we want to begin with the race for the white house as scrutiny intensifies for mike bloomberg. he won't be on the ballot this coming saturday or the ballot in south carolina one week after that, but as the former new york city mayor rises in the polls democrats city mayor rises in the polls, democrats are sharpening their attacks before his first big test 15 days from today. here's a bit of what we have heard from bloomberg's rivals over the weekend. >> $60 billion can buy you a lot of advertising, but it can't erase your record. there's a lot to talk about on michael bloomberg. you all are going to start focussing on him like you have been on me. >> what kind of ally would you call michael bloomberg for the obama administration. >> on several issues like guns, he was a real ally. he was a real ally. but if you notice, he wouldn't endorse endor endorse barack in 2008.

all of a sudden he's his best buddy, and he did not endorse him. you take a look at the stop and frisk proposal. his ideas on red line. you take a look at what he's done relative to the african-american community. i have come on your shows multiple times and candidates have come on and answered tough questions. he hasn't gone on the sunday shows. instead, he's running ads, and i don't think you should be able to hide behind the ads. i think you should not only go on these shows, i also think he should take the debate stage. that's why i have been supportive of him on the debate stage because i know i can't beat him on the airway, but i can beat him on the debate stage. >> the billionaire being able to reach in his own pocket and throw down a couple hundred million dollars in order to finance their campaign. what that does is short circuits

all of democracy. >> regardless of how much money a multibillionaire candidate is willing to spend on his election, we will not create the energy and excitement we need to defeat donald trump if that candidate pursued, advocated for and enacted racist policies like stop and frisk which caused communities of color in his city to live in fear. >> the bloomberg campaign is down playing a report that he is considering hillary clinton as his running mate. the campaign did not deny the report writing in a statement we are focused on the primary and the debate, not vp speculation. politico pointed out that the report clouded the news cycle

after "new york times" and "washington post" released deep dpoo dive reports. we'll get into headlines ahead. key endorsements are laying the ground work as the presidential race heads into nevada. former 2020 presidential candidate bill de blasio endorsed senator bernie sanders, releasing this statement, i am standing with bernie because he stands with working families and always has. new yorkers know the damage caused by donald trump's xenophobia, bigotry and recklessness. former abc news journalist sam donaldson gave his endorsement michael bloomberg, in an op-ed, donaldson said bloomberg is the president we need to bring together our country, the three term may yor, he has proved to an effective leader.

the state's lieutenant governor offered her support to joe biden. marshal wrote in a moment of intense partisanship, the most radical message we can offer is one of unity and moving past the washington gridlock. joe embodies that. joining us from washington, d.c., deputy news editor for the washington examiner, david mark, good to have you with us. lots of movements, president trump's personal lawyer and former mayor of new york city rudy giuliani went after bloomberg on stop and frisk. what more can you tell us about that? >> well, this is a reminder that before rudy giuliani was president trump's personal lawyer, he was actually a pretty highly regarded two-term mayor of new york city which included a lot of rather aggressive police and crime fighting tactics. one of those was indeed the forerunner of stop and frisk which critics unfairly targets

minorities and contenders say it helped to draw down crime considerably in the nation's largest cities. giuliani sees a destruction of his own legacy of mayor and a leading contender for the democratic nomination. it's a two for one deal there in criticism. >> what do you make of the democratic hopefuls piling on bloomberg? >> it shows that they are quite concerned about him, and if anything, i'm surprised it took this long. his basically bottomless bank account has been looming out there for a good long while now for months even, and i think they're realizing that it's starting to pinch ahead of march 3rd, super tuesday, where once you get past his upcoming contests in nevada and south carolina, the next couple of saturdays, you've got to run in 14 different races on that tuesday, including the megastates of california and texas. plus a bunch of other medium

sized states. bloomberg is the only one who can remotely spend in all of the states and naturally, they're quite worried about it. >> david, i'm curious to get your thoughts about some of the news that came out this weekend. primarily critical of michael bloomberg and then this drudge report idea that he was possibly considering or is considering or suggesting that there could be a mike bloomberg, hillary clinton ticket. what do you make of the timing of this, and even the veracity of the claim. >> the timing certainly is curious to say the least. there were these rather unflattering stories in the "washington post" and to a lesser extent "the new york times," whether it's about his conduct toward women or how he spends his money, and what critics say is an attempt to buy up votes over the last several years or so, and secure the support of political figures that would otherwise go to rival candidates. i'm not sure how much veracity

