i'm yasmin vossoughian. amid the backdrop of violent protests that have escalated across the country in recent days, former vice president joe biden has launched a new attack against the president. during a visit to battleground pennsylvania yesterday, biden gave a blistering speech accusing trump of sowing chaos and division. he directly challenged trump's claim that americans will not be safe if democrats win in decemb november condemned the violence seen in major cities. >> i want to make smb something very clear. rioting is not protesting, looting is not protesting, setting fires is not protesting. none of this is protesting. it's lawlessness, plain and simple, and those who do it should be prosecuted. >> you know me. you know my heart. you know my story, my family's story. ask yourself, do i look like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters? really? i want a safe america, safe from covid, safe from crime and looting, safe from racially motivated sly lens, safe from bad cops. let me be crystal c

it's time to take advantage. ♪ wow i am yasmin vossoughian.begin this half hour with the president taking his campaign to phoenix yesterday in an effort to boost support from latino voters he held around indoor event where there was little social distancing and few masks were seen the "a.p.'s" jonathan lemire noted it felt more like another indoor rally, something the president himself acknowledged there. >> i know this is supposed to be, you know, tnoknow -- the fa said it was more like a roundtable, but it is a rally. i've achieved more from hispanics in 47 months than joe biden has achieved in 47 years >> they don't call him sleepy joe for nothing, okay? i didn't have to be told about the hispanic community i dealt with them. natural businesspeople great businesspeople, great, great businesspeople you have to be very sharp when you're dealing with the hispanic americans. the latinos. i love the latinos. >> spienging to the las vegas review journal on sunday the president was asked whether he had any safety concerns when it comes to holding

i'm yasmin vossoughian. we're going to begin with the president trying to contain the fallout after it was revealed that he intentionally misled the american people on the severity of the virus. it comes after the audio excerpts with bob woodward when the president admits he knew how deadly the virus was, but yet he decided to play it down in public. here's the president defending himself yesterday, first at the white house and then at a campaign rally in michigan. >> why did you lie to the american people, and why should we trust what you have to say now? >> that's a terrible question and phraseology. i didn't lie. i said we have to be calm, we can't panic. there has to be calmness. you don't want me jumping up and down and screaming there's going to be death and really causing serious, serious problems to the country. >> if bob woodward thought it was bad, then he should have immediately gone out publicly and not wait four months. you know, he's had that statement for four months, five months. he's had it

it is september 17th, and i'm yasmin vossoughian we're going to begin first with what is now a tropical depression sally the storm made landfall yesterday morning as a category 2. more than 2 million lost power due to strong winds. major devastation there. water flooded the streets. the national guard has been called in to assist with recovery efforts late last night the national hurricane center said it was causing torrential rains i want to go to bill karins who's tracking the continuation of the storm bill, good morning to you. as we have talked about in the past, just because we have a tropical storm, it doesn't mean as it's moving inland, it can cause major damage we saw yesterday how painfully slow this storm is moving. >> painfully there was a ton of rain, water everywhere water rescues were taking place all day yesterday in southern alabama. roads were washed out. now we're going to continue into the carolinas today. it's not going to be as bad, but there will be areas that will have to deal with high water and problems i want to deal with some of the rankings and how the storm

i'm yasmin vossoughian.want to begin this half hour on the state of the presidential race with election day less than two months away, if you can believe it. a new national poll from cbsnew cbsnews.gov. joe biden has a six-point lead over president trump in the swing state, 50-44. that six-point lead is the same as it was prior to the start of the unrest in kenosha. then we have news out of texas showing a very close race there. president trump leads joe biden, 48% to 46%. a statistical tie there. the u.s. death toll tops 190,000 people. health experts are again warning about a possible surge in cases this fall. according to the "washington post," the long fear of a second wave at a catastrophic scale can well begin before election day on november 3rd. it comes in time despite a rise in cases. national numbers have been trending downward for several weeks following early summer surges in the sunbelt. experts say the fall wave is likely to be more intense than the peak in the spring. maryland, for example, ha

it is friday, september 18th, and i'm yasmin vossoughian on this final edition of "morning joe" "first look." we've got a lot of exciting announcements about that coming up straight ahead. but first we want to get to the news and the president holding yet another packed airport rally last night with no social distancing and very few masks, this time in wisconsin, even as covid cases rise in that state wisconsin just hit a new record-high positivity rate. yesterday's number or more than 2,000 cases beat the previous record set sunday in marathon county where the president's rally was held health authorities deemed the covid-19 activity to be high, indicating a, quote, significant increase in covid cases in just the past two weeks and an internal email from a trump administration official scrapped a document. the white house decided to send it to businesses and agencies and non-profit organizations the original plan showed masks were supposed to be distributed thomes in areas with the highest number of cases at the time including louisiana, washington state, michigan, and new york. when

