Good morning. Its monday october 15th. The Trump Administration is reportedly considering plans that could once again separate parents and children at the u. S. Border with mexico. Several Unnamed Administration officials tell the Washington Post that the white house is hoping to reverse soaring numbers of families attempting to enter the United States illegally. One option under consideration is for the government to detain asylum seeking Families Together for up to 20 days, then give parents a choice, either stay in family detention with their child for months or years, or allow children to be taken to a government shelter so other relatives or guardians can seek custody. Its just one of many options under consideration. According to that official, nothing is currently in the works that would trigger family administratio separations on the scale we saw this summer. Over the weekend President Trump said he was weighing several options to tighten Border Security and did not rule out bringing the family separation policy back. What about the forced separation of Migrant Children from their that was the same as the obama law. Obama had the same thing. It was on the books, but he didnt enforce it. You enforced it. You launched that zero tolerance policy to deter families from children coming. No. Then everybody decided and the courts dont want separation. And frankly when you dont do separation when you allow the parents to stay together, okay, when you allow that, then what happens is people are going to pour into our country. Really what we want to do is change the immigration laws because theyre a laughingstock all over the world. Can i ask this simple question, yes or no. Are you willing to reinstitute that policy . Yes or no . You cant say yes or no. What i can say is this, there are consequences from coming into a country, namely our country, illegally. Gymnast ju last june First Lady Melania Trump flew to texas to visit a Migrant Childrens shelter and during that trip she wore a jacket that said i really dont care do you. Heres what the first lady just told abc news. Why did you wear it . You know, i often asking myself if i would not wear that jacket, if i would have so much media coverage. Its obvious i didnt wear the jacket for the children. I wore the jacket to go on the plane and off the plane and it was for the people and for the left wing media who are criticizing me and i want to show them that i dont care. So you were sending a message with the jacket . It was kind of a message, yes. President trump says the confirmation of Supreme CourtJustice Brett kavanagh and recent polling justifies him impersonating his accuser Christine Blasey ford to laughter and cheers at a Campaign Rally. Heres trump earlier this month in mississippi and then on 60 minutes last night. What neighborhood was it in . I dont know. Wheres the house . I dont know. Upstairs, downstairs, where was it . I dont know. But i had one beer. You mimicked her. Had i not made that speech, we would not have won. Why did you have to make fun of her . I didnt really make fun. They were laughing. The person didnt know the year, the time, the place. Have you seen whats gone on with the polls . Did you have to i think she was treated with Great Respect. Do you think you treated her with Great Respect . I think so, yeah, i did. But you seemed to be saying that she lied. You know, im not going to get into it because we won. It doesnt matter. We won. A majority of American Voters disapprove of the vote to confirm Brett Kavanagh 50 44 . 33 of voters say it makes them more likely to vote democrat, 27 more likely to vote republican and 39 say no difference. On the subject of investigation of kavanaugh by congress, 50 are in support, 45 oppose. The British Government accused russia of carrying out the near fatal poisoning of a agent this year. President trump qualified his response refusing to say that Vladimir Putin is fully responsible for poisoning and other murders as well as interfering in the 2016 u. S. Election. Do you agree that Vladimir Putin is involved in assassinations, in poisonings . Probably, he is, yeah. Probably . But i rely on them. Its not in our country. They shouldnt do it. Its terrible thing. Of course they shouldnt do it. Do you believe that the russians interfered in the 2016 election . They meddled, but i think china meddled too. Why do you say china meddled too . Because i think china meddled also. And i think frankly china this is amazing. Youre diverting the whole russian thing. Im not doing anything. Im saying russia but im also saying china. President trump declined to pledge that he would uphold the independence of special counsel Robert Muellers probe into russian interference . Will you pledge, pledge that you will not shut down the Mueller Investigation . Well, i dont pledge anything, but i will tell you i have no intention of doing that. I think its a very unfair investigation, because there was no collusion of any kind. But you wont pledge . Why should i pledge to you . I have no intention of doing it. The president s refusal to pledge to uphold the independence of that investigation, im curious about what that might say to you about