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Its monday, february 5th. We begin today with what could bring new Action Response to Congressional Republicans and their memo which alleged surveillance abuses at the Justice Department. It spurred controversy over the weekend. The House Intel Committee is likely to vote today at 5 00 p. M. On weather to release the democrats tenpage rebuttal. Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer wrote to the president yesterday telling him that refusal to release the memo will confirm the american peoples worst fears that the release of chairman nunes memo was only for undermining Robert Muellers investigation. The bureau disclosed to the court that the information it had received from him was politically motivated. The memo is said to argue that republicans distorted the testimony by andrew mccabe, the fbi official, and left out reams of other evidence including that by the fbi to support the the bureau suspicions that fbi director carter page was, in fact, acting as an agent of russia. So President Trump spending the weekend at his club in florida where he and First Lady Melania Trump attended a Super Bowl Party which included a performance from the Florida Atlantic pep band. He returned to washington late last night. On saturday morning, the president posted more reaction to the republican memo on twitter, quote, this memo totally vindicates trump in the probe. Yes, he said trump. But the russian witchhunt goes on and on. There was no collusion and there was no obstruction. The word now used because, after one year of looking endlessly and finding nothing, collusion is dead. This is an american disgrace. Later saturday evening, he wrote great jobs numbers and finally, after many years, rising wages and nobody even talks about them. Only russia, russia, russia, despite the fact that after a year of looking, there is no collusion. He followed by quoting the Washington Post. Watch this. I think its terrible. You want to know the truth. I think its a disgrace, whats going on in this cup. I think its a disgrace. The memo was sent to congress, it was declassified. Congress will do whatever theyre going to do. But i think its a disgrace whats happening in our cup. And when you look at that and you see that and so many other things, whats going on, a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that. [ inaudible question ]. You figure that one out. Over the weekend, devin nunes confirmed that while hes one of the authors of the memo, he did not personally review the underlying intelligence. Did you read the actually fisa applications . No, i didnt. And this has been one of these bogus news stories that have been put out. So the agreement we made with the department of justice was to create a reading room and allow one member and investigators to go over and review the documents. I thought the best person on our committee would be trey gaudy, who has a long career as a federal prosecutor to go and do this. So that is the bogus information. So this is not likely to be the last of devin nuness broadsides of government agents. There could be as many as five additional memos and reports that claim wrongdoing ahead. On friday, nunes told the weekly standard, quote, this was phase one. That resulted with a memo designed to go public. Theres not plans of additional classified information that would come forward through the same process. And speaking with fox news you, nunes identified his next targets. This completes just the fisa abuse portion of our investigation. We are in the middle of what i call phase two of our investigation which involves other departments, specifically the state department and some of the involvement that they had in this. Joining us now, mike memley. Great to have you with us. I know youve been doing some great reporting around this particular story. Break it down for us. What new details have we learned since the memos release about the fisa applications in specific. Lets start with what the memo itself says. In 2016, the Justice Department sought and was granted a warrant on carter page, who was a Foreign Policy adviser to the Trump Campaign. The memo said that there were three renewals of that application to continue that surveillance. And two of those renewals would have occurred after President Trump took office. Nbc news has reported that those applications were approved by four separate judges and the wall street journal has reported that each of those judges were republican appointees. Now, the core claim here, the core allegation is that the when the Justice Department sought these applications, it does not include the fact that Christopher Steele was working on behalf of a politically motivated democratic client. This has been one of the key sources of department weve seen over the weekend. There were, in fact, some disclosures that the information included in the application would have been politically motivated, potentially. Mike, what do you think or what are he we hearing was nuness pretext to releasing these memos and do you think because of rosenstein being the ag at the time, this can give trump motivation to fire him . In january, there was an attempt to hold the Justice Department in contempt if they didnt turn it over. The point about Rod Rosenstein you mentioned, we heard republicans before the release of this memo saying that it would show the need for some changes at the Justice Department. And rosen stein is obviously the one we would hear the most about. Rosenstein is only mentioned twice in this memo from nunes, thats not necessarily significant, his role here. Obviously, the application is classified information, but from your report and sources, do you think how much of a role the steele