let's start with thomas cook, and yasmin, let's start with the daily mail.a mind—boggling amount, and the chief executive had been paid £8 million over the last five years. that's on a lot of different pages, they have got on this fatcat story. this is the highest figure i think we have seen the highest figure i think we have seen so the highest figure i think we have seen so far. £47 million bonus... as the firm headed for the rocks. how long ago was the firm heading for this collapse? we don't know. what we re this collapse? we don't know. what were the accountants doing? there are so many were the accountants doing? there are so many questions about this and i hope there is an enquiry, and another part of me thinks what to enquiries ever achieved? it did almost collapse in 2011, and i have been reading up, in 2013 it raised £425 million from shareholders, so it is not as if this has come completely out of the blue, is it? it has been facing problems for many yea rs, it has been facing problems for many years, it also underwent a merger into thousand and s

yasmine? >> i want to give people context if you're looking at a map here as we are seeing on our weather wall here in studio, mariana, for those that don't know the state of florida quite well. if you're looking at melbourne, florida, cocoa beach for margwh mariana was coming from is north of melbourne, florida. if this hurricane tracks a little bit west off the east coast of florida cocoa beach could see some major damage there. possibly seeing a cat 4 hurricane. on the shores of cocoa beach. so certainly important for all the residents there like the individual that mariana was talking to, to heed the warnings. we'll check back in with you throughout the day, appreciate your reporting, mariana atencio. >>> we've been seeing places hit hardest by this powerful storm and the reality facing residents right now. morgan? >> reporter: here in nassau bahamas the worst of dorian may have made its way through but right now this chain of a islands faces two distinct problems, one hand you have grand

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside geoff bennett. to hurricane dorian, a category 5 storm. the bahamas getting battered. winds of 185 miles an hour. this storm is tied to one of the strongests hurricanes ever recorded in history. this morning, a warning of life-threatening situations and warning that the storm will be dangerously close to the united states. millions in florida, georgia and south carolina are beg warned. >> what is

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

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

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

yasmin and rachel will be back at 11:30 for another look at the papers.at today's top stories — next it's the weather with phil avery. i will put a stop this jollity. good evening to stop not before we have taken on the full glory of this guy ca ptu red taken on the full glory of this guy captured by one of our weather watchers across argyle bute and i'm glad he did it today because tomorrow it is one of those days. probably the wettest day many of us we re probably the wettest day many of us were seen for quite some time that a warning that from the met office. particularly across england and wales for the intensity of the rainfall. quite a breezy start to the day for some as well put up the way to lift and rain as there from the word go as well. middens, southern counties and swinging further north. 30—40 millimetres while they so a good inch plus. some spots, 70 millimetres perhaps across the higher does move a little bit further north and then there was a low and then, don't discount what is going to go on here. when ramping up to finish off the day.

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

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

and at 11:30 we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers yasmin alibhai brown andl cunliffe — stay with us for that. good evening. an unprecedented operation has been launched to bring back tourists stranded abroad, following the collapse of the uk's oldest travel company, thomas cook, which went into liquidation in the early hours of the morning. dozens of planes have been chartered to bring home more than 150,000 british holidaymakers. many more customers yet to go on their holidays will also be affected. it's thought that 800,000 future bookings had been made with the company. thomas cook's collapse puts 22,000 jobs at risk worldwide — 9,000 of them in the uk. our business editor simonjack has the latest. grounded — thomas cook planes sat idle on the runway at manchester. the last thomas cook flight arrived earlier this morning, a sudden and dramatic end to 180 years in the travel business. holiday—makers were handed a stark notice on arrival that their flights weren't going anywhere. we are absolutely gutted, we looked forward to this for a long time, had the w

and to your point, yasmin, you're right.on't know how i negotiate, that's because he never knows how he'll negotiate or how to handle a sensitive situation like in. >> a u.s. envoy met with the president of afghan behind doors. and a spokesman for the afghan president confirmed that the meeting took place last night. and that it comes immediately after the u.s. envoy met with taliban leaders while the trump administration remains tight lipped, a taliban spokesman said they're on the verge of reaching a peaceful solution for afghanistan. but negotiations came just hours after the taliban attacked another afghan city killing both civilians and security forces. before the u.s. ends the 18-year campaign, negotiators are looking for assurances that afghanistan will not once again become a safe haven for extremist groups. there is an uncomfortable quiet along the israeli/lebanese border after a weekend of artillery fire and threats as israeli officials say that the iran backed group hezbollah hit two idf targets including an israe

