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All right. welcome back. joining us now from washington, d.c. with a look at axios a.m. editor in chief for axios nicholas johnston. great to have you with us. good morning. what is axios one big thing? our one big thing this morning is trump s last ditch road trip. we re eight days away from the midterm elections and we have the latest details on president trump s travel schedule. he will be doing 11 rallies in the final six days. what s noteworthy that all the rallies are in trump country and trump states. he s hitting places like indiana, like montana, like the gulf coast of florida, like georgia, like west virginia. these are all areas that president trump won by 20 points or more in the last election. it s definitely a strategy to help boost the base, something we ve been talking about, this white house has been focusing on for the entire campaign, trying to get the most hard core republicans out to the polls next tuesday. taking a look at the route ....
Company? yeah, so, this is about growing the digital business there and also building out their delivery business. he said that they had been vetting a virtual starbucks store in alibaba and stations at 600 supermarkets and opening 150 stores in shanghai and beijing and 2,000 across the country. just to give you a sense of the scale and the speed is they re hoping to open those by the end of the calendar year. live from london, thanks so much. coming up, everybody. axios nicholas johnston has a look at this morning s one big thing. the top law man to end the special counsel russia probe. the call for jeff sessions to shut down robert mueller s investigation may suggest about where it may be going next as a ....
Welcome back, everyone. joining us from washington, d.c., nicholas johnston. great to have you with us. good morning. what is the one big thing for us today. the stealth actions to undermine the obama legacy. we re spending all this time talking about the mueller investigation and lisening to the president s attorney and watching president trump tweeting about the mueller investigation and manyi other things, undo key parts of his legacy. earlier this week, the president announced plans to expand use of so-called affordable care, skinny plans. they don t fit all the requirements. they are supposed to be temporary. this is a way to get people out of affordable care exchanges, ....
Company around. cbs shares were down about 6% in trading on the news. but we ll have to see what the board decides later this week. back to you guys. thanks so much. coming up, everybody, axios nicholas johnston has a look at this morning s one big thing. coming up on morning joe, president trump lashing out at bob mueller. the latest on the president s weekend twits targeting the special counsel over 2016 meetings at trump tower involving his campaign and a group of russians. richard blumenthal and eric swalwell will both weigh in on the president s comments. morning joe just moments away, everyone. to deliver their dreams they re handing us more than mail they re handing us their business and while we make more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, ....
Editor in chief for axios nicholas johnston. before we get to one big thing. we got to congratulate you guys at axios for being named the best digital start-up at the 2018 digital media awards, we d like to feel we had a part in that. you guys got the word out. what s the one big thing this morning for axios? president trump tightening his hold over all of government we knew he was one-man west wing. didn t listen to his aides, couldn t be reined in, didn t take advice from outside experts very often. republicans control both the house and the senate. they had not been a check on his power. now with justice kennedy s retirement, trump has an opportunity to reshape the court. removing one more check on his power in the judicial branch. one republican who likened trump s power now as to what president george w. bush had shortly after 9/11. when all the government was united behind him. one republican told us the reason he s able to pull this off is that he successfully ....