willie geist, i'm looking at the president and watching him handle this situation.

and willie geist joins us from new york. >> the great willie geist. >> who is the brother of the oscar winner. >> i'm proud to say that. >> that really was. actually, that was the moment. >> it was. >> it sn't the dunaway or warren beatty moment. >> at long last. >>> before we get started this morning a huge show ahead this morning on "morning joe." the vice president of the united states, mike pence who had some impact on the speech yesterday and made some changes, especially when you heard things that sounded more unifying and less concerning. he'll be here on set. first on "morning joe" this morning. senate majority leader chuck schumer and republican ted cruz are guests this morning and we will speak exclusively with house minority leader nancy pelosi. the chairman of the rnc will join the conversation and former governor steve beshear who delivered the remarks to president trump's address. and key democrats senator claire mccaskill and senator joe manchin on the set here as well. you were on the floor last night and i want to hear the reaction inside and then take it around. >> it

. >> willie geist, is in new york. he has a question for you. willie? >> hi, willie. >> good to see you. >> likewise. >> i hear your skepticism and i understand where it's coming from. give us one piece of that speech or one issue you heard there where you thought maybe we can work with this president on that? >> well, again, no talk the talk. he has been doing that for a long time. >> right but what is one issue where you could work with him? >> we need to see plans like infrastructure. we put together a trillion dollar plan with new funding. the only thing we have heard from infrastructure, nothing from the president or his people but what we have heard from some of advisers is that it's going to be tax breaks, not funding. 82 cents on the dollar willing to financeyears not to road build and they will have now tolls on the road. that can't work. >> sam stein is here, senator. his mother is very angry at him for normalizing trump on our show this morning. >> sam! listen to your mother! sam! listen to your mother! >> hi, mom! >> okay. >> private text co

i'm willie geist. breaking news overnight, a mass shooting at a cincinnati nightclub.ed. we'll go live to the scene to get all the details in just a moment. >>> plus, another saturday tweet from president trump that's raising eyebrows, steering toward a tv take down of paul ryan that called forim

in new york, willie geist. along with willie, former treasury official and economic analyst steve rattner. so willie and i at the helm in new york and washington this morning. a lot to get to. including the two pages of donald trump's tax returns that were revealed by msnbc late last night. the question this morning did donald trump perhaps release them in his own special way which we will get to that question as well. first, patience is paragraph we. democratic senator sheldon white house says james comey has indicated privately to senators he may provide a clearer explanation of a existence of a russian fbi investigation ahead of today's judiciary subcommittee hearing on meddling in the 2016 election. white house said the fbi director made the suggestion during a private sit-down between the two men and senator lindsey graham on march 2nd. the same day attorney general jeff sessions recused him from any potential investigations involving russia. on our show yesterday, whitehouse told us it's important for come

i'm willie geist.sunday morning as we comb through the implications of president trump's new explosive claim presented without evidence that president obama had had trump tower wire tapped during the campaign. could it be true or is it a figment of the president's imagination and what happens now either way? we'll talk with chuck todd and former defense department and cia official jeremy bash about what all thi

i'm willie geist.ght saving time cost you an hour of sleep but we're here for you on another busy sunday morning. there are battles in washington over health care reforms and the dismissal of a group of attorneys. and we're keeping a close eye on a looming powerhouse of a winter storm that's set to hit the northeast. >>> plus a new development in the beating of a motorist on a san francisco highway that was

i'm willie geist. there is breaking news overnight. a mass shooting at a cincinnati nightclub.t least one person dead, more than a dozen others are injured. we'll go live to the scene to get all the details in just a moment. >>> plus, another saturday tweet from president trump that's raising eyebrows this morning, steering viewers toward a tv takedown of paul ryan that called for the speaker to step down after the failure of the health ce

