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good morning, everyone. it is friday, december 7th. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian and louis burgdorf. new documents scheduled for release today could shed new light on robert mueller's russia probe. prosecutors for the southern district of new york and the special counsel's office both have until 5:00 p.m. tonight to deliver sentencing memos concerning michael cohen. those documents are expected to detail cohen's cooperation in both of those ongoing investigations. mueller's team should also be filing a document that outlines the crimes and lies that led to the collapse of former trump campaign chairman paul manafort's plea deal. meanwhile, nbc news has also learned that in recent days president trump's legal team has resumed discussions with the special counsel's office. that's according to two people familiar with the matter. it's been just over two weeks since trump admitted those written answers to mueller regarding the russia probe. back in july, president trump's lawyer rudy giuliani promised to deliver a report

that would push back on robert mueller's findings, but that may no longer be the case. half a does current and former white house officials telling the atlantic that the administration has no plans in place to responding to the special counsel's findings. giuliani said it's been difficult in the past few months to even consider drafting response plans or devote time to the counterreport he claimed they were working on this summer as he and trump confronted mueller's written questions about the 2016 campaign. giuliani said, quote, answering those questions was a nightmare. it took him about three weeks to do what would normally take two days. a former senior white house official told the atlantic that attempting a plan would mean, quote, you would have to have an honest conversation about what might be coming. >> while the white house may not have a response prepared for the special counsel, that doesn't mean the president won't be tweeting about it. rudy giuliani told the atlantic that letting trump guide the response to the mueller report

may not be ideal, but added, quote, i don't think there's anyone in the world that can stop donald trump from tweeting. i've tried. just last night the president tweeted, without the phony russia witch hunt and with all that we have accomplished in the last almost two years, tax and regulation cuts, judges, military, vets, et cetera, my approval rating would be at 75% rather than the 50% just reported. it's called presidential harassment. right now gallup has trump's approval rating at 40%. that's up two points from last month but notably trump is a month away from becoming the first president not to hit a 50% approval rating during his first two years in the gallup poll's eight decade history. trump has reportedly picked a new front runner for the next attorney general. according to multiple reports, the president is strongly considering nominating william

barr for the job. barr served as attorney general under the late president george h.w. bush from 1991-1993. according to the reports barr has emerged as a favorite pick among a number of trump administration officials, including senior lawyers in the white house counsel's office. there are expectation that is the president could formally announce barr's nomination in the coming days. aides warned the president could always change his mind. some of william barr's past statements could provide democrats are am with ammo. barr has previously called for more investigations of the clintons. that includes his comments a year ago that there was actually more basis to investigate hillary clinton for the uranium one deal than there is to investigate president trump for potential collusion with russia. barr has given the president a pass on firing fbi director james comey, saying it was okay. like trump,barr has criticized

the political donations of the prosecutors on robert mueller's team, saying they are too left leaning. and bar has also refused to judge trump harshly for calling for specific investigations, including ones affecting him and his political opponents. he suggested that was okay for a president as long as the decision was made with respect to the actual evidence at hand and not for political reasons. given his criticisms of the special counsel's team, it should be noted robert mueller actually served as the head of the justice department's criminal division when barr was attorney general. and president trump is expected to announce heather nauert as the next u.n. ambassador to the united nations later today, this according to multiple sources familiar with the decision. nauert is currently the state department spokesperson and under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs. she previously worked at fox

news on and off for nearly two decades before joining the trump administration in april of 2017. president trump lavished praise on nauert when asked about her potentially becoming the next ambassador. >> she's under very serious consideration. she's excellent and she's been with us a long time. she's been a supporter for a long time and she's really excellent. so she's under very serious -- we'll probably make a decision next week. >> let's talk about some of this now. joining us now for melissa quinn from the washington examiner. thanks so much for joining us today. very much appreciate it. let's talk about the developments we're expecting today with regards to the russia investigation. i think a lot of us anticipating it's probably going to be a big day. >> does he wait until 5:00 p.m. for that filing deadline? >> it's usually around 2:00. >> let's talk first about michael cohen's cooperation with the investigators, a big

