that president trump overruled concerns from security officials and his own white house counsel to demand a top secret security clearance for his son-in-law jared kushner. now top lawmakers are weighing in. plus president trump's summit with north korea's kim jong-un was abruptly cut short after talks collapsed. both sides have a different story about why no agreement could be reached. after michael cohen's congressional testimony this week house democrats are planning to pursue new interviews that could dig into president trump's business and charity.

good morning, everybody. it is friday, march 1st. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside david gura and louis burgdorf is here. "the washington post" has confirmed a "new york times" report that some of the highest ranking white house trump employees put their concerns in writing. after jared kushner got a top security clearance overruling intelligence officials and white house counsel, domestic abuse allegations against then staff secretary rob porter revealed scores of officials lacked permanent security clearances, then chief of staff john kelly ordered a review in february of 2018. downgrading kushner's clearance from interim top secret to secret, limiting his access to classified information. in may of 2018 the white house counsel's office which at the time was led by don mcgahn recommended to trump that kushner not be given a clearance

at that level but the next day trump ordered kelly to grant to it kushner anyway. trump's decision so troubled senior administration officials that kelly wrote an internal memo about how he had been ordered to give kushner the clearance. mcgahn wrote a memo outlining the concerns that were raised about kushner and how he recommended he not be be given a top secret clearance. >> the white house said last night they do not comment on security clearances but the president's intervention in the process contradicts what he and his daughter ivanka have said in the last four weeks. >> did you tell general kelly or anyone else at the white house to overrule security >> no. i don't think i have the authority. i wouldn't do it. jared is a good -- i was never

involved with the security. i know that he, just from reading, i know that there was issues back and forth about security for, from numerous people, actually, but i don't want to get involved in that stuff. >> the president had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance. >> no special treatment? >> no. >> jared kushner's security clearance has been in the spotlight since 2017 when it was reported he had to amend his application. when his full clearance was restored in may of 2018, it was met by headlines that the legal questions surrounding him had likely been put to rest, he might no longer be a focus of the special counsel's investigation. kushner's lawyer at the time said his application was properly submitted and under went the normal process. a spokesman last night said in

2018 white house and security clearance officials confirmed mr. kushner's curt clearance of handled in the regular process. new stories if accurate does not change what was affirmed at the time. an investigation into trump white house security clearances back on january 23rd when chairman eli l cummings sent a . the committee expects full compliance with its request as soon as possible or it may be niece to consider alternative means to compel compliance. intelligence committee chairman adam schiff said this is a clear

indication deep unease that security officials have about kushner's suitability. let's talk north korea here. there are some disagreements between the trump administration and north korea's regime. for why the hanoi summit ended without any agreement. watch this. >> basically, they wanted the sanctions lifted. in their entirety. and we couldn't do that. they were willing to denuke a large portion of the areas we wanted but we couldn't give up all of the sanctions. it was about sanction. they wanted sanctions lifted but weren't willing to do an area we wanted. they were willing to give us areas but not the ones we wanted. >> however, while president trump was aboard air force one heading home at around midnight local time north korean officials, they called a rare news conference where they offered their own view of what went wrong. according to north korea's foreign minister, the dprk

proposed partial removal of sanctions, not in full in exchange for the permanent and complete dismantlement of their nuclear facility and a permanent halt of the nuclear testing and long range rocket launch test. he adds that quote the u.s. insisted that we should take one more step and quote was not ready to accept our proposal adding quote it's difficult to say whether there might be a better agreement than this one. our proposal will never be changed even though the u.s. proposes negotiations again in the future. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders says president trump is aware of north korea's disagreement and would not comment further. >> one of the more controversial statements president trump made during his post-summit news conference was regarding the death of otto warmbier who died days after returning to the u.s. in a near vegetative state.

