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Yasmin vossoughian and louis burgdorf. We begin with a white house aide resigning amid domestic abuse. Nbc White House Correspondent Kristen Welker has more on this. Reporter shock waves at the white house after a two exwives accuse verbal and physical abuse. In a statement, porter called the claims outrageous and simply false. And a coordinated smear campaign. The president and chief of staff have had full confidence and trust in his abilities and his performance. Overnight, chief of staff john kelly called porter a man of integrity even as reports of abuse first appeared in the the daily mail including this picture of porters first exwife who told the paper porter punched her, giving her this black eye soon after their 2003 marriage. She alleges porter choked her and emotionally abused her. Porter fired back, i took the photos given to the media nearly 15 years ago and the reality behind them is nowhere close to what is being described. Porters second exwife Jennifer Willoughby told the daily mail porter dragged her wet and naked out of the shower and was verbally abusive. Nbc news has obtained a 2015 protective order where willoughby told Police Porter ignored her multiple requests to leave her home and at one point punched in the glass on the door. I called the police afraid that he was break in. A former white house official says chief of staff john kelly was aware of the allegations of abuse before the story broke. Two sources familiar with the matter tell nbc news it is believed porter was never given full security clearance, although its not clear why. The administration now is defense. I think that was a personal decision that rob made and one that he was not pressured to do, but one that he made on his own. The white house is not commenting on porters security clearance. One other layer to this, porter is reportedly dating Communications Director hope hicks who plays a role in all public statements from the white house, including those that were sent out last night in porters defense. Thanks to kristen for that report. Meanwhile, john kelly released a second statement on the matter last might. It read in part, i was shocked by the new allegations released today against rob porter. There is no place for Domestic Violence in our society. I stand by my previous comments of the rob porter that i have come to know since becoming chief of staff and believe every individual deserves the right to defend their reputation. Lets switch gears into politics. Leaders in the senate have struck a deal to not only keep the lights on, but to avoid dealing with this sort is of issue in the future. The senate now is expected to vote on the measure today after it was announced by Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell and Chuck Schumer yesterday. The twoyear deal would boost defend spending by 300 billion. That would include money for infrastructure and fighting the nationwide opioid epidemic. The plan also adds more than 80 billion for disaster relief. When it comes to the debt ceiling, though, the budget would extend the maximum amount of which the government can borrow up to one year. The u. S. Is expected to hit that threshold next month. Leaders mcconnell and schumer both celebrated the agreement on the floor of the senate yesterday. Watch this. Ns the compromise weve reached will ensure that for the first time in years, our armed forces will have more of the resources that s they need to keep americ safe. It will help us serve the veterans who have bravely served us. No one would suggest w it is perfect, but we worked hard to find Common Ground and stay focused on serving the American People. The deal doesnt have everything democratsic want. It doesnt have everything republicans want. But it has a great deal of what American People want. After months of legislative logjams, this budget deal is a genuine break through. After months of fiscal brinkmanship, this budget deal is the first real sprout of bipartisanship. And the bill seems to already be get ago big thumbs up from President Trump just one day after saying he would be open to a government shutdown. He tweeted the budget great today is so important for our great military. It ends the dangerous sequester and gives secretary mattis what he needs to keep america great. Republicans and democrats must support our troops and support the bill. While the senate is expected to pass the legislation, getting it through the house may be tougher due to opposition from both parties there. Conservatives in the chamber are blasting the deal as a budget buster while defense hawks and moderates are calling it an imperfect but decent compromise. Some democrats have confirmed that they dont want to agree to raise budget caps until they have assurances the Daca Recipients will be protected. Speaking of daca, nancy pelosi delivered an eighthour speech yesterday in response to paul ryans unwillingness to protect dreamers. She began what was supposed to be a oneminute speech yesterday and does not yield back until after 6 00 p. M. According to house Historians Office its the longest floor speech since 1909. The 77yearold democrat did it without taking a bathroom break and in 4 inch heels. To help pass the the time, she read the stories of dozens of dreamers and framed the issue in moral terms reading passages from the gospel of matthew and at one point saying she should have brought her rosary. The minority leader without a commitment from the House Speaker to open floor debate on immigration. Take a listen. We really, again, are in a position to do something and we feel helpless. Thats what the hard part is, helpless if our speaker will not the whole house will not give this dignity to this house of representatives to be able to take a vote on a subject of broad debate in the country. Although pelosi is threatening to pull her support, it is unlikely it will have an outcome