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. >> mika and joe, good morning to you. i saw the plume of smoke myself earlier this morning just down this highway that leads northeast from houston to the town of beaumont. so i can also tell you that ten deputies have gone to the hospital, nine of them, i saw them zoom out of here driving themselves. another had to be taken to the hospital. they were complaining of heavy and dizziness after apparently breathing in fumes closer to the plant where we are. flooding from hurricane harvey knocked out the power to this plant, the power and two backup sources as well. you can only reach the plant by boat because of the floodings that still there. plant officials saying they can't stop this from happening. people who live within a mile and a half from this plant have been evacuated for days. it's now a wait-and-watch situation and we'll see more of what happens as the sun comes up. >> thank you very much. we're going to go to bill karins for the latest. >> unfortunately, one more day of serious weather will develop, no into tenn

trump accused mika brzezinski of getting plastic surgery.cause that's the only thing covered by his health care plan. [ laughter and applause ] >> steve: hey-o! ho! hey! >> jimmy: i saw that yesterday "sesame street" aired a segment about refugees right before trump's travel ban went into effect. after which trump made fun of big bird for getting a beak job. [ light laughter ] "he's not fooling anyone. he's not fooling anyone." [ light laughter ] "mr. president, it's not for your hair." "sure, it is." [ light laughter ] but there's a lot going on in washington right now. president trump is working on health care, immigration, and tax reform. and to make sure he doesn't forget anything, trump actually likes to set reminders on his iphone. i'll show you what i mean. for example, he has one reminder that says "photoshop myself on to a fakcover 'playgirl'." >> steve: wow. [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: his next reminder says "find out what day we celebrate the fourth of july." [ laughter and applause ] "what day is it again? the third? this

this is nearly a federal offense, mika. >> i'm going to parse everything. >> let's go to -- >> lou dare you! >> parse! let's talk sports. i'm sorry, alex. i got to know. yankees or red sox? who is going to win the east? >> red sox. >> why? >> i think their pitching is better. >> what about the yankees? >> they've done a lot better than i thought they would. as a mets fan that absolutely pains me. but nonetheless they've done a lot better. their young players have performed. they've stayed predominantly healthy and they've had a good year. but in the end, my view the yankees do not have enough pitching to compete in the postseason. >> when is the last time you've seen a baseball team as dominant as the los angeles dodgers. >> the 1986 new york jets. >> shut up! shut up. >> 1986 mets. i still remember the straw hat. i don't mean to do that to poor barnicle. >> he did that at the mets game once. >> mike, what team most dominant team going back? >> you know, the torre yankee teams of the late '90s were pretty dominant, '97, '98

>> well, mika, it's real news. it's not fake news.exhaustive reporting that my colleagues and i did with a number of advisors from a number of walks of life who are involved in this in different ways. we're very confident in our reporting and sourcing, and i don't know what went through the president's mind at the time. i can only say that he personally intervened. there were advisors advocating more transparent and more complete response that we get at the facts of the meeting and the president wanted to be incomplete. he wanted to be misleading and that's what the initial statement was. when air force one landed that evening in washington, everyone involved in this decision knew that they'd have to be dealing with this story for many days to come. they knew the statement that the president dictated that went out under trump junior's name was not going to be enough to put this to rest. it's the decision the president made himself. >> it also symbolizes the job for the new chief of staff, because you have lots of people advising the p

mika of course you know where mika is?pse. >> she went up to saratoga where her horse naturally won. guess what she did with the money? >> bought eclipse glasses. >> is there no carly simon? >> i don't know the rest of the song. >> she blew her winnings. she went to nova scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun. >> who is that song about, warren beatty? >> i don't know. anyway it's carly simon. it was war rinne beatty or mick jagg jagger. >> he sings backup vocals. it's 6:00, 10:00 after. is this mika telling me, she said "start talking." i guess i will. i don't understand this solar eclipse thing. everybody is like you come once every 40, 50 years? >> it's coming in five years. >> in five years? okay it was a long time. it was like '79, right, was the