there is to this. hillary clinton, to be blunt is kind of a pariah in a lot of democratic circles. very few democrats want to see her make another run, be on the national ticket again. it may be a way of just kind of inoculating themselves, getting it out early so people don't keep asking about it, and maybe people will forget a few months down the line. >> do you think we end up seeing bloomberg on that debate stage? >> i think he probably is not really eager to do that. east actually done pretty well so far. he might not have any choice, if he's qualified, he can't say i don't have other things to do. he may be there. >> to amy klobuchar's point, he has dodged a big part of the media and tough questions, hiding behind the statements and ads. >> she wants to go toe-to-toe with him, we'll see. >> david mark, thank you very much, we're going to talk yo new

a little bit. new reporting that federal prosecutors in new york are moving forward with an investigation into rudy giuliani. >> attorney general william barr is facing calls to resign. we'll bring in legal analyst danny cevallos to weigh in on both of those stories. and we'll have a check of the forecast when we come back right back. - [narrator] meet the ninja foodi pressure cooker

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welcome back, "the washington post" is reporting that federal prosecutors from the southern district of new york are contacting witnesses and seeking to collect additional documents in an investigation related to president trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani. the recent steps indicate that the probe involving giuliani and his two former associates, lev parnas and igor fruman is still moving forward despite the fact that the justice department recently set up a process to evaluate his claims about alleged wrong doing in ukraine. according to the post, people familiar with the matter said attorney general william barr was briefed on the investigation

in manhattan shortly after taking office a year ago. his involvement since then is unclear. both a spokesmen and spokesperson for the justice department declined to comment. giuliani says he has not been contacted by investigators. he wrote in part quote they have asked me for not a single thing, and i didn't do anything remote remotely illegal. i believe it's unfair if investigating. >> william barr, more than 1,100 former federal prosecutors and justice department officials are calling on barr to resign after he intervened in the roger stone case last week. they write in part, each of us condemned president trump's and william barr's interference in the fair administration of justice. they go on to say mr. barr's actions in doing the president's personal bidding speak louder than his words. those actions and the damage they have done to the department

of justice's rule of law require mr. barr to jaw. justice department employees around the country had a wide range of views on barr's actions, especially his interview with abc news where he said the president's tweeting, president trump's tweeting make it impossible for him to do his job. the post notes that some inside the department were heartened by his remarks. one employee told the paper, finally. but the post also notes that others were skeptical, wondering if barr and trump had orchestrated the interview as a means to provide political cover to continue executing influence over the cases trump has fixated on the most. joining us onset, msnbc legal analyst, danny cevallos, what do you make of the state department's juxtaposition here between what they are saying about rudy giuliani, what rudy giuliani is saying publicly about the investigation, he's being probed obviously, we know that from the reporting, and then you have the doj saying we're going to take all the

information rudy giuliani has given us. we have created an intake process for his private eye work. >> let me see if i have this right, the president got done with an impeachment trial for asking a foreign country to investigate the bidens and now he's asking some private dude, rudy giuliani, whose associates have just been indicted to investigate the bidens and hand it to the united states own investigative arm which is the do j, and the doj is considering it. keep in mind, ukraine was not interested in doing that, but the doj is interested. >> does it sound like draining the swamp. >> i have to say, as somebody who represents non-politically famous or influential people and sometimes court appointed defendants, these are not people who can get bill barr on the phone and say, hey, i haven't been doing by own investigation, can i give you kwhwhat i have o other folks. sometimes they can be a

cooperating witness and provide information about codefendants, this is so unusual and it's special treatment. special treatment is not good treatment and that's what we're seeing here. we're seeing rudy giuliani who may be under investigation is getting special treatment and the government is actually considering his investigative materials whatever they may be. >> i want to ask you about the letter signed by 1,100 former doj officials calling on barr to resign. what does that tell you about morale. >> it's a well written letter, and one of the most compelling lines for me is the reminder that the doj, the political appointee who heads the doj sets policy but the line prosecutors carry out that policy, and that's why from the beginning, from day one of this roger stone supplemental sentencing memorandum, that's why it raised eyebrows at least with me because the doj, main justice just doesn't do this. they don't intervene the day after a sentencing memorandum is

