change at the pentagon after the secretary of the navy gets ousted. richard spencer has been fired for his handling of a war crimes case involving a navy s.e.a.l. plus, the top republican on the house intelligence committee devin nunes denounces reports that he met with an ex-ukrainian prosecutor to manufacture dirt on joe biden. the allegation was made by one of rudy giuliani's indicted associates. and it's official, former new york city mayor michael bloomberg has confirmed he's making a white house run, and he's kicking it off with a $30 million advertising blitz. ♪ good monday morning, everybody, it is november 25th. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside nbc news i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside jeff bennet. we begin with a shakeup at the pentagon. navy secretary richard spencer has been fired after the dispute of a navy seal accused of war crimes in new york later

acquitted. according to a statement from the defense department, secretary mark esper lost his trust and confidence in spencer over the handling of the case of chief petty officer eddie gallagher. gallagher had been accused of committing war crimes while deployed back in 2017. he was acquitted of murder but convicted in july of posing with a corpse of an isis prisoner for which he was demoted. president donald trump reversed that demotion and on thursday tweeted that gallagher would keep his trident pen, signifying his status as a member of the elite navy seals. a day later spencer told reporters that he believed the review process over gallagher's status should go forward, but contrary to those public statements, the defense department says spencer privately proposed to the white house that he be retired as a navy seal. in the resignation later last night, spencer acknowledged the termination and stated, quote, unfortunately it has become apparently that in this respect i no longer share the same

understanding with the commander in chief who appointed me in regards to the key principle of good order and discipline. i cannot in good conscience obey an order i believe violates the sacred oath i took. earlier on sunday, gallagher was on fox news where he attacked his chain of command. >> this is all about ego and retaliation. this has nothing to do with good order and discipline. this he could have taken my trident at any time they wanted and now trying to take it after the president restored my rank and after we filed an ig exposing all of the corruption that has been going on during my case. >> in a series of tweets last night president trump said gallagher will retire with all of the honors he has earned and including his trident pin and added that the ambassador will be nominated to take over as navy secretary. now to the latest reporting that suggests some of the president's defenders are knowingly taking part in a russian operator to smear ukraine and divide the u.s. nbc news has confirmed reporting by "the new york times" that the

u.s. intelligence officials briefed senators in recent weeks, that russia engaged in a years-long campaign to frame ukraine for meddling in the 2016 u.s. election. a u.s. official tells nbc that the information about the russian operation was considered classified. until dr. fiona hill revealed it in the public testimony in last week's impeachment hearing. being part of a putin disinformation campaign is not stopping president trump or his defenders from pushing or engaging in the debunked conspiracy theory. look at this. >> the fbi went in and told them get out of here, we're not giving it to you. they gave the server to crowdstrike, or whatever it's called, which is a country, which is a company owned by a very wealthy ukrainian, and i still want to see that server. you know, the fbi has never gotten that server. that's a big part of this whole thing. why did they give it to a ukrainian company? >> are you sure they did that? are you sure they gave it to ukraine? >> well, that's what the word

is. >> senator kennedy, who do you believe was responsible for hacking the dnc and clinton campaign computers, their emails? was it russia? or ukraine? >> i don't know. nor do you. nor do any of us. ms. hill -- >> well, let me interrupt and say, the entire intelligence community says it was russia. >> right, but it could also be ukraine. i'm not saying that i know one way or the other. i'm saying that ms. hill is entitled to her opinion. but no rebuttal evidence was allowed to be offered. >> can you confirm that you guys have been given an intelligence briefing on this issue, that russia is trying to frame ukraine? >> some members have. i have not. but i'm not at all surprised that russia is gearing up, not at all surprised that she's correct, that russia tried to interfere in 2016. also, ukrainians themselves

