it deployed its parachute that deployed the craft down to a soft landing. it sent a photo back but basically that photo is a reminder job one is cleaning the dust off its lenses. the big mission is to dig 16 feet down to see if mars could ever support life. it's expected to keep digging, keep learning for the next two new in the russia probe, special counsel robert mueller's team is accusing former trump campaign chairman paul manafort of violating his plea deal by repeatedly lying to investigators. plus, president trump is defending the use of tear gas on migrants and calling on congress to fund his border wall. and general motors announces that it is cutting thousands of jobs and shuttering several plants as the company looks to cut costs. ♪ good morning, everyone. it's tuesday, november 27th. we begin with the bombshell

court filing concerning paul manafort. robert mueller's office is accusing manafort of violating the plea deal he agreed to earlier this year. in a joint status report, mueller's team says, quote, after signing the plea agreement, manafort committed federal crimes by lying to the fbi and the special counsel's office on a variety of subject matters, which constitute breaches of the agreement. but manafort's lawyers are disputing those assertions. in that same filing, his legal team writes, manafort has provided information to the government in an effort to live up to his cooperation obligations. he believes he has provided truthful information and does not agree with the government's characterization or that he has breached the agreement. back in august the federal court found manafort guilty on several counts of financial fraud. both cases involved manafort's

political consultancy for a previous russian backed government of ukraine long before he served briefly as trump's campaign chairman. the special counsel and manafort have asked a judge to set a sentencing date for the former trump campaign chairman. president trump was tweeting about the russia probe, writing when mueller does his final report, will he be covering all of his conflicts of interest in a preamble? and will he be putting in statements from hundreds of people closely involved with my campaign who never met, saw or spoke to a russian during this period? so many campaign workers, people inside from the beginning asked me why they have not been called. they want to be. there was no collusion and mueller knows it. it may be worth noting here that department of justice officials

concluded shortly of his appointment in 2017, that robert mueller was free of any conflicts. one of roger stone's allies is apparently changing course in his answer to robert mueller and says he has rejected a plea deal offered by the special counsel. jerome corsi revealed last week that he was in talks with mueller on a potential deal on one count of perjury over statements about his contact with wikileaks founder julian assange. he initially told the special counsel in early september that he did not remember being in communication with assange ahead of wikileaks releasing thousands of e-mailed stolen from hillary clinton's campaign chairman. sources have told nbc news that mueller's office investigated whether corsi passed information about the e-mails to stone, a former campaign advisor for trump. corsi revised his testimony

earlier this month after investigators presented him with a binder of e-mails from 2016. he says he did not willfully mislead anyone and described working with the special counsel. >> they're constantly ridiculing me or insisting that i go back over and over. it's like being questioned by the north koreans. i was supposed to plead one count to lying willfully and knowingly to the special counsellor on what i said the first day. i won't lie. i will not -- to stay out of prison. they can put me in prison for the rest of my life in solitary confinemen confinement. i won't lie. i won't say that i intentionally and willfully deceived the special counsel when i didn't. >> trump tweeted, 60 minutes did a phony story about child separation when they know we had the exact same policy as the obama administration.

in fact, a picture of children in jails was used by other fake media to show how bad, cruel we are, but it was in 2014 during obama years. obama separated parents from children as did bush, et cetera, because that is the policy and law. i tried to keep them together. but the problem is when you do that, vast numbers of additional people storm the border. with obama separation is fine but with trump it's not. fake 60 minutes. >> in response to last night's 60 minutes piece, you said your policy at the border was the same as the obama administration's. it wasn't. >> say it again. >> in response to -- >> i tell you what. obama had a separation policy. we all had the same policy. >> no, you didn't. >> obama had a separation policy but people don't like to talk about that. >> sir, it was different. you decided to prosecute everyone at the border.

