was standing up and fighting for the working class in his words. get our special tv offer a 4-week trial plus postage and a digital scale really the core of their excitement is that they really go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again! felt energy and excitement for senator sanders. going into the debate, they expected that because of the momentum you saw from senator sanders in terms of polling, they expected he was going to be on the receiving end of some of those attacks. you did see that. mr. bloomberg had policies you saw many of the candidates, in new york city of stop and i believe it's all of the candidates going after him for frisk which went after something, even elizabeth warren who is usually a policy ally african-american and latino people in an outrageous way. went after him a little bit on >> i would like to talk about his medicare for all issue. who we're running against, a the attacks they expected but billionaire that calls women fat they also enjoyed the fact that broads and horse-faced lesbians, you saw senator sanders going and no i'm not talking about after mayor bloomberg. donald trump, i'm talking about that is what they telegraphed in mayor bloomberg. >> i welcomed mayor bloomberg to the stage. the days up to the debate. i thought he shouldn't be hiding you heardac he was able to behind his tv ads. >> he has stop and frisk, throwing close to 5 million young black men up against a launch at mayor bloomberg. >> any word from the sanders wall. >> we shouldn't have to choose campaign about these questions between one candidate who wants about him releasing his health to burn this party down and records?

another candidate who wants to >> right. buy this party out. and you know it really started yesterday. there was an extended conversation about his medical records that were released. senator sanders back in the fall, after he had that heart >> and that was just the first ten minutes. attack that sidelined him from good morning, everyone, it is the campaign trail, he promised thursday, february 20th. to release his full medical i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside records. instead we got about three letters from doctors saying he alicia menendez. was in good condition. it was a bit of a fight night. that came up on the debate stage last night. >> it was a vicious fight, yes. he was asked about that in terms >> a bit of a slug fest. of transparency. listen to his response to that. the most contentious debate >> we released reports from two between the democratic presidential candidates yet, as you saw there, the rhetorical leading vermont cardiologists punches came right out of the gate with every single one of who described my situation, and michael bloomberg's opponents by the way, who said bernie taking a swing at him the very sanders is more than able to first chance they got. >> by the end of two-hour match, deal with the stress and the he had been hit 45 times, more vigor of being president of the than double the number of united states. hey, follow me around the attacks aimed at front runner campaign trail three, four, five bernie sanders. perhaps bloomberg's toughest moment came when he was asked events a day, see how you're about allegations he had doing compared to me. fostered a hostile work environment for women. >> reporter: and you heard mayor >> i have no tolerance for the pete going after him a little kind of behavior that the me too bit after that saying it's a

movement has exposed and anybody matter of tans pareransparency. that does anything wrong in our company, we investigate it and vice president biden saying previously under the obama if it's appropriate, they're administration you saw the president go get a physical, and gone that day. in my foundation, a person that you saw the full results of that physical. it was under president trump runs a woman, 70% of the people where you saw letters being released from doctors instead. it's about that standard that there are women. in my company, lots and lots of they're trying to raise, and he women have big responsibilities. did receive some criticisms from some of his fellow candidates they get paid exactly the same about that. i'll tell you, one other thing as men. that we heard on this debate >> i hope you heard what his stage, that we heard more of defense was, i have been nice to this time around than any other debate before is his defense of some women. socialism. he had to defend his primary that just doesn't cut it. the mayor has to stand on his belief, his core belief of record and what we need to know democratic socialism. he connected his belief to mlk, is exactly what's lurking out and was an interesting moment there. he has gotten some number of for him to be able to do that women, dozens, who knows, to because it's something we usually don't see for senator sign nondisclosure agreements sanders. both for sexual harassment and >> shaquille brewster live in las vegas. appreciate it. for gender discrimination in the more from last night's debate, including a couple of workplace. so mr. mayor, are you willing to heated exchanges between senator release all of those women from those nondisclosure agreements amy klobuchar and pete buttigieg. so we can hear their side of the we'll show you the moment