tried to interfere also. but chuck -- >> isn't that a big difference between the two, ukraine, look, i understand there is individual y ukrainians that candidate donald trump wanted crimea to stay with russia. is that the same as russia and putin ordering a full-fledged investigation into the united states. >> i'm concerned about both. >> just to be clear, there is no evidence to show that ukraine has been involved in the 2016 elections. adam schiff says the house will move forward with the impeachment inquiry into the president. >> there is more work to be done. but at the same time, we have already accumulated quite overwhelming evidence that the president once again sought foreign interference in an election, conditioned official acts, a white house meeting, that ukraine desperately wanted, as well as $400 million of bipartisan taxpayer funding to get these political investigations that he thought

would help his re-election so we view this as urgent, we have another election in which the president is threatening more foreign interference, but at the same time, there are still other witnesses, other documents, that we would like to obtain, but we're not willing to go the months and months and months of rope-a-dope in the courts which the nation would more than love for us to do. >> right now, no public hearings scheduled for any time in the rest of this year? >> we don't forclose the possibility of others. >> in a series of tweets former national security adviser john bolton said friday, that he's regained control of his personal twitter account. claiming that the white house refused to provide access to it after he resigned in september. >> are you concerned that they're trying to stop you from testifying? >> i don't know what, you you'll have to ask the white house but i can say definitively we have regained control of the twitter account. twitter detached the white house software. >> bolton on friday tweeted in part, speaking up since

resigning as national security adviser, the white house refused to return access to my personal twitter account out of fear of what i may say. to those who speculated i went into higd i am sorry to disappoint. >> and president trump rejected the claims and touted the good videotape with the former national security adviser. take a look. >> john bolton, has just gotten back on twitter, his account was frozen for two months. did you guys freeze his account? >> no, of course not. i had a good relationship with john. we disagreed on some things. >> he is lying is what he is saying but we have a good relationship nonetheless. >> and msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. >> and senior staff brightwrite the hill, scott wong. danny, i want you to weigh in on the twitter controversy. did they or did they not? what is the legality whether or not the white house can actually freeze john bolton's twitter

account if in fact they did just that. >> first, i'm not entirely sure what exactly happened on w-john bolton's twitter account. did the nsa process, or as bolton suggested, software to do it or did he have his password on a yellow post-in note that he had on his desk and couldn't access to the twitter account, especially if he gave shared access to the white house. it may be a case, can you give me the post-it note with my passwords and the white house delayed in giving it back to him. we don't really know. even his language is kind of vague. so it is really not first amendment suppression if they delayed in giving him back wherever he wrote down his passwords. but is it something more nefarious than that? possibly. >> and they talk about the twitter account but the pertinent question is will john bolton testify in the impeachment inquiry. scott, we saw 12 witnesses over five days of testimony. help us understand the next

steps. we know house intelligence committee staffers are writing this report. explain where it goes from there. >> well, i think adam schiff would love to have john bolton testify before his committee. but i think what you heard him say was they are pressing ahead, as fast as they can, they understand that there's an election coming very soon, and we're starting the iowa caucuses, in the first week of february, and so they're under a time crunch, and they want to move expeditiously. what's going to happen next is even though we're in thanksgiving, and it is a pretty slow week in washington, the intelligence committee democrats are going to have a busy week. they are writing the report, probably beginning today, if not over the weekend, and they are compiling what they have learned during this eight-week investigation, into president trump's conduct regarding ukraine. and then at that point, they will hand over the process, they will hand over that report in the process to the judiciary committee and chairman jerry

nadler who will then decide, and there is a debate happening in that committee, whether or not they are going to call additional witnesses and have additional public hearings. they haven't fully decided what they're going to do at this point. but the goal is to wrap this all up by the time christmas comes around. it's going to be a very tough deadline given all that they have to do. >> when you say the goal is christmas, it seems as if it is going to move well beyond christmas. >> we only have about two weeks because the week before christmas, the house is gone for the holidays. >> and speaking of this report, danny, if these articles of impeachment are drawn up, what will they look like, what will they be? >> most likely, obstruction of justice, always you're going to have abuse of official power, that's a really appetizing one because it doesn't require a crime. instead, it's more of a high crime and misdemeanor in the sense of abuse of the office of the president. and several impeachments in the past have contained that article of impeachment. it is sort of a catch-all. the easiest one to make out.

