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we begin with president donald trump who is now blaming senator dick durbin for blowing a possible immigration deal, raising the risk of a government shutdown. yesterday afternoon, the president wrote in another disparaging tweet, senator dicky durbin totally misrepresented what was said at the daca meeting. senator durbin stands by his claims about the president's vulgar and many say racist remarkers during closed door immigration talks last thursday. that's in contrast to the shifting stories from tom cotton and david purdue. friday, they claimed they didn't recall what was said inside that meeting with the president, but by saturday, they outright denied that the president actually made those remarks. >> republican senator lindsay graham is standing by his story telling the post and courier, quote, my memory has not evolved. i said what was said and i know what i said.

graham says he responded to the president's remarks by telling him america is an idea, not a race. here is a senator yesterday imploring the president to get serious and strike a deal. the discourse right now is pretty low. we're producing some good policy. buts those of us in our business need to up their game. it's pretty embarrassing when you have to take your children out of the room just to report the news. so the only thing i can do is control me. the only way you're going to fix the problem in washington is to get a bipartisan solution and i urge the president to lead us to that bipartisan solution. mr. president, close the deal. it's going to take you, mr. president, working with republicans and democrats to get this done. it's not going to be done on twitter by tweeting. it's going to be done by talking and understanding.

>> new reporting from "the washington post" provides more context into why the talks have been so difficult, citing more than a dozen white house officials, capitol hill aides and lawmakers, the paper reports, quote, trump's ping-ponging from deal making to feuding from elation to furry has come to define his combativeness and his willingness to suddenly change his position. a shutdown fight is looming on capitol hill, and there are several sticking points that lawmakers face in their efforts to keep the government open. congress must reach an agreement on a budget plan before midnight on friday before funding is set to run out. democrats argue if republicans want their cooperation on a spending bill, it must include a deal with d.r.e.a.m.ers.

others include spending caps. but they're divided over defense spendinging and nondefense spending. disaster aid, lawmakers disagree on a disaster aid package for texas, florida and other areas hit by hurricanes last year. and then there's health programs. and that includes funding for community health centers and c.h.i. the children's health insurance program. according to "the washington post," aids from key negotiators have both parties are expected to meet the today to rekindle talks they're expected to discuss plans for a stopgap spending measure tonight. an undocumented u.s. immigrant who called the u.s. home for 30 years was deployed yesterday. jorge garcia, accompanied by two immigration and customs enforcement agents said good-bye to his wife and two teenage kids. the detroit free press indicates

garcia was brought to the u.s. by a family member when he was just 10 years old. though facing an order of removal since 2009, he received stays to remain in the u.s. under the obama administration. however, due to the trump administration's crackdown on immigration, garcia was ordered to return to mexico last november. garcia, who has no criminal record and pays his taxes every year is too old to stay in the u.s. under daca. president trump spent martin luther king jr. day at his west palm beach golf club. the white house has not confirmed whether trump was playing golf during his time at the club, but many criticized the visit after trump on friday encouraged americans to spend the day servinging their

communities to honor king's work. trump refrained from tweeting about the day of remembrance. however, he did retweet his weekly address where he spoke about king's legacy. so as the investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 is election continues, several of trump's current and former associates are expected to appear before congress. the house intelligence committee is expected to question white house communications director hope hicks as early as this week. former white house chief strategist steve bannon, he's expected to appear before the same committee in the closed session later today. former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski confirmed over the weekend that he expects to speak to lawmakers this week, as well. >> so the house intelligence committee sent me a letter asking me to voluntarily come in and have a conversation about what i know. what i responded to them was i'll be happy to come in and sit down. i have nothing to hide. i didn't collude or cooperate or coordinate with any russian,

russian agency, russian government or anybody else to try and impact this election. >> in that interview, lewandowski expects to appear thursday or friday of this week. >> sara, good to talk with you this morning. is there any sort of anxiety coming from the white house about what bannon may or may not say? >> well, certainly there may be a bit of anxiety just because steve bannon is a loose cannon at the moment. he's not in touch with anyone in the white house. he is not on good terms with the president and has no incentive at this moment to necessarily protect the president or any white house aides and their interests because they have hung him out to dry following his comments to michael wolff. so bannon's testimony is certainly a potential concern for the white house. but keep in mind that bannon didn't come into the campaign until very late so he wasn't present even though he made some incendiary comments the about that meeting at trump tower in july between donald trump jr. and a lawyer thought to be

