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Good morning, friday, november 3. Im Ayman Mohyeldin along with Yasmin Vossoughian and louis burgdorf. Confirmed to the New York Times what did unsealed confession of another trump adviser claimed that the president and attorney general Jeff Sessions were told in early 2016 about the advisers foreign connection who hoped to arrange a meeting with russian president vladimir putin. Court records show frequent discussion in 2016 between suspected russian agents and George Papadopoulos. National Security Team member who pled guilty to misleading investigators. Now one session says that on march 21, 2016, papadopoulos attended National Security meeting in washington, d. C. With then candidate trump, then senator sessions and other advisers and thats when papadopoulos introduced himself to the group. Stated he had connections that could help arrange a meeting between trump and putin. Now, jd gordon, a former pentagon spokesman and trump adviser sitting between sessions and tpapadopoulos. Confirms to nbc news he remembers the officer and what was said. Said papadopoulos went into the pitch right away. Said he had a friend in london, the russian ambassador, who could help set up a meet with putin. Said listened with interest. Sessions opposed the idea telling them that no one should talk about it because sessions thought it was a bad idea that he did not want associated with the campaign. Revelation of conversation directly crickets what the president had steadfastly claimed. Take a listen to this. Can you say whether you are aware that anyone who advised your campaign had contacts with russia during the course of the election. I told you general flynn obviously was dealing. Thats one person. As he should have been. During the election. No, nobody that i know of. I have nothing to do with russia. To the best of my knowledge, no fern that i deal with does. So white house special counsel responded to the times saying the medias willingness to inflate papadopoulos. Into an important thought meter into campaign or russian operative is ludicrous. Evidence so far suggests he attended one meeting. Said something about russia and immediately shutdown by everybody in the room. Very important to remember he is not a criminal now because of now because of anything he did for the campaign. He is a criminal because he initially lied to the fbi. House republicans unveiled long awaited tax reform bill. The greatest overhaul of the tax code in three decades. Business friendly proposal that trump said would result in a raise for the american family. That may actually depend on where you live. Nbc capitol hill explains. President trump and congress rewriting the tax code. Racing to pass a bill that will affect every american family. Turning seven tax brackets into four. Doubling the standard deduction. Increasing child tax credit. This is a middle income tax reduction. Its not necessarily that clearcut. Bill slashes the Corporate Tax rate to 20 from 35. Eliminates estate tax helping wealthy americans and ends deductions that many families rely on for million expenses, Student Loans and state and local taxes. Its a complex, comprehensive issue that you cant just go in for one hour and get it all and say, okay, looks fine. Whether its good for you will depend a lot on where you live. Take the flowers family. In cresten iowa. Under the new plan, standard deduction will double. Saving them money, but the plan could hurt the family in new york also making 80,000. Right now they itemize their taxes writing off the morgue interest and ducting high state and local taxes. Under the new plan, forced to pay more because they lose that state and local deduction. At least four republicans are already opposed. House Speaker Paul Ryan are only lose 22 republican votes. If republicans cant get this done, do you deserve to control the congress. Were going to get this done because we told the American People this is what were going to do if we get this majority and guess what, were doing it. Democrats attacking the plan as a give away for wealthy americans. This bill is like a dead fish. The more it sits in the sun, the more it stinks. Nbc casey hunt reporting. Coming up on morning joe, hear from kevin brady. Former Trump Campaign chair Paul Manafort and associate rick gates remain on house arrest through the weekend. Home confinement since indictment this week on charges of tax evasion, bank fraud and illegal foreign lobbying. A bond hearing is set for monday to discuss loosening the conditions. Judge says she has concerns about flight. Manaforts Attorney Says theyve argued theyve known he could be indicted since august and traveled abroad since then. Always returned. This is an imagined risk the not real. Judge also considering a gag order in the case saying this is a criminal case and not a Public Relations campaign. I expect counsel to do talking in this courtroom and in their pleadings and not on the courthouse steps. The judge there appearing to admonish manaforts attorney for his statement outside the courthouse monday. We should also mention the judge says the trial could start as early as april. Joining us from washington, molly, good to have you with us this morning. Lets talk about the big tax bill introduced yesterday. House republicans very excited about it. President trump House Speaker expressing enthusiasm. Weve shown in the previous clips, there are a lot of skeptics. Some within the Republican Party itself. Walk us through the overview of what are the main issues and who exactly within the party are we likely to see opposition from. As casey reported, the republicans can only afford to lose 22 votes. Democrats ive talked to are largely