that, plus you've got obstruction of justice, you've got abuse of power, and you've got possibly witness tampering based on the tweets that trump issued during ambassador yovanovitch's testimony. but all likelihood, abuse of power is the best bet. >> and scott, let's talk about this, the firing of navy secretary richard spencer. chuck schumer put out a statement last night, the top democrat in the senate obviously. what do you make of this? and where do you think it is going to head politically? >> just a very highly unusual situation, where you have several different narratives as to how this all went down last night. secretary spencer of the navy saying that he simply broke with the president and could no longer, that the president should have somebody in place who agreed with him, when it came to this soldier, and how this case was being handled. defense secretary mark esper seeing he had lost faith and confidence in the navy

secretary because he believed that secretary spencer had gone behind his back in trying to cut a deal with the white house over whether or not this soldier would have his rank restored, and whether he would be able to remain in the navy seals. and so another aspect of this of course, is the fact that the president was tweeting about this case, i mean really a personnel matter, that should have been handled internally, by the pentagon, but now you have the commander in chief involved in a very public fashion. the navy seal himself making a plea of course on fox news and making his case, speaking to an audience of one, the president of the united states. so a very unusual situation that we have not seen before in the past. >> danny cevallos, thank you by the way, happy bolted birthday.

ha i happy 21st. scott wong, thank you as well. >> i wasn't being sarcastic by the way. and former new york city mayor michael bloomberg is making a bid for the presidency. what other 2020 white house hopefuls are saying about his late entry. >> plus president trump once again attacks former ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch this time falsely claiming she refused to hang up his portrait in the official u.s. em brace in ukraine. those stories and the weather when we come back. those stories and the weather when we come back. ♪oh there's no place like home for the holidays.♪

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business from a single room to a global entity, creating tens of thousands of good-paying jobs along the way. he could have stopped there. but when new york suffered the terrible tragedy of 9/11, he took charge, becoming a three-term mayor who brought a city back from the ashes. and now, he sees a different kind of menace comes from washington. so there is no stopping here. because there's an america waiting to be rebuilt. mike bloomberg for president. jobs creator. leader. problem solver. it's going to take all three to build back a country. >> bloomberg's late entry dove-tails with a staggering $31 million ad buy for television commercials to outline his background and political agenda which dwarfs the advertising budgets of other rival campaigns. >> as expected, bloomberg's entry sent shock waves amongst the already crowded group of 2020 democratic candidates as some look to knock the businessman for the financial wealth, his late add to the

race. >> we do not believe that billionaires have the right to buy elections. that is why multi-billionaires like mr. bloomberg are not going to get very far in this election. >> the election should not be for sale. not to billionaires. not to corporate executives. we need to build a grass roots movement. that's how democracy is supposed to work. >> money will not win this election. connecting with people will. >> you know, listen, we got to get money out of politics. let me just be honest with you. i mean i got to raise a ton of money to be competitive. and you know, there's some people who started this race with $10 million. >> all right, let's switch gears here and get a check of your weather here with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> you know one of the three of us went skiing yesterday. >> yes. >> guess who it might be. >> it sure wasn't me. >> who's got the biggest smile going on. >> right. >> jeff and i were sitting hoo ner new york, on the most

miserable sunday ever. >> what did you do with your kids? how did you keep them occupying? actually, we were skiing. you took a 3-year-old skiing which is amazing. they will tell me to wrap in 2.2 seconds. >> wrap. >> it was incredibly emotional moment for me because my dad taught me to ski when i was that age, and i didn't realize, you know, my dad is no long wer us and i didn't realize how emotional it was going to be for me to see my son on skis and to teach him and so exhaust and i wanted to throw in the towel. >> your back hurts a little bit. >> my back hurts so much today. but it was so much fun. and surprisingly, they had a significant amount of snow up in vermont. >> the pictures are worth it. >> the pictures were worth it. >> yes. >> if you want to say any, go to my instagram. >> they were good pics. >> so let's go and take a look at the forecast. the storm from yesterday is gone. so we are just about done with that, a little bit of snow left in areas of maine and today is the best travel day by far of the next five days and not many issues, we will have some snow in areas like the rockies and

