he added, quote, it's going to continue to get worse before it gets better. that's our broadcast tonight. brian will be back tomorrow. thank you for being with us and good night from nbc news headquarters in new york. with the death toll rising and hundreds missing, the monstrous wildfires in california rage on. emergency is far from over. officials warn that weather conditions this weekend could be ripe for fires. plus taking aim at obamacare. president trump signs an executive order that may scrap critical health care subsidiesu. and john kelly tries to dismiss rumors telling reporters he's not going anywhere. good morning, everyone. it's friday, october 13th. a growing number of californians

have lost their homes to the wildfires tearing across the northern part of this state. the death toll which continues to rise stands at 31 this morning. making this the deadliest week of wildfires in california history. authorities are working to track down about 400 people who remain missing and according to cal fire, at least 191,000 acres have burn sod far. an area almost the size of new york city. >> wow. >> thousands of firefighters have been working nonstop to try to contain the flames. some have even lost their own homes while battling the wildfires. >> that's my 4 runner. >> there's a lot of people that have been affected by this fire. thousands of people. i know my situation is no more important than anybody else's situation. there's a lot of people that lives have been turned upside down. >> and one couple explained how they survived the wildfire burning through their neighborhood by spending six hours in a neighborhood's pool. the couples submerged themselves

in the blackened, debris-filled water. they grabbed t-shirts and held them over their faces to protect themselves for embers when they surfaced for air. the couple survived, but their house sadly did not. joining us now from california, scott cohen. good to talk to you this morning. the director of cal fire said yesterday this is going to get worse before it gets better. give us your perspective on this from what you've been covering. >> reporter: sure. it very well may get worse. you mentioned the weather and the concern about the wind picking up. and that's what the forecast holds, that the winds will pick up into this evening. and then another so-called red flag warning. those are the worst fire evacuations. they've been evacuating the entire town of calistoga, over in napa. that means the shelters that were already filling up are

filling up some more. listen to some folks that are staying there right now. >> it's pretty devastating and sad. they want to go home. can't go home until it's okay over there. >> i'm tired. you know? exhausted. i'm sure everybody is in there. just thoroughly exhausted. i want to go home so bad that i'm ready now to sneak back in there but i know i won't. >> reporter: and in the meantime in areas like this, the coffey park neighborhood in sonoma county where it burns so ferociously on sunday night, they are now moving to the grim work of recovering. 17 people dead in sonoma county alone. that's more than half of the total dead. some of the bodies burned so badly the only way they were able to recognize them or identify them is serial numbers on hip implants. that's how ferocious this fire can be. >> just terrible. i mentioned this couple, scott,

that survived the fire by staying in a neighbor's pool for six hours or so. it's perplexing to me because it said they tried to get out around 1:00 a.m. or so when they saw the fire get close to their home. aren't there mandatory evacuations in place? is this happening a lot more than we know of where people are trying to stick to the very end where they absolutely have to get out? >> reporter: well, what happened in a lot of places particularly in this neighborhood, the fire just came up almost without warning and people just literally had to run out of their homes with just the clothes on their backs. there's been some talk and there will continue to be postmortems throughout all of this about what kinds of evacuations were done in sonoma county there's been talk about whether there should be been more talk about the reverse 911. but the thought is it would create too much of a panic and out too quickly and overwhelm all the resources. it's always a difficult time.

>> scott cohn for us, thank you. the white house made aggressive moves on health care last night striking dual blows against the signature law. late last night the administration confirmed it would halt federal payments for cost sharing subsidies for lowering out of pocket costs for customers which helped millions with a lower income afford coverage. the subsidies total about 7 billion in this year alone. it is yet another example of how the previous administration abused taxpayer dollars and skirted the law to prop up a broken system, it was said. the congressional budget office said in the short-term, health care premiums would spike and insurers would exit the market along with an increase to the deficit hours earlier. allows alternative plans to bypass obamacare requirements.

