it has been more than four months since donald trump held a press conference. he is putting a new one on the books setting december 15th as the day he ll explain his plans to deal with his business empire after he is sworn in. i want to bring in hallie jackson and ali velshi. let s talk about donald trump s tweet he is going to have this press conference. though he doesn t legally have to do it, he ll be separating his business ties from his new role as president of the united states. correct. a couple of the highlights here from what we know, because i think there s some big question marks, right? number one, the subject of it will be the conflicts of interest that frankly have been in the headlines since the night he was elected. these are real questions. while he is exempt, he s right, he is exempt from federal conflict of interest laws, there is still the appearance of conflict that could be a concern which he references when he
an offer for secretary of state on the table? mitt romney now praising the man he once called a fraud. he did something i tried to do and was unsuccessful in accomplishing, he won the general election. as donald trump tweets this morning, he s drawing up legal documents to officially hand over his businesses to his children. and happening right now, house democrats in a closed door meeting set to vote any minute. will nancy pelosi keep her job as their leader? we re going to begin this morning with the breaking news and intense outbreak of deadly weather overnight slamming parts of the south. several new details are pouring in. first to alabama where a powerful tornado struck as many people were fast asleep. at least five people are dead in alabama and tennessee and four others critically injured. thousands remain without any power. msnbc s march rihanna atencio joins me. marianna, you have been in touch with emergency officials. what do you know so far?
bressin when he wrote about jobs. that s the whole ball game for donald trump. everything else is just noise. j-o-b-s, jobs, jobs, jobs. thank you so much. we re going to take a break. the officer who shot a black man in his back testifies in his own defense. we re going to break down his testimony next. people don t run from a broken taillight. as after a dvt blood clot,ital i sure had a lot to think about. what about the people i care about? .including this little girl. and what if this happened again? i was given warfarin in the hospital, but wondered, was this the best treatment for me? so i asked my doctor. and he recommended eliquis. eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots and reduces the risk of them happening again.
they give them tax breaks. you don t see that on the federal level all that often. we don t and by the way, you and i have discussed this, that if they actually did do that for small and medium sized businesses, that would be really good. the big companies get the red carpet rolled out. it s the small and medium conditions that create the jobs and don t create a break. wouldn t there be a legal press tent and we don t know the deals, do you believe we re going to see lots of other companies raise their hand and say, hey, donald? what you going to do for me? what do they call it during the financial crisis, moral hazard? exactly. start rewarding people for their bad behavior. he named two companies during his campaign, ford and carrier and he s gained points on both of those. remember, lehman brothers looked around and said, look, everybody s getting bailed out. then they were giving cardboard boxes. right. interesting to watch this. this is not boring. no, no, not bor
had with him have been enlightening. mr. trump is directing our anger for less than noble purposes. he continues with a message of inclusion, bringing people together. well, we heard they ate frog s legs, but right there mitt romney may have been eating crow. what a difference eight months makes. now mitt romney is possibly poised to be donald trump s secretary of state despite the previous acrimony. he s laughing mike lufuka and senior editor of business insider josh barro. let s start with you. yeah. mitt romney turning here, does this make him a patriot? does it make him a flip-flopper? is it a positive he s had such differences with donald trump in the past? first of all, in fairness to mitt romney, what he said is he has increasing hope. open heart, open mind. his official position is that he has an open mind. it s not a total like i was wrong, i m sorry.