i'm willie geist. there is breaking news overnight. a mass shooting at a cincinnati nightclub.t least one person dead, more than a dozen others are injured. we'll go live to the scene to get all the details in just a moment. >>> plus, another saturday tweet from president trump that's raising eyebrows this morning, steering viewers toward a tv takedown of paul ryan that called for the speaker to step down after the failure of the health care bill. what did the president know about it beforehand? >>> and later my sunday sit-down with tracee ellis ross, golden winning star of the tv show "blackish," daughter of diana ross and just a wildly entertaining lunch date. 44 years since your mother wonh? >> i didn't social media. gram. somebody put it on the sit-down tracee >>> but let's begin this morning wi nightclub. richard cs on the scene for us morning. up to speed. >> reporter: willie,oo under way as shots were00 this mornin. wise later shots rang out. at striking 16, leaving one dead. ccinnati police officers were outside at the time of the shooting working detail. those officers

i'm willie geist. up to another busy sunday morning including the passing of music icon chuck berry. much more on his life in just a moment. >>> plus another security scare at the white house. a man detained last night after he drove up to a security checkpoint in a suspicious vehicle just hours after someone jumped a barrier just outside the white house fence.

. >> but, willie geist, what is so -- has to be so frustrating for people who are working for donald trump, 30 days ago, they would have been scared to cross donald trump. they are not scared of donald trump today. i've talked to them. they are frustrated by him. the constant tweets. he's wearing his own supporters down. i mean, i hope that tweet three weeks ago was worth it to him, because by trashing the fbi, the last president, by trashing great britain, by trashing angela merkel and by trashing nato, and by tracker all of our allies he has a lot of conservatives in places where i'm from going, wait a second. what is he saying? and it's hurting him right now on the vote count. >> i don't think he rois that maybe some of the people in the white house don't realize the credibility question matters and it matters to people who voted for him and it matters to members on the hill considering voting a bill he is pushing along. can they trust what he says? should they be behind him and is it worth getting in line with him? some republicans on the hill who are against the health care plan

>> beau bridges is playing willie geist! the only casting decision that we are preparing to announce today. >> i had that written into the contract. it had to be bridges or you couldn have me in the movie. do we know what the book is called yet? >> untitled. >> we probably will change that because untitled is not a great title for a book. >> we have game change and double down and then tbd. >> we will see where the reporting goes. >> wow. >>> still ahead on "morning joe," house speaker paul ryan rolls up his sleeves, literally, to get to work to sell the health care plan to sell to his colleagues. we will bring in the u.s. secretary of health and human services. dr. tom price will join us. the man responsible for whipping republican votes in the house, congress steve scalise and congressman tim ryan on the game plan and mcconnell answering the question in his own special way on the issue of who is paying for the wall. we will have that coming up for you. >>> first, bill karins with a check on the forecast. what gout? >> we h

. >> it's willie geist and good to see you, sylvia. is not fat to be trimmed in the budget and not we are not spend too much money but looking in a lot of the wrong places. the right places are in the mandatory spending area. as a former budget director at social security and you look at medicare how could those be changed so we don't have to make these discretionary cuts? >> i think that is the conversation we need to have as a nation. things about how do we want to think about the choices we need to make as a nation, especially when we know that we have a very large baby boom population coming through. i think some some of the most important things we can do and come back to another conversation we are having right now about health care. that is reforming and changing the system and nthe ways that we deliver care in the united states and that was a big part of the emphasis and time that i spent at hhs. the kinds of things we need to do are change the way that we deliver care so that we focus on outcomes, not occupanutputs so not prov

i'm willie geist. we are waking up to another busy sunday morning including the passing of music icon chuck berry. much more on his life in just a moment. >>> plus another security scare at the white house. a man detained last night after he drove up to a security checkpoint in a suspicious vehicle just hours after someone jumped a barrier just outside the white house fence. trump, meanwhile, in florida as james comey is set to testify tomorrow about a possible investigation of russian ties in the trump campaign. >>> air bnb. the home sharing company is changing the way we stay. our sunday sit-down with cofinder brian chesky with a big idea that started with three air mattresses on the floor of his apartment. >> we said, what if you could go somewhere and feel like you lived there? >> we'll talk with brian a little later on in the show. >>> let's begin with a heightened alert at the white house after two security scares there. they did come with the president not in town this weekend. nbc's kelly o'don