bombshell there. what do you think that we could expect to see with regards to the sentencing memo considering cohen's cooperation. >> good morning. i think the first thing we have to remember is that this is a person who has sat for more than 70 hours of interviews with the special counsel's team. that's a lot of information that could potentially be brought forward and made public as part of this sentencing memo. of course i think we have to take a little note from what we saw earlier this week with documents involving michael flynn. there were a lot of redactions as part of that memo and i think we could potentially see the same today. if we don't, there could be information about those discussions about a possible trump tower in moscow that was revealed as part of court documents in cohen's case last week, as well as maybe even those hush money payments that cohen and which trump knew about made to those two women who allegedly had affairs with the president more than a decade ago. >> interesting.

you could also find out there's another investigation like we did with michael flynn. >> this was entirely redacted. >> absolutely. so let me ask you really quickly about president trump's potential attorney general pick william barr. seems to be shaking things up at the justice department. could it possibly impact the mueller probe? >> well, i think what the long-term impact remains to be seen. if you remember, attorney general jeff sessions recused himself. it seems unlikely that mr. barr would do the same. his past comments certainly seem to endear him to president trump. he's criticized the contributions that members of mueller's team have made to democratic candidates. that certainly is in line with comments that we've seen from president trump over and over again categorizing those members of mueller's team as angry democrats. and then he's also really said that the president was justified in firing former fbi director

jim comey. whether all of those comments would be perhaps to the delight of president trump, it doesn't really make him look that great in terms of what senate democrats may think. and of course we'll be faced with confirming him. president george h.w. bush was carried to his final resting place yesterday, buried in a private ceremony after a 70-mile funeral train that went all the way to college station from houston. the service was in the oakridge boys sang a rendition of "amazing grace." reba mcintyre also sang. james a. baker, the president's long time aide and closest friend spoke of their relationship. >> he used to say that one of the things he liked best about me was that i would always tell him what i thought, even when i knew he didn't want to hear it.

but he had a very effective way of letting me know when the discussion was over. he would look at me and he'd say, baker, if you're so smart, why am i president and you're not? on behalf of his friends here today, across america and throughout the world, we rejoice, mr. president, that you are safely tucked in now and through the ages with god's loving arms around you, because our glory, george, was to have had you as our president and as such a friend. >> such an incredibly close relationship between those two men. >> it's rare to see that in politics. still ahead, the stock market rebounded after dropping nearly 800 points yesterday. we're taking a look at what caused the whiplash on wall street. new reporting about how the trump campaign and the nra may

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industrials were down 784 points. then a stunning rebound. the market coming back 700 points to close down just 79. the whiplash weighing on american's 401(k)'s, pension funds. >> unless you're in it professionally as i am, trying to get in and out of the market is a fool's game. >> reporter: amid the volatility a keen focus on the simmering trade dispute between the world's two biggest economies. stocks also got a boost on a report late yesterday that the fed could slow down interest rate hikes amid the market turmoil. apa signed a proposal to ease emissions on coal fired coal plants.

scientists say rollbacks could -- the epa and 12 other agencies issued the warning that climate change was already worsening natural disasters in the u.s. and could cause hundreds of billions of dollars in damages every year by the end of the century. during the 2016 election, the nra and the trump campaign possibly violated campaign coordination laws. an investigation of the nra's political activity by the trace and mother jones shows at times that the nra and the trump campaign used the same operation with the same people to craft and execute their advertising and strategies for the 2016 presidential election. a review of more than a thousand pages of federal communications commission and federal election commission documents discovered numerous examples where the nra through its affiliate red eagle

media group and the trump campaign through its affiliate american media and advocacy group purchased ad buys that appeared coordinated to enhance each other. both firms are connected to national media, a major conservative media consulting firm whose chief financial officer john farrell authorized both the nra's and the trump campaign's ad buys. individuals who worked for national media or its affiliated either signed or were named in fcc documents which show they knew of both the nra's and trump campaign's advertising plans during the election. republican congressman lewis gomert is drawing heat for anti-semitic comments he made about george soros yesterday on an interview with fox news. >> you mentioned orwell. it reminds of another george, george soros. george soros is supposed to be

