oil tycoon will host the strategy session for a america first action superpac at his ranch tomorrow in texas. >>> this week the public may get a first look at the top secret documents from the jfk investigation. they will release all files by october 26th which is thursday of this year. president donald trump announced on twitter he will allow the release of the classified materials. experts who studied kennedy's assassination do not think there are many things but some say there could be a cia study of oswald and testimony of former cia officers. >>> the air force can bring back nearly 1,000 retired pilots whether they want to come back or not. president donald trump signed an executive order on friday to recall the pilots as a way to tackle the air force's pilot shortage. right now they need 1500 pilots under a previous executive order, only 25 can be recalled. this temporarily removes that limit for up to three years. >>> the sentencing hearing begins today for army sergeant bowe bergdahl. he said he left to draw attention to problems in his unit. but he says he got lost and capture

a corporation's ability to spend unlimited amounts on politics either directly or through superpacs requires dealing with the problem that even a domestic corporation which can wholly owned or controlled by foreign powers. and that should be tightened up. one of the ways would be to, as proposed, set some kind of percentage, ownership percentage by foreign nationals or foreign governments and say above this even a domestically cite corporation can't spend on politics. >> mr. chairman, thank you very much. i yield back. >> i recognize myself for five minutes. this question is to everybody on the panel. you can say yes/no, you can elaborate, just don't take too long if you're going to elaborate. and we'll go your left to y'all's right. laws like the federal election campaign act, the mccain-feingold, supreme court cases like citizens united, do those refer to and should those cover all political advertisements whether express advocacy or issue advocacy despite the platform? mr. vandewalker? >> yes. i think our campaign finance regime at its heart is about transfers of money designed to influen

state it requires tens of thousands of signatures, california, millions of signatures, you get the superpacs that come into reinforce party or doxy. jeff flake would have faced continues of millions of dollars in negative ads from the superpacks. the name you mentioned, michael bloomberg, that gets some interest because he has the stature and financial resources to establish an independent movement and fight back. but the final thing i would say, michael, what we really need, in my opinion, is more of your viewers, more americans to vote in those primaries. so that it's not just eight or 9%, it's 30% or 40% or 50%, take back the process. moderates, independents, people who want a system that works again and the final point i would make is, we need to get away from this notion that compromise is somehow or other a sign of moral weakness. our country was founded on compromise. the constitution itself was writ bin people who profoundly disagreed about some things, but got together and reconciled those differences. we used to think that that process was a sign of statesmanship, not an act of bet

a superpac aligned with mr. mcconnell revealed plans to attack bannon personally as it works to protect gop incumbents. the

a superpac aligned with mr. mcconnell revealed plans to attack bannon personally as it works to protect gop incumbents. the effort reflects the growing concern of republican lawmakers over the rise of anti-establishment forces and comes amid escalating frustration over president trump's conduct. which has prompted a handful of lawmakers to publicly criticize the president. the campaign will highlight bannon's hard-line populism and attempt to link him to white nationalism to discredit him and the candidates he supports. better late than never, i guess. let's get to our reporters and guests. ashley parker, white house reporter for "the washington post." and at the table, heidi przybilla for "usa today," philip bump for "the washington post," tad devine, democratic strategist and former senior adviser to bernie sanders campaign and old friend of mine from the campaign trails and david jolly. ashley parker, let me start with you and some of this great reporting in "the washington post" today about -- i'm not sure w

and he was about to start helping trump's outside superpac. so this guy has been there for a long, long time. has a lot to tell. >> yeah. he has every incentive to cooperate right now. he has information not just about the effort by russian-backed ukrainian entities to influence washington. the money laundering, the tax evasion, but he potentially has information about the campaign. he also has information about the trump administration. >> so julie, we're coming up almost on 24 hours since we've heard from the president of the united states. it's a rare thing these days. how concern second down the white house as you report yesterday, and what are they most worried about? >> they're concerned. you're seeing a lot of public brushing off of what happened yesterday, but certainly there's a high level of concern not only because of what we saw with these three people, but because we're in a phase of the mueller investigation where you have former white house officials and current white house officials who are going before mueller and the message

mitch mcconnell's personal superpac funded by rich guys is coming after me and my family. i suspect it will be effective in the knife fight. >> robert kos can a, thank you for being on. still ahead on "morning joe," the senate's top voice on foreign relations. republican bob corker joins the conversation. how he's charting american policy overseas on behalf of a president with whom he deeply disagrees. but first, new york times columnist tom friedman joins the table. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. ♪ if you have moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or crohn's, and your symptoms have left you with the same view, it may be time for a different perspective. if other treatments haven't worked well enough, ask your doctor about entyvio, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohn's. entyvio works by focusing right in the gi-tract to help control damaging inflammation and is clinically proven to begin helping many patients achieve both symptom relief as well as remission. infusion and serious allergic reactions can happen during or after

he worked on the america first pro-trump superpac. for months up until this past spring basically. while the name rick gates may not be as well known to people, he has a lot of ties to the campaign. he has a lot of ties to the gop sort of apparatus here in washington and i do think that is sort of a critical point. i also think, yes, in this building behind me, they are going to get a lot of questions. house speaker paul ryan, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell are going to be pressed about this by reporters. and they might have something to say. >> and they may indeed. you know, catty, again, following up on how active these two gentlemen were in the trump campaign, we saw this last week. the trump campaign trying to distance themselves from cambridge. an annalitica. to donors and also to the press. because they were using cambridge. that was going to be the secret. it's the same thing with paul manafort. donald trump a couple months ago. paul mon that for the, i don't know, right, who's paul mon t t manafort. >> you heard time and time again from donald trump, from jared kush