opposed and unlikely to support the bill. Republicans that they can afford to lose, well, theres about 28 of them that live in the four states that are these purple states like new york, new jersey, more blue states. New york, new jersey, california, illinois, that would get hit very high with these state without allowing their constituents to duct state and local taxes. And thats a big deal. So the way the republicans go about trying to win those votes when already four of those you know purple state, purple district republicans have said they arent going to vote for it or dont support the package as it is, thats going to be a tough needle to thread. Yes. Certainly going to be a fight were going to see ahead. Turning now to the russia investigation here. Former Foreign Policy adviser molly carter page testifying for the committee for over six hours yesterday. What do you know about what took place. Those behind closed door hearings, those are very its exhaustive. I heard he was up there for almost eight hours. You know, in the meantime we have all the tax reform breaking. You know, essentially, well find out what he has to say. It just raises more questions for the house intel members. I know a lot of the republicans on the Committee Want this thing to be over. Democrats are asking tough questions. So well see what happens. I think the big question comes in regard to attorney general sessions and revelations that he was in meeting with papadopoulos. When you have al franken coming out, former bff saying we want to hear from sessions behind closed doors, thats a big deal. Well see what happens on the senate side. Now to bombshell report from former intern Democratic National Committee Chairman donna brazil concerning longterm suspicions that the democratic primary was rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton. Took the helm on the eve of last year when shults resigned showing Party Officials internally criticizing the campaign of senator Bernie Sanders and actually expressing support for Hillary Clinton. Now writing in politico, brazil saying after becoming chair, she discovered a fundraising deal that allowed Clintons Campaign to control the. In exchange for raising money and investing in dnc control the partys finances, strategy and all the money raised. Her campaign had the right of refusal of who would be the partys communication director and make final decisions on all the other staff. Dnc was also required to consult with the campaign about all other staffing budgeting Data Analytics and mailings. She broke the news to Bernie Sanders on september 7. Just two months before the general election. He took it stoically and did not yell or express anger. Yesterday warren who stayed neutral reacted to all of this. Do you think though that what were learning from Donna Brazils book suggest the campaign what the Democratic National committee did meant the election was rigged. I think it was. Thats a pretty powerful charge. What we have to focus on now as democrats is we recognize. The process was rigged. Now it is up to democrats to build a new process, a process that really works. And works for everyone. And President Trump reacted to the dnc scandal calling what was done illegal in an interview and in tweets shortly before 9 30 he wrote donna brazil just stated the dnc rigged the system to illegally ste lly steal the from Bernie Sanders. Bought and paid for by crooked h. Major Campaign Finance laws and money laundering. Where is our Justice Department. Local d. C. Radio interview the president said his lack of power over the Justice Department investigations was a major dispoidi disappointment to him. The saddest thing is because im the president of the united states, i am not supposed to be involved with the Justice Department. Im not supposed to be involved with the fbi. Im not supposed to be doing the kind of things that i would love to be doing and im very frustrated by it. I look the what is happening with the Justice Department, why arent they going after Hillary Clinton with her emails and with her dossier and the kind of money, and, you know, its very discouraging to me. Ill be honest, im very unhappy with it that the Justice Department isnt going. Now maybe they are, but you know as president , and i think you understand this, as a president , you are not supposed to be involved in that process. Hopefully they are doing something and at some point, maybe were going to all have it out. With regard to donna brazil stuff, im going to bet the things she wrote were not meant to empower President Trump. You know in the city of washington, its going to be used by both sides to make their cases. Following the very latest in the manhattan terror attack. What authorities are doing to help keep president safe. Twitter account goes dark. What the giant is saying about the 11 minute outage. Those stories and a check on weather when we come back. Heres the story of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters sumatra reserve told in the time it takes to brew your cup. Lets go to sumatra. Wheres sumatra . Good question. This is win. And thats wins goat, adi. The coffee here is amazing. Because the volcanic soil is amazing. Making the coffee erupt with flavor. So we give farmers like win more plants. To grow more delicious coffee. That erupts with even more flavor. Which helps provide for wins family. And adi the goats family too. Because his kids eat a lot. All, for a smoother tasting cup of coffee. Green mountain Coffee Roasters. Packed with goodness. Continue to follow the latest in last weeks terror attack. Isis claiming responsibility. The terror group has provided no evidence to back up that claim. According to criminal complaint, the suspect 