mika is bleeding all over her face. here's a picture, oh, she's looking lovely.old me to try to kill the story. i'm sitting there reading it and it's all of these lies. wait, why would you lie about something that was so easily disproven. show me the white house records, i never called, it never happened. we're going to get to the boy scouts. that's another thing. boy scouts said it was the bettysbubett gettysburg address. no, you're lying. sarah huckabee sanders says nobody just walks into the white house, the oval office. yeah, they do. glen thrush, says i don't think, sarah -- >> that was a very bad imitation of sarah. >> no, i was imitating glen thrush. >> don't play victim. >> people are just wandering in. they lie about things that can be disproven. it's like jack having a cookie in his hand and crumbs all over his face. jack, you shouldn't have had a cookie before dinner. chocolate chips flying all over the place. jack would never do that, by the way. that's the level of these lies. >> and they do them on levels high and low, issues big and small. big, the

yesterday mika sent you on a mission. to lawmakers on capitol hill about the president. what did you find? >> it was a good question she had. i have at times asked simple questions, democrats faced some tough ones in 2014 when asked to defend then president barack obama, and i think this is another example of president trump putting members of his own party in a a little bit of a tough spot. take a look. >> reporter: do you think that president trump is honest? there have been questions about his phone calls with the boy scouts and with others? >> i know you all like talking about whether or not he actually received the phone call, i'm not going down that road. most people don't think he's honest, if you believe this poll. he's got an image problem he needs to deal with. >> reporter: do you think the president is an honest man? >> yes, i do. i think he has a good time sometimes, but i think basically on very important issue, he's very honest. >> reporter: do you think the president is an honest man? >> um, yes. >> reporte

mika, of course, in the field.t reaction to the latest jobs report. with us we've got the host of deadline the white house, 4:00 p.m. on msnbc, nicole walla wallace. also political writer for the times, nick, steve rattner, noah rothman, kasie hunt, and let's bring in political reporter for the washington post and the moderator of "washington week" robert costa. and jennifer jacobs. let's start out with the changes inside the white house. as general tilly begins his second week as chief of staff. there are early signs of a culture shift. kelly has moved quickly to move the unchecked flow of paperwork crossing the president's desk and instituted a formal process for meeting with the president of the united states. he's restructured the staff by putting ivanka and jared kushner under hirms, and staffers can no longer squeeze in an audience of the president by loitering hoping they will catch the president's eye. kelly has also reportedly assured both jeff sessions and h.r. mccasters about their future within the admi

>> good morning, mika.more exposed to texas like anadarko petroleum were some of the hardest hit stocks in yesterday's session on the back of flooding in the nation's energy capital. the biggest impact you will feel and we are seeing is on gasoline prices which continue to surge this morning. already the national average for the price we pay at the pump $2.36 this week, four cents higher than last week. analysts say it could climb another 15 to 20 cents in the coming weeks. the problem is a lot of these refineries where the oil is made into fuel are shut down. we're talking 2 to 3 million barrels per day in refining capacity because of the flooding. it will take a while for that to come back online. oil prices are down but gas prices are high. so we'll watch the energy companies besides those, we saw a big impact on insurance companies. they were also big losers in the session yesterday because the fear is this is going to be very costly in terms of claims. in fact, jpmorgan this morning put a number on tha

stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. >> thanks, mika. hi, there. i'm stephanie ruhle.e businessman president losing his businessmen, forced to dissolve who two advisory councils to cover the fact that those business leaders already dumped him. >> i'm endorsed by some of the greatest business people in the world. >> more cities, more statues. the calls for removal of confederate memorials drawing protesting around the country. >> those people now

. >> the nice thing about him is he'll criticize mika and joe, but won't call the audit of mika and joe. >> oh, my god. chris, that's -- >> he just lets it hang out. >> he's such a blessing. >> look, we voted for it. >> actually, 94% of black -- >> it was a big electoral college victory. i think the president has some support. think he will reach out. i think he's creating a negotiating position. >> thank you for not calling the irs. we appreciate that. >> a lot of democrats saying in the wake of the pardon was that really was a signal to anyone who might be a target of robert mueller's investigation, i've got your back. >> well, yes. and here's why. the process piece of this that should be concerns to people is is one, he sought out his attorney general to see if he could get rid of this nasty piece of legal business against his political friend. and two, the department of justice was not remotely involved in the pardon. they have said that. that is what is very different from past presidents. it furthers this he doesn't think. he's all powerful. the checks and planss in place for deca

