that might happen. it might. we don't know. watch the space. that does it for us tonight. we will see you again tomorrow. this morning growing calls for house intel committee chairman devin nunes to step aside. democrats are demanding he he recuse himself from russian investigation after learning he had a secret meeting at the white house. after failing to pass a health care bill, the president is now reportedly eyeing tax reform and infrastructure but he may have to avoid a government shutdown first. good for business or bad for the environment? good morning, everyone. it's tuesday, march 28th.

i'm alex. in the span of five days, republican chairman leading the house russian investigation assertions president trump and his team were monitored and then rode back those claims 48 hours later. now revelations about the source of his information has democrats calling for his recusal. nbc news white house correspondent hallie jackson reports. >> hey there, good morning to you. this morning we do expect action from president trump on environmental regulations. one of the big stories, of course, here in washington continues to be what happened with congressman devin nunes and his secret meeting here on white house grounds last week. a new plot twist in the surveillance saga consuming congress and the white house. >> if this was a movie, you'd turn it off because you wouldn't believe it's believable. >> reporter: the latest bombshell coming from congressman devin nunes. he's the republican head of the house intelligence committee who first revealed u.s. spies may have scooped up communications involving the trump transition

team. it's called incidental collections. while nunes has specifically said there's no evidence to back the president's claim trump tower was wiretapped by president obama, president trump said he felt vindicated anyway. >> i somewhat do, i must tell you, i swho do. i very much appreciated the fact that they found what they found. >> reporter: turns out, one day before he briefed the president, nunes was on white house grounds reviewing secret information from a secret source. >> the congress has not been given this information, these documents. there's no way for the folks that i have been working with to actually to bring this forward to light, there was no way i could view that because they couldn't get it to the house intelligence committee. >> reporter: nunes looked at those intelligence reports not in the west wing but in a special secure room at a building a few hundred feet away. >> you can't just walk into the white house grounds under the cover of darkness, go into a secret room, logonto a computer

unless someone on the white house staff allows to you do that. >> reporter: nunes says his source is not a white house staffer but a member of the intelligence committee. the administration is not worried about any inappropriate leak despite for weeks railing against other leaks to reporters. >> why is it okay but other leaks are not? >> there's a difference between leaks and someone pursuing a review of a situation. someone who is clear to share classified information with someone else cleared is not a leak. >> reporter: democrats are concerned about the coincidental timing with more questionsing now on whether nunes can really be impartial as he leads one of the congressional investigations into russia's interference with the election. >> chairman nunes is falling down on the job. and seems to be more interested in protecting the president than in seeking the truth. >> reporter: senator schumer there wants paul ryan to replace nunes as the chairman of the house intelligence committee but the house speaker says he continues to have full confidence in congressman nunes.

alex? >> hallie jackson, thank you so much from the white house for that. in an interview last night, congressman nunes said he would remain in charge of the house committee's intelligence investigation. >> he wants you to quit the investigation. you're not going to do that? >> well, i'm sure that the democrats do want me to quit because they know that i'm quite effective at getting to the bottom. >> well, let's hope so. the president tweeted from the white house around 9:30 last night suggesting the clintons should be investigated for links to russia saying, quote, why isn't the house intelligence committee looking into the bill and hillary deal that allowed big uranium to russia. the praise of russia by hillary. trump russia story is a hoax. he attached the make america great again hashtag. tauted in a book published by steef bannon. "the washington post" deemed the

claim false claiming nine agencies involved and no evidence it ever rode to the level of the secretary of state. hillary clinton will be speaking at georgetown university later this week. well, the white house is trying to move onto the next agenda item but does so with a number hanging around their neck. 36%. that is their latest approval rating in the gallup tracking pole. even in the heat of battle on health care reform, the president said he's ready to get down to overhauling taxes with steve mnuchin targeting august as a deadline. now jonathan swan of axios says the white house considering doing tax reform and infrastructure at the same time. yesterday voices called for infrastructure to be front and center. >> let's go with tax reform first. i think we have an opportunity to marry that together with infrastructure. in essence in one big reform package. i think we may have one opportunity. >> i say we should pivot infrastructure because it's easier to pivot a bipartisan coalition --

