, donald trump and hillary clinton came together last night, this at the annual alfred e. smith dinner, the catholic church's annual event in new york city benefiting children in need, where they were seated on opposite sides of cardinal timothy dolan. the dinner has become a tradition for the candidates to poke fun at themselves and each other in the midst of a heated campaign, and despite the unusually brutal tone of the debates, this year was no exception. >> cardinal dolan and i have some things in common. for instance, we both run impressive properties on fifth avenue. of course, his is much more impressive than mine. that's because i built mine with my own beautifully formed hands. and even tonight, with all of the heated back and forth between my opponent and me at the debate last night, we have proven that we can actuall

i'm alex witt alongside betty nguyen. are set to begin today on the east coast of the united states. as hurricane matthew makes its way through haiti and into the bahamas. the governor of south carolina has activated the national guard and unless there's a dramatic change evacuations impacting about a quarter of the state's population are set to begin around 3:00 p.m. today. airlines are issuing travel waivers and president obama has cancelled plans to campaign in florida for hillary clinton. matthew is leaving haiti behind but not before bringing intense winds and massive flooding. matthew just made contact with the eastern tip of cuba, almost 53 years to the day after hurricane flora killed 2,000 people on that island nation. now the storm is affecting the dominican republic and the bahamas before it makes its way to the eastern seaboard. let's go to nbc's bill karins to get e very latest. where is it now? >> we just got the new update. there's been some changes overnight. some forecasts have improved and some have gott

i'm betty nguyen alongside alex witt and louis burgdorf.ld trump tweeted up a storm today. he really did. he he lashed out at a number of republicans, the ones distancing themselves from him. he called paul ryan a weak and ineffective leader and called john mccain foul mouth and said democrats are more loyal than republicans are. he tweeted this. it's so nice that shackles have been taken off me and i can now fight for america the way i want to. this is how he's been behaving with the shackles on? [ applause ] >> good point. good morning. it's wednesday, october 12th. >> shackles are coming off. i'm excited. >> it's about time. >> put them back on. >> we're going to have a campaign worth watching.

i'm alex witt along scythe betty nguyen and louis burgdorf.e begin with the speech many people can mark a turning point in the election, campaigning in new hampshire yesterday, michelle obama warned in stark and personal terms against electing donald trump, referring to only to him as hillary clinton's opponent. the first lady called trump's comments about women over the years cruel and frightening. she said she couldn't just continue with the normal campaign speech after the developments with trump after this last week. >> i have to tell you that i listened to all of this and i feel it so personally, and i'm sure that many of you do, too, particularly the women. the shameful comments about our bodies. the disrespect of our ambitions and intellect, the belief that you can do anything you want to a woman. it is cruel. it's frightening. and the truth is, it hurts. it hurts. it reminds us of stories we heard from our mothers and grandmothers about how back in their day the boss could say and do whatever he pleased to the women in the office and e

i'm betty nguyen alongside alex witt. with eight days to go, the bomb shell announcement has rocked the presidential campaign. last night the fbi obtained a warrant to begin reviewing newly recovered e-mails as they race to learn if they are tied to clinton's case, an inquiry that was completed in july with no charges filed, despite a stinging assessment that clinton was extremely careless. then on friday comey sent a letter to congress informing them, "in connection with an unrelated case the fbi have learned of the existence of e e-mails. i agreed the fbi should take steps to allow investigators to review these e-mails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as assess their importance to our investigation." soon after law enforcement officials revealed the discovery was from a laptop shared by huma abedin and anthony weiner. the fbi began investigating the former congressman in september for an unrelated case, allegedly sending inappropriate text messages and pictures to an underaged female. we

i'm betty nguyen alongside alex witt, louis burgdorf.ts right now. >>> secretary clinton, now, to ongoing issue for your campaign. wikileaks has been releasing your campaign e-mails. many of which raise some serious questions. >> thank you for bringing up my e-mails, chris. i'm very happy to clarify what was in some of them. i'm sorry, what, carol? i thought i heard my friend, carol. back to your question about the way donald treats women and that is how you pivot. >> so you're just never going to answer a question about your e-mails? >> no. but it was very cute to watch you try. >> mr. trump, in the last week 11 women accuse you of

i'm betty nguyen alongside louis burgdorf.ow. >> got my name right. >> i did. >> the affordable care act is not affordable. what will you do to bring the costs down and make coverage better? >> ken, that's a great question. i agree that obama care can be improved, ken, but, ken, it does have its benefits. number one, insurance companies can't deny you coverage because of an existing condition. number two, no lifetime limits, which, you know, is a big deal if you have serious health problems, and number three -- sorry. i thought i -- number three, women can't be charged more than -- thought i -- women can't be charged more than

