this morning, president trump facing criticism after retweeting a series of anti-muslim videos after a rare review from britain's prime minster, the president hitting ba back. north korea after latest missile test. the rogue nation will be utterly destroyed in a war breaks out. following the very latest on the firing of nbc matt laur. this morning, more women coming forward with new accusations. good morning, everyone. it's thursday. november 30. this morning president trump's twitter account sparked

international uproar and condemnation from two american allies as the president shared anti-muslim videos posted by a fringe nationalist group. theresa may issued review for the statement. speaking of the political party. trump we tweeted may said britain first seeks to divide communities in its own narrative. this causes anxiety to law-abiding people. british people overwhelmingly reject the president's rhetoric of the far right which is the antithesis of what this country respects. it is wrong for the president. >> last night you can imagine trump tweeted a response intended for may, writing theresa may, don't focus on me, focus on the destructive raid

later retweeted. also responded to the president's retweet. the embassy tweeted out to the president. facts do matter. they're a prepare traitor of the violent act born and raised in the netherlands. he received and completed sentence under dutch law. meanwhile the white house defended the president's words despite the fact -- >> whether it's a real video, the threat is real. that's what the president talks about. that is what the president is focused on is dealing with real threats. those are real no matter how you look at it. >> i'm not talking about the make of the video. . bob corker of tennessee and small block of senators

including james flake, james lankford and jerry moran. there's been an agreement in principle on the deficit. he's pushing. other key republicans in the house have expressed opposition to a fiscal trigger. in missouri the president seemed confident in the bill's package by the week's end and spoke about the committee process. >> the big day will be either tomorrow or the next day. i would say do it now. we're ready. lauer. i said to the republicans. these are good people. they're all working hard. it's no so easy. it's complicated stuff. it's no so easy. we had an incredible session yesterday. i said can we do the vote today. what do i know. i'm a busy guy.

can we do the vote now. they said how about friday. i said i don't want to wait until friday. what happens to passes, it goes into a beautiful committee. beautiful pot. and we mix it up and we stir it up and bring all the best things out. and you're going to have something i predict that will be really, really special. wait to you see the final product. wait until you see what finally comes out in what i call the mixer. >> president trump went out of his way in a speech yesterday to say the republicans tax legislation would not benefit him personally and actually cost him money. in all fairness, this is going to cost me a fortune this thing. believe me. this is not good for me e. me and i have some very wealthy friends not happy with me, but that's okay. >> analysis of the bill that passed the house shows otherwise. nbc news commission add study based on the president's leaked 2005 tax return. and his reported personal wealth. and the numbers that we found were pretty staggering.

trump would save more than $20 million himself. his heirs could say $1.1 billion. of course because trump has not released income tax returns, it is impossible to know exactly how the bill would impact his taxes. as is now standard after a north korean missile launch or nuclear test, united nations security council convened security meeting yesterday. nikki haley issued a statement. >> yesterday the north korean regime made a choice. chose to feed nuclear aggression. chose to thumb it's nose at the civilized world. chose to challenge the patience of a world united against its recklessness. we have never sought war with north korea. still today, we do not see it. if war does come, it will be because of continued acts of aggression like we witnessed yesterday. if war comes, make no mistake

the north korean regime will be utterly destroyed. >> at the invitation of japan's, rex tillerson is now set to attend u.n. security counsel meeting likely scheduled for december 15. joining live from seoul, south korea, bill neely. good to talk to you this morning. appreciate you talking to us the. ambassador haley amp llifying t trump strategy. how is china responding to all of this. >> reporter: yes, typically tough talk from nikki haley there. reinforcing the words of the president, you'll recall. he also talked about the possibility of destroy north korea. she was also adding in a little bit of rex tillerson there saying we've never sought war with north korea and we still don't today, but as you say, she made a very direct plea. first of all to all nations gathered at u.n. security counsel to cut all ties with

