controversial. >> i'm with you. i'm interested to see how the negotiations play out. that does it for us tonight. we will be back. for now, good night from washington. give it up for hollywood foreign press. a string of three words that would not have been better designed to infuriate our president. hollywood foreign press. it will only name that would make him angrier would be -- president trump and association shift into overdrive to do damage control over the controversial new book painting the commander in chief and white house as one of chaos. steve bannon backtracks over comments attributed to him in

the book regarding the president's oldest son. golden globes taking a different tone this year in the wake of sexual allegations that rocked hollywood. industry biggest stars and the me too movement, keeping it center stage. good morning, it's monday, january 8. i'm ayman mohyeldin. along side yasmin vossoughian and louis burgdorf. former trump strategist steve bannon is pledging loyalty to administration after days of condemnation and patrons for harshly critical remarks published in a book. refrained commented which he originally called treasonous and unpatriotic. stating donald trump jr. as patriot and good man. comments were aimed at pal manafort with experience and

knowledge of how the russians operation. he should have known their duplicitous, kuning and n cunni friends. i regret that my delay in responding to inaccurate reporting regarding don jr. has diverted attention from the president's historical accomplishments in first year as presidency. this as steven miller denounced former colleague. watch this. >> it's tragic and unfortunate that steve would make these grow task comments so out of touch with reality and affable so v vindicti vindictive. whole white house staff is upset about the comments. reads like an angry vindictive person spouting off to highly unicredited author. all these so call geniuses in washington. the only person calling themself

a genius in the last week is the president. >> happens to be a true statement. self made billionaire who revolutionized tv. >> you can be condescending. i'm not being condescending. it's a snide remark. he's watching and he's network. you can be as condescending as you want. you can have 24/7. my point is steve bannon. >> you can have. >> enforce the president's travel ban. >> i'm so glad you brought that up. >> that is one of the make the news in the book. >> steven. >> it went on like that for a couple more minutes. reported thad miller refused to leave the set and actually had to be escorted off by security and president trump tweeted his approval. fake news cnn, just got destroyed in his interview with steven miller of the trump

administration. watch the hatred and fairness of the cnn flunk. it was interesting to see donald trump reinforce steven miller is of the trump administration. reminding everyone. president trump commented on mental health as well. early morning tweets on saturday. claiming now that russian collusion after one year of intense setting has proven to be a total hoax on the american public, the democrats and their lap dogs, fake news mainstream media are taking out the old ronald reagan play book and screaming meant stability and intelligence. goes on, actually throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being really smart. crooked hillary clinton played these cards really hard and went down in flames. i went from very successful businessman to top tv star to president of the united states on my first try. i think that would qualify as not smart, but genius and very stable genius at that.

the president did not stop there. speaking at his example david retreat with cabinet members and congressional leaders challenging the new book that quote staff members describe his behavior as child like. >> this morning you were tweeting about your mental state. why did you feel the need to tweet about that this morning. >> only because i went to the best colleges, or college. i went to a -- i had a situation i was have very excellent student. came out and made billions and billion of dollars. became one of the top business people. went to television and for ten years was a tremendous success as you probably have heard. ran for president one time and won. and then i hear this guy that does not know me. doesn't know me at all. by the way, did not interview me. said he interviewed me for three hours in the white house. didn't exist. his imagination. >> okay. shortly after declaring himself a genius, president trump tweeted out part of an opinion

column accomplished in the new york post on sunday. however he misquoted a vital part reading quote, he's turning out to an enormously consensual presidency. that was deleted and updated to read. his is turning out to be enormously consequent presidency. >> fire and fury like fine and functional. in addition to the own self defense of mental fitness, a number of cabinet members took to t to the airwaves over the weekend to defend. including mime pompei who had this to say on fox news. >> those statements are just absurd. just pure fantasy. my personal experience. i was with the president yesterday. camp david and with him almost every day. we talk about some of the most serious matters facing america and the world. complex issues.

the president is engaged. he understands the complexity. he asks really difficult questions of our team at cia so we can provide him the information he needs to make good informed policy decisions and i've watched him do that. >> even ambassador nikki haley weighed in on the matter with george. >> as much everyone wants to talk about stability. was he unstable when he passed the tax reform. was he unstage whble when we pu north korea on notice. was he unstable when he said we need to look at iran because this is getting to be a dangerous situation. coming up on morning joe, michael wolff, author of the new book, which that has create sod much controversy will join the conversation. joining us from washington, daniel litman, co-author. very good to talk to you this morning. very not the first time we heard

the accusations of mental stability with the president and fitness all around. we heard it from democrats, fellow republican bob corker as well. is there sort of a growing movement or growing force in washington or is it sort of largely being written off. his mental stability? >> i think you're going to see more calls for a psychiatric elevati evaluation of trump. if there's a democratic wave in november, then this could be a big issue. you've already had a psychiatrist brief a number of democrats and even a republican senator on trump's mental health. and i think a lot of people view what's in the book and they say this raises real alarm bells.