michael bloomberg asks whether billionaires should exist. those stories and a check on weather when we come back. story. [ applause ]. >> we have a very very few nondisclosure agreements. >> how many is that? >> let me finish. none of them accuse me of doing anything other than maybe they didn't like a joke i told. there's agreements between two parties that wanted to keep it quiet, and that's up to them. they signed those agreements and we'll live with it. >> kwhuwhen you say it is up to them, i want to be clear, some is how many? and when you -- and when you say they signed them, and they wanted them, if they wish now to speak out and tell their side of the story about what it is they allege, that's now okay with you, you're releasing them on television tonight? >> senator, no. >> is that right? >> senator, the company and somebody else, the man or woman or could be more than that, they

decided when they made an agreement they wanted to keep it quiet for everybody's interests. hey allergy muddlers... achoo! they signed the agreements and ...do your sneezes turn heads? that's what we're going to live try zyrtec... with. ...it starts working hard at hour one... >> ouch. early on in the debate, pete and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. buttigieg attacked both senator bernie sanders and michael bloomberg arguing that primary zyrtec muddle no more. voters don't want the democratic presidential race to come down between these two candidates. the best of pressure cooking and air frying >> most americans don't see now in one pot, and with tendercrisp technology, where they fit if they've got to choose between a socialist who you can cook foods that are crispy on the outside thinks that capitalism is the and juicy on the inside. root of all evil and a billionaire who thinks that the ninja foodi pressure cooker, money ought to be the root of the pressure cooker that crisps. all power. let's put forward somebody who's actually a democrat. stay two nights and get a free night >> what we are saying, pete is for your next stay. maybe it's a time for the working class of this country to two nights, have a little bit of power in free night. washington rather than your book now at bestwestern.com. billionaire campaign contributors. >> you're not the only one who cares about the working class. most americans believe we need to empower workers. as a matter of fact, you're the one who is at war with the culinary union right here in las

vegas. >> we have more union support than you have ever dreamed of. we have the support of unions all across this country. >> division i'm putting forward has the support of the american people. >> sanders and buttigieg also got into a heated exchange about the behavior and rhetoric of some of sanders' supporters, following reports that some members of the union received threatening e-mails after criticizing the senator's proposal. >> we have over 10.6 million people on twitter and 99.9% of them are decent human beings, are working people, are people who believe in justice, compassion, and love. and if there are a few people who make ugly remarks, who attack trade union leaders, i disown those people. they are not part of our movement. >> senator when you say you disown these attacks and you didn't personally direct them, i

believe you. >> well, thank you. >> but at a certain point you . welcome back, during last got to kask yourself, why did night's presidential debate, this pattern arise, is it former mayor of south bend, indiana, pete buttigieg grilled amy klobuchar on her overall especially the case among your reporters. >> i don't think it is especially the case. >> that's not true. qualifications for office after you have to accept some she forgot the name of mexico's responsibility, and ask yourself president during a recent what about your campaign in particular that seems to be telemundo interview. >> senator klobuchar, you're motivating this behavior more running on your washington than others. in order to turn the page on the experience but last week in a trump era. telemundo interview, you could not name the president of mexico we need a president. or discuss any of his policies. >> joining us now from las last night, you defended vegas, nbc news political rep t yourself saying quote this isn't reporter, shaquille brewster. jeopardy. but my question to you is shouldn't our next president let me get your thoughts about know more about one of our your reporting on how bernie largest trading partners? >> of course. sanders and his team are spinning his debate performance. and i don't think that that how much money did his campaign raise last night? how would they rate his momentary forgetfulness actually reflects what i know about performance? mexico and how much i care about >> reporter: oh, they made a lot it. >> what you're staking your of money last night, candidacy on your washington $1.7 million they brought in on experience, you're on the

