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d -- can disgibson. >> they're sending a ground hog. >> farmers taking their almanac instead. dramatic moved by the justice department leaving it apparently at odds with the white house. >> "the washington post" today suggesting that the divide between president trump and attorney general bill barr over among other things the president's tweeting. >> that divide reportedly by the justice department's decision not to charge former acting fbi director andrew mccabe a target of the president who authorized the investigation of trump. following the president in west palm beach, monica, good morning to you. did the dropping of the charges come as a surprise to the administration, to the president? >> reporter: it appears so. we haven't heard from the president directly. here's here for the -- he's hoar

for the weekend in mar-a-lago. "the washington post" is reported this morning that he was caught off guard. this comes days after attorney general bill barr gave that interview to abc where he said it was impossible for him to do his job with the president constantly weighing in on different cases in the department of justice and basically imploring him not to keep interfering. not to keep tweeting and of course what did we see hours after that, the president did defy him, and did end up tweeting a quote from the interview and saying this doesn't mean that i do not have as president the legal right to interfere in a criminal case but i quote have so far chosen not to. all of that happening in a very short span amount of time, and hours after that in what is seen as an act of independence from the doj, we saw the news about former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe not being charged. he was being investigated for an

alleged leak to the media. this is somebody the president has gone after time and time again. he did not stop to talk to reporters on the way to the trip down to florida, and we haven't heard from him yet this morning. but it is a long day here, and we expect the president to probably go to his golf club. but rain is in the forecast, so he might be weighing in on that. but later tonight he has a high dollar fundraiser behind closed doors where all of these top epidemics are likely to -- topics are likely to come up. he usually touts the attorney general. remember that he says one of the greatest mistakes of his entire administration was appointing jeff sessions as his attorney general and he has been unhappy with barr up to this point, but this has deepened the divide, and he have to see his reaction. we're hoping to hear it later today. >> we know this is obviously nothing new with trump's presidency when it comes to tweeting his opinion about legal matters, why now when it comes to bill barr weighing in asking the president not to do that.

>> it's a good question, and we saw the president sort of emboldened after his acquittal in the senate. this is a part of the series of that. we saw him weigh in more candidly referring to trump campaign adviser, roger stone and the prosecutors that left that case when there was a bit of a controversy and discussion over how many years his sentence should be, and we saw the president weigh in on that heavily multiple times. this is something who feels that he can be a little bit more involved. the gloves are off, and we have seen that from him, and i think we're going to expect to continue to see that. >> he doesn't appear to be backing down. nbc's monica a, a big day on th twitter machine no doubt. >> let's bring in msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. the doj not charging andrew

mccabe. what happened with that case and what do you make of the time something. >> remember this is probably just as big a surprise to andrew mccabe. if you go back several months, not only did line prosecutors appear to recommend charges but the u.s. attorney for the district of columbia apparently recommended charges as well. if you are andrew mccabe's team, sometime several months ago you were thinking it looks likely i'm going to get charged. not only is president trump probably surprised by this turn of events, certainly andrew mccabe's legal team must be to some degree as well. >> we also learned that the justice department opened an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the fbi's interview of former national security adviser michael flynn. how unusual is this type of action from the doj. >> let's take a step back and look at all the calories burnt on michael flynn's case which is a 0 to 6 month guidance sentence

for section 101 false statements, it's astounding who handles cases where the recommendi recommending guideline sentencing range is in the strike that , it is strange, everything about the michael flynn review is strange just as it is with the roger stone case. it's unusual. this is not what happens in normal cases. i can't imagine that a line prosecutor's position on reviewing michael flynn's case would be anything other than are you kidding me, the guy is looking at zero to six months maximum in federal court. that is a dream place for any df defendant to be to start with. everything about this political review, politicized cases is unusual. >> let's talk about trump's reaction, he says he has a legal right to ask the attorney general to get involved in a criminal case. fact check that for us. >> he has the legal power.