mika o yang is with us.taffer for house intel on the hill where jeremy bash worked in addition to being an attorney and cia. mr. schmidt, i would like to start with you by playing this bit from the president. we'll talk about it on the other side. >> have you ever thought about or considered leading the dismissal of the special counsel? is there anything he could do to send you in that direction? >> i haven't given it any thought and you say, i'm going to dismiss i'm. i'm not dismissing anybody. >> so, michael, like the modernization of the fleet of our nuclear weapons, sometimes it's as if the president forgets that we know better in some of these cases. we have heard him discuss the possible dismissal of robert mueller, correct? >> correct. what the president said is not true. even one of his close confidants, chris ruddy came out in june and said the president was considering doing that. the white house didn't really knock down those reports and he has openly discussed this. he is very concerned about mue

mika? >> prayers for the people of texas.ely dysfunctional. but i am looking for leadership in mattis, tillerson, and republican leaders, and i'm hoping. >> i'm hopeful. i think we of seen a lot of that, but again, my hope, i just -- i agree with what everybody's said here. it doesn't come out of washington, d.c. you see it in places like houston, texas, and right now across the gulf coast. western gulf coast. and this happens all the time. >> yeah. >> we see it all the time. we saw it in katrina. we saw it in 9/11 in the most dramatic ways. for some reason, for 20 years washington, d.c., has actually encouraged hyperpartisanship and has exaggerated the differences between people across america. we of been saying that for a decade now. >> yep. >> and we see it first hand every day. so with all the suffering and with the tragedy that's been happening this weekend, there is a silver lining that i think a lot of us have seen. >> and that does it for us for now this morning. jans janua chris jansing continues the breaking news co

. >> good to see you again, mika. hi, there. i'm stephanie ruhle with a lot to cover today starting with "the washington post" bombshell that the president's lawyers call fake news. how involved was president trump in his son's misleading statement about why he met with a russian lawyer? >> if this is true that the president drafted a lie in connection with criminal investigation, he's got to go. >> is there any further information around anthony trump and the trump administration? now that he's out as communications director, why did you toss the mooch? >> thank you. >> and money, power, politics. attention turns to tax reform. but will the plan match the promise? >> we're going to be submitting a tax bill in the very near future. >> we're going to begin this morning with the trump administration trying to spin some good news on a wild 24 hours after bringing in a new chief of staff to clean up the white house, president trump tweeted aed inst all of that, think of the day we had yesterday, he tweeted a great day at the white h

. >> now is the time, mika, to be counted. >> step up. that does it for thus morning. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. >> thanks, mika. hi, there. i'm stephanie ruhle. this morning we have a lot to get through, starting with the businessman president losing his businessmen, forced to dissolve who two advisory councils to cover the fact that those business leaders already dumped him. >> i'm endorsed by some of the greatest business people in the world. >> more cities, more statues. the calls for removal of confederate memorials drawing protesting around the country. >> those people now desecrating the historical monuments. they need to get a life and go on. >> and did steve bannon pull a scaramucci 2.0 and accidentally go on the record with a reporter? >> i like mr. bannon. he's a friend of mine. >> we have to begin this morning with the biggest names in corporate america turning their backs on president trump in the wake of charlottesville. these are men and women that control half a trillion dollars in the u.s. and saying they can no longer work with t

mika, i'm unfamiliar with how this works. what is the significance of grand jury and what does it do? >> so, a grand jury allows a prosecutor to go deeper into an investigation. issue subpoenas, demand document, call witnesses for a full development of the record before they decide whether or not to charge someone with a crime or in certain cases of a grand jury issue a report about what's happened. it's important that this grand jury is in washington because they're only supposed to look at crimes that happened in their jurisdiction, in washington, where the white house is located, they look at crimes not just for flynn and manafort that might have happened in northern virginia but at the white house itself. >> so malcolm, when you look at this and the president continues to say it's just a hoax, who has to sign off on robert mueller getting to get this grand jury? >> well, i mean, this is all justice department. >> and the justice department is saying a-okay, we believe you're in the right to dig up this information. >> yea