i'm betty nguyen alongside alex witt and louis burgdorf. >> on capitol hill congressional republicans wrestled with what to do about donald trump, this time less than a month until election day. speaker paul ryan said he will not defend his party's nominee saying his focus will be on preserving the republican majority in the house. this led the associated press to begin its report, house speaker paul ryan is all but conceding hillary clinton will be the next president. meanwhile, republican members like dana rohrabacher of california blasted ryan and those abandoning trump as cowardly and gutless. minutes later, ryan got back on the conference call to assert that he was not unendorsing trump, as some other leaders have. in response, the clinton campaign posted on twitter, "ryan is still endorsing trump." later, donald trump himself tweeted, paul ryan should spend more time on balancing the budget, jobs, and illegal immigration and not waste his time on fighting republican nominee. >> a different approach on the other side of capitol hill where majority leader mitch mcconnell is keepin

we have a lot to show you with morning, i'm betty nguyen alongside alex witt. the strongest hurricane to hit the u.s. coast in a decade is showing signs of weakening, downgraded overnight to a category 3. the danger, though, has not subsided as the eye wall is just five miles off the coastline. florida residents are bracing for landfall from a storm that is about to push along the i-95 corridor from cape canaveral to jacksonville. after speaking individually from governors along the southern atlantic coast, president obama signed emergency declarations in florida, georgia, and south carolina as the storm approached. the president also spoke with governor pat mccrory in north carolina, activating federal and local responders, but the most massive action has taken place in florida, where wind gusts have reached 88 miles an hour near satellite beach, 71 miles per hour in vero beach, and 74 miles per hour to the north of bear foot bay, which is the first to reach hurricane strength. florida governor rick scott urged the 1.5 million residents in the storm's path to

good morning, everyone, it is monday, october 10th, i'm alex witt alongside betty nguyen and louis burgdorf hillary clinton winning last night's raucous debate 57 to 34, but 63% said trump did better than they expected. the candidates dispensed with niceties like shaking hands and quickly the town hall turned to the leak tape of donald trump talking to billy bush. >> you described kissing women without consent, grabbing their genitals. that is sexual assault. you bragged you have sexually assaulted women. do understand that? >> i didn't say that at all. i don't think you understood. this was locker room talk. i'm not proud of it. i apologized to my family and the american people. certainly, i'm not proud of it, but this is locker room talk. when we have a world where you have isis chopping off heads, and, frankly, drowning people in steel cages. >> just for the record, though, are you saying what you said on that bus 11 years ago, that you did not actually kiss women without consent or grope women without consent? >> i have great respect for women, nobody has more respect for women than i d

i'm betty nguyen alongside alex witt and louis burgdorf. two weeks left until election day.ew national poll shows donald trump outside the margin of error against hillary clinton. showing clinton at 49% in a four-way race. trump at 44%. gary johnson dropped 4 points to 3%. jill stein at 2 points. in a two-way race, clinton has a six-point at van, 51-45. monmouth university poll shows a deadlocked race in north carolina. trump 47%, trump 46%. in battleground nevada, 7 points separate the candidates in the "las vegas review journal poll," clinton at 48%, donald trump at 41%. donald trump tweeting, major stories that the dems are making up phony polls in order to suppress the trump vote. we are going to win. then later talking to local radio in north carolina and on the campaign trail florida he contended the race is neck and neck. >> i think we're going to have a brexit situation. you know that one was behind in the polls and i guess i'm somewhat behind in the polls but not by much. i think we have a much greater -- a tremendous enthusiasm, much greater enthusiasm than she as.

i'm betty nguyen alongside alex witt and louis burgdorf. vice presidential debant, senator tim kaine of virginia will debate indiana's republican governor mike pence for a chance to be a heartbeat away from the oval office, only the 10th vice presidential debate in american history, a the long wood university in farmville, virginia. a town 3 1/2 hours south of washington tial population thousa 8,000. nine topics with approximately ten minutes for each. tonight's candidates are little known. a recent poll found 46% of adults could not name kaine, 41% did not know pence. but the two have a lot in common. the men are about the same age. kaine is 58, pence is 57. both had catholic upbringingings and graduated from law school. both have served as governors and worked on capitol hill -- pence in the house, kaine in the senate. both have sons who are active duty officers in the marine corps. both have been preparing. washington's super lawyer bob barnett played pence during kaine's debate prep. he's worked the democrats for practically every major

