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Its tuesday, january 8th. We begin with new data that proves the Trump Administration has t been given false informatn toiv make its case that theres crisis on the border and that a wall is needed so badly that its worth shutting down the government for. The claim is that thousands of parents are trying to come in to the country. We have terrorists coming through thero southern border e because thats the easiest place come to through. Weve stopped special intereste aliens coming into t country. We know that roughly nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists come in to our countrye illegally and we know that our most vulnerable point of entry is at our southern ur border. We apprehended more than ten terrorist or suspected terrorists per day at our southern border. All right. The governments data, those that actually d disputes that. Nbc news obtained customs and borderd protection data provid to congress back in may of 2018. It only found six nonu. S. Residents or citizens in the terror database that were stopped byor the cbp at the southern border in the first half of the year. In hafact, the number was great on the northern border, with canada, where the data shows that 41 people were stopped. Again, the Trump Administration heard has been saying thousands when the number t according to the governments own data is actually six. Democratic congressional leaders are demanding equal time to address the nation tonight. After the Major Television Networks Plan to air an address from President Trump to explain why he believes theres a National Security crisis at the border. Theis president announced his speech in a tweet on monday afternoon and sources tells nbc news as early as monday evening, cbs, abc, fox and nbc had decided to air the address, msnbc, cnn and fox news are planning to air the speech. There have been instance, however, where president s request w were rejected as bein sufficiently news worthy like president obamas in 2014. Tomorrow night ill be announcing some steps i can taka to fix our broken immigration system. What illmi be laying out are things iay can do with my lawfu authority as president to make the system work better, even ast i continue to work with congress. So, tune in tomorrow night at 8 00. Butht the networks did not broadcast that speech. A Network Insider said at the time there wasin agreements amo the broadcast networks that this was overtly political. The white house has tried to make aha comparison to a time tt all the networks carried president bush in primetime also related toso immigration but th wasmm a bipartisan announcement and this is an overtly political move by the white house. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer put outer a statement yesterday that read in part, unfortunately President Trump keeps rejecting the bipartisan house passed bills which have already received support. If his past statements will be full ofst malice and misinformation. Democrats must be given equal air time. John cornyn replied to the statement with sarcasm. Sweating. Coming up on morning joe, Democratic Senators will weigh s in on the status of the Government Shutdowne and the n efforts to find a resolution. President trumps primetime address tonight will be followed by all trip to the southern border. They will be highlighting his demand for a wall. Trump will meet with those on front lines of the National Security and humanitarian crisis. With the H White House and Congressional Democrats continuing to fight over border wallo funding. The wall street journal reports that during a private meeting with aides at camp david, President Trump said he t wanted to come up with a resolution to the end shutdown without him appearing to have capitulated to democrats. White house officials disputed that account. Said the president did not make such a statement. So amid the Government Shutdown hundreds of thousands ofwn federal workers are bracin forre a paycheck that wont be the mail this week. Tom costello has more. Reporter in ogden, utah the bickering sisters cafe was nearlyfe empty at lunch time. The 4,000 federal employees working across the street are furloughed. They are my regular customers. The r biggest population in downtown ogden as far as the lunch and breakfast crowd. Reporter 800,000 federal workers are00 impacted. Washington, d. C. , maryland, virginia, california and texas. In Colorado Forest Service workers are furloughed. No paycheck. The uncertainty is hard. Because you have to be strong for your kids. Yo its tough to wake up and have your wife reassure you that everything is y going to be all right. Reporter if the government remains shut down 51,000 tsa employees will not get paid on n friday. Already some have called out sick in protest. But brian turner is still showing up for work. It shouldnt be allowed to happen because we work for our money just like everybody else. We shouldyb get paid for our services. That was tom costello reporting. The sttsa say the number of workers callinge out has had a minimal impact so far but the agency is warning travellers may have to wait longer in security lines. Joining us now from washington, d. C. , neil. Lets discuss the nbc news piece which shatters President Trumps reasoningmp behind the need for border wall. They were using terrorism, National Security as a driving force behind that crisis citing thousands of people being arrested at the southern border. Only six have been arrested according to the governments own data. What can we expect from the president s speech tonight given this new reporting. . What could