November 28. Im ayman mohyeldin. Alongside Yasmin Vossoughian and louis burgdorf. Republicans working to get tax plan through the senate. Nonpartisan offered stagnant for americans. Projected the senate gops bill would have a bigger impact on lower income americans than previously thought. Gradually leaving most people making under 75,000 a year worse off than they are now. While giving substantial tax cuts to americans earns more than 100,000 a year. Eliminates the Health Insurance mandate. Lead premiums to rise. If every democratic votes, only spare to lose two republicans in the senate. Right now ron johnson of wisconsin and steve danes of montana saying the bill favors big corporations over Small Businesses. Johnson said if theres theres no fix, he will be a no in todays Committee Vote and suggested the bill will not go through this week. Is the timeline of getting a vote on this this week still realistic. That is pretty optimistic. Theres a lot of details to work out of this. This is the process. Youre watching the sausages being made. President trump will meat with republican senators on capitol hill to push for tax bill today. Yesterday he tweeted hes working to address the concerns about Small Businesses writing with just a few changes, some mathematical pass through division comes simpler and works well. President trump is now facing scrutiny for using wrong place and wrong time to jab a political opponent. Supposed to be honoring navajo code talkers who served during world war ii. Here is he sliding in the nickname he uses to mock snaern warrens claim. I just want to thank you. Youre very, very special people. You were here long before any of us were here. Although we have a representative in congress who they say was here a long time ago. They call her pocahontas, but you know what, i like you. It is deeply unfortunate that the president of the United States cannot even make it through a ceremony on anymoring these heros without having to throw out a racial slur. Donald trump does this over and over thinking somehow hes going to shut me up with it. Hasnt worked in the past. It is not going to work in the future. You refer to pocahontas being in the senate. Why did you feel the need to Say Something thats offensive to many people while honoring the navajo code talkers. I think what most people find offensive is senator warren lying about her heritage to advance her career. It was a racial slur. What is your response to that. I think thats a ridiculous response. Was it appropriate for the president to use a racial slur in any context. I dont believe it is appropriate for him to make racial slur or anybody else. So this is a racial slur. Sot why is it appropriate for him. Like i said, i dont think it is. I dont think that was certainly not the president s intent. Again, like i said, i think the most offensive thing does he see political value in calling people out racially . Why use that terms. Look, i think that senator warren was very offensive when she lied about something specifically to advance her career. I dont understand why no one is asking about that question and why that isnt constantly covered. John norwood, urged the president to stop using a native figure as derogative insult. Also some wondering why a portrait of Andrew Jackson was featured so prominently. Dave, good to have you with us this morning. Saw senator warrens response and Sarah Huckabee sanders defense of president s pocahontas comments yesterday. Ones that are certainly going to be offensive to many. Hes issued derisive nicknames for political opponents before. Its not something new. Does this sound different. Is it in any way different than what weve heard the president say in the past. Not just about senator elizabeth warren. Sure. Little marco rubio is insulting to marco rubio. Lying ted cruz is insulting to ted cruz. What native american leaders have said after this event, we consider pocahontas offensive to all of us. Its taking that derisive figure as a catch all for all native american women. Its a different context, especially when you have that backdrop of world war ii heros there. I dont think theres nobody coming out besides Sarah Huckabee sanders and saying this was an appropriate thing for the president to say. Lets talk tax reform. Republican leaders saying theyll have a vote by the end of the week. Do you think this is a realistic time frame considering all that needs to be worked out in order to win over the votes or is this optics for the gop wanting to get the needle moving. Its going to be tough to get it done by the end of the week. They definitely see the timeline as key. They want to keep the momentum, che keep it moving forward. The longer you delay the more concerns pop up. The problem is they have specific issues senators are raising that they need to fix in order to get them to yes. You mentioned the issue of how Small Businesses are treated as opposed to korngscorporations. Also some senator who is want deficit guarantee. If they build in fixes, can they reassure senators and get yes votes by the end of