committee that oversees border debate day. their best debate day so far according to the campaign, and security. you're on the committee that they got that from about 150,000 does trade. you're literally in part of the committee that's overseeing donations, contributions from these things, and were not able people. his team was excited about this to speak to literally the first thing about the politics of the debate. they like senator sanders being country. >> are you trying to say that i'm dumb or are you mocking me able to defend himself, fight for the working class. here, pete. that is what you heard from the >> i'm saying you shouldn't campaign manager. he loves that debate. trivialize that knowledge. i can't loved that senator sand >> i made an error. people sometimes forget names. i am the one that, number one has the experience based on passing over 100 bills. >> thank you, senator klobuchar. >> if i could respond. this is a big allegation. he's basically saying i don't have the experience to be president of the united states. i have passed over 100 bills as the lead democrat since being in the u.s. senate. i am the one, not you, that has won statewide in congressional district after congressional district. >> buttigieg also launched an attack on klobuchar over her past record on immigration during last night's debate. the minnesota senator pushed

back, and pushed back hard. >> the best way to protect the dreamers is to have a new president. there are the votes there to protect the dreamers. and i have been working on this since i got to the united states senate. in my first campaign, i actually had a bunch of ads run against me because i was standing up for immigrants. >> if you're going to run based on your record of voting in washington, then you have to own those votes, especially when it comes to immigration. you voted to confirm the head of customs and border protection under trump who was one of the architects of the family separation policy. you voted to make english the national language. do you know the message that sends in as multilingual a state as nevada to immigrants? >> i wish everyone was as perfect as you, pete, but let me tell you what it's like to be in the arena. i have opposed, not supported, 2/3 of the trump judges, so get your numbers right. and i am in the top 10 to 15 of

opposing them. number two, when it comes to immigration reform, the things that you are referring to, that official that you are referring to was supported by about half the democrats, including someone in this room, and i will say this, he was highly recommended by the obama officials. you know why? because trump had so few career people. i did not one bit agree with these draconian policies to separate kids from their parents and in my first 100 days, i would immediately change that. and i would add one more thing, i have been in the arena. >> you have not been in the arena doing that work. you have memorized a bunch of talking points and a bunch of things but i can tell you one thing, what the people of this country want, they want a leader that has the heart for the immigrants of this country and that is me. >> and the candidates also engaged in a back and forth over climate change policy. here's part of what former mayor pete has to say. >> let's be real about the deadline, it's not 2050, it's

not 2040, it's not 2030, it's 2020. if we don't elect a president who actually believes in climate science now, we will never meet any of the other scientific or policy deadlines that we need to. >> really a rallying debate top to bottom. >> a lot of sparks. >> let's bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins. how you doing? spent a lot of time talking about the climate. >> for those of us waiting for that question, it was worth the wait. it was 16 minutes exactly, which was more than all the other eight debates previously combined how long they talked about climate. so, you know. >> it's getting the attention it finally deserves a little bit. >> and if you look at the latest pugh poll, if you look at where climate is it passed jobs as far as a priority for people, and democrats think it should be an important issue. 78% of democrats say it should be an important issue. hopefully we'll get more questions about it, and maybe it can be a strength, who knows. we'll see how it all plays out. let's get into your forecast for

today. we have some issues out there to get people on their way. we're going to see some significant airport delays and problems too. charlotte, atlanta, raleigh are going to have some issues and some of those spots will be snow. on the map right now, another heavy rain event throughout south, what else is new. the flooding on some of the rivers, especially around jackson has improved a little bit, so that's good. now we're going to watch the snow, and almost all of north carolina right now is under a winter weather advisory. 16 million people in this area of this maroon, or this peach color from norfolk to virginia beach, to greenville, washington, newburn area, winter storm warnings, you're going to end up with 3 to 6 inches of snow later tonight into tomorrow morning. and now for charlotte, it looks like about an inch for you. rain this morning, a little bit of wet snow this afternoon, and then areas further to the north will be getting also some heavier snow toochlt here. here's the timing of this. atlanta, it's all rain for you.

it could be heavy rain, especially this afternoon with significant delays. there's 5:00 p.m., snow from charlotte all the way through raleigh, heading into areas around virginia beach. by the time we get to midnight, it's gone and over with. by tomorrow morning, the storm is finished. the snowfall forecast map, by the time we're done with this snow event late tonight and tomorrow, we will have more snow in the air in raleigh than we will in washington, d.c., and in philadelphia. it's just one of those years where it's just mist areas of the mid atlantic, eastern north carolina, this is going to be one of the big snow events. they don't get a lot but yeah. >> thanks for that update. still ahead, we're going to talk about other headlines making news this morning, and there are a few other headlines, believe it or not, beyond the debate last night, including this a report that one of president trump's top allies in congress offered julian assange a pardon if he denied that russia hacked the dnc. we are back in a moment. i'm alphonso, and there's more to me than hiv.