colorado and utah, later on tonight but not right now. this morning, we're fine. let's go into tomorrow morning. this is when the snowstorm is under way in areas of colorado. i-25 will be a mess. and then we're going to watch 80 becoming very difficult on tuesday. if you're heading anywhere through nebraska, we got a lot of snow to deal with. and then the snow shield spreads up to minneapolis, lacrosse, northern wisconsin, and ahead of the storm, that's warm enough for just a rain event for the ohio valley to the northeast. so by the busy travel day wednesday, a little bit of rain is going to slide through the east coast but the storm kind of weaken, not an all day rain and begins to head out. the biggest impacts over the next two day, the rockies nebraska and minnesota for snow. and i was looking at the macy's praid forecast, and if it is too windy, they can't do the balloons and right now, it's iffy at best. >> let's hope for the best. >> the kids like it. >> so do i. >>. some of the adults, too.

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questioned about his relationship with the president. >> have you talked to president trump in the last week or two? have you met with him? >> i don't discuss, i do not discuss my conversations with my client. you can assume that i talk to him early and often. and have a very, very good relationship with him. and all of these comments, which are totally insulting, i mean i'd see things written, he is going to throw me under the bus. when i say that, he isn't, but i have insurance. >> well, okay. hours later giuliani clarified on twitter that his statement on having insurance was quote sarcastic and relates to the files in my safe about the biden family four decks of monetizing his office. >> and president trump said on friday he was angry with former ambassador to ukraine marie yovanovitch claiming she refused to hang his picture in the u.s. embassy in ukraine. take a look at this. >> the ambassador, the woman, she wouldn't even put up, she is an obama person, you know, i

said why are you beng so kind, well, sir, she is a woman, we have to be nice, this ambassador, you know, that everybody says is so wonderful, she wouldn't hang my picture in the embassy, she is in charge of the embassy, she wouldn't hang it, it took a year and a half, two years to get the picture up and she said bad things about me and wouldn't defend me and i have a right to change the ambassador. >> the accusation is false and the pictures were hung up as soon as they arrived from washington, d.c. nearly eight months into trump's term, the pictures were not displayed in thousands of buildings because they were yet to be received from the white house. the supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg is back home and doing well after hospitalized friday for experiencing chills and a fever. the 86-year-old justice was

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian, alongside nbc news white house correspondent jeff bennet. we begin this half hour with new information connected to the impeachment investigation a white house review of president trump's decision to freeze u.s. security assistance to ukraine has turned up hundreds of documents that reveal efforts to justify the hold after it was placed, according to three people familiar with the records. nbc news has not obtained copies of these documents. the post reports that quote in the early august email exchanges, acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney asked acting office of

management and budget director for an update on the legal rationale for withholding aid and how much longer it could be delayed. trump had made the decision, according to white house officials, the prior month, without an assessment of the reasoning or legal justification. according to the post, ox omb staffers were arguing whether it was legal, and there were protests. and people familiar with the review telling the post that it was legal to hold the aid as long as they deemed it a temporary hold. it is worth noting that mulvaney's request for information came days after the white house counsel's office was put on notice that an anonymous cia official had made a complaint to the agency's general counsel about trump's now infamous july 25th phone call with the ukrainian president. now to the new twist in the impeachment investigation, the attorney for lev parnas, an indicted associate of rudy giuliani says his client is willing to testify that republican congressman devin nunes of california met with

ukraine's former top prosecutor victor shoeken last year, late last year, about investigating the activities of former vice president joe biden and his son hunter. all of it related to the ukrainian national gas company burisma. if the allegation is true, it means nunes, the ranking member of the house intelligence committee was himself involved in the very plot that the panel is investigating in the impeachment inquiry. now, nunes yesterday declined to answer whether the meeting took place. >> bottom line, were you in vienna with shokin? >> yes, so look, marie, i really want to answer all of these questions, and i promise you i will come back on the show and answer these questions, but because there is criminal activity here, we're working with the appropriate law enforcement agencies, we're going to file all of this, everyone is going to know the truth, everybody is going to know all of the facts, but i think you can understand that i can't compete by trying to

