if this is true, if the governor is about to take personal action to eliminate the death penalty there, that will change history. watch this space. that does it for us tonight. . this morning 50 people including two hollywood actresses are facing charges in a multi-million dollar college entrance exam cheating scandal. they admitted to getting them into unique colleges across the country. plus, they are settling down to allow u.s. airlines to continue operating the aircraft. >> former joe bind said they chanted, run joe, run.

>> good morning, everybody. it is wednesday, at least 50 people have been charged in the largest college cheating scam ever to be prosecuted by the department of justice. the fbi is investigating a brazen multi--million dollar scheme allegedly by two hollywood actresses in an attempt to get students into yale, georgetown and the university of southern california. they are accused of paying bribes upwards of $6.5 million to college prep consultant william singer, according to prosecutors, sing were facilitated athletes regardless of their ability. >> in some cases, they had an imposter take tests for students and in others photoshopped the faces of apple kids on the

photos of athletes found on the internet to symbol ter the athletic credentials. singer pled guilty to obstruction and money laundering, after agreeing to wear a wire and cooperating with the fbi. according to court documents, actress police city huffman paid $15,000 to get her daughter more time on the s.a.t.s and actress lori laughlin and her husband allegedly agreed to pay bribes up to half a million dollars, wow to booth their daughter's chances of getting into usc. investigators say the colleges, themselves, are not a target and no students have been charged in this. the scheme allegedly operated until up until next month.

>> did you make your way to college? >> i've learned some really sad news. first of all, the lesson you are teaching your children first and foremost by bribeing their way into college and this and it seems like a lot of kids didn't know. but what could these parents be faceing? >> the parents, there is an indictment of a racketeering conspiracy, which is akin to what they used to take down the mob. it's a series, they are accused of mail fraud, broadly speaking, any time you defraud something like a university. you use the maim, the internet or e-mail, that can be a federal crime and there is not a case of

where, hay, there isn't a body of criminal law addressing what you submit to a college for your application. and surely that's what the conspirators may have thought. but in reality defrauding a public university will carry a consequence. >> it's a tricky question looking forward is, what happens to these students? what happens to these universities if the student is a subject of criminal activities that got them into university and maybe they are not a year or two years into that program? >> assuming at the moment they are unwitting, they didn't know they participated. then i think it become as part of the university's own internal procedure. what are they going to do to remedy this situation? they probably can never figure out what student that false student took the place of, right? because there is somebody out there who is on the cusp of getting in, very sad, was about to get into yale, but the 5'1"

basketball player somehow got n. in at least one allegation, i believe it's usc, there was a 5' 5" basketball player listed at 6'1." there is nothing to prevent them from filing a lawsuit. internally, the university versus to come one some kind of solution or way to address this, especially in the case of a student that didn't know. >> so often they are seen as elite institution, people work their tails off, especially people that don't necessarily have the resources from childhood. >> you think of all the sacrifices. >> it's taken away from those kids. exactly. >> very quickly what are some of the consequences people involved in this could face in terms of, do we have a sense of -- >> jail time? >> yes, fines? >> virtually they were arrested at their home yesterday. >> a good rule of thumb, any time you are in federal court,

there is prison time as a consequence. >> wow. >> sentence guidelines are harsh, tough, much more stringent than state court. a good rule of thumb, when you are out there playing fast and loose with criminal courts, stay in state court. federal court you will be looking at prison time. >> if they did that i wouldn't have a job. >> he's talking, if you are going to do it go, to this court, no in the one. >> that's right. >> this one pays better, thank you so much. see you in a little bit, bud. all right, the european union becomes the late toast issue directive banning all 737 max 8 planes after sunday's ethiopian airline's crash. it joins a list of countries and airlines to ban the jet, which includes china, aeromembers california india fwrouned the aircraft and along with the you caning even banned the planes from traveling in its country's airspace. republican senators mitt romney and ted cruz join democrats, elizabeth warren, dianne

