Good morning, everybody. It is tuesday, july 23. Im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. A letter from the deputy general in response to a request from guidance from mueller earlier this month and implies he cannot discuss his disagreements with bill barr and must remain within the boundaries of our report because those discoveries were made by executive executive privilege. The letter adds this, it is the departments longstanding policy not to discuss the conduct of uncharged third parties. A spokesman for mueller said monday that he will have a brief Opening Statement and will then offerd the entire report as hi full statement for the hearing record. Mueller intends to abide by the staimt report, any testimony from his office would not go beyond hisno report. President trump said he will notru be watching any. Yesterday, he said he might watch, quote, a little. Im, not going to be watchi, probably, maybe ill see a little bit of it. Im not going to be watching mueller because you cant take all ofe those bites out of the apple. The president is expected to monitor the hearing much like he has done with similar events in the past. Trumps schedule on wednesday only includes a routine lunch with the Vice President and points to executive time as a natural window for trump to take in snip ets of news coverage. We know he loves to do that. We remember the nine minutes that bob mueller spoke, the first time we heard from him after the investigation concluded. In that nine minutes, he basically said im not going to offer anything beyond this report. What are you going to be listening for . You really seized on significant moment. He came out and said, if i am made to testify, i will essentially read from my report. In the last day, he gets a letter saying, hey, you make sure youey stick to that report. If you are him, you are thinking, didnt i just say that . In that is what congress will be working very hard to try and get him to do is stray from his report. More specifically, youll hear phrases like, in your own words. And what can you tell us about the thinking behind that decision. With strict time constraints, the challenge will be asking openended questions and getting anything out of him who will be just saying, im going to be reading from my report. Talk about that letter sent to him. Hes made that clear. The doj reinforces it with this letter. Could that backfire for the doj, could that have nudged him to say, i already said i was going to do this. Now you are telling me what to do . If Robert Mueller wasnt so unflappable, i would say absolutely. But seize shown not to be. A lesser person might be more annoyed and actually retaliate against a doj that sends him such a ridiculous letter. Was that more from the doj to be on the record saying this ahead of had is testimony . Again, hes now a private citizen, so he doesnt have to listen to what the doj is advising. Exactly. The letter makes you wonder if it was directed by somebody, i dont know who but somebody very high may have sent the letter. Going to the other part of your question, whatou are trumps te going to be looking for . That is the key. How much will he deviate and how much space will he admit to between himself and william barr. Does william barr exert executive privilege . He can claim it, trump can claim it. It can be litigated. We dont know the extent of executive privilege. We know it exists but it isnt an absolute. Im about to get yelled at. What question would you ask . The number one question is this,es why did you not subpoen the president . Danny, thank you. President trump is escalating his attacks on four Progressive Democratic congresswomen known as, quote, the squad. He tweeted yesterday, the squad is a racist group. Tweeting as his motorcade made its way to the supreme court. On your tweets, why are you escalating your feud with the four congresswomen in racial tensions . I think they are very bad for our country. They are pulling the democrats way left. They are very bad for our country, absolutely. You are stoking racial tension. No, no. There is no racial tension. The president criticized the Washington Post for running a story stating that he had talking points about the four congresswomen during a speak last week, he tweeted. The amazon Washington Post front page story yesterday was total fake news. They said advisors wrote new talking points. Does that sound like me . Photographers for the Washington Post and Associated Press captured notes from that speech with piece of paper with bulleter pointed notes for the president remarks showing just that. St interesting, you can see h he misspells al qaeda. We know hes briefed on them. Hes not necessarily reading them. Fairdi point. The white house is responding to the claim that it is detaining 17 cia agents. Having had the chance to lead that great organization, the Central Intelligence agency, i would urge everyone reading that story to understand they have a long history of lying. I would take with significant grain of salt any iranian assertions about actions theyve taken. He i read a report today abou the cia. It is another lie. They put out propaganda or lies. I dont think pakistan would ever do a thing like that. Definitely not. Pakistan doesnt lie but iran does. We are ready for the absolute worst. We are ready for sense too but we are very geared up. They are really the number one statemb of terror in the world. I have to say theyve pulled back because their money is running very low. Iranians said some of those arrested will be sentenced to death. The president tweeted the story is totally false, no truth. Just propaganda put out by a regime that has no idea what to do. T sitting along with the pakistan prime minister, said the reason american m forces ar still there is that he doesnt want to, quote, kill 10 Million People and, wipe the country, quote, offhe the face of the earth. We are like policeman. If we wanted to fight a war in afghanistan and win it, i could win that war in a week. I dont want to kill 10 Million People. Does that make