he make as his sales speech if this has been debunked . It wouldnt surprise me if the president s sales pitch is that there are thousands of terrorists being apprehended at the southern border. The pattern weve seen here is the facts dont necessarily come in toce play when were talking about the rhetoric coming out of the president or the white house when it comes to immigration. This is probably the most obvious example weve seen yet of where sort of the Government Data doesnt necessarily line up with what the president is saying or tweeting. So, really, it wouldnt surprise me if what the president says tonight needs to be sort of fact checked in realtime. So talking about being fact checked, the president that is, we know that democrats are pushing back for equal time to state their imcase. Dor networks have a responsibility, an obligation to do tyso, especially if it means Fact Checking the president and what he has to say . Well, you know, that response to the state of the Union Address that the minority leader always does every year, sometimes feels like something of a sjoke, so i think that it important that there are voices on the democratic side and certainly even republicans who areai not necessarily with trum onss the immigration issue certainly i would hope that the networks would give them an opportunity to express their position asre well. But weve all seen those responses to the state of the unionsp address, at least where none of us necessarily are paying quite as much attention. Really the president is the one everyone will Pay Attention to even if democrats get the air time thatge they seek. Be hard to fact check him in realtime when you dont know what hes going to say. Yougo can only anticipate wh hell cisay. Neil, thank you very much. Ha so President Trump has tweeted some thoughts late last night writing quote endless wars especially those which are fought out of judgment, mistakes that were made many years ago and those where were getting littlee financial or military help from the rich countries that so greatly benefit from what were doing will eventually come to aev glorious end. That cameor several hours after the president attempted one again to alter his original statements o regarding his immediate troop withdrawalng fr syria tweeting out, quote, the failing New York Times has knowingly writtenk a very inaccurate story on my intentions on o syria. No different from my original statements. Well be leaving at a proper pace while at the same time t continue to fight isis and doing all a else thats prudent and necessary. Thats the president s position thiss week is far different from what he stated lasthe month when he claimed isc was defeated and u. S. Troops will be coming back immediately. Take a listen. We have won against isis. Weve beaten them and weve beaten them badly. We wont be finally pulled out until isis isll gone. So our boys, our young women, our men, they are all coming back. And they are comingal back now. Were going to be removing our troops. Ie never said were doing it tt quickly. How long . Its going quickly. Meanwhile u. S. And congressional officials says the administration ishe seeking plas to imprison 900,000 isis members and00 their family. They warned they may have to let those terrorists free in order to fight what is expecteds to be an onslaught by Turkish Forces once u. S. Troops are not there. T secretary of state mike pompeo is set for a week long trip through the middle east which will include a major policy speechde in cairo. Two people drafted on the speech said one o of the may it please goals is to lay heavy criticism on president obama telling his audience that obama misled the people of themi middle east abo the future or about the true source of terrorism, including what contributed to the rise of the t islamic state. In addition the speech highly praises saudi arabia for its handling of the investigation into the murder of u. S. Resident and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi who was killed byi saudi officials in the sau cu consulate. Iran could learn about human rights and rule ofir law from saudi ofarabia. I wow. Just lastab week a Senior State Department official told reportersde saudis have not don enough to hold khashoggis killers k responsible and the ch has assessed Saudi Crown Prince was responsible for that murder. The president , however, has dismissed and rejected that and has agreed with saudis that ha khashoggi was killed in a rogue operation. Im not sure what to say about that. Well weigh in. Actor kevin spacey pleads not guilty to alleged sexual assault. We have the details about what l went on in the courtroom yesterday. Justice Ruth Baden Ginsburg missed r oral arguments. Her latest recovery from cancer surgery and well have a check on your weather when we come back. I dont keep track of regrets. I never count the wrinkles. And i dont add up the years. But what i do count on, is staying happy and healthy. So, i add protein, vitamins and minerals to my diet with boost®. Boost® high protein nutritional drink has 20 grams of protein, along with 26 essential vitamins and minerals your body needs. All with guaranteed great taste. The upside im just getting started. Boost® high protein be up for life. Psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis, Little Things can be a big deal. Thats why theres otezla. Otezla is not an injection or a cream. Its a pill that treats differently. 