>> i am begging you, the government of dprk korea for your forgiveness. please i have made the worse mistake of my life, but please save me. please. think of my family. >> i did speak about it. i don't believe that he would have allowed that to happen. it wasn't to his advantage to allow that to happen. those prisons are rough. they are rough places. and bad things happen. but i really don't believe that he was -- i don't believe he knew about it. knew the case very well but he knew it later. but he tells me he didn't know about it. i'll take him at his word.

>> an example of the ruthless nature of this regime. we shouldn't be naive about this regime and the way they mistreat their own people and certainly the way they mistreated otto warmbier. the mistreatment of otto warmbier is something that's unforgivable. >> otto warmbier, they made a spectacle out of him to the world. accusing him of being a traitor or a spy. they executed him. the blood of otto warmbier is on the hands of kim jong-un. there's no doubt in my mind he knew about it, he allowed it to happen and the responsibility lies directly with kim jong-un. >> nikki haley also weighed in. americans know the cruelty placed on otto warmbier by the north korean regime. our hearts are with the otto warmbier family for their strength and courage. we'll never forget. >> one senior senate republican is warning president trump over his emergency declaration to get funding for his border wall saying he could face a rebuke from the gop on the matter. lamar alexander called on the

president yesterday to find a different way to get the money saying lawmakers could overturn his declaration. the senator said while he supports what the president wants to do with regard to border security he does not support the way he's been advised to do it. republican senators are discussing ways to amend the resolution which cleared the democratic house on tuesday. president trump has said he would veto such a measure and neither the house nor senate appears to have the votes to override him. the gop is trying to find ways to make the resolution more acceptable for him and for trump. >> let's talk about some of these stories now joining us from washington, neil. thank you for joining us on this friday morning. let's talk about with what we started the show with, this debacle with regard to jared kushner and his security clearance or lack thereof or not necessarily need to have that

curt clearance. what does this unveil about the inner workings of the white house right now? >> well, considering there had just been the denials that you played in the opening both from ivanka trump and from the president that there was any sort of inappropriate or undo pressure imposed on granting that security clearance, certainly going to escalate that investigation that elijah cumming, the chairman of the house oversight committee had started but not on page one because of, obviously, they were hearing from michael cohen the other day. so, i think we'll hear a whole lot more about this and what it certainly reveals at least, according to the "new york times" reporting, is a real lack of candor from the white house on this one. >> you look at the broader

context here when this story broke jared kushner is in the mid all of six stop trip to the middle east. he has plans to bring peace to the middle east. what kind of policy problems does this pose having this story broke now? >> the timing couldn't be a whole lot worse. one of the things that kushner was doing while he was on i had middle east tour was he was actually meeting with mohammad bin salman, the crown prince in saudi arabia. and there was no real indication yet again that the issue with the murder basically of the journalist jamal khashoggi in the saudi consulate in turkey was really not a key feature of that meeting and so to say the least. so it just raises all the more questions about what exactly kushner's end game is in terms of foreign policy and i think that there will be a lot more

questions on capitol hill about that as well. >> i mean you can't help to think especially the close relationship we heard about jared kushner having with mbs and especially in context with the killing of jamal khashoggi and their responsibility there and now you're hearing about the security clearance and the conversation they may have had amongst each other. it's worrisome. we talked about the otto warmbier story earlier and we're seeing some republicans on capitol hill talking about the fact that they don't agree with what the president said about kim jong-un. do you think that's going to have any reverberations beyond what we've just heard? >> i don't know that it will have long term reverberations, but it sort of goes in the same category. he's a democratic senator, but tim kaine from virginia sort of made the point that that goes in the same sort of basket as the way that president trump talks about mbs, the way that president trump and his administration talk about being

able to trust putin at times. the people for whom president trump says positive things on the world stage is not normal. >> all right. thank you for joining us this morning. very much appreciate it. still ahead, everybody, the democratic led house passes tougher gun legislation two days in a row. we'll talk about what's in the latest bill. >> two lawmakers that got into a heated exchange over real estatism put their differences aside. one is facing scrutiny for past comments. that story and a check of the weather when we come back. [farmers bell]