>> the d.o.d. released a statement saying at no time did dhs adopt of a blanket policy of separation. here's jacob soboroff in june talking to the border patrol chief in the area where most of the separations were taking place. >> is this a deterrent? is that the point? are you trying to deter people from coming by separating children and their parents and prosecuting 100% of the people who come here? >> yes. the point is we have an upward trend. if we do not do anything, we are going to be in a crisis mode. >> so separating parents and kids is so put consequences on them coming here together? >> yes. yes. >> mexico has beef eed up secury along the border a. the president was asked about the use of tear gas and specifically about photos just like this one. >> they had to use because they were being rushed by some very

tough people and they used tear gas. here's the bottom line. nobody's coming into our counted unle -- country unless they come in legally. >> how did you feel when you saw the images of the women and children running from the tear gas? >> well, i do say why are they there. the tear gas is a very minor form of the tear gas itself. it's very safe. the ones that were suffering to a certain extent were the people that were putting it out there. but it's really safe. but you really say why is a parent running up into an area where they know the tear gas is forming and they're running up with a child. in some cases they're not the parents. these are people. they call them grabbers. they grab a child because they think they're going to have a certain status by having a child. you have certain advantages in terms of our crazy laws that, frankly, congress should be changing. >> the commissioner of customs

and border protection acknowledged in an interview last night that there is only one standard form used by u.s. law enforcement. i want to bring in from washington politico's daniel lippman. let's talk about the latest news and this paul manafort plea agreement. where does this leave it as far as the damage when it comes to the mueller investigation given that he's seen as a valuable witness there in that? >> although some signs have been pointing to the fact that he wasn't cooperating enough, abc news reported a couple weeks ago that mueller's team was dissatisfied with what he was telling them. i think it shows that mueller's team -- they'll brook no violation of agreements, where if they have questions and this person has agreed to a plea deal in exchange for less prison time

and he continues to lie -- this is the third time he's been caught lying. that's a very serious allegation. it leaves the mueller probe still strong because it shows they aren't going to let someone continue to lie to them. >> jerome corsi has been sparring with the special counsel's office. does he rejection of a plea deal essentially compromise potential information pertinent to the larger probe? >> well, i think they have a number of different pieces of evidence. so they are not just relying on jerome corsi. oftentimes when people say they're going to reject a plea deal, like michael cohen did or rick gates, they eventually give in. i think this is a media play by corsi to get a slighter bett ee other -- slightly better deal.

>> interesting. in a blow to president trump's continued claims that american jobs are coming back to this country, general motors has announced it will lay off more than 14,000 employees. the auto maker announced that it was slashing the factory jobs yesterday, adding that it was possibly closing up to five plants, including in detroit and ontario and ohio as well as transmission plants in warren, michigan, and near baltimore. the company says the moves are part of a restructuring effort to cut costs and focus on autonomous and electric vehicles. a white house official told nbc ne -- president trump speaking yesterday said he was not happy

with the company's decision. >> well, we won't like it. i believe they'll be opening up something else. i was very tough. i spoke with her when i heard they were closing and i said, you know, this country's done a lot for general motors. we have pressure on them. ukraine is under martial law for the next 30 days amid quickly escalating tensions with russia after russia fired upon, rammed and seized two ukrainian naval vessels and a tug boat on sunday. >> sailors were also detained, including six injured during the ship ramming and three more wounded in a shooting by the russian side. russia says those were, quote, warships that trespassed into russian territorial waters. the u.n. security council held

an emergency meeting on the situation yesterday. >> we express our deep concern other over the incident which represents a dangerous violation of international law. sunday's outrageous violation of sovereign ukrainian territory is part of a pattern of russian behavior. what we witnessed this weekend is yet another reckless russian escalation. this is no way for a law-abiding civilized nation to act. it is an arrogant act that the international community must condemn and will never accept. as president trump said many times, the united states would welcome a normal relationship with russia. but outlaw actions like this one continue to make that impossible. >> not good. we're not happy about it at all. not at all. we've let our position be known

and we're not happy about it. >> president trump is set to meet at the end of the week with russia's vladimir putin on the sidelines of the g-20 in argentina. it all comes 4 1/2 years after russia annexed and invaded crimea. it's been three weeks since the midterm elections, but president trump was back on the campaign trail in mississippi last night. later, the president weighs in on a new government report on climate change. and he says he doesn't believe it.

