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Passenger is dead after a crash on the tracks. Good morning, everyone. It is february 1st. We begin with the special counsel who is expected to interview a former trump spokesman who is said to have witnessed a meeting with President Trump and top aides. That meeting allegedly discussed concealing the trump tower meeting purpose between his campaign and russians. Three sources say mark corallo, who served as a spokesman, plans to tell mr. Mueller about a previously undisclosed Conference Call with mr. Trump and white house director hope hicks. In this call, he allegeses that hicks said he was eager to receive political dirt about clinton from the russians, quote, well never get out. That left corallo with concerns that hicks could be contemplating object vukz of justice. A lawyer for hicks responded, quote, she never said that and the idea that she ever suggested emails be destroyed or concealed is immediately false. Mr. Corallo told colleagues that he immediately notified the legal team of the conversation and jotted down notes. Contacted by the times yesterday, he said he did not dispute any of the accounts shared by his colleagues, but refused to comment further. Corallo has been contacted by the special counsel and has agreed to the an interview taking place in the next couple of weeks. So the battle continued over a memo from republicans on the House Intel Committee as questions circulate about what role the white house had in all of this. A transcript in. Mondays meeting show nunes responded. Last night, it was alleged the document sent for public review had been veetly altered, claiming republicans made material changes to the version it sent over to the white house. A spokesman for chairman nunes says the Committee Minority is now complaining about minor edits to the memo, include bra mattockal fixes requested by the fbi and the minority themselves and what they acted within the procedural rules. In the face of the release of the memo itself, the fbi took a bold statement including releasing a statement reading partially, quote, the fbi takes seriously its obligations to the fisa. The fbi was provided a limited opportunity to review the this memo the day before the committee voted to release it. As expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that impact the memos accuracy. The Justice Department told nbc news that the issues raised in the memo are so highlies classified that they may not be in a position to point out errors or misleading statements. Chris wrays decision to release the memo could put him in the cross hairs of President Trump. Jill, great to have you with us this morning. A lot to digest here this morning, especially with this bombshell report from the New York Times that the president s former legal spokesman, mark corallo might be telling bob mueller of these new developments involving hope hicks. How big of a bombshell do you think this is this morning for the white house . How might they respond in the coming hours . Look, mark coallo was in the conversation as this statement that has come to muellers attention was being put together on that back and forth on the plane ride. We have to remember who hope hicks is. She is one of the president s longest time most loyal aides. They have a very, very close relationship, kind of a fatherdaughter relationship and the president is very protective of her, meaning that any kind of shot against her, any kind of on concern that she might be in some type of legal peril here is likely to anger the president deeply. Lets turn to the memo that is likely to get released despite warnings from the fbi and democratic proetesters. The expectation right now, until the shift complaints about the memo being changed has some lastminute impact, were expecting this memo to be released at some point, likely today. The president has been telling folks around him privately that he feels the contents of this memo are really going to kind of help prove him right, that the fbi, that the Justice Department have been going after him and that these people cant be trusted. They feel like this will provide some kind of backup to the idea that this whole Russian Investigation is a hoax. Whats really interesting here is that you had chris wray, the president s hand picked fbi director, the one that was supposed to if the whole organization is corrupt, chris wray is the one hes put his faith in. You have chris wray coming to the white house begging kelly, please, dont release this. I think it also is an interesting moment here between the president and the fbi director, really evidence that chris wray is, despite the fact that hes prioritized his loyalty, hes nonetheless able to stand out there and point out this is a bad idea. And if they dont, we dont know what those holes are. Lets switch gears for a moment, jill, because i want to ask you about immigration, particularly the fourpillar plan that the president outlined in the state of the union. A lot of people saying this was the first time they had articulated a clear policy position on immigration. How is that being received on the hill from both parties and what are your sources telling you about the chances that this immigration bill and daca actually get fixed . Remember there was the state of the union just the other night that happened . Its incredible how they stepped on the message here with everything focusing back to russia. But the president had, for the first time, laid out the plan in detail publicly. And the