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

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

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

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

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

i'm yasmin vossoughian.sen picks things up from here. >> take that, bullies. >>> i'm chris jansing in for ali velshi. this is tuesday, september 10th. we said we love that story. let's also give you the quote of the day, i'm never surprised. that one from secretary of state mike pompeo in questions about the sudden dismissing of national security adviser john bolton,.third person in that role in 28 1/2 years. the news via tweet. the president wrote this, i informed john bolton last night that his services were no longer needed at the white house. but adding to confusion, the white house just announced that bolton would participate in a briefing with secretary pompeo and mnuchin. there's some disagreement how it went down. trump had asked for the resignation last night and it was delivered this morning but bolton secretary a flurries of texts insisting it was his decision to resign. a detective to peter alexander, quote, i offered to resign last night. the pnt

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

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

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

yasmin? >> all right.going to be following this story throughout the day and the following days for sure. nbc's godi schwartz, thank you so much. in just a couple hours we are going to have a new major update from hurricane dorian. stay right here for all the latest on that as we find out which parts of florida and the southeast could get hit the hardest. you're watching msnbc live. we'll be right back. >> tech: at safelite autoglass, we really pride ourselves on making it easy for you to get your windshield fixed. >> teacher: let's turn in your science papers. >> tech vo: this teacher always puts her students first. >> student: i did mine on volcanoes. >> teacher: you did?! oh, i can't wait to read it. >> tech vo: so when she had auto glass damage... she chose safelite. with safelite, she could see exactly when we'd be there. >> teacher: you must be pascal. >> tech: yes ma'am. >> tech vo: saving her time... [honk, honk] >> kids: bye! >> tech vo: ...so she can save the science project. >> kids: whoa! >> ki

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

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

i'm yasmin -- the devastation there is, quote, unprecedented.doesn't want to seem to move on. for the very latest we check in with meteorologist bill karins. >> in the next half hour we'll get the update from the hurricane center. they'll tell us if it's actually moving instead of being stationary. it will also give us that new forecast path. i know a lot of people in south carolina and north carolina are going to be very, you know, interested. watching it closely for good reason, too. i'll explain that in a second. so these are the numbers. 120's the max winds right now in the northern eye and the thunderstorms. it's stationary. it looks like it's starting to drift maybe a little bit. i mean, not a lot, but eventually. here's going to be the interesting part of this forecast. the forecast has improved for florida. it looks far enough off the coast that you don't have to deal with a lot of wind problems and a lot of rain problems, maybe some storm surge. we could have direct impacts from wind, storm surge and rain in parts of eastern south carol

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

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

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

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

not just says yasmin is fortunate that she could reach the shelter that's not always possible. in areas controlled by the taliban are you able to help women who may be suffering from violence that we cannot to help them because we don't know about the wireless to hear what's going on and it looks like everything is ok there looks like an activist because did the woman doesn't have the right don't have a right to raised. so we never if you don't here's something so how can you help us . today roughly house of afghanistan is under the taliban's control. we don't know how they treating women in these areas because it's too dangerous for us to go. but a confidential source close to the taliban said he could help us investigate. after days of careful planning he was able to film this extraordinary footage and smuggle it to us through government checkpoints. it's from a district in gaston province which fell to the taliban music i. was. told that during which are not even trying to get on an agenda for you. because we're all here when you leave. here we see faces carrying a k 47 it's

