on, it was all over. here by the way is what it looked like from an unobstructed view. they sure blowed it up real good. it was quite something to see. and of course the bus launched a thousand imitators. this is the internet, after all. this collection came to us courtesy of "sports illustrated." so look at it this way. while we lost the former wonder in h. this morning, long time tv host rhodes. uninfluential list of men continues to grow. alabama's election has republicans facing against a racing against the clock as one of the senate candidates roy moore's accusers speaks out. trump administration turns up the pressure on north korea. announced u.s. is returning regime to list of state sponsors of list of terrorism. good morning, everybody.

it's tuesday, november 21. we'll following a new wave of sexual misconduct allegations. first we learned of charlie rose. co-anchor of cbs this morning and contributor of cbs has been suspended there cbs news and pbs announced it would no longer distribute long running nightly interview show. comes after "washington post" reported yesterday that eight women had accused him of sexual harassment. according to the paper, women were either employees of charlie rose show of inspired to work there. they range in age from 21-37. allegations reported by the post include lewd phone calls, groping, and walking around naked in front of the women. in a statement rose said in part, quote, i deeply apologize for my inappropriate behavior. i'm greatly embarrassed. i've behaviored incense tifl set

times. i do accept responsibility although i do not believe they are all accurate. >> vox accomplished an article in which four female journalists accused him of acts inappropriate towards him. the claims include unwanted kbro groping kissing to wet cases out of nowhere to hazy encounters under alcohol. he wrote i apologize to any woman who felt unconsideratable in my presence. any behavior that makes a woman feel disrespected or uncomfortable is unacceptable. also msnbc political analyst. outcome of the times investigation and currently has no scheduled appearances. meanwhile, second woman comes forward with allegations against al franken. tells cnn franken grabbed buttocks while taking a photo in 2010 franken was an elected official. in a statement to cnn, franken said he did not remember taking

the photo and that he felt badly she felt disrespected. the new accusation comes just days after radio host leeann tweeden accused franken of kissing and grabbing her. the front page of usa today features article that claims at least for lawmakers, nearly all men in 20 states have been accused of some form of sexual assault misconduct. reuters is reporting this morning. 21st century fox reached a settlement. 90 million settlement. meanwhile, allegations of sexual misconduct continue to plague alabama senate roy moore's campaign as both moore and his opponent, democratic doug jones, hurry to raise cash in a very tight senate raise. we've been talking about. moore's campaign says it's raised over $1 million in just

the last ten days. astounding which comes out to 100,000 per day. in an interview with the "today" show one of the accusers. described how then 32-year-old moo moore tried to seduce her when she was just 14 years old. >> basically laid out blankets in his living room and proceeded to seduce me, i guess you would say. during the course of that, he removed my clothing. he left the room and came back in wearing his white underwear. and he touched me over my clothing. what was left of it. and he tried to he get to touch

him as well. at that point i pulled back and i said i wasn't comfortable and will got dressed and he took me home, but i was a 14-year-old child trying to play in an adults world and he was 32 years old. >> roy moore denies these allegations and further says he does not even know you. >> i wonder how many mes he doesn't know. >> dodged questions as white house spokesperson said the president wants a congress that supports the agenda, but would leave a decision on moore up to voters. >> would you be pleased if roy moore wins his senate race in alabama. would the white house be happy with that. >> the president wants people in the house and senate that support his agenda. as i've said and as the hatch act predicts me from going any

further, we certainly think this is something the people of alabama should decide. >> joining me now from alabama, ron. good to talk to you this morning. three major alabama newspapers on sunday running editorial there. basically saying denounce roy moore. vote doug jones. how is that being received on the ground there. >> exactly. you're hearing many different responses to what is situation is. talking to plenty of residents hesitant to vote for roy moore. these are staunch conservatives. judge moor frankly is still on escapade to discredit these women accusers. just last night, he put out a tweet attacking one particular woman who put out the -- who claimed she met him at the restaurant and sexually assaulted upon leaving the restaurant that he frequented. pretty much going on assault to discredit individuals. to a large extent, it's working.