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Beyond clumsy dialsins and pins. To onetouch conference calls. Beyond traditional tv. To tv on any device. Beyond lowres surveillance video. To Crystal Clear hd video monitoring from anywhere. Gigfueled apps that exceed expectations. Comcast business. Beyond fast. Welcome back. Actor kevin spacey made his first appearance in a massachusetts courtroom. Thes on car winner entered a not guilty plea over the 2016 incident in which hes accused of groping a young man in a nantucket bar. Indica kate snow has more. Reporter swarmed by the media kevin spacey spent less than 15 minutes in a nantucket courtroom. He never spoke. He filed a plea of not guilty. That charge stemming from a night at this bar. My son was completely star struck. Reporter heather says her son was 18 but told spacey he was older and spacey bought him drink after drink. It wasnt until kevin spacey put him inside his pants that he really knew he was in trouble. He didnt consent to that . Absolutely not. Reporter she says her son told her and his sister that night. But didnt report it until more than a year later. He was afraid. Who is going to believe an 18yearold kid . Reporter in a new court filing spaceys son did not object to the alleged touching. He did not ask mr. Fowler to stop. No witnesses from the crowded bar came forward. He sent a snapchat video to his girlfriend from the bar that night. All im asking is put a bubble around that data. The judge ordered the prosecutors to preserve the messages. The next hearing march 4th, the judge said spacey does not need to appear. Kate snow, nbc news. Our thanks to kate snow for that report. Justice Ruth Baden Ginsburg was absent from the bench for the first time in her career as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments. A Court Spokesperson said Ruth Baden Ginsburg was working from home and miss her first session in 25 years as she recovers from cancer surgery. On december 21st doctors removed two nodules from the justices left lung. Chief Justice Roberts noted her absence and she will participate in two cases scheduled for a hearing. Last months surgery marked the associate justices third bout with cancer. Ruth baden ginsburg returned to the court promptly after having surgery for cancer in 1999 as well as in 2009. The longest serving liberal justice on the kourkts begin begins said she intends to do her job full steam and has hired law clerks through the 2020 term. Lets switch gears and get a check on your weather with bill karins. Watching light snow through areas of new england. Not a huge ordeal especially for anything thats been treated. A coating out there especially north of new york city. South of new york city warm. That was pretty much a little quick batch of sleet and little bit of rain. We have Winter Weather advisories out there because of slippery conditions. Mostly northern new jersey, pennsylvania and 23 Million People. We have some winter storm watches out. A second storm will hit northern portions of New Hampshire and western new york and appalachians. Heres the mess as we go throughout 8 00 a. M. Blue shows you where the snow is. Vermont, New Hampshire, up here in maine. Done in connecticut. Heres storm number two right behind it with showers popping up in the ohio valley. Its going to turn out to be pretty mild day today throughout the midatlantic, ohio valley and northeast. Some rain around tuesday afternoon as we go throughout areas of pennsylvania from pittsburgh to west virginia. This storm intensifies tonight. A big old wind maker on the back side that will quickly get a lot colder. Lakeeffect snows are flying and decent a snowstorm in northern portions of new england. I95, no worries whatsoever. Red up to eight inches of snow. Lakeeffect snow, syracuse, rochester, south of buffalo. Rest of the country is looking good. D. C. Warmest day youll have for a long time, 59 degrees this afternoon. 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In a new College Football playoff champion clemson crushed top ranked alabama 4416 in last nights title game to the action on the field in santa clara, california the crimson tide took their only lead of the game with a field goal at the start of the second before they are shut out. Tiger defense stops alabama possession. Clemsons true freshman quarterback played like a pro, throwing for 347 yards and three touchdowns and a win that caps the tigers undefeated championship. Turning now to nfl where the first of eight vacant head coaching jobs have been filled with the packers reportedly set to make titans offensive coordinator matt lafleur green bays next skipper. Cody parker as been vilified in sundays game the league changed the miss to a block and while you can barely tell from the replay defensive tackle trevon got a fingertip on the ball during the 43 yard attempt presumably changing its trajectory enough that parkey is not blamed for the missed field goal. Finally the nba reigning mvp take a look at this. He fell down. Oh, my goodness. Hardens has a behind the back dribble from draining a shot beyond the arc. That one will make the highlight reel. Definitely. That was a pretty good shot. Pretty good move as well. I would say this sometimes, you know, the clip is a little bit more deceptive. He may have slipped because maybe there was something on the court. Exactly. Give him the benefit of the doubt. Benefit of the doubt. Thanks. Still ahead we continue to follow the very latest on the Government Shutdown and whether or not President Trump will declare a National Emergency in order to fun his border wall. Joe bidens brother weighing in on whether the former Vice President will make a run for the white house in 2020. Well show you his new comments next. New comments next onemillionth order. Millionth order. There goes our first big order. 