debate this out with the public media when 90% of the media are totally corrupt. and because this is criminal in nature, and because it's so bad, it's so slanderous, we've got all of the facts on our side, and we're going to file in federal court, because i'm not going to sit here and try to compete against the media that i have no chance of winning this. i will win in court, and they'll have a chance to cooperate, and they'll have to show how they work with somebody who has been indicted which is lakely conspiring to obstruct justice. >> he says the facts are on his side but congressional records show he traveled to europe in december of 2018 and that squares with the time line that parnas alleges. the records do not indicate whether they met. and hundreds of pages of internal state department documents released on friday show secretary of state mike pompeo and president trump's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, were in contact just before

ukraine ambassador marie yovanovitch was abruptly recalled. the documents ethics group appear to show two phone calls between giuliani and pompeo, orchestrated by trump's assistant, as giuliani was pushing ukraine to investigate the bidens, and trying to oust yovanovitch. pompeo ordered her removal the following month. in an effort to remove her, giuliani encouraged conservative media outlets to publicize unsubstantiated claims about yovanovitch's disloyalty to the president. yovanovitch told congress during the impeachment hearing that claim, that giuliani smeared her reputation by spreading false allegations that she badmouthed the president and she was blocking an investigation into the bidens. joining us from washington, senior staff writer for the hill, scott wong once again. scott, thanks for coming back. secretary of state mike pompeo has attempted to stay out of impeachment inquiry as much as possible, as we saw last week. but these newly-released documents, they're pulling him

to the core of it, to the center of it. what is the significance of his involvement in all of this going forward? >> well, i think it really turns up the heat on mike pompeo. as you mentioned, we have not really heard publicly from him on the ukraine matter. and when reporters have asked questions, he's dodged those questions, pivoted to other issues. we have not seen him come testify before the house intelligence committee, he has refused subpoenas to turn over documents. this is a really significant development, because this is the first tranche of documents from the state department that we have seen so far. the first of many. and so i understand from american oversight, they have requested numerous documents, they are expecting more documents to be released from the state department, in the future. this also is significant, because mike pompeo is somebody, clearly an ambitious politician, somebody who is always looking for the next move, he is

contemplating running for the united states senate in kansas, where he formally served as a congressman, and so this certainly complicates that potential senate run, and really turns a spotlight on his activities, regarding the ukraine scandal. >> scott, what kind of fallout do you think awaits congressman devin nunes? according to the reporting, he was in ukraine, in december of 2018, at the time he was still chairman of the house intelligence committee, it wasn't until that january that he was replaced by adam schiff. he says all the facts will come out and they will be on his side but you at least have a couple of democrats calling for an ethics investigation of him. >> yes, i saw those comments from the, from adam smith, the chairman of the armed services committee. obvious, a very respected congressman on capitol hill. who knows what's going to happen in this devin nunes case. i mean as you know, jeff, when you try to approach mr. nunes, on capitol hill, he refuses to talk to any reporters.

he's obviously, he obviously sees us as the enemy so he won't be answering questions, certainly from people like us, on capitol hill, maybe he will give an interview and provide more details to fox news, although that wasn't the case yesterday. but it's a very unusual situation, when you have the ranking member of the top republican of the intelligence committee, that is investigating the ukraine matter, and that top republican is somehow involved in that very matter itself. so not sure where this is going to go, but obviously, i think this underscores that we are learning new details and developments every single day. >> scott wong, thank you. >> thanks. still ahead, the latest in the race for the democratic national come nation, an uphill battle for former new york city mayor michael bloomberg has he officially enters the race. plus this. >> i'm going to ask, due to joe biden's scenario, which he did for trump, find somebody, not

