>> it sounds like we lost hallie jackson there for a moment. as haltly jackson was telling us, the mood is high as it would be for any visiting president of the united states at a base all around the world this one happening to be there in japan, as chris jansing was telling us earlier, some of the largest instillations as far as the size the united states has there in japan. yokota air base. president trump, the first lady, about to exit air force one. as that happens, we'll go to chris jansen on this. you may have heard my question to hallie jackson before we lost connection there, about japan and south korea next. as we've seen and you've reported on before, how north korea could try to steal the headlines and some of the thunder here. >> at one of the briefings done by senior staff to prepare the press for this trip, the question you just asked was asked, and the answer from top white house officials was, look, whenever the president travels, there's an extraordinarily high level of security, it's not going to be different. they're very awa

our chief white house correspondent hallie jackson, i know it's going to be loud there, because as thed continues, it's going to be tough potentially for hallie to hear us, but we'll go to her. hallie, as chief white house correspondent, you analyze every word from the white house. what did you make of this speech that he gave? >> reporter: let me run through what the take aways are i think from what you heard from president trump. this was essentially the table setter to his trip through asia. 12 days. 13 now through five countries. this was the greeting. it was the theme sort of set up for what he wants to see on this trip. clearly he wants to project strength. he wants to talk about trade. you heard him repeatedly mention fair reciprocal trade, and he talked about wanting to show commitment to service members here and a hat tip to the folks here who have come up and waited four or five hours in some cases to hear that speech from the president. this is about what we expected to hear from him. he just landed. he has not had any bilateral meetings yet in any formal sense. you saw him

halli, jackson is hallie jackson is at the white house. what are you hearing? >> reporter: the president is receiving ongoing updates about what is happening in manhattan including a couple of tweets. the president writing nyc looks like another attack by a sick and deranged person. adding not in the usa. the president is calling this is terrorist attack. he is seeming to link it to isis writing in a second tweet here. we must not allow isis to return or enter our country after defeating them in the middle east and elsewhere. enough. we should note the first lady has been in new york city today. she was there for previously scheduled meetings. she has tweeted her thoughts and prayers as has the president. trump tower with the family's apartment is is only about four miles from the bike path where this happened. an attack like this is troubling for any president but for this president it hits particularly close to home. lester. >> hallie jackson at the white house. thank you. today's attack is the latest in which an attacker has used car or truck to mow down peo

>> hallie jackson traveling with the president. thank you, hallie. >>> tonight, video has emerged of the moment former baseball major league pitcher roy halladay crashed his plane into the gulf of mexico, a fatal accident claiming the life of the sports star at just 40 years old. and as family, friends and fans mourn a major loss, the video could be a key clue for investigators trying to figure out what caused the accident. here's nbc's miguel almaguer. >> reporter: just moments before disaster -- >> what the [ bleep ]? >> reporter: witnesses told tmz sports a pilot was quickly climbing and diving, then suddenly no mayday call, roy halladay's plane banked sharply then went into the water. >> he just crashed right here in the gulf of mexico. >> reporter: boaters quickly rushed to the upside down plane. >> oh, my god, oh, my god. >> reporter: but it was too late. >> oh my god, bro, what was he thinking? >> reporter: the son of a pilot, halladay had always wanted to fly, earning his own license in 2014, acquiring 700 flight hours and t

ha hallie jackson joining us from hanoi.t can you tell us that was on the agenda for president trump in the philippines? >> reporter: so a couple things. he has two big summits of southeast asian countries. and when it comes to the meeting specifically, the bilateral with rodrigo duterte, this will be something a lot of people are watching for a couple reasons. number one, who is duterte. he is a guy that is highly controversial, you have this drug war happening in the philippines, thousands of killings. duterte called former president obama an s.o.b. in the polite translation. he joked about killing somebody although a spokesman said later he was kidding about that. this is a leader that will have to be handled with kid gloves and the big question, number two, will president trump bring up the human rights issue with duterte. you have a lot of advocates looking to see what that interaction will be like. it comes after president trump in past meetings with leaders with questionable human rights records say i'd rather talk ab