44, 45, 46. How many of these did they order . Ooh, thats hot. You know, we could sell these. Nah. 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Reporter at the white house a shutdown sales job as the president makes a pr pitch aimed not at lawmakers but you with that speech and border trip to highlight what his administration describes as a humanitarian and security crisis. Vice president spence says no decision has been made yet about declaring a National Emergency. Declaring an emergency on our border, an emergency that doesnt exist is probably the worst Public Policy idea ive heard in about ten years. Reporter the white house cites the growing threat of terrorism at the southern border numbers provided to congress in may first reported by nbc news show in the first half of the 2018 fiscal year agents encountered only six immigrants listed on a terrorist screening database. This completely contradict what we heard from white house officials as they built their case for a border wall and for shutting down the government in order to get that wall. Reporter in a letter to democrats the white house is loosening its definition of border wall, steel not concrete. I do think his moving towards steel slats rather than concrete wall, if it holds is important. Reporter a big point happens this week when many federal workers are set to miss a paycheck. Im sure that the people that are on the receiving end will make adjustments. They always do. Reporter the union represents about 80,000 federal employees. Months this shutdown this president says. Are your workers prepared for months. Absolutely not. Reporter pressure building with negotiations still stuck. Hallie jackson, nbc news, the white house. And members of the Trump Administration are rallying around the president s recent focus on potential to declare a National Emergency to secure funding for his border wall. Vice president pence said that lawyers in the White House Counsels Office are looking into the legality of making that move. The Vice President added that trump has made no decision about possibly making that declaration. Pences comments as the president increasingly throws out the idea of declaring the National Emergency, but lawmakers in both parties yesterday rejected the idea. Several democrats suggesting it would be immediately challenged in courts. Joe bidens younger brother frank biden is teasing a possible 2020 president ial run by the former Vice President. Frank biden said that the loss of his brothers son weighed heavily on the family during the 2016 campaign but he believes the former Vice President is emotionally ready to take the leap in 2020. For a while there i was amazed that joe could put one foot in front of the other, let alone conduct the business of the United States as the Vice President. And as he says so beautifully in the irish, it will bring a smile to your face thinking about your loved one and not a tear to your eye at some point. Weve reached that point as a family. Weve reached that point. So this frees joe up emotionally, spiritually, mentally. If he decides to go he will be the most dynamic 70 somethingyearold youve ever met in your entire life. So bidens brother took the opportunity to hit President Trump directly. Part of my job with joe is to advise him on exercise routines. Look, trump cant even walk 18 holes. Trump cant walk 18 holes. Joe benches 185 for repetition. I am a machiavellian when it comes to electability and i certainly wouldnt want him to think about running if we couldnt annihilate trump. The wall street journal reports orourke has asked aides to create and itinerary for him. Well start the trek from his home in el paso. Hell pop into places like College Campuses but avoid early voting states. He doesnt plan to make a formal decision about the 2020 race. At least until february. Acting white house chief of staff is only a week into his new job but been mulling a possible exit from the Trump Administration. According to the New York Times mulvaney has recently as late as last year explored the possibility of becoming the president of the university of south carolina. The times citing four people familiar with those discussions say that mulvaney initiated twauks a senior official at the university about the position. The paper says that as of last week a person close to mulvaney said hes still interested in that position. The acting chief of staff represented south carolinas fifth Congressional District for six years before being tapped to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and later the office of management and budget under President Trump. Joining us again from washington, Senior Writer at roll call, neil. How would another potential chief of staff shakeup that would be number four, i believe, rock the Trump Administration, if mulvaney decides to leave in the coming months . Maybe they are trying not to count mulvaney. Maybe thats why he has the acting chief of staff title so that he doesnt count and when we do these statistics, but certainly any more unrest or another change in that position particularly as we get closer to the 2020 president ial race is something to be concerned by if youre the Trump White House particularly because there will be a lot of people leaving the official side to return to the campaign apparatus, either in trump tower or in northern virginia. So, you know, if mulvaney leaves hes probably not the first to go or not the last to go, and so that might be the problem that they run into too. You cant help to think what mulvaney said over the weekend about trade with mexico doesnt help his position when