his future plans for the justice department. He talked about Jeff Sessions as well. This has been a longstanding concern about people who are concerned about the justice departments integrity and the constant attacks that trump has made on Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein even though hes tried to play nice with rod recently, theres a lot of expectations that hes going to clean house at doj after midterms. He doesnt want to do it before because it would cause more problems for republicans. At the end of the year i expect sessions and rosenstein to probably be gone. I dont think hes going to fire mueller. Hes been a little more quiet on the mueller front recently because mueller hasnt been announcing a lot of new investigations or indictments because of that blackout period before the midterms. Whats your read on what we heard from the president over the weekend on the issue of family separations . Do you think its something hes really considering once again . I dont think theyre going to do that before the midterms. This is something that Steven Miller is really driving at. He is basically the secretary of immigration. He has more power than dhs secretary kirstjen nielson, it appears. It didnt really work last time. The numbers of people who are coming across the border only declined slightly. It would just cause another outcry this time and trump would have to probably go back because there would be such a negative reaction. So it doesnt seem like miller has changed and trump basically lets him do what he wants in this. Theres growing International Pressure over the disappearance and alleged killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and saudi arabia says it would not back down to threats, saying it would retaliate to any possible sanctions by flexing its economic power. I know that several European Countries have weighed in on this. Theyre pressuring saudi arabia for answers. Thats exactly right. International pressure is mounting. Khashoggi hasnt been seen since october 2nd when he walked into a saudi consulate in turkey. As far as we know, he never came out. The u. K. , germany and france put out a joint statement calling on the saudis to give a detailed account of khashoggis disappearance. Private industry is reacting as well. More and more executives are pulling out of a high profile saudi conference scheduled for later this month. Jp morgan, chase and ford have said their executives will not attend. The question now is whether the u. S. Will take more direct action. Now, one option would be cancelling the sale of weapons to the saudis. President trump seemed to rule that out in a 60 minutes interview, saying there are other ways of punishing them if they are responsible. That arms deal is worth 110 billion. Saudi arabia has rejected any threats of economic or political pressure. This is a country with vast oil reserves and there are concerns here that riyadh could use that oil as a weapon. 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Voter enthusiasm has increased among all voters to 77 , up 12 from october 2014. Democrats have seen the biggest gain, up 18 points to 81 , while 79 of republicans are enthusiastic about voting. So are 72 of independents. Looking by age now, while certainty to vote is only at 67 of voters 1839 compared to about 80 for older age groups. The young have seen the biggest gain from 2014, up 25 points. Voter enthusiasm among nonwhite voters is up 24 points from the last midterms, now at 72 . After months of back and forth that saw u. S. turkey relations plummet, american Pastor Andrew Brunson is back in the United States. Brunson who spent the last 23 years living in turkey was detained on terrorism and espionage charges alleging he aided in a failed coup attempt. Erdogan said brunsons release would only be granted when the u. S. Releases gulen. Brunson faced 25 years in prison, but was released after being convicted last week and sentenced to time served. T despite erdogans role in the incident, President Trump thanked him on saturday at a rally. I welcome home Pastor Andrew Brunson, great man from turkey. I want to thank president erdogan of turkey. He was terrific. They all worked together. Wasnt easy. Wasnt easy. That one wasnt easy. I think well probably now really establish a terrific relationship with turkey. We appreciate it. Lets switch gears and get a check on your weather with bill karins. Lets get you updated on the latest from Hurricane Michael and the aftermath. We still have 250,000 people without power in areas of northern florida and georgia. The fatalities is up to 19. Since the storm has passed, were able to see and measure where the worst of it was. It was the equivalent of like a 20mile wide tornado that went on shore where it was almost like a bomb went off. 95 of mexico beach uninhabitable. A lot of work to be done. Its going to be a long, long rebuild. Flood threat in texas continues. It seems like weekend after weekend its been soggy like that. Dallas ft. Worth you wake up to heavy rain. New york citys had some rain showers and same for d. C. Theres a lot of umbrellas that will be needed today. The worst of it will continue to be in texas where our flood watch continues for the dallas area. Rain is going to be heavy this morning and shift to the south and come back again as we go throughout tomorrow. Heres the rainfall forecast as we go through the next two days. This is about two to three inches of rain through dallas ft. Worth and areas of arkansas. This areas been soaked. Were going to deal with river flooding out of this also in the days ahead. Not only is it rainy in dallas, but temperature only 46 degrees. Chilly in st. Louis. Tampa at 93. D. C. , new york, umbrellas today. Tomorrow the cooler fall beautiful air comes into the northeast. Nothing severe like last week. Nothing in the tropics or severe weatherwise. Very typical october weather. 