the co-founder of axios, mike allen. actually sitting at the big boy table. >> that's what we call it, actually, the big boy table. >> hey, wait a second. >> the axios one big thing is republicans trying everything before the midterm. so they're feeling the heat knowing that they have both an enthusiasm gap and a gap on the ground. so every day and we see it on your air something new. so you were just talking about the president's tax cut and he's saying that we're going to have a kavanaugh election, milking that. he's talking about the caravan election, talking that up. and it's growing as he talks about it. they are talking about the mob versus jobs. every time he goes out in a rally he sort of adds a litany to it and you see it picked up in the country, not only in the candidates' appearances but also in their ads and videos. >> mike, let me throw you one from the big girl's table down in washington. president trump, you mentioned the tax cut, he is suddenly bringing this thing up, talking about the possibility of thi

the co-founder of axios mike allen. what is axios' one big thing for us? >> happy holiday. for a legal storm. officials in the white house now realize it's more likely than not that they are going to face a democratic house in january, that means subpoena power, that means investigations, that means e-mails, calendars, schedules, documents, meeting notes all can be requested by the hill. the white house has been way behind in preparing for this. the bush white house when they saw a democratic house coming in 2006 spent months preparing for it. axios jonathan swan now reports that the white house chief of staff john kelly has a small working group that's getting ready to deal with this white house incoming and later this month the senior staff will have a weekend retreat and this is going to be one of the topics for that retreat. >> let me ask you about the concern within the white house not about the legal aspects of what a democratic white house could mean but just the shear fact that the house could possibly flip into democratic control in november adding to the president

mike allen live in washington, d.c.. signup.axios.com. that does it for me. hallie, stand by for "morning joe." >> will do. >> starts right now. >>> we've heard from the alleged victim, but now it's time to hear from the hero, judge brett kavanaug kavanaugh. >> i'm going to start at an 11, i'm going to take it to about a 15 real quick. now, i am usually an optimist. i'm a keg is half full kind of guy, but what i've seen from the monsters on this committee makes me want to puke and not from beer. dr. ford has no evidence. none. meanwhile,

we have mike allen with a good thursday morning to you, mike. what do you have there at axios.?he axo one big thing is a private prod to the saudis. so the washington post calls what trump has been doing a soft stance. those two words are the perfect way to express it. while the president has had this soft stance, secretary of state mike pompeo had had aer message with the crown prince. we're toll that behind the scenes, the secretary of state told the crown prince that he needed to wrap up this investigation within 72 hours. and here is the key word. he said he needed to own these results, said the kingdom needed to act fast or its look on the world stage would continue to deteriorate. >> mike, there is pressure mounting here for the president to admonish saudi arabia. what is your sense of how long he can keep that up? >> david, that's right. and there's this flood of irrefutable reporting, harder and harder, less and less tenable for the president to take the stance that he has been taking, the slow walking, the blame. where this is probably headed, it looks like the crown pr

it would be a start to something else. >> mike allen on this first day of hockey season, we thank youll be reading axios am. >> so that does it for us on this wednesday morning. "morning joe," everyone, starts right now. >> sure, i'd like to thank you. my wife thinks i'm one of the greatest investors in the world. and two years ago, she thought i was a total loser. we need the truth. you how dare you treat a woman like that. we need more time. for the fbi. the fbi has to do a more thorough search. abide, i hear biden would like to take me to the back of the barn. he would be in trouble. i would have been president 15 years ago if i had his accent. >> president trump did plenty of impressions last night, including repeatedly mocking the memory of dr. christine blasey ford who has accused supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her as a student. one thing he did not bring up was that sweeping expose. the headline is

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is the co-founder of axios, mike allen. what is the one big thing this morning? >> good morning.mping the gun. so we had thought that democrats who were going to be running for office to try to unseat president trump would wait until after the midterms, it's sort of the accepted practice, november 7th was going to be the starting gun for 2020, but as we've seen here on the msnbc air, these candidates are out again and again in south carolina, iowa, new hampshire, nevada, they are all there under the cover of campaigning for people that have races this year, but what we hear when we talk to the campaigns is that more and more of it is being done to build their own name id and trying to break into that tier one, tier two when we really turn to 2020 in ernest on november 7th. >> i know alec baldwin was speaking in the granite state. who has been dotting the landscape in south carolina and iowa and new hampshire and the like? >> this weekend we saw mayor bloomberg in new hampshire, brand-new democrat headed down to south carolina, just about everyone has been in south carolina. we're