nbc news chief white house correspondent hallie jackson is in da nang. hi, hallie. >> reporter: lester, good evening to you. that handshake, that interaction, was really more about pleasantries than policies for presidents donald trump and vladimir putin. the two of them will not hold formal talks here at this asian economic summit in vietnam. instead of talking to russia, president trump is instead talking trade. that's his big focus with really the toughest tone we've heard him take yet on this trip overseas. he's repurposing that campaign pledge and aiming it at an international audience. listen. >> we are not going to let the united states be taken advantage of anymore. i am always going to put america first, the same way that i expect all of you in this room to put your countries first. >> reporter: here's the bottom line. for the president here it's been less about globalism, more about nationalism. at one point the president even saying there's no place like home. for donald trump even on the world stage, lester, all politics is local. lester? >> h

first hallie jackson is in seoul where the president is today. good evening hallie. >> reporter: good evening lester or good morning from seoul. 30 miles from one of the most dangerous borders in the world. president here is choosing his words carefully so far, firm but measured. standing in north korea's back yard, a president who rarely pulls punches did. >> i think we're making a lot of progress. >> reporter: in south korea, what president trump is not saying is nearly as important as what he is. reer >> with fire and fury. rocket man, totally destroy north korea. >> reporter: that talk toned down here, replaced by willingness apparently to negotiate with pyongyang, call it art of the deal diplomacy. >> i really do believe it makes sense for north korea to come to the table and to make a deal. >> reporter: that comment comes some six weeks after president trump tweeted his secretary of state is wasting his time trying to talk with north korea. rex tillerson in the front row overnight. >> we can invite north korea back to talks but if they don't

nbc's hallie jackson joins me now from hanoi, vietnam, with the latest, and hallie, can you tell us, what did president trump say? >> a lot of news coming out of that news conference specifically as it relates to russian president vladimir putin. you know the two of them, over in da nang had that interaction where russian interference in the election apparently came up. the president as you rightly note clarified some of the remarks that he made on air force one to reporters regarding whether he believes putin believes that he denied it essentially. it gets a little bit convoluted. i want you to listen to what the president had to say when he was asked about this about eight hours or so ago. listen. >> i'm surprised that there's any conflict on this. what i said there is that i believe he believes that and that's very important for somebody to believe. i believe that he feels that he and russia did not meddle in the election. as to whether i believe it or not, i'm with our agencies, especially as currently constituted with their leadership. i believe until our intel agencies. >> so t

and wikileaks. >> hallie jackson, thank you. as hallie mentioned, a fifth accuser of roy moore is coming forward to claim that the alabama republican senate candidate forced himself on her when she was a teenager and he s moore denies these allegations. catie beck has more. >> reporter: i thought he was going to rape me. >> reporter: beverly young nelson is the fifth woman to accuse alabama senate candidate roy moore of improper sexual advances when she was a teenager. >> i was twisting and i was struggling, and i was begging him to stop. >> reporter: nelson, then 16 says moore was a regular customer at a restaurant where she worked. she claims moore then district attorney offered her a ride home. but instead parked the car behind the business and assaulted her. >> he began squeezing my neck, attempting to force my head on to his crotch. >> reporter: nelson claims she was left with bruises. but moore and warn herd no one would believe her. moore has denied all of the accusations, just as he denied the allegations of sexual misco

>> hallie jackson in seoul. >>> when president trump arrives in south korea, he will be about 30 miles from the dmz. this weekend in seoul i sat down with south korea's foreign minister who was hoping the president will demonstrate his resolve for a peaceful solution to the north korean crisis. this administration was propelled into office on a pledge of america first. did that make south korea nervous? does it still make south korea nervous? >> i think every u.s. administration wants to find the right phrasing for how it positions itself in the global scheme of things and this is certainly mr. trump's phrase. but i don't think it's entirely new. i think it's just one way of underscoring america's interest in this. but it's not america alone alone. it's america working with other countries. >> part of my conversation with south korea's foreign minister ahead of president trump's visit to that country. >>> overshadowing the president's critical foreign trip tonight, new questions about his administration's ties to russia. millions of documents known as the paradise papers leaked by a la