when i say it's working, it's working because the women are telling us they believed that the roy moore they've known for decades is not the roy moore that these nine women are portraying. here's a couple women we talked to that i think give an idea into what we're hearing around the state. >> why you think the item would make these accusations then. >> because it would destroy him. >> i question what's in it for these women who are saying these things. i don't believe it. now, i don't have proof that they're not telling the truth, but the character i know of judge roy moore, i don't believe what they're saying is true. >> no, because i mean, he's ran for so many offices. he was a supreme court justice in alabama. very honorable position and it would have already come out. why right now, right before a senate election that's taken him to washington, d.c. >> reporter: meanwhile, roy

moore is still yet to provide what he called evidence against these other eight women accusers. lee corcoran being one of them he claims to not know. hasn't provided any concrete evidence. the loudest voice in the state calling on roy moore to provide clear and convincing evidence to continue to standby them. young republicans. heard it from president trump. he said he's going to let alabama voters decide, but there's been very few voices within the state that have really come out against roy moore to better or tiarticulate argument against accusers. >> people who are not behind roy moore still, we've been hearing from them and a lot of them say maybe i just won't vote. i'll just stay home this election day because i don't know where to go on this and i certainly don't want to vote for a democrat considering alabama a deep red state there. who could this benefit if in fact these voters decide to stay

home. >> reporter: >> it's a good question. you would think it would take the vote away from roy moore. doug jones if he's not able to bring in enough republican votes, he doesn't stand a chance. played himself as a moderate particularly on the abortion issue. he made comments to msnbc weeks ago where he said he bngs pro-life at the point that a baby is born. voters across the state continuously bring this up to me. they say in very frank terms it comes down to alleged pedophile versus a baby killer. >> okay. i'm going to talk to you again at the bottom of the hour. thank you mplgt tax returning now overseas. designate north korea as a state sponsor of terrorism. something trump says is a very critical step. >> today the united states is designating north korea as a state sponsor of terrorism.

should have happened a long time ago. should have happened years ago. in addition to threatening the world by nuclear devastation, north korea has repeatedly supported acts of international terrorism including assassinations on foreign soil. the north korean regime must be lawful. it must end its unlawful nuclear ballistic missile development and cease all support for international terrorism, which it is not doing. >> so important to note here both south korea and japan have announced they are in favor of this decision. the country is now one of only four in the world on the state department's current list joining syria, iran, and sudan. north korea was added to the list by president reagan back in 1988nology the bombing of south korean passenger jet, but was taken off in 2008 by president bush. in an effort so jump start denuclearization efforts.

the dprk has been added for repeatedly providing support for acts of international terrorism as the dprk has been imp kated on assassinations on foreign soil. most recently kim jong-un's brother who was assassinated in the airport using internationally banned chemical agent back in february. otto warmbier's death was not a factor although cited his killing yesterday. sec tir of state rex tillerson also addressed the reasons. >> really justs the latest step in a series of ongoing steps to increase the pressure, i call it the peaceful pressure campaign. the president calls it the maximum pressure campaign. so there's no confusion. they're one and the same. this is to hold north korea accountable for a number of actions that they've taken over the last several months, the last year or so. this just continues to tighten the pressure on the kim regime.