on the budget vote. Sarah westwood, and julia amesly, joining us now. Quite a feat for nancy pelosi, eight hours of the floor. In heels. A lot of people praising her efforts, obviously. Do you think its going to be enough to rally democrats here . I think what is difficult here, its not necessarily that need it to be part of a spending bill. They need the promise from paul ryan. He has wiggle room. He can finagle what this looks like. But for her to come out and do that, that is rallying democrats around this. At the same time, you have the senate coming out with this bipartisan budget deal. I dont think they want to get into a shutdown tonight. Sara, let me ask you quickly about the core issue in all of this which is the budget deal. Is a budget deal possible . Do we think this is going to get done, especially as it works its way now from the senate into the house where its much more divisive . I think in the senate, its going to be an easy lift both of the leaders of their parties in the Senate Support this deal. So in the house, its an open question because you have conservatives on the one hand who oppose this deal because it raises the deficits and it does lift spending so much for nonmilitary programs. You have liberals in the house who are going to oppose it because its not going to include any attachments related to immigration. Those probably wouldnt survive in the senate, either. But if you can put together a coalition of moderate democrats and republicans to pass this forward, i think theres a good chance they could put it on the president s desk. Because President Trump has endorsed it, i think speaker ryan will encourage republican members to vote for it, as well. The Freedom Caucus cant be happy about the raising of the debt ceiling. Right. What happened to that . The debt ceiling is the problem when youre in the minority. Its the thing you use to try to slow roll any legislation youre opposing. Suddenly were seeing ads 300 million all of a sudden not make as much of a difference as it would if these parties were reversed. I want to ask you about rob porter yesterday with all of these allegations that have come forward, he is stepping down, a big shakeup in the white house. How do you see how the white house has handled this, how they have reacted to it from the first counts of the issue and ultimately to the resignation . I think this story might be more about john kelly than it is about rob porter. John kelly is someone who people recognize more. Rob porter can leave the white house and it wont change the way we see white house daytoday operations. What happened with john kelly is telling of the way the white house is going to handle scandals like this. He stood by rob porter until that picture emerge from the daily mail yesterday. Clearly there was a change. Were seeing from this white house that they change their tune when there is a public report, when the media gets it, just like they did with andy putzer. Talking about security clearances here with rob porter, as well, you have to go through some major interviews. Obviously, they interviewed these exwives before rob porter got the security clearance but turns out he doesnt have the high security clearance. And hes not the first aide accused of not passing a background check and potentially still working on portfolios that have included sensitive information. And the way the white house has handled this has been pretty sloppy. They were going to stand by him and them he was going to resign but remain in the west wing indefinitely. Now were hearing his last day could be today because it was untenable once those pictures came out to have those praiseworthy comments stand. A lot of head scratching this morning. Sarah, were going to check back in with you later in the show. Stick around. In a report report republican senator ron johnson insinuates that president obama was personally keeping tabs on the fbis investigation into Hillary Clinton emails. It all stems from a newly released text message between former fbi eighth agent peter struk and fbi leader lisa page. Page writes that she was preparing talking points for james comey because potus wants to know everything we are doing. At the time, the fbi did not have an active investigation into clintons emails. However, in his report, johnson says that the text quote raises additional questions about the type and extent of president obamas personal involvement in the clinton and email scandal and the investigation of it. Adding whether the Obama Justice department influenced the investigation deserves total investigation. Those texts unvarnished raise an awful lot of questions. Theyre cryptic, theyre not complete, theres redactions in those things. But it just requires our committee with jurisdiction of federal records to have the oversight of congressional records. Donald trump tweeting new fbi texts are bombshells. However, associates tell the wall street journal that the texts refer to briefing oh bam the ma on Russian Election interference which was high on the president s radar at that time. Thats the shortest tweet ive ever seen from President Trump. Yeah. 