what would happen if we face a situation with north korea? would trump be too trigger happy and not read the information presented to him to make an informed decision. >> let me ask you really quickly about steve bannon because he's had in the past 48 hours or so even less than that, in the last 24 hours, what seems to be not everyone is saying an apology or krark i characterizing it as an apology. steven miller had viewpoints. once a close bannon ally. is his relationship with the white house completely damaged. are you seeing a way he can make his way back into the fold. >> i think it's permanent with trump's relationships. he's talked to former enemies in the past. it's going to take a long time for bannon to rebuild his relationship with trump. he also has to rebuild that

relationship with the mercers who have long backed him. even took away his security detail they had been paying for and there are questions about whether bannon will continue as the head of breitbart because the mercers play an important role in funding that site and doing to be under pressure from trump to get rid of tv guy completely. >> i'm reminded bid it's not exactly the same. reminded by the harsh words mitt romney said about donald trump and to bury the hatchet. >> we could see this over and over again. mitch mcconnell and his relationship with him. not the same thing. >> lindsey graham too. >> exactly. >> life in washington. check in a little bit later in the program. amid all the talk on the mental state, president trump says he's open to having a phone conversation with north korean leader kim jong-un. >> are you willing to engage in phone talks with kim jong-un right now. >> sure. i always believe in talking. >> do you think -- >> we have a very firm stance.

we're very firm, but i will be absolutely i would do it. no problem with that at all. >> so no prerequisites to coming to the table in talking with him. >> you may recall last spring trump said it would be a, quote, honor to meet kim jong-un. the announcement comes as south korean unification minister is set toll sit down with north korean counter part tomorrow to discuss next month's winter olympics. in addition to other topics of joint concern. trump has previously stated on multiple occasions that diplomacy and talks with pyongyang are pointless although last week he said they are a good thing in a tweet. on saturday, trump made sure to take credit for the joint korean talks. >> a lot of people have said and a lot of people have written without my rhetoric and without my stuff stance. it's not just a stance. this is what has to be done if it has to be done.

that they wouldn't be talking about olympics. they wouldn't be talking right now. right now they're talking olympics. it's a start. big start. if i weren't involved. they wouldn't be talking about olympics right now. they would be doing no talking or it would be much more serious. if we can come up was a peaceful and good solution, we're working on it with rex. we're working on it with a lot of people. if something can happen and something can come out of those talks. that would be a great thing for all of humanity. >> secretary of state, rex tillerson told the ap on friday that tomorrow's scheduled north and south korean talks are end quote, indication that the administration's pressure campaign is working. >> last night, the 75th annual golden globes held in los angeles. included three billboards for best picture, drama and lady bird for best picture and musical or comedy. big little lies also took home a number of awards. including best limited

television series, lead actress, best supporting actress and actor. also overshadowed by the allegations of sexual misconduct that has rocked hollywood over the past several month. s celebrities wore black. some brought social activists as dates. show support of me too movement and victims of substance abuse. spoke out against sexual misconduct and highlighted me too. >> i want all the girls watching here now to know that a new day is on the horizontal. and when that new day finally dawns, when nobody ever has to say many too again. >> absolutely powerful moment from oprah. i think everybody has been talking about it since. >> i actually watched it again this morning on my way to work. because it was so incredible. everything she had to say.

so many good messages there. the woman who started the many too movement over a decade ago. it wasn't a hashtag. she accompanied michelle williams there. had her on the network. she's an incredible person inside that movement as well. >> louis, quickly, me and yasmin have kids. we don't make it out to the movies. have you seen any of the movies that have won. >> i have not yet. i have a fan of big little lies. i did watch that show and really liked it. >> i want to see lady bird. >> sounds amazing. thanks a lot lewis. playoff football gets underway. first group of teams face off in wild card weekend. all the highlights and who is moving on to divisional playoffs. bad to worse. stranded travelers face more delays after a pipe burst flooding one terminal. those stories and a check on the weather when we come back.

