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>> i am not going to vote to raise the debt ceiling, all right? this is a decision democrats are going to make. >> meanwhile, president biden met with a parade of democratic lawmakers in the oval office yesterday in an attempt to get the caucus to look past divisions and support his economic agenda. that includes the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill and the $3.5 trillion spending bill. his first meeting was with democratic leadership. he then spoke with a group of moderate democrats including manchin and sinema. his final meeting was with progressives. you have bernie sanders and progressive caucus leader pramila. jayapal. there was a promised deadline to vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill that's day s away. congresswoman jayapal will join "morning joe" later to discuss the meeting. joining us now is jake sherman, an msnbc contributor and a reporter for politico. what progress was made yesterday between president biden and various democrats. >> well, jon, they're talking. there's a lot to go over here. they're on different pages on nearly everything including the topline number. as you know, $3.5 trillion is the number they're working off. that will have to be paired bag to something smaller. they didn't make any progress on that. and there's also a ton of policies outstanding when it comes to reconciliation andmedi. so just a whole host of issues. as you noted, there's this infrastructure vote on monday, and progressives are threatening to bring it down to vote against it in order to maintain their leverage on the larger package. this is typical capitol behavior. it's not unusual. they will vote for the infrastructure bill at the end of the day. but jayapal and the rest of the progressives suggest that they're not going to vote for infrastructure unless they know what the other package is going to look like. >> yeah, we'll certainly know our first question for congressman jayapal when she is on "morning joe" in a little bit. let's talk about that monday though. is there any chance with these threats from progressives that speaker pelosi could move it? >> she could, yes. she absolutely could. it would have to be part of a larger deal that includes some sort of guarantees on the reconciliation package. my guess is they don't move it, jon. we spoke about it this morning. we spoke about it on "punchbowl news" this a.m. which is not out yet. you'll have to subscribe to it and read it. pelosi cut the deal for that vote on september 27th. there's no chance he will let her move it. a lot of moving pieces on that. frankly, he wants his vote. pelosi promised it to him and he wants it. that's not unusual baiv. >> jake, i have one more question for you. here's a warning to democrats from a former chief of staff to president bill clinton. unite to pass a spending bill or risk losing your congressional majorities next year. john podesta, founder and chair for the board of directors for the senty for american progress isn't it a memo to every democrat of congress on wednesday. the message was to scale down the $3.5 trillion plan while pointing out mod rats who are only trying to pass a small bill, saying you need both bills or neither, and neither is unconscionable. they there's a growing fear among democrats if nothing is passed, the party circulate have little to run on in midterm elections. what are the plans if it all falls apart, particularly if it falls apart in a particular tag. the democrats control. i know the margins narrow, but they control it all. if they can't get it done, what happens next year? >> so it would be very bad clearly. i think it's extraordinarily possible that neither of these bills get passed. i think that's in the realm of possibility. john podesta's comment is interesting, but not more interesting than joe manchin who said he won't vote for $3.5 trillion. so that's the dynamic we're looking at is what will joe manchin and kyrsten sinema and the house votes for, that lines us with what he's saying here. >> jake sherman, thank you, sir. come back june still ahead, is the biden administration mending fences with france? we'll talk about a possible detente in that dustup. 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president biden and french president emmanuel macron will meet in europe next month following the spat over the u.s. submarine deal with australia. the two spoke on the phone for the first time since the deal was announced last wednesday. in a joint statement afterward, the white house wrote in part, quote, the two leaders agreed that the situation would have benefitted from open consultations among allies on matters of strategic interest to france and our european partners. the two leaders have decided to open a process of in-depth consultations, aimed at creating the conditions for ensuring confidence -- france also says its ambassador to the u.s. will return to washington next week after being recalled for the first time ever. the french ambassador was recalled on friday in response to being left out of that deal between the u.s. and australia, which the french foreign minister described as a, quote, knife in the back. following yesterday's phone call between presidents biden and macron, the two sides announced the ambassador's return, saying he will, quote, begin