feinstein, all calling for the faa to ban the 737 max 8 from u.s. air pace. out of a caution, mitt romney said they should ground the 737 max 8 until we investigate the causes of recent crashes and ensure the plane's air worthiness. >> this comes as u.s. pilots have reported safety concerns about the jets to authorities. the dallas morning news says it found five complaints in a public federal database about the 737 max's safety mechanism after takeoff, which was also cited in preliminary reports about a boeing 7378 crash in indonesia that killed 189 people. meanwhile, the "wall street journal" reports that since that indonesian crash, boeing and the faa have been working on extensive software fix to the flight control system and the 737 max 8 airplanes. the sixth scheduled to be rolled

out by the end of april will be a major shift how boeing originally designed the stall features in the plane. the software fix was expected to be ruled out in january. u.s. officials said the recent government shutdown halted work on it for five weeks. >> unbelievable. all right, so president trump yesterday weighed in on airline safety saying that flying planes have become too complex. trump tweeted airplanes are becoming far too complex to fly. pilots are no longer needed, but rather computer scientists from mit. i see it all the time in many products, always seeking to go one unnecessary step further when often old and simpler is better. the complexity creates danger. all of this for great cost, yet very little gain, i don't know about you, but i don't want albert einstein to be my pilot. i want great flying professionals to easily and quickly take control of a plane. following the tweets, the spokesperson says the company

spoke to trump to assure him of the safety, saying he quote made it clear he is absolutely confident in the safety of their planes. top democrats are signaling they are unlikely to pursue the impeachment of president trump. house speaker nancy pelosi said removing trump wasn't worth it unless there is something overwhelming. many rank and file democrats appear to agree with her, at least for now. >> the only thing worse tan putting the country through the trauma of an impeachment is putting the country through a failed impeachment. >> nancy pelosi is absolutely right. let's take that off the table right now. we got a lot of research we still need to do. >> i think we both believe we should wait for the mueller report. she commented on what her standard would be once the mueller report comes out. >> several democrats in the progressive wing of the party want to keep the possibility opened, arguing the focus should be on holding trump accountable.

>> we are actually at the beginning the of a process. a process we on the judiciary committee were block fareed taking any action on even having hearings or investigations into some of the things that are out there and being alleged about this president in this white house. and so that is now the process we have started under a democratic chairman nadler that we have 81 requests out, hopefully, we don't have to subpoena and hopefully we get all of that information and we can start having the hearings and undergo the process that leads us to whether or not what has happened is impeachable. we're not there yet. >> let's actually have a committee process and investigate these offenses, these are serious criminal activities that he's being allegedly you know, allegedly being said he is doing out of the oval office, it's something to be investigated. this is to hold him accountable to the rule of law to the constitution i took an oath to uphold. >> republicans have argued democrats will use their house

majority to much impeachment. unsurprisingly, many agreed with nancy pelosi's comments. >> unless there is some major stunning development we don't know about today, i think her observation is correct. it would be a very divisive issue for the country. it doesn't help anybody. >> i think nancy pelosi is start to say there shouldn't be an impeachment. >> i think she is dealing with reality. she is not in control of her caucus. she is trying to send messages to them by saying, look, this is not a path she wants to go down, but she's not in charge, it appears to us. >> all right, let's talk 2020sh everybody. former vice president joe biden is throwing fuel onto the 2020 fire with his appearance yesterday that felt like a campaign rally. he's coming out swinging for president trump, offering a preview of possible presidential contests. nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker has more. >> reporter: is biden on the brink? with a crowd urging him on, the

former vice president dropping his strongest hints yet about a presidential run. >> i appreciate the energy you showed when i got up here e. save a little longer, i may need it in a few weeks. >> reporter: going after president trump at two events. >> the guardrails we put up to prevent the abuse of power, they're under enormous stress now. >> reporter: if the former vice president gets into the race, polls suggest he would instantly become a democratic front runner in an already crowded field. and it could set up a trump-biden showdown already playing out. biden on candidate trump. >> i wish we were in high school, i could take him behind the gym. >> reporter: the president taking his own shots. >> i think he ran three times and he never had more than 1%. so we call him 1% joe. >> reporter: biden recently calling himself the most qualified person to be president, but acknowledging, quote, i am a gaffe machine. biden would tout his working