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in the midwest, cars sliding off the road. officials in chicago had to shutdown an entire street as icicles dangled from the city high-rise. in boston. firefighters working around the clock. battling flames with icy equipment. >> the weather conditions is certainly complicated the problem. still some took it in stride. enjoying the snow. researchners mount washington, might have felt like 94 degrees below zero, but that wasn't enough to literally burst their bubble. >> nice little science experiment. thanks to morgan for the report. with that get a check on the weather now with bill karins. bill, hopefully the big thaw is coming soon because i think everyone is about done with this cold. >> we started it yesterday. in areas of the midwest. it's going to arrive on the east coast. temperatures warming up. chicago just went above freezing

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welcome back. i'm yasmin vossoughian. alongside ayman mohyeldin and louis burgdorf. bottom of the hour. start with the top stories. president trump and administration spent much of the weekend continuing attack against the new book that laid out shocking allegations about the president and state oi f affairs inside the administration. >> author of the book also out this weekend defending the book and discussing allegations about possibly removing the president from office. nbc kelly o'donnell has more. brutal cold on the president's return from camp

david. while a fighting wind blew across twitter. >> i have to put up with a fake book written by a totally is dis cred discredited author. meet the press, author michael wolff made a striking assertion that senior white house officials regularly discussed constitutional procedures to remove a president. >> 25th amendment. they didn't bring up the 25th amendment. >> yes. >> 25th amendment is a concept that is alive every day in the white house. >> the book's fallout and mr. trump's response has made addressing the president's mental fitness an essential question. >> i'm with the president nearly every day. we engage in complex conversations about some of the most weighty matters facing the world. >> more blunt assessment from senator lindsey graham. >> i don't think he's crazy. i think he's had a very

successful 2017. >> ousted trump adviser steve bannon gave the access. writes bannon accused the preside president's son of treasonous conduct with a russian lawyer. >> he saw this white house as dysfunctional in part, large part because it was being run by the president's family. >> after the president cast him aside, bannon backed out. with an indirect apology. a regret that might delay in responding to the inaccurate responding regarding don junior has diverted attention from the president's historical accomplishments. wolff defended his journalistic methods and alarming portrait of the president. >> this book is not about my view of donald trump. it is about the view of all of the people closest to him. >> thanks to kelly o'donnell for that report. coming up on morning joe,

michael wolff, author of the book that has created so much controversy will join joe and mika. >> after publication of harsh comments. former white house strategist steve bannon is pledging allegiance to the president. just days after the financial patrons distanced themselves from him and trump labeled him as sloppy steve, we now hear from him. written statement, bannon nonsaid in part my support is unwavering for the president and his agenda. i am the only person today to conduct a global effort to preach the message of trump and trumpism. i remain ready to stand in the breach for this president's efforts to make america great again. this as bonn non's one time ally, steven miller denounced former colleague. >> i think that the president's statement on steve settles once and for all that he -- >> let's talk about that because i want to talk about that. >> to your comment he does also the president's chief strategist. one of the tragedies of this

grow tais the reality is the president is a political genius. your network has been going 24/7 with the coverage. brings a lot of joy to try to stick the knife in. page after page of page of the book is pure falls. the reason. >> president in the white house. >> jay, the reason why i want to talk about the president's experiences, what i've seen with him traveling. to meet dozens of foreign leaders with incredible work. >> you're not answering the question. >> you have 24 hours a day. >> steven, you're being. >> you're not going to give three minutes for the american people to hear the real experience. >> there's one viewer who you care about right now. and you're being -- in order to please him. i've wasted enough time. thank you steven. >> the new york daily news and business insider reported that after miller refused to leaf the

set. he had to be escorted off the interview you just saw there. president trump tweeted approval as you imagined. fake news cnn. just got destroyed in his interview with steven miller of the trump administration. watch the hatred and unfairness of the cnn flunky. >> asked the justice department to open an investigation into donald trump dossier author. grassley said in a statement. after reviewing how mr. steel conducted himself in distributing information contained in the dossier and how many stop signs the dodge ignored and use of dossier, i believe it will special counsel needs to review the matter. recommendation coming after graham doubled down on calls for independent investigation into justice department bias. >> senator you are painting a picture of a lawless department of justice and a lawless fbi. totally filled with political partisan ship. do you really believe this.