the week. Seems pretty optimistic to me. With two weeks left in Alabama Senate race, roy moore made return to campaign trail after an 11 day absence. Moore told voters that a Campaign Stop of allegations of Sexual Misconduct against him were falls and malicious. After 40 years of service for this state and this community, 50 if you count my military service to the country, never once has this been allegationed. Now just two weeks remaining, pictures of Young Children whose names are not mentioned that i do not know appear conveniently on the oppositions ads. These allegations are completely false. Theyre malicious. Specifically i do not know any of these women. Nor have i engaged have i ever engaged instead Sexual Misconduct with any woman. Moore also said the allegations against him to the russia investigation. Why are they doing this . Im going to tell you why theyre doing this. Theyre trying to hide the true issues which face the people of this country and this state that they want resolved. Its no different than when the Washington Post brought out the Russian Investigation at a time when President Trump is trying to get his agenda passed. Meanwhile, republicans now remain divided on if theyll vote for moore. Republican senator richard vel by told reporters he did not vote for moore. Voted for a write in candidate he did not name. Comes at lee business but has launched his where in campaign for Alabama Senate seat. Busby is run reasonable degree as an independent believes as a sent try centrist could get a third of the votes. He will join us later. Vaughn, good to talk to you this morning. Two weeks to go until the election comes up. Just saw roy moore was on the campaign trail finally after a long absence yesterday. How is his appearance being received by voters today. Reporter well, last night to give you an idea of where he was at. This was a county voted 83 for donald trump just one year ago. Cant find much friendlier confineses s tes t s tes to go specifically the town of 2300 where he was at. That said, nothing to suggest roy moore is going to be running any different of a campaign in the final 14 days. Essentially running out the clock. No access to the press. Vehicle is suv slid into the back door there and got right out and walked inside. Took no questions from the press. Took no questions from the audience in attendance. Refuted the allegations there for about 12 minutes. And he propagated as just coming down to dirty politics. Yesterday released a Television Ad calling it a scheme. Hes clear that hes going to be focusing on the social issues. Brought up abortion. Transgenderism. There is no mention of jobs. No mention of health care outside of repealing obamacare. Vaughn, let me ask you about looking ahead and doug jones as well. Are we expecting to see the two of them, roy moore and doug jones, out campaigning today or whats on the agenda for them. Reporter doug jones has been campaigning every day. Even out of thanksgiving. Doug jones will be out in tuscaloosa at a Medical Center talking about health care. At birmingham yesterday meeting with students. Hes taken a press conference every single day. Roy moore says he will not be out today, but expect to see him wednesday and thursday. Touted he would have a ramped up schedule. Isnt too tough to do after not being present at all. Well see if that comes to fruition. Youre down to just two weeks and you have two polar opposites in terms of how campaigns are being run down here. Do you think theyre honing in on the strategy last two weeks. A saw a poll that doug jones was up. 8 . Reporter really tough to tell what the poll is going to look at. You dont have Party Registration here. To what extent are they able to turn out black vote, young vote. Looking at republican side. Talking with the presbyterian minister down the road. He said hes part of a very conservative congregation. He cant fathom anybody voting for doug jones because of stance on ho on homo Sexual Assault and abortion. At the same time, theres a lack of confidence in the state. Now you see the potential of a write in candidate. To what extent is doug jones able to profit after republicans unwillingness to go to the polls. We shall see. From these stories its clear there are some women, and one is too many, who feel i have done something disrespectful towards them and for that i am tremendously sorry. I know that i am going to have to be much more conscious in these circumstances. Much more careful. Much more sensitive and that this that this will not happen again going forward. When asked if there would be further harassment accusations, franken made no guarantees saying quote, i cannot speculate. Access hollywood is weighing in after reports that President Trump is questioning the authenticity of a tape make public during a 2016 campaign. Later the fight continues over who is in charge over the federal Protection Bureau. Now a judge is weighing in. Those stories and bill karins is back with a check on your weather. Latest on more than a year old hollywood access trump controversy. Despite