it lets them sell cheaper, bare bones policies no longer requiring maternity or substance abuse coverage. and the order lets them charge more to groups and businesses with sicker people. critics say it destabilizes the health care market place. but the president described it this way. take a listen. >> it directs the department of health and human services, the treasury, and the department of labor to take action to increase competition, increase choice, and increase access to lower priced high quality health care options. and they will have so many options. this will cost the united states government virtually nothing. i'm signing something that's going to be incredible that i can do myself. this has to do with -- we're going to have great health care cross state lines. people can buy it. it'll cost the government nothing. private insurers are going to give you incredible health care. in puerto rico the death

toll from maria has now risen to 49. the house has passed a $36.5 billion aid package for the island. but it came the same day president trump threatened to pull federal resources. he and the vice president had a much different message exactly one week ago. >> we will not rest until that job is done. puerto rico has a long road of recovery ahead. very long road. we will be there all restore, rebuild. we're working together very closely with your great governor. you every day you today. until recovers bigger and better than ever before. so both of those comments were on october 6th. yesterday morning the president lashed out in a flurry of tweets saying puerto rico survived the hurricanes, now a financial crisis looms largely of their own making.

says sharyl atkinson. a total lack of accountability, says the governor. electricity and all infrastructure was a disaster before hurricanes. congress to decide how much to spend. we cannot keep fema, the military, and the first responders who have been amazing under the most difficult circumstances in puerto rico forever. the president's chief of staff john kelly was later asked to weigh in on those tweets. he agreed with the president a bit more tactfully, i must say. then the new dhs nominee had a different message. take a listen to that. >> there will be a period in which we hope sooner rather than later to where the u.s. military and fema generally speaking can withdraw. because then the government and the people of puerto rico are recovering sufficiently to start the process of rebuilding. >> this rebuilding will take years. i want to echo what the president has said many times. we will remain fully engaged in

the recovery effort ahead of us. >> a new poll from the kaiser family foundation shows americans want more to be done for puerto rico. 62% people say people there are not getting the help they want. john kelly surprised the press in the briefing room yesterday to sought reports of his unhappiness in the position. >> although i read it all the time pretty consistently, i'm not quitting today. i don't believe and i just talked to the president, i don't think i'm being fired today. i'm not so frustrated in this j job. i would tell you this is the hardest job i've ever had. this is in my view the most important job i've ever had. >> you focused a lot on process and establishing processes here at the white house.

i'm wondering if you could -- >> is this the iron hand i brought to the staff? >> no, but did you? is that how you see it? you don't see you have an iron hand? >> no. just put some organization to it. >> kelly went on to say more about his white house role when commenting on the president's twitter account. >> do his tweets make your job more difficult? >> no. no. i mean, the job of the chief of staff is to staff the president, give him the best advice or go get the best advice i can give him. help him consume advice. help him work through the decision making process. in an informed way. as far as the tweets go, it's funny. i read in the paper -- well, you all know, you write it. i've been a failure at controlling the president. or a failure at controlling his tweeting and all that. again, i was not sent in or i was not brought to this job to

control anything but the flow of information to our president so he can make the best decisions. >> you like how casual he was about that? no, no. i'm good. >> joining us from washington dave lawler. good morning to you. great to have you with us. the white house announcing late last night that the president plans to end cost sharing subsidies that help end out of pocket costs for the low income americans. what has the reaction been so far on capitol hill? >> well, the immediate reaction is that basically congress has more pressure to do something. especially democrats are going to be apoplectic about this because these are crucial to making sure that insurers will be there to provide the coverage that's guaranteed under the affordable care act. without these subsidies, that is thrown into doubt. >> hey, let's talk about john kelly, what we just saw in the press briefing room yesterday. the first time that we saw him

there. some pretty good reception overall, i think, in the public sphere and media sphere as well. how was he being received in what he said on the hill? >> sure. i think it was some refreshing candor from kelly. i think, you know, he's seen as somebody who's no frills, all business. and he answered questions in a way that seemed more straightforward, more sort of no bs than you have heard from ors at the podium. i think kelly is somebody who gives people more confidence in this administration whether that's on capitol hill or just generally around town. >> let's talk real quick about the big announcement we're expecting today. there's been some speculation as to whether the president will decertify the iran nuclear deal. some say he will stay in the deal but beef up some of the sanctions on the iranian government. give us a sense of what we're expecting to hear from your sources because i know now there's news developing overnight he is actually going to stay in the deal. >> right. what we're hearing is that he's going to stay in the deal, but

he's going to throw it to congress. he's going to say i want you to add additional -- i want you to strengthen this deal so that if we are in a position where we want to back out of it, you can snap sanctions back on and make iran pay for what he's saying or destabilizing actions in the region. he's not going to touch much on the fact that they're actually complying with the deal from all, you know, estimates that we're seeing especially from the europeans. so he's going to say iran is a bad actor in the region. this was a bad deal. and i want you to be ready to apply sanctions if i rip it up. >> we should always have that caveat that it's never done until the president actually announces it at the podium when he makes those comments later today. >> but just to add to that, he feasibly would want to kick it back to congress to resolve this or try to renegotiate a deal in 60 days that took years and years and years. >> and so far congress has not done much with president trump in terms of other issues. we'll see how it plays out. dave lawler, thanks very much.

still ahead, john kelly pushes diplomacy. we're going to get a live report coming up. and later, as robert mueller's russia probe continues, he may interview the president. those stories and a check on your weather when we come back.

