On. Good morning. Its tuesday, february 5th. Im Ayman Mohyeldin along side Yasmin Vossoughian and louis burgdorf. President Trumps Inaugural Committee is being subpoenaed. They want to see where the 107 million fund came from and what, if any, benefits donors received in exchange. The wall street journal which broke the news of a criminal investigation into the committee in december was able to view a copy. Now according to the journal the subpoena requests documents related to the committees donors and spending including communications about payments made directly by donors to vendors which would flout disclosure rules. Federal prosecutors are seeking documents related to a los angeles financier who gave money through his private equity firm and once registered as a Foreign Agent working on behalf of the sri lanka government. A spokesman for the inaugural Committee Said we just received the subpoena for the documents approximately while were reviewing the subpoena its our intention to cooperate. A federal judge delayed Paul Manaforts sentencing date by a week. The scheduling change took place after a closed door hearing regarding the allegations that manafort lied to the special counsels office. Manafort will now be sentenced on march 13th instead of march 5th. The delay gives lawyers for mueller and manafort more time to hash out the dispute over whether trumps former Campaign Chair broke the terms of his cooperation agreement. As President Trump prepares to give his state of the union speech tonight and mulls the possibility of building a border wall a number of gop members are speaking out against the move. Shooting down the possible path for the president to get his path. In interviews yesterday republicans including senator jon cornyn said they have made efforts to steer trump away from going around congress. I think its a dangerous step. One because of the precedent it sets. Two, the president is going to get sued and it wont accomplish his goal. Third, because i think nancy pelosi may introduce her resolution of disapproval. To me it strikes me as not a good strategy. As you heard there senator cornyn say a potential National Emergency declaration by the president could result in congress trying to block him by using a resolution of disapproval. If the democratic controlled house passes the resolution, the senate would be forced to take it up and would require just four republican defections along with Senate Democrats to rebuke the president. The president would then be forced to veto the measure intended to block him. One Top Senate Republican is warning his colleagues not to resist President Trump if he declares a National Emergency to get his wall. Speaking in his home state of South Carolina yesterday, senator Lindsey Graham called on his fellow republicans to you night around trump if he decides to go around congress to get his wall. Adding there could be a political war within the party. To every republican, if you dont stand behind this president were not going to stand behind you when it comes to the wall. This is the defining moment of his presidency. Its not just about a wall. Its about him being treated different than every other president. All right lets get now to the politicalize in virginia. States Lieutenant Governor who could become governor denies sexually assaulting a woman inside a boston hotel room in 2004. The allegation against Justin Fairfax was reported by the same rightwing website that posted the racist photo from governor Ralph Northams yearbook page. The Washington Post says the accuser reached out to the paper after fairfax won election in november of 2017 and before he was inaugurated the following january. She accuses him of sexually assaulting her at the Democratic National convention. Fairfax says the encounter was consensual. However the Lieutenant Governors claim the post found inconsistencies within the allegations is incorrect. The reason the paper says it did not run the story at the time is because reporters could not find anyone to corroborate either version. Washington post executive editor later issued a statement explaining why the paper decided to go ahead and publish the uncorroborated allegation yesterday. Writing in part quote Lieutenant Governor fairfax is a public official who may well rise to the position of governor. He began the morning by issuing a statement regarding allegations against him making specific representations about post reporting that had not resulted in publication. We had an obligation to clarify. Yesterday fairfax was asked if he believes the Governors Team is spreading misinformation about him. I dont know precisely where this is coming from. Weve heard different things. Heres the thing, does anybody think its any coincidence on the eve of potentially my being elevated thats when this uncorroborated smear comes out. Does anybody believes thats a coincidence . You dont have to be cynical or understand politics to understand when somebody is trying to manipulate a process to harm somebodys character without any basis whatsoever. Virginia Governor Ralph Northam continues to weigh his options as calls for him to step down intensify. The Washington Post reporting that northam gathered cabinet members and staff yesterday morning to apologize for the ongoing racist photo controversy. And to ask for more time to clear his name. The governor urged staffers not to quit and promised he would make a decision about his fate soon but did not give an exact time frame according to three people familiar with the meeting. Northam continues to survey his wavering Political Support as he searches for evidence that would prove his innocence in the photo scandal. Meanwhile, a Morning Consult poll shows the governors Approval Rating among virginians sharply dropped 19 points since january to 29 . Northams disApproval Rating has grown to 48 . President trumps new campaign has launched a challenge. They deployed an unprecedented effort to monitor and influence local party operations. The snift has included taking steps to change state party rules, crowd out potential rivals and quell any early signs of opposition that could embarrass the trump. The campaign has used lobbying and rule changes to increase the ability only loyal participants make it to the National Convention. Jim lyons defeated the candidate backed by massachusetts republican charlie baker, a trump critic to serve as the state party chairman. One Senior Adviser to the Trump Campaign calls it a process of ensuring that the National Convention is a Television Commercial for the president for an audience of 300 million and not an internal fight. A new mammoth University Poll finds republicans are split on President Trumps winning the nomination. 49 want to see him run unopposed. 43 want him to face a challenger. Senator ted cruz gathered only 21 to President Trumps 66 and john kasich losing by 14 to 73 . Joining us now reporter for axios. Elena, good morning. Lets talk about these poll numbers that louis was going through. What do you make of them obviously in favor of President Trumps. 