i'm dara brown in new york at msnbc world headquarters. it is 7. :00 in the east, 4:00 out west, and here's what's happening. >>> new fallout from the explosive report that president trump wanted robert mueller fired last june. how democrats are trying to protect the special counsel. >>> the president back in the u.s. after meeting overseas with world financial leaders. the big takeaways from his trip. >>> direct question. stormy daniels asked about her relationship with the president. how she responded and why trump hasn't seen any repercussions from this story. >>> and new this morning, democrats launching efforts to protect special council robert mueller in the wake of reports president trump ordered his white house counsel to fire him back in june. "the new york times" and "washington post" report senate democrats plan to include legislation to protect mueller as part of continuing budget negotiations. republican senator lindsey graham co-sponsoring yet another measure. no reaction yet from house speaker paul ryan or senate majority le

>>> and that wraps up this hour of msnbc. i'm alex witt. time for hugh hewitt in washington. >> thank you, alex. morning glory, america. i'm hugh hewitt. msnbc is open for business when the federal government isn't thanks to the hashtag schumer shutdown. after almost every republican voted to approve a house bill passed by the house republican majority, almost every senate democrat voted to turn off the government. they shut erred the federal government. what does that mean for the country, for the military, for you? joining me to kick off days of coverage the best and brightest, fairest and most prepared reporters inside the beltway. two of the news organizations best young reporters seung min kim and tim alberto. and courtney kube who covers our network and following closely the impact of the schumer shutdown on our army, navy, air force, marines, coast guard, reserved forces, intelligence community. thank you three for being up early after working late. seung min kim, he got it. he was too cool for school young kids who helped president

republican strategist, msnbc political analyst, and james peterson is also with me, msnbc contributor, also host of the remix podcast on whyy. mr. peterson, let me start with you. you wrote in "forbes," quote, whether it concerns poverty, racism, or war, trump represents everything that king built a legacy to resist and reject. in this trump is precisely who king was so earnestly warning us about half a century ago. how so? >> well, when you look at the things dr. king committed, his life and legacy to, the sort of trinity of being anti-war, of combatting poverty, and of combatting racism, and you map that onto the policies and the rhetoric of the trump presidency even as early tenure right now becomes pretty clear that trump, when it comes to race if you're thinking about the muslim ban, rhetoric around mexican immigrants, if you think about what he said around charlottesville, around certain black nations, an "f" on race. if you look at poverty, consider the trump tax policy just passed and the way that's going to play out in terms of poor folks in this nation not to mention the fac

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also with me, msnbc political analyst hugh hewitt. a nationally syndicated radio host and host of "hugh hewitt" on msnbc. melody, let me start with you, you heard paul ryan talk about this optimistic note. i really want us in the media to stay away from the bar being so low that we'll be happy if the president just sticks to his script. this is -- the president's history of these big speeches has not been great. davos last week was proof that, sure, he can stick to a script, but they're not stirring notions of his world vision. what are you expecting for tonight? >> well, a couple of things. you're right, to start off, state of the unions are hard. they're usually speeches by committee, you got the policy people jostling to get the best in, then you got the speech writers trying to turn it to poetry, usually ends up being a laundry list. i don't expect president trump to do much better tonight. what i think the american people need to listen to are the trend lines behind the headlines. he's going to take credit for the massive corpora

and msnbc contributor. and michelle sinder, white house correspondent and msnbc contributor. to hear how it still makes her sick, she's been nauseated, dizzy, headachy. she's going through all of this all over again. >> absolutely. and just think about it. she described preparing for this in a similar way she prepared for competition at the olympics and having to block everything out. and -- but it's these women, aly raisman and other people, who are the impetus here, sadly. there are not a lot of checks in place to allow the sort of abuse to take place for so long so i think these people she referred to as an army are going to be moving forward. the impetus for change. as other -- as people look into, investigate who was responsible and what needs to be changed. >> it's not happening in a vacuum. hoda showed her pictures of the marchers this past weekend, the women who, carrying signs with her name and her quotations from her court sentencing hearing comments to larry nassar. this was that exchange. >> what struck me about your words, aly, was they weren't just said in that