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>> all right. welcome back, everybody. that was chief of staff general john kelly yesterday becoming the latest member of the trump norgs break with the president on how to solve the issue with north korea there. a joint maritime counteroperations with south korea next monday. both nation air forces as well as part of the u.s. army will also participate in that. >> joining us live now from seoul, south korea, foreign correspondent matt bradley. matt, you just heard there the general kelly chief of staff promoting diplomacy echoing the thoughts and statements of rex tillerson who said a couple weeks ago there are some back door or back channel communications between the north koreans and the united states. give us a sense, though, realistically. are we seeing any movements on the diplomatic front?

>> well, thanks, amon. we are seeing a lot of these openings for diplomacy. they all seem north korea has all but ruled out negotiations as has his top diplomat. and donald trump tweeted twice that negotiations haven't worked for the past several decades and he seemed to be saying they wouldn't work now. we have all of these people, senior members of president trump's administration, they've all been putting their lot behind diplomacy. but president trump seems determined to undermine and in some cases and in rex tillerson's case to humiliate them. so they no longer carry that when they come to places like seoul or beijing to negotiate or talk about diplomacy. but also remember, you know, that kim jong-un doesn't really have much of an incentive to give up his nuclear program. this is a leader who enshrined the ambitions of north korea into north korea's constitution.

and he's watched as several other leaders like president hussein of iraq, like gadhafi of leadership ya were killed with u.s. support 37. >> and you kbt help but ask whether or not kim jong-un is watching the situation with iran very carefully. >> why sign a deal with the u.s. if they decide to just completely scrap it after a few years. matt bradley live in seoul, south korea, for us. thank you. let's get a check of your weather now with bill karins. bill, the death toll continues to rise in california as those fires still burn. and you're really focused on the wind which doesn't seem to be letting up. >> yeah. we don't want a repeat of what happened. that story at the top of the show, incredibly tragic. so many stories like that how people tried to survive and how other people didn't. the winds are going to be really increasing late tonight into tomorrow. right now the winds aren't too bad. this is at 5:00 p.m. this afternoon into this evening. the winds are fine here.

where the fires are burning is near santa rosa. the tubbs fire is one of the bigger ones. that's when we watch 3:00 a.m., 7:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m. winds gusting 20 to 30. in the mountains gusts will be higher than that. that's the concern. that's why we have the red flag warnings out there, the fire danger today into tonight. and again, even the mountains outside of los angeles still have red flag warnings too. most of the active fires have been to the north and northern california but southern california still has the risk if any fires do form, they'll quickly be able to start spreading. the other stories out there today, we're watching some rain and snow in the northern rockies. this will move into the middle of the country as we go through saturday. that's why we have a chance of thunderstorms in chicago also kansas city and wichita. very warm in texas through the southeast. and if we get any severe weather saturday afternoon, about 4 million people in slight risk. keep an eye on your afternoon plans. and finally on sunday, east coast is one of the last really

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welcome back, everybody. it is the bottom of the hour. we are going to get to the

latest on the wildfires in california in just a moment. but first a look at the other stories we're following this morning. >> we begin with health care. another aggressive move from the president last night aimed at unraveling obamacare. late last night the administration confirmed it would halt federal payments for cost sharie ining subsidies tha reimburse insurers for lowering out of pocket costs for customers. earlier the president signed an executive order that allowed bypass of requirements. the law fails after the failure of congress to repeal and replace it. and las vegas police expected to hold another news conference today potentially clearing up new questions about that timeline of the mandalay bay massacre. this comes after mgm resorts disputed the latest claim that the security guard was shot six minutes before the gunman opened fire on the crowd. the casino operator claims stephen paddock began firing from the 32nd floor of the

hotel, quote, at the same time as or within 40 seconds after. the security guard reported being shot over the radio. the las vegas police officers and armed mandalay bay police officers were together, quote, in the building when he reported the shots and immediately responded to the 32nd floor. let's go back now to california where the death toll from the wildfires stands at 31. authorities are now saying an area almost the size of new york city has actually been burned to the ground. let's get right to special correspondent for nbc news scott cohn. he's joining us live from sonoma, california. you try to wrap your head around the sheer size of what is taking place there, it's almost unfathomable. give us a sense of what's on the ground in terms of the fight and what's happening there on in day-to-day basis. >> reporter: so we're on day six of this disaster heading into this day six now. and what they're going to be dealing with today is really a race against the clock.

