what would you like from santa. >> wanted to follow up on tyler's question. is p isre president trump on the naughty list. >> you know, santa tries to stay out political matters. our president may have said or done a few naughty things. >> 19 accusers, google it. >> can we not? thanks. look, jessica, we can all learn a lesson from what's going on in the news. >> we sure can. i learned that if you admit you did something wrong, you get in trouble, but if you deny it, they let you keep your job. snl takes on president trump. as the me too movement says they

need to be heard. one day before alabama voters choose senator, but where was roy moore on the final weekend of campaigning, live on the ground in alabama. live protest follow president trump's jerusalem decision. now trying to convince world leaders it is the right move. how is that working out. good morning, everyone. it's monday, december 11. women who accused president trump of sexual misconduct are scheduled to hold a news conference this morning. according to press relief from brave new films, call on congress to investigate the president's alleged actions which trump and the white house deny. in an interview yesterday broke with the white house's arguments against the more than a dozen women who have accused the president of unwanted touching,

kissing, or groping. >> how do you think people should assess the accusers of the president. >> the same thing. women who accuse anyone should be heard. we dealt with them prior to the election. any woman ho has felt violated or felt mistreat instead any way, they have every right to speak up. >> does the election mean that's a settled issue. >> that's for the people to decide. i know he was elected, but women should always feel comfortable coming forward and we should all be willing to listen to them. >> nonanswer, shall we say. president trump's public statements included broadsides at the media. pouncing on cnn and areports on the russia investigation. asked if cnn would fire journalist of report that

claimed don junior was contacted by wikileaks sooner than he actually was. demanded "the washington post" reporter who apologized after a mistaken tweet that disputed the claim of a packed rally in pension cola florida. posted a photo of seats empty. very little discussion of all the purposefully false and defamatory news put out by the fake media. major lies written and forced to be withdrawn after exposed. a stain on america. the denigration of the media and rejection of numerous on the record accounts about roy moore surface in a focus group of voters in alabama. conducted by frank for vice news. take a listen. >> how many women have to come forward will ever you say wait a minute, where there's smoke, there's fire.

>> how many are not being paid or coerced to do this. >> how many do you think are being paid. >> all of them. >> all of them. >> by show of hands, how many of you think all of the women are being paid. seriously. >> to me there are only two women that maybe have a smoking gun, but you know, the women's reputations were questionable at the sometime. >> roy moore is not a miserable man. this man has more integrity than you can find in the entire congress right now. don't fall for the george sorrows assassination plan. the truth will come out. these women are going to be prooechb just like t proven just like the 16 that went against donald trump. >> kept a low profile. held no campaign events. skipped sunday church services. however, moore is getting a misunderstand from a valuable ally. none other than president trump

scheduled to release a robo call for the candidate which was released late sunday. >> if alabama elects liberal democrat doug jones, all of our progress will be stopped cold. we already know democrat doug jones is a puppet of nancy pelosi and chum schumer. he will vote with the washington liberals every single time. >> so that robo call released yesterday comes after trump stumped for moore in nearby pensecola friday evening hitting jones and moore accuser beverly young nelson. >> so did you see what happened today? you know the yearbook? did you see that? there was a little mistake made. she started writing things in the yearbook. what are we going to do? we cannot afford this country. the future of this country cannot afford to lose a seat in the very, very close united

states. we can't afford it, folks. we can't afford to have a liberal democratic who is completely controlled by nancy pelosi and chum schumer. >> so roy moore's campaign strategist said yesterday a vote for roy moore is actually a vote for trump. >> this is donald trump on trial in alabama. if the people of alabama vote for this liberal democrat, doug jones, they're voting against the president who they put in the office at the highest level. >> joining us now from midland city alabama msnbc vaughn hillyard. clarify for us about the robo call. we expect to it be released over the next 24 hours. roy moore has been noticeably absent from the campaign trail. how are voters feeling about that fact that he's not as visible. >> sure, good morning good morning. i think it's important to look