deep freeze kicks off msnbc live for 2018. good morning. happy new year to all of you on this brisk morning. spectacular fireworks and record cold temperatures in many cities across the u.s. helped ring in the new year. revelers braved real feel temperatures in new york city of below 7 degrees and many kicked off celebrations with a burst of confetti and fireworks as the glittering crystal ball dropped. temperature continued to drop by the hour. reaching zero just before midnight. boss tone yan welcomed 2018 with first celebration and fireworks over the boston harbor at midnight. >> from dubai to seoul. >> to hong kong. 2018 is already making a spectacular. >> for new year's, hoping to have a year full of love. help others where i can. >> scotland, with bag pipes. hungary took the plunge early. while even north korea puts on a show. sidney harbor lit up. as the rest of the world rings in the new year, police are on high alert in turkey. authorities have arrested more than 100 people with suspected links to isis militants. istanbul doubling

reporter and our msnbc contributor as well. from your reporting, what has happened in this fight, this internal republican fight. bannon could be the big loser if he has lost the mercers. he might even lose breitbart. the board is thinking of firing him. >> steve's job is not secure at breitbart. he may not be there for very much longer. his job is so involved there. having lost the support of rebecca mercer, if she is working to get him out, he could be in danger. the larger question is whether or not he can survive apart from trump. if he purports to be the voice of trumpism, of the nationalist, populist conservatism that swept across the country, if that's his job, how can he do that if trump is saying i want nothing to do with you. >> trump tweeted that the mercer family recently dumped the leaker known as sloppy steve bannon. smart! that's just one of the tweets. this has real implications. bannon has not even been able to open a bank account with the republican organization he was putting up. >> it very hard to see how st

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and stay with msnbc as we get ready for the state of the union. listen to it and then analyze every word that's spoken. hopefully admiral stavidis is heard at the white house. also listen for the president's offer on daca, the d.r.e.a.m.ers and immigration reform plus border security. i do not know how one democrat votes against that. a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million people, d.r.e.a.m.ers waiting for a dozen or more years for an offer to emerge from the republicans. this is the nixon to china moment. he made the offer, put it on the table in exchange for border security and changes to immigration law that ought to be easy to get to. so senator schumer and leader pelosi, sit down with your caucuses and say we have to take care of these 1.8 million people. they have real homes, real homes, real churches, real communities and an opportunity to bring their children with them. we've got to pass this package. thank you for watching today. keep the conversation going on msnbc.com/hugh-hewitt. and see you next start morning here on msnbc. how do t

msnbc and cbs said the same thing. how did multiple sources get this wrong? how do they all get the date wrong in the same way for exactly the same purpose? msnbc admitted their story was false because the washington post got hold of the email and showed it was false. they refuse to do what journalists demand every day that other people do, other companies and corporations do and government officials do, provide transparency about their mistakes. to this day, cnn refuses to say to the sources were who gave them the wrong date and how it is they all got the date wrong, innocently and in good faith, a delivered attempt to deceive the public, that is what a rhodes trust in media outlets, when they claim up and hide behind corporate and lawyer statements, and refused to provide basic transparency about their own behavior, how do they have credibility to turn around and demand transparency from government institutions and officials or corporations when they refused to provide it themselves? that is the most disturbing part of the story, not just a huge mistake, no

>>> a good evening, i'm richard lui at msnbc headquarters. it's 10:00 p.m. on the east coast. we're nearing the second day of a government shutdown, actually the third day, but there is some hope on the horizon, a scheduled vote for noon tomorrow in the senate. that's what new this hour. that will likely determine whether the government will reopen. senator mitch mcconnell made the announcement in the last hour or so on the senate floor. >> should these issues not be resolved by the time the funding bill before us expires on february 8, 2018, assuming that the government remains open, it would be my intention to proceed to legislation that would address daca, border security, and related issues. it is also my intention to take up legislation regarding increased defense spending, disaster relief, and other important matters. the shutdown should stop today. >> now, after mcconnell's announcement right there. the number two senate republican rb john cornyn told reporters he was optimistic about the vote to happen tomorrow. this while senator minority leader chuck schumer said he

on msnbc. please welcome back to the show, our friend, chris hayes, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> seth: thank you so much for coming up. >> it's always my great pleasure to commute the four floors up. >> seth: it is four floors up. and i do want to speak -- this is very noble of you, because you do your show live. we are pre-taping, so you actually have to leave here and go do your show. you basically have to give up an hour. a million things could happen in that hour. >> yeah, i fully anticipate that the senate will be down to about 60 members by the time i get back down. [ light laughter ] >> seth: you're right, yeah. the majority will be much less. one of the things that seems to be getting a little lost and sort of the more salacious things that are happening every day is the tax plan. house voted on one today. you have sort of talked about on your show that the math that the republicans are pushing does not quite add up. >> you know, two-thirds of the tax cut is for corporation