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number of days a seller has to sell a gun. on wednesday a bipartisan effort passed legislation requiring background checks on all commercial gun sales and prohibiting firearm sales to unlicensed dealers. closed the loophole that allows the sale of a firearm to continue if a background check is incomplete. still unclear here whether senate majority leader mcconnell will bring up either for vote. president trump promises to veto the legislation. andrew wheeler is the new head of the environmental protection agency in a vote of 52-47 yesterday. wheeler who began his career with the epa in the '90s before heading to washington. he's helping president trump's agenda to roll back obama's policies. he replaces scott pruitt.

and thousands of homes and businesses are under water in northern california as rivers overflow following a wave of record rainfall there. at least one person is dead, unfortunately, and the rain has been so severe, entire neighborhoods have been cut off. nbc news joe fryer has more on the ground there. >> reporter: the swollen russian river has turned this city into an isolated island leaving hundreds stranded including this man. he has more than four feet of water in his home. >> every inch that the water goes up you wonder what you'll lose next. >> reporter: so far dozens have been rescued. john stewart is just starting to clean up his restaurant. >> the water was halfway up the road when we got here. >> our thanks to joe fryer for that report. let's get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist

bill karins. bill, snowy morning here in new york. >> we got a lot of weather to talk about. march is coming in like a lion. we'll have about three storms in four days in areas of southern new england. so the first one is the smallest. the second one is getting stronger. the third one a lot of questions for sunday into moan storm. for this morning areas of light snow. look down here here's the picture from the top of our building. 66 floors up. you can see much. actually snowing pretty decently in new york city. the radar confirms that up here with the blue and a little bit of white in that. so maybe a quick coating to an inch, the timing of this just before the morning rush hour doesn't help. roads are super salted so hopefully just wet. careful on the secondary roads. an inch in baltimore, dover, coastal new jersey maybe an inch. let's get to our timeline. so we're going to watch during

the day today. it ends, maybe little bit of light rain in d.c. and chesapeake. tonight another batch moves in. this is yellow. that's rain for d.c. to philadelphia. this blue heavy snow from new york city to southern new england, tomorrow morning when you wake up a snowstorm from providence to hartford to boston out there on cape cod. it ends saturday afternoon. storm number two snowfall, this is for saturday, new york city not much at all. when you get just north of the new york city, southern new england, four to six inches. a few spots could get eight inches of snow. this has increased in the snow amounts. areas of portions of new england be prepared. when we come back i'll talk about the coast to coast storm that starts saturday in california and a nor'easter going northeast by monday morning. >> that's enough snow on that model to snuggle up with some of these. >> product placement here.

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welcome back. new england patriots owner robert kraft has pleaded not guilty to two misdeamnor counts for soliciting prostitution according to legal documents filed yesterday. records show kraft's attorney has requested a non-jury trial on those charges before his arraignment. kraft avoid having to attends a hearing in person. kraft is accused of paying in a spa in florida for a sex act on two separate occasions within 24 hours in january, including a visit on the morning of the afc championship game. a spokesperson for kraft and the patriots released a statement last friday saying we categorically deny that mr. kraft engaged in any illegal activity. because it's a judicial matter we won't comment further. let's turn to baseball. there isn't any clever way of saying it.

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside david gura and louis burgdorf. it's the bottom of the hour. > house democrats are planning a new probe into president trump's business and charities. according to "the washington post" the house intel committee anticipates bringing in the trump organization's chief financial officer aloan weisselberg. >> are there people that -- >> all you have to do is follow

transcript. if there were names that were mentioned, records that were mentioned during the hearing, we want to take a look at all of that. we'll go through. figure out who we want to talk to and we'll bring them in. >> people in the trump family, ivanka trump, donald trump jr. -- >> follow the transcript. >> alan weisselberg wasn't the only name mentioned. other individuals were named who might come under scrutiny. >> jay sekulow for one. >> who else? who was the campaign official? >> corey lewandowski. donald trump jr. and ivanka trump. erratic trump. mr. trump's executive assistant. david pecker. dillon howard. barry levine of ami as well. alan weisselberg. >> a lot of names there. congressman adam schiff told

