good night from our nbc headquarters here in new york. with us. good night from our nbc headquarters here in new york. could robert mueller be wrapping up the russian probe. the special counsel has almost finished the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. >> the state of the union is back on. president trump will give the address next week as another partial government shutdown looms. and five houston police officers have been injured after gunfire erupted during a drug investigation. this morning two officers are in critical condition. good morning, everyone. it's tuesday, january 29th. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian and louis

burgdorf. the head of the house intelligence committee says president trump's hand-picked nonsenate kmirconfirmed head of justice department should let robert mueller finish his investigation. watch this. >> now since you have received your briefings, is there anything you've seen or read that gives you concern about special counsel robert mueller or his investigation? >> i've been fully briefed on the investigation. and, you know, i look forward to director mueller delivering the final report. and i really am not going to talk about an open, ongoing investigation otherwise. the statements i made were as a private citizen, only with publicly available information and i'm comfortable that the decisions that were made are

going to be reviewed, you know, either through the various means we have but right now the investigation is, i think, close to being completed and i hope that we can get the report from director mueller as soon as possible. >> a few hours later house intelligence committee chairman democrat adam schiff responded to that comment saying. quote an acting attorney general who refuses follow the advice of ethics lawyers and recuse himself from an investigation in which he has shown a clear bias is the last person who should speak for the special counsel while the probe is ongoing. mueller can speak for himself. since the first of -- really since the first couple of months of the special counsel's appointment the president's allies assured him of a quick to end the investigation. back in august of 2017 then white house special counsel you may recall told reuters i would be embarrassed if this is still

haunting the white house by thanksgiving and worse if it's still haunting him by the end of the year. >> roger stone will appear in federal court in washington, d.c. today on a seven count indictment in the special counsel's investigation. yesterday president trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani telling nbc news that the president has not discussed pardoning stone if he is convicted. while white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders would not say if such talks were off the table. has the president ruled out a pardon for roger stone? >> i'm not aware of that. haven't had any conversations regarding that matter. >> will you discuss that with him and leapt us know. >> i won't get into that at this point. >> does that mean he hasn't ruled out a pardon. >> i'm not aware of any conversation regarding that or any for it. >> to follow up, can you guarantee that the president won't pardon roger stone. >> i'm not is going to talk

about hypotheticals that are ridiculous. >> here's a reminder from november. trump told the "new york post" that a pardon for paul manafort was never discussed but i wouldn't take it off the table. why would i take it off the table? in that same interview trump mentioned flipping and the resistance of manafort, jerome corsi and roger stone. adam schiff announced yesterday that michael cohen will appear before the panel on february 8th. he was originally scheduled to testify on february 7th but that was delayed after cohen cited threats against him and his family from president trump. adam schiff wrote mr. cohen has relayed to the committee his lem mat concerns for his own safety as well as that of his family which have been fueled by

improper comments made by the president. cohen's testimony is slated to take place the same day matthew whitaker is to testify. cohen has been subpoenaed to testify before the senate intelligence committee behind closed doors. that will take place february 12th. the president's state of the union address has been rescheduled for next week. house speaker nancy pelosi invited president trump to give the address next tuesday, february 5th before a joint session of congress in the house chamber and the president has agreed. in a letter sent last night to the house speaker the president said it was a quote great honor to accept her invitation writing in part we have a great story to tell and yet great goals to achieve. the state of the union was originally scheduled to take place tonight but pelosi suggested it be postponed during the partial government shutdown. next week's state of the union address will take place 10 days

before the february 15th deadline to avoid another government shutdown. according to a nonpartisan congressional budget office the u.s. economy took an $11 billion hit in the 35 days that parts of the federal government went unfunded. that includes $3 billion that will never be recovered. cbo says those losses may just be the beginning to all of this. the report says underlying those effects on the overall economy are much more significant effects on individual businesses and workers. among those who experienced the largest and most negative effects are federal workers who faced delayed compensation and private-sector entities that lost business. some of those private-sector entities will never recoup that lost income. nancy pelosi released a statement saying this. when the congress completes its bipartisan, bicameral work to