north korea, but she also made a very direct plea of president xi in china. >> the continuing development of these missile systems demands that countries further isolate the kim regime. today we call on all nations to cut off all ties with north korea. president trump called chinese president xi this morning and told him we have come to the point that china must cut off the oil for north korea. china must show leadership and follow through. china can do this on its own or we can take the whole situation in our own hands. >> well, china has said that the missile launch is a grave concern, but hasn't spoken yet of president trump's direct plea to president which i. russia has said that would not

be a good idea, cutting off the oil supply. obviously there are real concern ifs you be cut off the oil supply, north korean's, ordinary north koreans could starve. the situation in the country is not good. one other thing yasmin and ayman, president trump has escalated war of words with kim jong-un at an event calling him not just little rocket man, but now sick puppy. probably not helping the situation at all. >> when you think the situation can't get any worse, then it gets escalated even more so. certainly going be staying on top of that one. let's pick up on the last point bill neely just brought up. president trump calling kim jong-un a sick puppy. joining us from washington, defense reporter jacqueline klein. good morning to you. the president as we are saying there responding to these provocations with more name calling. ironically a couple of names ago he said i wouldn't call him old or fat and yet he is calling him

little rocket man and now sick puppy as we just heard. is there concern among the national security members that this language is really complicated diplomatic efforts. >> there's absolutely concern about this. experts widely agree the best way to solve this crisis is to get north korea to the negotiating table. hurling these types of insults is not helpful and increases the chances of miscalculation that could launch some sort of military conflict. would be absolutely devastating to south korea and japan and other allies in the region. let's talk about something else happening yesterday. president retweeting fake videos. we have this president trying to build bridges with some predominantly muslim countries. the keyword being some. how does this affect those ropes, if at all. >> absolutely affect the impact of the relationship with eastern

countries. more importantly, could impact the relationship with one of the closest, if not the closest a y ally, united kingdom. criticizing theresa may. and being asked by some members of parliament to revoke the visit with trump. so that has been put on rocky footing here. >> the state visit has yet to materialize. jacqueline klein in washington, d.c. this morning. switching gears for a moment. more women have come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against matt lauer. since the stunning news of firing yesterday morning. the allegations some laid out in shocking detail in reports of variety magazine and "new york times" suggest a pattern of inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace dating back years. nbc stephanie reports. >> reporter: the allegation was made monday night. roughly 24 hours later, matt

lauer, anchor of today show for 20 years, was fired. in a statement shared few specifics about the accusation, but wrote, in represented after serious review, a clear violation of our company standards: while it is the first complaint about his behavior in the over 20 years he's been at nbc news, we were also presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident. >> this is a sad morning here at today and nbc news. >> lauer's co-anchors reacted to the news. >> for the moment, all we can say is we are heart broken. i'm heart broken for matt. he is my dear dear friend and my partner and he's beloved be my people here. i'm heart broken for the brave colleague who came forward to tell her story and any other women who have their own story to tell. >> i'm matt lauer. >> alleged misconduct began at 2014 olympic games and continued after. according to nbc spoekesperson. the lawyer for the person had this to say.

i am awed by the courage my client showed to be the first to raise a complaint and to do so without making any demands other than the company do the right thing. variety magazine laying out a report of alleged misconduct. including exposing himself to employee in his office and inviting women employed by nbc late at night to his hotel room while covering the olympics. three unnamed women tell variety they were sexually harassed. accounts variety says, corroborated by friends or colleagues. the magazine also reports that several women made complaints to executives at nbc, which were ignored. then nbc news spoke person responded to that claim. we can say unekw kwiquivocally to monday night, we were not made aware of conduct. in september interviewed bill o'reilly who had just been fired from fox news. >> doesn't it seem safe to assume that the people at fox news were given a piece of information, given some evidence

that simply made it impossible for you to stay on at fox news. >> that's a falls assumption. >> but you don't let your number one guy go unless you have information that you think makes him. >> that's not true. >> for infection news, the star anchors departure is enormous loss. lauer has been the face of the network during pivotal news events. interviewing the world's most influential people. >> that was nbc stephanie gosh reporting. nbc news has confirmed two more accusers have come forward since the news of his firing broke. and this from the "new york times." one complaint came from former employee who says lauer summoned her to his office in 2001. locked the door and sexually assaulted her. she told the times she passed out and had to be taken to a nurse. she felt helpless because she didn't want to lose her job. she didn't report the encounter at the time because she felt ashamed. nbc news said prior to monday