connected to the kremlin at the time. bannon wasn't present on the campaign so he wouldn't the necessarily have the kind of knowledge that would potentially lend itself to a bombshell, but he was president in the white house when they were scrambling to come up with some sort of statement to respond to the news of that meeting breaking. so there are certain elements that bannon would be able to speak to with credibility and others where he may not be able to speak to with as much light. >> i want to ask you about president trump the putting the blame for daca on democrats, particularly as he referred to him dicky durbin saying he blew it. is this, in fact, a done deal now that daca has been effectively destroyed or is there still a possibility for a deal to be reached by the end of this week? what are you hearing? >> i think the white house and republicans have been pushing to uncouple daca from the spending talks for a reason and it's to avoid the exact situation they're in right now with a gun to their heads. they don't necessarily have all

the cards in their hands right now. democrats have a little bit of leverage in terms of time because this is a very sympathetic group of people, the so-called d.r.e.a.m.ers protected by daca. republicans have expressed interests in protecting them as well as democrats. they're hard pressed to come up with a deal by the end of the week, but remember that daca doesn't actually expire until march. so republicans have been advocating to uncouple these two policy areas, give themselves more time to negotiate, because clearly right now the error is to polarize with the comments the president made. they're too far apart on a deal to begin with and we're mott just talking about daca, we're talking about chain migration, border security and potentially even funding for the wall. these are all elements that mead to be negotiated with a lot of care. >> yeah. a lot to deal with the shutdown looming just a couple of days away. >> four days to go. >> sara westwood, we're going to talk to you again in a little bit. thank you. >> thank you.

a frightening story in southern california. a mother and father are behind bars after being accused of torturing their 13 children. their 17-year-old daughter escaped from the family's home and called 911. when officers arrive, they say they found siblings, some bound and chained in what appeared to be a dungeon-like condition. miguel almaguer has more. >> this is the home where authorities say 13 brothers and sisters were held captive by their parents. inside, several of the children discovered shackled to their beds with chains and padlocks. their parents, david the and louise turpin are in custody after detectives say their 17-year-old daughter escaped from the home and called 911 to say her 12 brothers and sisters were being held captive in this middle class suburb shock and disbelief. >> crazy. you never know who your neighbors are. >> when the riverside county sheriff's department entered the

paris, california, home, they described foul smelling surroundings and what they thought was a dozen kids inside. investigators now say seven of the victims are the turpins' adult children, ranging in age from 18 to 29. they were to so emaciated, they were mistaken for kids. >> who knew that this was going on. if we had known, we would have turned this in a lot sooner. describing the victims as very dirty and starving, they were taken to local hospitals. their parents were booked into county jail. facing charges of torture and child endangerment, their bail is set at $9 million each. miguel almaguer, nbc news, los angeles. >> those poor children. so incredibly tragic. >> and yet so many commence about how this could have happened, the neighbors not knowing. >> unbelievable. still ahead, new polling is taking a look at president trump's job performance one year

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welcome back, everybody. one year into donald trump's presidency and his approval rating has tumbled. the latest gallop poll shows trump's approval rating down at 38%, down almost %. his disapproval is up 10 points, polling almost 5 %. meanwhile, americans are divided on their satisfaction with the direction of the country. 61% of republicans say they are satisfied with the country's direction which gallop says is the highest level polled among the party since february of 2007. 30% of independents are satisfied, up 10 points since

october of last year and only 6% of democrats say they are satisfied with the country's direction which gallop says is a trump era low. defense secretary jim massis says there is no indication north korea reacted to that false ballistics missile alert over the weekend in hawaii. speaking with the reporters en route to the summit, mattis added that it doesn't appear that peongyang or seoul used the channel to confirm if a missile was fired. recent talks between north and south korea which focused on next month's olympics is a possible indicator. although he hedges that it is still too early to the tell their full impact. meanwhile, chinese president xi had a conversation with

president trump last night and xi told trump that the positive changes and hard earned easing of tensions on the korean peninsula must continue. let's get a check on your weather from meteorologist bill karins. we have snow and ice, not a lot of it, but it's going to impact a lot of areas. >> and so many people, too. we're about up to 103 million people. that's a little under a third of the u.s. population with a winter weather advisory or winter storm warning. new orleans was just included in this. pensacola, mobile. so when we start talking about the south and you talk about an icing event and a little bit of snow, that's when you get some big impacts. new england will get the heaviest snow. here comes the arctic air. we're now down to 24 in dallas. just went below freezing had in san antonio. houston is shortly going to go below freezing, too. we're still oak this morning. new orleans to mobile. the best chance for any little