dossier played in the fisa applications that were submitted to those four different courts . What weve been told is that the steele dossier that was 30 plus pages that only select information from that foss yeah was included in the fisa application itself 37 and what adam schiff told reporters on friday was of that select information that was included, much of it was corroborated by sources within that. Application. Very interesting to see that breakdown. Mike, great to have you with us. Thank you very much for joining us. Lets go to White House Reporter steve nelson. Good to talk to you this morning. He want to talk to you about the releaguesing of this classified information within the democratic memo. Youve been reporting from friday that democrats may have divulged classified intel in responding to the republican memo. One of the arguments being used. What more can you tell us about that . So as people know, republicans on the House Intelligence Committee voted to release their fourpage memo describing alleged fisa abuses and voted down the release of the democratic tenpage rebuttal. Adam schiff on friday released a press release rebutting various points in the republican memo citing his knowledge of the still classified fisa court filings. So the question is whether he is able to do that or whether that is a release of classified information. I should correct myself. He, as a member of congress, is able to do this probably without legal consequences. But whether he indeed released the classified information is more of a question. Some experts say this information would be classified. Others say it could be violating those issues. Given your reportinging that you just outlined there and given the criticism that has been leveled against the gop memo that kiem out earlier, that it, too, would compromise intelligence gathering methods within the fbi, is there a concern now within the Intelligence Community that the release of both of these memos, the gop 1 and the press release that you alluded to from adam schiff, is that going to have a damaging effect as far as getting sources to talk in the future and how the fbi and other agencies gather information . There was not the disclosure the at face value that seemed to compromise the thoughts. There was not catastrophic consequences. From the beginning, democrats talked about how the republican memo misconstrues highly classified documents and perhaps setting the record straight would require releasing more classified information. We really dont know how this is going to shake out. Even if this democratic memo hits the president s desk, lets say he decides not to release et. That doesnt mean that the public wont see it. There is a whole process to go through to get public release. And we might already know all of the significant details in the democratic memo. Adam schiffs press release pointed to specific instances of alleged inaccuracies in the very short republican memo. There has been reporting in the New York Times on the democratic rebulth. It might be the same case with the democratic rebuttal and this fight over releasing it or not releasing it, the outcome might not be that significant. We might know what the rebuttal is right now without seeing the document. And democrats say they can still read it on the house floor. Steve anything else yop, great to have you with us this morning through washington, d. C. Still ahead, john brennen speaking out about the steele dossier and the role of the Intelligence Community. 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Lets get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. Some cold and snow in the midwest and a midweek storm headed to the northeast, as well. Yeah. Wednesday it could be a pretty good storm for northern new england. But right now, were focusing on the midwest. Thats where winter is the worst. If you watched any of the super bowl coverage, any of the outdoor stuff, it was cold. Green bay, is a negative 4 windchill. The cold has spread down through the Southern Plains and its slowly heading for the east coast. Buflt is do buffalo is down to zero. The mini snowstorm were talking about is coming down through montana heading to south dakota. If youre in iowa, illinois, southern michigan, youll get a coating of snow out of this. Peoria, milk, chicago, and in northern portions of indiana, still some winter storm warnings left over in areas of montana. Its light snow developing during the day today in iowa, this afternoon in illinois and this evening into indiana. Not a big deal. Snowfall totals are only about 1 to 3 inches out of this, just enough to make it slippery for your commute. It will be belong around to 18 today in chicago. Lets take a look at our week ahead. We start off quiet on the east coast. But then we get had this storm coming. A big rainmaker in the southeast, even thunderstorms out of it. A lot of these areas are dry so its needed. Interior sections of new england could get nailed wednesday, wednesday night, talking about enough possibly for a School Closing and delays by the time we get to thursday morning. Big cities like boston and new york, you look too warm. Mostly a rain event for you. Maybe snow on the end of it. Big cities, i95, not too bad travel. Even the airports with a lot of wind, a lot of rain could have some problems bip the time we get to friday, everything quiets down in the east. We get a little bit of snow into areas of the ohio valley and blizzardlike conditions will develop into the northern plains. So, you know, the only word of advice this week is wednesday the east coast, if you have airport travel or road travel, youre going to be dealing with rain or snow, but just about all of us will get that storm. Yeah. A lot happening in that forecast. If you thought the weather would dampen the spirits of philadelphia fans, either in minneapolis or philadelphia. Fans, absolutely not. Do you have any ideas about the parade, bill. . Tuesday is fine, wednesday is not. I dont think its going to stop them one way or the other. Still ahead, philadelphia dethrones tom brady and the patriots in a super bowl thriller. Eagles fans celebrating their first super bowl win. Well have all the highlights in sports next. My names dustin. Hey, dustin. Grab a seat. Woman okay. Moderator nice to meet you. Have you ever had car trouble in a place like this . roaring of truck yes and it was like the worst experience of my life. Seven lanes of traffic and i was in the second lane. 