Welcome back. Lets get a check on the day ahead. President obama will follow up on the immigration announcement with a visit to nevada. Announce. And the capitol Christmas Tree arrives in washington, d. C. , the tree hails from minnesota this year, and it will be lit on december 2nd, that is it, morning joe starts right now. If you register, pass a criminal background check and you are willing to pay your fair share of of taxes you will be able to apply to stay in the country without the fear of deportation, you can come out of the shadows and get right with the law, all we are saying is, we are not going to deport you, the critics of this action call it amnesty, its not. Its the immigration system we have today. Good morning, its friday, november 21st, and welcome to morning joe, can you believe its friday . It sort of has been a long week. That was president last night. Amazing speech. We have political analyst and visiting professor at nyu, former democratic congressman, hear old ford, jr. Did you do wiell . He gave a good speech. Controversial . No doubt. And morning. Good to have you on board for just this reason. And the host ofof before we t to immigration and the Big Conversation about that, we want to start this morn onning in upstate new york where massive snow storm is going wrap up finally after pounding the buffalo region for the last few days. It has been breaking news over
the past 36 hours. It has been blamed for ten deaths after dropping up to 7 feet in some area of snow. Roof collapses are a major concern, with warmer temperatures this weekend expected and flooding will be an issue as well. Lester holt has more on this. Reporter more than 100 patients had to be evacuated when the roof showed signs of weakening. Theres potential for collapse. Reporter two dozen people driven from the roads by whiteout conditions and deep snow has been holed up in the wall mrt store since tuesday. Could not ask for a better place to be stranded. Reporter from the air, we could see the area painted in white, rooftops looked like they are slathered in whip cream. We can count dozens of cars that were stopped in their tracks,
buri buried in snow, the roof is barely visible. Even as road crews make progress, theres neighborhoods still can cutoff, surrounded by chest deep snow. We went down one street on foot where we could only shout a conversation. Have you ever seen it like this . I have never seen it like this, i have lived here my whole life. Reporter the officials are doing their best to reach those with emergencies and are reminding hopebound residents to take precautions. You are looking theity Buffalo Bills stadium. Its covered in snow, the schedule game on sunday has been moved to monday night in ford field in detroit. They were trying to get people to shovel it out, its impossible at this point. Lets bring in bill with the latest, bill . The snow totals are off the chart. The highest total we have in is over 7 feet of snow in this threeday event. Its really two storms that were
separated by one day. All through theier, hamburg was 80 inches, orchard park where the stadium was cloelocated, it was a front end loader dug this woman out, and this is just from her driveway, you can see her son went out to climb the mountain of snow in her front yard. This is what they will deal with all winter long, it will be there all season. We will melt considerably, we will up to 61 on monday, it will be humid out there too, so that melts the snow faster. A half inch of rain, we are worried about flooding. Worse damage was done by the snow and the wet of the snow. We will watch it as with we go through the weekend and good news is over the weekend, warm air builds across the country. We are two weeks of january type weather and its over with after today. All right, bill, we will be in touch with you, we have the big news now this morning out of
w with a, in the words of president obama, we were strangers once too. Last night that speech to the nation the president made the emotional case for wide ranger Immigration Reform. But with a nod to the political blowback that lies ahead. He heads to las vegas today to curoccucurry favor for the acti. It is intended to protect Human Trafficking victim. It will remove barriers for Foreign Workers to come here and work and stay longer, especially in the high tech industry. And the center piece will prevent the deportation of 5 million americans. He has argued that every president since eisenhower has taken action on immigration, it is clear that he is aware of the politics aa head. Dont let the disagreement on
a single issue be a deal breaker on every issue. Its not how the democracy works. Okay, javier, lets look at how the New York Times, first line, president obama chose you know, i think first and foremost, our association, the 3. 2 million hispanic in the country that collectively contribute billions of dollars in the economy stand in support of the president s action. Its not the action that anybody hoped for. I understand that, you and i are on the same page, could he have waited . Could he have given them a deadline . What would have changed this this deadline . He could have, but the reality of it is, theres a bipartisan bill that has sat in congress now for over a year. And we prefer some action versus
no action at all. Ray suarez, when do you think . There was risk involved by the president , but it may have been a bigger risk to way longer. The president has been calling for congress to act on this for a long time, for years in fact. Congress could not even fas dream act, which for a long time was considered the low hanging fruit of Immigration Reform. If you could not take the most sympathetic immigrants, people that were brought here as babes in arms in many cases and make them safe from deportation, what could you accomplish . The house had a long time to do something on it and did nothing. The president was advised by many to act earlier and he didnt. The clock was running and he was under pressure too. And the republicans are sounding the alarm. They are insensed about this. The top leaders are using the president s own words against him now. The president said before, he
is not kin. And he is not an emperor, but he is sure acting like one, and he is doingi ining it at a time wh American People want us to Work Together. He was talking about immigration, and i know that some wish i could bypass congress and change the law myself. But that is not how democracy works. Indeed, mr. President , it isnt. Previous comments were looked at on executive author aity, an they said its false that his position has changed. It will embolden more desperate people to make the often deadly crossing from the United States to the United States from mexico it is said. And theres division on how best to respond to the president. Some are pushing for budget strikes and others are dangling the idea of a shutdown and some
are not fully ruling out impe h impeachment. We can defund areas of president obamas lawlessness, so we should do so, use the power of the purse. Are you worried about the political blowback on the republicans if they do that . Not if its targeted and limited. What are we talking . Its not Government Shutdown or anything drastic. Third would be kuth out the appropriations bill. I dont want to could the last thing. Nobody wants to do the i word, the president has thrown us in to the situation. You hear caution. Lindsey graham is cautious