29yearold saipov told investigators he was inspired to carry out the attack after watching isis videos on cell phone. Remains in custody this morning on a charge of terrorism. Authorities say after the attack, so proud that he asked investigators if he could display the isis flag in his hospital room. Meanwhile, new york transportation authorities are installing hundreds of concrete barriers at 50 intersections along the bikeway where this attack took placed. Being positioned in a way where a bike can get through, but vehicles cannot. President trump received criticism for the staffing or lack thereof at state department. Asked if it was actually harming his presidency. Your state Department Still has Unfilled Positions. Are you worried the state department doesnt have enough donald trump nominees in there to push your vision through because other state departments, including reagans at time, undermined his agenda. Theres a concern the state department currently is undermining your jaeagenda. We dont need all the people. Dont forget. Im a business person. You dont need to fill slots dont fill them. We have some people im not happy with their. Assistant secretary of state, youre not getting rid of that position. The one that matters is me. Im the only one that matters. When it comes to it, thats what the policy is going to be. In addition to that, we dont need all the people. Its called cost saving. But you want your vision pushed. I want my vision, but my vision is my vision. Trump also addresses relationship with head of the state department rex tillerson. Rex is in there working hard. Hes doing his best. Doing the best he can. Is he going to be with you during the duration. Well see. I tell you this, i dont think any president in nine months has done the job that weve done. I think a lot of people are going to try to be reading into that one. Many Unfilled Positions at the state department, contributed to low moral at the agency. Dozens of unfailed and unnominate d lets get a check on the bl now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. Friday, november 3. Its going to be 70 degrees in new york and 80 degrees in washington today. Incredible warmth, not just for october. Was off the charts in the northeast. For the year, wait until i show you the graphic where we stand a lot of the cities. Currently the cold front is coming through. Its so warm and humid out ahead of it. We have overnight thunderstorm. Erie pennsylvania, line of squall line went through rochester. Now plain old rain. Lightning straights here. The southern end of this has numerous thunderstorms in areas of western kentucky this morning. A lot of people woken up. Band now trying to go from indiana to northern kentucky. There are downpours. By later today a lot of that falls apart. Heres 5 00 p. M. Just a few showers around boston and new york. Maybe a sprinkle or two. Hit and miss showers and storms near tennessee. Out ahead of this front well above average. 1015 degrees warmer than it should be. New york city going to be 3. Should only be 57 this time of year. Charlotte 80. Memphis 76. Yesterday hit 94 in dallas. Every in the recorded history going back to 1998 had a temperature in the 90s. Still says very warm. Heres the map i was telling you. So for this year, 2017. Temperature ranking, red dots show you were on pace for the warmest, second warmest is in orange and look at all the cities. 79 cities mostly in the eastern half of the country are warmest year ever recorded or second warmest. Pretty impressive stats. Talk about climate, this is it. That is a stagger stat. Thanks so much, bill. President trumps twitter account is back online after disappearing briefly yesterday evening. For 11 minutes it seemed the account was just gone. Twitter said it had been inadvertently deactivated by a twitter employee. Social media giant later reveal add Customer Support employee had done it on his or her last day with the company. Twitter said it would be conducting a full internal review of the situation, but i guess. We both have some feelings about that. I think the underlying thing is that were probably a little bit trouble thad any employee can shut down for whatever reason. May be like fans of you. Somebody can tell me how to shutdown aymans twitter. Just kidding. Thats terrible. All the News Networks had bars for a minute because we had nothing to talk about when twitter went down. Jets keep on surprising. Taking on the rival thursday night. Sports is next. Ive been thinking. Think of all the things that think these days. Businesses are thinking. Factories are thinking. 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Major headline this morning as nbc news can confirm a second person in a Trump Campaign National Security meeting attended by President Trump and attorney general Jeff Sessions in march of 2016 claimed the two men heard George Papadopoulos claim of a connection to set up a meeting with vladimir putin. Jd gordon sitting between sessions and papadopoulos told the New York Times that the future attorney general shut the idea down and ordered no one to speak of it for fear of embarrassing the campaign. This as another Trump National Security Team member page told nbc news he informed Jeff Sessions he was headed for russia in june of 2016. In an email said, quote, i mentioned in passing i planned on giving a speech in university of moscow completely unrelated to my volunteer role with the campaign. These series of contacts add to sessions meeting with kislyak in july, september in the face of sworn testimony in january, june and october. Of this year. Take a listen to this. If there is any evidence that any one of affiliated with the Trump Campaign communicated with the russian