class appeal and would face a new challenge, a field of younger, more progressive democrats. the question now, is it biden time? andrea mitchell pressing him. >> reporter: why wouldn't you run for president? >> i can't think of any reason. >> reporter: biden declined in 2016 after his son's death. he says he will make his 2020 decision in the next few weeks. >> our thanks, to kristen welker for that report. hillary isn't running for president. she is beginning with a fundraiser with the democratic in the later this month. an invitation builds it as a dinner and conversation with dnc chairman tom perez and clinton. a person familiar with the event tells politico the donor dinner is scheduled for march 27th. all right, still aheadsh everybody, with the deadline looming, teresa may loses another crucial brexit vote. we will go live to london with more on that. later the legislation that

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damage, we'll get power outages. the line extensdz from the ohio valley, other concerns we will have for this storm, we have flooding concerns. areas of red we have river flood warnings. one-to-three inches of rain, then we will have river rises. we are starting to get warmer. we will call about one-to-three inches of rain in the north. they are late tonight into tomorrow, the memphis area have been soggy there. finally, the blizzard conditions today, denver will expect snow afternoon today, four-to-eight inches in denver, worse further to the north. they could have a foot of snow, yes, when you are sunny and nice here on the east coast, think of all our friends in the middle of

the country. >> exactly. all right. so it's hard to imagine this. we are 16 days until the united kingdom is scheduled to leave the european union. however, the second time this year, the british parliament overwhelmingly rejected the deal teresa may struck with the european union. in fact, the vote came less than 24 hours after may flew to france to meet with european commission president jean claude yunker that was voted down in january. >> joining us, steve, good morning to you. what are the main sticking points here at preventing the deal from getting the support that it needs? >> it's very good to be with you. there are so many sticking points that parliamentarians, so many things they agree that they can't agree on.

what they do agree on, if that makes sense to you. basically, the main sticking points are the irish backstop. which is something put in place to prevent a hard border so they don't want that so they have a backstop in place, it would be between the north, northern ireland, a part of the uk, the south, the republic of ireland. nobody wants to return to the hard border. nobody within the conservative party seems to have an agreement on how to move beyond the backstop, that's why so many mps didn't back their leader, mrs. may yesterday. >> all right. so let me get this perspective. what can happen between now and

then to avert or will they have to life with it? >> reporter: it could well be. what parliamentarians will do today, they will go for a vote that says we can't have a no-deal brexit. well, that's all well for the parliamentarians to vote for that. most will agree they don't want a no-deal brexit without any deem. the problem is, what does the eu think as well? because the eu can turn around and say actually we don't want to give you a leeway or an extension, which will be another vote tomorrow as well. we could still see a no-deal brexit march 29th despite what parliamentarians will vote today. >> we have to see what kind of a ripple effect it will have on the economy. >> steve, good to talk to you. >> thank you so much. still ahead this headline really pretty much says it all. the stunning trade in the nfl that sends obj out of nyc. details next in sports. >

. welcome back him time now for sports, thadz will become official as the new year starts today. in news last night, the new york giants reportedly agreed the trade star wide receiver odell beckham, jr., they're they've entered full rebuild mode. the giants will receive a 3rd and first round pick in this year's draft along with safety jabril peppers.