reaction from democrats, it was obvious. They were not at all amused. The white house has tried to paint this immigration deals as a type of compromise. But, i mean, our sources are telling us basically its going nowhere at this had point. Theres been gridlock on capitol hill. Democrats say month. Republicans are trying to kind of turn the president s pillars into some type of legislation. But folks on both sides of the aisle, advocates on both sides of the issues are stressing that theres no movement happening right mow. And we are approaching that deadline ever so fast. Jill, well touch base with you a little bit later on in the program. Thanks. Thank you. And a scary day for some republican lawmakers. One person is dead after an amtrak train collided with a garbage truck in rural virginia wednesday morning. The white house said in a statement no members of congress or their staff were seriously injured in a crash. The train was carrying more than half the republican members of the house and senate to their annual policy retreat in West Virginia. Members of congress spoke to reporters about the crash and how lawmakers rushed to help at the scene. I climbed off and got dr. Cassidy also were off. They were working on the man who deceased, cpr was performed for a long time, but didnt work. And then the other person was severely injured. So we they were working on the man that was injured for quite a while, pore about 20 minutes, but he was breathing. Obviously very serious condition. Jeff flake giving his report there. The deceased was identified as 28yearold christopher foley, one of the passengers aboard the truck. Two other passengers were also injured, one seriously, and taken to the hospital. Speaker paul ryan, who was aboard the train, spoke to President Trump by phone to update him on the crash yesterday afternoon. Trump is expected to join lawmakers at the conference later today. The National Transportation safety board is currently investigating that crash. All right. Switching gears for a moment, cia director mike poe pompeo secretly host two of russias spy chiefs last week. For meetings relating to counterterrorism issues, reuters is also reporting that the director of national intelligence, dan coates, was also involved in those meetings. Naryshkin received special permission from somewhere high up in the u. S. Government, possibly the state government, to enter the United States. Current and former u. S. Intelligence officials tell the Washington Post that this was a highly unusual meeting and could not remember another time when this many vital figures in russias entire spy machine went to washington at one single time, adding they worry moscow will interpret it as america being ready and willing to forgive and forget russias interference in the 2016 election. Pompeo recently made headlines when he said he expect russia to continue its interference campaigns, including during americas upcoming midterm elections. Last may, President Trump revealed highly classified intemgs to several russian Intelligence Officers he was hosting. Dont forget, a woke later, Congress Passed the sanctions resolution bill against russia which the white house has not yet implemented. Defense secretary mattis is considering cell phone banning at the pentagon. Potentially revealing the secret locations and activities of military installments across the globe. The policy change is currently under review. And treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin is calling on congress to lift the u. S. Debt limit as soon as possible as another Government Shutdown looms. In a letter to congressional leaders and Key Committee kar chairman, mnuchin said the u. S. Can only continue paying its bills until february 8th. The government expects to see 10 to 15 billion less in tax revenue each month beginning in february. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated the u. S. Treasury could run out of funds by mid march instead of early april if lawmakers do not act. This pushes the debt ceiling toward upcoming february fights, the march 5th deadline to codify the daca program. I feel like everything is coming to a head. Yes. Within six to eight weeks. We have eight weeks to fix everything. Go. Still ahead, a back and forth fight between the Vice President and joe manchin. Those stories and a check on your weather when we come back. 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The tweet concluded with when it came time to vote with sweeping tax cuts that help West Virginians keep more of their money and made it possible for worldwide equipment to invest more in their workers, joe voted month. Senator manchin responded last week i worked in a bipartisan way with senator collins to end the shutdown and last night President Trump called for unity and bypart is anship. The Vice President s comments are exactly why washington sucks. Im disappointed in his comments, but will continue to work to make washington work so West Virginia and our country work. Hillary clinton, in a lengthy facebook post, clinton wrote in part, the most important work of my life has been to support and empower women so i very much understand the question i am being asked as to why i let an employee on my 2008 Campaign Keep his job despite his inappropriate workplace behavior. The short answer is this, if i had to do it again, i wouldnt. Now, the post came just days after the New York Times published a story about berne strider who was accused of sexually harassing one of clintons young subordinates. According