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welcome back, everybody. it is the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top stories. a mother and father are behind bars in southern california this had morning after being accused of torturing their 13 children. their 17-year-old daughter escaped from the family's home

and called 911. when officers arrived, they say they found the siblings, some bound and chained in what appeared to be a dungeon-like condition. meanwhile, officials in southern california say at least three people remain missing following the deadly mudslides there. the death toll now stands at 20. separately, they hope to have the 101 freeway open next monday as crews remove tons of mud and debris from the freeway. and several of trump's associates are expected so appear in front of congress. meanwhile, steve bannon is expect expected to meet with the house intel committee later today. president trump continues to reject accusations that he is a racist in the wake of his allegedly disparaging comments

about haiti and several other african nations. >> the alleged remarks throw yet another hurdle in the way of the daca negotiations with just days to go until the friday deadline. nbc news chief white house correspondent hallie jackson has more on this. >> as the president's cabinet honors a man who spent his life fighting intolerance, the president himself is battling questions about whether he's racist. >> no, i'm not a racist. i am the least racist person you have ever interviewed. that i can tell you. >> donald trump, ending his holiday weekend if in palm beach on his way back from his golf club passing demonstrators waves haitian flags. it's more fallout from those oval office comments in which the president, during an immigration meeting, reportedly favorably compared people from norway to people from countries like haiti. top democrat dick durbin is standing by his initial statement that the president at the time called african nations

s-holes. >> when he denied saying it, it felt duty-bound to clarify foye what actually happened. >> that is earning the senator a new nickname from mr. trump, dicky durbin totally misrepresented what was being said. the president has backup from two republican allies also in the room who just last week said they didn't remember the moment in question. >> i didn't hear it. >> i'm telling you, he did not use that word. >> another rern who was there, lindsay graham, would not go that far. >> it's pretty embarrassing when you have to take your children out of the room just to report the news. >> this comes at a critical time when a breakdown in championship might shut down the government. a majority of my caucus, myself included, we will not fund the government without a daca deal. >> thanks to hallie jackson for

what report. republican senator jeff flake is set to give a speech to the senate today. he previewed parts of the speech over the weekend when he appeared to compare jump's treatment of the media to that of joseph stalin. >> you compare in the speech president trump to joseph stalin by calling the free press, quote, the enemy of the people. >> well, i'm saying he borrowed that phrase. it was popularized by joseph stalin, used by mao, as well, enemy of the people. it should be noted that khruschchev who followed stalin forbade its use saying that was too loaded, that it maligned a whole group or class of people and it shouldn't be done. i don't think we should be using a phrase that's been rejected as too loaded by a soviet dictator. >> now, flake took to twitter to clarify yesterday writing, quote, there is no comparison between potus and stalin. stalin was a monoical killer.

>> and a democratic challenger to house speaker paul ryan's seat in wisconsin is garnering attention for his fund-raising totals. randy bryce raised $1.2 million at the end of last year according to reporting from milwaukee journal sentinel. the union ironworker and military veteran sat down yesterday to talk about his fund-raising and whether the -- whether when he supports efforts to impeach the president. here is an excerp the t from that interview. why do you think you're raising so much money? >> well, because people had enough in this country of what our leadership is actually not doing. and especially somebody in speaker ryan's position who is going to be the top republican that's going to be taken outcome this upcoming november. people are seeing this, resistance is very real. people have had enough of where the president is taking us and

we're tired of not having a congress that's acting as a check and balance to standing up to him. >> are you running on impeaching him? >> i am in favor of that. i have said i am in favorite of that. >> while brice's campaign cash far exceeds his challenger, it will likely be dwarfed by ryan's who is said to have $10 million in cash on hand. >> back with us now, sara westwood. sara, let's talk about the idea of impeachment. talked to al green over the weekend who is raising this idea once again, the first time that he raised impeachment, it was tabled. where do democrats stand in support or not in support of this, especially ahead of the midterms? well, we've seen impeachment talks come in fits and starts depending on what controversy president trump is embroiled in. it's something that could potentially have a backlash because it has the ability to mobilize the republicans to get out and vote, to defend president trump even when they may not be excited about the accomplishments that president trump has delivered to them.