jewish but you wouldn't know it from the fact he turned on fellow jews and helped take the property they owned. this same kind of thing, coming from a free country and helping a press. >> that troubling statement that gohmert is referencing is actually a false conspiracy theory that soros helped confiscate property for the nazis from jews. gohmert said hi residens remark pro-jewish. michael bloomberg is considering the future of his campaign as he eyes a potential run for the presidency. here's what he had to say. >> the company would either go into a blind trust or i would sell it. i think at my age, if selling it

is possible, i would do that. at some point, you're going to die anyways so you want to do it before then. i happen to believe in my heart of hearts, you can't be independent and nobody's going to believe that you're independent. quite honestly, i don't want the reporters i'm paying to write a bad story about me. >> bloomberg said he's also considering not covering politics at all, ceding all political stories to wire sources during his campaign. the interview rattled bloomberg lp's news division which has no formal plan for how to proceed if their ceo does decide to run, according to buzzfeed. speculation was also spiked by a string of departures. the new york post reports that

at least 43 senior staffers have left over the past year, including four senior editors who were let go last week. bloomberg says he will make his final decision on whether to run early last year. let's get a check now on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. hey, bill. >> good morning. we talked all week long about this coast to coast storm that was going to have high impacts friday, satsurday, sunday. now it's finally arriving. just a ton of moisture and clouds coming up through mexico right into texas. we have about 33 million people at risk of a bunch of different hazards. we have winter weather in northern texas and oklahoma. now we have a few winter storm warnings here in western north carolina. the first hard todzard today thl be a threat to property and lives, flash flooding. we're worried about that today

from houston to sloohreveport. that's 5-5 in that's 4-5 inches in a huge footprint here. up to 10 inches of rain will cause a lot of problems. we're going to have river flooding in this region in southeast texas right through the weekend. that's one of the hazards. with that, we have a moderate risk of flash flooding. icing, not too concerned. the icing forecast has really come down in the owe dazarks an carolinas. this bullseye of upstate of south carolina, all of western north carolina, we could see easy a foot of snow, maybe two feet in the mountains. this is really a north carolina storm. >> should we head south to go skiing? >> i know, right? it could be really good. head to boone or asheville. >> you guys can do that on your own. >> not into it, i guess.

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin and louis burgdorf. it is the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top stories. congress has averted a government shutdown for now. yesterday the senate passed a bill by voice vote which funds the federal government for the next two weeks. the legislation passed the house by unanimous consent earlier in the day. however, the fight is far from over as democrats and republicans are reportedly dead locks for funding of president trump's border wall. the border wall is expected to be at the top of the president's agenda when he meets with democratic leaders nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. earlier this week border patrol and military personnel in nogales, arizona, took part in a large scale readiness exercise in the event of a migrant surge. the president tweeted, arizona is basing for a massive surge at a non-walled area.

we will not let them through. big danger. nancy and chuck must approve border security and the wall. the president's spelling of boarder, not ours. senator schumer says the already approved 1.6 billion for border skirt is enoug security is enough. >> speaking for myself, i consider the wall immoral, ineffective, expensivexpensive. the president also promised mexico would pay for it. even if they did, it's immoral still and they're not going to pay for it. >> pelosi also saying that legal protections for so-called dreamers should not be linked to funding for the border wall. staying on capitol hill, majority leader mitch mcconnell has reportedly told white house official that is the bipartisan criminal justice reform bill supported by the president is unlikely to get a vote before the end of the current congress, according to new reporting from the "washington post."

one mcconnell advisor says it is because the republican leader doesn't have enough time and is more focused on other things. however, a republican donor and key white house ally described mcconnell as a, quote, jeff sessions style lock them up and throw away the key kind of guy who just doesn't like the bill. judiciary committee chairman chuck grassley urged mcconnell to take up the measure, saying the votes are there. majority whip john cornyn says he's actually not so sure. let's talk a little bit about congress. it has narrowly avoided another government for now at least. will a divided congress next year make a shutdown more likely to happen when you have the democrats in control of the house? >> yeah. it certainly makes things extremely complicated for partnership, particularly if he wants to continue pushing for funding for his border wall. this year really presents the