stay with us here on msnbc. remember to follow us online at "mitchell reports." >>> craig melvin here at msnbc headquarters in new york city. good afternoon to you. treasonous? the new bombshell claim from steve bannon about that infamous trump tower meeting with the attorney general, that donald trump was introduced to the participants and why he thinks donald trump jr. will, quote, crack like an egg. plus, senator romney. two sources now tell nbc news his announcement is a matter of when, not if, so how would he work with president trump after calling him, among other things, a fraud? >>> and state of emergency, a winter storm from new england to florida with terms being thrown around like winter hurricane. our meteorologist will explain what the terms mean and what we can expect. we start with a bombshell new

and msnbc political analyst rick tyler, former cruz campaign spokesman. good saturday morning to you all. let's get right to it here. >> good morning, alex. >> rick, there has been a mild response from republicans to this so far. how about you? what is your take. does this move the needle on possible obstruction by the president? >> i'm not sure it does in and of itself. it certainly would lend to a case preponderance of the evidence. he fired mueller. he said so very clearly on this network, on nbc that he did so because of the russia investigation. now we learn that he continued to fire mueller. and so that should be very concerning. they should move this week on protecting the mueller investigation. >> but victoria, let's look a lot what we have witnessed the last year. the president has made all kinds

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both i should say are msnbc contributors. chuck, let me start with you and the piece that ran in "the new york times", reported by other outlets including nbc news about the exchange between president trump and the white house counsel, president trump ordering down mcgann, special counsel, to fire the special prosecutor. don mcgann rebuffing that saying it could send a bad message and derail the presidency. chuck, how did you respond that to -- respond to that news first reported in the "times"? >> it's indicative of other things. he fired james comey, put pressure on jeff sessions. he's made noise business how unhappy he is with the investigation. it seems to me, assuming reporting is accurate, that don mcgann did the right thing. he stopped the president from making an enormous blunder. that said, the mere fact that the president ordered that mueller be fired could be another brick in the wall. it could be more evidence of obstruction. >> ambassador mcfall, i follow you on twitter. i saw you tweet this piece, you had one wo

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msnbc's jeff bennett, with a good saturday morning to you. i want to get to how the president's legal team is responding to this report. >> reporter: good morning, alex. president trump's long-time personal attorney is denying mr. trump had a sexual encounter two an adult film star while he was married to melania. it comes after an explosive new "wall street journal" report alleged the actress received a six figure payout to keep her from going public. this morning, new fallout following a bombshell report from the "wall street journal" based on anonymous sources, alleging that trump lawyer michael cohen arranged for a $130,000 payment to a forer adult film star in exchange for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter with mr. trump t. payment is said to have come a month before the 2016 presidential election around the same time the trump campaign was nearly derailed by the now infamous ""access hollywood"" tape in which mr. trump can be heard about dragging about being able to grope women. >> can you do anything. >> lewd comments he la

eastern here on msnbc. we'll be right back. tonight, by the way, here on msnbc. we'll be right back. problem for. i just drank tons of water all the time, it was never enough. my dentist suggested biotene. my mouth felt more lubricated. i use the biotene rinse and then i use the spray. biotene did make a difference. [heartbeat] >>> i'm not aware the president ever intimating he wanted to fire robert mueller. let's keep in mind a couple things. robert mueller is still the special counsel. don mcgann is still head of white house counsel. >> all right, the white house pushing back against reports this week president trump ordered the firing of bob mueller in june and later backed down when the white house counsel threatened to quit. this latest revelation has legal analysts saying it helps prove the president tried to obstruct justice. here with both sides of the argument, msnbc legal analyst danny savales and bradley cohn, former contestant on "the apprentice." >> long me ago. >> danny, i'm going totart with you. based on everything that we know, i want you to make

from msnbc headquarters from new york. steve bannon back tracking on the comments made in "fire & fury." and the president saying sloppy steve is trying to make amends. president trump calling