. >> within minutes at that mika single ton was spotted with her family, desperately waving a white towel. >> i thought you all were going to pass us up because another helicopter had came and passed us up. we got so emotional. >> the navy and air force working together, lifting single ton to safety. then this moment as her son joins her. finally, her husband. the family safely reunited. >> when you were in that helicopter what were you thinking? >> thank you for saving us. >> i'm like so relieved now. you all just don't know. we're in dry land. we ain't walking in water. this is my mom. >> but single ton's mother, like so many others, is still stranded, desperate for help. >> my mom is still stuck in her house. please, somebody go get my momma out of there. she old and she can't move around like that. >> even for the lucky, safety almost seemed out of reach. whipping winds tossed rescue baskets. gentleman equity at that white clung to six-year-old bella. they thought the worst had already passed. >> we were watching how long go through and it actually having to go through it ourselves, l

mika has the morning off.c news has now confirmed that the u.s. intel assessment believes north korea now has the ability to miniature a nuclear weapon and attach it to a weapon. that does not necessarily mean pyongyang has a nuclear tipped icbm nor that it could survive reentry if the country did. that reported a response from president donald trump. >> north korea best not make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. he has been very threatening beyond a normal statement and as i said, they will be met with fire, fury and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before. thank you. >>> hours after president trump's warning north korea state media announced the regime is quote seriously considering a plan to strike the specific territory of guam creating a quote enveloping fire around the island. guam is home to major u.s. military ins tlagss including anderson air force base and the b1 bombers recently used in the show of forc

attacker james alex fields and the organizer of this weekend's roundly jason kestler play in this mika and tad were in washington also named neo nazi activist richard spencer in the lawsuit seeking three million dollars in damages general arrangements have been finalized for virginia state police pilot lieutenant j. h. colon and chipper pilot burke and bates who died in a helicopter crash while they were responding to the violence on saturday's rally the rally was in protest of removing the robert lee statue in charlottesville emancipation park. and better were moved overnight by the city of baltimore and this comes a weekend after days just days after the mayor katherine pugh announced that she would be removing them and many residents say that they were upset with her announcement that these statues shouldn't just be removed but instead destroyed here's our correspondent ashley banks with more. the sound of heavy machinery runs out between eleven thirty pm and five thirty this morning in baltimore as contractors a low didn't hold a confederate statues away from their post and attenda

. >> reporter: so mom, could mika mcnair, did her homework connecting her children's hospital mobile kline iic. >> who wants to go first. >> reporter: which searches about 4,000 kids in d.c. right now they're seeing kids for required checkups and dental screening, despite their ability to play. in southeast, staffers say the van is a hit. >> accessibility to health care for our children right here at our doorstep is huge. >> my 6-year-old, my 15-year-old came last week. >> reporter: another plus for clinic staff helping to answer question. >> we can see whether or not they have access to parks, recreation, what is the food resource like? are there grocery stores? >> reporter: justin finch, news4. >>> the mobile clinic accepts insurance, medicaid, even works with families who are uninsured. >>> go to our app and search for mobile clinic for effect on calahan drive. this change will allow you to park for longer than the current two-hour restriction. the meter race are about 12.50 an hour or daily max muppet of $15. >>> willie nelson says he's healthy, but last night it certainly wasn't

mika still in the south of france working very hard on location. we have columnist and contributor mike barnicle. rick tyler, elease jordan, harold ford jr., sam stein and columnist at the washington examine er examinered but are fascinating for a number of reasons. first of all, it's the lowest numbers ever in the cnn poll that he's ever had before. you're going to be talking about many harts of it. somebody tweeted last night six months approval ratings. trump 38. he ra sell -- really is -- not being facetious, he really is in a league of his own age 38. there's always somebody in the organizati organization. >> i just couldn't figure out why we kept talking about his base was stronger than ever. all the tweets yesterday. >> then he goes on and talks about the rally. it seems to be following a great deal. >> that number, joe, and i don't think the trust far, haven't had many peter wrote for mr. trump there is no vacation for greek and white house while president trump shows 38% approve of jim emsick points where while nearly half, 47% strongly di

so he goes off on mika or joe, or whatever the tweet is that morning.y is doing something to our national parks, or is ending funding to keep the great lakes clean or these other things. and we have to make sure we don't get distracted too much by his shiny keys and stay on top of this. ( applause ) in a way that-- it's a lot of work. >> stephen: now, you've got your broadway show right now. it is called michael moore on broadway "the terms of my surrender." so is this you giving up? are you-- are you waving the white flag and saying this is how the world is now? >> no, you're focusing on the wrong word. not "surrender" it's "terms." what are my terms. >> stephen: what are the terms of michael moore's surrender. >> you have to come see the show. i will tell you this. i will say this. i will say this. i refuse to live in a country where donald trump is president and i'm not leaving. so something's got to change. ( applause ) >> stephen: vote. you-- three and a half more years. >> well -- >> stephen: do you think he makes it another three and a half years