maybe not the right. it's a weird distinction because the president has the absolute power to pardon any of these defendants. he could open up the doors of every federal prison with a tweet if he wanted to. that's how broad the federal pardon power is. if he can pardon all these folks, he can probably meddle in their sentencing phase or prosecution but in a way that's different because he can pardon them outright, but actually meddling in the doj's process, while he may have the power it really isn't right. >> danny cevallos, thank you for that perspective. thank you for joining us this morning. let's turn right now to the race for the white house, and there's just eight democratic candidates left fighting for the support of voters across the country. up next of course you saw it right there, nevada. those caucuses one week today. but get this, early voting starts today in nevada. and those designated early

voting polls will remain open until tuesday. >> there will be 36 delegates up for grabs. of the 64 already awarded. pete buttigieg has a slight lead of 22. but a new poll shows voters in nevada favor senator bernie sanders with 25% saying he's their first choice. >> and today most candidates are focussing the campaign of nevada voters with events across the state. joe biden got an endorsement the pilot behind the miracle on the hudson. that's where a protester tried to disrupt the event getting boos from the crowd. >> a second thing is that we have to restore the backbone of the country. why don't you sit down, sir. don't be donald trump. don't be a trumper here, okay. >> also in nevada, amy klobuchar pointing to past presidents as a way to show the clear front runner isn't always the winner.

>> so many times that the winning candidate on the democratic side has not been the one everyone thought was going to win at first. think of jimmy carter, bill clinton, barack obama, these were not the people that they thought were going to win but the people of this country, especially the early states, thought otherwise. >> and pete buttigieg spending time with voters in california in sacramento specifically, he continues to face questions about how he'll get the support of black voters. >> the only way to win the african-american vote is to deserve it. so it starts by reaching out and asking and seeking that support. sometimes they talk about the black vote like it's some guy. let's respect that this is not a monolithic community. there are a lot of the different experiences that make up the black experience in america. >> elizabeth warren spending time with voters at a south carolina restaurant. she reminded reporters it's

early in the race when asked about her poor finishes in iowa and new hampshire. >> we've still got 55 states and territories yet to hear from. i built this campaign for the long haul. we're already in 31 states. and you know, keep in mind because i made the decision early on to fund this through grass roots. >> also in the south, bernie sanders speaking to voters in texas after continuous chanting from the crowd, sanders said he was flattered. >> look, i got a -- i have a big ego. i admit it, i'm a u.s. sfaenato it goes with the job, but it really really is not bernie, it is all of us together. >> all right. joining us now this morning, nbc news campaign amanda golden, she is live in las vegas for us. good morning, amanda. a busy week ahead. time to strap in.

first question to you, amanda. that new poll shows bernie sanders obviously in the lead in nevada. what are you experiencing when it comes to the actual ground game here, and do you think any of the candidates will be able to pull ahead? >> hey, guys, good morning. yeah, so we're waiting to see how the candidates fare over the next seven days. vying for support in nevada and tried to draw a contrast or trying to see who's doing outreach to various groups of color in the state with a 30% hispanic population and 10% african-american candidates. the candidates that haven't been on the ground in nevada, we saw a number toggling between south carolina and nevada or doing an entire super tuesday strategy. we saw senator sanders blitz super tuesday, and biden and warren have been toggling south carolina and nevada, and buttigieg doing california and nevada. seeing who's going to be on the ground doing that outreach is going to be interesting. >> you have senator klobuchar who has spent a couple of days in nevada and has seen some

momentum from the last debate to the new hampshire primary. what's her plan on carrying that into the next week? >> yeah, so senator klobuchar is trying to capitalize on that momentum, have the same energy she took as she barn stormed new hampshire in the final days ahead of the primary. that doesn't always work as the safe strategy. nevada, you don't make as many traditional diner stops, retail stops in a state like new hampshire where they do the vetting of the candidate that same way. what she's trying to do instead is draw contrast with other candidates and build up name id. one candidate she has been targeting in her remarks is former new york city mayor michael bloomberg. he hasn't made the debate stage for wednesday, he's one poll away, but likes to use him as a catalyst, she doesn't have the most money or a name id, but is worthwhile and can beat him on the debate stage next week. take a listen to what she had to say yesterday. >> i cannot beat michael bloomberg on the airways, big surprise, even though we have

gotten in millions and millions of dollars, including in the couple million dollars in just the th24 hours after the debate the day of the new hampshire primary, millions of dollars. we are competing with all the other candidates when it comes to air waves in nevada. i'm not going to be able to compete with him nationally because i'm not a billionaire. i think he should be on the debate stage because i can't beat him on the airways, i can beat him on the debate stage. >> other than that she's really trying to connect with voters. she's weaving in nevada references into her usual stump speech, trying to make the connection with seven days to go until the caucuses. >> what does michael bloomberg need to do to get on the stage and does he even want to be there? >> he's one poll away. he isn't taking any donations, the grass roots thresholds

aren't there for him. ha he needs to do is reconcile reports that have been coming out about past comments he has made, his history as mayor of new york city, and that's something that voters here aren't necessarily completely tuned into, especially in nevada just yet. we haven't seen him on the ground here. as we gear up for the debate, if he ends up being on the stage, that's definitely something other candidates are going to come after him for. >> michael bloomberg has said he's not competing necessarily there in nevada. >> right. >> but a potential for him to make the debate stage as amanda golden tells us. thank you for joining us and this reminder we didn't tell you about it a few seconds agent, nbc news and msnbc will host the next democratic debate live from las vegas just three days before the nevada caucuses, and that's 9:00 p.m. eastern time on nbc news, msnbc and streaming on nbc news now. we want to get to breaking news this morning. the first coronavirus related death outside of the asia has been reported in europe.