you're watching msnbc. [hawaiian music playing] >>> the way the sexual misconduct allegations that toppled the careers of many prominent people and ignited a national reckoning over harassment in the workplace is now a major focus for the courts. in his clearly report, chief justice john roberts announced an initiative to insure there are proper procedures to protect court employees from sexual harassment writing "events in recent months illuminated the depth of the problem of sexual harassment in the workplace and events in the past few weeks made clear the judicial branch is not immune." joining me is julia ansley and hugh hewitt, a political analyst and the host of the hugh hewitt show. julia, this happened over the past few weeks. what brought this about? the chief justice issues a report like this every year. half of this one or more than half is focused how courts react when there are natural disasters and there's this. what led to it. >> this was kind of tucked in toward the bottom. we're reading thi

saturday mornings i'm here on msnbc. joining me this morning is seung min kim, al weaver, michael warren and courtney kube. each week i ask who is the most important person inside the beltway not named trump. i start myself this week by naming oklahoma senator james langford. working with president trump with six other senators to fix immigration. but he is also trying to fix the rules of the senate so nominees like richard grinnell and richard straas get their confirmation votes without endless delay. who are you nominating? >> sort of related to that, my group of people, most important people not named trump are these so-called d.r.e.a.m.ers, these young immigrants who came when they were children, do not have legal status in this country. i will say how to resolve their fate is by far the most complicated obstacle on capitol hill these days. and this immigration issue is definitely mixed up in the spending negotiations that the big four congressional leaders have been trying to work out. government funding does run ou

i want to play what was on msnbc yesterday. here it is. >> steve bannon's regret statement did not say he didn't say what we this said. he regretted what he said. i think it will be hard for him to walk back because he has not done that at all. >> i know that you can't confirm that steve bannon will be speaking with you. how crucial might steve bannon be to your investigation? >> it all depends on what he has seen and what he has heard. it could be very significant. the one in trump tower but also that he was sure the president had been made aware of this or that the president had met people that came to this meeting. obviously that's a key issue. there are a number of other issues as well. i can talk at a number that are in the public view already. he met with steve bannon where he just coincidentally met with a russian state banker at the uae while he was there. we'll want to find out whether steve bannon was involved in setting up a back channel with the russians and a number of other areas to explore but certainly those com

joined now by msnbc's own ckati ter. gabe sherman, "vanity fair" special correspondent, also msnbc contributor who i'm sure is also working on a book of sorts as well, right? >> everyone should be working on a book. >> books are great. they're interesting. they're good reads. they're full of details. >> especially audio book. i agree with you. wolff goes on to say, i'm going to read it here, his not disapproval became kind of a passport for me to hang around, checking in each week, making appointments with various senior staffers who put my name in the system and then wandering across the street to the white house and plunking myself down, day after day, on a west wing couch. does this help explain how he was able to get such inside information -- >> absolutely. >> in quotes? >> he talks about just sitting on the west wing couch and just watching the staffers and the aides as they were running by. he calls it a thoroughfare. and he had access, close access, to all of the senior aides. he talks about the author's note. al

i'm alex witt here at msnbc world headquarters in new york at the half hour. president trump's physical on friday went exceptionally well and he is in excellent health. the doctor of that report says he will release more details in a briefing on tuesday. government health officials say the flu is widespread except hawaii. it appears to be peaking but it is nearly three times as bad as last year. >>> and the winner of the mega millions jackpot has been identified. the 20-year-old who bought that ticket at a 7/11 in port

our lead off panel, and our msnbc political analyst, former watergate prosecuor and msnbc legal analyst, good evening to you and all happy new year to you. julia ansley, lets talk about this latest one. my question to you is what do we know of the what the mueller team wants to get out of this and what the trump team would like to get out of this or avoid. >> that's a great way to break it down, brian. when you look at what the trump's legal team wants, that keeps their clients from speaking to prosecution or in criminating themselves in a court setting. their client is the president of the united states. he cannot plead the fifth because that looks very bad and it looks like he had something to hide. and you know with the way this president tends to be very unfiltered. he could in criminate himself. the one thing that of course we have to think about the other side is the mueller's team. he's a thorough investigation. he leaves no stone unturned. he's going to want to sit down with president trump and be able to read body language and cues and pauses in the conversation, anything that