let's turn to the utah jazz, they instituted a lifetime ban onerous el west brooke saying quote there is no place in our game for personal attacks or disrespect, meanwhile, westbrooke responded with profanity after hearing he believed were comments related to his race has been fined $25,000 by the league. all right. let's go to college hoops and a shocker at the west coast conference at a championship last night as st. mary's punches its ticket to the dance. the lost ends the straight wcc titles that threaten their bid for a top seed in this month's ncaa tournament march madness, guys. >> how do you think he will fair in cleveland? >> odell beckham, jr.,? do you have any thoughts? >> i'm sure cleveland fans are

happy to have him. a high profile player. hopefully, he can deliver. >> reporter: i'm sure he wishes his career in new york lasted longer. >> and probably didn't have the setbacks. they've had a few setbacks. thanks, bud. >> this is the reason this is not a sports show, this conversation we just had. >> we're not a sports show. still ahead, the acting director in the hot seat over the president's 2020 budget proposal. what he is ai saying about the budget deficit. michael flynn's operation is complete. flynn is asking not to be sentenced just yet. we will tell you why in just a moment. enced just yet we will tell you why in just a moment or psoriatic arthritis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats differently. for psoriasis, 75% clearer skin is achievable, with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. for psoriatic arthritis, otezla

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welcome back, everybody, it is the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top stories. the senate is set to take up a measure to overturn president trump's emergency declaration to secure funding for his wall along the southern border. it comes as the white house and republicans are looking to avoid a political defeat on the matter. mitch mcconnell says the chamber will vote on the resolution tomorrow. it appears democrats had enough to overturn the plan. mcconnell also confirmed yesterday senate republicans are looking to reform declaration

powers. >> that includes mike lee that drafted resolution and shifts it back to congress. the senators proposal would amend the emergency act to say any amendment would expire after 30 days, more than a dozen republican senators have thrown their support behind it. according to post, lee's plan would give gop lawmakers nervous about publicly rebuking him some political cover. democrats in the house have unveiled a path to citizenship for more than 2 million immigrants included those known as dreamers. the bill is the latest version of the dream act legislation. it would help those covered by the obama era daca program a chance to acquire permanent legal status if they meet certain requirements. the bill would also allow hundreds of thousands of

temporary protective status recipients as well as immigrants covered by deferred departure humanitarian programs to gain permanent citizenship status. all of this comes as the trump administration prepares to close all international offices of us citizenship and immigration services. according to several reports, the director of the agency told employees in an e-mail, he is working to shift the responsibilities of employees world wide to domestic offices and to the state department embassies and consulates. the move could slow the processing of family visa applications from members of the military stationed abroad. >> and president trump's top official is making the president's plan for 2020, he was on capitol hill yesterday to testify before the house budget committee. during his appearance, he faced tough questions about the

government's high deficits and was criticized for the deep spending cuts to public aid programs in the 4.7 trillion budget. >> it was a recipe for american decline and relies on a patchwork of gimmicks, fantasy projection and extreme cuts that forfeit any responsibility for the well-being of the american people and our nation. what this administration is saying to our constituents is that the federal government will no longer have a role in making sure we remain an opportunity-based society. >> that the american dream is out of reach. >> how much have deficits in the debt exploded due to the republican tax law? >> deficits have certainly worsened in the first two years, over ten years, we believe that deficits will improve and that as a result of the tax cut in the overall economic program. >> do you believe deficits will improve? it's interesting, the omb has consistently revised up its estimates since the tax law was

passed for how big deficits will be, is that true? >> over the life of the years owe glow is it true have you revised up your deficits since the tax law has passed? >> our estimates have been revised to account for the fact that the tax cut in the short term has led to -- >> so they have been revised up, is that correct? >> in the short term, not over the long term. >> yes, they have been revised up. >> did president trump acknowledge he was breaking a key campaign promise when he agreed to a budget that cuts medicare by what are we saying now $517 billion? >> the president doesn't believe he is breaking his commitment to the american people at all. there are no structural changes to medicare. there is no cut to medicare. medicare continues to grow each and every year. the president committed to the american people he was going to attempt to lower drug prices so many of the reforms within medicare that gen rates savings, simply because the federal government pays for the drugs of seniors is because we are trying

to lower and we have proposals to lower drug costs. >> did president trump acknowledge that he was breaking a key campaign promise when he supported the cuts to medicaid and then turn it into a black rant? >> he does not, we do not believe we are breaking the amendment to medicaid. >> all right. so now to that massive scandal involving college admission's fraud. they have two hollywood actresses in a plan to fast track kids into universities and colleges. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams has more. pete. >> reporter: eamon, in all, 50 people have been arrested, including parents and the college coaches they're accused of bribeing here in washington at georgetown university, for example. the former tennis coach is accused of taking almost $3 million to admit 12 players as students. the colleges are some of the nation's most elite, yale, stanford, ucla, eight in all.