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It was Brandon Graham with a strip sack on brady and darren barnetts fumble recovery return possession of the physical back to philadelphia. It sets up the kick by jake elliott and eagles lead the patriots by eight. New england would manage a first down before the ticking clock would necessitate a failed desperation heed as time expires. With this, the eagles deny brady a sixth super beaowl ring. Here is foles after the win. To be here with my daughter and my wife, my family, my teammates, this city, were very blessed. Super bowl mvp nick foles, underdogs no more. The Philadelphia Eagles are the super bowl champions. Congratulations. Just an unbelievable season in an unbelievable story for nick foles. The city of philadelphia certainly partied like it was the first time the eagles won the super bowl, singing the anthem fly eagles fly. Fireworks were fired, lamp posts dismantled, bradys jerseys burned and ensuing scenes of mayhem predicted by the citys Law Enforcement and the sports world alike. Despite the loss, the patriots are early favorites to win super bowl liii according to the Las Vegas Super bowl with tom brady set to return. But for now, the night and the lombardi trophy belong to the eagles and the city of philadelphia for the first time ever. What a game, what a season, guys. Unbelievable story. It certainly was a really exciting game for the super bowl. Not all the games are as exciting as that one. And what a story for nick foles who started off as a backup quarterback. They were saying during the middle of the game that he was contemplating not coming back this year, went on a camping trip with his brotherinlaw, changed his mind. And luck in the year gets him as the starting quarterback and leads the team to a starting championship. And he had a touchdown himself in the game. That was an amazing play. 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Other advisers inside and outside the west wing reportedly questioned why his administration allowed the memo to become the dominant talking point during the week when he gave his first state of the union, overshadowing the well received address. The republican memo contained a sentence that undercuts a central claim that it grew out of an unverified dossier prepared the during the campaign. The memo states information from George Papadopoulos triggered the opening of an fbi investigation in late july 2016. The memo revealed that a fisa warrant against carter page was sought and received in late october of 2016 a month after multiple Trump Campaign officials said it cut all ties with him. And in the wake of the memos release, officials have rallied behind Rod Rosenstein. Wray wrote in part, talk is cheap. The work you do is what will endure. We speak through our work one case at a time. One decision at a time, adding he is determined to maintain the integrity of the employees every day urging them to keep calm and tackle hard. Sessions praised rosenstein in the Justice Departments number three official rachel brand. Ron and rachel are harvard graduates, they are experienced lawyers, they have rod has had 27 years in the department. Rachel has had a number of years in the department previously. And so they both represent the kind of quality and leadership that we want in the department. Meanwhile, a number of republicans have come to the fbis defense and cautioned others from hitting the agency too hard, including Rudy Giuliani who told the Washington Post republicans should steer clear of targeting fbi agents and focus on the leadership of the fbi at the time. Joining us once again, mike, good to have you back with us. Nbc news has obtained the rebuttal from congressman jerry nadler, the top democrat on the house judiciary committee. What are the takeaways for you . Were waiting to see the official response. We expect the committee tonight to vote to make that publicly available to send it to the white house for declassification. But what jerry nadler is doing is offering a legal analysis to the memo. The key points he makes is that the Just Department held this. There is established case law. This is essential to knowing, you know, vetting the sources of these applications would they have had the application voided. He makes the point that Christopher Steele, his expertise on russia was so strong it would have outweighed any concerns about politics being involved. We havent seen tom of a response to nadlers memo just yet. Its been striking to watch over the weekend and on some of the news shows. Among the rank and file, they say that this is a smoking gun, that this proves that there was too much politics involved in the applications. But trey gowdy, he was among those saying, sort of, lets step back here. Theres still a trump tower meeting, theres still George Papadopoulos , that the Mueller Investigation would be going on even if the fought for the dossier and this carter page investigation. Let me ask you something about devin nunes said on