That could change the face of the russia investigation. A new report that former National Security adviser Michael Flynn could be moving towards cooperating with special Counsel Robert Mueller and youre in luck because ive got the best team here of correspondents and guests to break it all down. First, i want to take you to florida where Nbcs Kelly Odonnell is live very near where President Trump is spending the holiday. Kelly, what can you tell us about this New York Times report . Well, good morning, stef. This is a pivotal signal. When youre looking for tea leaves in the longrunning russia investigation. The New York Times was first to report that the Flynn Legal Team notified the president s outside counsel they could no longer share communications, which is something that when theres common issues, they typically do. So this is some kind of signal. But what it is is unclear. Now, lawyers for the president say it would not be a surprise if flynn were making some kind of a plea agreement. At the same time, the counsel for the president says dont interpret this as presuming general flynn would be cooperating against President Trump. Flynns lawyer declined to comment and well have to see what steps follow this. But simply making this break in communication is notable. Separately today, the president is doing something thats going to get a lot of attention, has nothing to do with the russia investigation. He has left his mara lago home, heading to one of his golf courses with two of the worlds famous golfers, tiger woods and dustin johnson. The president said on twitter he would play quickly, in quotes, because hes trying to emphasize this is a working holiday while hes here in florida for thanksgiving, stef. All right, President Trump and tiger woods. I want to also note President Trump put in that tweet hed be returning to mara lago to work on bringing back more jobs, companies coming back to the United States and President Trump, i know he likes to watch cable news, please, we would love to report on the specifics. We would love the list of companies that are returning to the United States, what those specific jobs are and when theyll be put in place. We would certainly love to cover that here on msnbc, waiting for those specifics. All right, joining me now via skype is msnbc contributor matt apuzzo, one of the authors of that New York Times piece. You are clearly not vacationing on thanksgiving. Youre breaking a pretty big story. Talk about the timing. Do you have any sense when mike flynns lawyers formally cut ties with President Trumps legal team . And also, what does that mean . Someone like me, i wouldnt necessarily know that they would be talking to each other at all. Yes, it happened roughly in the last 48 hours. Its really common in criminal investigations as kelly said for people involved in the investigation to be talking and saying oh, well, you know, this is what i heard this happening, this is what we heard is happening. You know, we hear theres a grand jury date on this day or that day. And once that works as long as everybody has a common interest. And once somebody says, look, im going to go over and Start Talking to the prosecutors, ethically, the lawyers cant continue to talk to each other. So that notification, which our understanding has happened in the past 48 hours, is a signal that Michael Flynn is at the very least considering some sort of plea arrangement or cooperation arrangement with the special Counsel Robert Mueller. Have you gotten any reaction from the white house out of this . No, and i mean, the white house has said repeatedly, you know, Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman, Michael Flynn, they dont have anything that can hurt the president. This is not a concern to donald trump and that whatever Michael Flynn might be able to offer prosecutors is of no concern to us. Thats the official white house line. Theyre focused on getting through the interviews of senior white house officials and, you know, theyve said repeatedly they expect their side of this to be done in the next month or two. And Michael Flynns son, for those of us who dont know or just know him as a prolific tweeter, at one point, he had a Campaign Email address. I think he was part of the campaign. He might play a role in this. Sure, and our understanding is since Michael Flynn essentially served as his fathers chief of staff, a lot of meetings that Michael Flynn was taking, a lot of the financial arrangements, you know, he belatedly disclosed his lobbying arrangements with turkey. A lot of the things hes under investigation for now, Michael Flynn jr. Was aware of. So our understanding is that in the past few weeks, Michael Flynn has been telling friends that hes concerned that, you know, his son has some exposure here and so, you know, you can see that bob mueller has certainly has some leverage over Michael Flynn through his son. All right. That is some great reporting. I need my panel to weigh in on this one. Its a good one. A. B. Stoddard, associate editor and columnist for real clear politics and host of no labels radio on sirius xm. Nera tendon, the president and ceo for the center for american process and axios editor and chief, nick johnson. A. B. , put this in perspective. For people who dont follow the russia investigation day in and