willie geist is not happy this morning. vand erbilt rallied from a 15-point defer sit. he called the move a a dumb mistake and explained though his team was trailing by a point instead of leading. a couple first upsets number 11 xavier rejuvenated after the end of their season take itting down b maryland. after scoring 3 points in the first half. xavier had gone hot. they will meet florida state, which beat fgcu in saturday's second round. there was an upset yesterday afternoon. middle tennessee state favored against minnesota knocked off the number five gophers. the blue raiders will need to defeat butler to break swoo the sweet 16. we'll see if they can do that. a lot of brackets nearly busted as a few top seeded teams survive scares in the first round. virginia trailed by a 15 points against unc in the first half. but 24 points helped the c cavaliers to a 76-71 win. close one there. and on the eve of st. patrick's day, the luck of the irish for notre dame. a three-pointer settling on a tip in. 15 seconds to play there and then they would miss a game-winner at the 3 s

. >> savannah guthrie and willie geist are standing by.rning. >>> coming up on the show, powerful winds wreaking havoc across the midwest overnight. overturning a truck an blowing a plane off the runway. 30 million people are understand a winter advisory with a storm system threatening snow up and down the east coast. >>> and as the wikileaks documents show the cia was working on ways to hack vehicles could your car be vulnerable? we'll have a new "rossen reports" you need to see. >>> from starbucks, mcdonald's and subway we all love fast food in a pinch. your ultimate cheat sheet for the healthiest choices at your favorite restaurants as we get started on a thursday morning. back to you byes in philly. >> thank you, savannah. see you in ten minutes. >> we'll see you. >> nice to get a cheat sheet, but now you have to resist the temptation. >> i don't need a cheat sheet. i know exactly where to go. hey, how about that, a look at cape may and the lighthouse. the iconic lighthouse in cape may. 50 degrees right now. let's check in with "first

. >> tomorrow on sunday "today," our friend willie geist is going to sit down with tracee ellis rossenjoy your day, everyone. can i try it now, chef? >> yeah. >> this is something i could do at home. >> huh-uh. >>> good saturday morning. i'm david culver. >> and i'm meagan fitzgerald. straight ahead on news4 today -- >> we are following breaking news. what prince georges county police are now uncovering about e >>> finally safe to come out of hibernation. warmer weather on the way on this saturday. a look at that and rain chances in a few minutes. >>> and something to do when you come out of hibernation. what is the state of the blooms? we'll have a check in with the blooms around the basin coming up on news4. >>> and we're live at the nbc 4 awl state community shred. how you can safely sled your unwanted old paperwork. >>> here it is coming up on 9:00, already a popular event. we'll have that and much mor >>> starting off mild and it is getting warm. all of this coinciding with peak bloom. right now on "today," thousands heading out to the tidal basin. storm team 4 also track when r

i'm willie geist.t saving time cost you an hour of sleep but we're here for you on another busy sunday morning. there are battles in washington over health care reforms and the dismissal of a group of attorneys. and we're keeping a close eye on a looming powerhouse of a winter storm that's set to hit the northeast. >>> plus a new development in the beating of a motorist on a san francisco highway that was caught on video. this morning he is speak

i'm willie geist. daylight saving time cost you an hour of sleep but we're here for you on another busy sunday morning. there are battles in washington over health care reforms and the dismissal of a group of attorneys. and we're keeping a close eye on a looming powerhouse of a winter storm that's set to hit the northeast. >>> plus a new development in the beating of a motorist on a san francisco highway that was ht from his hospital bed. >>> and later, my sunday sit-down with jon bon jovi. "living on a prayer" changed his life in the 1980s and three decade later, he's still on top but doing it now without his wing man, richie sambora. >> we didn't anticipate it. there was no fight. there was nothing about anything. he just didn't show up for work. >> a sunday sit-down with jon bon jovi a bit later in the show. >>> let's begin this morning with the looming nor'easter expected to hit the east coast tomorrow night with 58 million people in its path. the storm setting up to be a beast. indra is in while d