government, and, of course, this campaign, what will you do. Senator franken, im not aware of any of those activities. I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and i did not have communications with the russians. I have never met with or had any conversations with any russians or foreign officials. Further, i have no knowledge of any such conversations equity anyone connected to the Trump Campaign. You dont believe that surrogates from the Trump Campaign had communications with the russians, is that what youre saying. I did not and im not aware of anyone else that will did. Hearing very differently now. Telling nbc news this morning that he does not fault attorney general sessions for not recalling things carter page of George Papadopoulos may have told him in private settings. Only met sessions a few times. Sessions was approached by thousands of people. Papadopoulos plapadopoulos a. Including the special counsel. Muellers grand jury is investigating democratic lobbyist tony podesta and former congressman, weber. Muellers investigation expanding, new news polls finds 610 americans approve of the way the special counsel is handling investigation. 58 approving and 28 disapproving. When asked if trump commit add crime of interference. Almost half, 49 of americans said trump liningly commit add crime. Yesterday House Republicans unveiled tax reform bill. Collapses seven tax brackets into five. Those making less than 24,000 a year would pay no income taxes. Those who make less than 90,000 would pay 12 . Under 260,000, 25 . And more than a million would pay the top rate of 29. 6 . Now President Trump said the tax cuts would give the average family a 4,000 raise. Yesterday house Speaker Paul Ryan says its more like 1,100. The bill doubles the standard deduction. Increases child tax credit. Preserves 401 k retirement plan. Caps the deduction for new markets at 500,000. Corporate tax rate would go from 3520 . Helps pay for it bib endi inini deductions that many families rely on. One of the most popular, state and local taxes. Bill is criticized across the political spectrum. Chuck schumer said it stinks. Republicans senator marco rubio tweeted the bill is just a start and it doesnt go far enough to help working families and heres republican senator jeff flake. If we are going to do cuts, cuts, cut, we have got to do wholesale reform. We cannot have cuts today that assume that well groel a backbone in the outyears in terms of real reforms were going to need. If republicans cant get in done, do you deserve to control the congress. Whats your second question . Were going get this done. Were doing it. Coming up on morning joe, hear from the point man on tax reform. Chairman of the house ways and means committee. Joining us now from washington, member of the house ways and Mean Committee and member of the house budget committee. Congressman, its great to have you with us. Confirmed youre the earliest rising member of congress to get up. Weapon appreciate y we appreciate you getting up early for us. Lets talk about the bill. Is this the tax plan you had hoped for and now that youre hearing members of your own party with questions and criticisms about it, do you think its going to succeed. One thing i learned about in the washington, no matter what you put out, somebody is going to criticize it. Thats the key. This is a good tax bill. We have to lower Corporate Tax rates. Would i liked to have lowered them even more, sure i would have. At 20 we can be competitive across the world. Really important. Individual tax rates this at least helps the middle income makers reduce their taxes so they have more spending. Its about growth. Its about growing the economy. Im a cpa. Im a business guy for three decades. I can tell you nothing is easy in tax reform. Its easy to throw stones at anything put out there. At the end, goal of this was to lower Corporate Tax rates. Make sure were more competitive and at the same time give lower income taxpayers an opportunity to keep more of their min, which is really important. Lets go with headline there. Lowering of Corporate Tax rate to 20 . Why . Economy is going well. Businesses are doing well in the country. Full employment right now. Optics of this to a lot of people not necessarily good when youre lowering the tax rate by 15 . Well, again, this is about sustained growth. We can have our ups and downs and say the market is doing great today. The market will have its ups and downs as well. We need sustained growth. As a business guy for almost three decades. I can tell you it was tough every quarter to have to ware about what my tax payments were. It was a big chunk. I used to say the federal government weve passed sustained growth so far. Thats the argument from the other side. Im talking about sustained longterm growth. Were talking about shortterm growth. Im talking about sustained longterm growth. Talking about growth in the the 34 range. Not 1, 1. 