the fbi says they unwittingly admitted students with phony athletic records paid for by their parents. >> this is a case where they flaunted their wealth, to cheat the system so they can set their children up for success with the best education money could buy. >> reporter: among those charged, "full house" actress lori laughlin, "debt sampras housewife" star felicity huffman. at the center of the scam is william singer who ran a college prep business. >> setting your son up for college will set a trajectory for life. >> he admitted students as athletes, he photo shopped their faces on to pictures of sample athletes and got a sample of the hand writing. he bribed coaches at the school to put the applicants into their designated admission slots.

the i don't rememberer yale soccer coach was paid $400,000 to admit a student he knew didn't play competitive proctor and paid a proctor to get better scores. the fbi says some parents spent as much as $6.5 million for guaranteed admission of their children and disguised their payments to singer as contributions to a charity he ran so they can deduct the payments on theiring in taxes. >> the parents charged today, despite already being able to give their children every legitimate advantage in the college admissions game, instead chose to corrupt and legally manipulate the system for their benefit. >> reporter: prosecutors say more charges are likely. the coaches and test projectors have been charged with racketeering. the parents face mail fraud charges, eamon. >> all right. our thanks to pete williams for that report. all right, in a new status report last night, special counsel bob mueller's office announced michael flynn's

cooperation is complete. but in that same filing, flynn's lawyers are asking for a 90-day delay in his sentencing. flynn has been cooperating with prosecutors in virginia in a separate case of two former business associates lobbying for turkey. the special counsel's office did not take a sentencing delay. mueller's team recommended flynn receive little, if any, prison time. als, former trump campaign chair paul manafort faces another round of sentencing today. this morning, a federal judge in washington could add on ten years in prison for two charges of conspiracy that manafort pleaded guilty to last year this comes less than a week after manafort was sentenced to 47 months in prison in a different case, something many legal experts say was a light punishment. california governor gavin newsom will impose an indefinite moratorium on covering out the

moratorium, saying the racial discrimination makes the punishment quote immoral and a failure in public policy to an executive order, newsome will suspend the practice and give a reprieve from execution to california's 737 death row inmates. in a statement, newsome plans to cite about 60% of death row inmates are people of color and many executed in the past year had nationwide had mental health disabilities. because of these issues, he then plans to declare the policy quote has been by any measure a failure, arguing that the death penalty is quote absolute irreversible and irreparable in the event of human error. all right, still ahead, everybody, waiting and still waiting any day now, former vice president biden offers fresh hints he may be getting into the 2020 presidential race. plus, the former house speaker wall ryan lays out a warning about that race. what the republican is saying about the re-election chances.

>> and bill kierans is back with another check on your forecast. we'll be right back.

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shot and asked for his support. the former vice president asked if he can bounce ideas off the law maker. he interpreted it as a sure sign that biden will, fact, enter the 2020 race. >> who will go first? biden or beto? or is biden waiting on beto, he's the last one in? we have to wait and see. former house speaker paul ryan is warning that president trump's re-election hopes may be in danger. he said it became a polarization and kept his speech focused heavily on policy. he said he could lose in 2020. the person that defines that race is going to win the race, if this is about donald trump and his personality, he isn't going to win it. >> it will be with nbc

meteorologist bill kierans, we will get some good news in the northeast. it's hard to say in the rest of the country. >> east coast looks okay, in the middle of the country, it is wake-up time in ft. worth, a very strong line of thunderstorms. 50 to 70 mile per hour winds, through the downtown, now this line of storms will slide through dallas, about 20 to 30 minutes from now. we will have a chance of winds in dallas. there is some lightning. i'm sure that thunder is waking people up. later today that line of storms will weaken. then it will fire back up this afternoon. from about 2:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. we'll have a chance of rain in little rock and mississippi and weaken late tonight. the other story with this storm, this is such a big storm. it will be immense, it will be intense, too, we are watching 48 million people that have the potential of seeing wind damage and it's actually going to be a lot of dust and debris blowing. anywhere in purple is under high

