good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. it's day 21 and the government shutdown is about to set a new record with the costs continuing to mount. protests are breaking out across the country as hundreds of thousands of federal employees miss a paycheck today. this is president trump sounded the alarm during a visit to the southern border. he said he's continuing to weigh whether to declare a national emergency if congress done reach an agreement to fund his wall. new developments in the russia probe as michael cohen will publicly testify before congress. the president, though, is brushing it off.

good morning it's friday, january 11th. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside burg. it's friday and a missed payday for federal workers or contractors who are furloughed or not being paid. a standoff that entered today 21 and joins the december 1995 shutdown as the longest in history. yesterday saw protests around the country including washington, chicago, detroit, new york, kentucky, dallas and ogden, utah where the irs is one of the area's largest employers and three quarters of the workforce is furloughed. yesterday the head of the fbi agents association said nearly 5,000 special agents, intelligence analysts, attorneys and professional staff are currently furloughed resulting in reduced staffing for critical functions that support field operations. meanwhile there are more republican defections as the house approved two

appropriations bills thursday. 12 republicans broke to vote with the democrats to re-open the transportation department and housing and urban development while ten voted to fund agriculture programs like food stamps and fda. but in an interview that aired last night the president tried to claim it was the other way around. listen to this. >> if you look, democrats in congress, especially the new ones coming in are starting to say wait a minute we can win this battle with trump because of the fact that it's just common sense. how can we say a wall doesn't work. they show helicopters of empty fields people running through. >> this is president trump comparing democratic leaders with china who u.s. is locked in an expensive trade battle with. >> i find china, frankly, in many ways to be far more honorable than crying chuck and nancy. i really do. i think that china is actually

much easier to deal with than the opposition party. >> but while the president is delivering tough rhetoric in public the white house is privately planning a retreat. the administration has begun laying the ground work for a declaration of national emergency to bypass congress to fund the border wall. while certain to be challenged in court ate shutdown exit plan that will let president trump claim victory on his campaign pledge in order to sign a bill to re-open the government. trump said yesterday he's leaning towards it. >> i have the absolute right to declare a national emergency. the lawyers have so advised me. i'm not prepared to do that yet but if i have to i will. if this doesn't work out probably i will, though. i will almost say definitely. >> the president is also pushing back at reports that his proposed wall will not be as strong as he, in fact, claims, testing by the department of homeland security in 2017 found

all eight wall proto types including the steel slats could be breached. this photo shows the steel barrier after it was sawed through. here's how the president responded to that development. >> that's a wall that was designed by previous administrations. there's nothing that can't be penetrated but you fix it. but it's a very difficult thing to do. but that's a wall and they have other walls. we have many walls under craig. even concrete. acid that can go through concre concrete. what you do is you fix it. it very much limits, it's very, very hard. the wall we're doing is very, very hard to penetrate. >> previous administrations did use the design, the proto types were built during the trump administration and all eight were vulnerable to testing. dhs issued a statement saying while the design currently being constructed was informed by what

we learned in proto types does not indicate the designs. >> michael cohen has agreed to testify publicly before congress in february. just a month before he's stoet go to prison. in a statement yesterday cohen announced that he'll appear before the house oversight committee on february 7th. he said he looks forward to having the privilege of being afford a platform of which to give a full and credible account of the events that have transpired. lanny davis, cohen's former lawyer who is now his legal adviser spoke to msnbc yesterday about cohen's upcoming testimony. >> he'll answer the questions truthfully what it was like working for donald trump. he has told me many time that nothing went on inside trump tower that donald trump didn't know. it was a rotating door in and out of his office. >> speak to fox news trump's attorney rudy giuliani said he can't imagine why chairman of the house oversight committee

elijah cummings would want to hear testimony from michael cohen describing him as a discredited liar. president trump is down playing the news about cohen's plan to testify. >> michael cohen has agreed to testify before the house democrats next month. what do you think of that. >> are you worried? >> i'm not worried about it at all, no. >> let's talk more about this. joining me from washington capitol hill reporter. not worried about it at all. seems pretty confident. not surprised by that. molly, what can we learn or expect to learn from michael cohen's testimony? >> reporter: keep in mind this would be the first of probably numerous appearances by michael cohen on capitol hill. oversight committee would have the first go at him and likely to touch on tissues that he was involved in, including potential or possible hush money payments that could have violated campaign finance laws.

also what role, what leverage does russia hold financially over president trump. president trump is reported to have wanted to build a trump tower in moscow. and really that's what congress wants to get to the bottom of. you have an oversight committee that will have the first go. house intelligence committee wants to hear from cohen as does the injuries committee in the house. even the senate intelligence committee wants to hear from michael cohen again because keep in mind michael cohen pleaded guilty to lying to congress. and senator burr who is the chairman of the intelligence committee wants cohen back up before his panel to get to the bottom of exactly what he lied about. >> a lot of eyes will be on his testimony. let's make this transition to the shutdown here nearing one of the longest shutdowns in history. i know you've talked to some republican senators about the shutdown and how they think this whole thing could end.

