. >> let's bring in bob michael now on set, talking about maybe this flight to safety that we have had bob, it is a pleasure to have you on the program dan made a great point sort of at the end of his previous comment, which is, is the fed out of gas here? that's part -- i think that's where you were going, which is we talked about the fed making all of the easing moves and if something were to happen, they would effectively powerless. i don't want to put words in your mouth but that's kind of where you were going right >> they called it a mid cycle adjustment but a lot of people who were skeptical at the time were saying do woe need this now? don't we want to save the powder for an even we can't perceive. >> they could potentially do six more 25 basis point cuts we have seen it helps. we have seen just with the three rate cuts what happened to mortgage refis and the confidence to the consumer it does work they have plenty of fire you are po they also have their balance sheet. right now they are maintaining it we can debate what the front end liquidity injections are doing they can go

a new york attorney becomes the latest target of bob muller michael cohen donald trump's personal lawyer michael cohen he's donald trump's long time for the lawyer and fixer is the city president super and he has the ball as the keys to the kingdom he knows all the secrets about donald trump. card with. the f.b.i. search cohens office at the request of a local prosecutor on charges of financial fraud. the move initiated by bob muller as a direct challenge to the president himself. so i just heard that they broke into the office 'd of one of my personal attorneys good man i said that it's really valid a whole. new level of unfair that. cohen is someone who might know about alleged real estate dealings in russia that was fairly common knowledge in the real estate community and the international finance community in the political community the russians were funding in various ways many major trunk real estate projects cohen my also know if the president lie in a few months earlier he denied having anything to do with russia you know nothing in russia i have no loans in russia i don't have a

happening in the white house commencing at like to know if you saw the chaos described in bob woodward's book in michael wolff's book. guest: the answer is yes. i saw the chaos. i have a different take on it. i expect a lot of this chaos was calculated. i did that because i worked in the white house for george h w bush. so much what we did was calculated. some of my best friends who were journalists could not believe some of the things we did were actually calculated, but they were. it was spy versus spy versus spy versus spy. when you think you got the story straight, there is a politician manipulating it. i was in the white house not expecting it to be the way -- that way. i came out thinking everything was cockaded. son sue said out of cast comes opportunity. nato, donald trump blew up nato. isa is our oldest treaty -- this is our oldest treaty. look what he's doing to this treaty. they were talking to the media trump. mouthing donald donald trump came in and he impersonated the generals. they would say sir, these are our friends. they are our friends, sir. trump would say if they are our friends, wh

in between we saw bob mueller's highly anticipated russian collusion probe fizzle out. as michaelorowitz ig report showed mass, gross abuses of the pfizer system. both events giving vindication to the president and his allies. we saw disasters from mother nature as hurricane dorian absolutely trashed and thrashed the bahamas to human error with the devastating fire at the notre dame cathedral. on the international stage we saw president trump negotiate trade agreements, the long overdue phase one of a china packed. and back here at home and perhaps most importantly, american citizens of every race, class, and gender are reaping real, tangible benefits of an economy that is the envy of the world. so tonight, i thought i would take a look back at some of our "angles" from the past year and stories that tell the entire narrative of 2019 through our eyes. so first, democrats's democracy problem. that is the focused of tonight's first "angle." >> laura: it was nice to get out of washington last week, even if it was only for a few days in chicago. another city run by liberals. getting o

okay, bob woodruff, thanks very much. michael. >>> all right, george.ng to go now to new trouble for one of the nfl's biggest stars. new orleans police issuing an arrest warrant for odell beckham jr. for what he did while celebrating lsu's national championship this week. paula faris is here with more on this story. good morning, paula. >> reporter: good morning, michael. it goes without saying that odell beckham jr. has a great amount of louisiana pride. born and raised there, he played football at lsu, his parents were student athletes as well but this morning there's a warrant out for his arrest. >> it's my honor to present the national championship trophy to coach ed orgeron and the lsu tigers. >> reporter: emotions were at an all-time high after lsu's decisive win over clemson at monday's national championship game, but back in the locker room, nfl superstar and lsu alum odell beckham jr. taking the celebration a step too far according to new orleans police who moved forward with charges when footage of the nfl star appeared online. the cleveland b

in between we saw bob mueller's highly anticipated russian collusion probe fizzle out. as michaelitz ig report

in between we saw bob mueller'ss highly anticipated russian collusion probe fizzle out. as michaelig report showed mass, gross abuses of the fisa system.

bob katz back in 2003. sold his majority stake as you probably know to michael jordan in 2010. you heard eric and all of our discussions, bob what are your recollections about the man david stern himself? >> well, well, personally i would say david, you know, guided me both in terms with bias and enthusiasm about becoming the first african-american owner of any national sports league team. and to me that was exciting. and having -- when i served on the board of governors of the nba, the one thing everybody -- the 30 owners in those meetings with david knew who was in charge he ran the nba in what i would call the iron fist inside a velvet glove but he really believed in what he set out to do with the nba, whether it was on the issue of, of the number of african-american players in the league, african americans in ownership positions, african americans in management positions and he had a vision about where the nba could go globally and i tell you, i've never been involved with a business executive who was so confident in the asset, if you will, that he had, that was the nba, tha