filed. if they wanted to change the outcome of the sentencing, they would have contacted the line prosecutors well in advance. >> like we're thinking about filing, right. >> they wouldn't have undermined them by filing a sentencing memorandum the day after basically saying the guys that filed yesterday, they're way way off. no surprise that they resigned, and again, i constantly go back to your run of the mill, federal, even white collar defendant or criminal defendant. do they get this kind of special treatment, the answer is no. >> michael flynn, the assignment of a prosecutor from the eastern district of missouri to look into that. it seems odd for a guy that has come out and confessed to the crime he was accused of committing to say by the attorney general, hey, something might look a little bit odd here in the way the government prosecuted this case to which you have already confessed to committing the crime, let's reinvestigate. >> this goes back to my theme. it's astonishing it that this must scrutiny is being paid to a

defendant with a zero to six month range, if he rolled into the sentencing and irritated the judge and gone forward last year, he probably would have gotten within the guidelines, zero to six months. that is essentially probation. this is not a serious case in the universe of federal cases where most sentences are in the stras stratosphere. the mere fact that he's having it reviewed this much, when it's a politically affected defendant, there's extra scrutiny paid to that person's case. >> danny cevallos, always a pleasure. thank you so much, my friend. a weekend of touching tributes for the late nba legend, kobe bryant, his daughter gianna and several others who died in a helicopter crash. nbc news correspondent sarah harman has the details. >> reporter: this one was for

kobe and gianna. touching 24.2 second tribute honoring the lakers legend and his daughter at the nba all star weekend in chicago. >> for us to be able to honor kobe bryant and his legacy, it's a beautiful time. >> it was the first big meeting of the nba family since the tragic crash and number 24 was on everyone's minds. former president barack obama recalling his final conversation with bryant. >> i asked him, do you miss basketball. he said i don't miss it at all. i don't touch basketball because i'm now just as competitive and focussed on this second phase. >> the all star's were personal for kobe. he was the youngest player ever to compete in an all star game, named mvp four times. and one of the weekend's most poignant moments, nba commissioner, adam silver announced the all star game's mvp will be permanently renamed to honor the lakers hero.

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of degradation. alleging workplace discrimination. she alleged bloomberg told her to kill it when he learned she was pregnant. bloomberg has denied her allegation under oath and reached a confidential settlement with the saleswoman. allegations about bloomberg's comments and treatment of women have received notice over the years, a review by the post of thousands of pages of court documents, depositions and interviews with witnesses underscores how bloomberg and his company fought the claims. >> a number of cases have been settled, dismissed in bloomberg's favor or closed because of a failure to meet filing deadlines. according to the post, they do not involve accusations of inappropriate sexual contact. it has about what he said and the workplace he has fostered. on saturday he tweeted, i would not be where i am today without the talented women around me. i have depended on their leadership, advice, and their

contributions. as i have demonstrated throughout my career, i will always be a champion for women in the workplace. 2020 candidate pete buttigieg was asked about the allegations against michael bloomberg yesterday. here's how he responded. >> how troubled are you by these allegations and this evidence of alleged sexism and racism? >> well, i think he's going to have to answer for that and speak to it. look, this is a time where voters are looking for a president who can lead us out of the days when it was just common place or accepted to have these kinds of sexist and discriminatory attitudes, and you know, right now, this is our chance to do something different. obviously there is no comparison to this president and the way he has treated and talked about women and people of color and continues to do so to this day, but we in our party hold ourselves to the highst standes

standard. >> a new poll shows bernie sanders ahead in the latest, sanders has been 25%, joe biden with 18%, and a four-way tie for third with senator elizabeth warren, tom steyer with 11% and amy klobuchar and pete buttigieg at 10% apiece. all sit in the candidate's four point margin of error. >> pete buttigieg has turned his focus to senator bernie sanders in hopes of keeping his lead in the delegate count. he looked to draw contrast between his and sanders health care plans. bernie sanders plan raises taxes on every american making over $29,000. this election will decide which plan we take on donald trump with. the former south bend mayor slammed the plan's cost and sanders supports recent attacks on union leaders over medicare for all.

