good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. we're less than 24 hours away from a government shutdown and the blame game on capitol hill is heating up. this morning, a spending bill battle could play out in the senate. plus, president trump in pennsylvania for what the white house billed as an economic event, but it looked like an early jump on 2020. and is there a rift in the white house? the president praises his chief of staff john kelly after a public clash on immigration. good morning, everybody. it is friday, january 19th. we are less than 19 hours away

until the federal government runs out of fundinging. the one-year anniversary of president trump's inauguration. yesterday evening, the house passed a four-week extend of funding the help with the freedom caucus. a bipartisan deal is within reach. i've been part of those negotiations on all these issues. and now is the time to reach it. not a month from now. >> i'm not going to vote for a 30-day continuing resolution.

the house said they did their job. how much money did the defense department get from the house bill? this is the fourth cr. every time we have a continuing resolution, it costs the military billions of dollars. i want to do two things. i want to fund the military and deal with daca and we're not going to get one without the other. i'm tired of playing this stupid game. the public hates the way we do business. count me in. i'm willing to keep the government open days, not weeks, to get a deal that we should have got a year ago. >> and arizona republican jeff flake affirmed his opposition late last night saying, quote, i had a commitment to have a daca vote on the floor by the end of january. then all of a sudden, the condition was put on if the president supports it. we don't know what the president actually supports. senator mitch mcconnell said he would cancel the senate's weekend recess if no agreement can be reached and said a four-day extension could not be voted on last night because he had to consult with the president.

>> the presidency under our constitution system is not irrelevant. he's the person who signs things into law. and for most of us in the house and senate on the republican side, we're interested in what his views are. and those have not been made fully apparent yet. >> coming up on "morning joe," senator bernie sanders will weigh in on the funding showdown set to take place in the senate today. and president trump may be leaving for florida this afternoon amid had concerns of a government shutdown. according to bloomberg, the president will mark the one-year anniversary of his inauguration with a galla at his mar-a-lago resort tomorrow night. tickets for the event reportedly start at $100,000 a pair which includes a dinner and photo with the president. for $250,000, couples can also take part in a round table with the president. the will benefit the trump presidential campaign and the

rnc. president trump will leave for florida around 4:30 this afternoon. the president was asked about his possible trip yesterday in pennsylvania. >> i really believe the democrats want to shut down to get off the subject of the tax cuts. >> the president was in a district in pennsylvania yesterday that he won by 19 points and couldn't resist throwing his base some red meat. >> anybody unhappy with the 401(k)? i don't think so, right? wow. we can keep it like this, we're going to win a lot of elections. that i can tell you. it's something. no, it's something. it's the economy, stupid. did you ever hear that one? it's the economy. it is, indeed. we're putting america back to work and we're ensuring the

forgotten men and women of our country are never, ever forgotten again remember, the deplorables. the deplorables. we're all the deplorables. who would have thought that was going to turn into a landslide. who would have thought -- that was not a good phrase that she used. oh, some things you'd like to have back. >> all right. the president also appeared with special election candidate for the house rick saconi. the pennsylvania republican greeted the president on the tarmac, appeared on stage and the president called him a, quote, great guy and a special person. earlier in the day, the president tweeted that he was going to pennsylvania not to promote the economy, but to give the republican candidate his, quote, total support. yet the white house insisted that trump's trip was to talk about tax cuts and not to campaign. a campaign event would require the president's re-election team to reimburse the treasury for some of trump's travel expenses.

and the rift between president trump and white house chief of staff john kelly may have widened. the "new york times" reports that trump was livid when he learned kelly told some democratic lawmakers on wednesday that he had evolved on the wall adding that trump, quote, had not been fully informed when he promised to build it last year. according to a person familiar with trump's thinking, the president's furry grew wednesday evening as he fielded calls with allies who describes kelly's comments as undermining him. trump reportedly vented his anger. trump denied he had changed his position on the wall tweeting in part, quote, the wall is the wall. it has never changed or evolved in the first day i conceived of it. deputy secretary raj shaw told reporters president trump was venting about how the media handl