5 range. We need growth at the 34 to make sure were paying the bills that this federal government has right now. We need longterm sustained growth thats able to continue to grow and thats what this will do. Its so simple for me as a business guy and a family member. When i had to be able to make sure i can compete as a business person, i have to have a competitive tax rate. We are not competitive today and people argue well the effective rate is 18 . Were still whether its effective rate, statutory rate, were one of the highest rates in the world when it comes to statutory rate, we are the highest tax rate. Congressman, let me ask you something. You brought up the it shall of middle income tax families. We did earlier in the program a side by side comparison of two families same side making the same amount of income. Theyre going to be affected by this differently. Some benefit from it. Others are not going to be able to duct mortgages, Student Loans. Theyre not going to duct things like state and local taxes. How do you explain to middle American Families look at this tax bill and see the bottom line get worse as a result of it and convince them youre actually helping them. Especially those with a higher standard of living. Keep in mind before the tax model was put out, 72 of americans dont itemize. I did those tax returns. People think theyre getting a charitable deduction or theyre getting an interest deduction, but 72 of americans do not use the standard do not itemize. Use the standard deduction. Were doubling that. Were going from 12,000 to 24,000. Now its almost 95 of the average americans will not itemize. These expenses were not being ducted anyway. I saw that on many, many tax returns. Now, there are going to be affected. You can take an individual in new york or california or ohio and their tax rate may not change much. May go up. May go down. Instead end, this was about trying to get the most so that middle income americans get a tax cut. I wish we had more time to talk to you. I wish you luck. As you know, washington is washington and thats what makes this country great. Congressman, thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you both. Want to turn now to capitol Hill Reporter joining us now. Molly, lets talk first about the donna brazil sort of bombshell and i imagine washington reacting to this. Skb reporter we heard it with Elizabeth Warren saying she thought the system was rigged. Its something the democrats have to work on. Whats interesting now when you look at where we were in terms of the election, its going to be the upcoming. First Midterm Election since the president has taken office. Typically thats a wave election. The oppose egg party tends to do really well. That would mean the democrats. However its unclear what will happen if they do rise to majority and especially in light of whats been going on with the dnc. Who will the leaders be. The leaders have been criticized as being too old and too behind and that i have stayed on. Its unclear how this all washes out. I know this is just sort of fuels the younger democrats in the party who have been frustrated they havent been able to have a bigger larger say in their democratic leadership. Are they the ones actually more divided than the gop. Its unclear. Kind of just chuckled because seems like everybody is in disarray these days. Look at the polls. Everybody is mad. You wake up and find out what are we going to be reporting today. Whats on twitter. It seemed like there isnt a lot of cohesion among, you know, these organizations especially in light of the fact that President Trump who originally was a democratic, ran as republican, and became the president and head of the Republican Party. Seems like both parties have some figuring out to do. A lot of soul searching. A lot of political soul searching. Molly, live for us in washington, d. C. Thank you. Still ahead, President Trump names his nominee to be the next chairman of the federal reserve. What a essential bank under Jerome Powells leadership will mean. Look at the forecast including snow for some people. Not in new york. No, no. This is not a cloud. This is a tomato tracked from farm to table on a blockchain, helping keep shoppers safe. This is a financial Transaction Secure from hacks and threats others cant see. This is a skyscraper whose elevators use iot data and ai to help thousands get to work safely and efficiently. This is not the cloud you know. 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Cnbc, not much reaction from the markets if this pick goes through. Thats true. Yet to be confirmed inherit a fed that has a lot on his plate still. Looking to possibly unwind the Stimulus Program that began back in 2009. Bull market to deal with since then. Inflation below 2 and record low Unemployment Rate just over 4. 2 . Speaking of that in less than three hours time get the monthly u. S. Jobs report. Expecting around 315,000 new jobs added in october. Private sector seen indications 235,000 new jobs in the month and worth remembering that lost month saw the first decline in seven years of those job numbers. Were looking at things like impact from harvey, irma, wildfires and oiironically we could see a massive boost because of the construction in the aftermath. Statistical noise makes it harder to understand how healthy u. S. Employers really are right now. Live from london. Thanks so much. Lets switch gears for a moment and get a quick check on the weather. Earlier in the show, 80s and 70s in some parts of the countries. Tell us the good news about the snow. If you want to see the snow and get to it, you can. Head to the Northern Rockies or northern plains. Update you on the storms were tracking. Not severe, but there are some tre terr so for today the fall warmth above average temperatures ahead of the cold front. About 1520 degrees warmer than it should be. High temperature should be in the 50s and now were going to be in the 70s. Few spots in the 80s on the erin sea board. As far as the storm winter like weather, you head to the west. Storm system spinning off the coast here. This is kind of a round of storms heading to the west. Blue shows you the snow go through saturday. Here comes the next storm behind it. Two storms in a row. High elevations getting the snow. Good base for people who love to ski. One area we like that were happy even california is going to start picking up rain in the lower elevations and snow in the sierras. Tahoe and northern california. This is good. Up to 612 