to the paper, the Clintons Campaign manager suggested she fire strider. Instead, strider underwent several weeks of docked pay and had to undergo counseling and the young woman was moved to a different position. Lets check our weather. The cold is moving east for the weekend. Hit february, i like to say were one month closer to spring. So negative windchills. This is typical for this time of year. We had a big break in january. Now its over with. Negative 15 to negative 40 in northern portions of the plains. Bismarck is at negative 21. How is that for waking up for any of the fans at the super bowl site, negative 22 in minneapolis. We had a coating of snow last night throughout areas of new england. Maine has a coating of snow on the ground. New hampshire a little bit and southern vermont, maybe a few flakes there in massachusetts. You get extra careful as you head out the door this morning. No problems in the ohio valley, but a lot of clouds. Eventually, this cold front which has the cold winter air behind it will make its way to the east coast. Before that happens, rain showers develop later today. This is 8 00 p. M. This evening. Theres light rain over tennessee. Once the cold air works in, nashville through areas of central kentucky and West Virginia, were going to add a little snow to that. 7 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning, the cold front and all the rain and snow exits the northeast and maybe a coating of snow in areas of the midatlantic, also. Todays forecast, minneapolis, 6 degrees. Mild on the east coast, but rain showers late today. As far as the weekend forecast is going to go, it does look like it starts out quiet. Could get stormy by sunday. 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Lebron james would lead the cavs if in scoring with 24 points and 11 rebounds. But down 2 with miami in the time seconds, cant get the shotoff before time expires. Cavs survive, 9189. It is a much needed win for them. In the td garden, the Boston Celtics demolish the knicks as six players score in double digits. Bostons defense held new york to only 8 points in the Fourth Quarter as they go on to win 10373 in that one. Ouch. And in portland, the trail blazers won 124108 over the Chicago Bulls thanks to a 50point performance by skrmpt j. Mccollum who scored all those points without playing a single minute in the Fourth Quarter. Congratulations to him. And a number of women who said former olympic gymnastics dr. Larry nassar sexually abused them continues to climb to 265, according to the judge overseeing his latest sentencing hearing. Nassar, recently sentenced up to 175 years in prison after pleading guilty to molesting receivable girls at his Michigan State office, is in court again today. More than 150 girls gave statements at his previous hearing. 28 athletes banned by the International Olympic committee for violating doping rules at the 2014 sochi games were overturned. The court of arbitration for sport rules the evidences was, quote, insufficient, while cutting lifetime bans for 11 athletes to just a ban for the pyeongchang games. The 28 athletes can now seek entry in the winter Olympic Games which start on february 9th. Some good news for them. However, it is not all good news for Russian Sports with a threat that can only be described as biblical. The russian officials worry a plague of locate i couldnt tells could destroy the world cup fields this year. Perhaps a good thing the u. S. Is missing out on playing in the world cup for the First Time Since 1986. Any Silver Lining we can pull out of the u. S. 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Do you think things change the next day . Ill let all the experts decide that when its released, but i this president again, its so unique, brian, that he wants everything out so the American People can make up their own minds. And if theres people to be held accountable, so be it. So a new report reveals that President Trump allegedly asked attorney general Rod Rosenstein about his loyalty at the meeting. But the report says during the visit, the question questioned rosenstein about which direction Robert Muellers investigation was heading. Trump asked the Deputy Attorney general if he was, quote, on my team. Those sources say that rosenstein replied, of course were all on your team, mr. President. Rosenstein is the highest justice official in charge of the investigation since attorney general Jeff Sessions recused himself. Hes also the latest on a group of individuals that the president asked about their loyalty including comey and Jeff Sessions. The fbi agent accused of being bias towards President Trump reportedly played a role towards the reopening of clinton email probe days before the election. He drafted a crucial comey letter to congress. That letter stated the agency received new information about clintons emails and was reopening an investigation that cloed in july of 2016 after finding no criminal wrongdoing. Strock did have reservations about comey make an announcement just days before the election. He grappled with the fallout of making the letter public. He supported reopening the clinton investigation once the new information was discovered. President trump and republicans in congress accused strock of being sympathetic to clinton while seeking to undermine President Trump during the 2016 campaign season. And congressman trey gowdy joins a number of those not running for reelection. He tweeted out, there is a time to come and a time to go. This is the right time for me