think we're still looking at the boj coming through, it's a mild buying dollar bias in fx. >> richard kellyry much for joining us. >>> coming up to the market open shortly, we'll futures. gubit mer vonervous for the staf aust "worldwide exchange" is up next. >>> it is 5:00 a.m. in washington here's the five most important things you need to know. breaking trade news. the white house reportedly considering upping the tariff on chinese imports to 25% china vowing to retaliate. >>> apple getting closer to being a $1 trillion company as investors love its results ceo tim cook sounding off about the quarter, china and president trump. >>> we're on fed watch how high are interest rates going to go? we may find out later today. >>> oil under pressure again this morning after handing in its biggest monthly drop in two years. >>> france did something in the classroom that every parent out there is either going to lov

number of incidents prior to the fatal shooting that took place and then there is truck driver richard kellyarked in the handicap spot briefly while he ran into the store and he said he ran right into drejka's wrath. take a listen. >> he asked me what his handicapped, i said obviously i'm driving a tanker, i'm not handicapped and i asked him was he handicapped he stated no, he said my mom is. he totally flipped out. called me every "n" word saying he was going to kill me. he went back to his truck, got something out of his truck and walked back up on me. >> kelly is very concerned. he wonder what is could have happened if the store owner hadn't interrupted that scene. that arrest warrant points out there are two other instances of road rage that allegedly devil ray -- drejka used or threatened with a weapon. >> martin savidge, thank you for bringing us up to speed. >>> join me now, michelle rainer, the attorney for markese mcglockton's family. thank you both for being here. >> thank you, poppy. >> michael, again, my condolences. i know words can do nothing but i'm so sorry for the loss of yo

truck driver richard kelly says he witnessed drejka's wrath. >> he asked me was i handicapped i said not handicapped, i'm driving a tanker and i asked him was he handicapped, he stated no. he said my mom is. >> reporter: kelly says drejka kept getting more and more angry. >> he totally flipped out on me. called me every "n" word. saying he was going to kill me, went back to his truck, got something out of his truck and walked back up on me. >> the store owner broke up the argument but kelly says the incident leaves him wondering what could have happened had the store owner not intervened. and it appears drejka didn't just have problems with people parking in a handicapped spot. there were alleged accounts of road rage where he used his gun at least threateningly for teens for not going through a yellow light and another incident outlined in arrest warrant, he got angry at a female driver for going too slow, he thought, in a school zone. he's got a court appearance later today. john? >> martin savidge, that you can so much. joining me now is frederica wilson of florida. she called for

richard. >> nbc's kelly o'donnell there with the mccain family with the sad news and details. kelly, thank you very much for that. >> announcer: this is an nbc news special report. >> hi, richarrd lui at nbc headquarters with a special report. sad news, again, arizona senator john mccain has died. we have heard this happened at 4:28 local time. we're getting that announcement from senator mccain's office on friday his family announcing medical treatment was being stopped. mccain had been fighting an aggressive form of brain cancer for more than one year. cindy and john mccain were married for 38 years, senator john mccain would have been 82 this wednesday. again, breaking news this hour, arizona senator john mccain has died at the age of 81. here's nbc's kelly o'donnell with more. >> reporter: a spirited young aviator, the fierce campaigner. >> we face many dangerous threats in this dangerous world. but i'm not afraid of them. i'm prepared for them. [ applause ] >> reporter: an irascible statesman. >> we never hide from history. we make history. >> reporter: through it all, jo

richard? >> thank you, kelly. joining me, zerlina maxwell, msn msnbc -- also bob cusack, editor-in-chief for the hill. lots to talk about on a sunday noon eastern. i want to start with what we heard from omarosa at the top of the show. your overall reaction? >> i think this is a competition of which liar do you believe. do you believe omarosa who has credibility problems or the white house which has its own credibility problems and i land on the side of omarosa and here's why. she's known the president for 15 years and to me that means she knows him pretty well, probably better than most people who work in the white house so she has some credibility on the issue of who donald trump is and what he is like behind the scenes. additionally the idea that -- if her big allegation is the president is a racist in private, we already know that. we've seen his public behavior mirror that. so this is fun for us to discuss but i think that, you know, the bottom line isn't, the president is mirroring his private behavior and t

richard? >> all right, kelly. thank you so much. kelly o'donnell, our white house correspondent, running down a lot of what has happened so far this morning. the president's tweet appears to have been a response to this article in "the washington post" reporting that the president is at a precarious moment in his presidency, privately brooding and roaring over the investigation. let's go the our white house bure bureau chief, and co-author of this article, and phillip, the president this morning evidently did not see it. he was too busy yesterday, but when he got up today, he was coming at you and he was absolutely refuting what was written there. what's your reaction so far what what you have seen him do? >> well, what we reported richard, this morning is a pretty thorough report. we interviewed a number of white house officials, confidants of the president, advisers to the president, including his personal attorney, rudy giuliani, and all the information in our story is absolutely correct. he seems to be taking issue with our repo