making the comments on the tape and apologizing for them, repeatedly calling it quote, locker room talk, trump reportedly suggested to a senator earlier this year that the recording was not authentic. Apparently repeat thad claim to an adviser more recently. Yesterday, White House Press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders was asked about the latest self made controversy. Does the president still accept the authenticity of the access Hollywood Tape. The president addressed this. This was litigated and answered during the election by the overwhelming support for the president and the fact he is sitting here in the oval office today. He has made his position on that clear at that time as have the American People in his support of him. John decker. Apologized for it and seemed to acknowledge authenticity and that position hasnt changed. Like i just said, the president has changed his position. I think if anything that the president questions its the medias reporting on that accuracy. I said he already addressed it. And that we didnt have any updates to that. I said what he didnt like and what he found troubling were the accounts that are being reported now. Any access hollywood host also addressed the authenticity of the reporting yesterday. Before ending the show, wanted to clear something up that has been reported across the media landscape. Let us make this perfectly clear. The tape is very real. Remember his excuse at the time was locker room talk. He said every one of those words. Lets gets a check on the weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. Its warm and boring. We like it that way. Great for travel. Great for raking late season leaves and getting Christmas Lights up. Yesterday was 81 degrees in denver, colorado. That is incredible because it is the warmest temperature they have ever had recorded in the city of denver in the month of november. Here we are at the end of november. Usually do it at the beginning of the month. 81. High of 80. 34 degrees warmer than normal. The big affect of this unusual november warmth is the lack of the snow pack. Now usually this time of year start to build up snow in the mountain areas. We have a little bit around yellow stone. Little bit in the cascades. Only 4 of country covered by snow right now. Last year at this time, 2 of the lower 40 covered bid snow. Five year average 28 . We are well behind schedule for snow pack. Especially in the mountains. Doesnt make the ski resorts happy. For today, call it winter denial. Unseasonably mild air continues across the country. Warmest spot shown in the brighter colors here. St. Louis about 20 degrees warmer than normal. Houston near 80. Atlanta 63. These were all about 10 degrees to five degrees above arch. By wednesday, 810 degrees above arch. Charlotte to boston. Little rock eight degrees above average. No signs yet of any really, really cold air coming down. Maybe the middle of next week we could see a big difference. Right into this weekend, thanks are very mild. Mild end to november will lead to a mild start to december. The snow is coming, right, bill. Always coming sooner or later. Shes got a vacation coming up. He got back from a week vacation. I got one ahead. I need a little bit of snow. Yes, absolutely. Maybe in the west area. Still ahead, highlights from monday night football. 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Experience amazing at your lexus dealer. Welcome back, everybody. Lets start with the stop story. Two weeks left in the senate race, roy moore made return to campaign trail after 11 day absence. Moore again denied allegations of Sexual Misconduct. Telling voters the allegations were falls and malicious. After 40 years of service for this state and this community, and 50 if you count my military service to the country, never once has this been alleged. Now just two weeks remaining, pictures of Young Children whose names are not mentioned, that i do not know, appear conveniently on the oppositions ads. These allegations are completely false. Their malicious, specifically i do not know any of these women. Nor have i ever engaged in Sexual Misconduct with anyone. Meanwhile republican senator of alabama told reporters yesterday that he did not vote for moore, but instead voted for a write in candidate that he did not name. It comes as lee busby has launched write in seat for Alabama Senate campaign. Vaughn, good to have you back with us. We know roy moore made First Campaign appearance really in several days yesterday. What was the talking point that he delivered to voters. Its tough not to come off as kpas borr compass borrow rate exacerbated this is not a typical campaign. Issues those more than the social norm that appeal to roy moore particular voters are being discussed. Lets talk about lee busby, this retired marine kernel appearing on morning joe this morning. Launching write in campaign. Interestingly enough he was the chief of staff of john kelly wondering if he actually got the blessing of kelly before becoming this write in candidate. What kind of impact are