bob steyer is add d to the debate. he spent millions of dollars on ads, much like presidential candidate, michael bloomberg, who's shelled0 million for a atd that's going to play during next month's super bowl. steve, we've been following the business of the billionaires long enough to understand, for a guy like you too, understand the impact they're having on the race. i'm looking at a poll that has tom steyer in third place. >> how the heck is tom steyer at double digits in nevada? and second place. distant but second place in south carolina. we're not talking about tom steyer nationally. but suddenly you look up in nevada and south carolina. it's spending a ton of money. check this out. this is the ad spending in nevada. steyer $10.5 billion. the second place democrat is sanders, 147 k. so basically that means steyer is out spending in nevada his nearest competitor 75-1. the air waves are filled with steyer and basically nothing else on the democratic side. a similar story in south carolina. 14 million bucks from steyer. 14: 1. and the democrats aren't down there as much. the news isn't covering it as much. so when yo

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and was very taken by michael's music because unlike all of the other kids there, he was writing and performing his own music. he wasn't just playing peter, paul, and mary, and boban. so they became really good friends quickly. they both recognized within hours that there's would be an epic friendship that they would -- there would be a bond. they wrote music beautifully. they were the best of friends in no time at all. susan: because you got to know michael through his writings and you have actually known marcus sullivan over the years through working on this, what did you learn about that friendship? what drew them together? david: i think in the first instance what drew them together was a love of music. i know, of course, i know michael o'donnell -- i never met him. but i know him very well from the record of his other relationships and from his letters and his poems and his music. and i've been a very good friend of michael sullivan for years. i think they were very sympathetic characters. they have a great sense of music and a great sense of adventure. they discovered these same joys at the same time in their lives. there's nothing like the best friends th

bob, we all have our lists. for me, it's kareem and then jordan and then kobe, in that order. i have said it before. just on the court, again, kobe was probably outside of michaelte i've ever been around, to the point that a lot of his teammates, you know, really didn't, you know, didn't like him because he demanded so much. so on the court, he was just phenomenal. but just to pick up this thing i think that tarrance was getting to and one of the things that i think is really, really unfoercht about this, tarrance mentioned roberto clemente, and i don't know how bob feels, but that was the most chilling thing i'd ever experienced in my life, an athlete who i really loved and admired i was a kid, and then the fact that he was killed, he died in the process of doing a humanitarian effort. and i think that's part of the reason why he's going to live forever. i think with kobe, you know, i just feel awful because of his -- the daughter. just, all those children. that's just a terrible thing. and to me the unfortunate thing was, he was in the process of beginning to build that kind of legacy that i think would have made him sort of live forever. so that's just the t

the other scenario michael bloomberg and his people would love, to see bernie sanders wins iowa and new hampshire. he's on the rise in nevada where bob out doing better with hispanic voters than in the past. match's bernie sanders wins the first three contests and has a huge head of steam coming out of february. a -- and biden and buttigieg crumbled. a world where democratic establishment looks up and has to squarely confront the possibility that bernie sanders will be the nominee. there will be a huge establishment backlash to that, and mike will then sit there saying, okay, guys. i'm your last chance to stop bernie sanders from being the nominee. a huge chunk of the established moderate party would rally around michael bloomberg at that point because they're terrified of the prospect of sanders as the nominee. >> not only does stephanie know mike bloomberg personally but she, too, worked for him. bringing that insight to the table. did you see what he said asked about ndas signed with female employees? just, hey. there are two-way street and wouldn't want them out either. sort of -- boom. >> that is most likely going to come back a

, not just here but other hearings, whether it was bob mueller or comey or cohen, you thought it would happen in the end but it didn't. i'm with michaelely on people like michael for my political judgment. >> i'm always asked the question and i've been through this with the o.j. trial and every time there's a trial and you guys know the law, i asked a simple question, where do you come from and who are you going home to? we're getting interrupted here by schumer. chuck schumer. >> no etymology on my staff's names today like we had yesterday, which his whole family is calling up about, nguyen's whole family. yesterday as you know the president's counsel ended their defense of the president. up until the very end, mr. sekulow kept making the argument that the case against the president lacked eyewitnesses, knowing full well that his client, the president, was blocking the very eyewitnesses he said the trial lacked. knowing full well he knew full well that one of the eyewitnesses, john bolton, wrote that the president told him he wanted to continue the delay in military assistance to ukraine until it announced the political investigation

michael schmidt, thank you very much for your reporting this morning, and still ahead on "morning joe," the senate's top democrat on foreign relations, bob menendez is our guest. plus the cia's former director nbc analyst john brennan joins the conversation. also several big developments in the presidential race. we'll read from joe's new column in the "washington post," but first -- here's bill karins with a check on the forecast. bill? >> good morning, mika. get to that snow forecast in the mid-atlantic in a second. first update on breaking news occurred in the last two hours. a very strong earthquake on the south coast of puerto rico. reports of half the island without power. a power plant sustained significant damage and off-line on the southern coast. telemundo reported a possibility of a wall collapse and one fatalitien o'the south coast here. you see where the epicenter was located. magnitude 6.4 earthquake and pictures from san juan showing dark neighborhoods in the background. hospitals that are running on generators and there have been reports of some minor injuries and, of course, just got that report from our telemundo friend