intensive work with senior officials. >> now to the ongoing search of brian laundrie in the wake of the murder of his fiancee gabby petito after her body was found in the washington national park. catie beck has more. >> reporter: the search continues for brian laundrie, now a person of interest in the murder of his fiancee gabby petito. >> we're trying to cover every acre in this preserve. >> reporter: all 25,000 of them, the vast area now a grid search by altering individuals, canines, and dive teams. so far no sign of laundrie who headed there a week ago with a backpack according to his parents. petito and laundrie had been documenting their cross-country trip since august. laundrie returned without petito september 1st, her family reporting her missing ten days later. the police shed more light on the couple's dispute while on the road. a witness statement from a second person who saw the 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home. the storm itself is located over the top of detroit and cleveland, but the tropical moisture is coming in off the atlantic and a lot of heavy rain headed in with a cold front from d.c. to pennsylvania. we have flood warnings around washington, d.c., and a flood warning around hagerstown. in all we have 35 million in this flash flood watch mostly because of the people in and around new york city are included this. we do not expect this to be an ida situation like we had two or three weeks ago, but isolated areas will get heavy rain. 1 to 3 inches expected in yellow and orange. isolated totals could be up to 5 inches. if we get 5 inches anywhere in a short period of time, we'll have to watch for that. today's forecast, heavy rain moving through the northeast. if you look at the rest of the country, this is our first fall day and it looks nice from the middle of the country all the way through the great lakes. florida is still pretty warm and tropical and humid. you get thunderstorms in miami late today. still pretty hot in phoenix, but we'll get your cooler weather in the days ahead. as we go through friday, it will be existing new england. this weekend's forecast looking pretty nice coast to coast. not many complaints at all. you like to see that word refreshing after a hot summer. and into sunday, pretty nice and sunny with above average temperatures in most locations, jonathan. once we get through this heavy rain event in the northeast in the next 24 hours, a really nice first fall weekend for just about everyone. >> bill karins, we'll be sure to bring our umbrellas. thank you so much. coming up, police reform was one area where it seems like bipartisanship was possible, but those talks have not fallen apart, and they leave big questions on that hot button issue. we'll talk about that straight ahead. before we go to break, we want to know, why are you awake. i'm your answers to waytooearly@msnbc.com or tweet me at #jonlemire. we'll read your 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>> republican tim scott provide statement that read in part, quote, i offered to introduce a bill that included our areas of compromise, a bill that activists and law enforcement alike could have supported. despite having plenty of agreement, democrats said no because they could not let go of their push to defund the police. senator scott's office said the provision to withhold grants from departments who do not support abuse encounters cut off the stream of funding. we'll hear more from senator booker about this a little later on when he joins "morning joe." many haitian immigrants who spent days living under a bridge in del rio, texas, will be allowed to enter the united states. that's according to u.s. officials speaking to the associated press, this despite the warning that the border is closed and they're ramping up haitian flights. planes have designed for 135 passengers. six of those flights carried 713 migrants combined. the biden administration is exempting unaccompanied 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couple of days, and they're really trying to bring attention to the deportation flights they're doing, but quietly we know they're leads thousands stay in the united states and seek asylum. they're not trying to draw attention to it at this point. >> is there any sense of the conditions there? we heard in recent days about some of it rather squalid and we saw the photos of, you know, officers on horseback treating the migrants potentially even with whips or using things like whips. what's your sense of where things stand as to that investigation and just how things look on the ground right now? >> well, we're seeing definitely an uptick in humanitarian organizations trying to step in and help, whether it's world food kitchen or outside groups that are trying to figure out ways to help inside of this makeshift camp because the reality is for days now we have heard the complaint consistently from folks that are covering this along the border, hearing haitian migrants saying we don't have 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(vo) unconventional thinking means we see things differently, so you can focus on what matters most. that's how we've become the leader in 5g. #1 in customer satisfaction. and a partner who includes 5g in every plan, so you get it all. three teenagers were shot at a bus stop in louisville, kentucky. >> reporter: police are searching for this vehicle. one of them is as 16-year-old and he died. >> the city's police chief outraged. >> while we can't sit here with thumbs up our -- and do nothing different and don't think we won't be back in this podium. >> when someone brazenly fires antonio a crowd of people striking five innocent people in this incident is unacceptable. >> reporter: across the country, more children and teens being caught in the fire. >> we have never seen this much of an increase over an extended period of time. >> reporter: last year more than 5100 kids were shot nationwide. 