let's go live now to mike allen he's in washington d.c. with more of what's going on that is so let's start with the cia head of cia is in tokyo on the stand or on the way what sort of mission has she been given. well there's been no real information given out about gina hospital's movements the cia will not even confirm what flight she's on what time she's going to arrive and importantly what time is she going to return to report back to president trump one assumes that she's the senior part of the information the people that he says he's been sent out there in turkey and in saudi arabia he says he should have more details once a report back to him but president trump now characterizing this affair as what he calls a plot that's gone all right this is once again a piece of ambivalence on the part of the u.s. president in fact implying that there was no premeditated action here that it was some kind of mistake that went from the other piece of the problem with the trumpet ministrations clarity on the subject is the presence of the treasury

for more on all of this, i'm joined by mike allen. mike, let me ask you about what you know about the decision decision the scenes and the administration for steve mnuchin to make that announcement that he's just not going to go to the conference. it feels like it was a prudent decision to me, but what have you heard? >> it was prudent and predictable, having been there, i think you can agree with that. thank you for having us for this debut hit. we appreciate. >> dana: looks pretty good. >> this was completely foreseeable. even if the treasury secretary didn't know this is where it was headed, it sure was. the united states position was looking less and less tenable. this fountain of leaks. this gusher of evidence that was coming out made the administration's position so hard. what we can tell you behind the scenes, we saw secretary of state pompeo at the white house today saying in that little clip that you just showed that the kingdom has some time, but behind the scenes, we're told by sources he told them they needed to hurry, that

the co-founder of axiso, mike allen is with us.new york times" newsletter lisa lehrer. >> lisa, congratulates on the podcast. wait a second. she doesn't have a podcast. we all assume. >> she's still using the typewriter. you know what, it's still an art form. >>> let us, john, let's talk about these two clips that we played coming in. last hour we played a clip. the president clearly lying. everybody knew he was lying. and here we have the president lying about passing a tax cut in 15 days or less -- actually in 13, 12 days or less when, of course -- i understand that he reads polls that show that his -- that his tax cut that he passed and he went to mar-a-lago and bragged to his friends. does this show just how stupid the american people are that he thinks that he can tell them he'll pass a middle class tax cut in the next 12, 13 days and they'll believe him? >> yeah, the thing that's incredible about it, the trumpian qualities of it, the main one that i like is the specificity of the lie that kevin brady is working around the clo

joining us from washington, co-founder mike allen.. >> morning, francis. >> what you got for this morning's one big thing? >> one big thin is president trump's pocahontas employ. we've been hearing about senator warren announcing her dna results. even democrats are saying she's a little bit taking trump's bait here. they say that he loves it when his victims litigate his nickname. so we're told that pocahontas is one of the nicknames that he's proudest of. he's been out on the stump talking about weepy joe biden and another thing he says he's proud of is the one for the democrat senator for connecticut and the president calls him denang richard. >> curious when it comes to this reunited back and forth pocahontas, what that is goes to go for the messaging for midterms and democrats. we're talking about big money here going through the roof. axios has inside knowledge new information from a pac. >> this is an ad running on prime time, college sports, on broadcast, on cable, spending up to $10 million. this is an ad called any democrat.

there's one that you might like, one article they have today, from mike allen.eadline is, the mid-term split decision. who knows if it's right. you don't hear us, see us putting polls up in this hour any more. we do remember 2016. breaking this past hour, a grandie, has now indicted the man accused of the deadliest attack on jews in the united states our nation's history. 11 people gunned down in a synagogue during shabat. the victims' loved ones continue to say goodbye. we'll go live to pittsburgh, coming up. this is loma linda, a place with one of the highest life expectancies in the country. you see so many people walking around here in their hundreds. so how do you stay financially well for all those extra years? well, you have to start planning as early as possible. we all need to plan, for 18 years or more, of retirement. i don't have a whole lot saved up, but i'm working on it now. i will do whatever i need to do. plan your financial life with prudential. bring your challenges. i've always been amazed and still going for my best, even though i live with a