last opportunity, at least easy opportunity for president trump to get that money given the fact that democrats will take over the house next year. as you said, nancy pelosi has been extremely clear that she is not going to play ball when it comes to giving president trump the money that he needs. but maybe we'll be surprised. we certainly were earlier this year when president trump had that meeting with chuck and nancy, as he likes to call them, and did agree to a deal that ultimately shocked republicans. there's also the fact that democrats may have perhaps a little bit of leverage over the president given the fact that the house will certainly be launching a number of investigations into his conduct, potentially that of his family members. but the one thing we know for certain is that president trump, democrats definitely seem very unlikely to give president trump money for that wall, which could complicate negotiations coming into next year. >> i like melissa's positivity.

let's talk about some of the details emerging with regards to the russia probe. obviously we heard that giuliani said that the legal team for trump doesn't really have a strategy as to how to respond to what comes out of the mueller probe ultimately and how difficult it was for trump to get those questions answered with regards to the mueller probe. do you see the trump team changes its legal strategy once these details emerge? >> the one thing they have really held strong on throughout this whole process in terms of what we've heard from rudy giuliani is that if mueller's team does subpoena president trump, they do intend to fight. then in terms of what we've seen from the president, he has really taken his fight to twitter. as we have seen more and more information come out from the special counsel's office, as more information is expected to come out from the special counsel's office, i think the one certainty is that president trump is going to be on twitter punching back. >> yes.

i agree. >> safe bet. >> melissa quinn, thank you. >> thank you. president trump fired off a number of tweets last night, ranging from russia to border security. in fact, he tweeted a quote from jerome corsi, an associate of roger stone, who was on fox business last night. corsi said, this is not justice, this is not america, this is a political prosecution. the special prosecutor to get this plea deal demanded i lie and violate the law. they're the criminals. trump added quote, he is not alone. 17 angry dems, people forced to lie. sad. tw trump tweeted in all caps, fake news, the enemy of the people. >> all that's happening. at the same time that tweet was posts, cnn's offices in new york city were evacuated because of a bomb threat. the president also tweeted about last month's midterm elections writing, does the fake news

media ever mention the fact that republicans with the very important help of my campaign rallies won the united states senate 53-47. all i hear is that the open border dems won the house. big republican win. >> diminishing the role of the house then, i guess, is the president's strategy. as we've seen, president trump is stepping up his rhetoric on immigration with a government looming over funding for his proposed border wall. now new details are emerging on a group of undocumented workers at one of trump's own properties. kate snow has more. >> reporter: it's one of the president's favorite retreats. trump national golf club in bedminster, new jersey. this woman has worked there as a housekeeper since 2013. >> translator: i liked working for him, but when i saw how he talked about us when he started his presidency, i felt

humiliated. how d i told them that i don't have papers, i don't speak english and i was a immigrant. they said, no, it doesn't matter. >> reporter: sandra says she worked at bedminster without legal document as well. president trump has said his companies never hired people who were undocumented. >> we didn't have one illegal immigrant on the job. >> reporter: he's made immigration his cornerstone issue, threatening a possible government in two weeks if his border wall isn't funded. but these women say they weren't the only undocumented workers at bedminster. the white house referred nbc news to the trump organization. in a statement a spokesperson said, we have tens of thousands of employees across our properties and have very strict hiring practices. if any employee submitted false documentation in an attempt to circumvent the law, they will be terminated immediately. these women came forward knowing they're risking deportation.

kate snow, nbc news, new york. president trump's pick to lead the consumer financial protection bureau was narrowly confirmed in a 50-49 senate vote yet. kraninger was confirmed despite objections by democrats who cited her lack of experience on consumer finance and banking issues. she will succeed mulvaney to serve a five-year term. she has previously held jobs at the department of homeland security and transportation. still ahead, we're going to get a preview of some important economic numbers as we await this morning's release of the monthly jobs report. plus, the stock market slide gets some relief on speculation that the fed may pump the brakes on its recent streak of rate hikes. then bill karins is back with another check on your forecast. to look at me now,

