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He was in that meeting. and he said, joe manchin said, ill give you the john lewis voting rights act bill, but cant go all the way to s-1. is there any way for democrats to say, at least we can get john lewis done if we work joe manchin and some of these democratic votes? >> there hasnt been, so far, in part because many of the democrats have recognized that manchin is just not as willing to move as they had hopes. the idea of what is in it right now is one of the reasons why so many republicans...

Welcome back to "morning joe." it is 46 past the hour. look at that beautiful shot of capitol hill this morning. not so beautiful whats going on inside. house speaker nancy pelosi told her fellow democrats in a recent letter that the john lewis voting rights advancement act, quote, must be passed, but it will not be ready until the fall, and it is not a substitute for hr-1, to which former obama speechwriter jon favreau took exception. in a recent twitter thread he writes, i wont pretend that de...

Thing, that they made the wrong call in this case. the real issue is whether or not the former presidents defamatory comments about e. jean carroll were made in the course of his official duties, within the scope, you would have it, of his employment. a federal judge has already found that trump is not an employee in the typical since, which is a condition thats necessary for doj to intervene here. but even more than that, that these comments went far beyond the scope of his presidential duties....

To work with. so certainly you could imagine there would have been the desire for that data to be available. now, steve bannon we know was in talks with wylie in 2013, by 2014 robert mercer was involved backing it. by that point steve bannon is the vice president of cambridge analytica. so certainly, you know, he is a presence within the new entity, the new u.s. entity, cambridge analytica, at the time that wylie is discussing. >> and finally theres a remarkable moment of alexander nix talking a...

Trouble with uk regulators. >> i mean i cant speak to the direct line of control when it came to harvesting that facebook data, obviously, but, you know, steve bannon was -- part of the reason steve bannon was interested in cambridge analytica was because of the kinds of models they were testing. the only way to ensure that they were -- they might be effective and to ensure that they were able to test messages, which we know they were doing early on too, things like drain the swamp, the only way...

Backing it. al qaeda training camp forn teenagers within syria. the new report documentsjihady firefighters in the u.s., chechnya, egypt, gaza, jordan, to you nearby and saudi arabia fighting for the terrorist group. what is interest is the data being pulled from facebook and social medi by the foreign fighters. >> shepard: do we have a way to know how manmericans are there? >> right now there are two well-documend cases of americans fightingor the opposition in syria. ericaran is on trial in vi...

Stuck here, not moving a whole lot. the clusters of storms riding along that, not moving very quickly, so thats going to lead to some flooding out there for you. weve been dealing with that across parts of the central plains, backing it into portions of west virginia where there have been reports of over 200 structures being damaged by floodwaters. well keep that threat going into our monday morning as well. now south of that boundary, its just warm and muggy. thats the situation here for us. in...