to leave politics and return to the justice system. The race for his South Carolina seat is seen as one of the most competitive midterms this year. And philadelphia power broker democratic congressman bob brady announced that he will not run for reelection. The 11term congressman made the emotional announcement yesterday. I love my district. Most of all, i love the people that i serve, every single one of them. Im not leaving because i love them any less. Today i dont love any less than the day i swore my oath, but today im just choosing family over service. Bradys decision not to run may have been influence by a recent court ruling that tossed out pen peps congressional map. Bradys departure could reduce the clout of the philadelphia delegation on capitol hill and the Justice Department dropped all charges against senator menendez. Both were facing a retrial after a deadlocked jury could not reach a verdict back in november. On twitter, the nmg new jersey senator reacted to the decision tweeting in part, quote, from the very beginning, i never wavered in my independence and my belief that justice would prevail. Back with us, jill coleman. Jill, good to see you once again. Lets stay with the subject of the upcoming midterm elections. How optimistic are you that democrats could actually win control of the house or do you think its too early to project a democratic wave here . Deaf tfinitely, the democrat. We have a wave of people saying theyre not seeking reelection. You have a growing list of Democratic Candidates raising quite a bit of money already waiting their installs, waiting to get out and challenge. Its still a really long time in washington speak before people actually seriously start considering these elections. Nonetheless, youve got a deeply un. Popular president , youve got deeply unpopular congress. But, on the other hand, youve got this tax plan. And although polling so far has shown that the tax plan the republicans pushed through last year isnt particularly popular among the American People, you still have day after day these announcements that are coming from pretty Big Companies saying were going to be doing new hiring, were going to pass along these tax savings in bonuses for our employees. And at some point, the drum beat of those headlines, as we look at those numbers develop, could potentially make that plan more popular giving republicans something to run on. And i want to ask you about this new development overnight with this infamous memo and the fact that kcnn is reporting tha peter strzok, that agent was actually one of those who supported reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton when those new emails were discovered on Anthony Weiners personal computer. The that has to be a new twist in all of this, particularly the gops evidence that this single guy is accused of bias against the fbi. How is the white house then going to champion that. Cnn reports this is the guy that helped write the draft memo that comey ended up releagues. We heard from every current of the white house pointing to had this guy as the kind of herring, the red herring of this is proof that the fbi is bias. And you know what with weve heard since the release of that cnn the report . Absolutely nothing. Crickets. What they would like is for this to go away and for people to f to forget about it very, very quickly. So the director of the centers for Disease Control and prevention has resigned. Brenda fitzgerald bought shares in a Tobacco Company the month after she became director of the cdc, an agency which has worked for years to prioritize antismoking efforts. Fitzgerald declined to explain topo litco why she purchased thousands of dollars of tobacco stocks after taking the position in july. According to the wall street journal, fitzgerald offered her resignation saying she felt investment issues were detracting from her job and the agencys works. No conflict of interest there. Not at all. Lets turn to business. The dow snapped its worse twoday decline streak. A slight pullback in the markets, but 2018 so far has been incredible for the stock market. Whats the outlook look like . What are investors thoughts . Here in the uk, we say pinch, punch, first of the month. Its february 1st. We can look back on the monthly numbers for january. The Dow Jones Industrial average was up 5. 8 for the month, s p 500 up 5. 6. Those are records since march 2016. Weve seen the big tech stocks under focus this week because of earnings and the nasdaq up 7. 5 for the month. Thats the highest since oes october 2015. Facebook in the spotlight yesterday, their profit for the Fourth Quarter up 56 compared to the Previous Year and theyre looking at profits of 4. 3 approximately. 