wind warnings, from oklahoma city to el paso, to albuquerque. we have wind advisories, it means a lot of bumpy landings and takeoffs, too. notice 70-mile-per-hour in amarillo. this is just from the actual big storm, itself. denver, you go over to snow this afternoon. four-to-eight inches of snow, winds up to 60 miles per hour. that's why denver is under a blizzard warning. this is a slow more. even into 31st. the winds stay high in the mi middle of the country. as far as the east coast goes. look at floridas. >> still ahead, the u.s. moves closer to a possible peace agreement in afghanistan as negotiators strike deal on key issues. >> the senate is rebuking the

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there not a single person that doesn't think he's jumping in and jumping in soon. in those conversations he's laying out a five point plan. he will say, listen, i'm the one person who can win in america and wisconsin and pennsylvania. he will say, i'm liberal but not too liberal, too liberal can't win in this environment. in a chaotic world you need somebody with my experience. running against trump you need somebody who is willing to go and get in his face. he has shown that he will do it and wants to do it. he will argue, if you want something new and fresh, put that person next to me on the ticket. all signs are that he'll run. i will say the thing that will give people forred by an little bit of pause, he's a little bit nervous the democratic party has moved past him as far as

ideologically, where it's looking for the future of the party. i think he will get in but not doing it delusionally, he understands the challenge. >> you touched on it, the challenge he may face if in fact he does decide to enter the already crowded field. give me a sense what he may be facing in terms of obstacles. will it be stamina and energy or ideology of the party moving to the left? >> i think the biggest one might be new. voters love something new and exciting. you look at the democratic party now, yes, it wants to win but wants a different spike. it feels too often it has to compromise where republicans don't compromise. it's not clear he's a fit for that. imagine if you're joe biden, kind of where hillary clinton was before she ran. she was very popular.

he's very popular and he's beloved and popular. the moment you jump in that changes and you put all of that in. if he loses, that would be the third time he lost. who wants to be a three-time loser. that is the fear that kept him from saying, yes, i am and doing it. >> you saw trump pick up on the fact he's already run a few times. >> if it comes down to biden versus trump, how are both sides thinking about that matchup. >> donald trump says he's not worried about biden but goes back and forth on that. i think he does think biden rather than some like elizabeth could do better against him in michigan, minnesota, pennsylvania. that part probably does worry him a little bit. when he thinks about politics, he thinks about celebrity terms, who does better on tv and better on twitter and who would strike the most fear in him and why

biden would not be at the top of the list. he obviously would be formidable. the truth is none of us no, maybe they won't embrace socialism. maybe they will, they embraced trumpism. there is a lot of mystery to him and us where is the american party? none of us know at this point. >> they have to have a strong social media game at least. >> don't go anywhere. >> stay like this. >> stay exactly like this. don't move. >> you can stretch a little bit. >> you, too, can sign up for axios.com. >> "morning joe" starts right now. we could all play games or we call all talk about technology. i know more about technology than anybody. hello. you want to put that on this

phone, please? hello. >> meanwhile, president trump stirred confusion when he tweeted airplanes are far too complex to fly. pilots are no longer needed but rather computer scientists from mit. >> a wheel is older than a wall. >> steam is very reliable and the electromagnetic, unfortunately you have to be albert einstein to really work it properly. >> if you have something really important, write it out and have it delivered by courier the old-fashioned way. >> we're losing a lot of people because of the internet. we have to do something. we have to go see bill gates. >> we appreciate it very much, tim ap. >> i think the computers have complicated lives greatly. the age of computer has made it where nobody knows exactly what's going on. >> to quote the president, nobody knows exactly what's going on. good morning.