Welcome back. before we toss it over to morning joe, let s get a check on the stories you ll be hearing about in the day ahead. of course, we ll start on capitol hill, the center of the political world as we prepare for the testimony of former fbi director james comey. that s where we find nbc news hallie jackson. reporter: this is it, the day that so many people not just in washington but around the country have been looking for. james comey publicly testifying on the hill, talking with senate intel committee members. we ve already seen a look at what he s expected to say at least in the opening statement. that s just the beginning. in talking with senators here on the hill, it seems as though they re saying the questions after will be crucial to flesh
Intel committee members want it by tomorrow. you re fired! the new and potential fallout from the justice department s move to ask u.s. attorneys to resign, including a high-profile one from new york who actually had to be fired. and winter, it is still coming, and with a vengeance. a blizzard expected this week in parts of the northeast. we re going to break down who s going to be hit the hardest. details ahead right here on msnbc live. but we want to begin with the political headlines of this morning and the picture out of the white house. this fast-approaching deadline which could shed some light on president trump s wiretapping allegations. we have a senior congressional aide telling the associated press that the house intel committee has asked the trump administration to provide evidence that president obama had wiretapped trump tower during the election, and they want it by tomorrow. it s a little more than a week since president trump made the bombshell claims via twit
Through millions of innocent people s records. that have a fisa court give a perpetual court order to get telephone records, not only of foreign calls but also domestic calls. i think goes against what this country is founded upon. we have the rand paul-john tester lines. what s happening to the partisanship? why sit breaking down on this? you see lindsey graham and dianne feinstein agreeing on something, it is an unusual circumstance. what we saw is a trend on the hill hill this week was intel committee members. largely supportive of the program. so we have feinstein and the chair of the senate intel committee. coming out and saying they were okay with this. and these are the people who are getting briefings everyone else isn t getting. her getting to hear all the details and how the program works. the house ranking member of the intel committee and democrat and his response was that it just needs more oversight from them. that they are going to watch the program closely. and