night, current management was never made aware of any complaints about matt lauer's conduct. so far, there has been no response from lauer. another major figure in public radio let go yesterday. minnesota public radio announced it would terminate all contracts of gary key lillorkeillor. continued to produce along with the daily program. nmrr said based on what we know, there are no similar allegations involving other staff. the in a statement of his own, keillor responded saying i've been fired over a story i think is more interesting and complicated than the version mpr heard. most stories are. still ahead, how a glitch at

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because of the how they restrict overtime. >> are you flying out west. are you flying american? >> no, i'm flying united. >> i'll be working the holidays. >> i worked the last two weeks straight while you enjoyed yourself. >> let's get a quick check on weather. bill karins who never takes time off. the hardest working person. >> i just got back. >> you were off too my friend. both of you. >> poor you. northern new england is really the only story today with cold air. hard to find any big weather story. ending november quiet. didn't we deserve it after the hurricane season we had. nice quiet november. december will probably be quiet as we enter the winter season. not yet. hat and gloves and winter coat for kids. sweep to the east today. grab the umbrella if you don't want rain showers on you. detroit.

same. kentucky very scattered. not bad. track this today. ahead of a very weak cold front. just a little bit of clouds and showers at the noon hour today. arriving from toledo to cleveland and cincinnati. columbus. little bit of shower activity in the ohio valley. by this evening, 5:00 p.m. notice rain showers over the top of pittsburgh. we also have a lot of fog. careful driving around louisiana. mississippi, alabama. clear up a little bit during the day. chance of shower in the atlanta. really nothing to cause travel concerns. then by friday clear the whole thing out. in for a nice friday afternoon. let's get to the forecast for today. amazingly warm for the last day of november. 51 in chicago. 40s all the way to montana and minneapolis. this won't last forever. next week looks significantly colder. first in the northern plains and the rest of the eastern half of the country. it's going to be december.

you expect it to cool off. even friday. no problems. much of the west is fine too. talk more about the upcoming cold weather as we head into december. as you would expect, it's about time. >> looking pretty good for the last day of november. >> one day. still ahead, nfl reaches a deal to support activism. warning to soccer fans headed to the world cup next summer in russia. sports is next. people would stare. psoriasis does that. it was tough getting out there on stage. i wanted to be clear. i wanted it to last. so i kept on fighting. i found something that worked. and keeps on working. now? they see me. see me. see if cosentyx could make a difference for you- cosentyx is proven to help people with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis... ...find clear skin that can last. don't use if you're allergic to cosentyx. before starting cosentyx, you should be checked for tuberculosis. an increased risk of infections and lowered ability

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian. alongside ayman mohyeldin. it's the bottom of the hour. let's start with the top story. president trump took time during his speech on tax reform to initiate a new nickname for kim jong-un. take a listen. >> we're going to protect our country whether it's north korea or any, but we're going to protect our country like never before. because these massive tax cuts

will be rocket fuel. little rocket man. rocket fuel for the american economy. he is a sick puppy. >> just drop it in there. >> also tweeted he spoke with xi jinping. something he previously proved after relegating north korea as state sponsor of terrorism. no new announcements were announced yesterday. rex tillerson addressed the issue. take a listen. >> we have an issue some of which involve treasury department announcing those when they're ready. >> let's go back to seoul, south korea. and bring in nbc news chief global correspondent bill neely. good to have you back with us. what are the chances we can see

new sanctions have any effect on quelling kim jong-un's nuclear determination. the previous sanctions have not worked. what are the chances this new round might. >> that is the key question. as you know, sanctions are a very blunt instrument. we've had round after round of sanctions at the united nations after emergency meeting after emergency meeting. and kim jong-un is still firing missiles. so you have to conclude that the sanctions still are not stopping him. so you know, what would new sanctions do? however, the u.s. is clearly not push i pushing calling on ail doll cous to cut ties with north korea. and asking president xi of china