the president saying mexico will eventually pay for the wall but mulvaney is like thats not necessarily how the budget works. That doesnt necessarily help his position as chief of staff in the white house. You have to be lock step and barrel with the president. Let me get your thoughts this idea that the white house has been floating around. The lawyers are studying whether or not they can declare a National Emergency on the border. What kind of legal hoops do you see President Trump needing to clear in order to classify the border wall as a means of National Security and declaring it an emergency . Well, if they can come up with a rationale that meets the test of this law that no one of pays attention to except when it matters called the antideficiency act. Basically the federal government cant spend money on that it doesnt have appropriated funds from congress for. If they can come up with a National Security work around, they are going to run head long into objections come september 30th of this year because, obviously, with the house being in democratic control the stop funding anything like that and well be right back here ten of sep having another shutdown threat. Making a National Security threat around border when numbers are trending down wards. It doesnt reflect a crisis at the border. Not a change in a way that would have prompted that response. Neil, thank you very much. Always a pleasure. North Korean Leader kim jongun is in china according to chinese and north korean state media. Kim arrived yesterday reportedly on his 35th birthday for a four day visit at the invitation of chinese president xi jinping. The visit comes ahead of an expected second summit between kim and President Trump. Trump recently tweeted that he was looking forward to that meeting despite a not so veiled threat kim issued on new years against the United States and the ongoing disagreements about what decnuclearization means. A judge appointed by trump comes to the support of mueller. A dramatic rescue as police and strangers come to the aid of one man trapped in a flaming vehicle and it was all caught on ta tape. Bill karins is back with your forecast. Forecast. 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A federal judge appointed by President Trump defended special Counsel Robert Mueller in a washington courtroom yesterday. While delivering a skating denuncy ages of a lawyer for a Russian Company charged with the meddling in the 2016 president ial election. Concord management recently questioned if mueller collected a nude selfie in his probe well u. S. District judge who was nominated by President Trump and confirmed by the Republican Controlled Senate scolded concord managements attorney for his filings quote i thought your brief was inappropriate and unprofessional and ineffective. You have undermine your credibility in this courthouse. Knock it off. In response concords attorney said there seems to be some bias against me by the court. Another federal judge extended the term of the grand jury in the Mueller Probe a sign that the investigation continues. Lets get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. Bill, its going to be warmer today but dont let that fool you. You say winter is on its way. Enjoy it while you can especially in the southern half of the country where its been gorgeous. One or two more days but florida will cool off wednesday afternoon. Overnight we had a little bit of light snow and sleet mixed in throughout mars of new england. Its just about gone in boston. Little bit left in portland to bang orto augusta. Even rain on the jersey shore is over with. Then yearround two is going to come in as we go throughout tonight. The storm is getting stronger. A big windstorm. Kick off lakeeffect snows. Can be heavy off of lake erie and lake ontario. Northern adirondacks will get some snow. Ski resorts will be appreciating that. Been tough sledding lately. Behind this storm thats going to kick through, very windy. This is the beginning of the cold air coming back. 38 Million People are under wind advisories from the dakotas all the way dak down through des moines, chicago, and some minor flight delays. So heres your enjoy it forecast. Changing highs is what well call it today. About as warm as it will get for a while. 66 in charlotte. New york city not bad at 46. Cleveland at 50. New orleans 71 degrees. But as i said the cool air is on its way. 15 today in fargo. Cold air in minneapolis at 14. Tomorrow 26 in grand rapids. Back to the 30s and 40s as you expect more for january all the way to the southeast by the time we get to thursday. You know it had to come sooner or later. Our friends on the west coast a huge storm off the coast. This will bring clouds and rain. The heart of this storm is going to mostly stay off the coastline. We dont have to worry too much about that. Enjoy today. About as warm as it will be until march in many cases. We have some pretty incredible video. A group of Police Officers and regular citizens in texas are being hailed as heroes after their brave effort to save a mans life following a car crash. This is new video released by the Corpus Christi Police Department showing flames erupting from an overturned vehicle on january 1st. Officials say that a 70yearold man was trapped inside. You can see the officers and civilians rocking the vehicle until it finally flips over. They say that the mans vehicle overturned when he was hit by a driver going the wrong way. There is no word, though, on any injuries he may have suffered. Still ahead another tech giant follows in apples foot steps with a gloomy outlook. 