>> hallie jackson tonight, thank you. >>> now to the news tonight on your taxes.irst the house now senate republicans unveiling their own sweeping plan to overhaul the tax system. lots of families asking the question how might it affect what we pay. nbc news capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt takes a look. >> reporter: senate republicans today unveiling what they say is the most sweeping rewrite of the tax code since "top gun" was in theaters. >> i feel the need. >> the need for speed. >> reporter: racing to pass the plan before the end of the year or face a drubbing at the ballot box. >> the party fractures. most incumbents in 2018 will get a severe primary challenge. a lot of them will probably lose. >> reporter: but the senate's reforms don't seem to be as sweeping as the house's version of the plan. it would cut corporate taxes to 20%. double the standard deduction for families and eliminate the deduction for all state and local taxes. but the corporate rate cuts won't go into effect right away. there will be seven individual brackets instead of the four in

nbc news chief white house correspondent hallie jackson is in beijing. >> reporter: a kinder, gentleronald trump on display in china, praising the pageantry, feeling the flattery. and instead of blaming beijing for the trade imbalance he hates, the president's pointing at his predecessors. >> it's too bad that past administrations allowed it to get so far out of kilter. >> reporter: that softer stance a far cry from the campaign. >> we can't continue to allow china to rape our country. china cheats us. i don't blame china. who can blame a country for being able to take advantage of another country for the benefit of its citizens? i give china great credit. >> reporter: on perhaps the most important stop of his asia trip, the president wanted to tackle trade and the threat from north korea, but it's not clear what, if anything, concrete came from the talks. the u.s. touts $250 billion in business deals announced on this visit between companies from the two countries. but those will take years to go into effect. and while both leaders agree north korea can't become a nuclear power, chin

nbc news chief white house correspondent hallie jackson has details for us. >> reporter: tonight rex tillerson is the secretary of state, but for how long? do you want rex tillerson on the job, mr. president? >> he's here. rex is here. >> reporter: that's not a ringing endorsement for tillerson as speculation swirls around his future in the cabinet. >> chief of staff kelly called our department this morning and said that the rumors are not true, that those reports are not true. >> reporter: but privately, intensifying talks of how to replace tillerson, according to one administration source, who says the secretary of state burned all his bridges inside the west wing. tillerson and the president locked in a rocky relationship since the summer. remember this joke last month? >> some days i feel like i need to do that. curl up in a ball. >> reporter: multiple senior administration officials say cia director mike pompeo is the favorite to be the next secretary of state with the diplomatic drama coming at an especially sensitive moment. one of our closest allies abroad not happy and not h

. >> hallie jackson is traveling with the president and joins us now live from manila. hallie, have you had a chance to talk to anybody or figure out what is behind this appointment? >> reporter: it's roughly midnight here in manila, so the parking light tweeting this out just about an hour ago. interesting he did on an overseas trip. announcing this new, potential cabinet secretary. alex azar, former bush era deputy in the hhs agency. also involved in the fa pharmaceutical company. this is an interesting moment in time for the president to be naming him as the pick. he's now talking about -- president trump that is -- in the recent tweets, clearly looking ahead to getting back home, which he will be midweek. looking ahead to not just the tax cut battle, the tax cut fight happening on capitol hill, but trying to tie that to some kind of health care reform. even as he's been talking about health care reform, he has nobody in hhs to lead the agency on a permanent basis. obviously, it is changing now with his naming of alex azar as his pick to lead the agency. tom price, of