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welcome back. it was a frenzied day of trading with the dow rebounding from a nearly 800 point plunge rebounding to end down just 77 points. what a day yesterday. >> you know what? it's been so volatile, louis, one of the most volatile weeks ki remember. dow was down almost 800 points at one point in the session yesterday, ended the day only 80 points layeower. might now the market has priced in about one further rate hike from the fed in 2019. comet it has be on monday there was a bit of a bounce after that g-20 meeting, some optimism being expressed on

the trade front. now the talk is one of growth concerns and whether or not that trade truce between china and the u.s. is really going to hold up. putting it all together for the week, s&p and dow down 2.5%. financials down 5%. so much for that santa rally. it's really fizzled out. >> yeah, no santa rally on the horizon. in the midst of all this massive market volatility, the november jobs report is due later this morning. what can we expect? >> big sign post for the investment community today. all eyes will be on that headline number. today the expectation is for 198,000 extra jobs to be created. really all eyes are going to be on that wage growth number, the average hourly earnings number. it's pexpected to come in at 3% month on month.

the unemployment rate is expected to hold in at 3.7%. these are metric that is the s t these are metric that is the s will look at closely. if we get a disappointing number today, it could spiral this downward trajectory we're seeing. with that, let's switch gears, bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins for a quick check on your weather. >> let's break down the weekend and tell everyone the travel concerns and the timing for you. i want to go over the snowfall. we have lowered totals significantly for oklahoma city. yesterday was 1-3. now you're like 0-1. a lot of it is going to stay south of you. that's the trend. it's really going to be from roanoke and richmond south wards that we're going to get accumulating snow. six inches of snow possible in winston-salem to charlotte and raleigh.

when you head to the mountains, that's 12-18 inches of snow. the mountains of north carolina get a little bit of snow in the upstate of south carolina but not a lot. you're going to be a little too warm. may get a little more icing. for today, airports, rain, dallas/ft. worth. we could have major problems there because of heavy rain, thunderstorms and delays. on the roads with the heavy rain and the flooding concerns late today into tomorrow that's why we have major travel issues possible. on saturday, the airport problems spread from memphis to atlanta through new orleans. we'll begin to improve in the areas of houston. that will be in the afternoon. of course, driving mostly in the rain. we don't really see too much snowy travel on the highways. the only problem may be amarillo here heading out on 40 or through the ozarks. sunday a lot of rain in atlanta.

charlotte and raleigh major delays. highest impacts are the flooding threat today in texas and north carolina with all the snow and ice. still ahead, the blue wave grows even bigger as democrats officially flip another republican seat. plus, nancy pelosi wades into the ongoing fight over one north carolina congressional district seat amid fraud allegations. the steps she says congress could take to settle this issue. ♪

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the democrats tripp 0 house seats. >> does that technically make it a blue wave? >> yesterday republican congressman david valadao conceded to democratic challenger tj cox who has been declared the apparent winner. adding to the large st wave for democrats since watergate. democrats have won 41 house seats in the trump era. the latest numbers show democrats won the national popular vote in house races by 9.7 million votes, which is the largest midterm vote margin ever. the democrats 8.6 percentage point victory is the largest margin in a midterm since 1986.

meanwhile, nbc news has rescinded its call in north carolina's ninth congressional district as state officials weigh tossing out last month's election results as tainted. yesterday, democrat dan mccready withdrew his concession and is calling on harris to break his silence. >> last week we learned about shameful activity to take away north carolinians rights to vote. i didn't serve overseas in the marine corps to come back home and watch politicians and criminals to withdraw our democracy. i call on mark harris to tell us exactly what he knew and when he knew it. >> so the raleigh news and observer has reported that mark harris mu the accused operative and personally recommended his

services to other campaigns. "the washington post" reports they believe fraud had occurred. that complaint didn't regularster at the time and described harris as an innocent victim. woodhouse tells nbc news if they can show a substantial likelihood it could have changed the race and then we would fully support a state election. there will be a hearing on or before december 21st, two weeks from today. nancy pelosi said if officials in north carolina don't act, congress might have to. >> it's not just the dems who have a problem with how it went in north carolina. the republicans have a problem, too. only if it's impossible to determine who the winner is would we take the extraordinary step of calling for a new

