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Chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge live in washington. >> the letter asks whether the bureau warned the administratio administration -- campaign, rather of the risks of the -- if thats true, the fbi would have had to make the case to a national security course that this extraordinary step was warranted based on existing evidence. the letter leads reads in parte fbi did provide a defensive briefing or similar warning to the trump campaign, that would raise important questions abo...

Lets get involved in the surveillance because they didnt trust the new and administratio administration. >> kennedy: they have a very dim view of human nature, but its scary that these tools are meant to catch bad guys. theyre not meant to entrap people whom you disagree with. >> harris: be getting some details about when people are being listened to. the circle seems to be getting bigger and bigger of people who they want to unmask. look at all we been covering at the u.n. this week. if she had...

Yesterday with 17 votes again all from republicans. >> what were doing is turning them onto the highest flow and turning the backs on the swamps and shouting there is nothing to see here. thats what we are doing here. we are doing the opposite of driening the swamp today. your constituents know that chuck schumer, whose title is minority leader, not majority leader, just made himself the most powerful man in america for the month of december. chuck schumer and nancy pelosi now have most of the c...

Will get rid of north koreas nuclear weapons and missiles? >> richard -- >> can i -- >> david ignatius, theres also another horrifying option, and that is that the north koreans o start selling tear nuclear technology to isis and other movements. they would love nothing more than plant a nuclear device in times square and detonate it. >> reporter: thats one reason the continuation of the status quo is dangerous. i will just note that its dangerous most of all for china. for china to have this ve...

E everyone went to bed from miami to tampa, orlando, back up to jacksonville, we will see a lot of damage from this storm. we are trying to pinpoint who will get it who. >> bill, thank you so much. we will check in with you later this hour. with us here on "morning joe" we have political analyst mark halperin national affairs analyst for nbc news john heilemann and in walk, nbc news capitol hill correspondent casey hunt joins us, joe, this morning the pending strike from irma, the heavy toll lef...

Reservation, credit card statements and federal election commission filings. the justice department detailing its case against new jersey democratic senator robert menendez and now a vicious war of words has erupted between the prosecutors and senators defense team. in an unsolicited letter, justice department prosecutors wrote the presiding judge suggesting he "prohibit the defendants from distracting and using the jury with their claims that the investigation and indictment are political retri...

Cruz, john cornyn, who have a lot of sway in the senate -- why is this an emergency that the federal government is protected from having to put skin in the game? if this is an emergency, the entire federal bureaucracy should be forced to put skin in the game and give up something. why not cut to offset what everybody wants to give people in houston? >> bret: there is the question that we all start to get the answer to on tuesday. on the meantime, on the so-called dreamers, word is that the presi...

All the wrong incentives are in place. all that has led to his more building in these areas because the owners know that if there is a flood of someone else is going to be picking up the tab. the goal here should be to get the federal government out of the flood insurance business and collect the insurers prices to market. >> bret: anna, the white house was asked, treasury secretary was asked whether the administration will push to tie the debt ceiling increase to a funding request. if they woul...

The department has over 40 staff in ground, air, transit, railways, waterways on the ground coordinating, getting transit assets back up and running. finding drivers for buses and trucks. the federal highways of administration has been on the ground before the storm even made landfall providing technical assistance to the texas department of transportation. we are working with the state of texas to reopen the airports. as you have heard, corpus christi, new orleans, houston iah, houston hobby an...

Thank you. >> i wanted to add an important piece of information, and thats come up to online, go to disasterassistance.gov. if you are in one of the counties thats been declared a federal disaster, you can get assistance. and we urge you to go online and register as quickly as possible at disasterassistance.gov. >> reporter: mr. vice president, bloomberg news. do you still stand by your position from 2005 that disaster relief funding should be offset by cuts elsewhere? can you tell us what the t...