handled kelly's comments and during his factory tour he denied kelly made the comments. >> i think he's doing a great job. he is a very special guy. [ inaudible question ]. >> what? [ inaudible question ]. >> no, he didn't say that. well, i don't think he said it the way you would like him to say that. >> joining me now, jonathan swan and alex sites. welcome to you both. good morning. thanks for joining me at 5:00 a.m. on a friday. i appreciate it very much. jonathan, i'm going to start with you on this shutdown thing. does it happen today? if so, for how long will it last? how do you see this whole thing playing out? >> well, i think lindsey graham in your clip earlier sort of tipped his hand to where a lot of the conferences, where he said i'm willing to keep the government open for days, not weeks, and that was a really important phrase because it

suggests and it backs up conversations i had yesterday with some senior people in the democratic senate caucus which is that there are probably a lot of members that don't want to shut down the government .that may be willing to do one last short-term sort of patch maybe for five days or something, a clean bill with nothing attached to it to give them one last chance to actually negotiate, sit down and get something done. but, you know, there's a real risk that it could happen. because you have a very receiptive democratic caucus who don't trust the president, who don't believe that they've been negotiatinging in good faith with republican leadership and you have republican leadership that want their priorities and, you know, you have two immovable objects at the moment. we'll see if one side blinks. >> alex, what's your predictions here? do you see a five-day place holder to figure this whole thing out, as well? >> i would agree with jonathan that i think that is a likely scenario. if you're a betting man or

woman, you can make betts on this. right now, the markets say 38%, which i think a lot of people in washington said it's higher than that likelihood of a shutdown. ultimately, neither sides wants a shutdown. i think there's a chance that they'll blink sometime in the next few hours. but as jonathan said, it's going to be short. it probably won't resolve the big issues. and we could be back exactly where we are today, a few days from now. one final point, it's not just democrats holding this up, and they are a major factor, but they wanted to force a vote last night on the senate floor to show that republicans didn't have the 51 votes that they need to pass it themselves. >> so let's talk about that, jonathan. what's the president's role in all this? as we've heard had over and over, the president said if there is a government shutdown, it is the democrats' fault which is hard for me honestly to understand considering the fact that the government is run by the republicans on all accounts.

>> well, let me just give you a small window into the president's role in this. yesterday morning after he tweeted quite confusingly saying that the children's health insurance program shouldn't be part of this -- should be part of the longer term solution which directly contradicted the house republican strategy, i was texting with members of republican leadership and they're all trying to decipher what the president meant. there were different theories. was he confused, did he not understand that it was a six-year fix. and the general consensus settled into we don't know, he probably doesn't know what he's talking about but you know what? we're going to pass the bill, anyway, and it's going to have no effect. so i think you could almost replicate that kind of -- if you look at the senate, he's not going to have a decisive role one way or the other because frankly, there aren't enough members of congress or members of the senate that donald trump can personally sway one way or another. >> alex, how do you think that

sort of line is affecting everything and affecting his negotiations, if at all? you have heard people from both sides of the aisle saying basically the president doesn't know what he's talking about. he doesn't really even understand what a government shutdown look like. >> yeah. we've seen a number of instances of the president undermining his party's own position by seeming to not understand the policy. the fisa vote last week would be another example of that. part of the reason we're in this crisis in the first place is that famous expletive heard around the world where both parties went to the house thinking they had a deal and trump blew it up. so he couan be a destructive foe in these negotiations. he wants to blame this on congress and historically to show the president can rise above the politics in a shutdown crisis. but i think a lot of that is people gravitating towards his ability and trump has not been projecting a lot of stability in this moment. >> jonathan, i want to talk quickly about president trump's

relationship with general kelly here. where do you -- sort of give me the in between here. what do you actually see is going on in the white house? >> so, look, last night -- sorry, whatever night it was. i believe it was wednesday night when general kelly did his interview for fox muss. i got a message from somebody who is personally very close to the president who spends a lot of time with the president and they said to me that was a train wreck of an interview. and i said, really? because i actually just watched it. i thought he was sort of fairley normal interview. and they said no, no, go back and watch it. general kelly in the interview presents himself -- it's almost like he scripted the interview to irritate the president. he presented himself as the mature adult in the room. you know, patiently educating the naive, uninformed trump, sort of neanderthal like into his evolutionary process to -- on this key issue of the wall.