>> everybody's for pork, charlie. >> i understand. >> we sent so many signals after the election that maybe a place we might be able to work together was on the issue of infrastructure. >> the first thing they ought to do is open up the whole issue of infrastructure. you can get at least half the democratic party to work with you to pass an infrastructure bill. can you start to build a trump majority, which is bigger than the republican majority. >> the president and white house have indicated they're rethinking their coalition of how to get legislation through, including working with democrats. the president made the point less delicately, tweeting, the republican house freedom kak cuss was able to snatch the defeat from the jaws of victory. then later tweeted the democrats will make a deal with me on health care as soon as obamacare folds. not long. do not worry. we are in very good shape. joining us from washington, reporter for politico and co-author of poe litdco's playbook, daniel litman.

thinking about on the sunday shows, the trump administration telegrafd they're exploring new opportunities to build their coalition and looking to get something from reince priebus. where are they looking first? >> i think they're trying to reach out to democrats but the sources we've talked to in shum measu schumer's office and pelosi say they have not heard from trump's aides about infrastructure bill or tax reform, and they're waiting on getting that outreach from the white house because if you don't start the conversations now, then the legislative calendar only continues going forward and there doesn't seem to be a lot of momentum to get these bills through. >> one more for you. there's concerns about another government shutdown possibly as early as april. how serious are those concerns right now and what impact could it have on the agenda? >> i don't think the government

will shut down itself. that's in no one's interest. the more interesting question is what happens to trump's budget. both democrats and republicans are against that. and i'm wondering what happens when trump finds out his budget is going nowhere. does he lash out and does steve bannon say, what are we doing here spending all this money that, you know, they did not want to spend? >> with the signal of august being the timing for infrastructure, tax reform, congress is out of session at that time. how effect ive of a time frame s that? >> sources on the hill say that's completely unrealistic. tax reform is much harder than the trump administration thinks. there are so many competing coalitions. there are splits with the democratic party, the republican party. and so that -- mnuchin is a new player to d.c. and he doesn't understand exactly how difficult

this proposal is. >> it's an ambitious timeline to say the least. great to have you with us. coming up on "morning joe," we have lawmakers from both sides of the aisle. attorney general jeff sessions is renewing the white house's commitment to cracking down on so-called sank sctuary cities. jeff sessions urged states and local jurisdictions to cooperate with immigration authorities or risk losing federal money. the attorney general said the justice department could withhold as much as $4.1 billion in federal grant money from cities that don't comply with immigration laws. >> such policies cannot continue. they make our nation less safe by putting dangerous criminals back on the streets. i strongly urge our nation states and cities and counties to consider carefully the harm they are doing to their citizens

by refusing to enforce our immigration laws and to rethink these policies. >> and dozens of municipal leaders from across the country are dismissing the trump administration's threat to cut funding. one new york city council speaker said, quote, we are going to become this administration's worst nightmare. in california the state senate president pro tem kevin de leon says it is pushing on prohibiting state and local police from enforcing federal immigration laws. president obama trump is ex to sign an executive order. an official tells nbc news it will serve twin goals of protecting the environment while also moving forward with energy production in the u.s. joining us here on set is msnbc's cal perry. good to have you with us this morning. let's talk about this executive

order. what do we expect to come out of it? what particular issues could be possibly overturned? >> you'll see a signing ceremony today and this is aimed at overturning the policies of barack obama. we have bullet points for you that will late on you what you'll see. the top line is clean power plan. that was barack obama's plan to shut down coal power plants around the country. part of that was frozen by the supreme court. we're talking big time about coal. this is idealogical battle. this is trump's belief that jobs are more important than the environment. that's what we're going to hear a lot about today. jobs, jobs, jobs. there is a reality here about coal. coal production is down across the country. coal needs are down across the country. you'll hear a lot about that today as well. again, this is about rolling back obama's policies. i know a lot of people that supported president obama were worried, for example, that obamacare would go down in a ball of flames. that was sort of stopped. today you're going to see the rolling back of policy that it took eight years for president

obama to land. >> jobs versus the environment, what are the critics saying? >> take a look at the sierra club. they put out this statement. this is deaf stating, what you'll see on your screen. the single biggest attack on climate action in u.s. history, period. again, a lot of people are looking at the paris agreement, is that next? that's the agreement between industrialized nations to reduce carbon emissions. you'll hear strong reaction today from environmental groups. all of this follows on from the keystone pipeline. >> thank you for that. well, we'll talk a bit more about the president's executive order on climate change. that will happen on "morning joe" with secretary of the entire ryan zinke. supreme court nominee neil gorsuch is close to falling short of the votes needed for confirmation. after years of dealing with lead-tainted water, flint, michigan, is getting new pipes