and it runs the risk of repeating some of the mistakes that democrats made in 2016 when they were positioned to take the white house and the senate and they failed to do either because they focused in part so much on their opposition to president trump, then candidate trump, and not enough on what they stood for as a party if impeachment becomes a central focus of the midterms. the democrats do risk falling into that same hole ifto they'r not focusing on their main message. >> let me ask you about how tricky of a spot republicans are findlinging themselves in, particularly those who are running when it comes to distancing themselves from president trump's controversial comments versus trying to celebrate the accomplishments of a tax bill which polls suggest was not very popular with the with american public. >> well, that is a balancing act, so i think that will be fought district by district and state by state. there are some republicans running in districts where president trump remains popular

and i think they will embrace president trump. they have to reason to run away from him if their constituents are happy with what the president is doing. in other districts, i think you're seeing republicans retiring rather than run in the districts that hillary clinton won or trying to distance themselves from president trump's controversies, but not necessarily the tax bill because in a lot of districts, there will be people who see their wages go up between now and election day and republicans will want to highlight the fact that they're the ones who brought that home. let's turn to trump's relationship with his own party. you have one republican senator refuting the president's claims that he did not speak in an offensive way about other countries. you have another senator about to give a speech comparing trump's treatment to the press to stalin. is there any effort inside the white house to sort of mend fences within the gop or is it just sort of strengthening the resolve of president trump? >> well, i think we have seen a little bit of that fence mending going on with the white house.

we saw a detante of sorts between president trump and bob corker. corker is someone who was critical of president trump but who flew down to tennessee with president trump just a few days ago, stood by his side at an agriculture rally. senator lindsey graham, aside from that moment about whether president trump did or did not say those comments in the oval office has been someone who went from being critical of president trump to usually defending him on most areas. so we -- i think the white house recognizes that republicans need to present a united front to have a chance of making it through this grueling midterm season. >> sara westwood live for us in washington, d.c., thanks for joining us. >> thank you. counterintelligence officials reportedly warned jared kushner over his close relationship with wendy dang moisture dodd. the warning came early last year. the journal says officials told kushner that murdoch, prominent

chinese american businesswoman could be using her ties with him and his wife, ivanka trump, to further the interests of the chinese government. the paper adds counterintelligence officials did not provide details about their assessment of murdoch. the journal says the warning to kushner was part of annest by national security officials to raise his awareness about the need to be careful with his interactions with people given his new role in the government. neither murdoch, kushner or trump have been accused of wrongdoing. the $100 million project has reportsedly been declared a national security risk due to a tall tower that's part of the design which intel officials worry could be used for surveillance. let's turn now to business authorities in china escalating their crackdown on cryptocurrencies, following the announcement of a bitcoin issue.

bill joins us live from london. break it down for once these new steps that china is taking and do officials have different motivations for their decisions than regulators in other country? obviously, had is going to impact the price of bitcoin and other crypto currencies. >> last year, they banned crypt toe currency exchanges. now it seems based on this report out over the last few hours is clamp down on exchange-like services through the web and through apps. it's been a very active market for bitcoin in china. it's the largest country in terms of bitcoin mining. so this has been a bit of a price shock. we've seen bitcoin down as well as 14% this morning. authorities there focus on tax evasion, money laundering and what might make it slightly unique. although their neighbors in south korea concerned about that. in the words of the south korean finance minister, it is an irrational craze. we're watching the u.s. senate where democrats say they have up

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the embattled missouri governor is involved in ongoing blackmail allegations. his tax proposal was supposed to be the main policy goal in his second year in office. an event page that reportedly listed six events for greitens now lists nothing.

this comes after a report by a local tv station about his 2015 affair before he was governor. that report included allegations that he took salacious photos of his mistress as blackmail to keep her from speaking out. greitens attorney has denied the allegations, but the prosecutor announced late last week that her office will investigate. and the bitter cold in parts of the country have created ice jams. in connecticut, this ice jack is about a mile long and 12 feet deep. at least three homes have been evacuated and a major road has been closed in both directions as a result of that jam. it's unbelievable to think that is in connecticut. it looks like an ice field. let's get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist

bill karins. >> it's a big storm, but not intelligence storm, thankfully. i mean, so many people have been impacted by a little bit of snow and a little bit of sleep and a little bit of ice. winter storm warnings from san antonio, paducah, kentucky, 4 inches of snow on the ground overnight. the winter storm warnings have been issued for areas of new england. the greatest concern now, san antonio just went down to 32 degrees and now precipitation is moving back in. that means it's either going to be sleet or freezing rain. it's going to be very icy here in south texas as we go through the morning. i mentioned the snow through kentucky and tennessee. that the drive between memphis and nashville is completely snow covered. and just light snow through pennsylvania. let me give you the timing on it here. this is at 8:00 a.m. this morning. as we go throughout the day, it fills in a little bit through central pennsylvania and through west virginia over the the