and trump, you know, tweeted about it yesterday, but did not mention kelly and really that's the first time we've seen a public break with kelly. there's a lot happening behind the scenes, but it's probably too short a segment for me to get into. >> alex, do you think there's an expire by date for kelly? >> it seems like there's an expire by date for everybody in trump's orbit. they'll do something or say something or just be being around too much, their time has come. i think probably a lot of people, perhaps including general kelly himself, have been disappointed that he hasn't been able to implement more order and stability in the white house and that could be coming to a head at some point. >> jonathan swan, alex, thank you both. we're going to talk to you in a little bit. much more on the looming government shutdown, including how the children's health insurance program, c.h.i.p., is factors into the fight. we're going to explain what

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meteorologist bill karins. bill, we're looking forward to a weekend warm-up, but it's still cold the in florida. >> especially the afternoons will feel nice. there's no snowstorms on the way. a rain event as we head towards tuesday of next week. but freeze warnings continue for florida, down through orlando and bartow. yesterday was 28 degrees at this time and now we're at 36. there is a noticeable improvement. mississippi is in the 20s. dallas, now the warm-up has begun in texas. again, it's still very cold. and it's interesting because we're still at 20 in jackson, mississippi. it's colder in jackson, mississippi than it is in burlington, vermont. it's unusual for the south to be colder than the northeast or even the ohio valley. we're shifting the winds out of the south so eventually the warm air will move up from the south from the gulf of mexico and cover the country. let's talk about the january

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welcome back, everybody. it is the bottom of the hour. we'll start with the morning's top stories. we are 18 1/2 hours away from a shutdown of the federal government as the senate decides the path forward. the house passed a continuing resolution to fund the government for 30 days. but the democratic minority and a few republicans are standing in the way, demanding longer term fixes. late last night on the senate floor, democratic leader chuck schumer said president trump was to blame for inaction while the republican leader mitch mcconnell said there was no hurry. >> the president has been impervious to compromise for several months. he can't maintain a consistent position. we all know that. he makes and rescinds and remakes demands. he encourages compromise one day only to thwart it the next by saying he'll only accept a deal that gives him 100% of what he

wants. that's not what a great dealmaker does. >> what our friends on the other side are saying here is they're prepared to shut down the government over the issue of illegal immigration. this is a bipartisan interest in in solving the daca problem, but the president has given us until march. the last time i looked, this was january. >> so yesterday, republican leaders said democrats had the final say over government fund, president trump saying the minority party wanted a shutdown. >> i asked the american people to understand this. the only people standing in the way of keeping the government open are senate democrats. whether there is a government shutdown or not is now entirely up to them. >> it could happen. we'll see what happens. it's up to the democrats. i really believe the democrats wants a shutdown to get off the

subject of the tax cuts because they worked so well. nobody thought, including the democrats, it could work this well. they've been so good that i think the democrats would like to see a shutdown in order to get off that subject. >> all right. so a new national poll of registered voters taken through last weekend until tuesday found that 34% would find democrats more to blame for a shutdown while 32% would blame the republics and 21% would blame president trump. the combination of 53% for the majority party. and coming up, we're going to discuss this and more when independent senator bernie sanders joins "morning joe." and amid conversations to keep the government running, president trump may undercut his ability to strike a deal with the plan. the president tweeted yesterday, c.h.i.p. should be a part of a long the term solution, not a 30-day or short-term extension. the president's tweet came as republican leaders were at the time working to advance the

government funding bill, which would have funded c.h.i.p. for six years by behinding the two republicans were hoping to secure democrats votes needed, the particularly in the senate to clear that measure. a short time after the president's tweet, senate majority whip conin tweeted the current house continuing resolution package has a six-year extension of c.h.i.p., not a 30-day extension. >> i don't know whether it's clear to the president what we're trying to do is reauthorization c.h.i.p. long-term, not just 30 days. we're trying to do a long-term extension for c.h. had i.p. >> meanwhile, house speaker paul ryan looked to clear up the confusion on where the president stood on the bill saying the president fully understands the details. >> i am sure where he stands. i just spoke to him about a half an hour ago.