because the forecast is calling for the wind to pick up. you know that the wind is not good for the firefight. it fans the flames. it creates the blowtorch effect that laid waste to this neighborhood, coffee park in santa rosa on sunday. what they'll keep doing is cutting these fire lines so that the fire cannot jump from one set of vegetation to the next. and they need to do that before the wind picks up. it's supposed to get windier as the day goes on into tonight and into tomorrow. so once again they've issued those red flag warnings. that's the worst possible fire conditions. they're racing ahead of that. so there have been more evacuations including yesterday in the town of calistoga, the entire town evacuated. and in the meantime in areas like this in coffee park, they're recovering bodies. it's grim work. there are 17 people dead in sonoma county. that's the majority of the dead from this week of fires. and 400 people still unaccounted

for. some of those unfortunately will likely be dead. >> an absolutely staggering number there. scott cohn live for us in sonoma county, california. john kelly made his first briefing room appearance yesterday to personally dispute recent reporting about the trump administration including an nbc news report that the president said he wanted a tenfold increase of the u.s. nuclear weapons arsenal during a pentagon meeting back in july. take a listen. >> in spite of what someone reported the other day about president and i don't think he'd mind my sharing this. what he said to many many, many times and to the group oftentimes, i hear him most say about nuclear weapons, wouldn't it be great if we could get rid of them all opposed to we need ten times more. >> the retired four star general also talked about one of the biggest sources of the president's frustration. capitol hill. >> the congress has been

frustrating to him. of course, our government is designed to be slow. and it is. his sense i think as a man who is outside of the washington arena, a businessman, much more of a man of action, his great -- i would say his great frustration is the process that he now finds himself. because in his view, the solutions are obvious. and the process is so slow and so hard sometimes to deal with. >> he also at one point said we, the media, are the president's biggest frustration. >> congress and media. >> joining us from washington b once again david lawler. good to talk to you once again. hearing white house chief of staff john kelly talking about all this stuff, he also commented on bob corker an how he handles the president's critics from within. what do we learn from that?

>> kelly played a role in corker's criticism. he said basically kelly is there playing babysitter. it's an adult day care and kelly is keeping trump from causing chaos. kelly said when people say stuff like that, it's my job to go to them to say how can i change your mind? how can i convince you this is not the way things are? in corker's case, i think it's going to be tough to change his mind. >> let me ask you about trump yesterday -- tweeting out -- lashing out threatening to pull federal assistance from puerto rico as the island we all know continues to struggle to rebuild after hurricane irma and maria. what was the president's thinking here and how did john kelly try to down play that? >> trump has said multiple times, you know, puerto rico wants us, the federal government, to do everything for them. they're not prepared to handle the situation on their own. that's not what their reporting on the ground suggests. that's what trump has said. kelly said basically trump is

right in that fema is not going to be taking the lead on this forever. we need to transition to local authority at some point. though he was much softer in his approach than the president was. >> finally, there was a new report about interior secretary ryan zinke flying a flag to signify his presence. what's going on here? >> it's pomp and circumstance in the interior department. it sounds like something you'd see at a palace or something like that. it's a little bit bizarre. i don't think any of us had heard of this happening before in a cabinet department. they put the flag up when he shows up, pull the flag down when he leaves for the day. you can walk by the interior department and know whether the secretary is home. >> that's what happens with us as well. no? a flag on our desk when we're here. or we're just here. all right. dave lawler -- that's a terrible joke, thank you. a new report says president trump's legal team has suggested the president will volunteer to sit down for an interview with

robert mueller. an unnamed senior white house official said it could help wrap up the probe into the president. trump's personal attorney denied the report after it was published telling politico, quote, totally false. that in fact he would be willing to offer sworn testimony to the counsel's probe. >> would you be willing to speak under oath to give your version of -- >> 100%. >> so if robert mueller wanted to speak with you -- >> i would tell him exactly what i just told you. now to the new developments in the hollywood scandal involving harvey weinstein. nbc has discovered from a source, richard koenigsberg has resigned. a third of the all-male board resigned last week. now just three members remain. meanwhile, tmz reporting that the movie mogul's contract might