at take a step back and look at this race. one year after the election of donald trump, the presidency this is the stakes of where the campaign is at. a campaign propagated much on the conspiracy. you heard frank there pollster talking with voters suggested they believed roy moore and defended the man they've known for 30 years. when you talk to voters here on the ground over the last several days. it's still very much up in the air. many republicans as you talk to who believe the washington establishment or liberals or these accusers are being paid to some extent, they believe roy moore and when they have the president's backing and you mention that robo call will be going out today to republican homes across the state, they want to believe in the trump agenda. it's paired up with the fact their candidate is somebody who is alleged to be a pedophile. when you compare to where the race is at right now, suddenly

other option is voting for a democrat. that being doug jones who has been on the ground. we were with him this weekend. compare that to roy moore who has not been seen since tuesday. for this being the weekend before election day. usually a great get out the vote campaign effort. voters going knocking door to door. making phone calls in the candidate going all out. that was not the case for the republican in this case. he will be appearing tonight with steve bannon in midland city. a very rural part of southern alabama. >> incredible to believe this may come down to if you believe in conspiracy theories. president trump traveled to jackson, mississippi saturday to commemorate the opening of new civil rights museum there. the president's 40 minute visit included tour of tv exhibits honoring jailed and assassinated civil rights icons before making brief remarks at an event before

the hoping ceremony. not without controversy though. came after prominent african-american leaders called on the president not to attend siting attend si to insight racial provisions. a few blocks away are the mu assume and congressman john louis was one of cervical to boycott the event. new polls shows that americans who self identify as members of president trump's power. 42% of americans called themselves republicans that number is now at 37% a drop of five points. this as those describe themselves as democrats held steady at 44%. joining us from washington, daniel litman, author of political co-playbook. let's talk first about the tax bill. getting it passed would be a huge accomplishment for the republicans not necessarily popular with the voters out

there. how could this ago forinto the 2018 election sgls this could play a big role in how democrats get the majority in the house and chip away at the senate majority by republicans. they have successfully painted the bill as a give away to the rich. the messaging on this has not been great. when you have gary cohen and steve mnuchin leading the campaign on this, that is not a populist message. those guys were not you know in the heart land of trump country rallying voters. this is not a middle class tax cut as much as trump promised during the campaign. >> let me talk to you really quickly about the tax bill and republicans trying to get a spending bill sorted out with democrats by december 22 to avoid a government shutdown. how tricky is that going to be for them, do you think. i don't think democrats are going to hold this up at the end because they want to -- they saw

the lesson republicans learned which is if you shutdown the government, voters will not reward you. even if you're on the right side of the facts. democrats will probably huff and puff about dreamers. i would expect that fight to be dealt with in january even though democrats are saying they will fight right now. >> earlier i talked about how the president is calling on media outlets to fire reporter who is have made mistakes. how has that sort of react instead d.c. to this. >> i think a lot of people are basically expect trump to bash the media. he is kind of the media critic in chief. you know, to us we have paul far hee of "the washington post." he is kind of trying to assume that role. that's going to be a hallmark of his presidency for the entire four years if he serves four years. i think a lot of people are wondering, aren't there more important issues that he should focus on. isn't there middle east peace,

north korean nuclear issue. why is he talking so much about media. watches 8 hours of tv per day. that's what it will "new york times" told us over the weekend. >> i wish i had that kind of free time to watch eight hours of tv a day. >> daniel litman, talk to you again at the bottom of the hour. several hundred people have been injured in protests and clashes in the middle east that continued through the weekend following president trump's decision to recognize jerusalem of the capital of israel. at least two palestinians haves been killed. yesterday a security guard were stabbed in jerusalem. authorities are calling a terror attack. israel's defense chief has called for a boycott of arab businesses in northern israel. palestinian leader said over the weekend he will not meet with vice president mike pence during the upcoming visit and expected to reject an invitation to meet

with trump in washington. the east foreign minister said that trump's decision is quote a gift to radicalism which will be used to fan the language of hate. turkey's president erdogan a brutally outspoken person of the decision is now calling israel a terror state and child murdering country with no values other than occupation and plunder. is not contained to the middle east. verbally sparred over the decision yesterday. ahead of a meeting of netanyahu and foreign ministers. >> strong words from erdogan to say the least. more evacuations in southern california as firefighters struggle to contain fast moving wildfires. ask bill karins if the weather is going to cooperate. >> new details on the resignation of congressman frank trench what he offered add staffer to carry his child.

