Im amman mo ha deny alongside jas nine ver s. U. Suvian. Is russia still targeting the u. S. , mr. President . We expect russia will continue to wage its information war against democracies. The whole russia thing. Its a hoax. Its a terrible hoax. Not only are the russians continued to do it in 2018, but weve seen an indication that theyre continuing to adapt their modem. The agreement says there will be total denuclearization. Nobody wants to report that. North korea will seek to retain its wmd capabilities. We have made a lot of progress that has not been reported by the media. From it is unlikely to completely give up its Nuclear Weapons and production capabilities. I ended the horrible week iran nuclear deal. Is iran currently providing the jcpoa in terms of their nuclear activities. At the moment technically they are in compliance. We have won against isis. Weve beaten them and beaten them badly. While isis is nearing territorial defeat, the group is returning to its gorilla roolths. Its working against isis. Isis command throughs of fighters in iraq and syria. Wow. So one issue was notably absent from the threat assessment as nbc news notes the intelligence chiefs did not once mention the need for a wall along the southern border, which President Trump portrayed as the single most pressing need for this country. A week ago, he quoted this, build a wall and crime will fall, a resounding majority of american voters, they disagree. After the quinnipiac poll after border wall with mexico significantly decrease violent crime. 33 said yes. 64 said no. The white house acknowledge that President Trump and russian president Vladimir Putin met in buenes aires at the g20 summit. They say the conversation was longer and more substantive and included no american personnel. In november, trump pointedly cancelled his meeting with putin due to the capture of ukrainian ships and sailor at the time. Trump tweeted this out saying i look forward to a meaningful summit again as soon as this situation is resolved. But according to Financial Times the leaders did, in fact, huddle for several minutes at the end of an evening event with no translator or note taker from the u. S. Side to record what was actually said between the two leaders. The report not independently confirmed by nbc news cites people who had direct knowledge of the encounter or were briefed on it and claims the discussion occurred at theaters as world leader and their spouses or guests were streaming out of the building. The Financial Times claims President Trump was accompanied by his wife melania, but no staff while putin was flanked by his translator. The four sat at a table and were among the last to leave. A russian official tells the Financial Times, the two leaders spoke about 15 minutes about a number of Foreign Policy issues, including the azak sea incident with ukraine and the kconflict n syria. Lets look to domestic politics. A new polling shows voters have more faith in democrats than the president and republicans. And the democrats announced that stacy abrams, who narrowly lost the governor race will, in fact, deliver the Party Response to President Trumps state of the Union Address scheduled for next week. Senate majority leader, excuse me, Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer says he invited abrams to deliver the response three weeks ago. She was very delighted when she agreed. She is weighing her next steps, including a possible run for u. S. Senate in 2020 against republican david purdue of georgia. She responded to the announcement tweeting, at a moment when our nation needs leaders united for a purpose, i am honored to deliver the state of the union response. Roger stone due back in court this week after officially pleading not guilty to charges brought against him. Stone was formally arraigned in washington, d. C. Yesterday. Now the former adviser to President Trump faces seven charges, including obstruction, making false statements and witness tampering. The usually flamboyant stone did not say much during the 13minute hearing as his lawyer and during his plea. Outside the courthouse, it was a much more rowdy scene outside, protesters gathering both in support of and against roger stone held signs that read free stone, jail hillary and you pepped putin steam our democracy. The judge has ordered stone to return to court friday for a status hearing. With Robert Muellers investigation possibly wrapping up soon, House Democrats are reportedly plotting ways to ensure the special counsels final report is made public and that the Justice Department doesnt interfere with its conte contents. Jer my nadler said, quote, if the report is not released, we will certainly subpoena for it. He adds the problem with a subpoena is they can contest it in court for a while. At the same time, republican senator Chuck Grassley and senator richard plumeenle that have introduced Bipartisan Legislation that would require mueller to submit a report to congress and the congress once his investigation has wrapped up. The legislation would also require a report