all with an intention for him to understand this is only going to get worse until you're ready to come and talk. >> adding additional sanctions. something president trump previewed just yesterday. this desz nation will oppose further sanctions and penalties on north korea and related persons and supports are maximum pressure campaign to isolate the murders regime that you've all been reading about and in some cases writing about. tomorrow the treasury department will be announcing an additional sanction and very large one on north korea. this will be going on over the next two weeks. highest level of sanctions by the time it's finished over two-week period. >> late yesterday the justice department filed a lawsuit in federal court to challenge the at&t merger with time warner. government says it would reduce competition and innovation resulting in higher bills by

consumers. comes amid democrats who -- fake news, but a justice official says the white house played no role in the decision to challenge the merger nor court. the president's comments about cnn were not a factor. at&t released a statement calling it a radical and inexplicable and says it plans to fight in in court. meanwhile politico reported the fcc chairman plans to unveil his plan to fellow. regulations designed to ensure internet service providers treat all web traffic equally. preventing companies from blocking web traffic accident to certain websites or slowing down traffic noun as throttling. also bands companies like netflix for paying for faster speeds. companies like at&t. our parent company of course comcast. opposed to while tech companies

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united states or live in the shadows. and yesterday marks two movants since hurricane maria ripped through puerto rico. although the electrical system has been partially repaired, only 46.6% of puerto rico's residents have power and 1-10 puerto ricans still lack drinking water as the crisis drags on. mayor of san juan continues to urge the federal government to step up the recovery efforts to get the island back on track. just unbelievable there. let's get a check on the weather with nbc meteorologist bonnie sniders standing by. >> looking at the threat of lake effect in upstate new york and pennsylvania. take a look at the front comes through. cold see colder air come in behind it. something to note going forward. watching for that. also looking for cooler conditions in minneapolis. zoom in on that. looking for conditions to definitely bring about changes. we'll be watching for looks like quick round of light rain and

snow in the forecast. be ready for that as we go through. then on wednesday, early rain for the northeast. light lake affect snow coming in behind the front so that's something to keep in mind as we work our way through. now, overall working through travel trouble spots through much of the region across the northeast. that's going to be for wednesday. if you're going to be traveling on wednesday you're going to have to deal with rain and snow especially around the new england area. especially thursday seeing better weather for the thanksgiving day parade. light lake affect snow behind the cold front and looking for improvements in the forecast for thursday which is really great news. the travel forecast shows that as we look towards wednesday, we'll be looking for better conditions. watch out nor rain in florida. that's going to be on tuesday. looks like wet weather in the southeast. >> what's it going to be like around 3:00 a.m. on friday. >> cold and dark. >> okay. not for those shoppers finding good deals like some people in our studio like to torture

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welcome back, everybody. let's start with the morning's top stories. trump administration has officially designated north korea as a state sponsor of terrorism. the state department says the dprk has been readded for, quote, repeatedly providing support for acts of international terrorism as the dprk has been implicated assassinations on foreign soil. the country is now one of four in the world on the state department's current list. joining sir gentleman, iran, and sudan. co-anchor of cbs and contributor on 60 minutes has been suspended from cbs news. "washington post" reported eight women had accused him of sexual harassment between late 1990s to

2011. rose issued a statement for apologizing for what he called inappropriate behavior. saying he does not believe all the allegations are accurate. also learned "new york times" has suspended correspondent thrush. thrush also issued a statement apologizing for quote any situation where i behave inappropriately. he's also msnbc politico analyst. awaiting the outcome of the investigation in regards to future with the network. >> meanwhile, allegations of sexual misconduct continue to plague roy moore's campaign as he faces an increasingly tight race. the first woman to publically accuse moore is telling hr story in first television interview. sgll she says the encounter when she was 14 haunted her for years. >> she tells today's savannah

guthrie she first met 32-year-old roy moore in 1979. he was an assistant district attorney. >> my mother did not know and he took me to his home after arriving at his home on the second occasion that i went with him, he basically laid out blankets on the floor of his living room and proceeded to seduce me. he removed my clothing. he left the room and came back in wearing his white underwear. and he touched me over my clothing, what was left of it, and he tried to get me to touch him as well. >> eight other women have come forward publically with allegations against moore, allegations ranging from inappropriate further to assault sgll roy moo .