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Its being investigated and we would be very upset if that were the case. As of this moment they deny it and deny it vehemently. Could it be them . Yes. Has Jared Kushner got on the phone and asked the prince. Did he deny it . They denied it. In the not too distant future i think well know an answer. Hitwhat are your options . Would you consider imposing sanctions as a Bipartisan Group of senators had proposed . Depends on what the sanction is. Tell everybody whats at stake here. Theres a lot at stake. Maybe especially so because this man was a reporter. Youll be surprised to hear me say that. Theres something really terrible and disgusting about that if that were the case. Were going to get to the bottom of it and there will be severe punish n punishment. Business leaders are pulling out of an Investment Conference set to take place in saudi ay arabia later this month. Jamie dimon announced he would not be attending. One person still slated to go is treasury secretary steven mnuchin. Its actually a conference about terrorist financing and how to stop it. So its a very important subject. Regarding secretary mnuchin, i spoke to him last evening. At the moment he is intending to go because of the importance of the issue of ending terrorist financing. But along with the president and the general investigation, mr. Mnuchin will make up his mind as the week progresses and as new information surfaces. One Top Republican is warning that tough action needs to be taken if it is found that Jamal Khashoggi was killed by saudi arabia. Our moral credibility, our ability to all putin a murderer because he is, our ability to call assad a murderer because he is, our ability to confront maduro in venezuela or human rights atrocities like we see in china, all of that is compromised if we decide because an ally who is important did, that were not going to call it out. As calls for north korea to denuclearize with varying degrees of success, President Trump opened up about the trustworthiness of the north korean dictator. Do you trust him . I do trust him, yeah. Why would you trust him . If i didnt trust him, i wouldnt say that to you. The fact is i do trust him. But well see what happens. They may even be building more me feissiles. Theyre closing up sites. Nobody really knows. People are saying that. Ive actually said that. What if theyre still building more missiles . We dont really know. Lets say the answer is yes, okay . Top u. S. Officials including john bolton have said previously that kims regime continues to produce nuclear fuel at secret sites and is actively trying to deceive the international community. President trump told a crowd at a Campaign Rally that kim jongun sent him, quote, beautiful letters and that the two of them, quote, fell in love. The commander in chief doubled down on that. And then we fell in love, okay . No, really. He wrote me beautiful letters and theyre great letters. We fell in hov. I want to read you his resume. He assassinated his half brother, slave labor, public executions. I know these things. Im not a baby. I know, but why do you love that guy . Look, i get along with him, okay . You love him. Okay. Thats just a figure of speech. Its like an embrace. Let it be an embrace. Hes a bad guy. Let it be whatever it is. I get along with him really well. I have a good energy with him. I have a Good Chemistry with him. Ho look at the horrible threats that were made. No more threats. Despite steering clear of the white house drama, ongoing rumors persist that defense secretary jim mattis could be asked to heave the administration aft leave the administration after the midterms. During the 60 minutes interview, trump addressed the status of his defense secretary. I think i have a great cabinet. There are some people that im not happy with. Who . I dont mean to want to say. What about general mattis . Is he going to leave . Well, i dont know. He hasnt told me that. It could be that he is. I think hes sort of a democrat, if you want to know the truth. But general mattis is a good guy. We get along very well. He may leave. At some point, everybody leaves. People heavleave. Thats washington. I want to get your reaction to that, what the president had to say about defense secretary jim mattis. I think mattis has been staying in the job to try to be the adult in the room and trump does not like that. And there are other potential candidates for the