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Welcome back to "morning joe." 38 past the hour. house democrats plan to investigate president trump's alleged role in hush money payments to the two women back in 2016. the house judiciary committee is preparing to hold hearings and call witnesses connected to payments made to play boy model karen mcdougal and stormy daniels as soon as october. >> let me stop here. is this a good idea, john heilemann? we are talking about china and the other things and the democrats are going to put stormy daniels and karen mcdougal center stage there. aren't americans going to think that was so last year? i ...

We sell them. the goal is to get them to change their behavior. they are very american till. you don't have disputes among democracy. the chinese runs everything in china until they feel the pain, they are not going to stop. i think they made a calculation that our elections are right around the corner. they can play this game until 2020. if trump keeps piling on, i don't know if they can make it that long because the supply chain is beginning to move. steve: that's such a good point. the vice premier of china liu he had put out a statement regard going to the table. president announced. he sa...

Says the former vice president misspoke, but today the president piling on. >> joe biden is not playing with a full deck. this is not somebody you can have as your president, but if he got the nomination, i would be thrilled. >> okay, mary bruce live tonight from the iowa state fair. i want to go back to the background check issue. you cover capitol hill for us. give us a reality check here -- how realistic is it to pass this and will the president call congress back into session to vote? >> reporter: well, the president is calling for meaningful background checks but remember, he has also thr...

Impeachment discussion. so, of course, the process continues, nancy pelosi made that very clear. president trump is a bottom line kind of guy. so he sees that yesterday. we saw him do that when the report came out. now, in terms of substance, there were some moments in which mueller did say things that were problematic for the president. he said it was problematic to praise wikileaks, for example, he said his report did not exonerate on issues of obstruction. those are issues democrats will continue to focus on. for his part, president trump will focus on the bottom line. that's what we are se...

Piling on, all these months have gone by, we rarely heard anything to rebut that. >> that brief nine-minute statement from robert mueller. you worked for him, there were plenty of warnings to the democrats that he is not as tough and sharp as he had been six years ago when he last testified. his 89th testimony before congress and they relied too much on robert museum tore dramatize this very dry report you could argue and sell impeachment or sell the narrative you know to the american people that this president needed to be challenged. >> i'm sure many democrats today are questioning whether o...