>> reporter: well, you know, there's several schools of thought here. but the main one being that the president is going to have to declare a national emergency. some republican senators think that he has the authority under the national emergency's act that was created by congress in 1976. senator ron johnson who is the chairman of the homeland security and governmental affairs committee told us yesterday that, you know, if you look at that text it specifically relates to immigration and so ron johnson thinks the president has a pretty good case. that said, it's unclear if the government would re-open again immediately because republicans are wary of any court challenges. you know. so say the president declares a national emergency, you would think, okay, congress will go ahead and fund the rest of the government. but republicans are a little bit more skeptical about that. johnson said he's working with several colleagues to put together a bare bones essential package of funding for essential

employees that have to show up to work during this shutdown because, again, it's unclear if the president would go ahead immediately and sign measures to fund the government entirely if there is a court challenge in the works. >> a national emergency, if the president were to declare an emergency here that means the shutdown could drag on even more. >> reporter: possibly, yes. >> molly hooper. thank you. house speaker nancy pelosi accused treasury secretary steve mnuchkin of wasting lawmakers time in a classified briefing on his decision to lift sanctions on companies linked to a russian oligarch yesterday. mnuchkin defended the administration's decision to lift sanctions on three companies linked to oleg deripaska despite concerns from democrats. mnuchkin defended the action explaining the white house played no formal role in the decision and denied that the treasury department's political

appointees overruled career officials on the matter. this is according to members who attended the meeting. after that pelosi slammed the briefing while speaking to reporters. >> this is one of the worst briefings we've received from the trump administration. the secretary barely testified, answered some questions, but he didn't give testimony. they had an intelligence briefing which i won't go into. then they read a document which was unclassified wasting the time of members of congress. i went in sympathic to the process for sanctions and relief of sanctions came out just unimpressed. >> i was somewhat surprised to see the speaker's comment. i was available. not only did we accommodate them and waited while they were voting, but we sat through and

gave them close to an hour and a half and answered all their questions. >> this marks one of the first potential fights between house democrats and the administration as the newly empowered lawmakers look to step up investigations into trump and russia. >> we're saying to the trump administration and russians, we're looking carefully at every transaction you're involved with. we will exercise our oversight. the end of overlook has ended. and the beginning of oversight you see right here this afternoon. >> special counsel robert mueller has taken a closer look into several ukrainians who attended president trump's inauguration. the "new york times" reports federal investigators are looking into whether ukrainians or their allies who came to d.c. for the inauguration were promoting grand bargains or peace plans that align with russia's interests including

lifting sanctions. they asked how some you katrinians were able to begin access to inauguration events. who they met with while in the united states and what they discussed according to people with direct knowledge of the questions and others who were briefed on these interviews. the paper states as recently as last month investigators were asking witnesses about legal foreign lobbying related to ukraine including whether foreigners from ukraine and other countries used straw donors approximately foreigners are allowed to attend inaugural events they are prohibited from donating to an inaugural committee. 2020 year-round up. field of potential democratic candidates is beginning to swell and we're taking a look at what some of the presidential hopefuls are up to. >> ruth baden ginsburg absence from the supreme court is creating uncertainty. how the white house is preparing for her possible departure. >> those stories and a check of the weather when we come back. m. uh-oh! guess what day it is??