fund the government, the should should swiftly sign that legislation to avert another shutdown and restore certainty to our economy and the lives of the american people. >> the white house is disagreeing with the cbo funding. >> they are doing the best job they can. i get that. i won't acknowledge any of that right now. as i said many times, you have just a whole bunch of very temporary factors and now that the government has re-opened the switch goes right back on. there's certainly no permanent damage to the economy. >> joining us now from washington, d.c., capitol hill reporter for the hill, molly hooper. let's talk a little bit about this kind of discrepancy we're seeing between larry kudlow and the cbo. how do americans feel the shutdown exacted their daily lives. >> that's a good question. on capitol hill we'll hear from

the head of the cbo and basically they are going to ask him and drilling down in these numbers and be able to see what republican members of congress are feeling about this. it may be one thing for the administration to say that they don't see any permanent damage. that may be true. however, what are members of congress, what are republicans hearing from members of their communities and constituents, individuals who have been impacted, not just the federal workers, but federal contractors. when we think of contractors a lot of times think of big defense contracting firms but they were fine because the military was taking care of. it's more of the smaller contracting firms who do business with the usda, fda and other agencies that were involved in this shutdown and were impacted by it who are taking hits. remember, this is a three week -- this is a three week reprieve and the question is what happens at the end of the three weeks. does the federal shutdown happen

again. it's unclear what the results will be but we'll see, i'm sure we'll see a few fireworks up on the hill regarding this issue. >> i'm sure there will be lots of ripple effects considering how long the shutdown went on for. let's talk about the big news from matthew whitaker regarding the mueller probe. i'm not sure if it was a slip on and how much sort of a melee that would cause in washington and across the media outlets as well. saying that the mueller probe will be wrapping up soon. what do you think lawmakers here are bracing for with this news? >> man, you know, it's hard to tell. it will be very interesting when we hear from matthew whitaker when he goes in front of the judiciary committee that i believe he's supposed to be going up there relatively soon in the next week or soon. keep in mind, though, he's the acting attorney general. he's not the full attorney general. and william barr, the senate

judiciary committee is going to be voting -- they are supposed to vote, technically vote on his nomination today. generally due to procedural rules that vote will get extended to next week. we'll see what the senate takes up in the next two or three weeks and what will bill barr say. lawmakers, at least some senators were heartened by his answer saying he rather resign, barr would rather resign than fire mueller or end that mueller probe without due cause. when you have people like charles grassley introducing a bill to make public the findings of any mueller investigation that will be key going forward because the next question is what happened, or what's part of this report? >> yeah. again, i want to reiterate i don't know how many times we heard the mueller probe is wrapping up but yet it's been going on and on.

>> molly hooper, we'll talk to you in a little bit. a story breaking overnight in texas. five police officers were injured after a shooting at a houston residence last night according to police there. the officers were met with gunfire after serving a search warrant for narcotics in the southeast part of the city. two suspects died on the scene. however, it's unclear how many suspects fired at those officers. according to officials for the officers were struck by gunfire and another suffered a knee injury. two officers are in critical but stable condition. two others are in good condition and one officers with a shoulder wouldn't was released last night. texas governor greg abbott in a statement called for prayers for the injured officers and said the state would provide any resources needed by police as they continue their investigation. still ahead the u.s. announces new sanctions on a venezuelan oil company. this as national security advice orjohn bolton's note pad sparks some new questions about a

possible military intervention. >> wow. hide your notes. >> plus dangerously cold, wind chills and dropping temperatures are expected to hit parts of the country this week. meteorologist bill karins is going to have a full check of your forecast when we come back. (burke) parking splat. and we covered it.