>> we could get completely trapped down the rabbit hole of a debate over whether to abolish private insurance which most americans don't want or we can deliver quality public insurance that is available to everybody who is so vulnerable that is affordable or free if you wouldn't be able to afford it otherwise. we can do that, and then it moves through congress and gets done instead of us being here four years later debating how long it's going to take to deliver. >> you know, it's really disturbing to see the culinary union attacked when these are workers who have stood up and fought for among other things, good health care plans. they're not interested in washington taking away their choice. >> and former vice president joe biden is calling on 2020 rival senator bernie sanders, it comes after nevada's culinary union accused sanders supporters of harassing its members after the group raised questions about

sanders' health care policies. biden said that sanders has not done enough to condemn that behavior. >> if his supporters are attacking culinary union members, who's responsible for that? >> look, he may not be responsible for it but he has some accountability. i'm going to put you in a spot. you know me well enough to know if any of my supporters did that, i would disown them. flat disown them. the stuff that was said online, the way they threatened two women who were leaders in the culinary women, it is outrageous. go online. i invite anyone to k loo look a the they said, the threats they put out. to disassociate, find out who they are, fire them, find out, see what's going on. >> you don't think he's been curious enough? >> i'm hoping he's looking but i tell you what, so far i don't

think it's sufficient to say i disassociate myself. >> nbc news political reporter ali vitali joins us from las vegas. tell me what's the ground game looking like for buttigieg and sanders? >> reporter: look, when you become the front runner, along with that comes expectations and higher stakes for pete buttigieg and bernie sanders. they're rolling into nevada with both of those after being the two candidates to place atop iowa and new hampshire. they're not coming in with decisive victories but they are coming in with front runner status. you see the way attack are coming at them from joe biden and others in the field. eyes are on them to see how they're going to do. in terms of ground game, they are two of the candidates who spent the most time, second and third to tom steyer who has been spending time and money on the air waves. pete buttigieg doubled his ground game staff on the ground. bernie sanders invested early. they each have two separate

questions to answer on the ground here. you got into a little bit the back and forth between bernie sanders and the local union here, culinary 226. that's a powerful union. this is a town with a lot of powerful unions. they were raising the alarm about what medicare for all would do to their health care plans. that's something pete buttigieg is highlighting, it wooeeaves t the moderate lane. bernie sanders has done well with union voters. it's something that propelled him in 2016. and for pete buttigieg, this is the most diverse state yet to vote this cycle. we know he's struggled to get support with minority voters. we haven't necessarily seen that change since the visitictories india iowa and new hampshire. that's the hurdle he has to clear. we know the way the race looks in terms of the polls right now, but we have a debate this week, and if new hampshire taught us anything, one debate performance can catapult a candidate, i'm

thinking specifically of amy klobuchar, i'm wondering who's going to be the amy klobuchar of that debate stage. >> to that point, let's talk a little bit about the second tier candidates, amy klobuchar, elizabeth warren, possibly a michael bloomberg on the debate stage. he's not going ton at the caucus per se. it's an important opportunity to face tough questions. walk us through how it's shaping up for the second tier candidates? is there a scenario where we see someone drop out after the nevada caucuses? >> reporter: i mean, i'm not one to say nothing is possible because everything is possible in politics. at the same time, people like joe biden and elizabeth warren who at the start of this nominating contest were viewed as strong front runners, are on their back heel trying to show that they can still make a case going down the primary calendar. for elizabeth warren, that is the key here is just to keep pushing into super tuesday, really using the infrastructure that she has built out on the ground. for joe biden, it's trying to show his strength with minority voters. we know that south carolina has

been a fire wall for him, especially among african-american voters. but there are other candidates who are starting to chip away at that. i'm thinking specifically of bernie sanders and even tom steyer in south carolina. they certainly have something to prove here. but again, when you talk about the debate stage, michael bloomberg being on the debate stage is probably the best case scenario for many of these candidates, not just warren, not just biden, all of the candidates would be happy to make a point at michael bloomberg's expense. you hear the way they talk about billionaires in this race. >> ali vitali, thank you so much. let's bring in from washington, d.c., deputy news editor for the washington examiner, david mark. good to have you back with us. let's talk about the nevada caucuses. what is your take on where the presidential candidates, and the field of candidates, stands ahead of this critical week? >> i think a couple of these candidates have a whole lot riding on these nevada caucuses coming up on saturday.