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$30 million. >> by the way the best was also the opening skit when will ferrell was playing gordon sondland, and -- >> i liked bloomberg with the big gulp. nice touch. >> that was snl's skit on the democratic primary. and i'm not sure if michael bloomberg was inspired by snl to enter the race. the most recent emerson poll shows him as 1%. no one is selecting him as the first choice candidate. the most recent hill, morning consult poll, have him at 3%. bloomberg news has created what it calls safeguards for covering the 2020 election moving forward. an internal memo sent by the news organization's editor in chief to staff yesterday, which was obtained by cnbc, reit reads quote, we will continue our trafgs of not investigating mike and his family and foundation

and will e tend the same policy to his rivals in the democratic primaries. we cannot treat mike's democratic competitors differently from him. the 77-year-old billionaire businessman is the founder and 89% shareholder of bloomberg lp, a financial software company that owns bloomberg news. former vice president joe biden took aim at lindsey graham over the weekend saying he feels personally betrayed over the request for documents of his son hunter. >> they are asking lindsey graham, they have him under their thumb right now, they know he knows that if he comes out against trump, he's got a real tough road for re-election. number one. i am disappointed and quite frankly i'm angered by the fact he knows me, he knows my son, and he knows there's nothing to this. and lindsey is about to go down in a way that i think he's going to regret his whole life. >> what do you say to him? >> i say, lindsey, i just, i

just am embarrassed by what you're doing. and you, i mean my lord. >> on thursday, graham sent a letter to secretary of state mike pompeo, asking to hand over documents on biden, his son hunter, obama administration officials and former ukrainian president poryshenko, as a response to the impeachment inquiries in president trump. meantime the biden campaign is fundraising over graham's phony investigation and emails and texts sent throughout the weekend, biden says he is outraged and claims this is just another stunt by the republicans to stop him from becoming the democratic presidential nominee. another check of the weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> as advertised, an extremely difficult week of travel especially at the airports. the east coast is going to be the best at any region of the middle of the country has two storms to deal with and the west coast is going to be absolutely the worse. especially tuesday into wednesday. so let's, we will fast forward

past today. everyone's travel forecast looks fine. i know salt lake city and later tonight in denver, you will get some snow. but this is the outlook for denver. it looks like we are watching the heaviest snow moving in late tonight, all day tomorrow, and minneapolis, it looks like as we go throughout your tuesday afternoon, evening, that's when the heavier snow arrives for you. just rain, minor delays possible, chicago, st. louis, and through the ohio valley, and then our huge storm comes into the west on tuesday. and it may not just be travel implications, we may have problems with power outages, and significant damage from this storm. it is one of the bigger storms we've had in a long time on the coastline of oregon. we could see wind gusts up to 80 miles an hour. so significant damage possible. that's the airport's look. there by the time we get in wednesday, still dealing with the effects from minneapolis, to the northern portions of the great lakes. windy conditions, can cause significant problems at o'hare airport. and then a period of rain will slide through the east, and i don't think we will have horrific delays and cancellations but there will be some minor problems. a lot of the airports off of the

i-95 corridor and as i mentioned the west is by far the worst with the huge storm on tuesday and then it swings down through the four corner region on wednesday and out into the plains on thursday. so numerous airport problems wednesday, phoenix and vegas, it looks like dallas, right around thursday, and in case anyone has any interest in the parade, right now, the winds are forecast to gust to 35 to 40 miles an hour. and the gusts are pretty much over 35, they cancel the balloons. that's actually in new york city, the regulation after the incident in i think it was 2005 where one of the balloons hit a light post and killed someone. so right now, it's looking iffy for the balloons. >> let's hope those wind gusts stay in cell so we can have the parade. >> they still have two days. >> thank you, bill. still ahead a huge hit for uber. we will go live to london for breaking news overnight. plus, the big front page news from hong kong. a landslide victory from pro-democracy candidates in the election. >> is it the revolution the activists are hoping for?