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find your awesome with the xfinity stream app. more to stream to every screen. welcome back. the confirmation of supreme court nominee neil gorsuch has hit its first roadblock after democrats on the senate judiciary committee forced the delay of a vote by a week. now, so far at least 19 democrats have said they will oppose gorsuch's confirmation. chuck schumer has said he will filibuster the vote. republicans only hold 52 seats in the senate. they'll need the support of eight democrats to reach the 60-vote majority or be be forced to use what is known as the nuclear option to break the filibuster. yesterday two more democrats, senators hirono and bill nelson announced they would vote no on gorsuch's confirmation. coming up on "morning joe," joe manchin is still undecided on whether he'll support the judge in the final vote. the state of michigan agreed

to spend $87 million in a proposed settlement to replace thousands of lead-contaminated water lines in flint. if approved, government officials would have to dig up and replace pipes in at least 18,000 homes by january 1, 2020, nearly three years from now. the agreement comes nearly three years after flint officials switched the city's water source as a cost-cutting source from detroit's water system to the untreated flint river. by now you know the rest of the stories. residents reported serious health problems with experts say the water corroded pipes causing lead to infiltrate the water supply. severe weather across the country today. texas strong storms brought hail in the size of golf balls. hail and strong winds have been reported in several other states across the southeast as well. with that let's bring in nbc

meteorologist bill karins. bill, when you have softball-sized hail raining down, it's not a good day. >> you come out and see your car looking like that, you know you're in trouble. we watched the worst of the weather throughout tennessee mississippi. it wasn't the huge hail. we called it nickel or dime-sized hail. in some quarter sized hail but we didn't see the huge softball sized hail yesterday. that's good. we didn't have a lot of significant damage out of that. going through atlanta with heavier downpours over the next hour or two. charlotte, you're just about done with your rain. we also have rain around new york city, pittsburgh and cleveland. it's umbrella weather in areas of the northeast. severe weather threat. this is a new storm system out of the rockies. there's a tornado risk. one of those days you have to make sure you know your safety plans. it's that time of year. oklahoma city to dallas to ft.

worth, wind damage threat mostly for you. a lot of tornadoes we have earlier in the day should weaken by the time they get to you. that takes us into wednesday. this should be our most active day tomorrow of our severe weather. a huge section from st. louis down to houston. 19 million people at risk and we could see strong tornadoes going into wednesday. this storm system is slow. even into thursday we have enhanced risk for 20 million people, tupelo, greenville, jackson. look how widespread from the ohio river down to new orleans on thursday. today's forecast, we are watching a dreary type day. d.c., baltimore, phil y new york, bass ton included. you will see on and off rain throughout the day. the real dangerous stuff back here, oklahoma and texas, over mid-afternoon through this evening. >> we're glad for the heads up on all that. thanks. still ahead, the bouncing

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victory. it's the huskies' 111th straight win. with their coach moves ahead pat summette on the all-time list. we'll have to get used to saying the las vegas raiders now that nfl owners have approved the team's plan to move out of oakland. all the league's 32 teams voted in favor of the relocation except for one, the miami dolphins. while the raiders' new home is 65,000 seat dome stadium to be shared with the university of las vegas is not expected to own until 2020. mark davis reportedly plans on staying in oakland the next two seasons. we'll see how they fare there. on the court in a match-up of the two of nba's best, the san antonio spurs hosting the cleveland cavaliers. cavs' recent struggles continue as they get blown away by spurs setting a season low for points

in the process. cleveland has now lost 10 of 17 games. they also fall a game and a half -- or a half game behind boston for the top seed in the eastern conference. the first time the cavs haven't been atop the east since november of 2015. if that's not bad enough, lebron james took an elbow to the neck last night in the third quarter and did not return. after the game james addressed the cavs' recent woes and said, quoeshgts i'm not worried about anything. all i have to say is leonard was a force to be reckoned with in that game. i think he had 25 points. let's turn to baseball with opening day right around the corner. we'll get a check on yesterday's mlb spring training around. red sox trailing orioles 5-1. leon sparks a nine-run fifth inning for boston there leading off with a solo homer to right field. but he's not done there. red sox battle and leon clubs another home run. this time a three-run shot to

