dan goldman, i want to start with you.e the election, talking about the attorney general a moment ago. i'll quote from a little of it, trump could still thwart the investigation and avoid significant backlash by stopping just short of firing mueller. instead he could install a new acting attorney general charged with overseeing the investigation either by replacing sessions or rosen ste rosenstein, or both, a loyalist or undershuddering the investigation." we're talking about clarevoyance at the top of the show. what is happening on capitol hill, the concern about protecting it? >> you raised two important points. >> you did, to be fair. >> the first question is whether matt whitaker, who has gone on record as stating that there was no collusion, even though he, of course, had no idea what the evidence, whether someone who has affirmatively pre-judged the investigation should recuse himself from overseeing that investigation. that's the one question. the other question you raise and i think this is really the critical aspe

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the story was first reported by nbc's own ana shechter who joins us now along with dan goldman, he's. attorney for the southern district of new york and a an msnbc legal analyst. okay, ana. these weren't the only text messages, so tell us more about what was said between these two gentlemen? >> there's a long conversation that goes from august, september, october, talking about wikileaks. what's interesting here is that stone is pressuring credico for information, for an inside track to julian assange, asking for assange's information on various characters that might help his various cause. >> and credico is leading him to believe that he knows assange and could get him that? >> yeah, he's -- it's unclear if he was actually talking to assange or just posturing. and you know, randy, if you're listening, i know that you're very upset about these text messages, but this goes to the heart of the mueller investigation. these are the exact text messages that mueller's team has been poring over for months. and they've never seen these. these were just recovered yesterday morning and shared

. >> adam goldman, barbara mcquade, jeremy dash and dan goldman, thank you for being here. barnacle, you're stuck here until the end of time. >>> when we come back -- donald trump back on the world stage this weekend taking flack for his embrace of nationalism during the campaign. but unlike previous trips abroad, this time trump managed to draw outrage while saying very little. >>> with the recount under way, trump and his republican allies are already slamming the process accusing democrats are fraud and demanding an end to the counting of votes. but it begs the question. with the current tally still leading in the gop's favor, why are republicans so unnerved. >>> and the big blue wave last week is getting bigger and bluer by the moment but it's also becoming clear that the crest of the wave is bright pink as more women picked up wins in key races over the weekend. we'll look at all of that next. ♪ ♪ no matter when you retire, your income doesn't have to. see how lincoln can help ensure you still have income every month of your retirement, guaranteed, at lincolnfinancial.

dan goldman, thanks very much. you never want to be approached at an airport by bob mueller.otherwise. >> or nick. >> no. >>> still ahead on "morning joe," mitch mcconnell says he will block a bill to protect special counsel robert mueller. we will show you his reasoning even as other republicans are pushing for the legislation. >>> for no other reason than to show this vehicle, this is completely gratuitous, but we had to show you there is a giant cow. 6'4" tall, weighs over a ton. he was too about i go to fit into the slaughter house so now he's hanging out with his friends. his size saved his life. "morning joe" is coming right back. (chime) - [narrator] meet shark's newest robot vacuum. it powerfully cleans from floors to carpets, even pet hair, with ease, and now for cleaning surfaces above the floor, it comes with a built in shark handheld. one dock, two sharks. the shark ion robot cleaning system. pushing for the legislation. "morning joe" is coming right my mom's pain from moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis was intense. i wondered if she could do the stuff she do

morgan stanley and citi looking bad and all outugly like goldman sachs down 15% dan says there is a namen the list about to go from bad to worse. what railroad are you looking at. >> the scarey think about the graphic there is the ugly is really just down right ugly. we are not throwing g.e. in there yet. when you low back at the acceleration to the downside the household names we all know and a lot of people own and you definitely own them in the mutual funds and the 401(k)s the acceleration at this time of year in the names is making me a little bit nervous here for the financial stocks obviously they the caught a bid with the news out of the fed we know there is another fed meeting on december 19th and to me i think you have a situation where some of the initial enthusiasm could wear off over the next couple weeks, especially if nothing really big on the trade front abi think bank stocks close near the lows of the year the underperformance i'll let carter talk to it -- has been horned ouz it's not pressing like goldman sachs or a deutsche bank but if we have anymore headlines out of t