i'm in for hallie jackson who continues on assign wmt the president overseas.hat's where we start right now. president trump on defense during the last leg of his asia tour. this morning, shaking hands and embracing the controversial leader of the philippines while defending vladimir putin's claim that russia did not meddle in the u.s. election. here at home, that republican rift is growing. alabama senate nominee roy moore going full-speed ahead as the seas get very rough and rocky, dismissing allegations with relationships with teenager girls, the candidate attacking his accusers, now threatening to sue "the washington post," the first to break this story. >>> and the nbc news exclusive, former vice president joe biden is back, nearly a year after leaving office. what he thinks about president trump, his regret surrounding the 2016 election, and whether 2020 is in the works. >>> but let's begin with our chief white house correspondent, my colleague and the host of this show, hallie jackson is there. a lot of headlines where you are right now. and a little bit

. >> i'm in for hallie jackson who joins us shortly from beijing. that's where we start this morning. president trump making nice in china, once his political punching bag now his sudden side kick. the president saying he doesn't blame china for taking advantage of the u.s. we'll have more on the big about face from asia that everyone is talking about this morning. >>> on capitol hill, republicans cruising along with their tax plan. the committee mark up happening right now. many in the party, though, still trying to pump the brakes. they're worried about projected increases to the deficit and changes in property taxes. one republican still trying to make up his mind on the plan. new york congressman john faso will join us live. >>> we're also continuing our series. looking at the country one year after the extraordinary election. today, rahema ellis talking to democrats about wanting to see their country rebuild and mother and daughter on different sides of the election just now back on speaking terms. >>> we start this hour overseas in china. chie

nbc chief white house correspondent, hallie jackson, joins me now. ie, walk us through this back and forth of the president and the democratic minority leader. >> and even more recently, craig, what has happened with the president inside that cabinet meeting. sure, you heard the president within the last hour or so escalate this essentially attack on the diversity visa lottery program. that seems to be where the focus is now getting centered here at the white house. chuck schumer in the house supported it but it was signed by a republican president, george h.w. bush. it lets in 50,000 green cards a year randomly selected from countries that didn't have a lot of immigration coming into this country in the first place. there are certain requirements including high school education, a couple years work experience, no criminal back ground. now, it is confirmed that is how the suspect in this terror attack got into the u.s. i spoke with one administration official who said, yes, this is now going to be a concerted effort to try to tear down this diversity

i'm in for hallie jackson. with less than four weeks to go until the special senate election, public support continues to crumble for embattled republican candidate roy moore despite the calls from his party's leaders to drop out. he remains defiant and is denying sexual assault allegations. the rnc now severing financial ties with his campaign and even steve bannon may be having second thoughts. is president trump going to weigh in on this, his first full day back from that trip to asia? >>> also on capitol hill, spotlight on sexual harassment. women lawmakers reveal chilling claims of predatory behavior within their own ranks. and in the senate, a stunning move by republicans who now plan to eliminate the obamacare individual mandate in their revised tax plan. our reporters are following the latest developments. jeff bennett is at the white house, von hilliard is

i'm stephanie ruhle in for hallie jackson. we are going to get into the weeds about weed.na. when the sale of recreational pot becomes legal in california in january, the state will become, by far, the largest legal marijuana economy in the nation. it doesn't mean all marijuana there will be for legal purposes. we got a firsthand look at the efforts to nip the pot black market in the bud. >> reporter: in the foothills of the sierra, a narcotics task force is preparing for a raid. they're not going after heroin, cocaine or meth. they're looking for p ining for. how many of these are protected? >> a portion of them. always worried about getting ripped off by people looking to steal their crop. we've had a lot of shootings in this county. >> reporter: in january, california will become home to the nation's largest legal pot industry, but the state's black market weed will still be a far bigger business. what are they looking for inside the shed? >> just clearing it for personnel. make sure there's no dangerous people in there. nobody harmed. >> reporter: check this out. this