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tools to support interim president, the national assembly and venezuelan's peoples efforts to restore their democracy it has long been a vehicle for corruption for venezuela officials and businessmen. this is a country that's very rich in oil resources. there's no reason why these resources shouldn't be used for the economic benefit of the people there. there's no reason for the poverty and the starvation and the humanitarian crisis. >> we also today call on the venezuelan military and security forces to accept the peaceful, democratic and constitutional transfer of power. i reiterate that the united states will hold venezuelan security forces responsible for the safety of all u.s. diplomatic personnel, the national assembly and the president. any violence against these groups will signify a grave

assault on the rule of law and will be met with a significant response. >> how do you define significant response? >> well, we're not going to define it because we want the venezuelan security forces to know how strongly we think that about guido, the national assembly, the opposition and most importantly american personnel are not harmed. this is an unequivocal statement on our part. >> is there any circumstance in which united states forces would get involved. >> the president has made it very clear on this matter that all options are on the table. >> so you see that image there. john bolton holding that yellow note pad yesterday during that briefing. here's the interesting thing about that note pad. written on it was, "afghanistan welcome the talks" and "5,000 troops to colombia." bolton realized his error and turned his note pad around.

but nbc news was told no assets are heading to colombia or venezuela. but an official told nbc news that the state department has been running contingency plans for evacuation of u.s. diplomats. in the event that nicolas maduro target protesters or u.s. embassy and if that does happen the u.s. military may be needed, could it be staged out of neighboring colombia. and nbc news was told quote as the president has said all along all options are on the able. >> cliff simms alleges the trump administration held more controversial attitude towards refugees. simms wrote in his book a team of vipers he reconciled his christian faith in working for a president with his attitude towards refugees, including persecuted christians. simms took his concern at one

point to steven miller who he writes told him i would be happy if not a single refugee foot ever again touched america's soil. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders yesterday denied the allegations. >> steve miller is quoted, i would be happy if not a single refugee foot ever touched american soil. is the policy of this administration eventually to get refugee resettlement down to zero? >> i'm not aware of any statement that steve miller made and certainly not the policy of the trump administration. >> sims will join "morning joe" later this morning. >> let's get a check of our weather. some really cold temperatures out there, bill? >> coldest a lot of people have ever seen in their lives in the midwest and great lakes, especially anybody under 30. let's show you the current wind chill values out there. we have a tax reform system that brought some snow yesterday. that's trying to push into southern canada. that cold front is heading into

pittsburgh. typical winter cold is behind that. then another cold front coming out of canada. this is atypical. right now international falls is negative 39, duluth is negative 35. this is just the beginning. we'll track this over the next two to three days. as far as the warnings go one of the coldest air masses you've seen. 44 million people are one wind chill warnings from north dakota all the way over here into areas of pen. some of the other numbers that we'll watch. one of the things that's important about wind chill is your exposed skin, how long it takes to get frostbite. negative 31 it takes about 30 minutes to get frostbite in bismarck and minneapolis. now tomorrow morning at this time is the peak of the outbreak. at negative 51 in chicago tomorrow morning, five minutes. that's it for exposed skin. that's why they have cool cancelled in a lot of those areas for today and tomorrow. we still have a little bit of

snow in mississippi and alabama. atlanta, winter weather advisory. worst of it is north of atlanta. we'll watch that commute carefully this morning. >> word to the wise stay inside. i wrote some notes down. sorry, guys. read teleprompter. >> i got word of bill's forecast and i decided to leave the country. >> i thought we were sending you to chicago. what happened? >> i got on the wrong flight. i ended up in london. >> hopefully it's warmer there than here. still ahead, howard schultz isn't backing down from a potential 2020 run. we'll show you how he's responding to some of his critics. i recommend pronamel because it helps protect and strengthen your enamel. it's pro enamel. it's the positive thing. ♪

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>> two clean looks, anderson can't get it done, nuggets go on to beat the grizzlies 95-92 in that one. let's go to indianapolis where wars extend their win streak to 11 games. they won over the pacers. steph curry had game high of 26 point in the first half. he is just unreal. look at that. way beyond the arc. we're more than a week past the nfl conference championship games but the fallout over the no wall in the rams-saints game. a judge heard from lawyers representing two ticket holders. it cost the saints their shot at the super bowl. lawsuit says nfl commissioner roger goodell should implement a league rule that results in reversing the game results.

the league gets it. but the rule in question was not meant for this situation according to the new orleans advocate. replaying a few minutes of the game requires a super bowl delay and more than $100 million in costs. safe to say that is not going to happen. >> yeah. i'm pretty sure the saints fans would take a few minutes. they don't care about the $100 million. >> everybody else would. >> if it means their team would get in the super bowl. >> do whatever it takes. >> that's team loyalty. still ahead while recent polling has shown a majority of americans blamed president trump for the government shutdown the president's 2020 team is brushing it off. what his campaign manager is now saying about his re-election chances. >> trump administration charges a chinese tech giant with stealing trade secrets. what it could mean for trade talks between the two countries. we'll be right back.