specifically as was mentioned senator amy klobuchar of minnesota who did finish an impressive third in the new hampshire primary but she's got to show that she can win el elsewhere and in that poll we saw, she was down about 5th place or. so that's a problem for her. and elizabeth warren really hasn't finished higher than third or fourth. she has got to show she is still in the game. i don't know that candidates will drop out after nevada but it could be a make or break for at least a couple of them. they might drop out soon thereafter, say after the south carolina primary the following weekend. >> how much of the road forward really depends on the resources that these campaigns have heading into super tuesday. >> it's huge, usually the reason presidential campaigns end is because they run out of money. that is the process they are facing with this gauntlet of primaries and caucuses on super

tuesday. there are 14 entities voting. they have to compete in california, texas, it is monument tally expensive to do so there. they have to compete in a bunch of other states. i think after march 3rd, we will see candidates leaving the field. >> david, really quickly, when you look tat the field, break i down to ideological spectrums, bernie sanders has consolidated, front runner of the progressive wing. the moderates seem to be very much fractured. do you see any kind of agreement among those candidates to coalesce around it. you know the democratic establishment is nervous about a bernie sanders candidacy. is there any push behind the scenes, let's try to get behind a candidate here? >> i don't think so. each one thinks they have their own chance of winning, so why

would they sooed cede it to a r. reality may set in. they may run out of money. this may be only room for one, possibly two alternatives to bernie sanders and that may emerge organically after march 3rd. >> david mark, live, always a pleasure. as the investigators close its case into andrew mccabe nbc reports the justice department is looking into the fbi interview that led to michael flynn's guilty plea. we'll get the latest on that right ahead. hi guys. this is the chevy silverado with the world's first invisible trailer.

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fighting in ukraine, we have a stake in? >> we have a stake in. but it's not just the military war. because hybrid war is more than tanks and soldiers. a hybrid war is information war. it's cyber war. it's economic war. it's attacks on elections. and as we know, they have attacked our elections. >> did anyone at the state department ever direct you to investigate whether there was this server in ukraine? >> no. >> why not? >> no one took it seriously. >> what are the chances that this whispering campaign about a democratic national committee server in ukraine is actually a russian intelligence operation, a russian disinformation operation? >> the russians are very good at that. it's these fake stories that they have propagated and that's what they do. they do it pretty well. we have to be on guard against that. >> trump sparked outrage on twitter over the weekend after

tweeting a "the new york times" article with a ralph waldo emerson quote to refer to himself as quote a king. the president tweeted and modified a section of the "new york times" reporter peter baker story about trump's impeachment saying ralph waldo emerson, when you strike at the king, emerson famously said, you must kill him. mr. trump's foes struck at him but did not take him down. the triumphant mr. trump emerges from the biggest test of his presidency, emboldened, ready to claim exoneration and take his case of grievance, persecution and resentment to the campaign trail. the greatest witch hunt in american history. >> you have to love when the president is bashing "the new york times" and when somehow suits him a little bit, he will easily quote from it. >> happy to take it. >> the use of exclamation point sg . let's bring in meteorologist

janessa webb. feels like spring out there. >> different story for the midwest. we have a small disturbance this morning that's going to cause some early morning fog as you step out this morning, and look at this, it's making its way across omaha right now. there's a dividing line in these temperatures, south and southeast, above normal. upper midwest, we are well below average, and that's allowing this storm system to make its way east fairly quickly. not done with winter yet. look at the higher elevations, higher terrain tomorrow afternoon. you're going to see another 6 to 8 inches. that storm system will be in and out fairly quickly. now, it's going to be rinse and pretty much repeat for the south. look at this. we're going to start to dry out this afternoon. the cresting of the pearl river will start to recede but by tomorrow afternoon you have that potential of severe weather making its way in. it's very hard to forecast when you see the torrential rain, those pockets that could produce