mika has the morning off. joe? went after the failing "new york times," which is actually doing better i think than it ever has been doing an extraordinary job. subscriptions are up, online is up, same thing with "the washington post." everybody is doing better in the press than ever before. gene robinson, i just want to go back to how self-defeating all of this is for donald trump. yes, we can be shocked and stunned. it is outrageous, it is deeply offensive but it would be one thing, gene, if donald trump was sitting at 50% using this hatred and spewing this bile, and if he was at 50%, 55%, and was getting no legislation through, then we could say he's balancing things here, even though he's offensive, at least he's playing to his own crowd so we can understand why he's doing this, even if it deeply offends us. in this case, gene, he's driving away any persuadables. there are no more persuadables. he's driving them away and he's getting nothing done and he has angered the most powerful man in washington, d.c., and

mika has the morning off. with us, we have david ignatius, mark halperin, washington bureau chief and associate editor of commentary magazine and jonathan la mere. last night as you know president trump unveiled it was billed as a new approach to afghanistan. the 30-minute speech marked a major policy reversal for donald trump who in the past has urged the united states to get out of afghanistan. >> my original instinct was to pull out and historically i like following my instincts, but all my life i've heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the oval office, in other words, when you're president of the united states. a core pillar of our new strategy is a shift from a time-based approach to one based on conditions. i've said it many times how counterproductive it is for the united states to announce in advance the dates we intend to begin or end military options. we will not talk about number of troops or our plans for further military activities. we are a partner and a friend,

joe and mika have the morning off. with us we have political analyst and professor of university of mitch public school of policy, former conman ford jr. now on msnbc political contributor ricketyler. the president of the council on foreign relations and author of a book "the world in disarray" and "new york times" reporter. good morning to you all. let's starts with the latest on this weekend's violence at that white nationalist rally in charlottesville. a man plowing a car into a crowd is expected to appear in court. james alex fields faces several charges. now 19 others were injured in the crash. uva headlights system says nine have been discharged and ten are in good condition. this is video of fields driving away from the scene of the crash. the suspect lives in ohio and traveled to charlottesville for the rally. his high school history teacher said fields sympathized with nazis and idolized adolf hitler. >>> two troopers died when their helicopter went down on saturday. officials say there's no indication of foul

mika has the morning off., catty k, jeremy peters, harold ford junior, and also heidi prizbel, and yamis h alsador and jonathan swan. let's start with the new nbc polls and how the president has disappointed voters in the three states the white house has considered his most important states since he first got sworn in on january 20th. michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. in michigan 36% of the voters approve of the president's job performance. 55% disapprove. pa shows 35% approving. 54% disapproving. wisconsin, 34% approve while 56% disapprove. the president has negative points of 19 in michigan and pennsylvania and 22 points in wisconsin. in each of the states more than 63% of the voters say they're embarrassed by the president's conduct. what's your take away? >> these are important states but politically but they're not so different from what the president is seeing around the country. presidents who have tough summers talk about comebacks in september. the white house will have to look at the numbers and

. >> mika, how long do you expect this to continue? >> this could go for years. that we have a grand jury that will run at least 18 months. the question is whether or not mueller has concluded his investigation by the end of that time, or whether or not he needs to start up again. there's a lot of evidence to sift through here. i don't think that people should expect immediate results in this investigation. >> i'm curious, there any sort of time limit that they have to get approval, if you will, to continue with the investigation? or can it just go on until they feel it's completed? >> i don't believe there's any time limit on the appointment of the special prosecutor, nor is there a reason why they couldn't imbalance a second grand jury, but i can't man that mueller wants it to drag on forever. i think there's a lot of people in the white house who would prefer it didn't drag on. >> mieke eoyang, thank you for joining us. >>> is the president officially picking sides after something he did late last night? (class) ewwww! (boy) sorry. (dad) don't worry about it.

