president trump appears to defend two of his aides accused of domestic abuse. he was immediately called out with kellyanne conway right on cue rushing to the president's defense. then there's john kelly and his handling of the abuse scandals. many this in washington are wondering if he's on the way out. and the rebuttal to the nunes memo blocked, the president saying to try again. >> all of this over-shadowing two big items on the white house agenda today including the much anticipated infrastructure plan. ♪

>> good morning, everyone. it's monday, february 12th, i should say. i am aohyeldin along with yasmin vossoughian along with louis burgdorf. white house aide rob porter resigned after a publication with a photograph showing one of his ex-wives with a black eye that said he had given her. president trump had words of support for porter. >> well, we wish him well. he worked very hard. i found out about it recently and i was surprised by it, but we certainly wish him well. it's a, obviously, tough time for him. he did a very good job when he was in the white house. and we hope he has a wonderful career and hopefully he will have a great career ahead of

him. but it was very sad when we heard about it and certainly he is also very sad. as you probably know, he says he's innocent and i think you have to remember that. he said very strongly yesterday that had he's innocent. so you'll have to talk to him about that. but we absolutely wish him well. did a very good job while he was at the white house. >> then late friday, white house speech writer david sorensen resigned ahead of a story that his ex-wife said said october that he had been violent and emotionally abusive, claims that sorensen denies. on saturday morning, the president tweeted, peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. some are true and some are false. some on old and some are new. there is no recovery for someone falsely accused. life and career are gone. is there no such thing any longer as due process? well, in in response, senator gillibrand of new york tweeted, the president has shown through

words and actions that he doesn't value women. the lives of survivors of sexual assault and domestic abuse are being shattered every day. if he wants due process for the over dozen sexual assault allegations against him, let's start hearings tomorrow. kellyanne conway responded. >> do the president's accusers deserve due process? >> george, let me say something. those accusers have had their day on your met work and elsewhere for a long time. they tried that again late last year. i don't need a lecture from somebody else who protected and defended and harbored a sitting president who had sexual relations in the oval office ands was impeached for lying. i don't need a lecture from her or anybody else. >> there are reports of friction inside the white house about choef of staff john kelly's actions. the tuesday night, kelly said

he, quote, is proud to serve alongside porter. and then wednesday night kelly claimed in a statement to be shocked by the new allegations. friday afternoon, kelly told reporters that he had previously known little about the claims against porter and as soon as he did, they acted swiftly. watch this. >> there's been a lot of reporting about the timeline and when you found out about things. can you kind of just clarify that? >> tuesday night. >> you found out tuesday night? >> that the accusations were true. 40 minutes later, he was gone. >> was that just the picture you found out about? >> the entirety of the allegation. >> you had some indication, right? >> no. >> last year about the nature. >> in november, i got an update on some of the investigations and the update was there was some things that needed to be looked into. literally, that was it. >> you made the decision 40 minutes after you found out. did you tell him tuesday night?

>> yes. actually, he made the decision 40 minutes after -- >> so kelly reportedly told a sympathy lay story to west wing staffers on friday morning. the "new york times" reporting, quote, two people familiar with the comments said most of the staff appeared incredulous. one person said several people in the room knew that the timeline kelly presented was actually false. it's reported that porter is telling associates some senior white house officials strongly encouraged him to stay and fight and claims he never misrepresented anything to kelly, which budget director nick mulvaney claimed yesterday. >> rob porter came to the president of the united states and the chief of the staff saying, look, i'm being accused of these things, they are not true. for the president and the chief of staff to give that person the benefit of the doubt is probably a normal reaction. as soon as rob porter was

discovered to be not telling the truth, he was gone almost immediately. >> so on friday, it was reported he was going to step down. kelly responded that he did not offer his resignation. and reince priebus said a report that president trump complained to him about john kelly was, in fact, false. >> the guy, don't tweet this, do tweet that, don't this, don't that, and others chimed in, even the first lady and the family. but, you know, at the end of the day, he goes through the whole campaign, he's listening to people said don't tweet this, don't tweet that, he tweeted it and he won. so i'm at a place on the whole tweeting issue that i think more or less people like me were wrong and people like him were right. >> switching gears for a moment, president trump moved late friday night to block the public release of a classified memo