sunday today with with willie geist. that does it for us this morning. craig melvin picks up the coverage now. >> craig melvin in for stephanie ruhle this morning. breaking, the united states reaching out to the united kingdom, expressing regret for dragging them into the president's wiretapping claims as the white house refuses to back down. >> he stands by. you are mischaracterizing what happened today. >> on the ropes. you are looking at live pictures, republicans holding a press conference, the secretary of health and human services trying to salvage the healt care bill. and breaking overnight, the secretary of state visits the dmz separating north and south korea and raises the possibility of a preemptive strike. >> all the options are on the table. >> we start this morning with the president's wiretapping allegations. the white house still refusing to back down despite the growing list of lawmakers who say there's simply no evidence. that list now includes the leaders of the house and senate intelligence committees as well as speaker paul ryan and

i'm willie geist. we comb through the implications of president trump's new explosive claim presented without evidence that president obama had trump tower wiretapped during the campaign. could it be true or a figment of the president's imagination and what happens now either way? we'll talk with chuck todd and former defense department and cia official jeremy >>> later our sunday sit down with former president george w. bush talking about a new book of his paintings that pays tribute to military veterans weighing in on donald trump and regrets he may have about the decision to go to war after 9/11. >> i was heavy hearted when i made the decision to both go into afghanistan and iraq. i knew that there would be some dire consequences. >> our two-part sunday sit down with president george w. bush a bit later in the show. >>> let's begin this morning with the president's weekend twitter storm during which he accused president obama of wiretapping his offices here in new york. nbc's kasie hunt is in west p

bush with our own willie geist. >> based on what you know about running the country, running the immigrationink it's practical to go in and deport millions and millions of people who are here illegally? >> i don't see how that would work. and i'm not sure that's the intention of our government. you know, it's -- i think people who, you know, are charged with doing that, if that is the charge, i'm not sure it is, but i say it will be hard to do. the idea of running out rapists and murderers, i think all americans would agree to that. >> the president told willie one of his greatest regrets is getting the congress to respond to the immigration bill. >>> and listen to what president trump had to say about education equality. >> education is the civil rights issue of our time. i am calling upon members of both parties to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged kids, including millions of african-american and latino children. >> in fact, one of the president's guests what danesha merriweather who credits betsy devos with hping her attend a public school. donald trump is

i'm willie geist. breaking news overnight, a mass shooting at a cincinnati nightclub.t least one person dead, more than a dozen are injured. we'll go live to the scene to get all the details in just a moment. >>> plus, another saturday tweet from president trump that's raising eyebrows, steering toward a tv take down of paul ryan that called for him to step down after the failure of the health care bill. what did the president know about it before hand? >>> and later, my sit down with tracy ellis ross of the comedy, "black-ish" and a wildly entertaining lunch date. 44 years after your mother won a golden globe. >> i didn't know that. social media, i saw it on the gram. i saw it on the gram. someone put it on the gram. >> our sunday sit down with tracy ellis ross later on. >>> but let's begin with the deadly shooting in cincinnati. richard chiles is on the scene for us this morning. good morning. bring us up to speed. >> reporter: well, willie, good morning. the investigation is now under way as shots were fired outside of a club cameo nightclub just after 1:00 this mor