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welcome back, everybody. i want to take a look at the latest updates on the 2020 democratic field. new york senator gillibrand is planning her first iowa visit next weekend as she eyes a potential presidential run. gillibrand is looking at troy, new york as a possible 2020 campaign base according to people familiar with the discussions. over in texas, former three term congressman beto o'rourke took to instagram to share something personal with his followers. his dental visit. he used his time in the doctor's chair to share his dental hygienist personal family story of growing up on the u.s.-mexico border. meanwhile in washington state governor jay inslee is looking to hold a new hampshire this month. coming up later on "morning joe"

california senator kamala harris will weigh in on reports that she's also eyeing a potential bid for president. also in texas a dispute in a county republican party in the dallas-ft. worth area gained national attention when a faction of the tarrant county gop pushed for the removal of one of its two vice chairs because he's a muslim. shahid shafi was appointed by the party chair and within weeks chairs moved to recall him accusing him of supporting sharia law and being tied to terrorist affiliated groups. last night the gop rejected a motion to remove dr. shafi. he attributed dozen of votes against him to a difference of opinion and said the outcome proved the party is open to all conservatives. the white house has begun preparations for an ailing justice ruth baden ginsburg possible death or departure from the supreme court. politico reports the white house

began reaching out to conservative allies after 85-year-old ginsberg missed monday's oral arguments for the first time in her 25 years on the bench. sources familiar with the conversation says the white house began taking the temperature on possible short list candidates, reaching out to key stakeholders very quietly because the idea is not to be opportunistic but just to be prepared so we aren't caught flat foot. despite her absence ginsberg is participating in cases receiving briefings and filings at home while she recovers from cancer removal surgery last month. however, should she leave the bench it would trigger the second bitter supreme court confirmation battle of trump's tenure and allow the president to create the court's strongest conservative majority in decades. ginsberg said she plans to remain on the bench for at least another five years or as long as she can do it at quote full steam ahead. >> let's get a check on your

weather with meteorologist bill karins. >> pretty good size snowstorm coming start today in missouri and head to the east coast as we've been advertising all week long. getting some snow in areas of colorado. denver you'll pick up three to five inches of snow. mountains of albuquerque, taos will get snow. you see snow breaking out in missouri along with freezing rain. when we add it all up we have winter storm watches from virginia then we have the warnings from indianapolis to st. louis. just outside of springfield. we have about 39 million people impacted by this storm. notice areas from d.c. northward, not under any advisories or anything, snow totals are pretty low from d.c. northward. not a lot of impact in areas of philadelphia to new york city. here's the snowfall forecast. the footprint of the snow is one of the biggest. snow falling through arizona, northern new mexico, the snow heaviest from missouri to illinois. southern indiana to southern ohio. then another little batch of moderate to heavy snow here from

west virginia into virginia. let's get into the specifics. as far as snow totals, denver snow totals three to five inches. the bull's eye one of the biggest storms we've seen in almost a decade if we do get possibly a foot of snow in st. louis, this area of red in here is eight inches plus. this is a big plowable, two to three day event from missouri to central illinois. indianapolis four to six inch range. . cincinnati four inches. a lot less when you get down to lexington about an inch or two. temperatures are a little too warm. columbus you're about two to three inches. cleveland you miss out. buffalo you miss out. pittsburgh has a chance for about an inch. mountains of west virginia should do all right. four to six inches. d.c. is on that cut off line. but it does look like a good chance of one to two, maybe at most three inches of snow d.c.

our friends in fredericksburg could get more, possibly two to four inches. philadelphia to new york city, boston, hartford, no problems. same for raleigh and charlotte you'll be getting rain. as far as the impacts are going to go at the airports, st. louis, obviously later today into tonight and tomorrow. worst impact say with indianapolis. chicago won't be too bad. memphis and same for atlanta. we track this storm to the east. rain to the south. we're watching a new tax reform coming in to california. a lot of flooding concerns in california come next week. very typical storm. not too many school delays or cancelations because it's happening on the weekend. maybe people can play and not be interrupted. coming up, with the government shutdown entering day 21 unemployment offices across the country reporting an uptick in claims. we'll look into that straight ahead. (burke) parking splat. and we covered it.

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endpoint because just playing with no idea when the pain will start and i felt like making that decision, you know, i think i can kind of get through this. so wimbledon, that's where i would like to -- that's where i would like to stop playing. but i'm also not certain i'm able to do that. >> clearly very emotional. that was an injury he thought company come back from. a lot of his fans extremely upset and in shock over that report. all right. the "wall street journal" is also reporting that las vegas police have issued a warrant to obtain a dna of rinaldo as part

of a 2009 rape allegation against the superstar. a statement from his lawyer denied the allegation and said the sex was consensual. tim tebow has yet to secure a start in the mets lineup. it appears he has proposed to the 2017 misuniverse posting this photo of himself on one knee to new fiancee. congratulations to them and hopefully he'll make it. >> his family life is on point at least. >> that's right. >> he has to keep his fingers crossed with that baseball thing. new reporting about the white house how to pay for president trump's border wall including possibly using his disaster relief funds. plus the president claims he never said mexico would write a check for the border wall. that's not true and we have the tape to prove it. we'll be right back. to look at me now,

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside louis burgdorf. it's the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top stories. day 21 of the government shutdown. not only tied for the longest ever in u.s. history, but it's also the day that federal workers and contractors will miss their first payday. now comes a warning that national security success put at risk. nbc's tom costello has more.