written by democratic house intel committee in response to a republican memo released last week. adam schiff refuted claims that the fbi incorrectly spied on carter page. president trump said he was unable to declassify the memo because it contained numerous classified passages. trump defended his decision on twitter saturday tweeting out, the democrats sent a very political and long response memo which they knew because of sources and methods and more would have to be heavily redacted. where upon they would blame the white house for look of transparency. told them to redo and send back in proper form. schiff on sunday defended the memo's contents. >> the president doesn't want the public to see the underlying

facts. what is revealed in our memo are quotations from the very fisa application that really demonstrates just how misleading the republicans have been. their goal here is to put the fbi on trial, to put bob mueller's investigation on trial, and the president is only too happy to accommodate. but the president doesn't want you to see these facts from the fisa application because it completely undermines his claim of vindication. >> so white house legislative director mark short stood by the president's tweet. >> we're not afraid of transparency. what the president said is that we believe that the congressman schiff intentionally put in there methods and sources that he knew would need to be redacted. and if we redacted it, then they would be an outcry. we said take it back, work with the fbi, clean it up and we'll release it. >> under pressure from the white house, the group plan toes revise the memo to resolve trump's concerns.

president trump is said to unveil his vision for his infrastructure plan. the president will release the principals for the $1.5 trillion proposal. administration officials said it would feature twoo key components, an injection of funding for new investigations and money to help speed up repairs of crumbling roads and airports. it would include a streamlined permitting process that would cut the wait time to get projects under way. the plan is expected to put $200 billion of new federal funds into the effort. according to a senior administration officials who briefed reporters over the weekend. that money would be paid for by unspecified cuts in the budget proposal that the white house plans to release today. the framework includes $100 building on incentives to match state, local investment on infrastructure projects, something the president called for in his state of the union address last month. >> every federal dollar should be leveraged by partnering with

state and local governments and, where appropriate, tapping into private sector investment to permanently fix the infrastructure deficit. >> so ahead of its release, the plan is already facing skepticism from both republican and democratic lawmakers. and president trump himself is apparently not entirely sold on the project. sources tell nbc news it's still unclear whether trump supports what once was the plan's core concept of relying primarily on the so-called public-private partnerships to repair this country's airports, roads and bridges. the president is expected on to release his budget today, which is making headlines for a huge reversal in terms of republican politics. we're going to have more on that in the next half hour. so let's talk about this infrastructure plan. joining us now, white house

reporter for the washington examiner, steve nossi. thanks for joining us the this early. so i've just mentioned sort of this infrastructure plan laying out kind of what it entails. a lot of skepticism it seems too far from both sides of the aisle on this plan. given the cost, how much it's going to be for the american people and where the cuts could feasibly come from, although we don't have any specificity as to where those cuts are going to come from, what is the outlook for this infrastructure plan? >> well, $200 billion is not a little amount of money. to put that in context, the budget deal that was just reached raised government spending by $300 billion over two years. that, to fm conservatives was a massive increase in funding. of course, democrats want much more to be spent. so it's going to be an interesting debate.

et will be interesting to see what actually comes of this. >> let me ask you quickly about the democratic memos for a second. and assuming this one gets amended, gets ultimately released, what is the anticipated impact of the revised democratic memo. where does it move the needle forward between these two competing memos in the days and weeks ahead? >> according to adam schiff, the democratic memo totally discredits the central claim of the republican memo. if that is true, that certainly would be a major influence on whether or not the russia investigations overall are discredited. it will be interesting to see if any reforms are actually proposed by republicans, if there's any changes in the surveillance processes going forward. there's definitely room for

that. there's criticism that the foreign intelligence surveillance acts court which these filings are coming from, that it doesn't have enough room for outside voices. that's a conceivable reform that could be made. so that would be something to watch going forward. >> what are you hearing from republicans and how they're reacting to the response? we saw a drop in white women supporting the president after his response to rob porter. so are they feeling like there's going to be a negative impact here, especially among women voters? >> it was surprising to a lot of people to watch president trump appear to say nice words about someone who was accused of beating not only two ex-wives, but also someone he was if a long-term the relationship with who he wasn't married to. it was shocking, whether it remains in the public consciousness or not, i'm doubtful. president trump has said other things that have offended women in the past. and this is just adding to the list.

it might not ultimately be remembered as the most monumental. >> steve nelson in washington, d.c. for us. we're going to check in with you a little bit in the hour. stick around. still ahead, a passenger plane crashes in russia. and vice president mike pence says the u.s. is ready to talk to north korea. we're going to have the very latest on the foreign front. >> we have a lot of developments there. plus bill karins with a check on the forecast when we come back.