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now the top five largest ever in california's history. only one in top 20 ever in the month of december. unheard of to have huge wildfires like this in december in california. weather pattern won't change or yield. fire danger again today. so much. it was such a wet winter last year. everything grew. hasn't rained since february. dried out and dead. fuel for tall fire. 19 million at risk today. against still very dry. not quite as windy as it had been. 35-mile-per-hour winds is not fun and steep terrain. red flags. ventura back to los angeles, down to long beach. humidity very low. helps the fire even more. john sho on shore flow. we'll watch that and see how it developing today. 40,000 more acres to be the biggest fire in california's

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welcome back. i'm yasmin vossoughian. alongside ayman mohyeldin and louis burgdorf. richard shelby said he could not vote for roy moore. >> there's a time. we call it a tipping point. i think so many accusations, so many cuts, so many drip drip drip when it got to the 14-year-old story. that was enough for me.

i said, i can't vote for roy moore. the state of alabama deserves better. i think we've got a lot of great republicans that could have won and carried the state beautifully and served in the senate honorably. >> doug jones said i could work with you better than anybody. busy week for jones in alabama. got help from top democrats. joining jones on the campaign trail saturday to help push african-american voters to the polls on tuesday. >> i'm here to try to help to get some folk woke. those people that doesn't understand the opposite of justice is not injustice, it is indifference. it is inaction and silence. i've seen that bad people get elected when good people don't

volt. >> let's go once again to midland city alabama where msnbc vaughn hillyard is joins us. we know jones shied away from rolling out any democrat in alabama. none of them resinating with the swing voter. as we saw senator cory booker and deval patrick joining doug jones on the campaign trail, talk about the significance of this. why it is didn't choose to bring any women on board with him. >> doug jones has been very shy in thcampaign about bringing on national democrats. trying to sway republican voters to come and join him, which he's going to need cross overvoters to have any chance on tuesday. joe biden out in october. had been quiet until deval patrick and cory booker came out. 25% of the population are african-american. viewing this as opportunity for them for the first time in

really more than 10 years to have an opportunity to win a statewide race in alabama. have to felt democrats, black voters to turn out in this race. needing numbers about 25% to come out in their favor. in that point is whether they can turn focus and win republican crossover voters we'll. >> we're going to talk to you one more time tomorrow. and hopefully that's it. >> in a good way. >> hopefully that's it. >> very good way. >> until you're covering something else. new details of resignation. former aide told associated press that frank's repeatedly pressed her to carry his child. allegedly offering her $5 million to do so. asked four times if she would be willing to acts as surrogate in exchange for money. in announcing resignation. say he and his wife have

struggled with infertility. politico reports the republican allegedly made unwanted advances towards female staffers in his office, allegedly retaliated against one who rebuffed him. acknowledge of complaint against him added two female staffers were concerned that fraction was actually asking to have actual relations with him. same sources said a former staffer alleged fraction to persuade a female staffer they were in love by reading an article that described how they know they're in love with someone. >> denied the allegation just four hours after resignation friday. setting up political action committee. notice ed franks talking loudlyn the kcell phone. advocate for reforming the senate filibuster. >> when confronted by the crew,

franks did not deny the conversation on the continue tent. latest lawmaker reported to be at the center of allegations of sexual harassment. according to roll call siting unspecified documents. $220,000 of taxpayer money was used back in 2014 to settle a lawsuit brought by a former staffer of the congressional commission. she alleged she was a victim of unwelcomed sexual advances and unwelcomed touches by the florida lawmaker and claimed retaliation by the congressman and his staff. what did you do on this sunday. president trump golfed with lind sy graham. tweeted friday, quote, was there collusion between doj and fusion gps to use democrat funded dossier for legal purposes. we need to know the answers to those questions. i will be challenges rs and ds on the special committee to investigate all things 2016 not

just trump and russia. it's long past time for a special couple to investigate clinton e-mail scandal. uranium one, role of fusion gps and bias campaign. speaking at a rally on friday night. president trump said america's institutions are sick and they need change. >> it's being proven we have a rigged system. doesn't happen so easy, but this system, there's going to be a lot of changes. this is a rigged system. this is a sick system from the inside. a and, you know, there's no country like our country, but we have a lot of sickness in some of our institutions. >> joining us now from washington once again is politico's daniel litman, co-author of the politico playbook. good to have you back with us. talk about lindsey graham.