the journalist and author yasmin alibhai—brown, and comment and features editor at cityam, rachel cunliffew on bbc news it's time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. i'm gavin ramjaun. wales cruise to a winning start at the rugby world cup, but it's tale of two halves against georgia. we are very positive and probably slightly disappointed in the second half with regards to taking our foot off the gas. england ring the changes for the upcoming tour of new zealand, with some big names of the summer missing out. and russia are in danger of being banned from next year's 0lympics as anti—doping bosses examine suspect lab data. hello and welcome to sportsday, i'm gavin ramjaun. a good first half, but a messy second. the verdict of wales head coach warren gatland after his side secured a bonus—point victory over georgia, in their first match of the rugby world cup. six tries they scored in the 113—14 win. and they now top their pool in japan. patrick gearey reports. enter the dragon. wales have felt the weight of waiting. in the run—up to this world cup, assistant coach rob howley has

and yasmin al bhai brown. born in uganda, herfamily was one of thousands expelled by idi amin.'s now a british newspaper columnist. a warm welcome to all of you, good to have you back with us. israel's newspaper front pages this weekend are not the ones benyamin netenyahu was probably expecting. after the second indecisive election in five months, power is described as "slipping away." "himself alone" and "political death spasms" are among the headlines. prime minister for the last ten years, with a three—year stint before that in the 1990s, mr netenyahu, he's been reduced to urging benny gantz, the ex—army chief who leads the newish centrist party blue and white, the largest in the knesset after tuesday's poll, to join a unity government. gantz told him to push off. this in a week when iran, a country the israeli prime minister regularly invokes in elections as a reason why it needs a strong government, was blamed by the united states for halving saudi oil production with two drone attacks, claimed by houthi rebels in neighbouring yemen. before we talk about all of that, jonat

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not just says yasmin is fortunate that she could reach the shelter that's not always possible. in areas controlled by the taliban are you able to help women who. may be suffering from violence that we cannot to help them because we don't know about the wireless to hear what's going on and it looks like everything is ok there looks like an activist because did the woman doesn't have the right don't have a right to raised. so when they have it if you don't here's something so how can you help. today roughly hoth of afghanistan is under the taliban's control. we don't know how they're treating women in these areas because it's too dangerous for us to go. but a confidential source close to the taliban said he could help us investigate. after days of careful planning he was able to film this extraordinary footage and smuggle it to us through government checkpoints. it's from a district in gaston province which fell to the taliban music i. hold that during which are not even trying to get on an agenda for you. because we're all here with you. here we see faces carrying a k 47 it's an

yasmin, which is not her real name, comes weekly. the food is very nice.n speak with me punjabi so i can explain what i want and they are giving me. but for some the stigma is too great. nighat tries to encourage them in, not least for the social contact. they can come up here, they feel lonely, they feel they can come up to a place on a saturday, sit down, have lunch, talk to people. we are like their humdum family. and the volunteers here say they benefit from the community feeling too, including 22—year—old nurse zara. once we have done our work, cleaned up, ourgroup, our team leader will sit us down and we all eat together, which is fantastic, because you're notjust coming here to volunteer, you're also here to make friends. with a stronger sense of community humdum hopes it will help asian people shake off the shame that some associate with food banks. today marks 80 years since germany invaded poland. representatives from different areas have come here. the southern island city here was a pond and fired. we have current soldiers waiting for the cerem

some of the i was a raid they shoved me into a truck and took us to the old school on yasmin street. they were going to deport us to germany as a forced laborers sasheer outreach that i share i cried my eyes and i'm saying yes i was 14 years old and i was being sent to germany but. i cried like a baby you just one of the germans took pity on me he brought me to another room and told me to stop crying he said they wouldn't take me away they'd make me a waitress at the gestapo canteen medicaid or. stop work. now you and then. knight but then my brother got through to telling her the home army. some am i have a summer i kept the aprons as a souvenir they're all faded he said. the tailor made them for me because you couldn't buy things like that anymore those who guard the 0 groups 8 years. from crafts that last forever i still got a few are you saying you don't think that you know that you think if they were days when you worked at the gestapo canteen you know like when you were there you know right if that if you like the pain you kept track of the prisoners they got if they're upset a

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on this labor day, monday, september 2, i'm yasmin vossoughian with geoff bennett and susan del percio as well. we