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i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside alicia menendez. we begin this half hour with more from last fight's democratic debate, and former new york city mayor michael bloomberg responds to a question about what he plans or when he plans to release his tax returns. >> very briefly on transparency

mayor bloomberg. your campaign said you would eventually release your tax records when it comes to trarns pare -- transparency. why should democratic voters have to wait. >> it just takes us a long time. >> could i comment on that. >> fortunately i make a lot of money and we do business all around the world. the number of pages will probably be in the thousands of pages. i can't go to turbo tax, but i put out my tax return every year for 12 years in city hall. we will put out this one. it tells everybody everything they need to know about every investment that i make, and where the money goes. >> when it comes to tax returns, everyone up here has released their tax returns, mayor. i think and it is a major issue because the president of the united states has been hiding behind his tax returns, even when courts order him to come forward with those tax returns. and i think -- i don't care how

much money anyone has. i think it's great you got a lot of money, but i think you've got to come forward with your tax returns. >> things got heated between bloomberg and senator bernie sanders when the topic of billionaires coming up with sanders arguing they should not exist at all. >> we have a grotesque and immoral distribution of wealth and income. michael bloomberg owns more wealth than the bottom 125 million americans. that's wrong. that's immoral. that should not be the case when we have a half million people sleeping out on the streets, when we have kids who can not afford to go to college. when we have 45 million people dealing with student debt. >> mayor bloomberg, should you exist? >> i can't speak for all billionaires, all i know is i have been very lucky, made a lot of money, and giving it all away to make this country better and a good chunk of it goes to the democratic party as well. >> is it too much? have you earned too much money?

has it been an obscene amount -- should you have earned that much money? >> yes, i worked very hard for it, and i'm giving it away. >> and the candidates also debated the merits of capitalism with pete buttigieg, michael bloomberg and bernie sanders all throwing economic theories at one another. watch this. >> mayor buttigieg, senator sanders has large companies to turn over up to 20% of their ownership to employees over time. is that a good idea? >> i think that employee-ownership of companies is a great idea. i'm not sure it makes sense to command those companies to do it. if we really want to deliver less inequality in this country, then we got to start with the tax code. we got to start with investments in how people are able to live the american dream, which is in serious, serious decline. >> i'm very proud of that policy. all right. what we need to do to deal with this grotesque level of income and wealth inequality is make sure that those people who are

working, you know why mr. bloomberg it wasn't you that made all of that money, maybe your workers played a role in that as well. >> mayor bloomberg, would you support what senator sanders is proposing? >> absolutely not, i cannot think of ways that would make it easier to get donald trump reelected than listening to this conversation. this is ridiculous. we're not going to throw out capitalism. we tried that. other countries tried that. it's called come nicmunism, it t work. >> let's talk about democratic socialism, not communism, that's a cheap shot. denmark has a much higher quality of life in many respects than we do. what are we talking about. we are living in many ways in a socialist society right now, the problem is as dr. martin luther king reminded us, we have the socialism for the very rich, rugged individualism for the poor. >> what a wonderful country we have, the best known socialist

in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses, what did i miss here? >> bloomberg also addresses controversial stop and frisk policy which was met with criticism by other candidates on stage. >> if i go back and look at my time in office, the one thing that i'm really worried about, embarrassed about, was how it turned out with stop and frisk. we adopted a policy, which had been in place. the policy that all big police departments used of stop and frisk. what happened, however, was it got out of control. i have apologized. i have asked for forgiveness, but the bottom line is that we stopped too many people. but the policy -- we stopped too many people and we've got to make sure we do something about criminal justice in this country. there is no great answer to the lo of these problems and if we took off everybody that was wrong off this panel, everybody that was wrong on criminal justice at some time in their