you thinking he could have on this race. Jeff sessions and Luther Strange were the only two that had a shot at putting a dent in this thing. The big thing doug jones, the democratic in this race can be hoping for is that voters will write in this write in candidate over voting for roy moore. Because the issue is that doug jones, if he was able to pull off roy moore voters, write in could potentially steel the voters who may have gone on a limb and vote for democrat for first time in their lives. I know youre covering this race since the beginning. Roy moore did not take those questions for the first couple of days. Now hes coming out and saying theyre absolute lly false. He doesnt know the women. Im wondering from your perspective, what was the turning point. When do you think he began to change that tone and how is that now resinating with voters in the state. Reporter he said it wasnt his behavior to go and date women under the age of 18. Left open the idea that potentially the allegations could be true. After that is when he got a lot of pushback. Thats when he became very defiant and said now as you heard him say last night. He doesnt know any of these women. He has been full flat denial because ultimately what hes been able to do is propagate this idea this is a conspiracy. You talk to his voters, they say this is a man they have known for 40 years. They believe the roy moore they have known for decades. I wonder if the endorsement for President Trump swayed the Decision Making within the campaign itself. Coming off this morning, joe and mika will talk with retired mari mari marine colonel. The post reported later discovered the woman appeared to have ties to project, an organization that sets up undercovering sightings to expose that group saying is media biassed. During interviews, woman pressed reporters to entice her to speak out about her claims by asking what affect her allegations could have on moores candidacy if she went public. The Washington Post did not plush an article based on her unsubstantiated accounts and when confronted with inconsistencies in her story, woman reportedly denied working with any organization that targets jour journalists. Senator al franken of minnesota is back to work amid claims of pass inappropriate contact made by several women. New fallout over congressman john conyers who is facing allegations of his own. Nbc news correspondent has more. I am embarrassed. I feel ashamed. A diminished and contrite senator al franken returns to work at the capital monday. More than ten days after allegations surfaced he forcibly kissed and groped a woman. I know there are no magic words i can say to regain your trust. Franken insisting he wont resign amid an Ethics Committee investigation. What kind of behavior demands a resignation. Im not going to get into that or speculate. With three more women coming forward to say he grabbed them inappropriately in photos. Not ruling out more accusations. If you had asked me two weeks ago would any woman come forward with an allegation like this, i would have said no. And so i cannot speculate. Franken is not the only democratic grappling with Sexual Harassment allegations. 88yearold john connier longest member of the house stepping down from a powerful post on the Judiciary Committee after reports he harassed two women in the office. One who settled for 30,000 paid for by taxpayers. He says he did nothing wrong. Represents one of the women who says conyers harassed her. He says hes entitled to due process. He is. The accusers is also entitled to speak out to share her story. Questions about whether congress will make any real changes to hold itself accountable. Thanks to casey hunt for that report. Lets talk russia investigation. Flynn signals a break from President Trump and legal strategy last week. New report suggests things are moving swiftly. Abc news reporting flynns lawyer meant monday morning with members of special counsel muellers team. We have not confirmed the report. Declined comment to abc. When flynn was seeking immunity. His lawyer said general flynn has a story to tell and very much wants to tell it should the circumstances permit. Speaking of hillary clinton, he says he believes receiving immunity is a sign of wrong doing. Five people around her have had have been given immunity to include her former chief of staff. When you are given immunity, that means you probably commit add crime. One of President Trumps contacts amid the Holiday Weekend is raising eyebrows due to ties to special counsel Robert Muellers investigator. A source told politico he had a lengthy conversation with james at the florida resort. Left the campaign in january also served on the board of Michael Flynns lobbying firm. Said he was at september 2016 meeting with flynn in turkish ministers discussed removing the critic of president erdogan by saying covert step in the dead of night to whisk this guy away. A spokesman told nbc news last wee month that the former director had been interviewed by fbi working for the special counsel about the meeting. Adding he and