left. he did it as a switch hitter this time. slugging his second last of the inning from the opposite side of the plate. boston goes on to win that one 11-8. pretty incredible. things did not go as well for tim tebow facing cy young winning pitcher scherzer. tebow struck out on three pitches in his first at-bat. in the first inning it took only four pitches to strike tebow out. the former quarterback finishes 0 for 4 with three strikeouts in the game. we'll see how long tebow is baseball career lasts. >> that's it. it's so hard. you're a football player, football star. then -- >> trying to do the bo jackson. we'll see if he can make it work. >> or the michael jordan, going from the nba to -- >> but michael jordan is known for his basketball. >> tim tebow was pretty accomplished as a football

player. >> they want us to go. we can continue this conversation in commercial. still ahead, congressman devin nunes tries to explain his visit to the white house. jared kushner is headed to the hot seat. he's agreed to testify in front of the intel senate committee and leaders say he won't be the only one questioned. sely. hidden in every swing, every chip, and ery putt, is data thatan make the difference between winning and losing. the microsoft cloud helps the pga tour turn countless points of data into insights that transform their business and will enhance the game for players and fans. the microsoft cloud turns information into insight.

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welcome back. i'm alex witt. it is the bottom of the hour. we're starting you off with the morning's top stories.

the u.s. army veteran who they say prowled the streets of new york in search of a black person to kill will be charged with terrorism. it comes one week after 28-year-old james jackson, a self-professed white supremacist was arrested accused of attacking 66-year-old timothy cauchman with a two-foot sword. from a jailhouse interview he said he would have rather killed a, quote, young thug or more successful black man. his goal he said in the interview was to stop white women from dating black men. police say they caught the suspect caught on camera vandalizing an islamic center over the weekend. he was seen overturning benches in ft. collins sunday morning. he's charged with trespassing and what's called biased crime, which is a misdemeanor. attorney general sessions is

renewing the threat on sanctuary cities. sessions says the justice department would require cities seeking grant money to verify they're sharing information with immigration officials. big city mayors quickly hitting back. new york's bill de blasio saying the latest threat changes nothing while boston's mayor called it irresponsible and destructive. back to politics and congressman devin nunes is fighting back calls for him to recuse himself. he reveals he was on the wte house grounds. nunetold bloomberg view his source was not a white house staffer but an intelligence official. in an interview last night he said he was open about his visit and defended his use of a secure reading compartment known by the acronym skiff. >> you have plenty of them on

the house side and senate side of the capitol hill? >> that's a very good question. here's the problem. the congress has not been given this information, these documents and that's the problem. so, because this is executive branch, it was distributed widely through the executive branch. this was from november, december and january. these were reports let me reiterate, had nothing to do with russia or the russian investigation. there's no way for the folks that i have been working with to actually bring this forward to light. there was no way we could view that because they couldn't get it to the house intelligence committee. i wasn't sneaking on, it wasn't at night. it was in the middle addition the sun was out. and i actually stopped and talked to several people along the way. many foreign dignitaries were there. some i recognized. said hello, had conversations. nobody was sneaking around. look, if i really wanted to, i could have snuck onto the grounds late at night and probably nobody would have seen

me. but i wasn't trying to hide. >> a growing chorus of democrats say the latest revelations about where nunes received his information is a breach of trust. in fact, the ranking member of the house intelligence committee democrat adam schiff said nunes could no longer lead them on their investigation. >> i think it would be worth while for the chairman to recuse himself from any investigation involving either the trump campaign or the trump transition. he was a key member of the trump transition team. i think that presents an inherent conflict. >> democratic congressional leaders nancy pelosi and chuck schumer are calling on speaker paul ryan to replace nunes as house intelligence chairman or at least push for his recusal on russia. the wisconsin republican's office put out a statement yesterday saying, speaker ryan has full confidence chairman nunes is conducting a thorough, fair, credible investigation. in an interviewast night, congressman nunes said he would remain in charge. >> he wants you to quit the investigation. you're not going to do that?