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questions after a joke about attending a public hanging. trump urged voters to remember the importance of party. >> how does he fit in with mississippi? >> over in jackson, mississippi, last night democrat mike espy who is hoping to become the state's first popularly elected african-american senator made his closing argument at a church in what his campaign billed as an election eve gospel explosion. >> there are some who chose to go to a rally somewhere else tonight. if you like me, i'd rather be at this kind of rally. police are investigating two nooses that were found hanging outside the mississippi state

capital yesterday. the nooses were discovered along with five signs that referenced the racially charged senate runoff race. according to a poli one of the signs said, thousands of mississippians will vote. authorities are seeking tips from the community about who is responsible. let's get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. that rain we had yesterday, now a snowstorm up in the northeast. >> northern new england has got it a couple times already this winter. it's snowing hard in albany north wards, especially higher elevations. a lot of the cities are fine. a lot of the mass pike is all plain rain. the rain is just about over with in boston. it's western new york, new hampshire, vermont and maine that are getting it. here's the additional snowfall forecast. keep in mind i've already seen a

couple of reports of up to 11 inches of snow in some of the higher elevations of vermont and new hampshire. we're going to get additional inches on top of that. northe we're going to get lake enhanced snow in new york. the snow will begin to lighten up as we go throughout the day. then we start these lake-effect bands here. anyone driving western portions of new york state all the way down through erie pennsylvania you could be going through some of those bands. wednesday afternoon we continue with those lake-effect bands. it's going to be cold behind this storm system. only 23 for your high in chicago today. you go through a blizzard and

now it's 23 degrees. this has been the story of our november. storm, cold, storm cold. then this cold air will settle into areas of the southeast on wednesday and all the way through the mid atlantic states. not bad from texas west wards. we are going to try to sneak a little bit of that down toward los angeles. as we've been saying this has not been your typical november. boston, your average high has been 49 which is kind of typical of chicago. chicago has only been 41, which has been typical more or less of minneapolis. you get the idea. it's been much colder than normal in many areas of the country. >> can't imagine what december is going to be like. >> maybe december will be warm. >> i'll take that. still ahead, the texans and titans duke it out on monday night football.

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the united states postal service makes more holiday deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. ♪ with one notable exception. ♪ welcome back. time now for sports. in the final week of week 12 in the nfl with the texans hosting the titans on monday night football. a 61-yard touchdown pass puts tennessee ahead. but their lead melts away as the texans counter with 27 unanswered points, including a

97-yard rush from lamar miller. the titans find the end zone on a big play at the end of the third, but houston's defense shuts them out again in the fourth while demaryius thomas catches his second touchdown pass of the game. the texans win their eighth straight 34-17. meanwhile in jacksonville, the jaguars will have to play without leonard fournette when they host the colts this week. the nfl has suspended the running back one game for fighting during sunday's contest. the league has not announced any punishment for lawson yet. fournette is expected to appeal that suspension. turning to the nba and last night's matchup between the wizards and the rockets, to the nation's capital where the rockets blast off to a 27-10 read in the first quarter before

the wizards' spell begins to take hold. james harden racked up 44 points in the first three quarters but missed 5 of 7 in the fourth and the game goes into over time. he'd end up with his season best of 54 on the night, combining for 90 points with eric gordon. but that still wasn't enough to top washington's team effort. 36 scored by john wall, including six in o.t. the wizards beat the rockets 35-31. what a game. if i was the coach of the houston rockets knowing only two players put up 90 points, i'd be -- got to step up. much more on the battle playing out at the border as president trump pushes for the wall. ♪