sense to you . I have plans on afghanistan, if i wanted to win that war, afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the earth. It would be gone and over literally in ten days. I dont want to go that route. I dont think anybody would define winning a war as using a Nuclear Weapon to kill 10 Million People. Great to have you with us. A bizarre moment, the first time ath sitting president has talke about wiping an entire country off the face of the earth and bragging about it. Whenbo iran has does that towar israel, people have been up in arms and when he does it, he is boasting. Why are republicans so silent . Why are we not seeing any outrage . Thats a great question. Im not convinced we are not going to hear more out cry from folksry in afghanistan who wanto hear more details about this as they have foughtou alongside u. And nato partners for years. Again, this is a president that usually fires from the hip. This is something we could see some press back on. Lets talk about the attacks on the four democratic freshman congresswomen. It seems as if the president is digging in here. It is interesting. We have been say these are racist comments. The question is why . Why is he continuing to dig in versus back off . Is he trying to prove that they are note racist comments. Now hes turning around and calling them racist. There is a strategic thing here, hes making these four progressive women of color, members of congress, hes saying the comments they are making are unamerican, unacceptable. Hes painting them as far left ers. Hes using them as a place holderas in lue of the fact tha there isnt kind of a standard barer for democrats. We know the president spot tests this stuff. Does he feel like this message is resonating with his base and is something hell take all the way to november 2020 . Im not certain well hear him take this specific message all the way to 2020, we know we have heard this racist rhetoric. Weve shown so far, he hasnt had to pay such a cost. This is sort of a preview of what we are likely to see in the general election. Still ahead, the Trump Administration expands power. What itds means for the future u. S. Immigration. And al fraken regrets he redesigned over groping allegations. Hes not the only one who has spoken up. Well be right back. Work so hard give it everything you got strength of a lioness tough as a knot rocking the stage and were never gonna stop all strength, no sweat. Just in case you forgot all strength, no sweat. No no no sweat. 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The pace of trumps discussions with other officials has ramped up as a sign of coats tenure may soon be over. Some of trumps allies have nominated multiple replacements. Trump may be considering nunes as a replacement. Noining us this morning a reporter from the national press, interesting that nunes could be a replacement. One of the issues in a lead up to 2020 is combatting election interference. What would this mean if there on the midst of replacing dan coats and ramping up, which we can already assume people are already active overseas trying to deal with . Is. Absolutely. Something that dan coats has discussed and in that way could be significant. It is important to keep in mind, weve been talking about whether or not dan coats would be ousted by this president. This is a relationship that has had tensions. He is not among the closest advisors. Theyve not really gelled. Possibly likely because coats has felt comfortable coming out and challenging the president s views. This could be fairly significant as we head towards the election. Interesting that coats appointed an official to oversee elections. What do you make of President Trumps recent up tick. It seems hes gotten a little bump that coincides the race baiting or rhetoric against these four women. How do you explain that . It is tough to say. One thing i see, this is happening at a time where the president can take a lot of credit for gains in the economy. He has the advantages of an incouple ban si. There is no standard barer on the other side. Folks are tuning in to the political race. Im not sure we know yet whether or not these racist attacks are what is driving that approval rating. Ill be looking to see particularly whether he makes more gains amid independents. This other poll, which is 42 now saying they want someone who shares their issue. Also 54 say they want someone who could actually beat the president. This is a conversation weve been having some time now, which are democrats are voting for someone that they believe in or can beat the president and can they make one candidate be both of those things . Absolutely. I spent a lot of time on the road, i biggest thing i hear is they view the leftleaning voters as the next essential threat and they want to see trump out of the white house. I dont think they have it settled yet on who is best to do that or what type of person is best. They want to see big change and this comes out on the heels of the first debate. Well start to see voters ideas crystallize. It is quite early. Well see those debates begin to shape the field a little bit. Hundreds of thousands of people flooded san juans biggest highway. Puerto ricos largest demonstration comes a day after he announced he would not step down as governor despite days of rupgs and the leak of a profanity laced on line chat between him and officials and associates. 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Former democratic senator of minnesota says he absolutely regrets of resigning after several women accused him of unwanted touching or kissing. He says he wishes he had appeared before the Senate Ethics committee to marshal the facts. Fraken announced his intention to resign in december 2017 following the allegations of the seventh and eighth woman. He maintains that the allegations were false. At least seven Democratic Senators regret pressuring him to resign. However, gris continue gill brand was among the first to call for his resignation. What do you say to those who changed their mind . You have the right to change your mind. It is what happens in the military. The constant refrain is, hes so good at his day job or whatever hes doing that they wont hold him accountable. It is very hard to hold someone accountable who is gifted or talented in what they do. We are learning more details around Vice President s abrupt change. 