>> well, i'm sure the democratings do want me to quit because they know i'm quite effective at getting to the bottom of things. >> let's hope so. >> joining us from washington, reporter for politico and co-author of poe lit co-politic playbook, daniel lippman. many democrats are calling for him to recuse himself and he said he's not interested in doing that. where does his credibility stand with his republican colleagues? are any of them joining the chorus for him to recuse himself? is there any danger of him losing the confidence of the leadership of the republican party? >> senator lindsey graham, republican from south carolina, said it just does not look good that he was on the white house grounds and there's questions of whether the white house was spinning this information. whether they had manufactured this intelligence to give to devin nunes to kind of distract people from the russia inquiry. and i think going forward, if

there are more revelations about nunes's conduct and whether he is kind of doing the white house's bidding, then that could increase calls from republicans saying, nunes is toxic for this investigation, which should be nonpartisan. >> look, we saw the statement there, daniel, that paul ryan's office, he's got his support certainly, but then moving on from the house to the senate, you've got members of that house intelligence committee. they still certainly have questions about the source of nunes's information. here's vice chair mark warner. >> i and, i know both chairman burr on the senate side and democrats, republicans, we don't know what mr. nunes is talking about, what kind of information. we've queried the intel community. i don't think they know what he's talking about. it seems more than suspicious he's somehow going to the white house, and anybody who knows anywhere in the white house complex, whether the eisenhower building or the white house itself, you have to be escorted. who was he meeting with?

was it a source or somebody from the administration? >> how nervous are senate republicans about all of this? i mean, what are weearing from mitch mcconnell's office, if anything, at this point? is there any way to gauge the temperature? >> i think today mcconnell will be asked about this on the hill. i think senate republicans feel like their own investigation is going much better. richard burr has not been accused of kind of going on a fishing expedition. i think it's also interesting that current and former national security officials said, nunes' trip to the white house was very unusual. it's not supposed to happen. thaurz way to view this intelligence in the house which is secure. i think we'll have to see if nunes eventually rekuzs himself from this investigation. >> politico's daniel lippman, thanks. the senate intelligence committee is planning to question president trump's son-in-law and key adviser jared kushner. he's set to testify as part of an ongoing congressional

investigation into the possible ties between the trump campaign and russia. "the wall street journal" reports kushner met during the white house transition with the head of a state-run russian bank. that is on a u.s. sanctions list. they cited administration officials for the information there. kushner also met with sergey kislyak. they told us kushner dpnt know the bank was under sanction and, quote, wasn't there to discuss business. white house secretary sean spicer said kushner agreed to be interviewed. >> throughout campaign, jared volunteered to go sit down with them and say, i'm glad to talk about the roam that i played and individuals i met with. given the role he played both during the campaign and during the transition, he met with countless individuals. that was part of his job. that was part of his role. >> richard burr and mark warner

released a joint statement saying, in part, from the beginning of this investigation we have committed to follow the facts wherever they lead us. mr. kushner will certainly not be the last person the committee calls to give testimony. let's turn to business where the dow jones hit an eight-day losing streak dropping more than 200 points in the middle of the day before rebounding. cnbc joins us live from london. this is the longest losing streak in the market since 2011 but there are signs european markets are rebounding this morning. what can we expect today? >> that's right. it was an eight-day losing streak for the dow jones industrial average. investors were concerned that failure to get that health care reform bill through could mean problems are ahead when it comes to pro-growth stimulus from the white house. we are looking at recovery from equities in europe following recovery in shaasia as well. the dow jones still up double digit percent since the

election. s&p 500 also up more than 9% since election day as well. a bit of correction under way there. elon musk is creating a big stir on social media this morning. you may think he has his hands full already over at tesla and with spacex, but now the founder is stepping up his game in artificial intelligence with a new company called neuralink. first reported by "the wall street journal." now elon musk says he'll unveil new details coming up shortly. expect this company to focus on putting electrodes in your body to help improve coordination with machines. that whole man versus machine debate actually coming together in elon musk's vision. back to you for now. >> nancy hungerford live from london, thanks. we'll tell you what to expect. >> it's been about 396 days, exactly 396 days since chris christie shocked the world by endorsing donald trump. left us all wondering what it meant for christie's future in a