>> roy moore denies the allegations and further says he doesn't even know you. >> i wonder how many mes he doesn't know. >> did not respond to comments. blamed democrats and republican establishment for trying to sway the election. >> never happened. never would have happened. and never would have been brought up, but to distract the campaign from arguing the issues. >> watching today's interview was patty who said she heard of the encounter decades ago when they were both teenagers. >> it changed her. leigh morphed into something i had not seen in her before. >> though she stresses moore never harassed her, she remembers him hanging out at the local mall. >> what was his reputation there. >> creepy. >> for years she says she thought about going public, but didn't. >> my children were small. i didn't do it. >> for those who might be watching thinking, where are you politics. >> i've voted as a republican

for years and years and years. this isn't political for me. this is personal. >> thanks though gabe gutierrez. let's go back to alabama. good to talk to you once again. how are people on the ground now reacting to the interview from lee from yesterday morning: you listen to accounts now for two weeks. when i initially first got to alabama you stood by roy moore. she told me last night she still intends to vote for him at this point because she says he has denied the allegations so forcefully. claiming that he dinlt even know who leigh to see if it was used

or 40 years ago. roy moore has made a stand in this just last night. he put out a treat again going after one particular accuser. he's bent on the defense now on the offensive really that's what he's got to work with for the next three weeks. allegations that you just heard from her are very graphic and very detailed. roy moore getting on twitter and defending himself. not necessarily stepping out in public eye. keeping low profile alongside doug jones as well. are we thinking we're going to see more of them? nothing announced on the schedule for the rest of the week here. doug jones is going to be coming to huntsville to the northern

part of the state this afternoon which brings us here. in terms of alabamians who are they seeing on tv, they're seeing doug jones. right now he's outspending roy moore on television and radio airwaves more than 11-1. turn on the tv here in alabama, it's hard to avoid doug jones. whether roy moore can run out the clock and still bring enough people out that he is convinced doubt the stories of these women. it will be seen over the next 22 days. a lot of people think luther strange and the only option for many republicans was roy moore. what more are you hearing about this. is this something across the board people are feeling right now?

>>. >> luther strange who had been appointed a year earlier versus roy moore. a lot of people said luther strange is something who is not their pick. they felt like they had the chance to vote. came down to two options of luther strange or roy moore. now you hear from washington, right. you hear from mitch mcconnell who spent $30 million. mitch mcconnell as well as other allies spent 30 million just a month and a half ago and the voters voted for roy moore. many voters said we made our decision. this is our candidate. we're going to standby him over the democratic in this race because they can fathom simply coming down to vote for a democrat and that being doug jones. as has become common during presidency, president trump has executive order blocked by a federal judge. this time it's permanent. rejected the administration argument to cut funding from sanctuarile cities saying the

president cannot set new conditions on spending by congress which would violate separation of powers in addition to violating the fifth and tenth amendment. judge also cited his own words it's a weapon to use against jurisdictions. disagree with his policies in his rulings. the administration argued that the executive order only applied to a small sum of money. president trump is ramping up his push to secure an agenda win in the form of tax cuts, but new analysis of one of the republican plans on the table suggest some americans may actually end up paying more. according to nonpartisan analysis group the tax policy center, while all income groups would see tax reductions on average under the senate bill in 2019. 9% of americans would pay higher taxes that year. that figure jumps to 50% of taxpayers largely because of the legislations personal tax cuts would expire in 2026.

republicans did do to curve budget deficits the bill would create. tax policy center also found that low earning americans would generally get smaller tax breaks and higher income people. 2019 those making less than $25,000 would see taxes reduced on average by $50 or less than half of 1% of after tax income. meanwhile, while people making at least $746,000 would get average cuts of $34,000 or just over 2% of their income. speaking before cabinet meeting just yet. president trump promised quote big present for americans this holiday season in the form of tax cuts. i want to congratulate the house of representatives for passing a vital and historic tax cut last week and i'm very hopeful the senate will do the same very soon. we're going to give the american people a huge tax cut for christmas. hopefully that will be a great big beautiful christmas present.