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i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin who is in london and louis burgdorf here in new york. it's the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top stories. president trump has a date for his state of the union address after nancy pelosi extended an invitation for him to speak. it's coming as lawmakers work to try to strike a deal to avoid a government shutdown with less than three weeks to go. nbc news chief white house correspondent hallie jackson has more. >> reporter: good morning to you. speaker nancy pelosi and

president trump are talking now for the first time since the shutdown ended. agreeing on february 5th, a week from today for the state of the union address. the next countdown is on already ahead of that deadline for a longer term deal to keep the government open, february 15. the sticking point remains money for border wall but some democrats sound more willing to be open to fencing. the nonpartisan budget office today estimated this most recent partial shutdown cost the economy $11 billion, 3 billion of which will never be recovered. back to you. thank you for that report. the fallout over the government's historic shutdown hasn't hurt president trump's re-election chances according to his 2020 campaign manager. politico reports it's bolstered his stance.

but the president that carried those same counties back in 2016, the campaign says while those findings show a large number of voters blame trump for the shutdown a large number also supported his push for a border wall. 61% of those voters questioned support the president's position on border security. 52% agree the current situation at the southern border represents a national security athlete to the u.s.. meanwhile 53% of those asked support for building a barrier between the u.s. and mexico but it's not all good news for the president. the poll found that just 49% of voters in the republican leaning districts approve of trump's job performance. that's just one point higher than those who disapprove. trump was supposed to be brief on the numbers yesterday. >> president trump's indicted political conif i dan roger

stone is claiming that fbi agents used gestapo tactics again him by knocking on his door early friday morning with an arrest warrant. stone is now casting the events in increasingly dramatic terms. >> to storm my house with greater force than was used to take down bin laden or el chapo or pablo escobar. >> they surrounded my house. assault weapons pointed at my chest. i opened the door looking down the barrel of two assault weapons. >> however, outside the courthouse on friday stone said that while he would have preferred to have surrender through his attorneys the fbi agents were extraordinarily course courteous. here's sean hannity last night with former u.s. attorney trump

transition chair and new jersey governor chris christie. >> do we need 17 vehicles, pre-dawn raid to arrest a guy that has no weapons in his house, a guy that is charged with lying to congress? >> no. listen, you know that i've defended mueller over the course of time, over the last 18 months or so. >> how can you defend this man? >> i can defend this. >> we'll hear more from former governor chris christie in just a little bit when he joins the conversation on "morning joe". >> a federal judge has cancelled former trump campaign chairman paul manafort upcoming sentencing hearing. it was scheduled to take place on february 8th. in a one page record the judge said the sentencing would be postponed because of dispute with mueller's team that manafort lied.

prosecutors have argued manafort violated his employee agreement after he pledged to cooperate as part of his guilty employee to avoid a second trial in washington, d.c. now a new date has not been set for manafort's sentencing. joining us once again from washington capitol hill reporter for the hill, molly hooper. let's talk first about this rescheduled state of the union speech. historically state of the unions are not so political, not about party lines remember it's more about what's happening in this country. how political are we hearing is president trump going get and how much especially if we don't have a deal yet on the border wall how much of his speech will be about immigration? >> at this point it's a little unclear given on the one hand you do have a political situation over his, you know, conversations about having this border wall and the republicans digging in and being unified, democrats unified in opposition. so we have that issue. but keep in mind, there's still

a full two years that the president needs to get through and i think he actually does want to get stuff done as do democrats and republicans. one thing that blue dog democrats are pushing for with their leadership in particular is really to focus on infrastructure. so perhaps we would see the president reaching out to democrats, discussing infrastructure. but, again, it's unclear at this point, especially because we don't know where that conference committee of 17 senators, lawmakers that are democrat, republican are in terms of coming up with a solution to prevent another government shutdown. i have a feeling that he probably will touch on this issue of using his emergency powers if he deems it necessary. but, again, one thing i did find particularly noticeable is his quick response yesterday to accept the invitation in writing to nancy pelosi. that was a bone of contention on the front end of this whole state of the union saga we