hallie jackson is in tokyo with more on that. hey, hallie. >> reporter: hey, ali, good morning from tokyo where it is evening, of course. next up for president trump, seoul, south korea. that is where he will head for a bilateral meeting and then a joint news conference later on in the day. round two for him after, of course, that one-on-one with the japanese prime minister shinzo abe. i think it was noticeable from here on the ground in tokyo was the warm relationship between these two, that's what they wanted to convey there. you heard each leader refer to the other by the first name frequently. they had moments including with their first ladies where they were together having these interpersonal relationships. from the policy perspective, these are the headlines. you talk about north korea, japan made no secret of the fact that it is 100% as abe said, 100% on the same page as the united states. the president, donald trump, defended his tough rhetoric. that kind of fire and fury language against north korea, saying that, hey, de

let me go back to my colleague, hallie jackson, before i let you go, you talked about china. we're talking about china here, how tough do you expect president trump to be when he goes to china? the white house thinks china is the one country with president xi jinping who has the power to stop north korea from the nuclear provocations? >> reporter: that's going to be the u.s.'s biggest card to play, if it ends up playing that card with north korea, and that is why that visit is so important, not just because of the north korean discussion, but the trade talk as well. remember, you have the ceo delegation heading to china, too, so a lot of business folks are watching to see how that develops. i think on north korea, you are going to see the president exert as much pressure as he can on xi jinping. these are two leaders that unlike president moon here in south korea where the president is starting to develop that relationship, he and xi are frankly pretty tight. remember the mar-a-lago summit in florida back last year or end of the year when the two of them were sort of together

. >>> go to hallie jackson in the rose garden, there for the announcement. fundamentally, hallie, tricky one. it's not a major departure in policy. >> reporter: right. >> from janet yellen. who was there. jerome worked under her and says he will continue that work. >> reporter: yes, but j. powell is not janet yellen. >> right. >> reporter: ali, that's point. president trump throughout this entire administration made a point to undo things from president obama. this likely one of them. continuing on the same path without having a person that president obama put in instead. i think -- listen, a short ceremony. this was, kind of what you'd expect to see, the announcement of a new fed chair. the president came out, introduced j. powell. the front row sitting here, gary cohn, for a little while rumored to be in the running for that fed chair. once that relationship soured, went away, but i do think it is notable, sort of who was out here. you had some top head of the senate finance committee out here on a day everybody's talking about what's going on with tax refo

. >>> now to white house chief correspondent, my colleague, hallie jackson, traveling with the president. she's in another country from where she was yesterday. hallie, i'm sure you haven't slept because you have a lot of new information. talk to me about what you are expecting from this all-important trip to china. >> reporter: we've already seen some of it, kristen n the overnight hours. for you, daytime hours here in beijing, you saw the president receive this very warm, very lavish welcome from president xi. this one-on-one tour with each of their spouses of the forbidden city. pulling out all the stops. kind of rare, you don't see xi personally escort heads of state through what china is uh billing as a state visit plus. i'm listening to your conversation and you were talking to the ambassador how china will not be able to solve the problem of north korea alone, but the united states is hoping that china will at least be a player in this. so how does the president put pressure on beijing? a little bit of carrot and a little stick. part of it is the personal relationship. it seems th

for more on the politics and what's inside the package, we have chief white house correspondent hallie jackson, kacie hunt of course as usual chasing republican members of congress all day on capitol hill. ha hallie, let's start over there, we're about to see the president with republicans at the white house. the last time this happened for a big ticketed agenda item was the ill-fated victory lap over health care. what's the president's role going to be pushing this agenda? >> you're talking about the rose guard, sort of mission accomplished moment, right, chris, and who knows if that is going to happen this time. i will tell you what the president's message is, get it done, get it done quick. here's what he had to say just a couple of moments ago. >> i really believe we'll have it done before christmas. i consider that to be one of the great christmas presents. >> quick sound bite there, chris, yeah, i guess it sounds it all. >> mini-sound bite. >> the president wants this as a christmas present. here's the deal though. you are hearing concerns from some on capitol hill about the fact this on