i'm yasmin vossoughian.oing to begin this half hour with astrazeneca. one of the companies racing to make a vaccine against the coronavirus. announcing yesterday that it does paused global trials which includes large late-stage trials of its experimental coronavirus vaccine. due to a suspected serious adverse reaction in a participant in the uk. so, according to stat, the brir dr british drugmaker said it volunta voluntarily reviewed trials. the vaccine developed along with oxford university has been described at the world health organization as probably the world's leading candidate, and the most advanced in terms of development. so, whether the illness was directly linked to astrazeneca's vaccine that point remains unclear. but the company declined to comment. on the report. white house coronavirus adviser dr. anthony fauci yesterday cast doubt on a rushed time line to distribute a vaccine before the election, while the president continues to hammer the opposite point. >> it's not impossible, judy, but it'

i'm yasmin vossoughian.e're going to begin with the state of the 2020 presidential rate. with 50 days until the election and 15 days until the first debate, the latest fox news national poll showing joe biden with the national lead over donald trump, 51% to 46%. and new polls showing them statistically tied. in arizona, the poll has biden leading by 47% to 44%, a statistical tie there. in minnesota, where early in-person voting begins in four days, bind has a nine-point lead, 50% to 41%. and then the latest "new york times" siena college poll has him leading. and then in new hampshire, biden leads by three, 45% to 42%, another statistical tie. so there are signs democrats are growing more anxious about the bind camp, showing the race in florida tightening, former mayor michael bloomberg saying he's going to spend $100 million to help joe biden win the stage. he pledged to use his fortune to help the democratic nominee to beat donald trump. meanwhile you have three sources telling the "washington post" bernie

i'm yasmin vossoughian we're going to begin this half hour with the latest on hurricane sally as they towards the northern gulf coast bringing with it flooding rain and potentially life threatening storm surge, particularly in parts of alabama and florida's panhandle as well. the area feeling the brunt of this storm at this moment while we speak is pensacola, florida we're going to go there where we find nbc news correspondent sam brock on the ground for us sam, i talked to you 30 minutes or so ago. things looked rough at that point. talk us through what you are experiencing right now >> reporter: yasmin, when i last spoke to you, there were street lights on over my shoulder right now. at the moment, i apologize we're getting feedback there at the moment you can see there's virtual darkness there's a river behind me that once these lights come back on f they, you will see is several feet deep on the streets i'm looking at debris from trees just floating along the street level here the national hurricane center, yasmin, just announced that this is historic and catastrophic flooding un

it is thursday, september 10th, and i'm yasmin vossoughian. wow, do we have a lot to cover this morning. we're going to begin with those trump tapes. he admits to intentionally misleading the public on the truth over the coronavirus contained within the 18 interviews, reportedly totally nine hours was this. >> so, give me a moment of talking to somebody going through this with fauci or somebody who kind of -- it caused a pivot in your mind, because it's clear just from what's on the public record that you went through a pivot on this to, oh, my god, the gravity is almost inexplicable and unexplainable. >> well, i think, bob, really, to be honest with you -- >> sure, i want you to be. >> -- i wanted to always play it down. i still like playing it down. >> yes. >> because i don't want to create a panic. >> all right. so i want to get to some ways that the president carried out his plan to play it down as he puts it. one concerns the comparisons that he made to the flu that he knew were false. here's what he said to woodward on february 7th about

i'm yasmin vossoughian. i want to keep things rolling during this 3:00 to 5:00 show. welcome. >>> the president made it clear he absolutely plans to nominate a replacement for justice ruth bader ginsburg, this as senate democrats scramble in a phone call to stop this before the election, looking for a strategy, beyond shamg republicans for their obvious hypocrisy after blocking president obama's supreme court pick. >> it has been 80 years since a supreme court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. you don't do this in an election year. >> i think as a court, we're one vote away from losing our constitutional liberties, and i believe that the president should next week nominate a successor to the court. i think it is critical that the senate takes up and confirms that successor before election day. >> we're also looking back at the towering legal legacy of justice ginsburg who made it clear at her own confirmation she was coming to the court ready to fight. >> this is something central to a woman's life, to her dignity. it's a decision that she must

i want to go live to yasmin vossoughian in new york city where half of the 1 million public school studentsreturning to the classrooms today. why are they reopening for in-person learning now when new york is seeing a spike in cases? >> the mayor overnight -- hi, by the way. good morning. the mayor is basically saying this is full speed ahead. they've delayed this thing twice. there are eight hot spots throughout the entire city and they're saying we're going to mitigate the spread by making sure everybody is wearing masks in these neighborhoods, handing out hand sanitizer, making sure people are socially distanced. they want to get kids back in school as they had planned. i want to talk to you specifically about this neighborhood because it's one of those eight neighborhoods of hot spots. in this neighborhood, there's a 7% positivity rate. at this school, three out of four kids qualify for public assistance and/or free lunches. and 50% of the kids are saying we want to come back to this kind of distance learning/in-person learning while 50% of the other kids want to stay home. the parents

