. >> let's go to vaughn hillyard, he's there. i understand the senator was also asked about the president's tweets this morning. what did he say? >> reporter: this is what it's gotten to. only five republicans to date -- five republican senators that have actually held these town halls. lindsey graham just yapp wrappe. and before any questions even came, he addressed the tweets right off the top. wooel we have the sound. >> if the former president of the united states was able to obtainawfully to monitor trump's campaign for violating the law, that would be the biggest scandal since watergate. i'm very worried that our president is suggesting that the former president has done something illegally. i would be very worried if in fact the obama administration was able to obtain a warrant lawfully about trump campaign activity with foreign governments. >> reporter: as you saw, this crowd was overwhelmingly democrat or i should say anti-trump. lindsey graham said there is a lot of liberals here in the crowd for south carolina. but thi

nbc's vaughn hillyard was at the town hall earlier, and joins me now. jeers from the crowd when asked about his position on several issues, including obamacare and the president's tax returns. what happened there today? >> reporter: stephanie, i think you said it right, off the top, lindsey graham told the crowd, he goes, listen, i've been one of the fiercest critics. republican senator, one of the fiercist critics of donald trump through the campaign, since he was sworn into office on january 20th. he told the crowd, i voted to have independent macmullan in the race. there's where everything in the island that has become congress and the executive branch, lindsey graham found himself on one of those and in terms of tax returns, five different times over the course of the hour at this town hall here in clemson, south carolina, he was asked about trump's tax returns. he was asked about the potential of a replacement to the affordable care act. this is from the sound in some of those exchanges. >> i'm going to try to help our president, donald trump, be su

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. >> vaughn hillyard there for us.nk you for joining us from your neck of the woods. >>> we're going to press pause on this story and turn to the breaking news we brought you about this yahoo! hack because right now we have nbc news justice correspondent pete williams who is joining us to talk through what this means. pete, can you lay out the nuts and bolts? what do we know and not know about this new development? >> well, it's as the official said this morning, this is a nation state attack. we're talking about the 2014 hack on yahoo! that compromised half a million accounts. and what officials say is that this illustrates the sort of two-headed nature of what we're seeing from nation state attacks in both russia and china. this one particularly involves the russian the russians employ sort of cyberconsultants, if you will, people who are willing to engage in cyberhacks. the government gets information for intelligence purposes. in this case, user names and passwords on people they might want to spy on, and the peopl

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msnbc's vaughn hillyard is on the road in celina, kansas. good to talk to you.to people who voted for president trump. what did they think about the decision to pull the bill? >> reporter: as you mentioned, donald trump's position on health care has evolved quite a bit from campaign to the bill that we saw get pulled by the speaker yesterday. but really these last three weeks in going through particularly trump country, i've been in oklahoma, texas, kansas, louisiana, and one thing i will tell you, that it's hard to differentiate between clinton voters and trump voters. most people have issues with health care, whether it be higher premiums. and what it comes gown ko comes qualified for medicaid, but also a pool came into account that many are trump voters that don't qualify for medicaid, the affordable care act, she said she makes just too much money to qualify for medicaid, and it's one of those situations where she wants to see health care more affordable. if you talk to trump voters like cassie, they say, you know, potentially even universal health care, but

. >> we have vaughn hillyard in south carolina at a town hall with senator lindsey graham with reaction to president trump's tweets today. but we begin with kasie hunt. i know we're just hearing reaction from an obama spokesperson. what are you hearing? >> reporter: yes, an update for you to the story that we've been covering all day. president trump this morning of course tweeting without evidence that president obama's administration had wiretapped trump tower just before the election and called it nix o ownian, compared to watergate. and we have a statement from kevin lieu irks quewilewis, quol rule of the obama administration was that no white house official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the department of justice. as part of that practice, neither president obama nor any white house official ever ordered surveillance on any u.s. citizen. any suggestion otherwise is simply false. so that is the statement from the former president right there to the current president's accusations. i also want to update you on new reporting we have in here to nbc news. our

nbc's vaughn hillyard, appreciate it. >>> daylight savings time usually signals spring's imminent returnis week, winter hanging on with a vengeance. nor'easter bringing high winds and the season's biggest snowfall. blizzard watch has been issued for new york, new jersey, connecticut, rhode island and massachusetts. nbc meteorologist bonnie schneider has been tracking this. >> a massive storm that will impact 58 million people. the storm on monday night gaining strength as it pushes off shore. heavy rain first for the carolinas. that's the beginning of t tuesday morning, we begin to see the snow fall in new york city midnight, 1:00 am. it will be snowing in washington, d.c. expect that to happen some time i would say, after the evening commute. you may get caught in some snow before that. philadelphia as well. coastal flooding, strong winds and heavy, heavy snow. most places are looking at a foot of snow with the exception of d.c. you'll certainly see less than that. more in boston and new york. watch for heavy, heavy, plowable snow. instrong in boston with very dangerous gusty winds that

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. >> a shout-out to nbc reporter vaughn hillyard who tracked down senator joe manchin, one of two democrats announced support fordonald trump's supreme court pick neil gorsuch. they're both breaking with their democratic colleagues who are voicing strong opposition to gorsuch. we just learned senator claire mccaskill is joining the chorus of democratses who will vote no on gorsuch and will back a filibuster. that all but ensures that mcconnell will go nuclear. it takes up to 36 democrats who have pledged to support a filibuster of his nomination. including at least six who are up for re-election in 2018 in stat that voted for donald trumpn november. mccaskill had been among republicans' last hope to help block a filibuster. the announcement increases the chances republicans will have to deploy the nuclear threat, killing the filibuster all together. i want to bring in coach kofinis. democrat from west virginia. rick tyler, msnbc political analyst and former spokesman for senator ted cruz. betsy woodruff, politics reporter for the daily beast. chris, icht to start with you, you used to work