>> reporter: from d.c. to utah to kentucky thousands of demonstrators were demanding an end to the shutdown. working without pay 3,000 air traffic controllers whose jobs are already stressful received their first pay statements. zero dollars. >> on behalf of more than 61,000 pilots of the airline pilots association we stand in solidarity with you. >> reporter: pilots and flight attendants joined hundreds of controllers on capitol hill. among them this controller worried about paying the bills. >> we have the mortgage. car loan. cell phone. electric. gas. utilities. we don't know what it will cost us once the baby is home. >> reporter: bill's wife is expecting their first child next week a daughter. >> couldn't be worst timing. instead of focusing about bringing the baby home and not

worry about him getting paid. -run 51,000 tsa officers, 4,000 national weather employees and 13,000 fbi agents. the agents union warned with 5,000 employees on furlough national security and investigations are at risk. in new mexico, though, nasa contractor isn't getting paid but says he doesn't care. >> because i stand behind my president and i believe what he's doing is right. i believe we need the border wall. >> reporter: while in utah this single mom an irs worker with three kids has a tough choice to make. >> are you going to pay for medication or are you going to pay for laundry detergent. >> reporter: tom costello, nbc news washington. our thanks to nbc tom costello for that report. nbc news learned president trump has been briefed on proposal to declare a national emergency that takes money congress allocated to aid the victims of natural disasters throughout the u.s. and put it towards the border wall. three u.s. officials familiar

with the briefing says the plan that would have the army corps of engineers redirect billions of funding to construct more than 300 miles of barrier along the southern border using money set aside for projects all around the country for fiscal year 2020 including $2.4 billion for flood prevention projects in california and another $2.5 billion for storm damage of puerto rico. white house did not immediately return a request for comment. the republican party is in lo -- is not in lock step. lindsey graham said mr. president the democrats are not working in good faith with you. build the wall now. other republican senators are firmly against it and the precedent it would set. >> i don't want to see a declaration of national emergency. i think that's an action that would be taken in the most extreme circumstances. >> advise against that as a bad

precedent. even if the president has got authority to do it. i would advise against it. >> tomorrow the national security emergency might be climate change so let's seize fossil fuel plants. >> now to the president's trip to the southern border to pitch his border wall. he made several carefully orchestrated appearances yesterday aimed at dramaizing it. there were stacks of heroin, meth and cash were prominencely displayed. the president made the same false claim twice yesterday concerning his promise mexico would pay for the border wall. >> when during the campaign i would say mexico was going to pay for it. obviously, i never said this and i never meant they would write out a check. i said they are going to pay for it. when i say mexico is going pay

for the wall, i didn't think they would write a check for $20 billion or $10 billion or $5 billion or two cents. >> not true. here's a document from the trump campaign website which said that it could use trade as leverage to compel mexico to quote make a one time payment of $5 to $10 billion and here's what the president said in april of 2016. >> watch this. watch this. you guys ready for it? who's going to pay for the wall? by the way, by the way, 100%. you know the politicians say they will never pay. 100%. >> they are not going to write us a check. >> they will pay. in one form or another. they may write us a check. >> joining me from washington capitol hill reporter for the while molly hooper. i mean, i'm kind of at a loss

for words here because we all know this claim that the president made over and over again throughout his campaign that mexico would pay for the wall and now he's sort of walking that back and saying it wasn't a direct payment that they would be making, it would be made for trade. whatever he's saying. do you think his base is buying this? >> reporter: 100% walking it back. 100%. no. you know when you talk to republican lawmakers up there on capitol hill, even during the campaign we would ask, reporters would ask is mexico really going to pay for this? privately sometimes publicly they would laugh and shake their heads saying no, that's not going to happen. so, i think that when it comes to the folks on capitol hill there was never really an expectation that mexico would, in fact, pay for the border wall. and those are the people that he, you know, really needs to get on his side to support what he's doing. and democrats have tried to use this as a leverage point. ever since, you know, talk of a