careers, there would be nobody else up here. >> the reason that stop and frisk changed is because barack obama sent moderators to see what was going on. when we sent them there to say this practice has to stop, the mayor thought it was a terrible idea we send them there. it's not whether he apologized or not, it's the policy. the policy was abhorrent, and it was in fact a violation of every right people have. >> when the mayor says that he apologized, listen very closely to the apology. the language he used is about stop and frisk. it's about how it turned out. now, this isn't about how it turned out. this is about what it was designed to do to begin with. it targeted communities of color. it targeted black and brown men from the beginning. and if you want to issue a real apology, then the apology has to start with the intent of the

plan as it was put together and the willful ignorance. >> meanwhile on health care, senator elizabeth warren went on the offensive, attacking the plans of her democratic rivals. >> mayor buttigieg really has a slogan that was thought up by his consultants to paper over a thin version of a plan that would leave millions of people unable to afford their health care. it's not a plan. it's a power point. and amy's plan is even less. it's like a post-it note, insert plan here. bernie has started very much, has a good start, but instead of expanding and bringing in more people to help, instead his campaign relentlessly attacks everyone who asks a question or tries to fill in detail about how to actually make this work. and then his own advisers say,

probably won't happen anyway. >> i'm more of a microsoft word guy, and if you look at my plan, i don't know if there are any power points on it but you can definitely find the document on peteforamerica.com and you'll see that it is a plan that solves the problem, makes sure there is no such thing as an uninsured american and does it without kicking anybody off the plan that they have. this idea that the union members don't know what's good for them is the exact kind of condescension and arrogance that makes people skeptical of the policies we have been putting forward. >> i must say i took personal offense since post-it notes were invented in my state. so my plan is a public option. and according to all the studies out there it would reduce premiums for 12 million people immediately. it would expand coverage for about that same number. it is a significant thing. it is what barack obama wanted to do from the very beginning.

and the way i look at it, since we're in vegas, when it comes to your plan, elizabeth, and bernie's on medicare for all, you don't put your money on a number that's not even on the wheel. and why is medicare for all not on the wheel? why is not on the wheel? because 2/3 of the democratic senators are not even on that bill. because a bunch of the new house members that got elected see the problems with blowing up the affordable care act. they see it right in front of them. and the truth is that when you see some troubled waters you don't blow up a bridge, you build one. >> and after nevada's most powerful labor union issued a warning to workers against senator sanders health care plan he tried to ease the minds of voters. >> let me be very clear to my good friends in the culinary workers union, a great union, i will never sign a bill that will reduce the health care benefits they have.

we will only expand it for them, for every union in america and for the working class of this country. >> and sanders also addressed concerns over his own health and the transparency of releasing medical records after suffering a heart attack last year. >> i think the one area maybe that mayor bloomberg and i share, you have two stents as well. >> 25 years ago. >> well, we both have two stents, it's a procedure that is done about a million times a year, so we released the full report of that heart attack. second of all, we released the full, my whole 29 years in the capitol, the attending physician, all of my history, medical history, and further more, we released reports from two leading vermont cardiologists who described my situation and by the way, who said bernie sanders is more than able to deal with the stress and the vigor of being president of the united states. hey, follow me around the campaign trail three, four, five

events a day. see how you're doing compared to me. >> still ahead, john bolton accuses the house of committing quote impeachment malpractice, what the former trump national security adviser had to say about his decision not to testify in the investigation next. your first look at "morning joe" is back in a minute. taxes? sales tax, real estate credits, solar incentives... and we have no way to integrate all that?