. >> let me press you on this policy difference because it hasn't received enough attention but mike allen, a former national security official from the bush 43 white house, and someone familiar with sort of this policy difference between, perhaps, what nikki haley thought on the issues you raised and the more hardline views of john bolton and mike pompeo made this point this morning that on a policy level, she probably wasn't prevailing behind the scenes. is that your sense? >> absolutely not. and, you know, she comes from a more conventional republican approach to foreign policy that stands up to vladimir putin, that wants to be tough on russia, wants to promote democracy and human rights around the world. that is clearly not happening. so, you know, in those internal debates in the situation room, her voice clearly was getting softer and softer relative to bolton and pompeo over the course of this year and frankly, she wasn't having much of an impact. >> donald trump just weighed in. let's listen to that and talk to jonathan and ashley and aaron on the other side. >> dina powell is out

. >> mike allen, thank you very much. of course, we will be reading axios a.m. in just a bit. you, too, can sign up for the newsletter by going to signup.axios.com. >>> that does it for me on this monday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. >>> the sergeant-at-arms will restore order in the gallery. the sergeant-at-arms will restore order in the gallery. >> that was the scene in the senate gallery on saturday as protests swept through the capitol including during the confirmation vote of brett kavanaugh to the supreme court. the senate confirmed kavanaugh in a 50-48 vote saturday afternoon. in a private ceremony kavanaugh was sworn in by both chief justice john roberts and retired justice anthony kennedy. the court's long time swing vote whom he will replace. tonight president trump will hold a swearing in ceremony with justice kavanaugh at the white house. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is monday, october 8th. with us we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, former adviser to president george w. bush now co-creator and executive producer of "the circus" on

mike allen live in washington, d.c. as always a pleasure. >>> we're going to be reading axm in just a bit. signup.axios.com. that does it for me. hallie, stand by for "morning joe." >> will do. >> starts right now. >>> we've heard from the alleged victim, but now it's time to hear from the hero, judge brett kavanaug kavanaugh. >> i'm going to start at an 11, i'm going to take it to about a 15 real quick. now, i am usually an optimist. i'm a keg is half full kind of guy, but what i've seen from the monsters on this committee makes me want to puke and not from beer. dr. ford has no evidence. none. meanwhile, i've got these. i've got these calendars, these beautiful, creepy calendars. give me a can of water. >> my god, it is classic "saturday night live." welcome to "morning joe" on this monday, october 1st. we made it to october. donny deutsch is with us and we also have national affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc and co-host and executive producer of show time's "the circus" john heilemann, former aide to the george

steve: in "axios" this morning mike allen writes he talked to a democratic operative, they said that voters who aren't quite as intense as our voters but who often show up often voters. democrats win, they go high. number wise, win low. in the middle, republicans. ainsley: most experts say senate will remain republican. but it is the house everyone is you have wag. a lot of people retiring. some of these seats are too close to call. and no one really believes the polls anymore because remember in 2016 everyone said hillary would win. hillary didn't even campaign in some. states because she was so confident. steve: look at polls. we had a poll meeting. she did win the popular vote. ainsley: we know that she reminds us. steve: polling was based on raw number. ainsley: right, not the electoral college. brian: base i had on popular vote, deciding a football game on total yards gained. it's a different metric. maximize what you can do in california. in george bush maximize what he does in texas. go into your state to maximize, that is a whole new game, whole new set of rules. steve: it is

so is tim allen as "mike baxter" in "last man standing." >> i just felt this wasn't done.cripts left. >> we were exclusively onset for the joyous welcome back party. >> welcome back, all you guys. this is just wonderful. >> in large part of the out praj the show was spoutd suddenly captures. >> i did that. that was a whole day. >> show must have a lot of loyal kick -- fans, huh? >> what do you think it is that speaks to the viewer? >> literally we're talking about this in this episode. >> there has been some recasting. now played by young teen and daughter, mandy is now 28-year-old molly mccook. >> she looks exactly the same. >> it has to be tough to recast peep whl you're wrused to your kids. >> we all kept thinking. everybody remembers the witch. >> returning as nancy travis. >> anytime a job ends, you feel like now i have to go. take some online course and figure out something else to do. >> oh, way better. . >> i'll leave that up to you. now from a returning comedy to a hot brand new drama called "a million little things." >> and before the show premiered, buzz was bui