. >> it's not flowers, but -- >> tomorrow on sunday "today," willie geist will sit down with tracy ellen >> can i try it now, chef? >> oh, yeah. >> this is something i could do at home. gd mnin i'kirklaer.cong ne, ot' >>> good morning. i'm kwk ira klapper. coming up next on "today in the bay," b.a.r.t. new station open. waiting for it for years, and also people against it. >>> on the lookouts for a prowler in the east bay. distinct features that make him easily identifiable. >>> and rapidly changing weather for the weekend. rob mayeda says we're not done with the rain just yet. >>> good saturday morning to you. it's just shy of 7:00 a.m. and we're taking a live look outside. cloudy skies as we look towards downtown san jose. we really appreciate your join us. i'm kira klapper. meteorologist rob mayeda joins us this morning. don't adjust your televisions. he was on your television last night as well. >> a bit of a sleep experiment. >> yes. really nice for you to join us, and you have an interesting microclimate forecast. kind ofalities of everything this weekend. >> and a little bit of ev

we have willie geist and john heilemann and nick confessore and ai ari melber and kasie hun. yesterday morning i got the sense we were going to be spending the next few days talking about an administration stonewalling and not getting it. now, of course, jeff sessions moves out pretty quickly and follows the advice of a lot of us had around the set, which is get out there and recuse yourself and try to get that part of the story behind us. as we are saying, still a lot of unanswered questions. >> recusal is not far enough for a lot of people including nancy pelosi, including many leading democrats on the hill and including many of our guests today saying he should resign. >>> attorney general jeff sessions will stay in his job but as joe said, recuse himself from investigations into russia's attempt to influence the 2016 election and passing that probe to acting attorney general dana boe next ee until rod rosenstein can be confirmed. here first is that change with senator al franken during sessions' sworn testimony during his confirmation hearing and followed by what sessions

. >> senator franken, it's willie geist.tape and senator sessions said, actually, i did meet last year, twice, with the russian ambassador, once at the republican convention and once here in washington. i met him as a senator, as a member of the armed services committee and we discussed foreign policy and affairs, would that have raised flags to you or sound like a routine meeting? >> i'm not on the foreign affairs committee, but i think we learned today, "the washington post" asked a lot of members of the foreign affairs committee, none of them, including chairman mccain have met in the last year with the russian ambassador. he met twice. this is pretty suspicion. i certainly would have said you need to recuse yourself should there be an investigation of this incredibly serious interference by a foreign government, electronic warfare against the united states of america by this other superpower. >> senator, where does this go from here now with the new revelation? what is the next step in your mind? >> in my mind, jeff sess

i'm savannah guthrie alongside willie geist. who's padded the crowd this morning with some furry friends. >> always a fun week. march madness beginnings. >>> politics to talk about first of course. as house republicans roll out their plan to repeal and replace obamacare, as the white house also dealing with questions over its new travel ban just unsaild and the president's claim over the weekend, without evidence, that trump tower was by president obama during the campaign. we have complete coverage of all of this. and we're going to talk to the white house's budget director in a moment. first, let's start with nbc's hallie jackson. hallie, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. that long-awaited bill from house republicans is finally here. that means the real fight finally begins. while the white house calls this bill an important step, democrats argue it doesn't protect the people who need it most. and even some more conservative republicans aren't totally thrilled with at least one. already calling this obamacare 2.0

. >> jonathan, it's willie geist. do you worry as a lot of critics of these last two decisions do that these have been politicized and they have been political decisions based on campaign rhetoric? if you read that decision yesterday, it goes on with campaign quotes and quotes from donald trump as president and not so much about the rule of law. >> i do. i do feel that this decision is not well analyzed. i think the base is not there. the case law is not there. i think the court spends too much time on campaign rhetoric. there is a lot of case law there supporting the president. the court also doesn't deal really with the basis of the president's arguments about these countries having insufficient vetting procedures. these are the same countries that the previous administration named earlier for restrictions. not the same type that we are heave, obviously. but these countries were previously named by the previous administration. the court really just brushes over all that and i think it creates serious flaws in its an

i'm willie geist.ng time cost you an hour of sleep but we're here for you on another busy sunday morning. there are battles in washington over health care reforms and the dismissal of a group of attorneys. and we're keeping a close eye on a looming powerhouse of a winter storm that's set to hit the northeast. >>> plus a new development in the beating of a motorist on a san francisco highway that was ht