1300 of them died. firearm deaths up 13% and more children and teens had been shot than the same time last year. >> why do you think that is? >> there is as surge in gun sales we saw. the pandemic we saw people released from prison. the courts have been closed. all of these things together contributing to the number of children we are seeing who are injured by guns. >> our thanks to gabe gutierrez for that report. joining us now with a look at axios', cofinder, mike allen. >> the axios' one big thing is 60 years spike. we have been seeing these signs for months now the fbi is making it official in final figures for 2020 sets to be out on monday. the fbi is showing the murder rate in the country increase the most since they have been keeping records in 60 years going back to 1960s. now vital contact for this and the rate itself is way down from what it was in the '80s and '90s. this increase in this pandemic year is biggest increase according to new york times figure since 1958. a behind the scene for you, i mention these figures come out on monday. the fbi put them on a stat and the new york times grabbed them. that's why we have a look at them. this is reflecting what they see the direction of what officials are expecting when it's all dead and done. >> good reporting on this. what's behind this bill? >> this is super interesting, one of the casualties, one of the real problems during the pandemic has been for public schools. axios data showing that public schools are losing students to as you mentioned charter schools to private schools and to home schooling is a big trend. we can see there on that map. it's just about everywhere in the country is gaining charter schools. it's not a regional phenomenon. why does it matter? the number of students you have is directly tied to the resources your district is going of and throw in your website, ap is talking about teacher shortages and all these making for hard times for public schools and what we are watching as many of the cities suffer new outbreaks and we are expecting localized outbreaks, that can cause more parents to be frustrated. something we are hearing again and again and a factor we hear in this charter is parents want their kids in schools and don't like the remote learning. >> you are talking about these outbreaks. the axios' covid map shows us a glimmer of hope this time. >> i am so happy you got to that. how often you and i got to talk about something good. >> never. >> in politics and in business, too. someone tells you something headed in the right direction. this time we'll take it. the axios' weekly covid map shows we are headed in the right direction after a scary couple of months. new cases down 10% over the last couple of months. that's real. the experts we have talked to say they are optimistic about this holding. the fact that we have a vaccine coming for younger kids could help with that. this is a trend that we want to bottle. i didn't see this coming. so happy we are able to show a happy map and have a great headline. >> mike allen, i hope that continues as we discussed with dr. blatt that deaths are up and cases start to decline. vaccines for children hopefully in horizon the same time we are heading into fall and winter. mike allen, thank you again for being here. thanks for all of you for getting up way too early with us. "morning joe" starts right now. >> i just think it's time for some of our dearest friends around the world to battle this. because this is fundamentally a great step forward for global security. >> the diplomatic boris johnson telling the french to don't break, give me a break. get a grip about the u.s. sub deal about austria. plus, the debt limit does not authorize new funding, it covers what the government has already spent. with that is the backdrop. will congress really let the country default? good morning and welcome to "morning joe," i am at the white house this morning with sideways rain here. we are following big developments, domestic and foreign affairs. president biden met with key congressional democrats in an attempt to find a way forward on his signature plans. can he unite his own party, joe? >> that's a big question. another big question is why did you go to the white house on such a chambers morning? >> i love a good time. >> fantastic, willie, not really exactly the message that the french needed to hear from an ally who's negotiating behind their back. basically say get over it. i was glad to see that president biden understood that is not a way friends treat friends. do you want to tell him it's a lousy deal and they got diesel subs that sounds louder than lobster boats roaring around. you can talk to him about that. figure out a way to work it in. i was talking to a lot of