day out. Who basically say wake me up when its big news. Is this big news . Absolutely. We have to go back to the firing of former fbi director james comey when President Trump said to him, can you see can you get to a place where you will just put this flynn thing behind you. Legal experts told me that could actually be an impeachable crime. You have to prove intent but its potentially bribery because hes saying to comey you can keep your job if you just put this flynn matter aside. We know that Michael Flynn earned money from governments of turkey and russia. We know he has his own separate problems much like paul manaf t manafort. But how much is flynn, as National Security adviser and a Long Campaign long friend and confidant and adviser of the president s, how much does he play into either something that President Trump is exposed on or at least potential obstruction charge . We know recently that mueller has been speaking to a former Business Partner of Michael Flynn. Either that person has exposed flynn or flynn is now going to expose that Business Partner. Potentially flynn has been waiting for a potential pardon from the president for him and his son and that might affect the timing of this. We can all say we dont know what that means, the breakoff of communications. The worst Case Scenario for the white house, it means hes starting to cooperate. That lengthens this investigation dramatically i think and it is not going to be wrapped up like attorney ty cobb keeps promising the president , in short order. Pardon me. Nera, whats your take on could flynn be cooperating because he wants to protect his son . I think a. B. s right. Id say there were reports as much of two weeks ago i think that mueller had information, enough to indict flynn. So i think thats a relevant issue here. I just say we go back to flynn. Flynn knew every a lot of the interactions between the Trump Campaign and the russians throughout the campaign. He was a National Security adviser. He has a lot of information about a lot of people, not just donald trump but kushner and others. Hes a key source i think for mueller and the idea that he could flip would be something i think a lot of people, the president included, should be very wary of. We now know the extensive contacts between the Trump Campaign and the russians during the entirety of the campaign. Hes going to know a lot about that. Hes also going to know a lot about the details of those how meetings got set up and why. So i think hell be a key source for the investigation for the American People to get to the bottom of how much and what degree there was collusion between the russians and the Trump Campaign. A lot of meetings that somehow people forgot about or misrepresented. You remember the meeting about the orphans. This is speeding like any procedural crime drama thursday nights on nbc. You start on the outside, with the guys on the fringes of the campaign. George papadopoulos, none of us knew that guy, people who were fired during the campaign. Now what has happened is we move one step closer. Flynn was not only in the campaign, he was in the administration. This is not something they can dismiss by saying these are guys we fired during the campaign. Mueller getting closer and closer to the president and figuring out how you can flip witnesses or get them to cooperate. I think mike flynns son is a huge part of this. If mike flynn is worried his son can be up for jail time, that can be a huge motivator to get more information out of him. Can they keep making the argument theres nothing to see here . Im looking at don jr. On social media saying come and get me, theres nothing there. I want to share a year ago, just before the election, i sat down for an interview with mike flynn and i want to share how the conversation turned and how he responded when i asked him about russia. We cannot make russia an enemy. Russia is a nation that is deeply involved in the middle east right now. We have to figure out ways to work with them instead of making them an antagonist. I mean, here he is going out of his way, doesnt need to. We cant make an enemy of russia, no way, no how. Doesnt all this add up to just be something at the very least strange . I mean, mike flynn in the whole interview was basically scolding me for even bringing up russia, how dare you think of that. President trump is happy to use his bully routine on almost every world leader except for Vladimir Putin and that has stood out from the very start. His soninlaw Jared Kushner was sneaking the Russian Ambassador up the back elevators the press wouldnt see at trump tower. He left a bunch of contacts off his security clearance application form. There have been constant russia collections. Paul manafort made 18 trips to russia in a very short time, flynn obviously. 