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welcome back, everyone. a russians passenger plane crashed on sunday killing all 71 people on board. the flight had just taken off when it crashed in what appears to be a fairley remote area. look towards the top of the screen there. this video shows the moment the plane actually went down in the massive ensuing fireball.

the white house has sent its condolences to the family of those killed. turning now to the fast-moving developments in the middle east exploding tensions between iran and syria and israel. israel launched a counterattack on 12 bases in syria. a mix of iranian and syrian targets, including where they say the drone was launched from. during israel's offensive, one of its f-16 fighter jets were shot down. and at some point on saturday, with lebanon state media reported that a missile of syrian origin landed in a lemon grove in southwestern part of the country. the shot down iranian drone was a copy of an american one captured by iran back in 2011.

specifically telling putin israel would continue to defend itself against iranian protection. now to the major news from the korean peninsula where president mike pence says that the united states is ready to sit down with the north koreans. pence makes the remarks on his way home from the olympics in south korea. this does not change the stance on the maximum pressure campaign currently being waged. instead, pence tells "the washington post" this new position is maximum pressure and engagement at the same time. the two great on how to proceed with engaging north korea going forward, first led by the south koreans and then potentially with america's participation.

moon also assured pence that north korea would not receive any economic or diplomatic concessions just for agreeing to these talks, which was a major concern for the vice president and the administration. a spokesman says moon wants to create continues to make that happen. they have appealed to a senior u.n. official opening up for help with a transactional panel. bill, maybe i'm just feeling a little optimistic on this monday morning, but the temperature is warmer. it is rainy, but it is spring here. >> it feels like march, doesn't it? ands there's no signs, at least for the east coast, that it's going to change much in the next two weeks. we're going to go right to the end of february with no brutal

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welcome back, everybody. it is the bottom of the hour. some of president trump's top aides spent the weekend out in full force defending john kelly. >> the criticism comes over kelly as mishandling and secretary rob porter. kelly o'donnell has more. >> dispatched by the white house, senior trump officials on a mission to safeguard an embattled chief of staff. >> he says that general kelly is doing a great job and that he has full faith in him. >> he has absolute confidence in general kelly. >> john kelly, the four-star

marine general has gone through rocky times before. his current leadership is urgent scrutiny after a background checked pulled up allegations of spousal abuse against rob porter who denied the allegations. kelly's initial support for porter was overtaken by additional evidence. >> once you learn the the extent of the allegations, then you have no tolerance for it. >> the president exacerbated outrage when his saturday tweet complained about false allegations leading aides to do cleanup. >> he had sympathetic towards women and men who are victims of domestic violence. despite circling of the wagons and kelly telling nbc news friday he is not offering to resign, his standing has suffered. >> i think in the end, we have to hear from john kelly what he knew. we haven't heard from that yet. >> thanks to kelly o'donnell for that report. in an essay for time magazine,

jennie willoughby claiming sexual abuse is reacting to the president's comments. a friend and i watched as the president of the united states sat in the oval office and praised the work of my ex-husband and wished him future success. i can't say i was surprised, but when donald trump repeated twice that rob declared his innocence, i was floored. what was his intent in emphasizing that point? my friend turned to me and said the president of the united states just called you a liar. yes, regarding the president's tweet she writes, the words mere allegation and falsely accuse meant to imply that i am a liar, that colby holderness is a liar, that the work rob was doing in the white house was of higher value than our mental, emotional and physical well being, that abuse is something to be questioned and doubted. while i may have compassion for