his wife had been in touch with the fbi before mueller began investigating the bureaus russia investigation. Amid ongoing talk, Rex Tillersons aides has resigned after three months on the job. The title who was counselor of the department was only appointed back on august 17 had been charged with tillersons quote, redesign of the state department. The chief of staff has been named the replacement. Comes amid bipartisan growing concern of the impact tillersons plan which among other things has consistented of dramatic ical dramatically diminishing the staff. Lets talk about rex tillerson. Does he still have a base of support you think among conservatives who agree with what hes doing at the state department . I think the over under for him staying bond the year are pretty low. Rex tillerson does not have have more allies. Part of that is his relationship with President Trump has been more or less not severed, but strained. People are less likely to come out and support him when they think he doesnt have the preside president s blessing and he probably wont be around long. Republicans who care a lot about Foreign Policy are people who spoke in support of fashion for tillerson for most of his tenure, but theyre concerned about the state department as well. Dave, lets talk about the president heading to the hill to meet with congressional leaders to work out a deal on the spending bill. Try to avoid a Government Shutdown. Looming here. Republicans for this, at least. Not tax reform needing the democrats to work with them on this to avoid a Government Shutdown. Deadline of course december 8. Whats the likelihood were going to see shortterm plan that pushes that deadline to christmas and how real do you think the threat of the Government Shutdown is. Republican leaders want a longer deal. They wanted a longer deal last time. None of us expected the three months ago President Trump would come out and say i like the chuck and nancy plan. Were going to do a three month extension. This time around, they want to push this issue back off through next fall. Now, in order to do that, they might have to give the democrats something. Daca is really at the top of the wish list for pelosi and schumer. Might not get this this time around. Trump is going to have to offer them something if hes going to go along with the republican plan to push it to next year. Definitely have to wait and see what happens. Still ahead, the political battle now turned into a legal one over who is in charge of the Consumer FinancialProtection Bureau with two people laying claim to the job. Plus bill karins is back with us. Hes going to have details on how a big warmup for some will give way too much colder temperatures. Paying less for my medicare . Im open to that. Lower premiums . Extra benefits . Its open enrollment. Time to open the laptop. And compare Medicare Health plans. Why . Because plans change, so can your health needs. So, be openminded. Look at everythinglike Prescription Drug plans. And Medicare Advantage plans from private insurers. Use the tools at medicare. Gov. Or call 1800medicare. Open to Something Better . Start today. You or joints. Something for your heart. But do you take something for your brain. With an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is the number one selling brainhealth supplement in drug stores nationwide. Prevagen. The name to remember. 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Earlier in the morning, she sent an email to staff signing off as acting director. Now around the same time, mulvaney was photographed arriving at the agency carrying donuts. He sent his own email to Staff Members asking them to disregard any orders from english. Now before the day was over, mulvaney ordered a temporary freeze on hiring new regulations. During a News Conference he explained that President Trump wants him to fix the bureau. Wants me to get it back to the point where it can protect people without trampling on capitol hi capitalism. Without choking off Financial Services that are so critical to other folks. Lets get a check on the weather with meteorologist bill karins. Is it really late november. That map youre about to show us certainly doesnt look that way. Not yet. Pretty warm november following with the warmest october on record in the lower 48. All were tracking right now is a cold front cooling things off. Thats about it. Be a little windy too. For today, watch it go through the great lakes. Little shower. Maybe snow showers in canada. Thats about it. Go into tuesday afternoon and tuesday night and wednesday morning. The cold front goes to the northeast. Maybe snow showers in the great lakes. Thats really about the worst of it. So 24 hour temperature change map. Yesterday mentioned 81 in denver. Temperatures down to 35. Yesterday at this time was 17 degrees warmer. Much colder right now than it was yesterday at this time. Look at areas like saint louis and minneapolis. This is how it should be typically for daytime high. Todays travel map. No issues whatsoever in the northeast. Little chilly in northern new engla england. D. C. Mild. Atlanta, charlotte. Raleigh. Texas looks great. Could be a stray shower or two in miami. Little unsettled there. No problem. Same with oklahoma city. Everyone out west is okay. Little peak to tomorrow shows pretty nice conditions continuing with high temperatures similar to today. 