at one point he was one of the fiercest critics of president trump going back to campaign. even at times since he took office, but what should we make of this face he's now almost on every talking point with president trump about special counsel's, e-mails, fusion, gps, uranium one. >> he's like trump's biggest ally. one has to wonder what's going on here. could he be positioning himself for a possible cabinet appointment later on in this administration. maybe he wants to be secretary of defense, cia director, since people are expected to last in those jobs one or two years. that is like the only thing that people think is happening in washington. because fwrgraham's fundamental positions. he ran against in the presidential election against trump. it's hard for us to understand what is going on. >> i think the real question is how long it's actually going to last. we've seen before there's two weeks of love then there's some

other fallout, a lot of times, on twitter. we saw three members of congress resigns last week over sexual misconduct allegations. is there a sense of the hill this is just the beginning and more is to come. >> reporter: i think when you have 535 people in congress, the vast majority of them men, it would reason to expect that bunch of them have skeletons in the closet. once you get that congressional pin, you know, then you feel sometimes that you have license to get whatever you want. this culture of sexual harassment on the hill has been going on for decades and i think a lot of people expect that you need all of these allegations to come out for the next generation of senators and congressman to understand that's not okay. you should go to washington to do the public's business and not try to get grabby with your interns and young staffers.

>> daniel very quickly before you go. give us a sneak peek of today's playbook. >> we have a piece from josh green from bloomberg business week. he's looking at the role o steve bannon and reviving roy moore's candidacy. bannon has gone all in and so moore wins tomorrow, that would be a very big feather in the cap of bannon. show the right wing conservative media can really revive someone who the rest of the washington press corp. thought was left for dead after these allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls. >> as we mentioned, bannon making one final push alongside moore today. >> it's like they're running together. bannon is a running mate, basically. >> daniel litman, live in washington, d.c., thank you. the joke raising eyebrows ahead of the vote. and bitcoin takes a step towards increasing legitimacy as the

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potential fed rate hike coming down the pike. >> absolutely. so all eyes on the all-important december rate hike from the fed. more than price instead at this juncture. people are expecting them to go for the hike. it will be determined by inflation. we saw in the non-payroll tax. the wage data was a little underwomening coming in. tells you perhaps in the feature the fed may want to be a little more timid. back to you, louis. >> live from london. thanks so much. get a check on the weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> over the weekend we had the snow event started in the deep south on friday. went up to northeast on friday. by the way we saw snow in florida with the storm too. some areas of alabama and also north georgia got a ton. there's the welcome to florida sign. a lot of palm trees with snow shots on them from texas all the way through the gulf coast.

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the president did the will of the people. when it comes to those that are upset well, knew that was going happen, but courage does cause that when you make decision, yoe going to have some that see it negatively and you're going to have some that see it positively. i strongly believe this will move the ball forward for the peace process. >> ambassador nikki haley defending president trump's decision to move the embassy to jerusalem. the decision was universally condemned by the 14 other members of the u.n., protests and violations throughout the middle east. joining us live from jerusalem, nbc chief global correspondent, bill neely. give us an update if you can of where the situation is on the ground, where things are going forward from here. >> reporter: yeah.