for oil embargo. that would be a risky thing. if you won't do it, china, the u.s. will. that would mean a complete imbar go of north korea. again, there is no guarantee this would stop north korea of launching missiles. the real fear now is not what you saw a couple of days ago. the real fear is what next? real possibility of seven nuclear test. possibility in the hope over the pacific. the foreign minister has predicted as much. that really would be a step change. and would present both the u.s. and world with not just real new dangers, but a real new challenge on how do you stop these tests. >> for more than a few decades now trying to get the north koreans to change course.

they have not. it will be interesting to see. bill neely. live in south korea. >> not the first president to be battling this. >> president trump facing criticism this morning after retweeting videos from a group. the white house is defending the president's actions despite a rare review from the british government. nbc white house correspondent kristen welker has these details. >> reporter: the president not commenting on the new uproar. after sparking international outrage. purporting to show violence bill muslims. videos originally posted to twitter by jada fran sson a lea britain first. loo last year convicted for shouting insults at a woman wearing a hijab.

>> the back blash againcklash a president. >> it impowers fringe elements on the right. >> and a stunning review from the establish prime minster who says britain seeks to first. and it is wrong for the president to have done this. press secretary sarah sanders. >> when it's a real video, the threat is real. and that is what the president is talking about. that's what the president is focused on. dealing with those real threats. plt has sparked a similar fire storm before as candidate. >> donald trump is calling for a shutdown of muslims entering the united states. >> and once in office tried to enfact travel ban which includes

muslim majority countries. if critics say it's part of a pattern. >> it's continued hatred against muslims. he's really trying to divide americans. >> thanks to kristen for that report. being criticized by prime minster theresa may for the videos he retweeted. president trump tweeted back saying theresa may don't focus on me. focus on the destructive radical islamic terrorism that is taking place in the uk. we are doing just fine. this tweet has been updated. the theresa may you see here does not belong to the prime minster. >> republicans are challenging democrats to vote against a short-term spending bill. democrats in house and senate say they will not vote for spending bill that does not include a provision to fix daca. has in the december 8 to pass a stopgap bill. nancy pelosi and chuck schumerer

boycotted tuesday after president trump tweeted a spend accide ing deal would not include. moved forward on a bill to fund the government through january. republican backed bill would still need eight democratics in the senate to pass a showdown over dreamers. could be punted as democrats vulnerable to avoid a showdown. since the daca doesn't expire to march, republican leadership is expected to meet later today to discuss their plan. embattled congressman c mam conyers appears to have no plan to step down. according to lawyer who spoke with nbc news casey hunt yesterday. saying conyers is still thinking through his options and denied a local report. the 88-year-old has decided not to seek re-election next year. he stressed he had nod discussed re-election with his client. meanwhile the congressional black caucus cofounded for

conyers met for regularly scheduled meeting yesterday without conyers. spoke about the possibility of colleague stepping down. even suggesting he should be held to a different standard over the allegations against him and others facing similar charges. three people that matter the most in terms of making the decision, he has to make that decision based on family and his constitue constituents. >> you guys can appreciate the other men in other industries have face d similar accusations and gotten out of the way. resigned. stepped down far faster than he has. right? >> harvey weinstein, charlie rose. matt lauer. >> meanwhile, number of democrats calling on conyers to step down is growing.

it should be known a recent report suggested that they used taxpayer money to pay a severance package to a former staffer. he called that article misleading. now to the latest on the russia investigation. there are reports that bob mueller's team has questioned jared kushner about michael flynn siting a person familiar with the investigation. the associate d press reports that the interview happened earlier this month. took less than 90 minutes. aimed at establishing whether kushner has any information about the national security adviser. the associated press reports grand jury testimony scheduled for the coming days has been postponed. new developments fuel speculation flynn may be cooperating especially after last week's news his lawyer is no longer sharing information with the president's legal team.