i didn't see what he wrote, but i've spoken with the president. he fully supports passing what we're bringing to the floor today. >> hours after the president's a tweet, the white house trying to clarify his remarks saying the administration would like a clear version of the continuing resolution without other spending matters attached. amid the ongoing russian probe, the house intel committee has postponed its highly anticipated interview today with white house communications director hope hicks. the abrupt change in plans comes as the white house has been negotiating with the committee over potentially limiting the scope of questioning for former white house chief strategist steve bannon. meanwhile, president trump said last week that it was, quote, unlikely he would have to meet with special counsel bob mueller as part of the russia investigation. but in an interview, trump's top attorney says otherwise. >> when do you believe this investigationing will reach its conclusion? >> there's no reason for it not to conclude soon. >> what is soon? >> well, soon to me would be

within the next, you know, four to six weeks. >> is it, from your vandage point right now, ty cobb, a virtual certainty that the president will have some q&a with the special counsel robert mueller? >> that's my belief. >> and do you think there is any danger for the president in that encounter? >> you know, i would hope that a fair minded office of special counsel would approach it in a dutiful way consistent with precedent and it wouldn't be a mere perjury trap. >> there are new reports with accusations about russian money and president trump's business and two major backers of his 2016 presidential campaign. the house intelligence committee released transcripts of had his interview wes glenn simpson, ahead of the firm behind the trump/russia dossier. there was an amazing number of

people from the soviet union who had purchased properties from mr. trump. one of them bought a derelict estate at an extreme markup in florida. he testified generally speaking the patterns of activity that we thought might be subjective of money laundering. efforts to disguise the identity of the buyer. this as it's reported that two unnamed sources familiar with the matter say the fbi is investigating whether a top russian banker and putin ally illegally funneled foreign money to the national rifle association to boost trump's campaign. alexander torchin met with donald trump jr. on the sidelines of an nra event in may of 2016. he could not establish the extent of any potential evidence that robert mueller's team may have reviewed. the nra reportedly spent a record $55 million in 2016 and more than three times on trump than they spent on mitt romney back in 2012. back with me, national

political reporter jonathan swan and alex sites walsa. welcome back. the democrat are blaming the republicans because they say they want a long-term solution. the republicans are blaming the democrats because they say they have march to deal with with daca and then you have the president dealing with all of these mixed messages especially with regard to that tweet on c.h.i.p. yesterday morning. what do you each think, who has more political advantage here? who is going to win this showdown, if there is a government shutdown? who is going to be to blame? >> it's a bit of a trul, which means a three-way duel. it's not only republicans versus democrat but also the white house versus congress. at the moment, it looks like a

rorshak test. i think that could change, depending on how each side plays out the narrative. in the past, the democrats would suggest are in a worse position. they're trying to extract a concession on daca, which doesn't have to do directly with government funding. a similar approach didn't work out in 2013 under president obama. but on the other hand, donald trump's approval ratings are so low, the congress's approval ratings are so low, america might just give the doubt to the opposition. >> jonathan, what do you think is the best case scenario here looking ahead to this government shutdown? >> best case scenario is they do some sort of a short-term arrangement and then a miracle descends from the heavens and

they sit down and trump, in masterful fashion, you know, tells them all to get together and the hard liners, you know, hold hands with the moderate -- you see i'm being slightly facetious, but it's for a reason. >> i'm getting a little lost in this story of yours, jonathan. >> the reason i'm adopt ago fairytale tone is the gulf between these conferences between the democrats and republicans is vast. still, on these key issues and between the white house more importantly and these conferences. we're going to publish this morning a story that got leaked an internal memo that was circulating around the white house that was written after lindsey graham and dick durbin came to the white house in the infamous s-hole meeting. and the memo doctor and it was crafted by administration officials, shreds apart their bipartisan proposal. it shows how far the white house