i'm betty nguyen.ith the election less than a month away and already more than half a million ballots cast, late last night came a wave of stories accusing donald trump of unwanted and inappropriate touching. rachel crooks tells "the new york times" she was a 22-year-old receptionist working in trump tower. in the case of jessica leads, she told "the times" she met trump 35 years ago while sitting in first class on a flight. she accuses him of touching her after the dinner trays were cleared. >> he was like an octopus. he was all over the place. if he had stuck with the upper part of the body, i might not have gotten that upset. when he started putting his hand up my skirt, that was it. that was it. i was out of there. >> both women say they support hillary clinton and leads says she hopes her story makes a difference in the election. nbc news, though, has not confirmed the allegations. the trump campaign told nbc news the article was fiction and trivialized sexual assault. trump's lawyer went even fur

i'm alex witt along side betty nguyen.e night brought what other debates were missing, at times what could pass for a discussion over specific policy. the night's first section in particular served as a litmus test on key supreme court issues from the second amendment to abortion. >> i will be appointing pro-life judges. i would think that will go back to the individual states. >> but i'm asking you specifically, would you like -- >> if they overturned it, it'll go back to the states. >> i strongly support roe v. wade, which guarantees a constitutional right to a woman to make the most intimate, most difficult in many cases, decisions about her health care that one can imagine. he even supported shutting the government down to defund planned parenthood. indeed, he said women should be punished, that there should be some form of punishment for women who obtain abortions. i could just not be more opposed to that kind of thinking. >> they also discussed their stance on regulating abortions performed in the third term of pregn

i'm betty nguyen alongside alex witt.onald trump's campaign continues to wrestlingle with the bomb shell story this weekend in the "new york times" which reported that trump could have legally avoided paying taxes for nearly two decades after declaring a $916 million loss in 1995. three docents were mailed anonymously to the paper last month. t now according to the "times" their authenticity was support by the accountant who handled trump's returns and listed on the new jersey form. trump has not publicly said what information his tax returns contain though he's said as recent as wednesday that he's paid federal income tax. his campaign said in part mr. trump has paid hundreds of millions of dollars in property taxes, sales, real estate tax, city taxes, state taxes, employee taxes and federal taxes along with very substantial charitable contributions. trump posted on saturday i know our complex tax laws better than anyone who has ever run for president and am the only one who can fix them. bernie sanders responded for hil

. >>> i am betty nguyen with top stories of james comey may have broken the law by announcing the newsllary clinton's e-mails. now, lets back to other news. >>> a hazardous team confiscated of items. reso disappeared yesterday. this case is handled under the assumption of foul play. >> the s.w.a.t. team is still in place and parents are waiting to get words. >> murder, kidnapping. hostages. major stories playing out of america while all eyes are raging in la. >> at least 27 people are now dead since it all began following the acquittal of four police officer of the rodney king beating trial. >> there were still a lot of hot spots but the authorities were better organizati better organized and my assignment was we got word that rodney was going to make a statement. enormous media gathered around this podium because we have not heard from him. >> i want to say, can we all get along? >> can we get along? >> initially, that was not what he was supposed to say. he was given a script to read. he felt it was necessary to speak from his heart >> please, we can all get along here. we are all st

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learn more at chase.com/ink >>> i'm betty nguyen with the hour's top stories.our bus returning to los angeles from a casino rear-ended a semi truck north of palm springs. 31 people were injured. and a busy sunday on the campaign trail. donald trump rallying voters in naples, florida, the first day of a three-day swing through the state. hillary clinton making two stops in north carolina. now it's back to "dateline: extra." >>> welcome back to "dateline extra." i'm tamron hall. homeowner markus kaarma told police he was living in a state of fear, but his answers raised more questions. what really happened in that garage, and what was diren dede doing there in the first place? to find out more, they needed to learn more about the german exchange student. here is josh mankiewicz with "deadly exchange." >> reporter: when he was killed in a neighbor's garage, exchange student diren dede was just two months away from returning to his family in germany. the man who shot him said he feared for his life. and from diren's best friend robby, police learned the teen did en