richard. >> thank you so much, kelly o'connell with the latest on that breaking. let's bring in the white house correspondent for the washington examiner. around josh barrett, an msnbc contributor. josh, why now? why the change and what does this mean for the midterms and for the president? >> well, i think it may be reality setting in. the terms of this indictment for insider trading are just amazing and how brazen what representative collins is accused of doing is. i mean, literally being there on the white house lawn and calling his son, when the stalk is about to fall 90% when they learned the one drug they made is not going to be approved for use. so it sort of reads like an open and shut case. it's going to be very difficult for republicans to defend him. and really, he'd gotten little from the party. after shock, i think it's clear to him and i suspect he got some nudging from top leaders in the party trying to push him out of here. while this district is a strongly republican district, it's not impossible for democrats. collins had just gotten re-elected.

property owner richard scott park and realtor pamela kelly are accused of raising the rent on a property in novato by 58% in a week. the state department of justice says a single family home rented for just over $4900. before the fire broke out. after governor brown declared a state of emergency, the rent rose po $6800 -- rose to $6800 and then the same day went up to $9500. the california attorney general called the hike a disgrace. landlords are prohibited from raising the price of a house more than 10% after a state emergency. they could face a year in jail or a $10,000 fine. >>> senator john mccain is voubded by family -- surrounded by family this morning. the 81-year-old has decided to stop his cancer treatment. he has been battling an aggressive form of brain cancer. kenneth craig reports on the latest developments. >> reporter: senator john mccain's family shared a statement saying the arizona republican has decided to discontinue medical treatment for the aggressive glioblastoma he's been fighting for more than a year. his family noted he has passed expectations for his survival.

kelly. >> chairman, richard burr, vice chairman, members of the committee. thank you for inviting me to discuss the weaponization of our social media platforms and the resulting harm to our democracy. russian efforts are not directed toward one election, one party or event one country. we are facing a sustained campaign of organized manipulation. a coordinated attack on the trust we place on our institutions and in our media both social and traditional. these attacks are sophisticated and complex and the committee's bipartisan worked on table and expose them such a great example for the country. i am a social scientist and the ceo of a marketing analytics firms that develops advanced techniques for understanding the flow of information online. i express with russian online committees began two years ago when i helped lead a research effort at harvard's - - in this work we observed russia's political discussion evil from a vigorously free and open forum witha wide provided of viewpoints to a network right with automated accounts and automated trolling. the ru

richard. >> reporter: thank you for that record, kelly. >>> in the confirmation process for supreme court nomineemp up in the coming weeks. as hearings get under way, senator chuck grassley anaunlsed that kavanaugh's confirmation hearings will start on tuesday, september 4th when lawmakers return from the august recess. he said he expects the hearings to last between three and four days. earlier this month senator said that he believes the judiciary committee should be able to wrap up kavanaugh's consideration within two weeks after the hearings end, adding that the nomination would likely reach the full senate floor days after that. fellow judiciary member and senate majority whip john corn ensa en said that the senate should be able to vote before next term which begins in october. >>> still ahead, another deadly weekend in chicago. the steps officials are taking to try to combat the violence there. plus, reversing course. embattled republican congressman chris collins now suspends his reelection campaign after previously vowing the remain on the ballot. those stories plus bill karins with a ch

chuck, as you may have heard earlier, kelly o'donnell reporting on this certainly sad moment there in arizona. >> it is richard. but it's a sad moment near washington. it's a sad moment, i think, for a lot of americans. you know, every generation of the senate a has somebody that is refer ared to as a lion of the senate. and this generatiogeneration, t this last decade has been john mccain. when somebody sort of gets that title, in washington, it's because they are the type of person that is sort of a bed rock of the institution that uts the institu and john mccain, you know, he was partisan, he was a republican. but when the chips were down, he would always defend the institutions above his party. and he would put his -- his slogan was country first, and it's something a that he wanted to live up to. he himself would say sometimes he came up short. but he strove to do it and he strove for a better poll particular. he had a joy, he epitomized the politics of joy. he did not think the democratic party was the opposition or enemy. when you think of when we are losing him and where are our rie has been balting th

richard? >> nbc white house correspondent, great to have you to lay it all out for us there. kellyll, thank you. let's go to manu puza, msnbc contributor. matt, in the last 12 hours, we were highlighting what might have been of interest, and that is the admit tatanceadmittance, that the president was of the understanding there was a meeting to get information on an opponent. >> kelly is giving me ptsd here, because i was actually the one back in july of last year whose job it was as part of the "times" team that revealed the existence of this trump tower meeting, and it was my job to get the official comment from the white house, so i was the one who got the this was all about the russian adoption, it had nothing to do with the campaign whatsoever. that was my job in all of this, and so we went through days and days of reporting, and of course we found out it was about the campaign, and it was actually about getting political dirt on hillary clinton, and now we finally hear from the president who says, yeah, it was all about getting political dirt on hillary clinton from the russia