joining us now, jacqueline klein. politico reporter. talk to us the about what ayman was discussing which is flynn. and the fact he may be cooperating. how is the national security community reacting to this. this is definitely a big development. it's just we're kind of waiting, waiting to see what comes next with the russia investigation. i don't think we've seen the end of this for sure. there's still a lot left to be done. people are saying we don't expect this investigation to wrap up this year. some people are saying the end of this congress so we could have another year for more revelation of this to come out. >> let me ask you quickly about the senate relations committee convening a panel to discuss the president's nuclear authority. there's been some concern about how that system of directing an order of nuclear strike would play out. what were some of tv key take was during this conversation on the hill. >> some senators expressed some concern that president trump has the authority to launch a nuclear strike in the case of a

first use strike. u.s. is not under attack and we are launching a weapon first. the panel of experts largely said they don't believe anything should change. there are while no one can stop the president from launching a nuclear weapon unless it's an illegal order, he does have to go through a numb of people who would counsel him and ultimately have to sign off to make it happen. >> also, rex tillerson as we've been reporting has come under fire for vacancies at the state department. also want to know how the national security community is reacting to this. >> some of the top national security lawmakers on capitol hill are definitely concerned about this. there was a letter sent to the state department earlier this month actually asking for a briefing about this exodus and what impact it's having on u.s. diplomacy. by senator john mccain sent a similar letter on the senate side calling it very troubling that so many top diplomats are leaving the state department. so it's definitely something the top national security lawmakers

on capitol hill are watching closely. >> and finally i know you reported this week that the air force is looking into a failure to report service members to the federal database used for firearm purchase background checks following the texas shooting that happened there. what did you find out? >> so the air force has actually found several dozen cases like the case of this texas church shooter's past where his domestic violence conviction was not reported to the proper civilian authorities. so he was able to buy a firearm. as the air force has found these, they have corrected them. they have found several dozen in their investigation. still ongoing. looking at 60,000 cases going back to 2002. >> disturbing they slipped through the cracks. still ahead, the polls appear to be tightening in alabama with just under two weeks until voters decide on doug jones or roy moore. candidate gets back on the campaign trail. plus bill karins have a

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change they. when i say they, who are they. they are liberals. don't want conservative values. they're the less bbian, gay, gu sexual culture that want to change our culture. >> meanwhile, president trump told friends and aides he feels good about his handling of the alabama senate race. confident he will come out fine either way. according to report, trump has said privately if moore wins he'll reject any move by republican leadership to oust him from the senate. if moore loses he will distance himself and back his previous pick. a former coal mining ceo is out of jail. and jumping into west virginia u.s. senate race.

don belongsenship declared he will run as republican. blankenship was released from prison in may after serving a year for conspireing to violate mind safety law for a 2010 explosion that killed 29 people in the worst mining accident in 49 years. blankenship maintains innocent. plans to spend a considerable about of wealth in the crowded primary field. good morning, today is november 30. that's means today is the end of our hurricane season. in my 20 year career, this will go down as is second worst hurricane season i ever remember only behind 2005 when we had katrina, rita and william. almost a six week period where all the destruction was done. total number of storms was 17.

17 was considerably above average. of those, six ended up being major hurricanes. the ones that usually kill the people and do the most damage. on average we usually have two major hurricanes. here are the numbers. estimated number of deaths and this should go up once we get all the reporting in, especially from puerto rico with all the devastation there. the costliest hurricane season ever. beating 2005. estimated 203 billion. that number continues to grow. i mentioned 2005 was the worst in my career. money wise, it was 159 billion in damage that was done in that year. this year is costlier, but not as many fatales mostly because of how many people were killed by katrina. get into today forecast, a lot of fog and dense along the coast. cold in areas of new england. it's not horrible, but windchills are in the teens. for today's forecast, we are