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tear gas at migrants, including the mother who spoke with nbc news about shielding her kids. are you comfortable tear gassing children? >> as you know, they had to use because they were being rushed by some very tough people and they used tear gas. here's the bottom line. nobody's coming into our country unless they come in legally. >> reporter: president trump suggests he might close the southern border for good if mexico doesn't disburse the group of gathering migrants, a controversial and unlikely shutdown threat as he warns of a different shutdown back in washington. >> this would be a very good time to do a shutdown. >> reporter: president trump's ramping up his demand for $5 billion for border security, tweeting, congress, fund the wall. if that doesn't happen by next friday, the president could use his veto power to partly close down the government, something not even his republican allies want to see. >> we have a lot of departments that do a lot of good for our

citizens, so we need to make sure we're funding them properly through congress. four days before a sitdown meeting with china's xi jinping on the sidelines of the g20 presidential summit, president trump tells the "wall street journal" that he plans to increase the tariff levels currently in effect on $200 billion worth of chinese imports from 10% to 25% on january 1st. the president says that money from the tariffs is pouring into our tez yo treasury right now. this includes apple products. while some members of the administration are worried about the reaction by american consumers, trump tells the journal, i mean, i could make it 10% and people could stand that very easily. trump trump adds, i happen to be a tariff person because i'm a smart person, okay?

>> it could happen. we have a good relationship. here's what the bottom line is. china hasn't treated us fairly. they haven't been. they have to treat us fairly. democrats are on the threshold of gaining a 40th seat in the house. democrat tj cox is pulling ahead of the republican congressman who led by more than 4,000 votes on election night. cox now leads by just 436 votes. a loss would leave california republicans holding just seven seats in the state's 55-member federal delegation. democrats have flipped 39 house seats, seven governors' mansions. democrats' lead in the national

popular vote for congress climbed to 8.1% yesterday according to results. nbc election data finds the size of the democrats' midterm victory has now surpassed the record for either party set in 1974. nancy pelosi's campaign to become house speaker may be facing another hurdle. gill sisser the opposition came hours after one of pelosi's top critics signalled yesterday that he is seeking to hold potential discussions over the lower ranking positions of house majority leader and house majority whip. associates of molten tell the

"washington post" that he is hoping to sit down with pelosi. and republican congresswoman mia love who lost her reelection bid in utah hit back at president trump in scathing concession speech. >> the president's behavior toward me made me wonder, what did he have to gain by saying such a thing about a fellow republican? it was not really about asking him to do more, was it? or was it something else? well, mr. president, we'll have to chat about that. however, this gave me a clear vision of his world as it is. no real relationships, just

convenient transactions. that is an insufficient way to implement sincere service and policy. now to president trump's job approval rating. it took a nose dive last week. the poll found 38% approve of trump's job performance while 60% disapprove. this is the fourth time that trump's disapproval rating has reached 60%. it is the first time he has hit that number this year. donald trump is also the only president who has never cracked 50% approval in gallup's ratings, something he has not accomplished in over 676 days in office. joining us is politico's daniel lippman. what do these new gallup poll numbers signal for the president's 2020 bid? >> well, i think the 2020 campaign that they actually set up in washington around the d.c.

area instead of having it at trump tower this time, they're probably very worried because trump has not showed any sign that he's broadened his coalition. the midterm results where democrats gained a number of seats in pennsylvania, they did well in michigan, ohio, wisconsin. those are warning signs for trump as well because those were states that hillary clinton ignored and he used to great advantage to win in 2016. so the fact that his approval rating is so low and that democrats feel very energetic in those swing states, i think, democrats feel like they have to obviously make a good choice about who they pick in 2020 to go against trump. >> for now, we're talking about nancy pelosi. i want to ask you about that. you've got the resistance here, but there's also a kind of game of deal or no deal when it comes to the democrats hoping to cut a

deal with her in exchange for their votes. what are we looking at, length of time for her, other spots they're looking at, second and third spots? >> seth moulton, the congressman from massachusetts who's kind of been the leader of the rebellious band of democrats, he angered a lot of people who are anti-pelosi folks, because he said, well, maybe if they get rid of hoyer or clyburn, we'd be happy. also saying maybe if they keep pelosi for one term, that could work as well. a lot of people say that he was freelancing, that he doesn't seem to be leading this group very well. because if you just have pelosi in one term and democrats just lose the house majority because of pelosi or in part because of that, then there's no point. i think you're going to see pelosi continue to buy off