should say. >> let me ask you, you brought up the conference committee in the house, democrats and republicans working on this. there are some reports that republicans behind-the-scenes are working to ensure another shutdown does not happen. this will be interesting to see because it's the president's own party. is this seen as some within the party going rogue against trump perhaps because of his own political position or what's going on here internally within the republican party to avoid another shutdown. >> you'll see republicans and some democrats are focused on this as well. we have two tracks going on. one you have appropriators who have a different stifle legislator. jeffries said you have democrats, recognizes, and proi appropriators that write the checks. they are seeing money being wasted in paying federal workers for not working. so there are several republicans on the house side who said, you

know, if we can get a measure together that would have a veto proof majority to ensure that even if congress does pass a bill to fund the government and the president wes to it, we can ensure that it will be overrun, that's fine. that's one avenue. i heard that from appropriators. the other avenue is to prevent government shutdowns going forward in you have somebody like senator rob portman, democrat mark warner talking about if there's another shutdown, the legislators, lawmakers and their staff would be the ones taking the hit more so or as much as federal workers. so they wouldn't get paid. that's a different track they are talking about. but, we shall see, i'll put it that way. >> the clock is ticking. molly, thanks. still ahead the trump administration files criminal charges against china's top tech company. we'll could live overseas for details on how the

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dangerous stuff is tomorrow. 44 million people one wind chill warnings from bismarck to eastern portions of pennsylvania. we also have some snow to deal with this storm. not a lot. just enough to cause problems. winter weather advisory from columbus down through asheville. atlanta still under a winter weather advisory. right now just rain. one little area of winter storm warnings in areas of alabama. mississippi numerous reports of snow. a lot of it is not sticking. interior sections of the northeast are going to get a little decent snow tonight into tomorrow morning. blue on the map shows you where the snow is. upstate new york. we go from rain in areas of alabama and snow on the back side. our executers are not hinting at a huge ordeal just a little bit. a coating. up to an inch central portions of alabama. atlanta we have none for you. just a little bit in portions of north georgia. in the northeast that snow comes in as we go tonight into tomorrow. mostly away from the big cities, interior sections, maybe two to four inches.

not a huge ordeal. >> wishing all my friends out in bismarck, north dakota to stay safe. let's turn to business. department of justice has announced criminal charges against the world's largest communications equipment manufacturer, china's huawei technologies along with its top executives. it comes as china and u.s. work to end their trade dispute. can you break down the charges by the u.s. and how this could actually impact those trade talks? >> reporter: good morning. yes. certainly coming at a very interesting time. the chinese premier will be in washington this week to have discussions with robert lighthizer. but this story we've been following for a couple of months now. yesterday the u.s. department of justice has indicted the ceo of huawei on two grounds. first on cyber espionage

grounds. and the second is in violation of iran sanctions. so the lawyers have hit back against the claims said she never plotted to violate u.s. law. but it's a cloud over these talks. >> the trump administration also announced sanctions against venezuela yesterday targeting that country's oil industry. how could that move impact the price of oil, john bolton pretty firm yesterday. >> exactly. so the u.s. has officially announced sanctions. the bulk of venezuelan oil exports do go to the u.s. so it could hit the u.s. courtrooms. but what the treasury sector steve mnuchkin said u.s. oil refineries import venezuelan oil