election. >> pelosi said democrats are tracking developments in florida where republican congressman elect ross spano admitted to receiving more than $167,000 in illegal loans which came to light when he submitted a financial disclosure form on the eve of the election 3 1/2 months after it was due. a lawyer for spano who is also a lawyer told the fec that he believed he was acting in compliance with the law. >> incredible stories. >> yeah. coming up, axios's jonathan swan has a look at this morning's one big thing. and more on the new documents set to be released today in the special counsel's investigation as president trump's legal team resumes talks with mueller's office. former cia director john brennan will join the conversation and what could be in mueller's next big disclosure. "morning joe" is just moments away. aaaaaahhhhhhhh!

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joining us from washington political reporter from axios, the one and only jonathan swan. how are you doing, jonathan? >> hi, guys. >> friday mornings with jonathan. >> not that good.? >> let's talk about the one big thing. what have you got? >> the range of pressures bearing down on the president are more acute than at any point in his presidency. current and former administration officials tell us. you have a booming economy that suddenly looks vulnerable. stock market wild, wild volatility which affects the president's psychiatricsy. he asks staff every day what the dow is doing. you've got obviously more -- we're about to learn much more about cohen and manafort. and the third one, yesterday -- i have been covering this west wing since the beginning of the presidency. yesterday was peak uncertainty about the fate of john kelly. it's now -- i mean, you hear this, it's like groundhog day so we're not reporting anything, but honestly, it is widely

believed -- i mean, he's not really almost being treated as the chief of staff. it's sort of like care take he, his departure is imminent is the wide view internally. so it's created a very uncertain climate in there and trump is going to overhaul both the white house and the cabinet. that's true. i haven't been hearing of john kelly lately. >> but we've also been talking about his imminent departure for about a year since he became chief of staff. >> it's oddly absurd and i recognize the comedy of me even talking about it, yeah. >> so let me ask you about new reporting by axios that congressman elect -- excuse me, alexandria ocasio. cortez is having an impact on democrats. explain what kind of an impact she's having. >> she is using her organizing and activist instincts and abilities, particularly her use of social media to disrupt the house democratic conference already. and yesterday, there was a --

they had an orientation event which, you know, gary cohen and other corporates coes attended. she made much of the fact that they weren't labor leaders there and, you know, just seeing this real public agitation about what most members of congress at least quietly grind about or taken for granted or lived with for a long time. so she's already -- i mean, one of our -- i think it was the melman castonetti firm says her total number of twitter followers is the same as 60 other combined twitter followings of the house democratic caucus. so she is already, besides pelosi, the most famous member of that conference. >> shows the generational difference that exists. >> it's safe to say that she now has a national audience, not just within her district. >> jonathan swan, good to see you. we're going to see you in a little bit on "morning joe." we're going read axios a.m. in

just a little bit. >> that does it for us on this friday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. >> arlo -- >> get out in time. are you okay? >> yeah, i'm okay. i know what jack is doing. pull up his files, get me a list of his known associates in the tri state area, anyone he's worked with in the past. >> in the next half hour, the man has wide by been acknowledged as the party in the peace process will touch down at jfk. he is be ferried into manhattan by helicopter and then to the u.s. >> that is former fox news personality heather nowry playing hers on the spy drama "24" reporting on a fictional showdown at the united nations. president trump, a former reality tv star himself is poised to nominate her as america's real ambassador to the u.n. good morning. >> let me just say, though, as a

former republican, a republican who was a republican when republicans were republicans and a conservative who was a conservative when conservatives were conservatives. still are. >> the is rououtrageous. >> what? >> that somebody on tv is able to work at the united nations. as a reagan republican, i find this whole actor to u.n. ambassador thing very -- >> she was a news anchor. >> what was your favorite ronald reagan movie, mike? >> i think it was the one with the monkey. >> yes. yes. >> good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it's friday, december 7th. we're in washington this morning along with the washington anchor for bbc world news america caddie kay. >> you were a jeopardy clue, were you not? >> i was. >> and you were on "snl." >> i was. >> it made me look 20 years younger. thank you, claire foy.