i'm alex witt here as msnbc world headquarters in new york. a devastating attack seen in afghanistan's capital city. a suicide car bomb went off in kabul today, killing at least 95 people. that death toll has gradually inched upwards. 150 others have been wounded. the blast occurred near foreign embassies, government buildings and stores and the taliban is reportedly claiming responsibility. >>> well republicans in congress are amping up attacks on the fbi and special counsel robert mueller's russian investigation. the latest came several hours ago when several gop congressmen appeared to be weaponizing a conspiracy theory of a secret society. >> the american people are getting tired of finding out that an investigation that began about the allegation that the trump campaign colluded with the russians and now it turns out it's actually the fbi that's colluded with the dnc, with the democratic national committee. and that's now become a fact. >> joining me now, congressman charlie dent, republican from pennsylvania. congressman, always good to

finally from msnbc comes an answer. on our we can show this saturday, anchor joey read interviewed a genealogist who had done historical research on my family. apparently one of my ancestors came to this country in 1860 from switzerland. i didn't even know that until the show aired because i have zero interest in the subject. i was more than 150 years ago. it is irrelevant to the decisions that i make as a father or as a citizen or an employee of fox news. it tells us precisely nothing about our modern immigration policy. america's economy has changed quite a bit since the civil war. according to msnbc, this fact is a conversation and are. a single 19th century swiss relative means you are now required to support green cards for everyone who jumps the borders or overstates a visa in 2018. boom, case closed! answered just put it, people in genealogical glass houses shouldn't throw stones. meaning me. as is so often the case, it's hard to know exactly whether this was meant as a legitimate point of debate or whether it wa

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i'm alex witt here at msnbc word headquarters in new york at the half hour. here's what we're watching for you. democrats are ramping up their calls for legislation to protect special counsel bob mueller from being fired. this move follows news first reported by the "new york times" and confirmed by nbc news that president trump ordered the firing of mueller in june. he backed down from that order after white house counsel threatened to design. let's bring in professor at the lbj school of public affairs at the university of texas. and joe watkins, former aide to george h.w. bush and author of "the new pc," practical consideration. and msnbc political analyst rick tyler, former cruz campaign spokesman. good saturday morning to you all. let's get right to it here. >> good morning, alex. >> rick, there has been a mild response from republicans to this so far. how about you? what is your take. does this move the needle on possible obstruction by the president? >> i'm not sure it does in and of itself. it certainly would lend to a case preponderance of the eviden

joining me now msnbc political analyst robert costa, national political reporter at the "washington post." msnbc national security contributor as well as "new york times" washington correspondent michael schmidt, and national political reporter carroll lee. first to you, carroll lee, your reporting on the conversations with andrew mccabe when the president first complained to him after the firing of james comey. this is the backdrop for this forced exit, early exit of andrew mccabe. tell us what you know, what you reported. >> andrea, it's one of the first we know of. we don't know every conversation the two of them had. what sources have told us is the president was very frustrated watching james comey take this fbi plane back from california to washington, d.c., after he was fired and so he called andrew mccabe the next day and demanded to know why he was able to do that. mccabe said he didn't authorize that but he would have if he'd been asked. in the process of the conversation the president brought up something that has frankly bothered him for quite a long time. it's no secret, but

. >>> msnbc headquarters. 95 killed in an explosion in afghanistan's capital. the attacker hid explosives in an ambulance, and detonated in kabul. marking the second strike in kabul in one week. president trump called the attack despicable. >> after 15 years, the grammy awards are heading back to new york city, and the nypd is preparing. the new measures follow attacks on concerts in manchester, england, las vegas and paris. >> joe kennedy the third to give the official democratic response to president trump's state of the unit address. the 37-year-old has emerged as a vocal advocate of the affordable care act and civil rights. >> boycotters stand at five. lewis. wilson, maxine waters, all have gone on the record calling him a racist and liar, not deserving of their time. >> at this junction, i do not plan to attend the state of the union. >> i believe that state of the union message is an honor that is afforded the president. by the speaker, who invites him to deliver the state of the union. i don't want to give him that. >> maxine waters, congresswoman, thank

an msnbc national affairs analyst. greetings to you all. kim, is it possible, would it seem in character if portions of tomorrow night's speech had a bipartisan reach, a bipartisan goal, a lofty reach across the aisle, kind of who's with me spirit? >> yeah, that will fall into that sort of traditional state of the union that you're talking about. and that is what the white house is saying the president wanted to do tomorrow to strike a conciliatory tone and talk about bipartisanship and unity moving forward as he, of course, touts his own record and pitches other agenda items like infrastructure. but it's going to be really hard to do at a time given everything that is so unusual about this presidency and nontraditional. you have a host of lawmakers protesting, boycotting the event altogether based on the comments the president's made. you now have this house intelligence committee kerfuffle over this memo that will likely be released in days. you have the government could possibly shut down in ten days if they don't come to a resolution, w