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How can consumers claim their portion of the compensation . So as you said, to emphasize the scale of this breach, more than 50 of americans were affected. If you are listening, this could well pertain to you. Consumers who had their private information compromised in this breach can claim up to 20,000. Also any out of pocket expenses. And for any time they had to spend dealing with the breach and the rate they can claim is 25 an hour up to 20 hours. This is still a proposed settlement, so in the finalized. Those are the numbers we are looking at and the reasons you can cite to make your claim. Another story i want to bring your attention to is apple. A company near and dear to your hearts, says they are in talks to buy the intels chip. You remember apple was long tied up in dispute with qualcomm. They would be able to do a lot more internally. So this could be a huge move for apple and its independence moving forward. Not just apple making big move easy, microsoft said it would vest 1 billion in a Artificial Intelligence start up. What more can you tell us about that . Yes. So much going on in the tech space. We heard from microsoft in their earnings release, the Cloud Computing and azure doing a huge amount of heavy lifting. They are planning to vest 1 billion in what is touted as the holy gral of Artificial Intelligence. As a way of resolve the director of ai by big tech companies. What open ai plans to do is to develop the technology in a way that benefits all of humanity. They are working to build this super Computing Foundation on which they can build out the platform interesting space and quite a big move. Elon musk saying something where humans can make that Artificial Intelligence with their brain. What is the name of that Company Azure . Coming up, a look at this mornings one big thing. Ing. The department of justice tells mueller to stick to the record. 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So Axios Sarah Fisher got some data that showed any company thats under attack on minimum wage, on fairness questions, on taxes, on tariffs that those are companies that are ripe to be targeted and of course competition where you get big tech. So which of these of the 2020 candidates have been the most vocal in bashing some of these brands . Yeah, well senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have found they have had the most social engagement they had on anything in the last four months when they name a specific company. Bernie sanders by going after walmart got his most engagement in four months. At least four of the candidates have gone after mcdonalds on minimum wage. Cory booker finding that his social engagement soared when he joins a union protest against mcdonalds on the campaign trail in south carolina. And of course the tech companies, google, facebook, amazon, senator warren launched her campaign by saying she was going to break them up. At least three of the candidates used amazon prime day to go after amazon. Let me switch gears for a moment and talk about the other big story this week that is the Robert Mueller testimony. I know you over at axios are previewing it a little bit and how democrats will measure success with the hearings and what possible reactions may come out of the 2020 candidates. What do you expect to see tomorrow in terms of that . Yeah. Axios has a great behind the scenes look at what democrats are planning because they have a big problem. Robert mueller said he wont say anything new so if he sticks to that, how do they get the maximum bang for the buck . Well, axios elena treene found the one thing theyll be looking at is tv rating, how many people are tuned in. Even though this information isnt new in the report, it is new to most of the people watching it. I have said here on msnbc what democrats basically want is a dramatic reading of the report. Well, sure enough, one of the members on the Intelligence Committee says shes going to use her time just to ask Robert Mueller to do his own almost like an audio book reading of the key passage from his own report. That would be an incredibly long testimony if he read every single page of 480 pages of the mueller testimony. There are so many details well, yeah. There was a dramatic reading with Jonathan Lithgow i think on broadway a couple of weeks ago of the mueller report. But that was a different thing there. One more excuse me, one more sneak peek for you. Elena treene has details on axios just after 6 00 a. M. On how the democrats plan to make it live on. After the mueller report, after that testimony, theyre hoping to extend the fight into the fall. You can look for House Speaker nancy pelosi to push to pass a package of bills that would target money in politics, that would increase government accountability. Look for House Democrats to increase their house their accountability over the executive branch. Those are all tactics that are being revived from democrats in the post watergate years and one more thing to extend your broadway recollection, theres going to be a democratic social Media Campaign retweet the report where democrats are going to urge celebs and others to retweet the key quotes from the report. All right, my friend, well be reading axios a. M. In a little bit. And you too can sign up for the newsletter by going to signup. Axios. Com. That does it for us. Im Yasmin Vossoughian with ayman mohyeldin. Morning joe starts right now. Several months ago a Foreign Policy expert on the International Level went to advise donald trump and three times he asked about the use of Nuclear Weapons. Three times he asked at one point if we have them, why cant we use them. Trump asked three times three