my ex-husband and recognize his need for help, i do not tolerate abuse. while i may understand president trump and general kelly's inkra duty at such a counterimage of their golden boy, i do not condone their choice to support him. in light of the president's continued dismissal of me and colby, i want to assure you, my truth has not been diminished. for any man, woman or children currently in situations of abuse, please know it is real. you are not crazy. you are not alone. i believe you. >> very powerful words there. democrats in congress are requesting information about what else the white house knows about who is working for the president without a security clearance. "the washington post" reports that the white house counsel don mcgahn knew about allegations against porter as early as january of 2017 and wanted him to stay in place. mcgahn made john kelly aware of the reason for the delay in

porter's security clearance in the fall and was reportedly contacted by porter's ex-girlfriend regarding abuse. meanwhile, several people familiar with the matter said the inability of jared kushner to receive the security clearance led others to get involved in potential problems like rob porter's. two u.s. officials tell the post they do not expect kushner to receive a permanent security clearance in the new future. yet with an interim clearance, the president's son-in-law and adviser has been allowed to see secret materials including the president's daily briefs that are among the most sensitive in government. this after "the washington post" reports that the president rarely reads the daily briefing,

opting for oral reports, instead. rachel brand's departure comes amid the president's attacks on the country's leadership. she is directly behind deputy general's rod rosenstein. watt mart says she will report directly to the president's president and ceo. a close friend of brand tells nbc news she's leaving bass, quote, she has the kind of job offer you don't turn down. but an unnamed associate tells politico she's leaving because, quote, she is very smart, accomplished and talented and wants to protect her career. the press release announced there was no reason for her

departure. >> joining us now, steve nelson with the white house examiner. let's talk a little bit about rachel brand and her departure from the doj. just a couple of weeks ago, attorney general jeff sessions praised her at a public ceremony. what's been the reaction to her departure and what implication will this have on the russia investigation? >> well, there hasn't been a done of reaction to her departure because it was aa announced late friday afternoon by the justice department that she was leaving for this walmart job. of course, we can speculate why this might be. it's possible that she was offered a lot of money by walmart and wants to take this job for personal reasons. it's also conceivable she doesn't want rod rosen sateenst be fired and to have this whole russian probe dumped on her. what is clear going forward, when president trump appoints someone to replace her, that person is going to be asked lots

of questions about the independence of robert mueller and his probe and to confirm that they will remain unaffected by politics. let's talk john kelly amid the rob porter scandal. john kelly said he would offer his resignation if asked. a lot of people coming out of the white house saying the president fully supports john kelly. who do you think john kelly stays or goes or is it just a matter of time before he goes? >> john kelly has been such a pillar of stability for the trump white house for the past six months, i think that it would probably take another deaf stating blow to his credibility for him to be fired. of course, president trump is somewhat mercurial with his staffing choices. it's possible nothing more is required. but right now, i would say you shouldn't bet against john kelly, you shouldn't assume ooem

he's going to be identitied. there are discussions of people who might be credible replace manies. >> let's switch gears for a moment, steve. i want to ask you about fiscal policy if i can. the republican party really has been at least in some analysis, shifting away from a party that was once based on a principal of eliminating the deaf sificit. do you expect to hear more from people like rand paul or are they too outnumbered to have an impact when you see how much the republican party is spending, whether it's a potential infrastructure bill or even the budget increase by $300 billion? >> my prediction is we're going to be hearing a lot more from rand paul. of course, as a senator, he is able to stand on the senate floor and hold things up. he hasn't been afraid to shut down the government last weekend or force the expiration of key provisions he in the patriot act a couple years ago. this is a perfect opportunity for righteous indignation from budget hawks who can point to

their colleagues and say you're being hypocritical. so i think certainly we'll see a lot more of that going forward. whether or not there is enough republican pushingback to break up this emerging bipartisan consensus in faf of increasing spending, that remain toes be seen. but certainly we're hearing more criticism of this. >> steve nelson, good to talk to you this morning. thank you. let's turn to business. markets overseas are kicking the new trading week off largely in positive territory after stocks here in the u.s. closed out the turbulent week with gains on friday. cnbc's geoff cutmore joins us live from london. are we out of the hot water the in terms of the volatility that we saw last week? everyone is hoping the market will simmer down and start to make those gains back. >> yeah, i think the big answer is maybe. because we have a positive open here in europe. it was a strong close to the u.s. markets at the end of last week. and in the end, the s&p and the dow only down over, what, a