members with coveted slots. she gave marsha fudge, the chairman of an election protection subcommittee, and fudge had always talked about challenging pelosi. i wonder what she's going to offer moulton. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg is back on the bench weeks after falling and fracturing three ribs. she fell in her office on the last day of the court's november sitting. she was taken to the hospital the next morning and discharged the following day. justice ginsburg returned to her most yesterday ju post yesterday just in time to hear oral arguments for the court's december session. touchdown confirmed! [ cheers and applause ]

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makes no sense to fight climate change when other countries such as china and japan have not done so. nasa's craft landed safely on mars yesterday. the 800-pound craft launched back on may 5th for the 301 million mile journey to mars. scientists at the jet propulsion laboratory in california erupted in cheers. check out that handshake there. scientists say they will be able to learn more about what's inside the red planet beneath the martian surface. the mission is expected to last two earth years. >> i'm fascinated about the moves from everybody. >> they definitely had a lot of democrat industry between them

with the coordination. i thought it was the control ro room. they get real excited in there. >> just like bill karins. >> i like to feel important. let's get to today's forecast. we are watching snow in northern portions of new england. it's not a big deal for northern new england. the plows have been out numerous times this winter. there are cancellations out there. interior sections of maine are getting it pretty good now and the northern half of new england, a lot of highways like the mass pike and interstate 90 up to this point have mostly been wet. highest snow totals just south of buffalo could get up to a foot and some of the higher

elevations definitely going to end up with about a foot. the two story this is november have been how cold it's been and how wet it's been. now behind this big storm, another shot of cold air is coming down. it's just been one after another. this is going to end up being one of our coldest novembers in a long time. yesterday we had the snowstorm ending in michigan and chicago. today it's only going to be 23 degrees. that's 21 degrees lower than normal. typically it should be in the mid 40s this time of year. that cold air is heading all the way through the deep south. tomorrow morning not only is it cold but it's also a little breezy. the windchill in atlanta tomorrow morning will be 15, louisville 13, nashville 18, roanoke, virginia, at 9. it's going to feel like

midwinter as we end november. for the first time in a while even florida's getting chilly. in the 60s. it's hard to feel sympathetic for you in florida but 60s is one of the coldest it's been so far. atlanta is up to 80 by saturday. markets in the u.s. snap their losing streak as investors warm back up to tech stocks. plus, more on general motor's announcement about slashing jobs. 3 the united states postal service makes more holiday deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. ♪ with one notable exception. ♪ with large debris and stuck-on dust, so shark invented duoclean, replacing the front wall with a rotating soft brush. while deep cleaning carpets, two brush rolls pick up large particles with ease, make quick work of stuck-on dust,

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. welcome back. as we told you earlier in the show, general motors has announced it will lay off more than 14,000 workers as part of a restructuring plan. the news helped the auto makers stock climb. why is the stock actually climbing amid the bad news? >> a bit of a surprise reaction there, louis, you're right. the stock jumped about 8% when the news came out. investors are focused on what this is doing for gm's cash flow. many people are saying that restructures was overdue. we've also seen restructuring from ford this year. this is a reflection of the auto industry as a whole that has been struggling with dwindling

demands and the steel and aluminum tariffs which are helping boost costs as well. the stock is down still 16% for the year. for the market as a whole, yesterday was off in very good form, i should say, and helped boost some of the retail stocks. online stopping was up about 26% from a year ago so that helped the the likes of amazon, for example, be up about 5%, 6% in trading yesterday. generally, majors had a good day. tech sector was up 2%. but crucially hasn't recovered some of the heavy losses we saw in last week's trading, as well. >> so jomana, markets were up yesterday, but bitcoin continues to see losses, down more than 80% from last year's high. the question is, is there any hope for crypto? a lot of people with bitcoin in storage praying, hoping that it's going to make a recovery. >> it feels like a year ago we were talking about bitcoin at $20,000. now bitcoin is at $3,000.