is from getting to a solution on immigration. and that's just one of the issues, you know, sort of confounding this whole situation. >> let's turn to the house elections, here. trump obviously, as we talked about earlier, visiting pennsylvania yesterday to help the republican candidate in a district that he won by nearly 20 points. alex, i'm going to start with you on this. has the political agenda changed since 2016.? how worried are republicans about a democratic wave in these next elections? and i know that you have some new reporting on this, alex. >> yeah. there's no doubt that republicans are candidly acknowledge the energy on the democratic side and they're being very aggressive in defending republican rick sarconi here, the candidate in this district which went for trump by 20 points, went for

romney by 17 points. this is a quintessential trump country district. we're talking just outside of pit pits, southwestern pennsylvania. the democrats technically outnumber republicans, but they vote like republicans. it's blue collar, white, working class. so this is a great test of whether those trump voters will turn out when trump is not on the ballot and whether trump, by going to a district like that, can pull his people over the line. he wasn't able to do that in alabama, but maybe he can now. republicans are watching closely. democrats are not investing a lot in this district. they came up short in every single election last year. they're preserving their money for november when they feel a lot better. >> and really the big question with regard to the midterms is does trump still have the political capital that he carried in 2016, should they be marching him out on the campaign trail heading up to november. before i let both of you go, jonathan, the criminal trial for trump's former campaign manager, it looks as if it's getting

pushed to september. how big of an impact do you think the russian vginvestigati is going to have on the midterm elections, especially considering paul manafort being tried in september just two months ahead of voting? >> i would say between zero percent and 1%. >> really? >> this is not something that -- it may motivate some democratic base voters who already hate the president. it may increase that intensity slightly. but i don't think you're going to have much problem with intensity in this election. you have -- and this is a longer term trend, but you have the basis of each party, more and more intensely disliking the other party. this is going to be an incredibly negative campaign, but i think as far as at that localized level, russia is not going to be in the top five issues. >> interesting. so maybe more of a policy. driven vote than anything else. thank you to you both. still ahead, everybody, more on the fight over daca, threatening talks to keep the government over.

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and help make tomorrow possible. welcome back, everybody. with the deadline fast approaching for a deal on daca, there's another group being left in limbo amid the fight over the program's future. jacob roth introduces us to some of the children born here in the u.s. now being forced to relocate to mexico amid the immigration battle if washington. >> reporter: this is a public school just south of tijuana, mexico. ite it's not hard to find american students. there were around 50,000 american students in tijuana. what's your name? >> george. >> george, jacob. nice to meet you. where are you from?

>> bakersfield, california. >> you're from the united states. >> yes. >> are you an american citizen? >> yes. well, and mexican. my dad was deported. >> what is it like living here in mexico? >> very difficult sometimes. i miss my friends. >> george is hardly alone. because of the influx of students like him, californian and mexican officials have teamed up to train teachers to hold classes in english and in spanish. the idea is to help them assimilate in a world they've never known while keeping them connected to the home they left behind. >> what's going on in this classroom? >> kids are coming from the states into our classrooms get the same attention. >> so in this classroom, there's some kids that don't understand much spanish. >> yeah. their primary language was english. >> are they american kids? >> yeah. >> where are their parents from.? >> they got deported. now they're here.

>> how common is that? >> very often. >> george's parents chose this school specifically so he wouldn't lose what he learned in the u.s. while picking up his mother nation's tongue. >> so you got deported and they followed you here? >> yeah, basically. >> can i ask you what happened? >> yeah. i got in trouble. i was drug trafficking. >> after serving time and getting deported, george's dad found work here in construction. we followed along after school as he took george to a beach front home he's renovating. >> this is a million dollar view. so you would trade a million dollar view to go back to bakesfield? >> for a million dollar family. >> for today, that million dollar familiy is out of reach for george and his family. >> thank you, jacob, for that report. let's get a check on your weather now with nbc