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former national security adviser john bolton continues to sound off on his previous employer president donald trump. this time in a conversation with susan rice, also a former national security adviser but during the obama administration. no audio was allowed at the event at vanderbilt university but nbc news was in the room as rice challenged bolton over his decision not to testify in the house impeachment investigation. bolton responded by saying quote i think the house committed impeachment malpractice, the process drove republicans who might have voted for impeachment away adding quote my testimony would have made no difference to

the ultimate outcome. bolton also rebuffed criticism that he was not discussing his upcoming book on his white house experience because he wants to sell copies saying quote in the back of the position that there's classified information in the manuscript is the implied threat of criminal prosecution. bolton maintains that his manuscript currently under national security review does not contain classified information. the former national security adviser also blasted president trump for his policies on north korea and iran, syria and afghanistan. saying the president was quote one person that i know of in the history of the united states government that's ever favored bringing the taliban to camp david adding quote i am not aware in the trump administration of any of the senior national security advisers who were ever shy about expressing their opinion. the only question is whether it ever mattered. bolton left the white house last september insisting he resigned but the president said he was fired. let's take a quick turn to weather and bring in nbc

meteorologist bill karins. lots of rain, probably going to have an impact on the rest of the country. >> yeah. not the case. today it's going to come down. especially in eastern north carolina. that's where we're under a winter storm warning today for the norfolk virginia beach area, raleigh to charlotte, north carolina, under winter weather advisories. this isn't like record breaking snow but it is the first snow of the year in many of these areas, and as far as driving will go, later tonight will be the problem. it looks like the charlotte area, only an inch in the snow forecast for you. doesn't look like it's going to be the timing isn't quite right to get heavier snow. as we head eastward on i-95, goldsboro, that's where we could see someone getting 4 to 5 inches of snow, and areas around norfolk, and virginia beach, here in the 3 to 4 inch category as. atlanta, on and off heavy rain,

we will see delays, possibly a few cancellations in the raleigh area with the snow later today, especially this evening, that's where we could get a possibility of delays and cancellations too. i think nashville, charlotte, jackson, new orleans and also down in jacksonville, florida, maybe some isolated problems. let's get into the forecast. that's really the big storm on the map. the northeast is chilly this morning. it will be okay this afternoon. cold in minneapolis. chicago only 23 today. and heading into the upcoming weekend, it looks like things get quiet, very quiet. it's very rare we go storm free in all of the lower 48. that's the case on friday. it's not until saturday that a new storm comes into the southwest, maybe a little bit of rain in southern california. then we take the storm on saturday into sunday, into the middle of the country, a little snow in colorado, rain from kansas city late in the day in st. louis. you notice the east coast, it is very nice, all weekend long and on sunday, we should be in the 50s all the way back up into southern new england. nice weekend coming for the east coast. >> i was going to say quickly, no lingering problems with nevada and the caucuses on

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welcome back, everyone. acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney is calling the republican party hypocritical when it comes to the growing deficit. in a speech wednesday night in a trip tore britain and ireland to discuss brexit, mulvaney said my party is very interested in deficits when there's a democrat in the white house. the worst thing in the whole world was deficits when barack obama was the president and then donald trump became president and we're less interested as a

party. "the washington post" obtained audio of the speech. mulvaney went on to say he found it extraordinarily disturbing that the deficit reached $1 trillion, and neither party or voters cared about it. before serving as acting chief of staff to the president, mulvaney ran the office of management and budget. the fed has weighed in on the rising concern around the world over the deadly coronavirus calling it quote a new risk to the global growth outlook. cnbc's juliana tatelbaum joins us from london. what more have you heard from the fed. >> reporter: in the latest policy meeting which took place last month we learned last night that the federal reserve essentially remains upbeat on the u.s. economy despite acknowledging, as you said, the growing risk that the coronavirus poses to global growth. but they still remain comfortable with their stance of rates unchanged for the foreseeable future. they see the u.s. economy growing at a quote moderate pace, but the market doesn't necessarily think that's the

correct view. investors expect that we could see at least one interest rate cut this year and it could happen by the summer. so a little bit of a disconnect there. coronavirus and the implications very much in focus for the central bank. now i want to also bring you some company news that's come through in the last 24 hours. victoria secret is expected to be sold to private equity in a deal that values the lingerie company at $1.1 billion according to the "wall street journal." now, l brands as you may know owns both victoria secret and bath and body works and victoria secret ceo leslie wexner has been under pressure at the company, number one performance, criticized for the poor performance of the victoria secrets brand under his tenure. he has been with the company more than 50 years but also for his ties to jeffrey epstein. he would step down from his role

as ceo and chairman should this deal go through. >> juliana tatelbaum, live in london. a look at axios one big thing and more from the 9th democratic primary debate as the candidates come out swinging at michael bloomberg and his debut on the stage. amy klobuchar will be our guest. "morning joe" just moments away. [crackling fire]