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Cnbc joins us live from london with more. Many americans rely on that tax refund as a critical part of their income for the year. What more can you tell us . Its not even the start of the official Filing Season but youre right. Millions of people already planning to get refunds worth billions of dollars. You can imagine the political implications if those refunds are not paid in time. Right now 12 puerto rico of the irs workforce is expected to be working during this partial Government Shutdown. A lot fewer people available to answer questions from taxpayers. This is creating huge headaches for accountants given as new tax code introduced a year ago. Committees in Congress Even saying they are not able to get ands about where physically this money is going to be coming from. Thats because theres no one at treasury or irs to actually take their phone calls. Speaking of phones, gloomy news from samsung, theyre expecting a 29 decline in their operating profits for the most recent quarter. This echos the gloomy outlook we saw from apple just last week. This is significant because theyve talked about a slowdown in demand from china in particular. Its another blow to the text sector, which is under a lot of pressure at the moment, as you all know. And nissans exchair appeared in court. What do you know about that . He was told by the judge that he was a flight risk and that there were concerns amongst japanese authorities he would attempt by others to conceal evidence. And shares in the company where he is still chairman here in europe, they ticked up following that court appearance. Thanks so much. Coming up, Nick Johnston has a look at axios one big thing. And more on President Trumps plan to take his fight to the tv screen. And jmayor bill de blasio also joins the conversation. Morning joe moments away. 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They dont expect President Trump to engage in a lot of partisan attacks on nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer. At the same time they caution you can never be totally sure if he goes off the script. One thing this is part of a broader push. They dropped the ball while the president was in town alone on a p. R. Stretch trying to get back on track. Walk us through what you know how the decision was made inside the oval office for a nationally televised address. What does the president genuinely hope to get out of this . This is the first one hell be doing from the oval office. Hes done a couple in the capitol behind me. They felt the president hadnt made enough public statements before the impromptu comment on the south law and twitter comments havent broken through a lot of the noise. This is going to be an attempt to do that. Theyre worried the real world effects will start this week, there are a lot of stories about food stamps, not being given and this friday is the first day when federal paychecks dont come out. Theyre worried republicans on the hill will start peeling off and joining democrats to start passing piecemeal spending bills to open up parts of the government. If this is televised, who do you foresee doing that . Thats a great question. I assume it will be nancy pelosi or Chuck Schumer but they might go someone from one of the border states who can speak more on the issue. What is the decision to make the primetime address tell us about the president s strength in negotiations with democrats . They felt like they had to do something else. They havent moved the ball at all. Weve had four or five days and nothing has changed the dynamic of this negotiation. This is an attempt by bill shoo schein to see if they can move it forward. We remember george bush give an Oval Office Address after the 9 11 attacks. Theres something to the significance of why he wants to deliver this address from the oval office. Thats very deliberative. They went to all the networks and asked for the time. There was a lot of back and forth last night, yesterday afternoon wondering if would all the Networks Carry it live, its a an oval address by the president of the United States, all of them decided they would. And what is the likelihood that the president will declare a National Emergency. Mike pence considering the legal team is considering it. Its an ongoing stalemate. Not seeing any movement on that. As a lot of the reporting shows, that will go straight to the courts, look for a lot of litigation. Its not the kind of thing that might make democrats more open to compromising. Thats true. Go to signup. Axios. Com. That does it for us this morning. Morning joe starts right now. And after were add 2 well Start Talking about going higher. In years in advance i think we should be at 4 . Just one clarification from what the president is saying, which is actually not connected to reality. All of the countries have committed to 2 . Bob gates went over for barack obama several years ago. Since then the spending has increased and were going to be showing you charts to show that actually European Defense spending has increased at a faster rate than u. S. Defense spending since 2011. Now back to the president. Right now were getting people up to 2 . That will take place over a fairly short period of time, a short number of years. Thats joe Fact Checking the president in realtime last july as he lied about nato to nato. We made the decision to interrupt his comments repeatedly to try and set the record straight. Tonight donald trump will be beamed into the homes of millions of americans and judging by recent history, he will not tell them the truth. 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