. >>> i'm betty nguyen with the top stories. investigators are piecing together what caused a tour bus crash in palm springs, california. 13 people died when the bus rear ended a tractor trailer. they were returning from a casino. 31 other p em were hurt. >>> campaigning for her in north las vegas sunday night, clinton leads trump in polls. now back to other news. >>> we're so grateful for your support. we understand we can't do it alone. >> we're going to win this election and win the future for american families. >> there were so many headlines that could have come out of november 7th. the death of a senate candidate, a goveor, by itself that would have been a huge story. obviously, we thought we would have a president. that's a pretty big headline. hillary clinton, that she put her hat in the ring to run for senate from new york, but then the biggest story can no longer become the biggest story in a matter of seconds. >> as the election dominates the headlines, the manhunt for drug fugitive william leonard pickard stretches i

i'm betty nguyen alongside alex witt, louis burgdorf. "morning joe" starts right now. >>> secretary clinton, now, to ongoing issue for your campaign. wikileaks has been releasing your campaign e-mails. many of which raise some serious questions. >> thank you for bringing up my e-mails, chris. i'm very happy to clarify what was in some of them. i'm sorry, what, carol? i thought i heard my friend, carol. back to your question about the way donald treats women and that is how you pivot. >> so you're just never going to answer a question about your e-mails? >> no. but it was very cute to watch you try. >> mr. trump, in the last week 11 women accuse you of sexually assaulting them. do you still deny each of those claims? >> chris, of course i do. i'm completely innocent. i've said this before and i'll say it again. nobody has more respect for women than i do. >> all right. all right. settle down. settle down. settle down, entire planet. settle down. >> another good one. "snl" hitting it out of the park. welcome to "morning joe," everyone. it'

i'm betty nguyen alongside alex witt and louis burgdorf. "morning joe" starts right now. >> donald trump tweeted up a storm today. he really did. he he lashed out at a number of republicans, the ones distancing themselves from him. he called paul ryan a weak and ineffective leader and called john mccain foul mouth and said democrats are more loyal than republicans are. he tweeted this. it's so nice that shackles have been taken off me and i can now fight for america the way i want to. this is how he's been behaving with the shackles on? [ applause ] >> good point. good morning. it's wednesday, october 12th. >> shackles are coming off. i'm excited. >> it's about time. >> put them back on. >> we're going to have a campaign worth watching. >> took the shackles off him last night. >> i don't think i want to know about your personal life. >> with us on set, we've got veteran columnist and msnbc contributor -- >> a legend. >> managing editor of bloomberg politics mark halperin. and in nashville, tennessee, pulitzer prize winner jon meacham. less

i'm betty nguyen alongside alex witt and louis burgdorf. "morning joe" starts right now. >> i would like to address an important religious matter. the issue of going to confession. or as hillary calls it, the fourth of july weekend with fbi director comey. >> people look at the statue of liberty and they see a proud symbol of our history of a nation of immigrants, a beacon of hope for people around the world. donald looks at the statue of liberty and sees a four. maybe a five if she loses the torch and tablet and changes her hair. >> good morning. it is friday, october 21st. >> didn't go really as expected. >> you got to know your crowd. we'll have more of that coming up. with us on set, msnbc political contributor rick tyler and political writer for "the new york times" nick confessore. >> reminds me of correspondents dinner that didn't know the crowd and sat there and stared. >> awkward. >> trump started out -- he's not good at that. let's just say that. that requires self-deprecation. >> he had a small hands joke. >> he had a small hands

. >> and that's a wrap for us on this friday, i'm alex witt alongside betty nguyen and >> it reminds us of stories we've heard from our mothers and grandmothers about how back in their day the boss could say and do whatever he pleased to the women in the office and even though they worked so hard, jumped over every hurdle to prove themselves, it was never enough. we thought all of that was ancient history, didn't we? and so many have worked for so many years to end this kind of violence and abuse and disrespect, but here we are in 2016, and we're hearing these exact same things every day on the campaign trail. we are drowning in it. >> if you want to hear the best case for hillary clinton, you want to hear the very real stakes in this election, i would advise you to link up to michelle's speech from earlier today in new hampshire. she was pretty good. i mean, that's why you get married to improve your gene pool so your kids end up being superior to you. >> we were just talking. willie asked how many points do we think barack obama would be up if he were in this race. >> 20 i think we

i'm alex witt alongside betty nguyen and louis there's a fundamental choice for the american electorate. do you want your hired president in hillary clinton or fired president in donald trump. >> you use that a whole lot. i think you're running mate used a lot of predo lines. >> when governor pence was in congress, he was chief cheerleader for privatization of social security. >> a chance to explain. >> there they go again. >> donald trump can't start a twitter war with miss universe without shooting himself in the foot. he loves dictators. a personal mt. rushmore. >> did you work on that one a long time? that had a lot of really creative lines in it. >> good morning. it's wednesday, october 5th. welcome to "morning joe." with us on set, we have veteran columnist and msnbc contributor mike barnicle. nicole wallace working all night and in richmond, virginia, manage pg editor of bloomberg politics, co-host of "with all due respect" on msnbc, mark halperin. >> mark halperin, who won the debate? >> the american people. even honest democrats would say tim kaine had some good moments but not