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District attorney George Gascon announced the city would retroactively apply californias legalization of marijuana laws on past kate cases dating back to 1975. The move clears thousands of peoples records which can be barriers to employment, loans, housing, disproportionately affect minority populations. Marijuana legalizing proposition 64, which went into effect january 1st, enables those with past convictions to recall or dismiss their cases. But due to the acts of paperwork, processing fees and attorney fees, as well, petitions have been few and far between. Under this, nearly 5,000 misdemeanors will be reviewed and recalled. Dating all the way back to the mid 70s. Unbelievable. Yeah. Its interesting. And its going to be very interesting to see how these people get a Second Chance and so many of these aspects of loans and job employment taken and whether or not it will have a positive impact. Lets get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. Bill, the weekend is shaping up to be a snowy one in the northeast. Sunday, especially, maybe you can extend it into monday and ski on some fresh powder. For todays forecast, its quiet across the country. Were going to watch slowing the weather from the west coast heading to the east. This is a weak storm here in the rockies. This is into friday. Were cold in areas of the ohio valley, not that big of a deal. Pretty cold in the northeast, too. By the time we get into saturday, we watch that storm system drifting here. Minnesota is going to get a little snow. Presuper bowl day. Wisconsin is going to get light snow. We start to pick up some moisture from the gulf. The storm is going to form along the cold front, its going to bring another rainy sunday to the southeast. With all that cold air, its barely cold especially with the high elevations in the northeast to get snow. Cities, this is a rain event for you. Were talking boston, providence, New York New York city, philadelphia, washington, d. C. But when you get to the suburbs of the poconos and you head out into the mountainous areas, thats where were dealing with the possibility of snow. One of the things well find out tomorrow, whats going to happen with the groundhog. So far, were going to look at these clouds lining up here across the ohio valley. Unfortunately, the forecast here, lets see if phil is in here. It does look like we are going to be watching cloudy skies. There he is. Hey, phil. So cool. How do you do that, bill . Do it again. Bill, thats an expensive screen. Dont touch the screen, bud. I had to wake him up early. What are we looking like . Its looking to be cloudy, but in case youre wondering, he has a winter bias. In 120 years of predictions, hes predicted an extended winter 107 times. Whats the farmers almanac saying . Thats only accurate 50 of the time, so flip a coin, yasmin. Bill, laying into the farmers almanac. 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Where a dozen players with the north korean womens hockey team have been training for the past week with their counterparts there theyve been going back and forth by charter. It needed special approval from the United States. Of course because of sanctions. Namely, that no ship or aircraft can visit the United States within 180 days of going to north korea. Now, we all know this is part of the measures that were announced in the, in the talks that happened earlier this month between both sides. And after repeated invitations from seoul, for pyongyang to participate in a socalled peace olympics. But there is some controversy brewing. Pyeongchang doesnt have the infrastructure woes that have marred a lot of olympics. But there is the russian doping scandal and now what appears to be missed feelings among south koreans thinking that seoul made too many concessions to north korea, which announced a huge military parade the day before the Opening Ceremony. Ayman . 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Here in washington, a waiting game with the white house, as early as today, expected to allow the release of the controversial republican memo, alleging antitrump bias within the fbi and the Justice Department. Its become a flashpoint and a fight between the president and his handpicked fbi director, christopher wray, the bureau waging an extraordinary Public Campaign to prevent the documents release, warning about grave concerns about facts left out that fundamentally impact the memos accuracy. President trump and the oval office ignoring questions about the fbis plea. But it appears his minds made up as chief of staff has said it will be released pretty quickly. The latest from here. Lewis, back to you. Our thanks to Peter Alexander for that report. Michigan Police Department apologizing for a victim of larry nassar. She accused the doctor of molesting her during treatment of 2004. She filed a police report, but the police did not refer her complaint to prosecutors. Imagine how many lives could have been saved if the police would have acted on that. Massachusetts becomes the first state today to ban the possession of bump stocks, anyone found in possession of a bump stock or other similarly banned equipment could face sentences ranging from 18 months to life in prison if convicted. That does it for us, im yasmin vossoughian, alongside Ayman Mohyeldin and lewis bergdorf, morning joe starts now. This president has said from the beginning i want everything out. I want this thing, i want the American People, a, to know the truth and b, that the investigators and what not have everything, its really unique in that weve lean sod far forward to get this out. John kelly says he wants everything out. Even if the fbi says its a dumb and dangerous idea. Republicans may get their memo released today. But it will not be the last shoe to drop. As it was framed on twitter quote never start a leak war against the fbi. We learned from reporting yesterday that the agent accused by republicans of targeting trump was actually behind a decision that crippled the clinton campaign. And if john kelly really wants full disclosure, then hope hicks has questions to answer after reportedly saying last year, that potentially incriminating emails, quote will never get out. The reporter behind that story joins us in just a moment. Of course, the president could alwa