so yes, indeed, there's been a lot of issues in that session. the more you trade it, the higher the price goes. this is an image circulating of chinese mining rigs lying on the streets of china these days because many of these crypto curren currenty miners don't freight any more. if you bought crypt t-- crypto would be up 400%. >> whbitcoin in cold storage. >> now we know. >> good to know. coming up, with axios's mike allen has a look at this had morning's one big thing. and coming up on "morning

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so we are going to take a look at axios a.m. with the co-founder mike allenen w who i right here with us. >> not a simulation. >> what is the one thing this morning you're going to serve up in person? >> so the one big thing is more trouble in car country. we've been hearing about the gm layoffs. the axios experts say that's the sign of things to come, more factories closing and more jobs lost. the tough lows coming in the heart of trump country. a big reason for this had is that if you look at the top six u.s. sedans, the japanese are

ahead in all of those. we you grew up with a chevrolet station wagon, dad had a ford match rick. b -- maverick. now not only are they growing, but they're more profitable. >> the f-150 is it. >> i find sometimes the americaner cars are more popular in europe like the equinox or the volt, some of those cars. you're reporting the president will be facing a new test. what is that? >> this is the ukraine crisis. we saw nikki haley instantly calling out russia, saying that what they had done was arrogant and unacceptable. the same day, the president saying we don't like the crisis either way, an echo of his language. they're very different letting

russia off the hook for now until we've seen in the past him seem to go side with russia and the ukraine crisis, seeming to side with putin, yet there will be huge pressure from his own national security establishment to call out russia on this. >> and, of course, it's ahead of the g20 summit. >> you're talking about closely following the president comments when it comes to that, but you're watching it when it comes to china and tariffs, as well. so you've been doing some digging on that. >> that's right. we saw that "wall street journal" interview that the president the had. you read between the lines and you talk to the people we've been talking to and all the signs are -- and this is not what wall street has been expecting. the signs are for a long haul on china tariffs. what jonathan swan is told is that the president still believes in his car the tariffs work. he believes that they give negotiating leverage, certainly true, and he believes they

ultimately help the u.s. economy. very few economist agree with that, but we had look at this interview and it doesn't look like he expects any break through at the summit and a break through would be anything that would give the u.s. an excuse to pull back from the planned economic tariffs. >> so take the economists aside for a minute. is there anyone in the president's orbit who says, look, when you have the soybean farmers who are a part of your base, this could be politically bad for you come 2020. is there anybody saying that? >> there are. but there are certain things this president will not be convinced of this and is maybe at the top of the list. and you're right as they take a look at 2020.

but this is something for the president that is theology, not economics. >> climate change is another thing he doesn't seem to believe in right now. >> that's a whole other thing. >> either way. >> i wish we had time for that one. but we're out of time. thank you for being here. >> of course. >> we'll get you coffee next time. >> you can signed up for axios am. >> that does it for us on this tuesday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. >> sunday's outrageous violation of the sovereign ukrainian territory is part of a pattern of russian behaviors. >> we do not like what's happening. either way, we don't like what's happening and hopefully it will get straightened out. >> u.n. ambassador nikki haley was outraged, she said, by russian aggression against ukraine. president trump took issue with both sides. he saved his sharpest words yesterday for special counsel robert mueller who just nailed

paul manafort again for his, quote, crimes and lies even after he agreed to a plea deal. the president's disapproval rating spikes to 60% in a new gallop poll, the highest level this year and matching the highest of his presidency. and the opposition from some democrats to nancy pelosi is not going away, even as the party smashes a midterm record dating back to watergate. those are just a few of the stories we'll be covering on a very busy tuesday morning. i'm willie geist alongside washington anchor for b bc newark caddie kay, mike barnacle, sam stein, noah rothman and eugene robinson. joe and mika are off this w