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the vision of a society run with the consent of the government that seeks to matt mika where fail -- that's that seeks to maximize the welfare of those in the country is true in russia. don't want to return to the cold war and living on the precipice. we need your member our fundamental commonality. i think one of the things i'm hoping we all learn from this -- as i speak with someone on the hard-line hawkish right -- the importance of military alliances. we learned the importance of intelligence agencies. we learned why edward snowden is not a hero, that the secrets he betrayed our secrets you need kept. i think we also have to learn from the traditional liberal sense of american foreign-policy. we are building a world governed by rules. we are building alliances. the only way america can be america first was route -- was never a relevant slogan. still in way america can be first for its people is if it works collectively with america's friends and allies. to power comes at the center of a network of other democracies with broadly similar interests, values, and culture. [applause] a

joe and mika have the morning off. they'll both be back with us on set monday.nalyst for msnbc news and nbc on casual summer fridays for mark halperin. national affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc, john heilemann. the soeshd editor of commentary magazine, noah rothman, republican strategist, susan del percio, and former governor of vermont and former chairman of the democratic national convention, howard dean. good to see you. we have two sets of sneakers. governor dean with a nice pair of vermont new balance kicks. that's not an outing, that's a showering of praise. and halperin with the casual friday and the complete cons. >> a classic con. >> and a cuffed khaki. it's

mika has the morning off. with us, we have david ti

there were a mika's brief that were filed and represented pictures of fetal development and prenatal life. in fact, the attorneys argued it. sarah weddington and the texas attorneys in roe versus wade, but there are the arguments of transcripts in doe v. bolton. dorothy, who was the assistant general for georgia, argued old -- both rounds of arguments. rigorously touted to be -- oralist oflist all the attorneys in both cases, in both rounds of arguments. you can hear her listen -- and listen to the argument. she made arguments about the constitutionality, but also about fetal development and a very strong element in support of the georgia statute. caller: i want to ask the question, is roe v. wade established law, or is there any case that comes through the lower court system that could overturn roe v. wade? one of the issues in the current presidential campaign is, if you vote for candidate x, or candidate y, the supreme court might be changed by voting for that particular person who might appoint certain justices. is it established, is it safe, or is there a case coming through tha

. >> mika, what do we make of paul manafort hiring a new counsel and for that matter, a new firm? >> i think it shows he is taking this much more seriously. perhaps as seriously as he should have from the beginning. he has a lot of criminal exposure given his past history working with shadowy characters around the world. he should have lawyered up like this in the beginning. this wasn't just an ordinary criminal investigation. and it also suggests he may be thinking about whether or not he has to deal with the prosecutors, and certainly donald trump and the ways in which he is talking about manafort, he is not coming to his defense, the way he did with flynn and with others. he is not defensive on his behalf. manafort is really out there on his own. >> jeremy, i would like to play another snippet from the president today. there is so much material. so little time. fair warning. he is about to relitigate his election victory, but jeremy, my request of you is that you listen like mueller would or one of his co-counsel to the following. >> i don't speak to russians. look. i won becau

there was saying senator john mccain not a war hero because he was captured, attacking john mccain, mika brzezinski and megyn kelly. it seems like no what happens, they just continue to support him. do you think this time it's going to be different? david says they're not ready to jettison him now, throw him overboard. what do you think? >> i think david's right. that's the big question here. there are a lot of republicans saying i think pretty vocally that they disagree with the president's behavior, that they refuse to listen to his agenda that they believe that some of the things that he's said and done are not befitting of the office. at the same time, they kind of want the same agenda that he does. and when push comes to shove, when it's time to pass tax refor, he i think it's going to be hard for a lot of republicans to be on a different page from that. i mean, the devil will ultimately be in the details on some of this. i don't think we have seen yet the kind i have pushback in actual actions that would be required to making this moment something more than just i disavow what trum

mika will be sending postcards from the south of france which we'll share tomorrow morning. that does it for thus morning. stephanie ruhle picks up the vrge c coverage right now. good morning. >> i'm stephanie ruhle with so much to hit this morning starting with the unanimous yes to sanctions and north korea pledging retaliation. new developments on the rising tensions now. >> we hop this will result in a different pathway. >> vice president mike pence denies vehemently he's thinking about a 2020 run himself. >> vice president pence is a very loyal, very dutiful but also incredibly effective vice president. >> and tick, tick, tick. it is day 200. from the comey firing to blink and you missed him, scaramucci, what in the world has been going on? >> no. no. >> we have got to begin this morning with the u.s. and more than a dozen other countries racing against the clock trying to force north korea to give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons before those weapons are actually unleashed. and you're in luck, because we have the best team in the business here. nbc's bill nealy live in

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