going to warm back up to 50s and 40s for new england. just a few showers out there in the ohio valley. all happy to be done with the hurricane season. don't want to repeat it any time soon. >> yes. a lot of lives affected during this hurricane season. >> still 40, 50% of puerto rico still don't have power. >> unbelievable. >> yes. still ahead, shocking story of convicted war criminal die district manager after taking poison. we have that coming up next. ald for you this black friday. or, if you prefer, crimson red tintcoat friday. or quicksilver metallic friday? ♪ ring in the holidays with buick. it's the enclave black friday event at your buick dealer. get 20% below msrp on all 2017 enclave premium models. that's over $10,500 on this specially equipped enclave. nahelps protect eyesin blue from damaging blue light, filtering it out to help you continue enjoying your screens. or... you could just put your phones down

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. >> welcome back. everyone, i want to take you to a scene, an accused boss fiian war criminal is dead after taking poison for his alleged crimes in the former yugoslavia. nbc news' kelly kobiaya has more. on international crime scene after this former general shocked the judges, saying he was not a war criminal, rejecting their verdict. >> stop, please, please sit down. >> then drinking a bought him of mysterious liquid in the courtroom confusion the interpreter translating the bottle contained poison. >> i have taken poison. >> paramedics rushed him to the hospital where he later died. he was convicted of war crimes, including ethnic cleansing of

muslims, the sentence 20 years. >> i'm sure security will be tightened in this courtroom after this event. at present, it's not very hard to 134ugsmuggle in things. >> reporter: he is writing his dramatic end. kelly kobiaya, nbc news. >> incredible that took place. >> disturbing as well. the fact that he managed to get that poison into where it is. an estimated 15,000 flights don't have pilots next month a. leading sarl scrambling to avoid widespread flight cancellations. how does the airlines plan to deal with this major glitch that's happening? >> reporter: look, the airlines saying in a statement they are diligently working to fix this, they will be offering their

pilots 150% to work on those days. they also say they will have stand-in pilots to cover those who will not be able come in. moving on, this is a really fascinating story. quite futuristic as well. elon musk has been busy yesterday he said one of his companies will fund and operate a high speed pod through an intercity system of giant vacuum tubes. i don't know how that will exactly work t. final cost had not been declared at this point no taxpayer funding as well. >> if we can get you from the airport to downtown in 20 minutes, i don't think you can put a price on it. >> new york needs that for sure. we have a terrible system when it comes to leaving the airport much more on president trump's latest twitter tirade, lashing

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welcome back, everybody, before we toss it over to "morning joe." let's get to the stories you will be hearing about for the day ahead jeff. >> reporter: tax cuts stay ahead of the agenda, with senate republicans taking a vote on the gop tax proposals. they are keeping an eye on the latest whip count the legislation's fate remains unclear. mostly because some gop senators may vote against the measure, now, on the foreign front the president says he is imposing new sanction on north korea after the rogue regime launched

its longest ranging intercontinental ballistic michigan t. president says he is putting maximum pressure on north korea to give up its nuclear weapons, later tonight the president and first lady will participate in the annual lighting of the national christmas tree i'll send it back to you. >> thank you for that report. meanwhile, the senate house summit, this morning attorney general jeff sessions will appear as a part of a closed door meeting. later this afternoon, they will meet with secretary betsy devos, eric prince is expected to testify on his highly disputed meeting back in january, which was later portrayed as an effort to establish a back-door channel communications actually between moscow and the incoming trump administration. >> that does it for us. "morning joe." everybody, starts right now.

>> good morning, it's thursday, november 30th. welcome to "morning joe." . with us on set we have republican strategist and political commentator susan dell persio, national political reporter for nbc news, carol lee. the president on the council on foreign relations and author of the book "a world in disarray," richard haase. white house reporter for usa today heidi briz bill la, fellow at the london school of economics and author of the "despots accomplice" brian clause. good to have you all on board in morning. >> how long have we been doing this ten years? >> ten and change. >> i think this is the first time i caught myself at 6:00 in the morning looking through the papers just trying to find something to cover. >> oh, c'mon. >> like this was, was yesterday was it just me, was yesterday like one of the most boring, look at a beach in manhattan. >> a