reporter yesterday the house intel committee plans to question president trump's long time business associate felix sadder later this moan on efforts to build a trump tower in moscow. house oversight committee wants to depose the president's long time tax lawyer as well as former deputy white house counsel. house democrats are not through with michael cohen yet. the former lawyer to president trump spent thursday behind closed doors answering questions from the house intelligence committee ending a marathon three days of testimony on capitol hill. chairman adam schiff says cohen will be returning next week on march 6th for additional testimony. >> president trump was disputing part of cohen's testimony that he was involved in the decision to pay stormy daniels $130,000 to silence her allegations of an affair in the days after that "access hollywood" tape. >> what i did each and every

time is go straight into mr. trump's office and discuss the issue with him. when it was ultimately determined this was days before the election that mr. trump was going to pay the $130,000. in the office with me was alan weisselberg chief financial officer of the trump organization. he alleged to alan he going to pay the $130,000 and that alan and i should go back to his office and figure out how to do it. >> i was kind of dragged in a little bit into the michael cohen issue. i can tell you personally he said to me at least a dozen time that he made the decision on the payments and he didn't tell you. >> yeah. >> told me personally. >> de. he made the decision. >> two lawmakers who took part in a heated exchange over allegations of racism this week appear to put their differences aside yesterday. congressman mark meadows and

congresswoman talib were seen hugging on the house floor a day after they butted heads on michael cohen's testimony. meadows told nbc news quote he just wanted her to know there's no hurt feelings. it was different from a day before when lynne patton was brought to the michael cohen hearing as a prop. the issue was resolved. congressman meadows is facing renewed videos showing comments he made about then president obama. >> 2012 is the time that we're going to send mr. obama home to kenya or wherever it is. we're going to do it. >> if we do our job from a grassroots standpoint, we won't have to worry about it. you know what?

we'll send him back home to kenya or wherever it is. we'll send him back home. >> joining us on set now -- we heard a lot of names. when you look at alan wesselberg what does he present? >> if you're an investigator investigating any kind of organization, the first person you want to talk to is the financial guy, the guy who handles the books. if trump wanted to spend anything more than $50 alan weisselberg is the guy he goes to. he was involved in the hush money payment to stormy daniels. he knows a lot about the moscow trump tower deal. if he wanted to deflate his income for tax purposes weisselberg is the guy he goes to.

weisselberg has been involved with the trump family for the last 50 years. knows where the bodies are buried. weisselberg and cohen together are lethal witnesses. >> there were a lot of other names mentioned. we have been talking for quite some time how there's increased scrutiny with regard to trump organization, looking what's happening inside the trump organization. who could be brought forward. could this create further legal troubles for the president if this were to go down? >> yes. trump is very well aware of that because he's been saying since last year if investigators looked into i had personal finances -- >> when you say investigators is it more likely investigators from the mueller problem or the sdny? >> both. investigators from the mueller probe has subpoenaed the trump organization for documents. if mueller feels something has fallen outside the scope of his

inquiry he'll refer to it other doj offices. >> what's the likelihood these fights will go there without a fight. you look at alan weisselberg and this 50 year history with the family. how difficult is it for committees to get folks like them to come in. >> depends on how much criminal liability they face. we saw michael cohen saying he would take a bullet 0 for the president to calling him a cheat and a racist. >> if you were sitting at home watching that testimony and hearing your name mentioned by michael cohen i can't help that you cringed at that moment. >> thank you very much. israel's attorney general is preparing to indict benjamin netanyahu on a slew of bribery