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my mother was a smoker. she smoked her whole life. she was addicted to nicotine. she started when she was 16 years old. when she turned 71, a little after that, she was diagnosed with lung cancer. no one came to me and said, don't treat her because she got what she sdeefshed. what she deserved. we know the lung cancer was caused by the smoking. we know it was. yet somehow if it's heroin or cocaine or alcohol, we say, they decided. they're getting what they deserved. i'm pro-life. and i think that if you're pro-life, that means you've got to be pro-life for the whole fe. not just the nine months they're in the womb. >> new jersey governor chris christie in one of his most

memorable campaign moments calling for change in how our country deals with drug addiction. now it seems he's putting that passion to use for the trump administration. a white house official says christie will head up a task force to combat opioid abuse. he's spent his time in office to cushing heroin and prescription drug addiction in the state. another big story we're following this morning, president trump is set to make a major step at overturning president obama's efforts to curb climate change. he's expected to sign an executive order today focused on energy independence, which according to a senior administration official will, quote, serve the twin goals of protecting the environment while also moving forward with energy production in the u.s. joining us on set, msnbc's cal perry once again. good to have you with us. let's talk about this executive order. walk us through the nuts and bolts of what we expect. >> it's going to be a four-point executive order you'll see later this morning. we have the four points. the last two are quite redund t redundant.

you see that in these executive orders, wide-sweeping orders. the clean power plant, dealing with car ban plants. moratorium on coal, we're talking about huge swaths of land the u.s. government mines out west. places like monday mop. they'll lift that moratorium. the big question is what impact will this actually have? >> that's always the question. the white house puts this and a lot of people put this in a binary choice. it's either the economy or the environment. separate the reality for us in terms of what we expect of economic impact from this order. >> take a look at how we consume our energy. number one, natural gas. coal is now third. the other important factor here is jobs, right? that's the center of this executive order. well, coal accounts for 70,000 jobs right now. renewable energy jobs account for 650,000. this is not a country that

relies on coal. >> and the trend is more so with renewable energy than with coal. >> especially with technological advances. we expect to learn more about the administration's climate plan when ryan zinke joins "morning joe" for a live interview. let's check out the environment where you are around the country. i got to tell you, bill karins, it's very dreary today. >> yeah. a lot of areas of the northeast, it's dreary. yesterday, today is shaping up for a nice day. mid-atlantic into the northeast. one of the first ones in a while. we have a little bit of rain that will be with us on and off. atlanta raining over you. charlotte, just about done. raleigh, another hour. richmond, d.c., maybe some thunderstorms throughout the end of the morning rush shower. keep that in mind for your commute. new york city had some rain overnight. it's wet. that has moved out. should be dry at least. the roads will be a little damp. the big story today will be set veer weather risk. potential of tornadoes.

wichita falls, oklahoma city, most at risk for any strong storms. that will slide towards dallas/ft. worth late tonight. with all the severe weather stuck in the middle of the country, the benefit is southerly winds here coming up the east coast as we go throughout the next three days. it is going to stay very warm in the southeast, mid-atlantic and some of that will sneak up into the ohio valley, great lakes and northeast. today, not bad. phil y 66. even though you'll see periods of rain. charlotte will hit 80 degrees. indianapolis around 61. some areas are warm. florida is very warm over the next couple of days. wednesday's not bad either. new york city, 61 with sunshine. raleigh at 73. finally by the time we get to thursday, we start to watch that storm inching towards the southeast so we cool off a little bit. that's what you get when you get these big storms in the middle of the country. it does pump the warm air up the east coast. >> sounds like a classic spring day in new york. thanks for that. still ahea the trump white house weighs in on russia's latest round of protesters.