meanwhile, a big development for quarantined americans. the u.s. embassy in japan releasing 380 americans on the quarantined diamond cruise ship in yokohama. >> more people on board tested positive for the virus, bringing the total to at least 285 on that vessel alone, and there are more than 66,000 confirmed cases of the virus across the world. the global death toll currently sits at at least 1,523. >> nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley is live in london. and matt, what can you tell us about the latest fatality. >> reporter: a grim milestone, an elderly chinese tourist who had been visiting france, died in france today, and as you mentioned, that's the first coronavirus death outside asia, and the irs first in europe. also, authorities in egypt announced the first coronavirus case in africa. as you mentioned there's one

glimmer of good news, 380 americans, and families were hoping they're soon going to be let off the cruise ship, docked in japan, off the coast of yokohama, and flown back to the states. this is one of the more bizarre episodes from the coronavirus. the ship, the diamond princess is the single largest outbreak outside of mainland china. there were about 3,500 people on board the ship. so far about 218 of them have tested positive for the virus, and you know, guys for the most part those are the only people who have been allowed on shore so far since the ship began its quarantine on february 5th. that would be frightening, especially mostly elderly passengers and they are mostly elderly on that ship. until now, the only escape from this guilded capable was to be infected with the deadly disease so that was terrifying for the passengers. that's what they have been seeing from their state rooms. many who were taken out on stretchers, greeted by health workers in hazmat suits.

hopefully those passengers are going to be finally leaving, at least the americans. they will be met at the dock in yokohama japan by americans from the centers for disease control. they will be evaluated once again to see if they're healthy and sent back on a state sponsored plane back to california, where they will probably be treated to yet another quarantine, maybe two weeks. >> a long time before they can sleep in their own beds. >> some of the passengers on board who are americans, no thanks, we're five days out from being done with this quarantine. we don't want to go back to the u.s. to sit in quarantine for two weeks. >> matt bradley thank you. in the next half hour, we'll talk to one of the passengers still under quarantine on the diamond princess cruise ship. he was once considering a run for the white house, and now he's a convicted fellonmeon, hog

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wow, what a beautiful start to the day there in philadelphia, as we take a look at a live picture there. you can see the comcast center all shiny. while it's a bone chilling 16 degrees there right now, the temperature is expected to rise there to 36 degrees today. >> looks might be deceiving. you probably want to keep huddled inside. joining us is nbc news meteorologist janessa webb. this is hitting midwest and east coast. >> we are going to continue to see this arctic air mass make its way across the east coast. we have 28 million below 0 this morning. 190 million below the freezing mark, so under 32 degrees. this arctic air is moving across

the u.s. pretty quickly, but right now temperatures for sioux falls currently at 20 degrees, we're at 4 below across portions of the dakotas and the midwest, you are really feeling the winds starting to pick up with gusts 30 to 35 miles per hour. it feels like a brick wall as you're making your way outside. stay in bed a little bit longer this morning across the northeast into the mid atlantic. as temperatures, the feels like on your skin in the single digits. the great news is we're going to rebound back fairly quickly. warmer air pushing in. right now, it's dangerously cold. for minneapolis, the air temperature at 20 degrees. remember that you only need about 30 to 35 minutes before potential frostbite with windchills down to the single digits from fargo all the way into green bay, that subzero category biting down. like i said, this arctic air is going to push out hopefully some

warmer air by this afternoon. >> janessa webb, we hope so. thank you. let's get to your morning headlines, michael avenue na tete -- avenatti has been found guilt of trying to extort nike. he threatened to hold a news conference that would damage nike's reputation unless the company paid him and his conspirator thousands of dollars. and found guilty of conspiracy to commit extortion, bank fraud and wire fraud. he says he plans to appeal. avenatti faces 42 years in prison and has more cases in new york and california pending. president trump is sending 100 border patrol officers to several so-called sanctuary cities like new york and l.a. the officers will work with immigration agencies in those cities to quote enhance the integrity of the immigration system. this comes amid criticism that president trump and the trump administration is targeting sanctuary cities because they limit cooperation with