job. Mattis may feel like after a couple of years of doing it that hes kind of tired of babysitting trump as bob corker once said of staff in the white house. Mattis, i think, is on a tricky time horizon in that he only might have a few more months left. But he hasnt been subject to the constant attacks like joseph sessions has. So theres that. You heard the back and forth there between leslie stall and the president. Whats the read been on the way the president has talked about the leader of north korea . I think everyone in washington has been confused about why trump has said that he loves this guy given that every senator and every congressman detest him, and you know, human rights watchers will say that kim jongun is plainly one of the worst dictators on earth. So why is trump buddying up to him, especially when its unlikely that hes going to do anything to reduce his nuclear weapons, so trump is likely to be disappointed. Mike pompeo was in north korea recently and he had his meeting. He wasnt stood up like last time. But i think trump thinks that his unusual negotiation style could lead to some good things. So we have to see because none of what previous u. S. President s have done on north korea has actually accomplished anything. So i think theres a lot of thinking that maybe trumps strategy may yield some results. 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I dont want to give trillions of dollars and lose millions of jobs and be put at a disadvantage. Trump called Climate Change a hoax back in november of 2012 when he tweeted the concept of Global Warming was created by and for the chinese in order to make u. S. Manufacturing noncompetitive. Trump later said he was joking but continued to call Climate Change a hoax. Did you see what happened this week in colorado . The broncos games with the cold and the snow . Unbelievable. Seems a little early for this, but it happens in colorado this time of year. It was only in the 20s. It was actually one of the coldest october nfl games theyve ever had. 13 Million People under freeze warnings right now. Its the end of the growing season in many maplaces. Even north texas and kansas and missouri. The cold is coming down through the rockies, then it will spill through the middle of the company. Dallas, 48 degrees for your high. Thats 31 degrees below normal. These temperatures should be in the 50s, 60s, maybe 70s this time of year. The rest of the week stays a little cool. Dallas back up to the 60s by the time we get to thursday. Lets take a look at your week ahead forecast. Were starting with heavy rain in texas. We have the nood threflood thre. You have a chance of getting wet in d. C. , buffalo, syracuse, new york, boston. By the middle of the week, kind of quiet. Little cool and showery in new england, maybe in some of the high elevations in new england especially the adirondacks with maybe a little snow on the peaks. Nothing you could ski on yet, but were getting there. For texas, we continue to look at more rain for you. Nice end to the week in pretty much the entire northern half of the country. Were not talking severe weather. Were not talking tropics or hurricanes or anything. Just watch texas for the chance of any flooding. 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Julianna, retail icon sears, the innovator of its time, the store that pioneered selling everything to everyone filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy overnight. What does this mean for the brand . Is it the end of the line for sears . So this has been pretty well flagged by the market. We knew that sears was facing an upcoming Debt Repayment later today, so filing chapter 11 doesnt come as a massive shock. In terms of what it means moving forward, they do plan to close 142 stores by yearend and begin the liquidation process imminently. Now, the ceo of sears, Hedge Fund Manager edward lampert, he will be stepping down but he has says that he hopes that sears can emerge from the bankruptcy in a stronger position. There will be hopes certainly floating around the market that this isnt the end for sears, but at this point it is too soon to tell. Julianna, live from london, thanks so much. Coming up, Axios Mike Allen has a look at this mornings one big thing. Coming up on morning joe, much more on President Trumps wide ranging interview on 60 minutes from defending his mocking of Brett Kavanaughs accus accuser, and why he says democrats are the ones that want to keep this country divided. Parsing out fact from fiction in the president s claims, plus republican senator lankford and senator shaheen join the conversation. Morning joe is just moments away. music throughout but one blows them all out of the water. Hydro boost from neutrogena®. With hyaluronic acid to plump skin cells so it bounces back. Neutrogena® so it bounces back. Ever notice how hard it is to clean impossible bathroom messes with spray cleaners . Try mr. Clean magic eraser. Just add water, squeeze, and erase. Its perfect for cleaning stubborn bathroom soap scum. Even hard water stains. For impossible bathroom messes. Try mr. Clean magic eraser. With my bladder leakage, the products ive tried just didnt fit right. They were too loose. 