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Lets get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. Bill, what is it going to be like in philadelphia for the parade . Will it matter . Theyre going to be partying and jumping around in the streets, anyways. But thankfully, no rain, no snow, a little on the cold side and theyll be just fine with that. The problem in the northeast as we had all the slush yesterday, especially southern new england, its all refreezing. The temperatures now dropping down to the 20s. Theres a lot of School Delays in this area. Sidewalks have a lot of black ice on them, so be careful. There are many pictures out there of the trees and stop lights, other stuff like that. Here is some of it. It wasnt a lot of ice, but it was enough to cause significant problems just weight. You can see it there all the icicles on the power lines. So the next winter storm is on its way coming down into montana today. It will be heading into the central plains. We have almost 30 Million People in advisories or warnings. Moline into chicago, tonight into tomorrow morning, lets take you through it. Rounds of snow, in the area that winter is holding on, its the Northern Plains and through the midwest, 8 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning, snowing pretty good in chicago, detroit, it ends. But then more snow comes in on saturday. Thats what we mean rounds of snow. By the time we get through the next 48 hours, snowfall totals, one of the bigger snowstorms of the season. It will be light, fluffy, so its easy to shovel. Still significant travel issues there. Then a little bit of that comes into northern new england. The southern half of the country is gorgeous, in the 60s and 70s. Good for them. Winter holding on, though, in the north. Still ahead, eric holder speaks out against President Trumps attacks on law enforcement. Will holder challenge trump in 2020 . Well tell you what hes saying, next. Ones that make it fast and easy to analyze and take action . 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Meanwhile, rippon was quoted saying he would consider a meeting with the Vice President at the end of the games but he added the the Current Administration and pence, quote, doesnt stand for anything that i really believe in. Changing now to the nba, if at first you dont succeed, try, try and try again, and thats what a lesson from lebron james displayed last night. After miss ago threepointer in the fourth quarter, lebron got his redemption in overtime nailing the jumper for the win. 37 points, 10 rebounds and 15 assists in the cavs 140138 overtime win. Meanwhile, top ranked villanova couldnt find the same magic among unranked st. Johns. It appears the players prayed for the intercession of st. John to beat their top five ranked team within a week. They beat duke back on february 3rd. A reminder, st. John is a below. 500 team with a single conference win to date. The red storms ponz finished with 26 points and justin simon contributed 16 at st. Johns defeats villanova 7975. If youre in an arena, you expect to be protected from the outside elements. Not so fast, though. Last night, nbas game in new orleans between the pelicans and the Indiana Pacers was canceled after being rained out due to a leaky roof. The game was delayed for nearly two hours before its cancellation. Come on, guys, we can fix a roof. You have to make sure you plug those leaks. You would think a stadium that costs that much would have that problem fix. I like the makeshift i dont know if you noticed it, a blanket with a tube or someone just get a bucket. I would be really upset if i were a fan going to that game. Still ahead, a new scandal rocking the white house this morning. What chief of staff john kelly is saying after a Top White House official is accuseded of abusing his two exwives. And it looks like we have may have a deal to keep the government open and, believe it or not, with some time to spare. Well have the latest on the budget break through from capitol hill. 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The move comes after staff secretary rob porters two exwives came forward. In a statement announcing his departure, you called the allegations outrageous and false. Switching gears, nbc news has exclusive new reporting on russias interference in the 2016 elections as we quickly approach the 2018 midterm elections. A lot of questions remain about whether mass cow could compromise both. Now a new report reveals just how extensive russias meddling has been. Nbcs Senior Investigative correspondent Cynthia Mcfadden has more on this. A senior intelligent officials said several states had their voting Registration System successfully compromised by the russian government. This after u. S. Officials had previously revealed 21 states were targeted. We asked homeland securitys chief of Cyber Security, Jeanette Manfra about that secret document. I cant talk about classified information publicly. We saw targeting of 21 states and an exceptionally small number of that 21 were actually successfully penetrated. The fear russia would remove voters names from the rolls, creating chaos, potentially swinging the election. We were able to determine the scanning and probing of voter regul registration databases was coming from the russians. U. S. Intelligence knew by the summer of 2016 the hacking originated from russia. Two months later, they told the public. Should you have done it before october 7th . Anytime you make a difficult National Security decision, somebody says, why did you do that . And then somebody else says why didnt you do it sooner . It turned out voters names were not removed in 2016. But what about this year . My worry is that since that time, a lot of states have done little to nothing to harden their Cyber Security. I would not agree with that assessment. I would say they have all taken it very seriously. Nbc news reached out to those states. California and texas say their voter system was never attacked. I stand by the list. This is a snapshot in time. But now, with nine months to go before critical midterm elections, whats being done to secure the vote . Dhs is offering Cyber Security help, but some states tell us theyre still waiting. Is there a waiting list for dhs in the election . No waiting list. No waiting list. No waiting list. Secretary manfred says they will get everybody and take them to a Security Location where experts look for vulnerabilities that hackers will exploit. Its a very small lean, mean team here. It is. But i like to think that we are the best and the brightest. But some question whether the federal government should be involved at all. What do you say to the states who say, were fine, were good. Thanks a lot. See you. Id say youre being naive and irresponsible to the people youre supposed to serve. 