dan, always a pleasure. thank you very much for joining us. >>> monday morning analyst call to tell you about already. goldmanating coverage of american airlines and jetblue with buy ratings the analyst says that she expects jetblue's profitability to improve as revenue and cost initiatives ramp up. as for american, she sees higher earnings than the industry average. so buy on jetblue and american but neutral rating in that initiation on delta, southwest and united continental. >>> up next, is there a big bana head the fda imposing a crackdown on a cigarette that is hurting one stock. we'll give you the news and the market reaction. >> if you are not paying attention, we are over a week away from thanksgiving do you feel like that snuck up on you there's a reason for that and it could be great news for retail u' gngyour morning rbi and yoreoi to want to hear it. stick around for your heart... your joints... or your digestion... so why wouldn't you take something for the most important part of you... your brain. with an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in clinical trials t

dan. >> i think no deal for a lot of the reasons tim cited. here a stock down 17% again like goldman i think it's actually telling uls what the 2019 global economy is looking like here. >> wow is it just me or is karen a rebel. >> without a cause. >> and the smartest one on the devg did i say that or think that in my head? come on over guys. come on over you don't want to? wow! >> wow, look. >> at the desk. >> that was fun. >> was it? not so much for you. >> no, no it was a lot of fun. but i want to say. >> this is awesome. >> the show premiering on this network next wednesday. >> it's a lot better. >> is emotional roller coaster you will scream, yell. i didn't hear that here. for the first time in a long time you have a fall audience and they were sooit sitting there silent so but it's good if you want to see something so much better than you just saw, tune in december -- >> it's not that hard to do that. >> just don't have guy on the first show. >> i would. >> you did a great job. >> why it is it emotional roller coasting, waltrip you go with the dollar figure in the case. >> becau

dan ives. also ed lee. gentlemen, just getting the news that goldman sachs is cutting its apple iphone estimates in terms of supplier outlook. we're talking about the report yesterday from lamentum. people are assuming that is apple. what do you think about this, dan? are you cutting your numbers or your expectations based on this? >> i think it's kind of a little overdone in our opinion the read through here from a face recognition perspective, it also could be on some of the ipads as well. net net i think the street right now, you know, is really expecting we could see maybe 205 million units versus where they were at 220. so i think right here what we saw was a bit of an overreaction there's no doubt ever since they pull the metric and ever since lower iphone units, now this is sort of what i view as the straw that broke the camel's back in terms of the bulls viewing that iphone could actually see growth in 2019. >> goldman is cutting its price target on the company's stock to $209 from $222 even that $209 is above where it's trading right now at $193 what are your expectations for the stock? how much of

dan rather said tight as a tick -- >> he's got so many. >> mike, what was the -- what was the famous hollywood line that says everything you ever need to know about hollywood -- >> goldman's line, nobody knows nothing. >> nobody knows nothing. >> we will. >> steve kornacki, you look at the polls, obvious republican trend after kavanaugh, seems to be a slight democratic trend now, slight, but everything is locked up. if the republicans have a better turnout operation that swings it by one or two points they keep the house, if the democrats have an adequate turnout operation they even swing to maybe one point, they take the house, but it is so tight. this could be either way. >> the numbers i'm seeing, it's fascinating, because in our j generic ballot democrats have the seven-point advantage. they can't just win that house popular vote, they probably need a pad of a few points. they're getting it in our poll. we have trump's approval rating at 46% which is as good as it's been in one of our polls since he's been president. >> that nbc poll seems way out of line with the abc poll that has him at 40 and gallup at 41. >> abc has him at 44. if you take the average approval rati