friday. This is how he talked about the next steps of the investigation. Take a listen. This completes just the fisa abuse portion of our investigation. We are in the middle of what i call phase two of our investigation, specifically the state department and some of the involvement that they had in this. The that investigation is ongoing and we continue to work towards finding answers and asking the right questions to try to get to the bottom of what exactly the state department was up to in terms of this russia investigation. Let me ask you this two parter. One, what are you hearing about the potential that he referenced there, his potential targeting of the state department. And two, it seems to me from hearing comments like that, devin nunes is more preprosecute occupied with undermining the investigation than investigating russias attempts to sway the Trump Campaign during the election. Yeah. When i was watching that interview live on friday, my jaw dropped at the idea of another memo and another investigation here. We do know that nunes announced in october that the Intelligence Committee along with the House Oversight committee would be launching an investigation of this uranium one deal. This is the 2010 deal approved by the obama administration. Theyre specifically interested in what the Justice Department did in terms of investigating allegations of corruption involving the clintons there. So that is perhaps what hes talking about here. One of the points that nadler makes in his memo is what you just hit on, as well. The idea that the House Intelligence Committee is doing more to undermine the Mueller Investigation than it is to look into what its mandate was when they launched a probe in the committee which is what did russia do involving the 2016 elections. And most importantly, theres a lot of energy being put into this, but not for preparing ourselves for potential russian involvement in the 2018 elections. And not to say these checks and balances shouldnt be done, but im wondering how it benefits cutting into these agencies and public trust. Congressman jerry nadler will be a guest on morning joe the in just a little bit. Former intelligence chief brennen is saying the dossier played no role in this. It did not my any role whatsoever in the Intelligence Community assessment that was done that was presented to then president obama and then president elect trump. How was the steel dossier streeted . There were things in that dossier that made me wonder whether, they were, in fact, accurate and true. And i think it was up to the fbi to see whether or not they could verify any of it. I think jim jim comey said it contained unfair vied and salacious information. Just because it was unverified doesnt mean it was not true. There was an obligation on the part of the fbi to seek out the truth on it. And john brennen joins the conversation in just a little while on morning joe. Also on meet the press Reince Priebus disputed recent reports that President Trump tried to fire special counsel bob mueller last summer. He i never felt, of all the things that we went through in the west wing, i never felt that the president was going to fire the special counsel. Its possible the president uttered the words i want mueller fired, i want mueller gone w, but i never heard that. I think it was very clear by the president s own words that he was concerned about the conflicts of interest that he felt that the special counsel had and he made that very clear. Perhaps someone interpreted that to mean something else. If the president asked you, should i go before should i go before robert mueller, what would you tell him . Im going to let his lawyers deal with that. His lawyers will deal with that. There are certain things that i just dont know. Even though i was chief of staff, it doesnt mean that i know every single thing that his lawyers are dealing with. I only know what i dealt with. I can tell you ive never felt that there was some sort of collusion or some kind of obstruction situation going on in the west wing. I never felt that. Its not necessarily how you feel. Last year before emails from don trump jr. Revealed how the meeting was set up, priebus told fox news it was short and about russian adoptions. Yesterday he stood by that answer. Who told you the adoption story . Thats what ive always heard. I heard that from members of the family, i heard that it was a so when you were preparing to go on that show and you asked, okay, what should i know about this meeting well, quite frankly the family told you russian adoption . Thats all i ever heard that it was about. As a matter of fact, i still believe what i said if in that clip in that, in fact, it was a meeting about russian adoption in this thing called the majinski act that ive never heard of. Ive never heard it was anything but that. But again, chuck, i dont know. I wasnt there. What i feel, what i heard. What about what you know . Joining us now, White House Reporter for the washington examiner, steve nelson. Good to talk to you again. After the president tweeted that the nunes memo totally vindicated him in the russian investigation, and we heard from a number of republican lawmakers who disagree with this sentiment and cautioned against using it as a basis to firing mueller as mike just talked about trey xwou xwo gowdy being one of them and the don trump jr. Meeting at trump tower, do you think this is the beginning of a widening rift between the president and his party . In the lead up to this memos release, it appeared rod ros rosenstein, it appeared that he had the largest risk. But it is interesting to see a trio of how republicans, the not just any House Republicans, but House Republicans on the Intelligence Committee that produced