>> and as president trump and republicans try to get a tax bill over the finish line, democrats are reportedly looking to cash in in time for the 2018 midterm elections. according to "washington post," demes are set to release seven figure tv ad campaign targeting republicans in multiple districts with a lot of working class whites as well as districts with more egducated college whites. president trump's foundation is shutting down. according to newly filed documents reviewed by nbc news, donald j. trump foundation is in the process of dissolving fulfilling a promise trump made last december to avoid conflict of interest. ran into trouble last year when it acknowledged violating federal rules in self dealing 2015 tax filing. new york attorney general eric schneiderman ordered the charity

to cease operating back in october. remaining assets to other charitable organizations and shutting down. representative from the attorney general office said the foundation cannot close until that i recall investigation of it is complete. want to turn now to business. justice department has sued to block at&t time warner multibillion dollar merger in first action against the trump administration. 23 page lawsuit alleges the deal between the noncompeting companies would have considerable negative ramifications for consumers. argument at&t says defies logic. joining us from london to talk about. how rocky is the fate of this merger here. >> looking quite rocky indeed. the department of justice has sued them. has sued at&t to block takeover of time warner. it doesn't want to give one company too much control in the

sector. the lawsuit claims that the deal would hurt consumers and its competition because it would allow at&t to raise prices in an environment where a lot of the price cut -- prices have been falling. at&t chief executive hit back straight away saying the decision defies logic and ultimately they're confident they will win the lawsuit. the deal was valued at $85 billion when it was announced in october of last year. still hasn't gone through. on back of that, we see the shares of both companies, at&t and time warner jump quite significantly as there's a lot of questions about whether the deal is going to go ahead. >> i think those in charge of the merger hope it's going to be a smooth ride ahead. they've encountered bumps in the road. let's talk cars. uber and volvo a partnership for autonomous cars. what more can you tell us about this. >> yes, surprisingly uber has

ordered 24,000 driverless cars from the european car maker volvo in a bid to make an entrance into driverless technology. the plan would be to introduce a fully self-driving autonomous fleet of vehicles. whereby passengers would not need to have a human driver at the wheel. and also looking to roll this out in select couple of cities where they have fleets available, such as phoenix and pittsburgh. clearly the rates nor the first driverless car in taxi format does continue. >> i got to say if a driverless car rolls up for my pickup, i'm not getting in it. just saying. live from london for us. thank you. still ahead, new details emerging about the alleged assault on senator rand paul and what may have led up to the altercation between him and his neighbor. plus details on the cold blast of air set to make its way across some parts of the country. coming up.

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welcome back. learning new details about the events of the assault with rand paul. citing multiple residents the fight between paul and his neighbor was over landscaping which one resident who knows both men says is quote, like the old hill billy feud over the property line. apparently boucher like most residents in the the gated community hire professional landscapers. paul does not and boucher was upset at the differences in the length of the grass on the lawn and the direction that paul mowed. paul also reportedly sprayed grass clippings on the property. brought up the issues in the past to no avail. neither paul nor boucher have addressed a motive behind the attack. let's get a check on the weather now. we are looking at lake affect snow working its way across parts of the upstate area

and across parts of the great lakes. look at this, we look towards travel on wednesday. tomorrow, it's going to be a little tricky. could have rain and snow and could cause snow downs flying to boston for example. otherwise looking at weather that may impact you on thursday in terms of travel. let's take a closer look. rain is something to be concerned with as well as rounds of rain in the northwest. may make travel a little treacherous. on and off rain and gusty winds especially for high profile vehicles. driving on 90 may have trouble spots. here's good news. the macy thanksgiving day parade weather looks great. keep in mind for the morning hour, looking about 37 degrees warming up to noon. eventually getting into temperatures warmer than that. good conditions. notice the winds not strong. which is great. on sunday we have really bad winds. glad that's not the case for thursday. temperatures are going to be varied depending where you are. yesterday was cold in the northeast. now getting warmer. warmer conditions here in new

york city. down through washington, d.c. 61 degrees high today. still cold across a good portion of the west today. tomorrow in chicago down through louisville and memphis colder this time of the year. later this week, pretty mild black friday. good news for saturday. travelers overall warmer than normal in many locations for this thanks giving and black friday. still ahead, russian president vladimir putin sits down with syria bashar all assad discussing that country e's. more people shop online for the holidays than ever before. (clapping) and the united states postal service delivers more of those purchases to homes than anyone else in the country. ( ♪ )