>> i believe mr. straw was a hilt hack. mr. or had a conflict of interest. wife worked for the organization that produced the dossier. if he interacted with mr. steel. that is wrong. if you're not worried about mr. straw being in charge of clinton e-mail investigation given his attitude towards the clinton and trump and what he said, i think you're blind to the fact this whole investigation needs to be looked at independently. >> so according to new reports, the justice department has reignited a probe into the clinton foundation the month long investigation which was first reported by the hill is set to be looking into whether any clinton foundation owners received favorable treatment during hillary clinton's time as secretary of state. according to "washington post" in 2015, the justice department had temporarily suspended the investigation amid tensions of the fbi department and agents about the politically charged case according to people familiar with the matter.

last month, christopher ray told congress he would not let outside forces including president trump influence investigations. >> there isn't a person on this plant that can get me to drop a properly predicated investigation or start an investigation that's not properly predicated. >> meanwhile, house intel committee chairman devin nunez announced the committee reached a deal with the justice department about outstanding document and witness request related to involvement in the trump dossier. nunez said he spoke with rod rosenstein wednesday and expects to receive the additional documents in the coming days. back with us from washington, daniel litman, coauthor of the political playbook. good to see you again. what's the appetite like for an investigation into hillary clinton and washington. how much of this is seen as sort of an effort so distract away from the russia probe. >> a lot of both democrats and moderate republicans see this as

nothing new. trump and his supporters have been talking about the clinton foundation for years. nothing has been proved on that front. what you'll see is the fbi will look at this closely. tl but unless there's evidence that comes to light, quietly wind down this investigation after they've done the interviews. if they prosecute the clinton foundation, say they're using the justice department and fbi for political purposes to bury a rival. >> let me ask you how this is being perceived by the hill and by people around the hill given the fact you have so many senators that are weighing in on what the fbi and the doj should be doing. they're weighing in on the russia probe. is this distracting congress from congress actually getting any legislation done? i think even if there were no

fbi probes of anyone, usually the year of an election of a midterm election, not much happens on capitol hill anyways because people don't want to take tough votes. it's already going to be rather difficult for a lot of republicans to stay in office in november because trump is pretty unpopular unless his approval ratings go up then you could see a democratic waive and so they just want to take defensive votes. they don't want to do anything bold. you may see something on infrastructure because building roads and bridges are pretty popular among both democrats and republicans. >> before we let you go, give us a prove of today's political play book. >> we have a first look at a memo from center for american progress. liberal group. sending it to democrats on capitol hill saying you have to stand strong on dreamers. you can't let the trump administration you know run over you with a wall. you need a clean dreamers fix.

>> all right. a lot to look out for. thanks for that. live in washington this morning. let's turn to business. two activist investors are calling on yap to study the effect s of childhood and teenage mental health in effort to make the company for socially responsible. joins us live from london. what are they asking for and how likely is it apple will comply with what they're asking for. >> well, these two investors, chain investors in the california state teachers retirement system actually own $1.5 billion worth. they do have some sway. they're asking for the company to investigate smartphone use and exact on kids. also want to provide greater control for parents when it comes to limiting screen time so young children using iphoness in an optimal manner. this is the first time the issue has been raised by investors. typically it's about the bottom line. their argument is long-term this could create a backlash from consumers and impact apple's

share price. bad news for you guys in the snap you have had is grounding flights already. another 500 flights grounded at jfk terminal four. pipe has burst. flooded three inches worth of water across rivals. forcing 500 flights to cancel. in fact the only winner i can see coming out of the cold weather is you, louis. i gather the new york post was so desperate to illustrate the bad climate conditions they've put your unshaven face on the cover. >> i didn't think anything of it. there you go. it's out there on the cover of the northwest as my friend said. fake news. >> one more question for you here. america may run on dunkin donuts. their option for food may be significantly reduced. a lot of customers not happy about this story. what more can you tell us? >> so they're going to be trialing this reduced menu in

pert parts of new england and upstate new york. 10% of the total menu will be impacted. less options when it comes to the afternoon in particular. for you with your new year's resolutions, don't need to worry about the loss of bagels and muffins, but the smoothes and local. >> bill o ma, never disappoint. live from london. >> can we see the up close and personal shot of louis again. you have to love that. can we bring that up again. >> there it is. print that out and save it, louis. >> great for my office. go right there. barnacles picture, my picture. >> trump administration puts new price tag at the border wall. multibillion dollar cost just part of the infrastructure. scary scene for drivers left on the road as snowstorm sweeps