of change in a special msnbc town hall event. one of the topics, russian interference in the 2016 election. >> i think when we look at the elections and stuff, you know, democrats see fundamental difference on these things working well and all of us are obviously, you know, very upset that somebody could have influenced the elections. and any part we have played, we want to understand every one of the elections coming so we're all working harder. >> be sure to watch "revolution" google and youtube changing the world tomorrow at 9:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. one thing in common. they read more. how do they find the time? ... with audible. audible has the world's largest selection of audiobooks. for just $14.95 a month... you get a credit good for any audiobook ... and you can roll your credits to the next month if you don't use them. audible members get free no hassle exchanges ... and use the mobile app to listen anytime, anywhere. start a 30-day trial and your first audiobook is free. listening, is the new reading. text audio22 to

bush white house, now msnbc analyst. eli stokols, msnbc analyst and trump white house whisperer. jeremy's team and matt are also here. i want to play one more clip from donald trump's remarkable news conference last night where he's asked how do you define collusion. his answer somehow, all about hillary clinton. >> how do you define collusion? earlier in the briefing -- >> how are you going to define it for me, okay? i can tell you there's no collusion. i couldn't have cared less about russians having to do with my campaign. the fact is you people won't say this, but i'll say it. i was a much better candidate than her. you always say she was a bad candidate. you never say i was a good candidate. i was one of the greatest candidates. nobody else would have beaten the clinton machine as crooked as it was. i was a great candidate. some day you're going to say that. >> i'm never going to say it. elise? >> he is definitely going to run in 2020 just because he loves the campaign so much. he literally would love to be on the campaign trail reliving the victory and having an active oppo

and of course an msnbc legal analyst. walk us through what was told to investigators. >> last week when we saw the senate judiciary committee release the transcript, some of the most interesting exchanges there was how it came to be that the time line where the dossier, some of the findings of the opposition research being done by fusion gps went from the opposition research firm to the fbi. and whether or not the fbi was taking those claims seriously. what we saw in the transcripts that read almost 200 pages of interview here is a real effort, especially by the democrats to drill down on what they saw as a potential pattern of behavior, between trump properties, his organization and real estate and russian figures. we can put two things on screen here. first what simpson described as what he calls a pattern of transactions where there was quick sales, russian figures coming in to buy properties at an inflated rate and then selling them at a real loss. he says there's this effort to disguise the identity of those properti

a finally from msnbc comes an answer. on her weekend show this saturday, anchor joy read interviewed a genealogist who had done historical research on my family. apparently one of my ancestors came to this country in 1860 a from switzerland. i didn't even know that until the show aired because i havedi zero interest in the subject. that was more than 150 years ago. it is irrelevant to the decisions that i make as a father or as a citizen or an employee of fox news. it tells us precisely nothing about our modern immigration policy. america's economy has changed quite a bit since the civil warm according to msnbc, this fact is a conversation ender. a single 19th century swiss relative means you are now required to support green cards for everyone who jumps the borders or overstays a visa in 2018.. boom, case closed! as the guests just put it, people in genealogical glass houses shouldn't throw stones. meaning me. as is so often the case, it's hard to know exactly whether this was meant as a legitimate point of debate or whe

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said, msnbc anchor there said companies will not compensate their workers and create jobs let's roll tape. >> the market is doing very well because companies are flush with cash and when they're flush with cash they're not paying their employees more. they're doing dividends and stock buybacks. this is so dangerous why would republicans want to sell this to the american people? the administration mays the argument when you give corporations these taxes, they're going to create jobs, give people higher wages. i dispute that point because corporations are flush with cash today and they're not doing that liz: okay even msnbc's parent comcast is giving out bonuses and doing more capital investment but you know, msnbc anchors you saw that steve even washington post say these companies are trying to favor the white house, stock buybacks and dividends aren't good but bad for the economy what do you think? >> you want to give me a thousand dollars, in terms of investing capital investing is starting to show signs of life again starting last year anticipation of this tax cut and even if they

craig melvin here at msnbc headquarters in new york. on this day we honor the life and legacy of the reverend dr. martin luther king jr. the president of the united states insists i am not a racist. and the divide among republicans responding to his comments on immigrants only grows. some of the president's party are defending him. now a member of his own administration seems to be calling him out. plus, four days. the clock is ticking for congress to pass a spending plan and avoid a government shutdown, but the future of 800,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers sidelined in part by these comments must be decided first. >>> and how could this happen? a mistake sent people in hawaii scrambling thinking a ballistic missile was on its way. 38 minutes of terror. what went wrong and how? we start, though, on this martin luther king day