possible government shutdown was going to happen over this issue. democrats were quick to point out that mexico was supposed to pay for this. and it put republicans in kind of a tough position but, again, one that they've had some sort of difficulty navigating and getting on the same page. we'll see how this proceeds, but, again, there really wasn't an expectation up on capitol hill that mexico would pay for it. >> but do you think that his base just has a short memory on this or they just not care? >> reporter: again, that's the question. it really concerns republican lawmakers who need those votes to get elected. and if these lawmakers feel that their supporters and their voters, trump's base of voters in their districts don't necessarily believe mexico will pay for the wall, then, you know, it's not as big of an issue as is building a wall. and that's the key point in this

because even when we bring this up to republican lawmakers on the hill, the mexico paying for it isn't as big of an issue as actually building it and laying down the barrier. >> molly hooper, thank you. according to a new report by cnn special counsel robert mueller's team met last year with one of donald trump's 2016 campaign pollsters who is a information business associate of paul manafort. the news takes on new significance, though, after it was revealed earlier this week that manafort shared 2016 polling data with a former associate with ties to russian intelligence. cnn reports that trump pollster tony fabrizio was seen leaving mueller's office in february of last yearer and has since confirmed that he was meeting with investigators. still ahead republicans slam congressman steve king for his latest in a career full of racist remarks. secretary of state mike pompeo lays out the trump administration's vision for the middle east while rebuking obama

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and so are the policies that produce so much needless suffering. now comes the real new beginning. >> former obama officials told the ap that pompeo's speech was petty and pandered to authoritarian leaders. republican congressman steve king is back tracking after receiving harsh comments during a "new york times" interview on the topic of the iowa congressman's long standing anti-immigration reviews. king said white nationalists, white supremacist, western civilization how did that language become offensive. why did i sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and civilization. after the piece was released king offered an apology. he said they were taken out of context. >> what i was really talking about is the continuation of applying labels on to people as

freely as they are. i reject white nationalism. i reject white supremacy. it's not part of my ideology. i reject anyone who carries that ideology. >> why did you say it? >> that was in the context of a long interview with the "new york times". >> despite congressman king's joe the republican backlash has been swift. kevin mccarthy said everything about white supremacy and white nationalism goes against who we are as a nation. steve's language is reckless, wrong and has no place in our society. house minority whip steve scalise weighed in on the growing outrage. >> i think it's offensive to try to legitimize those terms. i think it was important that he rejected that kind of evil because that's what it is. it's evil ideology. >> congressman king faces potentially tricky re-election chances in his home state of iowa in 2020. on the same day king's comments were published iowa's republican

governor said he will not back him in the upcoming primary and chairwoman of the house republican conference also weighed in on the controversy calling congressman king's comments abhorrent and racist. >> let's get a check of your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, many people across the country are going to see snow for the first time this winter. >> fun for the kids and a little bit of work for the adults. we're watching this storm starting to take shape. rain in areas of texas where it's warm enough not to have any icy concern. same in oklahoma. through the ozarks, northern arkansas a little bit of ice coming down. snowing pretty good in areas of i-25 southward coming out of denver. in all the snow advisories and watches and warnings go from colorado through virginia. we got about 1500 miles of a swath of winter weather that we're expecting in the next two to three days. let's time this mess out for you. storm is in texas. pink on the map is the ice. blue is where the snow is.

everything is mostly a rain event until after the sunsets. this evening the snow filling in from denver, i-70 will be a mess from kansas through kansas city this evening all the way to st. louis. if you have travel plans this evening in those areas you could see delays at the airports and roads quickly will get slippery especially interstate 70 overnight. saturday morning the snow will be on the ground. numerous inches of snow in st. louis. then the snow starts breaking out from indianapolis to cincinnati. early in the morning just beginning in areas of the appalachians. by the time we go through saturday afternoon still snowing from st. louis to cincinnati, maybe a little bit trying to fall in virginia. not a lot. the bulk of the virginia snow and west virginia will come saturday night into sunday morning. notice by sunday afternoon and evening the storm is off the coast. servicing all over with. by the time everybody goes back to work and school on monday this is just a weekend storm. very little impact at least on school. snow footprint denver still thinking of a chance four to six

inches. kansas will get hit pretty good. the well bull's eye, st. louis has a chance of getting eight to 12 inches of snow. same for indianapolis four to six. north of philadelphia don't expect really any snow at all. baltimore to d.c., maybe one to two inches at most three that's really going to wrap up our snow totals. highest totals fredericksburg towards richmond. >> it's not a true storm unless school is closed. >> good for parents, less impact. >> i'm sure kids would rather it happen on monday. thanks, bill. unemployment claims skyrocket in the wake of a government shutdown. will the government workers who are applying even qualify? we'll try to answer that question next. answer that question next. ♪here you come again lookin' better than♪ ♪a body has a right to