2016 was the wakeup call. Now its incumbent upon states and the feds to do something about it before our democracy is attacked again. And there is a legal shakeup surrounding one of the first people indicted in the investigation probe. Its not clear why, but there were irreconcilable differences between gates and his business partner. Both have pleaded not guilty. Joining us from washington, White House Reporter Sarah Westwood and julie amesly. Lets talk about that gates story. Irreconcilable difference sess what you see typically on divorce documents, but were seeing it here,s as well. We first heard this was coming this week and the documents yesterday kind of the unsealing of the documents sealed the deal that they are parting. Theres still a lot of questions around this. Some people i spoke to said it could be that gates is cooperating and so people that have represented him up to this point can no longer represent him because theyve been in touch with the Trump Legal Team as they are going through this process. Another scenario could be what they laid out. They said if they gave all the a details, it would be embarrassing to rick gates. So theres a lot there we want to get to the bottom of. I think its telling of something. We just dont know what it is yet. Let me ask you quickly about some of these messages between fbi officials, peter strzok and lisa page. What have we actually learned from the messages . Theres been some politicians who have come out and say the Text Messages reinforce their positions, but others are saying not so fast. Yeah. I think bombshell is maybe too strong a word to use to psychiatric these Text Messages, but they certainly raise concerning questions. Most of all, because president obama said months earlier when asked pointblank about whether he had contact with the fbi and these politically sensitive matters, he said he never consulted or even had contact with fbi leaders so he could guarantee that there was no political interference. We dont know the context surrounding these Text Messages yet. But the newest Text Messages suggest that fbi agents said President Trump wanted to know everything they were doing and that they were preparing talking points for comey to pass along to obama, comey who has denied conversations with obama about the clinton email matter or the russia investigation. So this is something, obviously, thats going to be of interest to investigators because it seems to contradict statements that obama himself made. This is getting to the construction of the matter with these Text Messages in that we dont know the context of them. Exactly. So when we have giving us their analysis, its limited to what we can take from it. We know this conversation happened in september of 2017. At that point, the Hillary Clinton email investigation as most of us knew was wrapped up. It was reopen later. So it seems that he really wanted to know know about the meddling of the oougs elections. So what this shows is that we really need thin specter general report from the justice department, an independent agency who can look into the clinton email investigation, how it was handled, and not just be based on texts between two agents, but based on what officials are communicating. Were thinking theyve been Briefing Congress on it, but im hearing sometime around march or april at this point. Mark your calendars. Tomorrow marks the end of the fiveday review period for President Trump to decide whether to declassify that democratic intel memo that was written in response to chairman nuness intel memo. Are we likely to see that memo released anytime between now and tomorrow . The white house said they support the democrats push to have this memo released. And both memos have sort of become an issue of you see what you want to see in them, depending on where you assistant stand. There are some that say democrats threw unclassified information into that memo to force the white house in an effort to show the white house doesnt promote transparency unless its in their favor. So its really going to be interesting to see how much of the democratic memo ends up getting released to the the public and how much gets withheld. Quickly, julie, do you think this is part of the democratic strategy and the including stuff that could feasibly get redacted that they could point to and say, look, these things arent included. Right. But then they would have to come out and tell us they werent included. But i do think that they are going to holler if they see there have been political decisions behind these redactions. Thank you so much for joining us. Not too bad getting up at 5 00 a. M. , right . No, it was great. Sarah, great to have you on, as well. Thanks. Former attorney general eric holder is speaking out on trumps attacks on the fbi and the doj. You are supposed to shield your people from political pressure. And the thing one of the things that disturbs me the most is the fact that this attorney general has, fo for whatever reason, been relatively silent. When attacks are going against career people of the fbi, career people at the United States department of justice. I have to think that the leadership at the department knows these are spurious attacks, theyre inconsistent with the reputations that these people have, the way in which theyve conducted themselves over the years. And those voices, those leadership voices need to be heard in defense of the people who they supervise. Holder is leaving the door open to a possible White House Run in 2020. When asked about the possibility of higher office, holder said he would make the decision by the end of the year. Former Vice President joe biden rallied democrats yesterday in washington including taking on President Trump. He pushes nationalism and this ugly and phony populism. Afford everyone dignity. Dont act like the neighborhood