little over 5%. so i think a lot of participants in the markets think we have cleared out now some of the excess with that short volatility trade. we've cleaned up that product. and now we can be more constructive on risk. but i have to say, the treasury yield touched 2.9%, which is considered a high risk number for those who are embracing risk and equities. just briefly, christine legarde, the head of the imf, talked to cnbc over the weekend. she said this is a welcome correction and the fundamentals still remain good. back to you guys. >> geoff, one more for you. the price to pay to visit the magic kingdom is set to climb higher. what's behind that and is it going to really impact people that like to take their kids to disney world? >> yeah. this is amazing, isn't it? i've been to the magic kingdom. it's a rite of passage for so many children growing up in the

u.s. and, of course, in the united kingdom. but prices are going up here. it's going to cost you $526 now to take a family of four to the magic kingdom. they're putting $100 on top of the most expensive pass price. the company says this is about flexible pricing and it will encourage people to go perhaps at some of the less busy times. for most people, though, this will just look like a price rise at a time when disney is snapping up high cost assets around the world. so this one will hurt, i think, and maybe that will just cut down the amount of sodas and hot dogs you buy while you're in the park. back to you guys. >> not for me. i love my soda. >> sodas and hot dogs cost -- >> i know. if they're going to -- >> actually, all the food is expensive at disney on top of that. >> what's difficult, though, kids are only off during a

certain amount of time of the year, so it's hard to go during those off peak times. love space mountain, though. you have to get there. >> louis wants to take his new dog, artie, to disney world and he won't be able to afford it with those prices. still ahead, more troubles for embattled ex movie mogul harvey weinstein, the issues he's facing and the problems it's creating for his former company's future. plus bill karins is back with more on a busy weather week ahead. people would stare.

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welcome back, everyone. new york's attorney general has filed a civil rights lawsuit against wore very weinstein over the treatment of employees at the company bearing his maim. >> and that suit comes at a critical time for the company's existence. >> the civil rights lawsuit filed by the new york attorney general details allegations

against not just harvey weinstein but his brother, robert, and the weinstein company, claiming they repeatedly broke new york law by failing to protect employees. the lawsuit, the result of an ongoing four-month investigation alleges the company employed a group of women whose primary job it was to facilitate weinstein's sexual conquests. the suit details threats against female employees, unwelcome sexual contact and the existence of a document anymore named "the bible" which provided instructions for arranging sexual encounters referred tos as personals. the suit alleges the company's resources director was not empowered to address harassment. and when employees did complain, those claims were sometimes forwarded to harvey weinstein. the lawsuit comes as variety reports the company was just hours from a half billion dollar sale which now might be scuttled by the suit.

>> the attorney general is seeking money for those victims where those victims otherwise haven't been able to get recovery. >> har vin weinstein has previously denied all allegations of nonconsensual sexual and no criminal charges have been brought against him. his attorney had no comment on the civil rights suit. in the announcement, new york's attorney general called the violationses egregious saying the investigation is ongoing. kristin dahlgren, nbc news, new york. let's get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, you say for the next two weeks, we're going to have some warm weather. >> we're trying to figure out what to call it, spring-uary or feb-spring. ayman won't have anything. we'll always have the january thaw. although we've give him the next

minute to try to figure out something. the rainy weekend is over with in the northeast. still a little rain left over in maryland and delaware. today's forecast, there is still winter out there, by the way. still 2 degrees in billingsley. windchill advisories for the northern plains and minneapolis is not fun. neither is chicago. chicago had about 18 inches of snow in the last 7 days. so the winter moved in in a hurry in areas of the great lakes. southern half of the country is just fine today. so let's talk about that eastern area. when you go out this morning, raleigh, 66 degrees today. 61. boston, 41, about 6 degrees above normal. by the time we get to tuesday, the warmth return toes mobile, birmingham, nashville at 61 degrees. it will feel very warm. by the time we get to late in the week, look at this. raleigh, 76 on thursday, 75 on friday. that's ridiculously warm for this time of year. even d.c. could almost get close to the upper 60s by the time we get to thursday. and it's very rare for boston to hit 60 degrees in february,