good morning, ayman. interestingly, no street protests in jerusalem for the past 48 hours. some scattered skirmishes on the west bank and one stabbing yesterday where a palestinian attacked an israeli guard and seriously injured him. but basically the three days of rage, those street skirmishes that we saw across 20 or 30 locations, that seems to have fizzled out. the momentum seems to be draining away from that. the dilemma for the palestinians is what do they hope to achieve by this beyond a show of protests? can they possibly hope to reverse president trump's decision? i think, of course, the answer is no. diplomatically, israelis and palestinians have been trying to rally world opinion. benjamin netanyahu at the moment is in brussels, meeting european foreign leaders. he praised president trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and called

on foreign leaders to follow suit that. simply is not going to happen. those leaders have made it quite clear that they think the decision is unhelpful and does not advance the cause of peace that netanyahu had a similar meeting yesterday with the french president, emmanuel macron, saying that jerusalem had been the capital of the jewish people for jeeyears. diplomatically, i think the palestinians have a problem, mahmoud abbas says he's not going to meet vice president mike pence when he visits here next week. both the palestinian street protests and on the diplomatic front they do have a problem.

how can they possibly reverse this decision? what really is their goal? ayman? >> the diplomatic efforts to isolate the u.s., plo representative in washington, d.c. yesterday was on my program and told us that the two-state solution as mediated by the united states is effectively dead. it's time for a third party to join. it could be france as bill was talking about. bill neely live for us in jerusalem. sawed a arabia has come out against the jerusalem decision as well, warning of, quote, dangerous consequences. now the white house has issued a stern warning to riyad that the u.s. may cut off funding. on the other end of the spectrum in the latest in a string of socially minded reforms saudi arabia has announced that movie theaters will be reopened after

being banned in the 1980s. breaking news, president vladimir putin making a surprise visit to syria earlier today where he met with assad at a military base there. putin ordered the withdrawal of russian troops from syria, announcing that russia and syria, quote, have destroyed one of the most capable terror groups. nbc news has currently not independently verified this report. coming up on "morning joe," much more on president trump's weekend spent on the attack, going after one of his favorite targets. you know it, the media. what it may mean for a government funding plan and his tax bill with little time left. the count is on as alabamnsa prepare to head to the polls. what it may mean for moore's chance of winning. "morning joe" moments away.

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before we toss it over to "morning joe," let's check on the stories you'll be hearing about ahead. >> we begin at the white house with nbc news' hallie jackson.

she's there for a look at the day ahead for president trump. hallie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. president trump is back at white house after that weekend in mar-a-lago. you've got the deadline next friday to avoid a government shutdown. but also something that the president has been tweeting about which is this tax cut bill. he and republicans in congress are hoping for a big win with this. right now, early this week. today, tomorrow and an open meeting wednesday. lawmakers, staffers are trying to figure out how to square the house version of the bill with the senate version. both cut corporate tax rates, both benefit the wealthy more than the middle class. there are some serious sticking points, whether to make individual tax cuts permanent or temporary. you've got questions about where that corporate tax cut will end up, what the rate will actually be. all of it, by the way, against the backdrop of what may be an even bigger political story at

the moment. at least today. that's happening down in alabama. the president recording that robo call over the weekend for roy moore. his most direct involvement in that alabama senate race yet. with polls opening tomorrow morning, you can bet a lot of folks in d.c. and that west wing will be talking about the race. lewis, back to you. >> thanks to hallie jackson for that report. >> last day of campaigning for alabama senate special election, embattled candidate roy moore is expected to hold a drain the swamp rally in midland city later today. his democratic opponent doug jones will be in mobile, holding a get out of the vote rally held by women for doug jones. 75th golden globes will honor the best work in television and film, of course. winners will be announced next month when seth meyers hosts the golden globe awards on our sister network nbc.

i'm yasmin vossoughian along with ayman mohyeldin and lewis bergdorf. "morning joe" starts right now. we call it a tipping point. so many accusations, so many cuts, so many drip, drip, drip. when it got to the 14-year-old's story, that was enough for me. i said i can't vote for roy moore. the state of alabama deserves better. i think we've got a lot of great republicans that could have won and cared for the state beautifully and served in the senate honorably. >> that's something you don't see every day. >> yeah. richard shelby saying yesterday he could not vote for roy moore and instead wrote in a distinguished republican name. democrat doug jones seized upon shelby's comments, quote, i can work with senator shelby better tan roy moore can work with anybody. good morning. it is monday, december 11t