and fraud charges. it comes six weeks before israel's general election where netanyahu is up for his fourth consecutive term as prime minister. yesterday's announcement was the culmination of a two year investigation into netanyahu's dealings with several wealthy businessmen. he's alleged to have trade favors for gifts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, including cigar, champagne, jewelry and for flattering news coverage. netanyahu called the charges politically motivated by the media and his left wing opponents warning the house of cards will collapse. he's entitled to a hearing to challenge the impending charges. if the case moves forward benjamin netanyahu would be the first sitting prime minister in israeli history to be indicted. >> pending corruption charges of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu now puts the u.s. long awaited middle east peace project in a precarious situation. jared kushner is currently

canvassing the middle east ahead of unveiling his plan after israel's april election. the administration has been counting on its close relationship with netanyahu to help bolster the initiative with right-wing israelis who are resistant to palestinian statehood. jared kushner announced earlier his intention to did you say border relations between the israeli and palestinians in order to boost the economy. he met with saudi arabia's king as part of his six country the trip to promote the plan. nbc news previously reported that kushner has delayed the unveiling of the peace initiative several times before. hopes to find a stable moment to enhance the chances of success that yet again could be upended. >> former vice president joe biden gets bashed about comments about his successor and what biden is now saying. >> bill karins is back with a check of the weekend forecast.

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a foreign policy context that under normal circumstances the vice president won't be given the silent reaction on the world stage but there's nothing decent being anti-lgbtq rights and that includes the vice president. let's get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, a coating of snow today and then some more coming over the weekend. >> some areas of southern new england will get snow this morning, a good dose of snow saturday morning and a nor'easter as we go through sun night. a very active weather pattern. light snow this morning. not too many problems. secondary roads, sidewalks may have some coating. that will exit pretty quickly in the mid-atlantic. rain will linger in the southeast. a lot of rivers in flood stage and not help this weekend with another storm coming. let's talk about the coast to coast weekend storm. california doesn't need any more storm or rain. another big storm is coming in saturday morning heavy rain from

san francisco even down towards l.a.. snow in the mountains, of course. this storm races across the country. one of the fastest ones we've had this winter. sunday morning it's snowing pretty good in missouri. looks like the southern half of illinois could get decent snow and also southern portions of the ohio river valley. heavy rain from arkansas through louisiana, mississippi, tennessee and we just don't need it. by the time we get to sun afternoon the snow starts making its way into the northeast. still questions of exactly where the snow/rain line will be. best chance of heavier snow is interior section of new england. this snow from kansas to areas of central missouri and as far as the four snow day totally southern new england eight plus inches of snow, guys. significant snow saturday morning and then possible sunday night. so monday morning could be a lot of school delays and cancellations in the northeast. >> i was going to ask are we

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welcome back. new york governor andrew cuomo is now ready to let amazon walk away from -- not ready excuse me to let amazon walk away after the company scrapped its plans to build one of its new quarters there. cuomo is work behind-the-scenes to get the company back. the "times" said two people with knowledge says the governor is going so far to connect with jeff bezos along with other executives to make a personal pitch. he told the company's leaders he would lead them to cut through his state's bureaucracy. the "times" adds while the governor did not offer a new location in the wake of the scrapped new york city site he did offer guarantees of support for the project. the company's leaders reportedly gave no indication they would

reconsider their decision. meanwhile a letter in today's "new york times" from various new york leaders is calling on amazon to reconsider the decision to walkway. the letter was signed by support of unions, community groups, elected officials, including democratic represent it was hakeem jeffries and carolyn maloney, whose district encompasses the previous amazon site along with former mayor dinkins. >> and gap is announcing it will become two companies by 2020. it credits the split to a diverd diverging customers base as it draws a line between its specialty brands. it's $8 billion to gap'sgroup, $9 b.