i'm in for hallie jackson. with less than four weeks to go until the special senate election, public support continues to crumble for embattled republican candidate roy moore despite the calls from his party's leaders to drop out. he remains defiant and is denying sexual assault allegations. the rnc now severing financial ties with his campaign and even steve bannon may be having second thoughts. is president trump going to weigh in on this, his first full day back from that trip to asia? >>> also on capitol hill, spotlight on sexual harassment. women lawmakers reveal chilling claims of predatory behavior within their own ranks. and in the senate, a stunning move by republicans who now plan to eliminate the obamacare individual mandate in their revised tax plan. our reporters are following the latest developments. jeff bennett is at the white house, von hilliard is on the ground there. vaughan, first to you. the top race is in alabama. any indication if the president is going to say anything about this at all p

first to hallie jackson and just about to move into the press briefing room.u tell us that you know and what is about to happen? >> sure. so this is going to be the sort of two and two as they call it in the white house parlance. see the prime minister, president trump side by side and each give remarks and then call on a couple members of the media on japanese and american side. so we're here waiting for that. i'm on the phone and cannot do live shots here from where the president has been live meeting with folks here including the families of japanese people who have been abducted by the north korean regime. this is i think an interesting moment. that's what just wrapped up for the president in the last couple of minutes and i had an official saying that the president has an emotional connection and that is when he really feels affected by something. i think back to, for example, otto warmbier and likely came up in the meeting and the way that the president had that emotional connection to his family and sort of visceral response of let's get this person out

hallie jackson is at the white house. you've got senator mccain ca calling the bill far from perfect but he's a yes. you heard those other folks saying, hey, i think we're going to get this done. wishful thinking or does it look that way? >> the momentum is very much on the republican side right now. they feel like especially with john mccain officially coming on board that they have almost all of the votes they need. if not all of the votes that they need. remember, mccain along with lisa murkowski and susan collins were the three folks who stood up to kill the health care effort earlier this year. murkowski said last night that she is a yes on this bill. susan collins is officially undecided but is leaning very much towards supporting this bill. it's going to boil down to a couple of other senators who have complaints about this bill or have amendments they would like to see, but it's unclear if any of those people are enough opposed or enough committed to their particular causes to stand up and vote down a bill that is

. >> hallie jackson joins me now. the president is talking about a diversity visa, and he's trying to say that the diversity visa is because of chuck schumer. fact check, contextualize it for it. >> reporter: it's a way for people to come into this country from places that don't have high immigration rates in the first place. we have a full screen to pull the stats up on this. this started in 1989 from senator kennedy. chuck schumer was in the house and did support this but it was signed into law by a republican president, george h.w. bush at the time. then in fact a couple of years ago when the gang of eight immigration bill was getting kicked around, it would have eliminated or dismantled this diversity visa lottery problem. and who was part of the gang of eight was of course chuck schumer and jeff flake the person you just showed pointed out online today. this is what the program does. it is our reporting here at nbc news that saipov came into the united states under that lottery program and got allowed into the co

now i want to bring in hallie jackson, our chief white house correspondent. she's in the briefing room and was listening to that along with me. hallie, there was a lot here. i think i actually want to start, not with tillerson but with something she said in response to a question about the videos that the president retweeted. she said that she thought that those retweets would "elevate the conversation." did that stick out to you? what else did we hear? >> reporter: well, the part of those videos that stuck out the most, acknowledgement that president didn't know the source of the videos when deciding to retweet them. speaks to a question you heard some colleagues, should not the president be held to a higher standard? the dutch embassy said one of those videos wa not accurate, not correct yet ended up on a twitter page, elevated, to use the language of the president, to the 40 million-plus twitter followers. the white house, sarah huckabee sanders, i think, trying to make the argument the president is trying to talk about the national security threat. the poi