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the message to anyone listening is clear. in effect, russia accepts the use of chemical won't pans in syria. how then can we trust russia's support for syria. how can anyone take their serious talks in sochi seriously? >> that was u.n. ambassador last week after russia vetoed a resolution at the u.n. security council that would have renewed the investigation into chemical weapons attacks in syria. ambassador haley mentioned putin's proposed talks in sochi and yesterday syria i's assad traveled to sochi.

joining us now live in london nbc news' chapman bell. good to talk to you this morning t. kremlin saying putin and president trump will be speaking by phone tomorrow. two countries very differing goals and motives in the resolution? >> reporter: that's right, yasmin. it will be interesting, what kind of road map they set out for peace if syria and really what sort of tone trump sets with the russian president after assad of syria and vladimir putin met yesterday in sochi. clips of this meeting only being released today on russian state television, showing the two leaders greeting each other with a hug. putin telling him to fight terrorists in syria, this military operation is coming to an end, telling them he's pleased to see his willingness to work with everyone that has peace t. two leaders many et with russian military chiefs,

putin saying i asked the president to stop by before assad. i want to introduce you to people who played a key role if saving syria. the people of syria send their gratitude and will, scenes now appearing to be an early victory lap with russia looking to take the lead of the talks with syria. these come with russia, iran and turkey who spoefts the opposition, which seems to be echoed by the gulf states and the united states, this all before a fresh round of syrian peace talks expected to be held next week in geneva. interestingly, this is only the second time assad left the country since the saga began. >> nobody should be taking an early victory lap. thank you up next on morning joe, joe and mika are putting together a time

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welcome back. before we talk on morning joe, we find out kristen welker at the white house with more. good morning. >> reporter: hi, good morning to you. it is a busy day here at the white house president trump is set to participate in his very first turkey pardon before departing for mira lago for the thanksgiving holiday. he is also busy at work for tax reform. mr. trump trying to get a tax reform passed by christmas. now it's up to the senate. but there is a major sticking point. republicans have inserted language that would repeal the obamacare individual mandate. the white house now showing a willingness to comprise on that. dig mulvaney telling me, if that is holding up, the legislation

is prepared to take it out. all of this comes as the president is set to leave for mira lag go later on today. back to you. >> thank you for that report. a washington, d.c. judge is expected to hold a hearing on whether former trump campaign staffer rick gates can be released from house arrest t. attorney for paul manafort filed a similar request. the judge will consider his motion as well today. >> that does it for us on this tuesday morning. morning joe starts right now. >> good morning, it's tuesday, november 21st. welcome to morning joe. with us on set we have washington anchor catty kay, former president cruz's director, rick tyler and pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the "washington post" and msnbc political analyst eugene

analyst. >> we also have with us willie geist there always good to have. >> you i'm hosting thanksgiving. >> oh, really? >> hosting thanksgiving. >> take a little bag out of the turkey. >> that's important. >> i always forget. >> ut get a prize? >> if i were a real man. but the duck inside the turkey the chicken and the turkey in the deep fryer. >> catty that's what you are doing? >> don't forget to turn the oven on, too. >> any big plans? >> we have friends for thanksgiving. i never hosted thanksgiving, i have to admit. i host christmas lunch a lot. but i love it. it's an adopted holiday for me. >> i was going to say, it's election reminded me, kids at home. you know what they call thanksgiving in britain? thursday. >> my father is hosting, my wife and are cooking. >> are you financial to cook? >> m