mike jackson is the coanchor at nbc four and mark allen is the news anchor at w dtn in dayton. we welcome all three of you gentlemen. joining our panelists are the candidates. from anfield, ohio, sherrod brown , served in the u.s. senate from 2006 and representative jim renacci tom wadsworth, ohio. since 2010 he's presented ohio national district. gentlemen, we welcome both of you to this important conversation. the candidates have agreed tonight to alternate in questi question. ninety seconds for an answer. sixty seconds for a response and then a 32nd rebuttal. by agreement it will also give a 32nd opening statement and beginning now with senator sherrod brown. >> thank you, ms. marshall. thanks to you and thanks to mr. allen, mr. jackson and mr. thompson in the panel and a special thanks for joining to the voters of ohio who are watching tonight but were joined by my daughter, emily elizabeth brown and connie schultz my wife and i will pull this debate will address issues and stay on issues and if we can discuss especially what we can do as a senator for ohio families. thank

mike. thank you. we'll see a lot of you today. thank you for that. bring in our panel. jonathan allen and lauren baron lopez with a welcome to you both. jonathan, look, you write about senator susan collins. what is the read how they came to her decision? yes, chronicled that in the 45-minute leadup to where she stated what she was going to do, but your takeaway from all of this is what? >> my takeaway is twotwofold. first of all, something implicit at odds she said with what some republican suggested, certainly republican voters i've talked to lately traveling around the country for trump rallies. that is that she basically seemed to be saying that if she believed brett kavanaugh had attempted to rape christine blasey ford she would have been a no vote, and that may not have been true for some of the other republican senators. the other important thing to take away from it is what she basically said is that she doesn't believe dr. ford suffered an assault at the hands of brett kavanaugh. that clip you just played, that it failed to meet the more likely than not test, and so few repub

allen rock where an accident has been reported. middle drive from highway 105 to airport, it's slow as well. mike's next with more on michael. >> we upgraded mike to michael because he's becoming a naughty hurricane. category 2 on its way to category 3 headed for panama city as we head towards tomorrow night into thursday morning. storm surge will be greatest from panama city over to just north of tampa. 13-foot. we'll have damage from that. we'll have a lot of damage from the winds. less damage from flooding as it will be a narrow strip. but it will move over the same areas flooded by florence as we head towards thursday and friday. >>> new at 6:00, your voice, your vote. why a bay area you to vote yes. >>> a north bay limo service says affected by the crash on the east coast. crash on the east coast. >>> good morning. it's tuesday, october 9th. >> the weather has changed yesterday until today. mike nicco is tracking that for you right now. >> glad you guys have noticed. especially if you've been outside already and felt it's much cooler out there. we have a sea breeze developing. look at the wind

mike jackson is the coanchor at cbs 4. and mark allen is a reporter. joining our panalists are the candidates. senator sherrod brown has served in the u.s. senate since 2006, and jim renacci represents ohio's 16th congressional district since 2010. gentlemen, we welcome both of you. the candidates have agreed tonight to alternating questions. 90 seconds for an answer, 60 seconds for a response, and then a 30-second rebuttal. by agreement, each will also give a 30-second opening statement, getting out with senator sherrod brown. sen. brown: thank you to all of you on the panel. special thanks especially to the voters of ohio watching tonight. we are joined by my wife and daughter. i am hopeful the debate will focus on issues, we will stay on issues, and we can discuss especially what we can do as a senator for ohio families. thank you. .oderator: thank you mr. renacci. rep. renacci: thank you. i want to thank the debate commission and nbc and affiliates, and all of those here today. today's debate will show two different people with two different vision

mike thank you. ok let's get more now on the turkish investigation and the forensics teams to search for the body and to marcus allen fisher reports. even the routine looks suspicious no. i say the consular residence in istanbul they were cleaning sewers it happens a few times a year this street was due but with turkish forensic teams searching everywhere possible for clues to look eat jamal khashoggi his body this takes on a new significance it's not about trying to piece together a complex gruesome jigsaw with huge international implications you would think that the whole effort would be to see that justice was done early seemed to be done at least to name the guilty parties but of course it's much more complicated than that because it involves a whole where about relationship in this very complex region and also course the united states that is the car park in istanbul suburb where the sody consular car was discovered it was searched turkish police found a computer and clothes but still don't know why it was here then there is the place where an alleged should you body double the clothes he was wearing when he le