43 wanting another primary challenge certificate a pretty big number but i think you have to be wary of poll numbers especially this early on in an election cycle. Granted, i mean theres not looking like anyone would step up to the plate against President Trump or anybody would win. Hes still incredibly popular among his base and financially, you know, hes pouring a lot of money into 2020. Im looking ahead to that. I think a lot of people will be afraid to challenge him and not likely they can crowd him out of that. I was going to say, the New York Times interview the president seemed confident he would win the primary. The bigger challenge right now in conversations ive had with people at the white house and looking ahead to 2020 is they are trying to not only theyve been focused on his base so far but its reaching beyond that in trying to ensure they are keeping those industrial midwestern states like pennsylvania, wisconsin that go beyond his base thats where the concern is rather than looking at another potential primary challenger ahead of 2020. One thing to possibly dent the president a little bit are the investigations that are constantly in the pipeline and lets talk a little bit about that subpoena that we referenced at the top of the show of the trump magnituinaugural committe. This president has been bogged down by investigation offer investigation. A lot of people were hoping that mu Robert Muellers investigation, the subpoena and documents being requested from the inaugural Committee Show despite what happens with this russia investigation there will be financial and other investigations that are going to plague him ahead of the 2020 election. And its damaging. Right now its still unclear. They are not excusing anyone of wrongdoing yet but i think that the Southern District ever new york investigation whats going on in new york has been overlooked in many ways compared to the mural investigation, especially when you consider that people like the Trump Organizations chief financial officer, he has complete immunity in some of these investigations and really could be potentially even more damaging than what were seeing happening with the russia investigation right now. Thanks. Well talk to you again in a little bit. Still ahead as the u. S. Military moves forward with a plan to pull out troops from syria the pentagon is issuing a warning about isis trying to regroup. Well have details from that new report. Venezuelas Opposition Leader juan guaido speaks out to nbc news as more European Countries signal their support. Those stories and a check on your weather when we come back. Why bother mastering something . 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It comes as iraqi president is rebuking President Trump after trump said over the weekend that he wants to keep u. S. Troops in iraq to quote watch iran because iran is a back problem. Yesterday he said dont overburden iraq with your own issues and that he will quote not allow it. Explaining that the u. S. Does not have the right to use iraq to watch iran or any other countries since under a joint agreement the specific mission is combat terrorism. Last night the senate officially passed Mitch Mcconnells amendment rebuking trump on his syria and afghanistan positions. As the crisis in venezuela slats countrys Opposition Leader juan guaido is speaking out to nbc news after the uk, germany and france joined the u. S. In recognizing him as the countrys interim president over the embattled Nicolas Maduro. Kerry sanders has the latest. Reporter this weekend massive crowds supporting this man, Opposition Leader juan guaido who has declared him venezuelas legitimate president excusing Nicolas Maduro of claiming victory in a sham election. Who is the president here in venezuela . Juan guaido. Thats you . Its me. Who is Nicolas Maduro . Reporter the military remains under maduros control. Maduro excusing the u. S. Of an attempted coup. The u. S. And now many in europe backing juan guaido. Russia and china supporting maduro. All this and a new crisis for venezuelans who have been struggling for years. Empty shelves in pharmacies and inflation rate going up to 10,000 . Juan guaido told us some low level members of the military have also defected to his side. Kerry sanders, nbc news, caracas. Tomorrow President Trump is expected to nominate Treasury Department official david malpas to head world bank. He is an outspoken critic of multinational institutions and has a long called for the overhaul of the world bank. He previously was the chief economist at the now defunct Investment Bank bear stearns from 1993 until the banks collapse in 2008. The process for selecting the next World Bank President was led by the president s daughter ivanka and Steve Mnuchkin and Mick Mulvaney in the decisionmaking process. Lets get a check of your weather with meteorologist bill karins. We have a really split country. An ice storm and snow well deal with in the midwest. East coast is shorts and tshirt weather. 73 in richmond. Thats incredible for this time of year. Lets talk about the troublesome travel weather. We just had an ice storm wang issued for chicago. Thats obviously going to cause some problems. Tonight and then through this time tomorrow morning. So if you have travel plans in and out of chicago late this evening or early tomorrow morning there will be some delays. Advisori Winter Weather advisories. In the pink thats where ice storm warnings are issued. Theres a potential for power outages. Heres the ice forecast from one of our computer models. Once you get over to about a quarter inch, the blue, thats the potential for getting power outages. Thats that area from rockford to almost towards milwaukee. A little bit here in areas of central missouri. Does show the potential for icing in central portions of michigan. North of the ice is where you get snow. This is in two parts. Some later tonight then well get another batch as we go throughout wednesday night into thursday. Plowable four to six inches possible from minneapolis north of lacrosse, northern portions of wisconsin, fargo to central portions of south dakota. Thats the cold side of the story. Lets talk about the warm side of everything. The warm air today, all on the east coast. Its going to stick this way as we go throughout the next couple of days. For today temperatures, they are going to be warming up significant. Ly. Were starting off cool and then get a lot warmer this afternoon. As we go throughout this afternoon, the plains you see the difference. Well be 73 in richmond and 7 in bismarck. Some really, really contrasting temperatures out there. Just depends on where you are in the country. Its a battle between spring and winter. Remember our agreement if you see winter make its way to new york, give me a heads up so i can flee the country. You came back just in time with the warm up. You need a flight out friday afternoon. Book him something. Nice. Still ahead Supreme CourtJustice Ruth Baden Ginsburg has made her first public appearance since undergoing cancer surgery. Well have the very latest on her rec