within two weeks if the special counsel is, in fact, fired, transferred or resigns. All right, joining us from washington is politicos daniel litman, coauthor of the politico playbook. Thank you so much for joining us. Democrats were not the only ones that are wanting to make sure that muellers findings are made public. Talk to us about what were hearing from some republicans with this regard, especially Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell. Yes, its a little surprise mcconnell has weighed in on this. He has said he wants as much of this report thats not classified to be released to the public and i think he is responding to, in a public demand, that we actually see the results of this investigation. We have been paying for and thats occupied the national conversation. Its unclear if hes actually going to support that bill you talked about, about releasing the whole report. But and trump, he might try to block it if it is damage for him. So, let me ask you about the intel chiefs and their threat assessments that we saw play out yesterday on capitol hill, completely contrasting President Trumps rhetoric, especially over some of the key signature issues, whether it be north korea, isis or iran, how do you think the white house is likely to respond when youve had this kind of public rebuke from the countrys top intel chiefs . Yeah. I think its quite striking that you have the intel chiefs and the republican Foreign Policy establishment really come, you know, against trump and what he stands for in the Foreign Policy realm. And so basically, they were under oath and they were saying what is in this annual report thats required. This is not a huge surprise that we found iran to be in compliance, but trump never actually mentioned that fact. And north korea, trump liked to show off those letters that kim jongun sends him. He calls at this time love letters. He really likes the guy. Yet, he has shown very few signs of actually complying with his promise to denuclearize the intel chief said that having Nuclear Weapons is critical to the regimes survival in north korea. And there are plans for a second summit potentially next month. Yeah. But we really have not seen evidence that they are making much progress on trumps demand. And the big question is, is the president going to take some of this into account when he plans on meeting kim jongun in the next month or so. Neighbor his public statements. My gut says no, he probably hasnt. I will go with your gut on that daniel litman. We will talk to you in a bit. Thank you. Former city michael plume berg attacks Elizabeth Warrens plan on attacking wealth instead of the income, comparing the plan to socialism. We need a healthy commitment we shouldnt be embarrassed about our system. If you want to look at a system thats no nonexamistic. Just make the a look at what was perhaps the wealthiest country in the world and today the people are starving to death. Its called venezuela. Former starbucks Ceo Howard Schultz weighed in on warrens wealth tax, calling it unrealistic. When i see Elizabeth Warren come out with you know a ridiculous plan of taxing wealthy people, a surtax of 2 because it makes a good headline or sends out a tweet when she knows that, for, in a fact, that is not something thats ever going to be passed. This is whats wrong. You cant attack these things in a punitive way by punishing people. Of course, warren responded to these criticisms, tweeting this. What is ridiculous is billionaires who this i that they can buy the presidency to keep the system rigged for themselves while opportunity since away from everyone else. It is time for change. Schultz will join morning joe leader this morning to discuss his potential 2020 president ial run. All right, still ahead, President Trump tweets about Global Warming and then gets fact checked by a federal agency. How about that . Yeah, this is freezing temperatures, sweep across the country, reaching some dangerously cold levels in certain areas. The reason why aymon is not in the country. 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Miguel almaguer has the details on this. Reporter Jussie Smollett on Empire Police say he was brutally beaten on this chicago street in a possible hate crime. At 2 00 a. M. , investigators say two men approached him and may have recognized the actor yelling racial and homophobic slurs. After the assault the police say the attackers threw an unknown chemical on his face and tied a noose around his neck. He took himself to a hospital, where he is recovering. That man is doing nothing but minding his own business and you feel its necessary to go after him like that. Why . In a statement, Chicago Police say they have not identified any suspects and are looking for under Surveillance Video of the assault. An advocate for the gay communities smollett came out to ellen in 2015. We cannot allow people to just spew hate. Reporter outrage on social media, including a post from lee daniels, creator of empire who shared and delete this picture of smollett. You didnt deserve, to have