mike pompeo went and we don't know what came of that meeting. >>> and the world is remembering microsoft billionaire paul allen who died, he died yesterday from non-hodgkins lem foam a. he owned the trail blazers and seattle seahawks. he owned companies dedicated to aerospace and bioscience reso much. one estimate puts his charitable giving at $2 billion. >> he made such a difference, yeah, he will be missed. >>> 35:39 is the time, the company that owns popular dating sites is paying up. up next, how you can get money if you're a member of christian mingle or jay date. >>> and the golden state warriorsing in will be raised ton. and we'll take you to the oracle and the final home opener before moving off to san francisco. >>> and westbound 24 has a problem now. there's a stalled truck just before the caldecott tunnel, that's going to back up from arunda to oakland. we'll have more coming up. >>> and the air mass is very dry, i doubt if there is morning dew, it's cold out and we'll look at the lows coming up. >>> the price of beer could double or triple because of climate change. bouts of drought will cut production of barley which is a key ing

mike pence will be able to break that tie, the 50-50 tie. at this point, i want to bring in former senator george allen to discuss more. that was a long defense that senator susan collins put on in kavanaugh's favor, basically, to get to the supreme court. what did you make of it? >> i thought it was an outstanding speech. i served with susan collins, i know she's very conscientious. it was a long speech but she covered every base. what she was focused on was not judge kavanaugh's high school yearbook, the best and most probative evidence of what kind of justice he would be is the 12 years he served on the d.c. court of appeals. i voted for him, as i said earlier, when i was in the senate. it's a brave political stand as well. maine is not a, you know, strong republican state. but she covered all the things that people care about. she addressed some of the concerns and the most important thing is he's going to be a fair judge who is going to give equal justice and equal opportunity to all americans. i think her speech truly was outstanding in addressing all of the concerns, all of the allegations, the credibility there

mike pence arrived in albany georgia and yesterday the president and first lady went the gulf coast. at least 19 people were killed and 46 are still missing. . . >>> the world is remembering paul allen. the man who cofound microsoft with bill gates died yesterday. he owned the portland trail blazers and sea hawks. 1 estimate puts his charitable giving at $2 billion. he was 65 years old. >>> bill gates released the statement saying paul loved life and those around him. he deserved much more time but his contributions to the world of technology will live on, paul allen never married and did not have children but was close to his sister . >>> more than two-dozen women in california say they have been touched inappropriate at the massage envy. >> at some point during the session it turned pretty quickly. . >> a couple of months go five women filed a law suit and now more than 30 women have joined the suit, we look into the allegations the law suits claim are being covered up by the company. >> it is almost the perfect breeding ground for sexual predators. >> for nearly a decade this woman who doesn't want to be identified has been coming to this massage envy and always had good experien

mike pompeo is speaking in mexico city. we will bring you any headlines as they come. watch it on bloomberg. live from new york, this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ "allen'ss power" on bloomberg -- "balance of power" on bloomberg. mark: investigators are looking into the possibility jamal khashoggi's remains may have been taken to a forest outside istanbul or to another city. reports say khashoggi was murdered and dismembered in the consulate i members of an assassination squad with ties to the saudi crown prince. the saudi's have called the allegations baseless. president xi jinping and president trump will reportedly meet at the summit in argentina next month according to the hong kong newspaper. earlier this week, a white house official said a meeting was likely. we will take a closer look at what impact the china trade dispute has had on the u.s. economy is a teen from barclays -- a team from barclays in a few moments. from hundreds is still heading towards the united states despite a warning from president trump. the president is threatening to cut aid to honduras, guatemala, and el salvador if they allow migrants to travel in the countries with the

mike, you're tracking a crash now in san jose? >> yeah. it's the one that popped up, 101 north bound at mckee just north of this camera. typically when there's a crash there or near the allen rock avenue exit, we see the backup form quickly. this has started to move more steadily. might be over to the shoulder. the speed sensor shows you have the jegeneral slowdown past stoy road. northbound not an issue. southbound for 680 as well as for 880 in the tri-valley and east bay. starting right here, look at that, into fremont and doumbartn bridge. we had metering lights in east bay and treasure island with the freet mont street exit. fremont still closed at transit. with people trying to get to embarcadero, that will be more congestion. as you're getting across the bay bridge, a smooth drive and things start to slow down. you see the tail lights tapping on the brakes getting over to san francisco. back to you. >> thanks. >>> next on "today in the bay," san francisco police are making major changes. what officers will do differently before performing searches. >>> plus -- >> i'm consumer investigator chris. a vehicle-sharing app takes a disturbing turn for a south bay woman. how