especially in the middle of february. that's going to happen on thursday. so the week ahead, the birth cold is in the northern plains. a little bit of mountain snow today in the areas of the rockies. then as we go through the middle of the week, there's a little bit of rain in the ohio valley. a new storm in the northwest. again, there's no big snowstorms on the map. by the time we get to friday, more rainy, warm weather for areas of the east coast. ayman, you had your 60 seconds. >> i had more than 60 seconds. i couldn't come up with anything. but i am very happy to see that the forecast for the next couple of days is going to be -- >> that was a lot of pressure. it wasn't really fair with you. >> to be honest with you, i wasn't sure what you wanted me to come up with, anyway. i'll try to come up with something for tomorrow. >> no jacket ayman airy. >> bill, you're so good. switching gears for a moment to something that was very tragic, more on that plane crash the in russia that left all 71 people on board dead. >> we're going to go live overseas for the latest on what

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welcome back, everybody. russian passenger plane crashed yesterday, killing all 65 passengers and 6 crew members on board. the flight had just taken off from moscow on route to the city of orsk when it crashed about 25 miles outside of moscow in what appears to be a fairly remote area. joining us now live from london, nbc news lucy cavanaugh.

what more can you tell us about this crash and what may have caused it? >> it's too early to tell what may have caused the crash. they're looking into weather conditions, human error, technical failure. they have not mentioned terrorism as a possible cause. emergency teams, though, have been combing the snowy fields at the crash site. we know more than 700 people are involved in that search, both on foot and with the aid of drones. the plane's flight data recorder was found, so that should offer insight into why it went down just minutes after taking off killing all 71 people on board. we also know that the search for victims is expected to take a week. dna tests are being organized with relatives to try to identify the remains and the emergency situations ministry in russia posted the names of passengers and crew online sunday afternoon showing that at least three children were tragically on board. now, the plane itself was a

russian-made antonov aircraft. it only started flying back in 2010. saratov airlines was briefly suspended from flying internationally over security violation, but this is their first tragedy. the first crash as far as we can tell. we also know that the plane did not make an emergency call. we know it took off 2:20 p.m. local time and lost contact minutes later, vanishing from a radar. some witnesses say they saw a burning plane falling from the sky, that it was already in pieces. but again the investigation is still in the early stages. >> just incredible, incredible tragedy there. >> heart breaking. >> our thoughts and prayers with the families of those victims. staying overseas, at least five indian soldiers are dead in addition to one civilian after a group of heavily armed militants stormed an army base in the northern part of india. they're blaming a pakistan based militant group.

the militants were killed following a bloody fire fight that lasted more than 24 hours. the pakistani based group have carried out similar attacks. it's the latest in the wage over control of the cashmere region. coming up next on "msnbc live," a white house yet again in crisis. accusations of spousal abuse. >> they were making the rounds this weekend in support of chief of staff john kelly as his future at the white house now comes into question over his handling of the porter issue. what may be next for kelly? and what this latest controversy could mean for the president's big push on infrastructure this week. "morning joe," everyone, just moments away. at walgreens, we'll help you save more with zero dollar copays on select plans and reward points on prescriptions.

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price tag. he has called for the money to come from the private sector. we'll get our first glimpse of former president obama and michelle obama today. the painting will be unveiled at the smithsonian. the museum partners with the white house at the end of each presidency to commission the official portraits. >> that does it for us this morning. "morning joe" starts right now now. she sent vast amounts of classified information, including information classified as top secret, top secret. okay? and this is where they said that she was extremely careless and frankly i say grossly incompetent. she will be such a lousy president, folks. so sad. okay. the lives of the american people

were put at risk by hillary clinton. >> so, for someone whose campaign was built on attacking opponent's handling of classification, there is a disconnect at the white house. for the last year, donald trump received clazfied documents from a staffer, who get this, from a staffer who was not authorized to see them, to have any access to them. the president personally disclosed highly classified information to top russian diplomats. and he encouraged house republicans to release a memo about the most secretive of fisa courts. the president's son-in-law, well, he handles classified documents on a daily basis, despite the fact, like so many people around him, he doesn't even have a security clearance yet. wow. imagine if