>> yasmin, thank you for having us this morning. i tell you the national guard, we support with things like stranded motorists, flood victims rescue, using high clearance water vehicles, commodity transportation, distribution, swift water rescue support, helicopter search and rescue, warehouse and supply, any damage assessment flights. that's something we'll start with this morning as the weather clears is doing some of the damage and search and rescue overflights in wilmington. >> sir, let me get your thoughts if i may for a moment on the circumstances. under what circumstances do the majority of the water rescues you talked about, the swift boat rescues and others, maybe folks stranded on top of their homes. at what point do they take place in a storm like this? immediate aftermath or do you try to go in there when the situation is still somewhat uncertain? >> like most first responders, we hunker down during the key points of the storm and then get out there right after in the immediate aftermath of the storm doing searches and r

. ♪ >>> welcome back, everybody, i'm yasmin vossoughian, it is the bottom of the hour.et's start with the morning's top stories. the trump administration is on the defense this morning after president trump announced he had planned and canceled a meeting with the taliban. now he's facing bipartisan criticism from the meeting almost no one knew about. hans nichols has more. >> reporter: america's preparing to inflict more pain on the talib taliban. >> the taliban conditions have been worsening and they're about to get worse. >> reporter: america's top dip mat on all five major sunday shows defending trump's plan. >> it was a useful effort to try and get all of those parties in one place so we could have serious conversations about how to reduce america's risk. >> reporter: the presidedramati called off the meeting -- the 16th u.s. combat death this year in afghanistan. how many more decades are they willing to fight, the president tweeted. the u.s. has also been hammering the taliban which harbored al qaeda. >> in the last ten days we've killed over a thousand taliban. >

i'm yasmin.ational security advisor john bolton and vice president mike pence among those opposed to holding such a high level meeting at the presidential sanctuary and to the idea of actually bringing taliban officials into the united states for talks just days before the anniversary of the september 11th terror attacks. joining me to talk about this, our panel. courtney, i'm going to start with you. you had a piece on nbcnews.com that really digs into the details surrounding this meeting. take us through what happened inside of the situation room and what led to those weekend tweets. >> it was about ten days ago, september 1st in a meeting in the situation room where they discussed the idea of meeting with the taliban and the president of afghanistan, afghanistan's government leaders to talk about a potential peace deal. president trump was the one who we're told by a number of administration and u.s. officials, he was the one who pushed for the idea of doing this at camp david. he liked the id

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

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

right now more news with my colleague yasmine -- >> there's a lot happening in the news today.ay. we're here at msnbc headquarters in new york. continuing breaking coverage of two big stories, hurricane dorian's path of destruction in the atlantic. and then in california a boat fire off the ventura county coast has caused multiple deaths with the coast guard confirming 34 victims, 34 victims. but the extent of injuries or deaths is still unknown. we expect a briefing from officials at any moment and we're going to bring you that livedorian, though, where we're getting new information at this hour on the storm slowly pushing west and wreaking havoc along the way. there are currently hurricane watches and warnings along the florida coast up and down as millions of people down the atlantic are bracing for the unknown. state and local governments are taking every single precaution with mandatory evacuations in florida, south carolina, and georgia ahead of what could be a massive storm surge which could really cause the most havoc. and we're getting new images from the bahamas where

right now, yasmin is picking up our coverage. >> it's one of those days.witter. you have a show meeting in the morning and the rundown and then it's just one of those days. and it always happens on fridays. >> just when we have our energy level. >>> good afternoon, everyone it's 11:00 a.m. out west. 2:00 p.m. at the white house. today for the first time on camera, president trump directly addressed a potentially damaging complaint from a whistleblower in the intelligence community. his response, it's nothing but a, quote, political hack job. watch this. >> it's a partisan whistleblower. they shouldn't even have information. i have had conversations with many leaders that are always appropriate. anything i do, i fight for this country. i fight so strongly for this country. it's just another political hack job. >> an that point, did you discuss joe biden? >> it doesn't matter what i discussed. somebody ought to look into

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