. >>> good morning, i'm dara brown in new york at msnbc world headquarters. it's 7:00 in the east, 4:00 out west, and here's what's happening. the president at camp david and on camera, trying to set the record straight about a wide range of topics, including his mental health, steve bannon, and the explosive revelations in a new book. >> excellent student, came out, made billions and billions of dollars. i consider it a work of fiction. i don't know this man. i guess sloppy steve brought him into the white house quite a bit. i think we're going to have some really great bipartisan bills. we want the wall. the wall's going to happen or we're not going to have daca. there's been no collusion. there's been no crime. >> plus, ready to talk. the expectations ahead of this week's discussions between north and south korea. >>> we begin with the president mounting a spirited defense on his track record, his mental abilities, and his actions related to the russia investigation. nbc's kelly o'donnell has more from the white house. >> reporter: inside a chilly hangar a

you're watching msnbc. if at first you don't succeed, just renominate. president trump has resubmitted 21 judicial nominees to the senate including two who are rated not qualified to be federal judges by the american bar association. the huffington post points out some of the nominees are, quote, hostile to lgbq rights and voting rights. my panel, judge goodwin and holly teeter received a not qualified rating. why would the president bring them back up? this is a lifetime appointment. how does this reflect well on the president? >> it's baffling. especially since we started to see republicans like grassley start to toss some of these back, saying look, you got to do better. they have a huge number. i mean, it's almost an unprecedented number of judicial appointments. >> 58. >> they're shuffling through. mitch mcconnell says, we're in the personnel business. we're sitting here, we're trying to process judges right now. they better do that job well. they have generally speaking conservative circles of all the

attorney in michigan and msnbc news contributor. thank you for joining me this sunday afternoon. very much appreciate it. is it standard for someone like bannon to have an attorney walking into these things? >> i think so. you know, the stakes are very high under these circumstances, and i would think i would want to have an attorney there just to advise him of questions he needs to answer, prepare him for the hearing, advise him when he might want to assert his fifth amendment privilege against self-incrimination, if it should come to that. so i don't think we should draw any adverse conclusions from the fact that he is bringing a lawyer with him. >> how much is the attorney going to be involved in the q&a? >> probably little. but again, you know, you've seen these images of a witness at a congressional hearing being asked a question and putting their hand over the microphone and consulting with an attorney. so he could be consulting with him question by question. my guess is not. my guess is that they will have prepared in advance so that steve bannon knows the questions where

i'm dara brown in new york at msnbc world headquarters. 7:00 in the east, 4:00 out west, and here's what's happening. republicans on the offensive, targeting a former british spy and reigniting the probe into the clinton foundation. >>> what a week from the explosive book about his administration to his twitter storm about north korea and the big fight with steve bannon. how the president handled the first few days of 2018. >>> one winner. some lucky soul won the mega millions jackpot. we'll tell you where. >>> plus, so, so cold. how cold will it get today and when it might heat up. >>> we begin with politics and renewed speculation on the fate of attorney general jeff sessions. the white house is pushing back on why he was not invited to this weekend's camp david retreat where president trump will host 23 top administration officials and gop lawmakers to discuss legislative and political priorities for this year. a white house official tells nbc the press should stop using a long-planned meeting with congressional leaders to take cheap shots at the attorney general. the white house stands

msnbc's garrett haake on the hill. okay, garrett, walk us through today. what exactly are they going to be voting on and what are the chances it passes? >> hey, stephanie. so the vote today at noon will be the vote that's been in front of the senate since midnight on friday night. this is a three-week extension in government funding going up to february 8th. it's the sixth year extension of the children's health insurance program. it's a delay of some obamacare taxes. the same thing in front of the senate on friday except three weeks instead of four. but this also comes from a set of promises about some legislative priorities. mitch mcconnell laid this out on the floor last night. let's listen. >> should these issues not be resolved by the time the funding bill before us expires on february 8th, 2018, assuming that the government remains open, it would be my intention to proceed to legislation that would address daca, border security, and related issues. >> so that's the promise for mitch mcconnell. if there's not a deal separately to deal with daca, borde