meteorologist bill karins. bill, we're set for a warmer weekend here in the northeast. it's probably time for you to clean up all those holiday decorations around your house. >> yeah. yesterday when the wife asked me where the ladder was, that was the hypothetic. hint. so that's what a lot of people will be doing if enough snow melts. all the attention has flipped. we were watching the east and the snow. here is the second storm they're going to deal with. it's going to be stormy. this is good. we they'd to build the snowpack up in the west because it's bl been pretty paltry so far. we had some snow here, about a foot possible in the cascades. definitely a decent amount of snow in the central rockiess. and then this storm on monday will start to pull out into the central plains. let's give you the timing on some of this. it's raining decently in areas of the west right now. that's going to continue as we go throughout the day today. it looks like the heaviest stuff

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after months of publicity stunts and olympics-level enthusiasm from cities nationwide. amazon's hunt for a second headquarters has been narrowed from 238 bids down to 20. cnbc joins us live from london. jomana, which cities have made the cut? a huge infusion for the economy for the city selected. i could see why there's so much enthusiasm. >> absolutely, lewis. 20 cities made the cut, including new york, boston, atlanta and chicago. now, toronto is the only city nonu.s. city that is also in the running. but jilan tells me they do have a baseball team called the blue

jays. but amazon plans to invest $5 billion in the new location and hire as many as 50,000 employees. they will make a decision on the winner later this year. another quick story in banking, hsbc bank has agreed to pay $100 million to the department of justice, as a fine for a foreign exchange manipulation scandal. one of the last banks to settle with u.s. and uk authorities, it's a scandal that's been going on for a couple of years now. >> facebook has reportedly added the first new member to its board of directors since 2014. who is it? and what kind of impact will he have? >> the outgoing american express ceo kenneth chenault will join facebook's board. the first african-american. and he's described by "the wall street journal" as one of the country's most prominent african-american corporate leaders. he had retired from american express after spending 16 years at the helm. and this makes him the first

appointment to the facebook board since the whatsapp john kuhn joined the board in 2014, so a good addition to the facebook board. >> jomana sb bursecch joining us live. thank you. the race is on to avoid a government shutdown and the showdown over the continuing resolution now taking center stage in the senate. senator bernie sanders will discuss whether democrats will strike a last-minute deal with republicans. house freedom caucus founder jim jordan joins the conversation. "morning joe" just moments away.

welcome back. everybody, before we toss it over to "morning joe," let's check the stories for the day ahead. president trump is set to address thousands of anti-abortion activists at the 45th annual march for life. he'll speak to the crowd via satellite from the rose garden. paul ryan will give remarks before the crowd marchs to the supreme court. vice president mike pence is set to depart later today on his five-day trip to the middle east. the vice president will land in cairo, egypt tomorrow, kicking

off the first leg of his trip. the trip comes after president trump's formal recognition of jerusalem last month as israel's official capital. and police in las vegas are set to give an update on their investigation into last year's mass shooting there. it's been more than three months since the city's police department offered an update into their investigation. this comes after lawyers for the department announced tuesday, that criminal charges related to the massacre may be coming in the next 60 days, that does it for us on this friday morning. have a great weekend. i'm yasmine vesugian. "morning joe" starts right now. it's up to the democrats. >> who is going to take the blame? in the board room here, who is getting fired? who is going to bear the brunt of the responsibility if there's a shutdown over the government. >> if you say who gets fired, it always has to be the top. problems start from the top and

they have to get solved from the top and the president is the leader. and he's got to get everybody in a room and he's got to lead. the interesting thing is, in 25 years, 50 years, 100 years from now, when the government, they talk about the government shutdown, they're going to be talking about the president of the united states. who was the president at that time. they're not going to be talking who the head of the house was, the head of the senate. who is running things in washington. so i really think the president is on the president. >> when president trump was a private citizen in 2013, it was the president who gets the blame for a government shutdown but now that trump is the president, the blame goes to the democrats according to him. we'll soon see as we're now just hours away from a government shutdown under trump's watch. good morning, everyone, it's friday, january 19th, donnie deutsche is with us, along with republican strategist and political commentator