>> hallie jackson with the president in vietnam. thanks. >>> those of us here in the eastern half of the country woke up to some december-like temperatures today. in fact, in chicago it looked like december blanketed by snow in the middle of fall. and it looks like a bone chilling weekend ahead. how low will it go? >> what a difference a day makes. if you take a look, these are the temperatures when we last spoke yesterday. everybody fairly seasonable, upper 30s to the mid-50s, but boom we drop down 24 hours and look at the temperature change. anywhere from 9 degrees to 21 degrees colder than it was. and you factor in the wind chills and it's in the mid to lower teens throughout much of the northeast and new england. tomorrow morning that's when the lowest temperatures drop. we're looking for possible records in pittsburgh, d.c., atlantic city, new york, boston and binghamton. but the good news is after tomorrow, as you can see, temperatures start to moderate, lester. one day of pain and then things get back to normal. >> then a who

we're starting with all of this, starting with hallie jackson on capitol hill this morning. hallie, good morning. >> reporter: hi, matt. good morning to you. let's start something that affects every person thwatching this show. the tax plan. that's what you see the gop talking about today, even when everybody is talking about the twitt eter takedown, including president trump himself. he tweeted about it. my twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. i guess the world must finally be getting out and having an impact. it comes after everybody saw, for a very brief time what the world would look like without a donald trump twitter account. for 11 minutes, the sound of social media silence, after the president'swi deactivated briefly. his verified @real donald trump account. was gone. instead of tweets, this message. sorry, that page doesn't exist. at 8:05 p.m., twitter posted a statement, saying the president's account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a twitter employee. it wasn't just a glitch. several hours later, the company posted

nbc's chief white house correspondent hallie jackson with the latest, including how the president is sponding. hallie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. the so-called special relationship with the uk is under some serious strain this morning, with new, heated discussion in parliament just today about the president's re-tweets. the british prime minister is not happy, and she's not hiding it. out with some highly unusual and very public pushback. this morning, backlash building. proof tweets do have consequences after president trump turned to his favorite form of communication to re-tweet three inflammatory, unverified, anti-muslim videos. raising the profile of a far-right extremist group in the uk. >> the far right has been associated with the religious bigotry. >> reporter: the fringe group led by jada, convicted of harassment last year for yelling insults at a woman wearing a hijab. >> delighted to see the leader of the free world, president donald trump, had re-tweeted content from my twitter account in a clear display of support and sympathy for my plight. >> repor

. >>> hi, there, i'm in for hallie jackson. the clock is ticking away. president trump heading to the hill today. he'll try to shove all of those republicans into line. majority leader mitch mcconnell and the re-emergence of roy moore after an 11-day absence. he's taking aim at the women accusing him of sexual misconduct. "the washington post" is now out with another roy moore headline this morning, going public with a story of a woman who intentionally misled them about an inappropriate relationship with the former judge. the wife of a princeton grad student held in iran talking to us. now his case is tied to the future of the nuclear deal. but we begin with what could be a make or break moment for that republican tax bill. now the second time in the month that it's come to this, president trump is heading to capitol hill. he's going to try to do some arm twisting and this time it's with republicans in the senate where there are still some holdouts. and later, he'll meet with congressional leaders back at the white house. msnbc's garret hake has been sp

hallie jackson in manila today. joining me now, "new york times" washington investigations editor mark mazzeti, michael carpenter, and former foreign policy advisor to vice president joe biden and nbc senior national security analyst juan sderotty. we have a powerhouse panel here. first to you, mark. so much going on including i should point out this big exclusive story headlining "the new york times" today on a huge breach at the nsa. talk first about vladimir putin and the take away of the president's criticism calling the former intelligence chiefs political hacks. >> right. and this, it's something that doesn't go away. it's been going on for almost a year now, the sort of battle between the president and the intelligence world over the assessment that russia had hacked the election. it had gone away for a while. but it came back when the president said that he essentially believed president putin in that in saying that the russians didn't hack the election. directly at odds with the widespread assumption that t