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rescue thousands of drivers stranded on a highway overnight due to heavy snowfall. it will crew spent the day digging out cars from several inches of snowfall northwest of madrid. dozens of drives tweeted they had been stuck in the snow all night. no or very little help had arrived to the morning. scary situation. get a check on whether with nbc bill karins. what do you have for us. hopefully good news. >> two storms a a big thaw this week. weather pattern does change. stuck in the cold you'll like to hear that. finally getting out of the freezer. we have do have ice this morning and snow. ohio has been the brunt of it through southern portions of michigan. light icing in areas of tennessee, kentucky and north portions of georgia and alabama. again those are areas that don't get a lot of ice. little coating is trouble. temperatures have warmed up dramatically. now in the 30s in kentucky. in the 30s in chicago and detroit. now in the 20s in southern new england. yesterday at this time down in

the negative ten range. during the day that will continue. talk about the big january thaw. warmth expands first in the great lakes all the way back to the northern planes back to the four corners region. upper 30s. oklahoma. these temperatures are about 5-10 degrees below normal. kansas city hits 50 degrees. that sounds nice. notice all it will blue went away on the map. below average temperatures. even in the east going to feel mild. the temperatures are going to be where that should be for this time of year. here's the really good stuff. boston. even though it's going to be rainy. thursday, friday. not only is it going the rain. we're going to get snow melt out of that too. d.c. gets up to 60. charlotte cincinnati gets up to 62. at least by the tend of this week, everybody feels the warmth. unfortunately by the time we get to end of week, heavy rain event. backside could be a little bit of snow.

watch out st. louis. indianapolis, detroit. may have a snowstorm for you to end the week. other big story is southern california, today and tonight, about two inches of rain expected. the first rainfall in downtown la since february of last year. 11 months. >> could have used it during the fire season. >> thanks for that. north and south korea prepare to hold talks for the first time in two years. seoul for a preview of that meeting. expectation for both sides going in.

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nations have sat down face to face. those were much lower level discussions back then. is there a lot of hope riding on this? >> i think there is some hope. this is a very narrow, narrow window of opportunity. two years ago were the last talks. we had decades of failed talks or no talks. there's an ocean of mistrust between the two sides. so, these talks will proceed very, very carefully, indeed. and, in fact, they're choreographed. tomorrow morning at exactly 9:30, the five north korean delegates will cross into the demilitarized zone at exactly 10:00 in what they call the peace house. those delegates from north and south, five on each side, will begin their talks. incidentally, about 100 yards from where that north korean soldier sprinted across the border in november to defect.

now, we know what the agenda is going to be as well. it's the olympic games next month in south korea. north korea would like to send a delegation, would like to send athletes. but behind that, there's a broader agenda of interkorean relations. the south korean delegation leader said today he would like to see better relations. he would like to see, for example, humanitarian moves. so, behind the pretext of sport, there's the deeper issue of politics. president trump is saying the talks are good. he's behind them 100%. to go back to your question, ayman, people here, yeah, they're hopeful, but they're also very, very skeptical. as i say, there's a history of failure here. and they really do mistrust kim jong-un's motives. do they want to drive a wedge between south korea and the u.s.? what's he up to? great promise, great hope but great risk, too. back to you guys.

>> live for us in seoul, south korea. bill neely, thank you. ambassador nikki haley praised the bravery of protesters in iran who took to the streets. the ambassador also echoed former national security adviser michael flynn's remarks from almost a year ago, while adding her own not so veiled threat. >> the iranian regime is now on notice. the world will be watching what you do. >> her comments come as iran's revolutionary guard continues to blame the u.s., israel, saudi arabia and others for, quote, creating the protests. house of representatives are set to vote tomorrow on a resolution supporting the iranian people. much more on president trump's weekend, defending his mental health as questions over the status of it following that controversial new book on his presidency now overshadows his efforts to getting the ball roll

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welcome back, everybody. before we toss it over to "morning joe," let's talk about the stories you'll be hearing about in the day ahead. >> remarks at the american farm bureau federation's annual convention. the president will then head off to georgia where he will attend tonight's college football title game. >> speaking of the big game, alabama crimson tide are set to take on the georgia bulldogs. >> bulldogs! sorry. >> go, dogs. >> although it's expected to be a close game, the action kicks off tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> lots of controversy on the set today. >> let's go, alabama. i'm yasmin vossoughian

alongside ayman mohyeldin. >> lying ted. oh, he lies. senator ted cruz, like, dislike, like. paul ryan, you know, open borders and amnesty and lots of other -- and bad budgets, by the way. very, very bad budgets. our great speaker, paul ryan. and he is a great speaker. >> thanks. >> great job. >> i am disappointed in the attorney general. >> do you stand by jeff sessions as your attorney general? >> yes, i do. >> steve has been a friend of mine for a long time. i like steve a lot. i guess sloppy steve brought him into the white house quite a bit and that's one of those things -- so sloppy steve is now looking for a job. >> i'm confused. i would be a wreck if i was in a relationship like that. >> thel