a half inch to quarter inch in less than an hour in some of these areas. that's what's going to cause a flooding concern to be heightened for the next 2 to 3 days. the warm air is not going to back off for the next 36 hours. i want you to enjoy this to start off your week from the mississippi valley to the midwest, nashville, 62 for today. that's about 10 to 15 degrees above average and then we're really warm for the northeast as well. so some of that snow that we saw here for tomorrow afternoon, the snow pack is going to be visibly reduced and that potential could bring some flooding by wednesday, so we're going to watch that. also, but the warm air mass is going to make its way out of here due to a dip in the jet. by wednesday, minneapolis, you're in the single digits and that's really not factoring in the winds, about 10 to 15 miles per hour, so windchill is going to be a problem, even from cedar rapids to chicago, 24 degrees,

and some possible delays. so we're going to watch that, this disturbance here, make its way across the northeast, cleveland to richmond, virginia, philadelphia, washington, tomorrow afternoon if you're traveling or hitting the roadways, possible delays so watch that. >> janessa, thank you so much. still ahead, the extreme measures china is now taking to contain the coronavirus and the other stories driving your business day are next. o, it may lead to a world of possibilities. entresto helps improve your heart's ability to pump blood to the body. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. ask your doctor about entresto.

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instructed commercial banks to take notes out of circulation to clean them and send to the central bank so they can disinfect them and use ultraviolet radiation before returning them back to circulation. erswhere, in ulta space, general motors. sunday announces withdrawing operations from australia and new zealand specifically their sales design and engineering operations. they've also said they will be withdrawing serve lei from thailand, and shutting down their business in thailand as well. moving away from those three particular countries part in parcel of a restructuring plan announced five years ago in 2015 under ceo and chairmany who has been pledging to return the company back to profitability to focus on looking forward in areas that are growing quickly, particularly in mobility areas like electric vehicles.

finally, news for brussels. mark zuckerberg is coming there in the next couple days to meet with eu lawmakers. remember, a couple years back in may 2018 he was subjected to a grilling by cambridge analytica. coming this time to discussion cooperation and regulation. discussing new digital rules as well as artificial intelligence rules. >> and all-star game, magic johnson paying tribute to stern for making the nba franchise one of the biggest issues, the nba at war, at odds with china costing the organization hundreds of millions of lost revenue. what more do you have on this growing controversy between china and the nba? >> reporter: you may recall the tweet put out by roberts general manager towards the end of last year in support of the hong kong protesters and didn't go down well with authorities. cutting ties with houston

rockets. none of the nba games played on chinese state media. we found out yet from adam silver it will cost them as much as $400 million in lost revenue. a substantial number. could even tally up to $1 billion according to some estimates, but there's still optimism a diplomatic solution can be found and still saying they're committed to working with china in the long rung. >> thanks. coming up on "morning joe," mike bloomberg's democratic rivals take tame with super tuesday now just 15 days away. a.p.'s jonathan lemire and robert costa join us with their laters reporting. analysis from the reverend al sharpton and the "washington post"'s david ignatius with his new op-ed on the re-emergence of the moderate democrat. "morning joe," everyone, just moments away. be tough. you diet. exercise. but if you're also taking fish oil supplements... you should know...

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welcome back, every. the justice department told lawyers for deputy director andrew mccabe they will not be prosecuting him for lying to investigators about a leak to the media. the u.s. attorneys office in

washington sent mccabe's attorneys a letter saying after careful consideration the government decided no the to pursue criminal charges against your client. adding based on the totality of circumstances and information known to the government at this time we consider the matter closed. mccabe's attorneys responded saying, at long last justice done in the matter. the decision by the justice department came the same dap it was revealed a federal judge expressed months ago mccabe's case was looking like a banana prosecution. president trump infuriated by the move. a person who spoke on anonymity trump said he always knew mccabe was a bad guy. >> tell iing cbs news an inquir has been opened against michael flynn.

assigning the district attorney to conduct the review from eastern missouri. installing outside prosecutor as highly unusual and could trigger i interference by top officials. last month, flynn filed papers to withdraw his guilty plea and now the doj is looking into the fbi's interview with flynn conducted days after the president's inauguration. the justice department declined to comment. that does it for us on this monday morning. i'm ayman mohyeldin and "morning joe" starts right now. there's a lot to talk about, michael bloomberg. >> a sexist and discriminator. >> does that hurt democracy? democrats don't