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morning's must read editorials. first, "the washington post" david ignatius says we are witnessing the reemergence of the moderate democrat. the more voters that look at the progressives programs the warrior they have become. voters see former vice president joe biden as a spent force, but they still want a pragmatic candidate who can beat president trump. that yearning for a strong moderate helped buttigieg and klobuchar but the next beneficiary could be former new york mayor michael bloomberg in the march 3rd super tuesday primary. >> that seems to be a similar theme that's going on right now, including with peggy noon nnan the "wall street journal" writes michael bloomberg could pull it off. biden's collapse created a vacuum in the center, and the former mayor has the money and the will to fill it. she says they're quoting her, take mr. bloomberg seriously. up hill but he could pull this

off. she says his nomination, though, would split the party. >> and the "chicago tribune"'s eric zorn has an interesting take, he says south carolina republicans plan is to help trump by voting for sanders in the democratic primary. and here's how. he writes that president trump is openly winking at the practice of crossover voting which is allowed in south carolina. having said to rally the crowd in new hampshire, he said quote so i hear a lot of republicans will vote for the weakest candidate possible of the democrats, pointing out that while there is little evidence that happened in new hampshire. republican groups in south carolina are taking it up with much gusto. so it will be interesting to see if that does happen, if that's a possibility. there's a lot of questions here that this fwrings up. joini -- brings up. joining us now nicholas wu. when it comes to the storming the ballot with the unelectable

candidate, one of the scenarios that zorn poses is that it could backfire. what do you think? >> it's a tried and true tactic to meddle in the other's primary. we had claire mccaskill helping get the more extreme republican todd aiken nominated to the republican senate nomination in 2012. democrats talking up rick santorum later on. but, you know, as the column noted, sanders could win south carolina. you know, biden still leads in polling in the state, but sanders still could win the state. we still have a couple of weeks until they vote, and you know, sanders could still be a very competitive candidate against trump. >> this primary seems to have been built early on as progressives versus moderates. do you agree with the take the democrats are disillusioned with the price tag of some of these

programs. they want an alternative. >> we have to keep in mind, only two states have voted so far, and we don't have official results in one of them. in the case of the whole moderate lane versus progressive lane debate, there could be an opening for a more moderate candidate. as biden has faltered a little bit but there's still a lot of voting left to go. we'll see how things go in nevada and south carolina in the coming weeks. >> a lot of people are talking about the moderate candidate and they are pointing to michael bloomberg but he was a little bit on the defensive this week with his stop and frisk policy that he used to have as mayor of new york. take a listen. >> 95% of your murders, and murderers and murder victims, have one m.o., you can just take the description, xerox it, and pass it out to all of the cops. they are male minorities. you want to spend the money on a

lot of cops in the street, put the cops where the crime is which means minority neighborhoods, and unintended consequences, you are arresting for marijuana all minorities. that's true, why because -- >> and the comedian bill maher was weighing in on this as well just a few hours ago. listen. >> bloomberg must be the front runner because liberals are calling him a racist. keep booing, that's how cryou lt the last election. bloomberg has some blind spots, i'm not going to lie about that. not too good on pot. but i will happily vote for him if he's the winning bidder. >> the controversy on stop and frisk has clearly touched a

nerve, at least black twitter, but is there any way to really gauge the impact or fall out from it? >> as the maxim goes, twitter isn't real life. >> it's 11% of voters, but, you know, what i have heard talking to african-american lawmakers over the past week and members of the congressional black caucus is that, you know, the few that did endorse bloom which gives him a larger number of congressional black caucus, than buttigieg, klobuchar and warren is that they have accepted his apology and want to find ways to move on. congressman gregory meeks told me that he was looking for someone that could unite the party and beat trump, and he saw that in bloomberg, and not in someone like biden. whether bloomberg can move past these remarks on the other hand as we move closer to the primaries remains to be seen. he still isn't on the ballot anywhere, although he's moved up

a little bit in national polling among african americans. >> and moved up significantly in national polling period. nicholas wu, appreciate it. mike pompeo is mixing it up with world leaders at a security conference in germany. it's known as a conference and forum where western nations and allies can air public disagreements. >> defense secretary mark esper addressed the gathering this morning, and house speaker nancy pelosi is there leading a de delegation of dozens of members of congress. >> courtney kube is joining us in munich. what can you tell us about the debate and is there any word on the agreement with the taliban which we have been reporting on the possibility of this week? >> reporter: there was a little word on that, and you were write in the intro saying secretary pompeo was mixing it up. we heard from the german president, he opened the session here, and talked specifically, he was critical about the u.s. international policy of