have included a stipulation as long as he reimburse the company to sexual harassment lawsuits, he'll will protected from firing. and actress kate beckinsale has now come forward to tell her own story. she says she was called to meet harvey weinstein at a hotel when she was just 17 years old. when she arrived at his room, she says he opened the door in a bathrobe. she said i was naive and young and it did not cross my mind that this older unattractive man would expect me to have any sexual interest in him. after denying the offer of alcohol, she said she had school in the morning and left, quote, uneasy but unscathed. she adds, quote, a few years later he asked me if i had tried anything with me in that first meeting. he couldn't remember if he had assaulted me or not. >> meanwhile, jane fonda is talking about when she learned of weinstein's alleged behavior and she regrets not speaking up

sooner. >> i found out about harvey about a year ago. and i'm ashamed i didn't say anything right then. >> why didn't you? you're so bold. >> i was not that bold because i guess it hadn't happened to me and so i didn't feel it was my place. >> many celebrities are rallying around rose mcgowan on social media after twitter suspended part of her account for posting a tweet the company said violated rules. she posted this picture and said there are powerful forces at work be my voice along with #why women don't report. twitter explained they locked the account because of a tweet with a private phone number. they unlocked her account when she deleted the tweet. we're also following news from amazon this morning. the company has expanded over a claim of harassment. what more can you tell us about this? >> back in july 2015, the head of the amazon tv studios roy

price was alleged to have directed unwanted sexual comments at one of the producers of "the man in the high castle." then in aulgz this year it was reported on by the information. that was followed by a story in the hollywood reporter saying that amazon had investigated the incident and then after all of this harvey weinstein scandal erupted, they spoke to them publicly about that piece. then said roy price was on a leave of absence. the company saying we take seriously any questions about the conduct of our employees. >> we're also following some breaking health care news overnight. the trump administration will no longer reimburse insurance companies for subsidizing obamacare. this could unravel the insurance markets. what type of reaction could we expect from the health industry today? >> i said it came into law, the executive of the administration has paid billions of dollars a month in these cost sharing

reduction payments. trump for months has been threatening to end those payments. he's now said he will do that. experts say that this could damage a lot of marketplaces. we could see premiums jump by as much as 25%. the and cbo said it would balloon federal deficits by $6 billion next year and as much as $21 billion by 2020. democrats not happy as you might expect. chuck schumer saying this was a spiteful act of vast pointless sabotage. >> all right. thanks so much. and the president has just tweeted on the issue just about a minute ago. quote, the democrats obamacare is imploding. massive subsidy payments to their pet insurance companies has stopped. dems should call me to fix. still ahead, will the weather cooperate with crews now battling those massive wildfires? california? plus richard engel is reporting on the american mom

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appointments available now. welcome back, everybody. time now for weather as crews in california try to get hold of the raging wildfires in california. bill karins is back with us. what can people there expect this weekend? >> calm and scary conditions tonight into tomorrow. red flag warnings possibly into sunday morning. so again, it doesn't -- when you have the red flag warnings, it means conditions are favorable for the fires to spread rapidly. doesn't mean they will. here's how we're looking. this is the map. the orange is where we're under fire weather watches. so there's two large areas. one in northern california, another in southern california. we haven't talked a lot about any fires in this area. there hasn't been a lot of big blazes recently. you see where we have the flames here. gusty winds, low humidity a potential for rapid fire growth if any fires form here.

not as many burning to the south as there is to the north. there's numerous fires burning in northern california. strongest winds tonight into tomorrow morning. then they'll die off a bit during the day tomorrow. then we'll do it all over again. they call the diablo winds as we go into sunday morning. here's some of the fires that we've been talking a lot about. of course the one near santa rosa where we saw the whole neighborhood burned, that's still only 10% contained. that's the tubbs fire. atlas fire is about 7% containment. and the patrick fire. again, they have a lot of work to do to get containment on all these fires we've been talking about. and as far as the wind forecast goes, the worst of it will be, again, this evening and then tomorrow. so this is 8:00 p.m. friday. higher elevations, 20 to 30 gusts. not bad. this isn't like the santa ana winds where they kick up 70 to 80 mile-per-hour winds. but when we get into saturday morning, 50 to 60 mile-per-hour gusts. this is what will make the firefighters nervous. the fires currently burning with