they created old navy in the early 90s as a less expensive version of itself. old navy has become the biggest revenue generator as the retail industry has struggled. shares of gap spiebd moked more 20% on the breakup announcement. >> airline passengers being left and stuck on the tarmac for long periods of time. miguel almaguer has the story. >> reporter: the u.s. department of transportation has fined american airlines $1 million and delta $750,000 for violating federal rules. >> it says, airlines, you are responsible and accountable to your passengers for their experience. >> reporter: the hefty fines come after investigators cited more than 20 flights over several years where passengers were forced to wait on planes

for hours. >> nobody likes to be on the tarmac for an extensive period of time. >> reporter: though delays on tarmacs can be common, the department of transportation rules say airlines can not keep domestic passengers waiting on the tarmac for more than three hours without giving them an opportunity to deplane, a fine meant to send a message. >> thank you to for that report. american and delta say they've apologized and because they've done so, they're on paying a fraction. has this happened to you? >> this has happened to me many times. it's terrible to be left on the tarmac for hours and hours of time, but it's terrible when you have a child with you as well. >> all too true. i've been there. >> coming up, axios' mike al i don't know on this morning's "1 big thing." more on reported concerns by top administration officials over

jared kushner being given a top secret level clearance despite objections from officials. >> jim himes and south molten will weigh in on that and jeh johnson will join the conversation. johnson will join the conversation

welcome back, everybody. it's march 1st so like 20 days till spring or so. because of that, we have -- >> that's the occasion. >> that's the occasion. mike allen, co-founder of axios is on set with us. >> i saw my shadow and -- >> exactly. i tried to think of something to mark the occasion. talk to us about the "1 big thing today." >> it's democrats' post-mueller plan. it's very possible that robert mueller has a grand finale up his sleeve, whether it's sealed indictments. we don't know what he knows. remember everything that michael

cohen said on camera, robert mueller has long know. but democrats are not leaving it to mueller. whatever happens with that report, they're cranking up. we started to see it yesterday, an investigation, six committees at least. they plan public hearings with hostile, reluctant witnesses. look at the checklist that they now have. the campaign, the foundation, the inauguration, the presidency, conflicts of interest, money laundering, security clearances, all that is the coming attractions and they tell me it could last into 2020. >> you talk about this about how it like a different kind of nuisance than what the president has been dealing with. there's been this met faphor of cloud hanging over the presidency. >> it always starts out robert mueller hiding in the closet. >> not saying much. >> all of this is going to be a daily, on-camera exercise.

and the white house knows that with subpoena tow yopower, that going to have to respond. they can cry about how there's overreach or whatever, bufft th know that democrats that have the gavel and subpoenas are going to be able to get record and e-mails. >> how do you think this will fare for the democrats? >> you see speaker pelosi saying it would not be good for the country, it should be a last resort and they're trying to tamp it down. when we talk to top democrats, there is so much energy and excitement around impeachment, you can imagine them saying whatever is in the mueller report, you can imagine enough democrats pointing to that as high crimes and misdemeanors. and there's even more to come because something that hasn't gotten much attention is the senate intelligence committee is still hearing witnesses and may

be months away from a report. so this drama has only begun and what was hidden, what used to just come out in leaks from friendly witnesses and defense attorneys now is going to play out for all to see. >> mike, great to see you. >> thanks for having me on set. >> here in new york on this friday. we'll be reading axios am. you can sign up for that newsletter. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside david gurra and michael allen. >> they want to take away your hamburgers. this is what stalin dreamt about but never achieved. >> that's seth gorka. >> is that the warmup act? >> first and last time he'll have access.

that's all i'm going to say. i don't get these people. >> stalin wants to take away your hamburgers. i guess hitler wanted to take away your pastrami. that's actually what world war ii was about. i mean, killing 30 million of his own people, that was secondary, keeping tasty burgers out of the hands of the gulags. >> and good morning and welcome. it is friday. welcome to "morning joe." long week, march 1st. with us we have associate editor of commentary magazine, author of "unjust" noah rothman. republican strategy and political analyst susan del percio is with us. former treasury official and morning joe economic nsd and anchor for