diplomacy, particularly the transatlantic alliance. he said that america is great again at the expense of its neighbors and partners. then today secretary of state mike pompeo came here and gave a pretty, almost the impact opposite message. he came in swinging. we have some of that sound now. >> the death of transatlantic alliance is grossly overexaggerated. the west is winning. we are collectively winning. the united states is out there fighting alongside for you for sovereignty and freedom. we should have confidence in our alliances and our friends. the free west has a far brighter future than liberal alternatives. we're winning and we're doing it together. >> so after steinmeyer yesterday said that in fact america first policy is that kind of thinking hurts us all, secretary of state mike pompeo came in today and said that in fact the transatlantic alliances are

strong, and he spoke specifically several times about how the alliances are winning. you also asked about afghanistan, we heard from secretary of defense mark esper today. he didn't provide a lot more detail about this agreement between the u.s., the afghan government and the taliban for this reduction of violence, but he did say that it looks very promising. one piece of information he did provide is he said this is not going to be a complete withdrawal of u.s. troops. he still talked about a u.s. military presence that would be conditions based. we have been hearing for months now from esper, from general miller, commander of the war in afghanistan that the u.s. president there can draw down. there's about 13,000 u.s. troops there right now, but they both have said that in fact, they can go down to about 8,600 without impacting the counter terror mission there. we don't have specifics about when this plan may be implemented and what a reduction of violence looks like. >> back to what pompeo said, is it typical for politics to be

brought into this conference. these policies are working better than any liberal policies, is that typical for this event? >> the reality is this is a big international conference. if you remember last year, vice president mike pence came here, spoke around the same time as german chancellor angela merkel and when pence came in, he said i bring greetings from the president of the united states, donald j. trump, the room was silent, no clapping. and pence left time so the room could clap for president trump, and they did not. this can be a very political event. we also actually, vice president joe biden was one of the big draws here last year because everyone was waiting for him to announce his candidacy for president. >> nbc's courtney kube, thanks for your report. let's get to what's trending, antarctica, experiencing record high temperatures twice in one week. a weather research station on seymour island off the coast of an arctic peninsula hit a

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wondering if newspapers are dying off completely. this week, the legendary mcclatmcclat mcclatchy filed for bankruptcy. it's been around 163 families with the same family. the company is turn over control to a hedge fund. you have heard their names. kansas city star. mia miami herald. sacramento bee. just to name a few of their newspapers. the main reason for the ba bankruptcy we are told cited by official, mabtly its pension plan. the company reported ratio of ten pensioners to every one

active employee. that can get little pricey for them. joining us now, dave leventhal. d thank you for being with us. mcclatchy. framing this as more of a move to digital but what does it really mean for the future of newspapers? >> it means, what has been the experience for a number of newspapers over the past several years, which is that a private equity firm or a hedge fund is going to be the majority stockholder in the company for mcclatchy if this all goes through. but the bottom line is, if you are owned primarily by a hedge fund or private equity thirm, they want to make money. and oftentimes, it's just simply incompatible with doing good journalism at the local level in

the way readers have to come expect over the years. >> you talk about public interest. this is corey by the way. the miami herald was the first to break the jeff rey epstein story, for example. and re-lee on thely on these investigations. what could bankruptcies mean? >> it could mean fewer journalists and just the day to day covering the school board, the local sports teams that is sort of the stock and trade of local newspapers. you mentioned of course the investigation that the "miami herald" did, which was incredible. the kansas city star has been some work round kansas city government. it's possible that work just simply doesn't get own done. mcclatchy also has a very robust bureau in washington, d.c. all of that becomes basically called into question as to

whether it will be sustainable going forward. if there are going to be job cuts and significant cuts to these news operations. >> well, studies shows that local news drives civic engagement also so what is brder impact? why should people care about this. >> they should care because if people aren't informed at the local level, that's going to put them in a marginalized position in terms of their ability to be a good citizen at the local level. you ever nonprofit news organizations such as ours that fill the gap to some degree. but that's just simply not going to repleaace the local daily newspapers that have been out there. >> dave. >> 162 years. >> dave, we appreciate the work you guys are doing there as we. so what happens in iowa, stays in iowa. >> that's what nevada's democratic party wants at least. we will tell you about the effort to make sure there are no technical glitches when early voting starts later today.

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