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welcome back. pro-democracy candidates in hong kong are set to win a landslide victory in local elections. hong kong's chief executive carrie lam responded to the victory saying the results reflect people's dissatisfaction with the current situation and the deep-seated problems in society of the arrests in hong

kong began three months after over lam's support of an extradition treaty with mainland china and the response to the protests. more than 5,000 people have been arrested in hong kong. last week, congress overwhelming passed legislation in support of human rights in hong kong but on friday, president trump signaled key veto the legislation, the president saying quote we have to stand with hong kong but i'm also standing with president xi. the president adding we are in the process of making the largest trade deal in history. let's turn to business and breaking noout news right now involving uber. eaking noout new involving uber london. what's happening? >> reporter: the regulate to for transport here in london has decided it's going to strip uber of its license to operate as a private hiring company. it's done this once before when there were concerns about security, background checks, and

the failure to report criminal offenses by drivers. they're saying that uber has failed toer prevent people who e uninsured and unlicensed from uploading their photos to other driver's profiles and 14,000 trips have seen potentially unlicensed, uninsured drivers moving people around london. the company saying the decision is wrongan and extraordinary. they've increased the robustness of their protests and they intend to appeal. the largest european market for uber will see drivers using the service until thats appeals process is exhausted. another big story, we've heard lm and h the luxury giant has decided to a deal withtive if i, the tiffany.

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welcome back. joining us from washington with a look at axios a.m. the cofounder of axios, mike allen. good morning to you. >> good morning and happy turkey week. >> happy turkey week. talk to us about axios' one big thing today, mike. >> the axios one big thing is minimum wage surprise. so one issue that all the 2020 democrats agree about is eventually raising the federal minimum wage to $15. and around the country cities and states, district of columbia, have all been slowly

raising their minimum wages. and the opposition is always that that's going to cost jobs. the criticism of this is always that if you raise the minimum wage too much then people aren't going to hire. but axios now has data showing that that's not the case. that, in fact, because this is such a tight labor market and a lot of the places where the minimum wage has risen, so have jobs and hiring. so this takes away one of the big -- one of the big criticisms of it. now, of course, it can inhibit hiring, it can force people -- businesses to not expand as they would. but the basic argument that democrats are making is now bolt ster bolstered by data from the federal reserve. >> we mentioned earlier that michael bloomberg is jumping into the 2020 field. what's axios reporting on this

and what his thinking is in making that this presidential bid. >> what he is thinking, is he a data guy. it's a very daunting road. but listen to his plan. his plan is to run a national campaign against donald trump from day one. what does that mean? that means he's not taking donations. and because he's not take donations he can't qualify for democratic debate. so he's not going to be on the democratic debate stage. not going to spend time in early states. but their theory is by running against donald trump from day one, you're going to strach the itch the democrats have. and a scoop in axios a.m. this morning, tim o'brien who we see often on msnbc, an author and journalist, wrote a book about trump, was sued by trump, is joining the campaign as a senior adviser and will be a surrogate for him. we will see tim obrain out

making t making a case for bloomberg and you might hear him talking a little bit about his experience wexperiences and what he learned after being sued. >> is ythank you so much. >> that does it for us on this monday morning. i'm yasmin alongside geoff bennett. "morning joe" starts right now. i know some of you think i'm shaking because i'm nervous, but this is just my signature quivering bang. >> america, i see you. and i see the faces you all make when i talk. you're scared. scared i'll say something off-color or even worse, on color. >> hi, guys. i'm billionaire tom steyer. and i'm running for president for a simple reason. it's fun. and it gets me out of the house. >> did somebody say billionaire?

>> mayor bloomberg, how did you get in here? >> well, i tipped the doorman $30 million. >> that is "snl," "saturday night live." fred coming back with the big gulp as mayor michael bloomberg. we have a packed house this morning. msnbc contributor -- a little closer than i'd like seated next to me mike barnicle this morning. jonathan lemire. former chief of staff to the dccc, adrienne elrod. she's an msnbc contribute tosor reverend al sharpton. david drucker, who is also a contributing writer at vanity fair. and in washington, susan page and former chief of staff of the cia and