hallie jackson, who i promise, hallie, when i see you at 11:00 today. >> will you know we are on air? just checking. >> i'm going to try. >> thank you, stephanie. appreciate it. see you in 60 minutes. >>> for the next hour, we're talking about how president trump just lifted off and headed to asia. you saw his departure live on this network, 12 days, 5 countries, right into a region on edge. but right now, it is not north korea or china or japan front and center today. it is russia. >>> and it's the attorney general, jeff sessions, getting some new scrutiny this morning. so is the justice department. the special counsel wants to know what jeff sessions knew about a potential putin meeting during the campaign and the president wants to know why sessions isn't doing more to go after democrats. >>> democrats for their part are going after republicans on taxes, a plan that will affect every single one of you watching or listening right now. so, how much will you save, if anything? who is paying for it? who is on board and who is jumping ship? and will that postcard kiss from the president

i'm in for hallie jackson, she'll be back later this week but right now, new reaction and fresh falloutls on capitol hill. al franken returning to work today saying he's embarrassed and ashamed. dismissing calls, though, for his resignation. >>> john connier is making moves giving up his committee post. nancy pelosi being criticized about what she said on "meet the press" about him and his accusers. all this an unwanted distraction for a very busy congress today, pushing the senate version of tax reform with just 12 days left in the congressional calendar. and, yes, the royal engagement. i'm sure you've heard by now, prince harry and meghan markle are getting married. the first pictures of both of them as an engaged couple. who's

i'm kristen welker in this hour for hallie jackson.th ali velshi and stephanie ruhle. >> you're on monday, what's up with that? >> i'm back on monday. >> you don't think anything is going to happen to keep you here later? >> and we hope you'll watch "velshi & ruhle" tomorrow on msnbc. >> we have a white house press conference today. you're off for that? >> no, no. i'll be there, ali. >> then i bet you i'm going to see you. >> i should have said as well on monday. >> and to the nigerian women's bobsled team, you go, girls. good morning. i'm stephanie ruhle. >> must be hard to practice there. and i'm ali velshi. it's friday, november 17th. let's get started. >> al franken is apologizing after an accusation he kissed and groped a woman in 2006. >> he stuck his tongue in my mouth so fast and all i can remember is that his lips were really wet and it was slimy. i've been wanting to tell this story for ten years because i was angry about it. i don't know what was in my head when i took that picture and it doesn't matter. there's no excuse. >

and i'm in for hallie jackson from washington. right now, that new sexual harassment bombshell, veteran journalist charlie rose, a man usually reporting on the headlines, now at the center of them. eight women saying he made unwanted advances. cbs pulling him from the flagship morning show. his response coming in overnight. >>> and new reaction also from roy moore, the senate candidate continuing to try to discredit his accusers while dismissing campaigns are running on fumes. >>> and president trump calling his counterpart in syria, north korea and putin are all going to be topics. >> >>> and the search for the missing submarine with argentina crew on board. time is falling hout. >>> and we had a camera rolling as we watched charlie rose enter his new york city apartment. >> how are you doing, mr. rose? do you want to say anything to your accusers, the people accusing you of all the wrongdoings? >> it is not wrongdoings. >> that's what he had to say. this morning, rose was noticeably absent from the set of "cbs this morning." but

coming up right now, my friend, hallie jackson, who i promise, hallie, when i see you at 11:00 today.are on air? just checking. >> i'm going to try. >> thank you, stephanie. appreciate it. see you in 60 minutes. >>> for the next hour, we're talking about how president trump just lifted off and headed to asia. you saw his departure live on this network, 12 days, 5 countries, right into a region on edge. but right now, it is not north korea or china or japan front and center today. it is russia. >>> and it's the attorney general, jeff sessions, getting some new scrutiny this morning. so is the justice department. the special counsel wants to know what jeff sessions knew about a potential putin meeting during the campaign and the president wants to know why sessions isn't doing more to go after democrats. >>> democrats for their part are going after republicans on taxes, a plan that will affect every single one of you watching or listening right now. so, how much will you save, if anything? who is paying for it? who is on board and who is jumping ship? and will