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welcome back. some thousands of federal workers across the country will go without paychecks. as a result, unemployment officials are reporting an uptick in claims. juliannia, will federal workers who apply actually qualify for the benefit? >> reporter: here's what we understand. essential workers are not

eligible because they're still showing up for a job. furloughed workers will likely qualify. in addition to the impact of the government investors are also closely watching what the federal reserve says, one of the big drivers of the market throughout the second half of 2018 and the federal chair spoke again yesterday, emphasizing he's very worried about the growing amount of u.s. debt in the system. this mark as pretty substantial shift in tone from what we were hearing from him in december. he was a lot more confident then. now he's giving the impression that the market will be patient when it comes to raising rates further. >> there are many scary impacts from this government shutdown. one is that it stopped food safety inspections but one active investigation has been closed. the romaine lettuce e. coli

outbreak is apparently over. what's the good news on that? >> very good news for salad lovers out there. the centers for disease control said no one has been ill since december. they are confident there is no more affected lettuce on shelves. they have declared the outbreak over. the outbreak was traced to farms in california. the fda is continuing their investigation there. they don't think one farm alone could be responsible for the outbreak. definitely rest easy, the contamination is in the past. >> switch the iceberg back to the romaine. thanks so much. >> up next, axios co-founder mike allen has a look at this morning's "1 big thing." and coming up on "morning joe," kamala harris will be in the studio for a live interview. plus, the latest on the government shutdown as the president begins laying the

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joining us from washington with a look at axios am, the co-founder of axios. mike, good morning to you. >> good morning. and first things first, happy friday! >> happy friday. >> the axios "1 big thing" is the live streaming election. just a few minutes ago on the show, we saw beto o'rourke getting his dental exam, not the first time representative o'rourke has overshared on his instagram. we saw him doing laundry during the campaign, we saw a little more laundry than we needed to see. we saw elizabeth warren on new year's eve, thanking her husband for being in their own home.

this is what we're going to see, candidates wanting to be authentic and get to know that but it's pointed out the more toll tigss politicians do this, the lame are they're going to get. not everyone has the gift like beto o'rourke or as representative aoc does as she makes her mac and cheese and taubes about progress of policies. >> first, you must be pretty confident in your dental hygiene if you're live streaming. >> that is a good point. >> do you think there as only a couple politicians that can pull this off or do you think everybody across the board can be live streaming and it works for everybody? >> we've seen the further you venture into dad territory, you probably shouldn't be doing this.

alexi has a great line, a drop the mike piece in her story is "just because it's raw doesn't mean it's real or good." i think we're going to see that more and more as other politicians try this. rush limbaugh has an expression, he always says "leave the humor to the host." i think there's a lot of candidate who is should leave the live streaming to beto and those good at it. >> they need to make sure they have a generational span of people working on their campaigns to advise them with this type of stuff. >> excuse me, a real quick -- that's such a good point. can you remember online how hillary clinton got dragged for talking about just chillin'. of course she got instantly known as chillery xios is repor

is breaking up. what's that about? >> big companies, people talked about fang, facebook, apple, amazon, netflix, google. now as the companies are under more scrutiny from drch.c., thee talking about how different their working models are. apple, back from the consumer electronics show with apple saying we don't take your cell data, which is a direct poke in the eye at facebook. now investors and washington are starting to think of these stocks differently rather than big tech or fang, we're talking about individual companies as we look ahead to the 2020 election. facebook has already gotten the washington and media treatment. look for youtube and twitter to get more scrutiny heading into the next election

i want to get your take on the longest government shutdown in history. what are you following with regards to that today? >> as we saw there, the people who were not getting paychecks for the first time, i was very moved by the story of iris, a customer service person in philadelphia who was not taking the tags off her christmas presents in case that she needed to return them. and something we see again and again in these stories, these people are proud of their jobs. it's great to be reminded of that. and i saw a tsa worker saying it was unethical to be asked to work for free and i think a lot of cuss agree with that. >> absolutely. mike allen, thank you. >> that does it for us on this friday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. did you know about the