40s and 50s. Pretty widespread. Down along the gulf coast. No signs of any chilly air until maybe the middle of next week. Looks like when we may get a pattern change and start to kneel and look like december. Lets keep it going, bill. 2017 begins to wind down. Officially have the winner for the word of the year. Dictionary. Com decides it goes to complicit. Made by inhouse experts say the adjective was indicative of larger trends that went throughout the year. Cited many newsworthy moments in 2017 that said facilitated the use of complicit. Times when people called out in the face of wrong doing. Can you spell it. Its up on the screen. Use it in a sentence. That would have been different. Officials in bali expanding evacuations. When a major eruption might happen. Baa lee. [burke] at farmers, weve seen almost everything so we know how to cover almost anything. Even a redhot mascot. [mascot] heyoooo whoop, whoop [crowd 1] hey, youre on fire [mascot] you bet i am [crowd 2] dude, youre on fire [mascot] oh, yeah [crowd 3] no, youre on fire look behind you. [mascot] im cool. Im cool. [burke] thats one way to fire up the crowd. But we covered it. Talk to farmers. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum the volcano known as mount agung continues to spew ash. Killed more than a,01,000 peopln 1963. Joining us live. Good to have you with us. What sort of danger are the people stranded near this volcano facing. Theyre also trapped in the sense they cant get off of bali pretty easily now. Well, a full eruption could be a danger to those living around the volcano. As you pointed out, a previous eruption was deadly killingpeop. Authorities are praying for people to evacuate around an area near the volcano t. Disaster agency raised its warning to its highest level and theyve expanded the exclusion zone. Lava continues to pool in the crater in what is the islands highest volcano, but its not just locals trying to avoid danger. Nearly 60,000 people are currently affected by the airport closure. People on bali as well as people trying to fly to the island. Its for safety as it continues to send this massive ash cloud into the air some 10,000 feet this ash cloud has actually reached heights of 30,000 feet, it poses a deadly threat to aircraft. So authorities trying to do all they can to prevent any danger. Such an ominous sort of thing to see there in some of these images. Incredible. Thank you. All right, coming up next on morning joerk everybody, we will preview President Trumps visit to capitol hill as he tackles tax reform. John kelly is launching a lastminute bid. Will lee buzz busby save them from their nightmare. Valerie jarrett will be here on set. Morning joe, everyone, just moments away. 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Given a little rail on republican, thats for sure. Before we toss it over to morning joe, a few shoers stories you will be hearing ahead. We find Kristen Welker with more on whats on tap for President Trump. Kristen, good morning. Reporter hi, louis. Good morning to you. In just a few hours, President Trump will head to capitol hill, where he will look for lastminute votes with the senate poised to potentially vote on their version of tax reform by the end of the week. The president is looking for his first major legislative victory after he and the gop failed to repeal and replace obamacare and the stakes couldnt be higher. Right now there is at least one republican senator who is a no vote. They can only afford to lose two votes in order to get the legislation passed. There are still major sticking points and complicated matters. A ceo report saying a bill could ultimately cost middle income american itself more in the long run. All of that and more will undoubtedly be at the forefront yet again today. Never a dull moment. Meanwhile the suspect in last months terrorist attack in new york city is expected to appear in court today. He is sed set to be arraigned on terrorism and murder charges. He could face the Death Penalty for several accounts against him the man tavgd by President Trump to be the next Federal Reserve chair will go before lawmakers. Jerome powell will testify as a part of his confirmation process. She expected to talk about the feds raising Interest Rates and to ease regulatory burdens on banks while preserving reforms. That does it for us on this tuesday morning. Morning joe, everybody, starts right now. I just want to thank you, because you are very, very special people. You were here long before any of us were here. Although, we have a representative in congress who they say was here a long time ago. They call her pocahontas. But you know what, i like you. Relationship umm. What was that . 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