i'm willie geist.tions of president trump's new explosive claim presented without evidence that president obama had trump tower wiretapped during the campaign. could it be true or a figment of the president's imagination and what happens now either way? we'll talk with chuck todd and former defense department and cia official jeremy

i'm willie geist. there is breaking news overnight. a mass shooting at a cincinnati nightclub.on dead, more than a dozen others are injured. we'll go live to the scene to get all the details in just a moment. >>> plus, another saturday tweet from president trump that's raising eyebrows this morning, steering viewers toward a tv takedown of paul ryan that called for the speaker to step down after the

. >> it's not flowers, but -- >> tomorrow on sunday "today," willie geist will sit down with tracy elleneah. >> this is something i could do at home. good morning. i am rosemary connors. just ahead on nbc10 news today, spring finally feels like it's here. meteorologist krystal klei tracking the warmup. >> it's gray but it will be a warm one today. a big dropoff on sunday. we'll look at the contrast in temperatures coming up. >>> this morning we're learning more about a plane that crashed into a house in georgia. we'll tell you about the ties to our area. >>> plus, double-murder investigation. a south jersey man returns home from work to find his wife and young son stabbed to death. now police are on the hunt for clues. >>>. ♪ we are family >> a philadelphia community comes together to say farewell this morning to a local music icon. those stories and much more coming up next on nbc10 news today at 9:00. >>> soaring into the 70s on this first weekend of spring. the weather will actually feel like it. plus, what goes up what must come down. details next in the first alert forecast. >>> not

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and i just -- i always wondered through the years, willie geist, if that phone call from that presidentas really that -- was really worth it. and that is what all of these freedom caucus guys have to proif is just because the president is calling asking for something that betrays what you have told your district you were going to do for them, i mean, is it really worth it for them to go back on everything they believe in? it was obamacare light yesterday, it's that today. >> they are not trying to convince them it's a perfect bill. the argument they are making vote this down today and what do you think is going to happen tomorrow? because tomorrow the affordable care act is still the law of the land. >> but that is the stupidest argument. that is the last refuge of the desperate speaker and president. you know what happened tomorrow if you vote it down today? you go to committee! you make a better bill! you go through the process! and instead of trying to rush this through the way they tried to rush this through, you actually listen to the conservatives and say, let's build a better bil

i assume willie geist not setting in.ats this year. >> second, i know there's a credibility right now, not just for the president on these questions but sean spicer. you're sitting in this room every day having surreal discussions with spicer. at what point do they become crippling for him dealing with your colleagues in that room? >> that's a good question you asked there. here is the challenge. our conversation with sean spicer every day. weather permitting we'll have another discussion with the white house to try to pin down details. bottom line is sean spicer says it's the words of the president that matter. the credibility issue is with the president, trust the information he's providing them right now. what i do want to note and i consistently talk to trump supporters, people i met on the campaign, iowa, north carolina, south carolina in recent days. what they say is under the circumstances caught up with the nuance of every little word. we know what thisredent means more broadly. i think there's a big divide in thi

willie geist, are you there? >> yes. joe, i'm here. sorry. we weren't connected there. yeah. i'm hearing the same thing you heard as well is that the president was drafting it right until the end and extraordinary that not much of it leaked. that is another side to the story. and that he wanted to control exactly what he was saying last night. again, the core message was there, but he crafted it in his own way to be sure. >> mark halpern? >> i was going to ask you about policy but i want to ask you about something you said. you referred to the president's big heart. i know in the pence family you've none donald trump forever and it's not been very long. you've scene what you call his big heart' people for years have talked about it. i think the three of us have seen that. how does he show that other people over a long period of time? parts of skepticism in parts of america he has a heart alone let alone a big one. >> a lot of division in what he's said the last year and a half. >> one of the great moments last night, the president, right at the outset, acknowledged that we ha