this memo down playing its significance, probably more significant, though, is the assessment of legal scholars such as prominent fourth amendments scholar or incur who say that this memo doesnt outline in itself any abuse of the warrants application process that various people that judges are expected to assume theres some buysace from sources of information. It will be interesting Going Forward t forward. The white house said its fought considering firing rosenstein. I think it would have watergate type consequences. Steve, let me ask you quickly about what youre picking up if in washington in terms of sentiment or feelings about devin nunes who by some account has declared war on various agents and now talking about going after the state department. What kind of sentiment are you picking up there in d. C. . Well, congressional committees are supposed to perform oversight functions of the executive branch. That is to be expected. And theres also to be expected a partisan fight over those investigations. Under president obama, this was mostly done in the House Oversight committee. We can recall fierce partisan fights Oversight Committee chairman jason chafitzs look into targeting, over darrel, operation fast and furious by the atf. The bigger deal is whether or not these have congressional viability. A lot of what it does is behind closed doors and if theres partisan dispute over the credibility of these inquiries, thats something thats going to impact public perception. Yeah. All right, steve nelson, thank you. Still ahead, everybody. What is the super bowl without the ads and what are the ads without controversy . Were going to explain why a certain truckmaker is in hot water this morning. That and bill karins has another check on the forecast. 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King warning about spending too much money on a new car and speaking of spending too much money on things, it really is pretty interesting right now, apple music subscriber rates are growing aggressively right now. Theyre close to swroefr take spotify as the Worlds Largest music streaming platform. Apple introduced the service back in 2015 and theyre now growing at 5 a month, compared to 2 a month for spotify. This competition could be a bit of a challenge for spotify in the next couple of months theyre looking to go public on the market. So this is something to watch quite closely. And a somewhat tough week for investors last week and the market will open later this morning after a rocky week. And friday, end, a tailspin. What should investors expect this week . Well, if you look at the markets in asia and europe today, not a very pretty picture. If you look at the futures, the expectations for the u. S. Before it opens at the start of the trading day, also not good muss. The only bright spot in asia was china where they did seem to end up slightly in shanghai. That may have been down to government intervention. This is all really about fears of inflation. We saw that jobs number out last friday. We talked about it, you and i on friday, and the machine that came in that really put the proverbial cat amongst the pigeons was about wage growth. Great news for workers, not good news for investors, worried that the Federal Reserve might respond by raising interest rates. Willem, thanks so much. And just quickly on that mlk commercial, i just want to read out a quick treat from better niece king, the daughter and the king center, as well, because they both talk about that point, that neither the king center nor better niece king is the entity that approves the mlk imagery for words, entertainment, movies, advertisement including tonights dodge super bowl commercial. You can see why it triggered that kind of uproar on social media. Absolutely. Bring in bill karins in with a look at the forecast this week. Bill, what do you got . A little up or down. Its a mix. Brief bouts of cold and some mini little snow events here and there. Last night we had rain and snow event moving through the northeast. It was pouring for a while in southern new england. That is now exiting maine. Were down. Snow flurries left over . Up state new york. The roads should be cleared out. Now we have a snowstorm coming down there areas of south dakota soon arriving in sioux city, des moines and ames youll be next. We will see light snow moving into chicago later today. It will be weak. It will only be one or two inches. Denver could see some snow showers. This storm gets going tomorrow, though. Well get rain and thunderstorms out of this and then by the time we get to wednesday, this mess all heads to the east coast. I think it will most likely be snow. So todays forecast, chicago is your travel trouble spot. The southern half of the country, tomorrow is when the rain breaks out for you. So a little mix here of everything as we go throughout our first week of february. Thanks, bill. Still ahead, new information on that train crash that killed two amtrak workers early sunday morning. Its the companys third deadly wreck in less than two months and were told it could have been prevented. What investors are now saying next. Options chains . Ones that make it fast and easy to analyze and take action . How about some of the lowest options fees . Are you raising your hand . Good then its time for power e trade the platform, price and service that gives you the edge you need. Alright one quick game of rock, paper, scissors. 1, 2, 3, go. E trade. The original place to invest online. This is the story of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters dark magic told in the time it takes to brew your cup. First, we head to vermont. And go to our coffee shop. And meet dave. Hey. 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