18 trips . If at the very least in the most benign interpretation they worked very hard on their own russian reset. I mean, Paul Manafort was the Campaign Manager and he looks a lot like a russian asset for part of this from his interactions. I mean, the whole thing is insane. Look at every policy. On every policy, donald trump is inconsistent except on a policy related to russia. Syria. Eu. Ukraine. Nato. All these issues. He takes the position and he criticized everyone. Exact for Vladimir Putin. I mean, we do have reports that the israeli mosad was told by the cia that there are cia folks who believe the russians have leverage on donald trump and now were looking at that leverage in real time. Also, couldnt one make the argument Vladimir Putin and donald trump both have the same goal, they both wanted Hillary Clinton to lose. There is an argument somewhere in there that maybe they didnt collude but there are so many inconsistencies in the Trump Campaign. I think we know that at this point there was collusion. The question is, was it illegal . The number of meetings where theyre actually working together. They have emails saying russia wants to help you win. Thats collusion. The question mueller is looking into it whats illegal about this. Saying, well, we just want to be friends with them. I just had a small meeting. Actually, it was a much larger meeting. Actually, there was another meeting i forgot to tell you about. I just happened to be sitting next to the guy at dinner. Right. When we step back, we already know the Trump Campaign was willing to take help from a Foreign Government with some level of hostilities to the United States. Thats something people should be angry about by itself. Just like i tell my kids, your coverup is so much worse than when you lie to me to begin with. All right. We have to turn to breaking news now. The Egyptian State news agency reporting that 184 people are dead and 125 injured after a bombing and shooting at a mosque in egypt. Nbcs ali arusi is monitoring the story from our london bureau. Ali, what do we know . Good morning, stef. The details are still vague but clearly this was a brazen attack on worshipers during friday prayer. Now, Egyptian State tvs reporting 184 people have been killed and scores of others injured in a gun and bomb attack in the packed mosque in the volatile Sinai Peninsula area of egypt. Those numbers have been going up all morning and are expected to rise even further. More than 50 ambulances ferried casualties from the scene to nearby hospitals after the attack. Stef, it looks like a very well organized attack by the perpetrators who are obviously heavily armed. The Associated Press was reporting that men if four offroad vehicles opened fire on one shrs inside the mosque during the sermon which we cant independently verify as of yet. Two eyewitnesses told rueters that the Security Forces there were also targeted and the suspect militants were after the Security Forces who were attending the prayers as well. Now, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack which appears to be the deadliest in the region so far. But egypt has been targeted both by isis and al qaeda in the past and egyptian Security Forces have battled Islamic State insurgency that has killed hundreds of police and soldiers in that country. Stephanie. All right, ali, were going to continue to monitor this story. Thanks for joining us. Up next, senator al franken releases a new apology as more women come forward claiming that he touched them inappropriately. Weve got the latest on the growing list of accusers and frankens upcoming televised comments. Eat deals planned for you this black friday. Or, if you prefer, crimson red tintcoat friday. Or quicksilver metallic friday . Ring in the holidays with buick. Its the enclave black friday event at your buick dealer. Get 20 below msrp on all 2017 enclave premium models. Thats over 10,500 on this specially equipped enclave. Welcome back, im stephanie ruhle. Senator al franken says he will work to regain the trust of voters. Franken may speak publicly this weekend on the Sexual Harassment charges that were raised last week. Nbcs blake mccoy has the details. Blake, what are we hearing from senator franken . Stephanie, good morning. The senators issuing a new statement after a total of four women have now come forward accusing the senator of inappropriate touching. The first of course was well publicized last week, Leeann Tweeden and an l. A. Radio d. J. Who acused the senator of forcibly kissing her during a uso tour in 2006. Then on monday, a woman named lindsay metz came forward and accused him of grabbing her in 2010. Now other women have come forward anonymously to accuse franken of grabbing their but the buttocks during picture in 2007 and 08. Franken says ive met tens of thousands of people and taken thousands of photographs often in crowded and chaotic situations. Im a warm person, i hug people. Im learned from recent stories in some of those encounters, i crossed a line for some women. I feel terribly that ive made some women feel badly and for that im sorry and i want to make sure it never happens again. What you did not hear in that statement is any plans to resign. Senator franken, keep in mind, has three years left on his senate term and it appears he plans to ride out these allegations and, as you heard, win back the trust of minnesotans, so voters wont be able to have their say on senator frankens fate until at least 2020 when hes up for reelection. And by all indications, he plans to ride this out. Were still waiting to hear from the senator himself. Amid reports that he plans to speak this weekend, stephanie. All right, thanks, blake. All right, my panel is back. A. B. , i start with you. Sarah Huckabee Sanders last week when asked the difference between President Trump and