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that does it for me on this thursday morning, i'm yasmin vossoughian. "morning joe" starts right now. >>> now we knew. we know donald trump knew the virus was deadly and airborne. and we know he knew millions would get sick and die. he knew it wasn't just older people who would be killed by the virus. he knew early on this would be the greatest crisis america had faced in decades. members of donald trump's staff knew in january a plague was coming to infect america. that half a million americans could die. that millions more would likely lose their job. that the economy would be ravaged and that those staff members, those staff members had responsibility to warn him and they did. but donald trump chose instead to lie to you. and to lie to your family. and to lie to over 300 million americans about the storm that was coming to lay upon this planned. land. and even as he lied month after month, his staff remained sil t silent. you see, staying in good standing with donald trump ended up being more important to them than saving your life. now, six months i

i'm yasmin vossoughian "morning joe" starts right now >>> good morning, and welcome to "morning joe." it is wednesday, september 16th, and there's a lot to cover this morning. hurricane sally is moving very slowly toward the northern gulf coast, bringing with it flooding rain and potentially life-threatening storm surge, particularly in parts of alabama and florida's panhandle. we'll go live to pensacola for the latest. >> talking to friends up there right now, and man, they say it is rough. >>> plus, some stunning admissions from president trump in a town hall interview on abc news that aired last night, including a slip of the tongue that might have revealed his true strategy for combating the coronavirus that would mean for the potential of millions more dead so, when he said, "it's going to go away," he may have meant it we'll explain that >>> and our big interview this morning. bob woodward joins us at the very top of the 7:00 hour of "morning joe." along with joe, willie and me, we have white house reporter for the "associated press," jonathan lamire, former aide to the george w

i'm yasmin vossoughian. "morning joe" starts now. >>> i want to make something clear, rioting is not protesting, looting is not protesting, setting fires is not protesting. none of this is protesting p. it's lawlessness plain and simple. and those who do it should be prosecuted. >> you did not mention that your supporters were also in portland this weekend firing paint ball guns at people, pepper spray, so do you want to take the chance to condemn what your supporters did? >> i understand they had large number of peoples and that was a peaceful protest. paint is not bullets. >> they're shooting paint, first of all, they're driving through and shooting paint and spraying people on the sides of the streets, and again he still -- you know, mika, it's incredible. you have two candidates yesterday, and even for those who have the reality distortion fields around donald trump, it's obvious even to them. you have two sets of candidates. one candidate is condemning violence from both sides. and he talks about protes

tuesday morning i'm yasmin vossoughian. "morning joe" starts right now >>> america is continuing to make critical progress in our war against the virus. over the weekend, the number of daily new infections remained flat nationwide flat. hospitalizations are slowing in hot spots like new york, new jersey, michigan and louisiana this is evidence that it's working. >> that was president trump on april 13th, touting his administration's ability to fight the virus. that same day, april 13th, he was also saying this, only behind closed doors. >> this thing is a killer if it gets you if you're the wrong person, you don't have a chance. >> yes yes. exactly. it's a monster -- >> so this is rips you apart >> this is a scourge -- >> it is the plague. >> if you're the wrong person, willie, donald trump says on the 13th of april, privately of course, you don't have a chance. this is the plague and yet, this is, of course, the same president who was desperate to reopen the economy. i must say the same president who last night got a lot o

i'm yasmin vossoughian. "morning joe" starts right now. >> think of what would have happened if he had gone out and said this is awful. we should all be afraid, we don't have a plan, it would have been a run on the banks, on the hospitals, on the grocery stores. >> wow. did you catch that? the chairwoman of the rnc, imagining what would have happened if president trump had admitted, quote, we don't have a plan. >> what would have happened, i wonder? >> maybe he should have had a plan. >> i understand because she's been working for donald trump for as long as she has and she doesn't remember actually what it's like when you have people like mitt romney who actually tell the truth to the public and don't think the public is stupid and you can actually trust them to take the information and protect their families. but just imagine what would have happened if he told the truth, mika. but he can't. he can't. that's the amazing thing. you look at woodward and you look at this book, and he is so twisted and contort

dan, i love you, my friend i'm yasmin vossoughian, "morning joe" starts right now. >>> i view this -- i really do view this campaign as a campaign between scranton and park avenue and i really mean it, because, you know, the way we were raised up here in this area, awful lot of hardworking people busting their neck all they ask for is a,shot, just a shot all trump can see from park avenue is wall street. all he thinks about is wall street, we're all going to do all right. how many of you own stock? not a he -- not a lot in scranton >> that's the best approach. when i was campaigning i'd be going around and someone would bring up something my opponent would say and it would be nasty and i go, well, i got to tell you, the way i was raised. i mean, my parents just raised me to be better than -- whenever you start talking about, you know, the way we were raised here in scranton that's gold. that's political gold. i also love the framing there, just looking at it politically, that it was scranton versus park avenue i haven't heard anything like that yet in this campaign, other than a lot o