Fans over twitter about turkey, cranberries, and long naps. Thats in the skinny on this monday, december 2nd. Good morning, everyone. Happy first week here in december. I still cant believe it. Its december. Its december. 2019, 2020 is right around the corner. Elizabeth hur is in for janai norman, who is somewhere typically shes off on mondays and tuesdays but check her instagram, shes going to be in the caribbean. Good for her. Enjoying warm weather, hot weather while were here dealing with snow, sleet, ice, and all that stuff. And that is what we begin with, that deadly winter storm taking aim at the northeast. Much of the region overnight is soaked and slippery from the first round of this st streets are slick right here in times square in new york city and in many other areas. It has been snowing in manchester, new hampshire, and throughout northern new england. And more snow is on the way. Right now, though, weather radar shows solid white from western pennsylvania into northern n
Democratic debate. What did you mean when you said youre not going to be as polite in the next debate . Well see. Those stories, plus, remembering ally fries and family gat for the ole miss student gone way too soon. Scooter skirmish. Are they simply too dangerous fod riders anpedestrians. And fortnite fever. We take you inside the first ever worldup of fortnite geing under wayhis weekend. Massive numbers of fan gathering and a jackpotp for grabs. Today, friday, jy 26th, 2019. From nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda k sve fromdio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And. Welcome to today th for joining us on this friday morning. Thanks to Kristen Welker filling in for savannah, enjoying some time off. You picked a good friday. A great friday to be here. Concert. Ed about this lined up for pop superstar andy grammer, singing some of his biggest hits. Perfect for afriday. Feelgood music, a great way to start the weekend. But let start with our top story, that growing scandal with
especially tonight. and adidas cuts ties just now with kanye west over his anti-semitic rants. that is what we re watching at this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan. brittney griner was again before a russian court today and received no mercy. the court upholding griner s nine year prison sentence rejecting the nba s star plea for leniency. she was convicted in august after russian authorities say that they found vape can sifters containing cannabis oil in her luggage at moscow airport. this was swift reaction after the appeal that didn t go anywhere, slamming the court proceeding as a quote, sham, vowing the biden administration is doing everything it could to bring her home. kylie atwood is live at the state department for us. what are you hearing about this now? reporter: the conviction has opinion upheld. meaning that she is still found guilty of smuggling drugs into russia. this trial essentially brings the end of the judicial process for brittney gr
declassified. and providing any evidence that he had declassified any of these documents. now as we and others have reported, and as every expert we have spoken to has said, there is a process for declassification. and if you don t believe them, take it from these republican senators today. there is a process for declassifying documents. there is a process that one must go through. okay. so that s pretty clear. what isn t clear or accurate is what the former president claimed in an interview last night with his tv friend sean hannity. if you re the president of the united states, you can declassify just by saying it s declassified. even by thinking about it, because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or to wherever you re sending it. and it doesn t have to be a process. there can be a process, but it doesn t have to be. you re the president. you make that decision. so when you send it, it s declassified. even by thinking about it. those are his words, which raises the
good morning and welcome to the saturday edition of morning joe weekend. it was a really busy week. let s get to some of the conversations you may have missed. gag order in donald trump s hush money case is an effect, but his attorney said, they will keep fighting to get it thrown out. that comes after new york s top court declined to hear trump s appeal of the matter earlier this week. the state court appealed trump s thing, there was no constitutional grounds for the appeal. that leaves the gag order imposed by judge juan mershon in place meaning, he could still face penalties in place for violating it. the order bars trump from going after witnesses, jurors, and others who were involved in the case. following his felony conviction last month, the sentencing is scheduled for july 11th. so, i guess first of all, do you expect this gag order to be put back before the sentencing? i don t, but maybe there is reason for it. and then, what do you expect for the sentencing?