. >> richard, the president we know has not always been given the best advice. we know by john kelly, we know by jared kushner. but we don't have a lot of reports of bad advice that he's gotten from don mcgahn. at this point with the investigation closing in on him, does the president getting rid of don mcgahn expose him to greater legal jeopardy? >> probably not, because he doesn't listen to anyone's advice unless he wants to hear that advice, and it's advice he wants to hear. he'll listen to rudy giuliani mouth off and alan dershowitz when dershowitz goes on the television to attack robert mueller, and he'll listen to people who repeat the lines that he wants to hear. but he will not listen to good lawyers. donald trump, even in his days back in new york, had trouble finding good lawyers. he took roy cohn, who was senator joe mccarthy's lawyers, he was one of the nastiest lawyers in new york. the bottom line is donald trump doesn't want to listen to good lawyers, good lawyers don't want to work for him. he ends up with people like michael cohen. it's been a disaster. i would never

and so far the top senate intel republican richard burr has said he agrees with the president's use of this authority when it comes to john brennan. alex? >> kelly o. thank you, from new jersey for that. >>> joining me now, betsy woodruff and msnbc contributor and vivian salama from the "washington post." reach out to you first, vivien. what what does the white house look to achieve? what are they particularly looking at a growing list of intel officials rebukes directly this president's decision? >> essentially, obviously the white house is trying to show the president does have discretion and authority to take these measures and he will do so seriously if they believe that they have a case for such irrevocation of a clearance. what we saw with john brens was potentiwas -- brennan was the first of a series of clearances that could be revoked from very widely respected officials. >> to that point, has anybody been able to put two and two together and say this is what john brennan did or said and it's a violation of national securi security? any incontrovertible proof to say, here's why we did it? no. on the contrary. the white house said basical

richard russell. he was a democrat, but opposed the civil rights act. >>> in the wake of john mccain's passing, arizona voters go to the polls today. republicans choose between three candidates. martha mcsally and kelli ward and former sheriff joe arpaio. ward released a statement and many spoke out. >> for this, i apologize. for this, the intention of my comments were no way directed at senator mccain or his family. >> the frontrunner for the democratic senate nomination is on the ballot as well. the republican race for governor between ron desantis has been hotly contested. desantis asked for president trump's endorsement and he got it. >>> it may be the most expensive race. breaking news. a secret letter from the top north korea official is what led the president to cancel secretary of state mike pompeo's latest trip to north korea. our colleague josh rogin first reported that pompeo received the letter from kim yong-chol. warning that denuclearization process was quote again at stake and may fall apart. we have cnn's will ripley live in hong kong. >> reporter: dave, this is the biggest warning sign yet that the u.s. and north korea diplomatic relationship is in certi serious trouble. this letter

named for richard russell, lifetime supporter of segregation from georgia, where mccain had his office throughout his long tenure in the senate be renamed in john mccain's honor. nbc's kelly o'donnell is in arizona where she's been all weekend. and kelly, you covered him longer than anyone, and i know you've got a lot of thoughts. talk to us first about what we expect in arizona in the next couple of days. >> well, andrea, we are here at the state capitol where john mccain will be honored by the people for whom he represented and served for three decades. the governor has made arrangements for the capitol to open its doors on wednesday. the people of arizona can file past the casket and pay their respects. the governor, i had a chance to speak with him. people in arizona, we're used to seeing john mccain at a diamondsback game or even at the starbucks. this will be their chance in a solemn way to say thank you for his service and to acknowledge him and to comfort the extended mccain family which, of course, is home here in arizona. and john mccain never really had a rooted home base as the son and grandson of navy admiral. when he married cindy mccain in 1980, this was he

richard burr. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i would like to welcome the witnesses today. doctor todd helms senior behavioral scientist at the corporation, renÉe, director of research and new knowledge, john kellyceo and founder of graphic, laura rosenberg director of the alliance for securing democracy at the marshall fund and doctor phil howard the director of the internet institute welcome to all of you for your willingness to share your expertise with the committee and the american people. we take this seriously as terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and instability. today we talk about how social media platforms have been made to influence operations against the united states. for the electoral process meet election interference from a broad representing intolerable assault on the democratic democc foundation republic was built on. the committee in a bipartisan fashion has addressed this issue head-on. today's hearing is an extension of that effort that highlights something far more sinister. the use of our own rights and freedoms to weaken the country from within. it's also important to know these activities neither began or ended. as you can see on the one graph on display the kremlin