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joining us now from washington, d.c. is a look at axios cofounder jim. what is ax owe's one big thing. >> the bar brawl debate that we saw last night, but i think there was a more important story yesterday. and i think jonathan swann wrote about it late yesterday which is richard grenell being put in as acting director of dni, basically the head of all the intelligence agencies. this capped off a week where you really saw a president who had redefined campaigning and

redefined the republican party, really redefining sort of the boundaries of executive power whether it was purging people that he considers quote unquote snakes, whether it's putting loyalists in key jobs. whether it's intervening in cases, whether it's pardoning people in big batches because they had auditioned on fox news or made pleas to him through allies. you're really seeing even for donald trump sort of a new not normal in terms of where they're trying to push things. and grenell caps that off. like here's a guy who his biggest qualification really is he's a super loyalist to donald trump. doesn't have much of a background in intelligence, was the ambassador to germany, did spend time as a spokesman at the un, but it's not sort of your traditional intel man or woman, and he's there because he can be the keeper of all the secrets. he really does have the key to the kingdom. while we sort of talk about that bar brawl, keep an eye on what's happening in the white house.

this is really really a solidify of the power that the president has and really stretching the boundaries. >> jim were you surprised on the debate stage we didn't hear more about this from some of the democratic hopefuls? >> you didn't hear anything about it yesterday. a lot of it is because the candidates, it's sort of crunch time, they have to go after bloomberg, and sanders. there was little talk about donald trump. he was probably one of the big winners from the debate because this was one of the more consequential weeks. we say that a lot in this segment. there's a lot of stuff that he does that stretches new boundaries for presidential power but this week, like you're really seeing all the things that previous aides have warned about that the president doesn't want people who he doesn't trust, who aren't total loyalists next to him. they're purging them everywhere. the president talks about getting rid of the people he can't trust, getting rid of the snakes, putting in people who are just true believers and he's already shown that he's going to push the restraints of presidential power, and this

will give him even more leeway to do that. >> do you think, and you certainly know washington better than i do. do you think when you take someone like richard grenell, a hyperpartisan person and put him at the top of 17 intelligence agencies, does that disrupt the flow and the way these agencies operate that they may not want to be giving information to such a political person? >> i mean, they're not going to have much of a choice. that's the knock that the trump people have about the government. they feel like the intel committee is not loyal or the intel community is not loyal, not helping the president, not serving the president. and they want people who are loyalists in there, and he's going to be at the head of the agency. it's acting but you can act for a while. he certainly can act through the presidential election, and remember, it's the one piece, the one key to the kingdom that trump didn't have, which is like unfettered access to the intel community, through somebody that he absolutely trusts. now he has that. and that doesn't mean that richard grenell couldn't go in

there and turn out to be a really good head of d and i, he's there because of loyalty and it's been a test for previous presidents. people don't want disloyal people serving them, but when you're putting loyalty over hey, do you have experience in the intel community or expertise in the demand you're being put in charge of it potentially can be has hit us this week, people haven't stepped back to look at the totality of these actions to understand. very very critical week. >> jim vandehei, thank you for putting that into perspective. sign up for the news letter at axios.com. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside alicia menendez who will be part of the nbc's all day coverage of the nevada caucus this weekend. you do not want to nimiss that. "morning joe" starts now. mr. bloomberg had policies in new york of stop and frisk which went after africa american

and latino people in an outrageous way. that is not a way you're going to grow voter turnout. >> i would like to talk about who we're running against, a billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse faced lesbians, i'm not talking about donald trump. i'm talking about mayor bloomberg. democrats are not going to win if we have a nominee