some of those embers can get in the air and blow. start fires somewhere else. that's when it's dangerous. the smoke forecast still takes the smoke from the north to the south. poor air quality weekend san francisco to modesto. >> all right. thanks a lot for that, bill. a kidnapped american mother, her husband and children are safe this morning after a rescue from the clutches of the taliban. the story of their five years in captivity is shrouded in mystery. the pakistani military saying their commandos freed the family. but so many questions remain unanswered. richard engel has more. >> i would just like to say -- >> reporter: for nearly five years, we've only seen glimpses of pennsylvania native katelyn coleman since she was kidnapped along with her canadian husband while hiking in a remote terrorist hot spot in afghanistan. >> if we all come out of this safely and alive, then it will be a miracle.

>> reporter: coleman was pregnant when they were taken. in all, she gave birth to three children in captivity. with reporters converging at their home, the family taped a note to the door asking for privacy while celebrating the joyful news. husband josh boyle spoke to this parents. >> it's the first time in five years we got to hear his voice. it was amazing. >> reporter: coleman, her children, and her husband were being held in afghanistan by a faction of the taliban, the same group that held american soldier bowe bergdahl. the pakistani military said this time it got a tip from u.s. intelligence. president trump who has criticized pakistan for double dealing with terrorist groups sang their praises. >> we want to thank pakistan. they worked very hard on this. and i believe they're starting to respect the united states again. >> all right. our thanks to richard engel for

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deal in the long term, even in the medium and long term will protect america. >> all right. that was white house chief of staff john kelly yesterday, meanwhile, within the last hour the trump administration has released a fact sheet towards iran. it comes as the president is set to have his decision regarding the iran nuclear deal ali, give us the reaction so far on the ground. what are you hearing? >>. >> reporter: as you mentioned, we are rapidly reaching crunch time. it's making folks across the board very nervous. especially in iran, where there is an overwell sense of anticipation here by ordinary iranians, the ramifications of the president's decision he outline in that bulletin you mentioned earlier and that he's

going to talk about later today put major implications in the here and now. it could also very negatively affect u.s.-iranian relation for decades to come. there are two major announcements we need to look out for, from the president's day, one is whether he will supply the nuclear deal or not, if likely, it will go over to congress to decide whether to reimpose state sanctions, the second decision which is shaping up to be a much bigger deal than the nuclear deal is if the president designates rgc, the revolutionary guard as a terrorist organization. director pompeo's remarks comparing it to isis will enrage the revolutionary guards and the regime as a whole, if they are designated as a terror organization, then all bets are off. their fury here will be possible to contan. they can handle to some extent being sanctioned, officers that

are members of the guard or are already plaquelisted or sanctions that designating them as a terrorist organization would cause irreversible damage. it would change the playing field here, it would also bear the nuclear deal. we are taking a step into the unknown here that could have negative consequences. jazz mun. >> very quickly, short of labelling the rgc and scrapping the iran nook clear deal, there a way the iranian government stays committed to the program with the european counterparts but without the u.s.? >> reporter: well, it's going to be very difficult. on paper, yes, the iranians would like to try to do that. it would cause a wedge between america and europe and favor iran. in reality, it will be very difficult. america comes down hard on eastern and economy, it's going to be difficult for businesses to do business with eastern. if it's sanctioned and

ultimately it will have the same effect as before the nuke chlordeal. >> very much a wait and see game, that is for sure. we look forward to that 12:30 or so eastern time announcement. thank you coming up next on "morning joe," we will hear from two key people, senior rand paul and representative adam kinzinger and on health care and the president's major new moves at unraveling obamacare. morning joe minutes away. you nervous? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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welcome back, everybody. in addition to the ierp nuclear deal today president donald trump will become the first to readdress the value voters summit. they hail the president as someone who quote respects the constitution after eight years of relentless assault on the first amendment. this case referring to religious freedom it's day two of the meeting more global leaders meeting in washington him yesterday they said there was a quote degree of

harmony in economic growth but warned the recovery is not complete. >> that does it for us. have a great weekend. "morning joe" starts right now. t. although i read it all the time, pretty consistently, i'm not quitting today, i don't believe and i just talk to the president, i don't think i'm being fired today and i am not so frustrated in this job that i'm thinking of leaving. i would tell you, this is the hardest job i've ever had. this is in my view the most important job i ever had. >> white house chief of staff john kelly says he's not going anywhere. good morning, it's friday the 13th. friday the 13th. yeah, it's an