a noose thrown around your neck, having bleach thrown on you. We have to love each other. No matter who we are. Reporter now the victim of a heinous crime, miguel almaguer, nbc news. President trump tweeted some thoughts on the record, the cold spell in the midwest. In the beautiful midwest, wind chill temperatures are reaching minus 60 degrees, the coldest ever recorded. In coming days,ic mi expected t even colder. What is going on with misspeeld Global Warming. Come back fast. We feed i. Thats not how Climate Change or Global Warming spelled works. The National Oceanic report tweeted out, it contributes to more moisture in the air, which leads to more extreme rain and snowfall, depending on the season. With that lets switch gears to the weather. Global whaming. You do this all day about the tweets from the president. Im opinion is he is like poking the bear. He knows the difference and hes just giggling as he types this stuff. Am i wrong . I mean do i give him too much credit . I think you are giving too much credit. I would like to say my new years resolution was to not read so many trump tweets. Its not working out for me. You dont give him time to respond. I think he knows. Listen even if he is joking and thats what he intends to be, he still has the responsibility as a president not to put that stuff out there where people will not necessarily know he is joking. There is that concern and if there is somebody out there influenced. Its not up to us, it was his own agency, the National Oceanic agency. The people. Complaining what is going on in our atmosphere. All right. Go ahead, bill, give us the good news. Exactly what he wanted. Now lets get into the forecast. 100 Million People are under warni warnings and advisories, into the Northern Plains and now the northeast. This is the coldest weather map. I may stand in front of my career. I never have been in one in 20 years. Yesterday we made it to neg 66. That was the lowest i saw in minnesota. This morning the lowest i seen is negative 54 in duluth. Were at negative 51 in davenport. Minneapolis is negative 52. Its not like you watch outside in minneapolis, negative 22. Either. This is the peak of it. I dont think it will get any colder. This is at 8 00 a. M. Left fast forward to when people will be coming home. At 5 00 p. M. , temperatures are falling throughout the day. Chicago negative 27. Notice we get rid of those negative 45s and 50s. Tomorrow morning, negative 18 is better. It will be cold in the northeast. Nothing compared to what we are dealing with now. Heres the best news of all. I mean, i think in chicago Come Super Bowl sunday, you will see more than one person wearing shorts. Thats how quickly we will have a huge warmup. Wow. There is chicago right now. Chicago will warm up by about 70 degrees between now and sunday. Wow. So our winter whiplash continues. How long zblo. Global whaming. Thats exactly what that is. In those types of temperatures, how long you can actually be outside . I mean, if you are protected, longer, obviously, any expoemsed skin, negative 50, five, ten minutes and are you in trouble. So basically stay inside. All of those areas have no school today. Most of them. All right. Thanks, guys. Still ahead, james harden continues his hot streak and Anthony Davis trade demand is costing him millions of dollars, well talk about that next in sport sports. Sports. Welcome back. Its also time for sports. We begin in the nba. Lets go to houston, reigning mvp james harden extended his peak. 34 consecutive games, reaching the bar with two minutes left to play. Harden finished with 37 on the night. The rockets fell to the pelicans 131116. Last nights win is a bit of small news for the city of new orleans, after the afc controversial championship loss, who wants to play the super bowl more than the saints . They next learned pelican star Anthony Davis desire to be trade fareed the team. Public demand now earned davis a 50,000 fine. He makes 25 million. The league says it was an intentional effort to undermine the contracttual relationship between davis and the pelicans. Stay tuned. Well have a lot more on that story in the next yearandahalf. Finally we go to the floor in san antonio with the sun and spurs, we are tied in the last second of regulation. 21foot jumper at the buzzer earned san antonio the victory over phoenix, but despite the win head coach pop vip not plearich popovich not happy with his team. It was a pathetic performance. And phoenix got robbed. Wow. Really going in there. Popovich says, you know, he speaks his mind. He doesnt mess around, bill. Yeah. What do you think about that 50,000 fine for a player that makes 25 million . Exactly. Thats like pennies to him. Okay. Here you go, moving on. I was wondering why they fined him, not the act. Unless the agent was speaking exclusively on his behalf. The agents dont work for the nba like the players do . Maybe the player will fine the agent. Get 50 grand off him. Exactly. Thanks, bill. Still ahead, form you are new Jersey Governor Chris Christie weighing in on Robert Muellers probe and s