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So we had thought that democrats who were going to be running for office to try to unseat President Trump would wait until after the midterms, its sort of the accepted practice, november 7th was going to be the starting gun for 2020, but as weve seen here on the msnbc air, these candidates are out again and again in South Carolina, iowa, New Hampshire, nevada, they are all there under the cover of campaigning for people that have races this year, but what we hear when we talk to the campaigns is that more and more of it is being done to build their own name id and trying to break into that tier one, tier two when we really turn to 2020 in ernest on november 7th. I know alec baldwin was speaking in the granite state. Who has been dotting the landscape in South Carolina and iowa and New Hampshire and the like . This weekend we saw mayor bloomberg in New Hampshire, brandnew democrat headed down to South Carolina, just about everyone has been in South Carolina. Were told that the person who really sort of broke the dam was senator cory booker of new jersey when he went to iowa and had a great trip there. The other candidates who had kind of been hanging back said, wait a minute, we need to go in all in, too. That there isnt this sort of resistance to this we might have thought. What democrats explained to me is that enough democrats are excited about 2020, the idea of taking on trump is something that definitely is already on peoples minds. So these candidates might not pay the price that they would in the past and the past donors, some early state voters would have said dont take your eye off the midterm ball. This time with this huge field that we are about to have, everybody trying to distinguish themselves, theyre figuring go ahead and get a jump. One other big 2020 story popping today, front page of the boston globe, senator Elizabeth Warren of massachusetts releasing a dna test showing that she does have some native american blood in her, at least one 512th of her is native american. Could be more than that, but what her team says is that this confirms the claims that she has made and that President Trump mocks at just about every one of his rallies, the globe said senator warren wants to get a lot of attention to it. The fact that she got this test and is releasing it shows the president s criticisms are getting to her and she definitely has 2020 plans. Mike, let me ask you a bit about that 60 minutes interview, weve been picking it apart over the course of the argument. I want to ask you about the tone the president exhibited when he talked about his secretary of defense, james mattis. We can talk about the substance of what he had to say, particularly when it came to nato in just a minute here. What does it tell you about the relationship between the two of them . Its very clear the president has soured on defense secretary james mattis. This is a big deal. As i talk to republicans and democrats yesterday, they said this would be one of the most worrisome, most concerning departures there could be from the president s cabinet. As we heard a little bit in an earlier conversation here on the show, people both inside and outside see general mattis as someone who is assuring, competent and gives good advice, we call it the committee to save america, this unofficial alliance of officials, including the white house chief of staff, general kelly, who think its their patriotic duty to protect the president and the country from bad decisions. So when allies around the world love the idea that general mattis is there, but President Trump both saying that he seems like a democrat and also saying that he knows more about nato than his pentagon leader, that cant end well and republicans tell us it needs to end well if the president is going to confirm someone else. Mike, always good to talk to you. Thank you very much. Have a great week. To all our viewers out there you can sign up for the newsletter at signup. Axios. Com. That does it for us on this monday morning. Im david gura alongside louis burgdorf. Morning joe starts right now. I always used to say the toughest people in manhattan, real estate guys now i say theyre babies. Im not a baby. I know all these things. Im not saying i trust everybody in the white house, im not a baby. Im president and youre not. Whats the baby thing . He wants to make it clear to you that hes not a baby. But why does he always do that . That and hes the president. He wanted to make those things clear. Good morning. Baby president. And welcome to morning joe. It is monday, october 15th. With us we have National Affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc and cohost and executive producer of show times the circus john heilemann, president of the council on Foreign Relations and author of the book a world in disarray richard haass. Author zaleb salbi is with us and contributing Editor Weekly standard john pedestrian ris as well. What did you think about the president last night . Seemed like a baby. Big baby. And really, really ill equipped and unfit to lead this country. More than one or two references about the