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chris christie . welcome back, everybody. despite growing criticism from democrats former starbucks ceo howard schultz is not backing down from a potential 2020 independent run. schultz announced on sunday that he's going to be making a formal decision about a presidential bid in the next three months. numerous democrats have since warned that an independent bid for the white house by schultz would re-elect president trump. here's how schultz responded to those critics. >> if i run for president i will run as an american under one banner, the american flag. the question i think we all should be asking ourselves at a time in america when there's so much evidence that our political system is broken, that both parties at the extreme are not representing the silent majority of the american people, isn't there a better way, a better

choice? if there's a choice between president trump and a progressive liberal minded person on the democratic side, it would kill me to to see president trump be reelected. and i believe that's what will take place. >> so former new york city mayor michael bloomberg, who has also toyed with an independent bid in the past and is now considering a democratic run released a statement yesterday warning of the consequences an independent might have in 2020. he writes this -- a great likelihood is that an independent would just split the anti-trump vote and end up reelecting the president. that's a risk i refused to run in 2016 and we cannot afford to run it now. >> as the crowded democratic presidential field continues to joe, joe scarborough in a new "washington post" op-ed writes how senator kamala harris has set herself apart from the pack.

joe writes in part, "it is one thing to propel a presidential campaign off a launchpad and quite another to send it into safe political orbit but a few days into her campaign, even kamala harris's critics should know that she accomplished certainly in her campaign speech that the last nominee failed to do through the whole campaign, she gave americans a compelling explanation as to why she wanted to be president, "we are better than this," much like elizabeth warren had framed her bid as a quest to protect consumers and promote a fiery brand of progressivism. like warren, harris will be underestimated by team trump at its own peril. we are, of course, in the opening steps of a grueling,

nonstop two-year battle. perhaps harris will prove more adept at beginning a presidential campaign than running one. >> coming up, everybody, axios' nicholas johnston has this morning's "1 big thing" and more on the off-the-cuff comments by the acting attorney general suggesting bob mueller's investigation may be winding down as lawmakers slam matthew whitaker for revealing that information. >> joe and mika will have reaction from two former trump insiders as they released new books. former new jersey governor chris christie along with staff er

cliff simms.

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d.c., editor in chief for axios nicholas johnson. what is axios's "1 big thing" for this morning? >> the starbucks 2020 problem. you talked about the former chairman of starbucks. the thing to look at is what might spill over from the company he founded. the company will probably fall under more scrutiny than it's had in its 30 years of its existence. if you're an opponent, you're already trying to big up opposition files, employees or what happened with bain capital or mitt romney's firm. how did it work out for companies. look for that kind of scrutiny or starbucks this year.

>> how does starbucks, if he does decide to run, how do they plan on combatting this scrutiny? >> their first example is an e-mail the ceo sent yesterday is we're staying out of it. but behind the scenes they are pri preparing an opposition research firm of their own. he has people on the inside who are able to respond very quickly but the company realizes this is something they've never undergone before. >> let's talk about this new exclusive polling you guys have out at axios. what does it reveal about americans and their feelings about the economy at this stage of the presidency. >> an overwhelming number of americans think the system is rigged and unfair and only benefits the wealthy.

pap la popularity of capital iism has dropped in popularity. a bunch of billionaires saying they're worried about the capitalist system, it's losing faith of more common workers and that's a big problem going ahead. >> how do we think voters' attitudes about the economy could impact the presidential race in 2020? >> i think it will factor in very heavily. perhaps in the campaign of elizabeth warren or bernie sanders. i think what is most fascinating this is very similar to the message that donald trump ran on in 2016 saying a lot of these international affairs were unfair and unrigged and will be more of a folk news -- focus in.

>> you can sign up for the newsletter. >> that does it for us on this tuesday morning. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside louis burgdorf and ayman mohyeldin. "morning joe" starts right now. >> to terrorize my wife and my dogs, it's unconscionable. >> that is a good point, mika. because one of the things that made willie and me upset, even during the height of the war on terror was the way they treated bin laden's poodle. don't terrorize bin laden's

poodle. they kept bin laden on the bracelet for how long? oh, no, wait a second. they blew his brains out. so they didn't treat him quite as badly, did they, mike? >> they did not knock on bin laden's front door. there was not a knock saying, bin laden, fbi, come on out. they didn't do that. >> all right. roger stone, trump's long-time adviser equated the use of force in his address to what was used in the bin laden raid, sparking all this way too early in the morning. >> way too early. some of willie's best work, way too early. >> now listen. >> i didn't understand the christmas special with kanye and bring crosby but still. >> you were adorable doing that. >> stone's complaint that his dogs were terrorized is a tiny bit ironic because his seven-count