mountains. by the time we go through tomorrow morning, this is when it really starts to snow harder over areas of central new england. then by tomorrow evening, it's just about all gone. so the morning commute in the northeast is going to be the worst tomorrow at this time. and then the worst this morning is through kentucky, memphis, all the way down to southern portions of texas. and the snowfall map, 1 inch in louisiana is a big deal. shreveport, alexandria. then tomorrow, heavier snow in areas of north carolina, 2 to 4 inches b and this pink is 4 to 6 for a good portion of central and northern new england. new york city is one of the harder forecasts because it's going to go from snow to sleet over to a period of rain. so cutting the totals down. >> it will be a beautiful day in new york city. >> bundle up, stay inside. >> i've got to say, new york during snow is beautiful. new york after snow -- exactly, when it all starts to melt and gets really dirty. >> yeah. still ahead, china's president speaks with president trump over the ongoing efforts

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welcome back, a new commentary in north korean state media goes after president trump's recent twitter proclamation that he has a bigger nuclear button than kim jong un, calling the tweet a quote surpass. of a lunatic. it comes as trump and china's president xi had a phone call last night to discuss the state

of the north korean situation. the recent talks between pyongyang and seoul. >> joining us live to break it down, nbc news correspondent. what's china's view of the ongoing discussions? what is china saying about the talks between the north and the south? >> china's president told president trump that there has been positive changes in the situation on the korean peninsula. and xi also urged that all sides should continue the momentum. it's not that china is outrightly taking credit for the progress, but there is some subtext here, that china believes the mutual standown looks a lot like the freeze for freeze that its been promoting. the call happened just ahead of an international summit in vancouver. co-hosted by the u.s. and canada, bringing together 18 nations to discuss the nuclear

threat. the view from beijing is that the vancouver talks are pointless, because they don't include china. north korea's largest trading partner. the view here is it's a way for the u.s. to manipulate other countries, to bring them on board or to enforce the maximum pressure campaign of sanctions. there was an editorial in one of the newspapers that said that the meeting is quote nothing but ulterior motives and having little authority. there are critics that do agree with the view, that it's hard to talk about stronger sanctions or cracking down on smuggling. if you don't have north korea's economic lifeline as a partner at the table? >> janice mackey live for us in china. filipino president duterte shut down an online news publication critical of him. it claims that the news site is in violation of a constitutional

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ask your doctor about entresto. and help make tomorrow possible. welcome back. before we toss it to "morning joe," let's check the stories you'll be hearing about. we start in the white house with nbc news' hallie jackson for a look at what's on tap for president trump and lawmakers in washington. >> good morning to you. this morning washington frankly is one day closer to a potential government shutdown with the a big deadline coming up friday to come to a spending deal. members of congress are getting

back to town with their work cut out for them. new fallout from the president's overall office comment. the comment in question vulgar, according to top democrat dick durbin has created potential problems for coming to deal on friday. democrats digging in, hoping to tie any budget deal to protection for so-called d.r.e.a.m.ers. those undocumented younger immigrants protected under daca. the question is, can it get done by friday or might there be something longer-term, a sort of punt that extends the deadline another couple months when it comes to immigration protections, lots of negotiations happening. as we hear for the first time if the doctor who performed a physical on the president, back on friday. dr. ronnie jackson will be speaking with reporters here at the white house later today. so lots of headlines coming up. keep an eye on all of them. jasmine, back to you. >> former white house chief

strategist steve bannon expected to appear before the house intel committee today. his meeting is part of the committ committee's investigation into russian election meddling. it will focus on bannon's time on the campaign, not his transition or the time in the white house. and paul mnfort and political consultant rick gates are due in court for a status hearing. both men have been on house arrest after they were indicted in a money laundering case as a result of robert mueller's russia probe. they've pled not guilty. >> "morning joe" starts right now. my positions are going to be what the people in this room come up with. i am very much reliant on the people in this room. i know most of the people on both sides. i have a lot of respect for the people on both sides. >> i don't think the democrats want to make a deal, i think they talk about daca but they don't want to help people. >> so, what happened in those 72

hours? how long did that take? acourt together "washington post," the white house was so worried that the president could be tricked into signing something his base wouldn't like, that they rushed in conservatives to crash a bipartisan meeting. the president started cursing about haiti and africa and now blames dickey durbin for blowing daca. are we going to argue this morning about what exactly what curse it was? what word was attached to the curse? or are we going to be believe two senators who actually stepped out and lied for the president? that's how we begin this tuesday morning, january 16th. good morning, everyone, welcome to "morning joe." with us we have veteran columnist and msnbc contributor mike barnacle. >> national