alongside betty nguyen and louis burgdorf. "morning joe" starts right now. >> just start kissing them. it's like a magnet. and when you're a star, they let you do it. you can do anything. >> i'm out. i can no longer in good conscience endorse this person for president. conscience endorse this person for president. >> i respectfully ask you with all due respect to step aside. step down. allow someone else to carry the banner of these principles. >> i believe our only option is to formally ask mr. trump to step down. >> anyone that knows me knows these words don't reflect who i am. i said it. i was wrong. and i apologize. >> let me just start off by saying there is a bit of an elephant in the room. and it is a troubling situation. >> i've said some foolish things, but there's a big difference between the words and actions of other people. bill clinton has actually abused women and hillary has bullied, attacked, amed and intimidated his victims. >> the things she has said and have been reported in various books and magazines and

i'm betty nguyen alongside louis burgdorf. "morning joe" starts right now. >> got my name right. >> i did. >> the affordable care act is not affordable. what will you do to bring the costs down and make coverage better? >> ken, that's a great question. i agree that obama care can be improved, ken, but, ken, it does have its benefits. number one, insurance companies can't deny you coverage because of an existing condition. number two, no lifetime limits, which, you know, is a big deal if you have serious health problems, and number three -- sorry. i thought i -- number three, women can't be charged more than -- thought i -- women can't be charged more than men for health insurance. okay? and number four -- ah! >> i seriously -- i'm obsessed with her. is that okay? >> she's amazing. >> she's a savant. >> there's another part where she goes let me -- let me lean over here like i practiced. >> good morning, everyone. >> do you have children? >> no. >> are you a teacher? >> no. >> do you like children? it. >> no. >> have you seen c

i'm alex witt betty nguyen and "morning joe" starts right now. >>> the minute that tape came out hurricane matthew just disappeared from television. the only channel that continued their round of clock coverage was fox news because they didn't want to talk about the trump tape. even the weather channel was like the hell with this, let's go with the trump tape. >> the only person mentioning disaster on a national level is donald trump. >> obama care is a disaster. >> the education is a disaster. >> what that's going to do is a disaster. >> perhaps the greatest disaster. >> iraq was a disaster. >> i think aleppo is a disaster. >> obama care is a disaster which would be a disaster. >> it is a disaster. >> take a look at her senate run, take a look at upstate new york. your two minutes is up no disaster. >> a disaster. >> disaster. >> good morning. the whole thing is a disaster. >> disaster. >> tuesday october 11th. welcome to "morning joe." with us we have veteran columnist and msnbc -- >> good morning. >> mike barneycle. >> and the managing editors of bloomberg politics and co-hosts that air

i'm betty nguyen alongside week ago what is the end game for donald trump? can he pull off the most spectacular upset in election history or has his unprecedented campaign hit an impregnable wall? >> with just over two weeks to go until election day and early voting already happening in many states, hillary clinton leads in the polls leading some republicans to worry about a route. >> while it's too early to declare this election over, remember tom brokabrokaw's ufo theory. >> how close to over is this? >> donald trump could have won this race. >> the head of the fbi dropped a bomb in the race for president this afternoon. one that has the trump campaign celebrating and the clinton camp scratching its head. >> i know that we've got to keep our foot on the gas. donald trump says he can still win, and you know, he's right. anything can happen in an election. >> and anything has over and over again for two years now. >> good morning, everyone. it's monday. >> can you believe how big the news was this weekend? >> it was huge. >> nobody -- i'm sorry. nobody saw t

i'm betty nguyen. this morning hurricane matthew is barrelling towards the southeastern united states after leaving a 2r5i68 of destruction in the caribbean. starting today it is expected to hammer parts of eastern florida which are heading up the coast to georgia and the carolinas. millions of people living along coastal areas have been ordered to evacuate. in areas of the caribbean and haiti, a key bridge was washed away in the storm and several other roads became impassable due to flooding. at least 25 deaths across the caribbean have been blamed on the storm. for more on hurricane matthew i'm joined by bill karins and tammy leitner live in the bahamas. bill, let's start with you. what's the latest on the hurricane's tract. >> good morning, betty. this is harrowing times. a lot has changed overnight in the forecast, intensity especially. the hurricane's path, i'm just digesting the brand-new forecast path in the center here. so here's where the storm is located currently right now. hurricane hunters