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>> okay. that was un ambassador nikki haley making her presence known at the annual apec summit. the trump administration hasn't been shy about supporting israel. yesterday ambassador haley issued scathing remarks to allow a un resolution critical of israeli settlements to pass last december. >> to see that happen was not only embarrassing, it was hurtful. so what i can tell you is every one at the united nations is scared to talk to me about resolution 2334, and i wanted them to know that, look, that happened, but it will never happen again. the days of israel bashing are over. >> the ambassador also made news at the un yesterday when she and leaders from 40 other nations announced they were skipping talks on a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. haley says she supports

disarmaments but not in a world where a country like north korea has nukes. >> in a strong criticism press secretary sean spicer topped his briefing by commenting on the arrests of hundreds anti russian protesters in sunday on monday. >> i know there's been interest regarding hundreds of arrests of peaceful protesters that occurred in russia. the statement the state department put out says the united states strongly condemns the detention of them on sunday. we are troubled to hear about the arrest of the opposition leader upon arrival at the demonstration as well as the police raids on the anti corruption organization he heads. the united states will monitor the situation and we call on the government of russia to immediately release all peaceful protesters. >> one notable change the secretary made from the state department's statement is he declined to name the opposition leader alexi who was arrested

and sentence ford violating public meeting rules. his remarks come after criticism piled up on the white house by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle that the administration had not spoken out enough on that issue. now to more of the hot button issues debated on capitol hill. this one concerning privacy while surfing the internet. an obama era ruled is designed to give consumers more power over the information they share. as tom costello reports, the vote could determine if your personal information ends up for sale. >> reporter: they're the digital footprints all of us lead that big service providers like at&t, verizon and comcast would love to cash in on, from online questions to where you bank, private e-mails, online dating, shopping, even your phone apps and what you watch on tv. >> it's "saturday night live." >> in october the fcc issued a

new rule to prevent internet providers from selling that rminfoation to advertisers without customer consent. senate republicans have voted to kill the fcc rule. >> the risk for your family is your surfing habits, kid's surfing habits can all be tracked and sold to whoever without your knowledge or your consent. >> democrats call it a privacy protection rollback. >> it would allow broadband providers to become unchecked personal peeping toms. >> reporter: google and facebook already use personal information for targeted advertising, and republicans argue they shouldn't be treated differently. >> most of the data gathered is actually gathered by so-called edge providers like google or facebook. they aren't touched by any of the fcc regulations at all. >> an industry trade group says the obama fcc rule threatens to undermine innovation and competition. internet providers have been lobbying hard to sell their

customer data to advertisers. >> telecom companies want to take user's information and turn that into targeted relevant ads that make them a whole lot of money. >> reporter: internet service providers have far more information about all your online activities than simply what you type in to google and facebook. the question is how much privacy should americans expect. tom costello, nbc news, washington. growing calls for the chairman of the house intel committee to recuse himself. we'll talk with democrat. >> interior secretary ryan sin i can stops by to talk about the administration's plans to roll back rules on climate change and will senator joe whan chin be the first to voice support for the president's supreme court nominee? all that and much more coming up on "morning joe" just moments away. rine® users.

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"morning joe" we'll bring you a check on the stories. >> we begin with nbc's hallie

jackson at the white house. >> good morning. we do expect another very busy day here in washington. later today, the president is expected to take executive action focusing on environmental regulations and specifically rolling back some obama era changes that had been intended to combat climate change. that's going to be a headline maker. the other big headline coming out of the day is what's happening on capitol hill. one day after congressman devin nunes revealed the secret meeting on white house grounds last week. plenty to follow on this tuesday in d.c. >> thanks to hallie jackson for that report. we're also watching a hearing set for this afternoon to improve a settlement over the flint water crisis. the state of michigan announced the deal where it will reward upwards of $97 million to replace waterlines to thousands of homes. unfortunately they won't be done until 2020, three years from now. education secretary betsy devos and ivanka trump will visit the national air and space

museum today with students from washington, d.c. and the goal is to highlight the importance of young women pursuing education and careers in science, technology, engineering and math which, of course, missed me. i wasn't close to that stuff. that's a wrap for us. "morning joe" starts right now. they want you to quit the investigation. you're not going to do that. >> i'm sure the democrats do want me to quit because they know i'm quite effective at getting to the bottom -- >> well, let's hope so. >> quite effective at what? finishing a sentence? i don't think so. >> i try and do that every day. growing calls for intel committee chairman devin nunes to recall himself from the russia probe. we'll speak with two democratic members of the committee, jim himes and eric swalwell. >> i don't think republicans are exactly thrilled with this guy's performance. >> i can't imagine. it's really a cluster. >> how obvious was it when he saidoh