inches. Beginning of the snow and wet season in california. After all the fires, we love it. Look at this map, showing you the snow through the Northern Rockies. Yellow stone going to get snow out of this. Perfect for areas like jackson hole and all the favorite ski spots. Todays forecast, warmth is on. Yesterday was 94 in dallas. Going to feel cool at 77 today. Into the weekend. Look at the temperature. Jumps right back up to 87 by the time we get to saturday. A little bit of everything on this map as we go through the beginning of november. Making a prediction today. Get your crystal ball out. Writing this down. Everybody ready . You call the Weather Service after this one, bill. Let them know what i said. I believe theres a major snow season headed towards the east coast because of this storm. It always happens. You think you get punished for things that are good. I dont consider this good. I like cold by november. This is throwing me off a little bit. I think because of this like january 15. Im being told to go to the tease because im talking too much. Ams certified. Still ahead, President Trump set to depart in a few hours in first trip to commander in chief. Live for the trip and key nshs play issues at play as he meets with leaders there. Well be right back. Heres the story of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters sumatra reserve told in the time it takes to brew your cup. Lets go to sumatra. Wheres sumatra . Good question. This is win. And thats wins goat, adi. The coffee here is amazing. Because the volcanic soil is amazing. Making the coffee erupt with flavor. So we give farmers like win more plants. To grow more delicious coffee. That erupts with even more flavor. Which helps provide for wins family. And adi the goats family too. Because his kids eat a lot. All, for a smoother tasting cup of coffee. Green mountain Coffee Roasters. Packed with goodness. 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In a few hours, President Trump will first stop in hawaii for a briefing and a tour of pearl harbor before heading to japan, south korea, china, vietnam and ultimately the philippines. I think a lot of good things will happen. I think this is a very important trip. There is one of the more important trips a president has made. You dont like travel something. I dont. Not a big fan of traveling. Joining us from london, nbc news correspondent matt bradley, a person who loves to travel from what i hear, give us a preview of what they seek to accomplish during this trip. Reporter well, depending on your world view, you could see this as a really good moment for President Trump to finally separate himself from all these continuing scandals in washington or as a very distracting time for the president to really wade into one of the worlds most complex regions. Of course the most important topic by far is going to be north korea and every stop along the way, these asian leaders are going to be waiting for the president to offer some kind of clarity on u. S. Policy towards the north koreans, but many are going to be watching to see whether this gaffeprone president will say or tweet something to provoke north korean president kim jongun. We know hes done that many times before. Thats probably one of the reasons why it was anupsed this week the president will break with precedent and not visit the Demilitarized Zone that separates north and south krein. It doesnt look like the senior staff will be trying all that hard to reign him in. In comments yesterday, the National Security adviser, h. R. Mcmasters, the president will use whatever language he will use. So with so much on the line for this momentous foreign trip, its really unclear whether the president will have the time to discuss trade, which President Trump has repeatedly attacked trade agreements with china, south korea and japan as a central part of his Campaign Last year. So it will be interesting to see whether this president risks his security partnerships with asian leaders to pursue his disruptive trade agenda. A lot of good points. It will be interesting to see if the president also tweets. Imagine if there isnt another test while the president is there . Youd think he can raise the stakes. Thank you. Coming up next on morning know, much more on the report raising fresh questions about Donald Trumps campaign and aides ties to russia and how much mr. Trump and aides knew house ways an means Committee Chairman kevin brady and the head of the House Freedom caucus mark meadows joining the discussion on the prod overhaul of taxes. Morning joe, everyone, just moments away. 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The city of houston will celebrate the astros first world series championship today . They will take part in a parade that will culminate in a rally at city hall. All schools are closed today. Okay. That does it for us on this friday morning. Have a great weekend, everybody. Morning joe starts right now. Can you say whether you are aware that anyone who had advised your campaign had contacts with russia during the course of the election. I told you, general flynn obviously was dealing, he was as he should have been. Reporter during the election . No, no eb that i know of. I have nothing to do with russia. To the best of my knowledge, no person i deal with does. You dont believe that surrogates from the Trump Campaign had communications with the russians, is that what you are say something. I did not and im not aware of anyone else that did. Wow. Wow. I just sometimes, willie, you want the silence to kind of hang out there for a little bit. So we obviously know that donald trump was lying and we now know again it appears that attorney general Jeff Sessions lied to congress