bully. Talking down to little soandso or fast soandso. I mean, my god. Hes the president of the United States of america. Since when do we give hate safe harbor in america . Since when are we leaving so many people behind . Guys, this president is doing great damage. Bidens speech kicked off House Democrats annual retreat, rallying the party ahead of in this years midterms. The former Vice President spoke to the group for nearly an hour including taking questions and saying he believes the democrats had a chance of winning back both the house and senate in this years election. Still ahead, a Corporation Announces its shutting down operations and Dunkin Donuts goes eco friendly, ditching one of its most well known features. Plus bill karins is back with a check on the forecast. Its easy to think that all Money Managers are pretty much the same. But while some push High Commission investment products, Fisher Investments avoids them. Some advisers have hidden and layered fees. Fisher investments never does. And while some advisers are happy to earn commissions from you whether you do well or not, Fisher Investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. Maybe thats why most of our clients come from other Money Managers. Fisher investments. Clearly better money management. 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And he says this, if we can send a roadster into the asteroid belt, we can solve the problem. I wonder who was hearing that one. For sure. Gotta love david bowie. Good newsous of the coffee drinking world. Dunkin donuts has announced it will ditch its styrofoam cups for a eco friendly paper cup. How soon will we see these changes in Dunkin Donuts stores . 2020 until we see an environmentally sustainable coffee cup from dunkin. So the foam cups will be replaced by whats called double walled paper cups. You would think something fairley innocuous as this would pass, but consumers are up in arms here. Its sparked something of a kind of firestorm on social media. Its fascinating. Consumers feel very, very strong about this, especially those in new england who use the styrofoam cup as a kind of kuzi to insulation an iced coffee or an iced tea, whatever it is they like to have. Would have thought the simple solution is to have a little eski, which is your own flask which keeps things hot and cold. But, anyway, thats just me. Maybe Dunkin Donuts would just create a little eski for everybody and hen the people theres a Business Solution there. A good Business Solution that people are up in arms about it. They will have their cake and eat it, too. Sri, thank you so much. Sri, dropping some knowledge on us this morning. Bill karins is like a little eski. Easy, bill. Youre still on the cup, buddy. Sorry. Lets get a quick check on the weather. Yesterdays dustup with the snow wasnt as bad as some areas. I95 wasnt too bad. But once you get out to the big cities outside of i95, its an icy mess. A lot of School Delays out there and thats because of the refreeze. Watch out for that black ice. Here is one example of the black ice from yesterday. You see these happen. It didnt look that bad. It didnt look like he was going that but he hit pretty hard, thankful didnt hit any other vehicles. But thats a lot of damage. So today, what were going to deal with is the next winter storm is on its way. Right now, dealing with light snow. But tonight, the by tomorrow mo be snowing good. This is six inches of snow for chicago, north of peoria. A little enhancement here, nine inches possible on the board irof indiana, ohio and southern michigan. Detroit, six to eight inches possible for you. And some moving into northern new england, but not a ton of it. This time of year, sometimes the south warms up quicker. And cold in the Northern Plains, well warm up towards the weekend. The southeast through the midatlantic. And i think everyone will like it by this weekend. And unfortunately some rain with it. But at least it will be mild. At times like this were both thinking we should be living in atlanta or miami. 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Before we toss it to morning joe, lets check the stories youll be hearing about in the day ahead. President trump is set to deliver remarks at the National Prayer breakfast in washington. 3500 people from around the world will join the president and members of congress at the event. This year sidelined Philadelphia Eagles quarterback carson wentz will replace Vice President mike pence as the speaker. Following that breakfast, wentz will join the rest of his fellow teammates for the firstever Philadelphia Eagles super bowl parade. Much of the city of brotherly love is shutting down for the occasion. Including government offices, city courts and some tourist attractions. The victory parade starts near the eagles stadium and ends at the steps that were famous from the rocky movie. Morning joe starts right now. The evolving level of trust and a series of other questionable instances is what led the president to ask for general flynns resignation. [ buzzer ] i would like to read a statement from the president on the resignation of press secretary sean spicer. Sir, does the president have confidence in his chief of staff . We all serve ass at the pleasure of the president , if that gets to the place where its not the case, well let you know. Is it safe to say steve bannon is off the list of president ial invitations for the office of the president . Probably so. Im fired from a campaign. [ buzzer ] is Anthony Scaramucci still in the administration . He does not have a role at this time. Im not going to comment on sebastian gorkor. The president liked omarosa, thanked her for her service. The Security Status clearance of rob porter . He is going to be leaving the white house. And then there were two. Of the 11 people featured in those images of team trump only the president and Vice President are still standing. And the last