saying if you make it about us, then its not about the president and immigration. They can pass their own law that the president can vito. And the president said do it. Pass the bill. First of all, i think the substance of what the president said, spot on. These are steps that should have been taken, his timing is wrong, however. I think it would probable have been better to give the republican new congress three months to act to it, and lay it out, and if they didnt, the president could still act on executive action. You have to wonder, there will be ramifications for this. The republicans warned before this happened and the president is taking a big risk on other parts of other important parts of the agenda being enacted. Now this issue is important. And it may end up being the only issue that gets done over the next several months. Hopefully the republicans are not equally silly and shutdown government or try to impeach the
president. The democrats in the congress could have negative blowback from this. Do you feel the timing was provocative . Putting the republicans in a place where they always do, trying to knock down what he has always done, instead of doing something productive. Which he could have given them time to do. No doubt, its provocative. The reality is that theres an amazing hispanic electorate that is growing by leaps and bounds. Many turn 18 and become an eligible voter. Every 30 seconds, a hispanic turns 18 and becomes a voter. The republicans have a chance here to illustrate leadership to this electorate, and finish what
has begun long before president obama came along. Ray, do you think the republicans will see it as an opportunity . No, but in some ways the president painted them in the corner. Its true when the president said that what he has done is limited. It is only in effect for the life of his administration. It can be rescinded by the next president or over ridden by legislation. But do the republicans want to aggressively move to break up families and start sending people home by using their legislative tools that they have been reluctant to use so far. Do they want to do that . The president cannot make them legal, and he didnt do that last night. All he did was move them to the back of the line for waiting to be deported. He the cannot regularize their status, he didnt do it. Do the republicans want to move in and say, sorry, buddy, you
want to get on the next plane. I know its a question with a long answer. Give me a quick one and distil it down, what is your in my opinion . What do you think had hispanics and latinos in general are looking for, what is a sound immigration policily . You know, i think something comprehensive and permanent is what everyone is looking for. We are an organization that is focusing on Economic Development and the commercial and economic interest of the nation. Anything that helps entrepreneurs and Small Business in the country is what we are looking for. This is not what anybody hoped for, theres an opportunity here to illustrate demonstrate lly d needed leadership. We will talk more about what is brewing on this after the president s comments last night t white house is pushing forward for the pick of the top treasury post. The administration has no plans
to pull back on the nomination of antonio weise. Its said that he helped Companies Avoid taxes by moving money overseaoverseas. Its time for president to loosen the hold that wall street banks have over this issue warrens growing power is described as a test. And liberals are showing strong support for the massachusetts democrat. She tops Hilary Clinton in a poll. She has popularity on the left. And the far, far left for sure. Bill cosby is scheduled to take the stage tonight for a performance as the lift of women
accusing him of Sexual Assault grows. A 57yearold florida nurse said cosby drugged and raped her in las vegas when she was 19. But she continued to see him and later asked for and received thousands of dollars from him. He changed the course of my life. Instead of empowering me like he said he does to people. He made me a victim and a all my life i have been a victim because of this. And that doesnt go away for all of the days of my life. The wife of the incredible hulk actor, lou ferrigno is speaking out, she claims that cosby try to force himself on her in his home and she was able to get away. And New York Daily News has an interview with another woman that said the comedian lured her in to a hotel room in 1992, and
assaulted her. And an actress who appeared in one flew over the cucoos nest said she was assaulted. The attorney for bill cosby said we have reached the point of absurdity, the stories are getting more and more ridiculous. The producers of the cosby show are break their silence saying the accusations are beyond our knowledge or comp hengz. Cosby is scheduled to give a stand up performance tonight, he did not address the allegations last night in his performance. In the past, cosby has denied allegations made by other women, and has never really been criminal charged. He is going to have to come out is and Say Something at some point. Its getting away from him. If these allegations are true, its obviously horrible. But that ap interview he did a couple of nights ago, he on camera ask today correspondent to edit out the question and his response to this. He did not respond. He did not respond, he told h them to take out the question. None of it is proven, but so far, they are allegations, he needs to talk about it. Josh ernest, congressman aaron shock and Actress Brooke Shields with her new memoire, and a thanksgiving day the communicate. You are watching morning joe. vo you are a business pro. Maestro of project management. Baron of the buildout. You need a permit. To be this awesome. And you. Rent from national. Because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle. And go. You can even take a fullsize or above, and still pay the midsize price. aaron purrrfect. vo meeeow, business pro. Meeeow. Go national. Go like a pro. All right, its time to hook at the morning papers business insider. This is interesting, a walmart in oklahoma is holding a food collection for its own employees. According to the store manager, idea of the food drive came from an employee who wanted to help coworkers experiencing hardship. Critics say the drive is proof walmart does not pay its employees enough, the the Company Maintains that the its simply employees taking care of each other, the average hourly wage is 11. 73. They did it last year to too. Yeah. The executive editor of the New York Times may launch a new journalist website with the huffington post, it will feature lengthy articles on a monthly basis. The wall street journal
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breaking career in the Entertainment Industry being such a good guy. How could he possibly be such a bad guy too . I would like to believe the man i met is incapable of such montsrous acts, but his stoney silence is making it hard to keep the faith. To your point, i think he needs to Say Something. And that puts it in perspective why people are having a hard time talking about this. He has done amazing transformative things for society. His life and his work means so much to so many families and to Black And White americans in terms of understanding each other and bridging the gap, fair . No doubt, he broke barriers. Look, he has to answer this at some point, these allegations continue, its not one or