And as the Government Shutdown heads into day 34 by the end of this hour, a senior officials telling nbc news the white house is preparing for this impasse, get this, to potentially continue for many more weeks. That is just ahead. We begin with longtime trump personal Attorney Michael Cohen suddenly pulling the plug on his upcoming live congressional hearing. Cohen says he will not testify publicly on the 7th of february because of intimidation coming from the president. Cohens Legal Adviser lanny davis issued a Statement Today that reads in part, and we quote, due to ongoing threats against his family from President Trump and mr. Giuliani, this is a movie script, as well as mr. Cohens continued cooperation with ongoing investigations, by advice of counsel mr. Cohens appearance will be postponed to a later date. This is a time where mr. Cohen had to put his family and their safety first. Last week on this Network Davis made a similar accusation. Theres only one person in the country,
Plus the feud reaches a new level, Chuck Schumer demanding an intervention with donald trump, the latest powerplay in their political tugofwar. Fox and friends first starts right now. Good morning, you are watching fox and friends first. Thank you for starting your day with us, a very cold one for lots of folks, recordbreaking cold blamed for eight deaths, the historic arctic blast closing schools, grounding thousands of flights. In minneapolis, it feels as cold as 65 below 0. Thank you for doing this for us. It is absolutely brutal. It was supposed to be warmer today but feels no different, still cold and this cold had a big impact on travelers. Certain airports have experienced thousands of delays and cancellations according to flightaware, the most affected here is a funny picture, frozen in minnesota, there was a very serious situation, when excel energy put out a merger request to customers in some areas asking them to turn their thermostat to 60 or lower and not use any other gas
To intimidate someone by threatening their therapy dog. Dont do that. Along with joe, willie and me we have Mike Barnicle, Nbc News National Political reporter Heidi Pryzbyla and prize winning columnist, very wise, and associate editor of the Washington Post eugene robinson. Heidis getting wired up. Did we get a text . This morning well be joined by two former trump insiders, former white house staffer cliff sims is here for his book team of vipers. How mad are you, willie, he stole your title for your upcoming morning joe expose, right . Right . Well, mines going to be dark, a little darker than cliffs book. Im working on it with a publisher. Ill let you proof it. Lets just say weve been over some very rocky roads in our yet here we are. Longest running anchor team on television. Seriously, come on. Can you name four people who have been around for like 12 years of a tv show every day. Just grinding it out, man. The iron man, Mike Barnicle. Former trump transition chair Chris Christie
Government until february 8th but no mention of the wall. 13 republicans would have to cross the aisle and vote in favor, tall and unlikely. But House Democrats now suggest theyre willing to meet or exceed the president s demand for 5. 7 billion but only if it is used for broad Border Security and not a wall and they say only after the government reopens. Senate votes are under way. What about the oval office . Nbcs political unit says where is the art of the deal . Trump has stopped negotiating to end the shut down. Joining me now to talk about this is jackie and nile. Thank you for being here. We may bring Kelly Odonnell back into the conversation as well. But lets start with where they are on the floor right now. The president coming out with a proposal over the weekend. It has been a nonstarter from the weekend. Mitch mcconnell did put it on the floor. The conversation in general is at least progress in comparison to where the government was last week. And you know, u want to go ba
Possible state of the Union Address during a Government Shutdown soon entering its 34th day as the 11th hour gets under way here on a wednesday night. And it goes on. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 734 of this Trump Administration. And as the Government Shutdown heads into day 34 by the end of this hour, a senior officials telling nbc news the white house is preparing for this impasse, get this, to potentially continue for many more weeks. That is just ahead. We begin with longtime trump personal Attorney Michael Cohen suddenly pulling the plug on his upcoming live congressional hearing. Cohen says he will not testify publicly on the 7th of february because of intimidation coming from the president. Cohens Legal Adviser lanny davis issued a Statement Today that reads in part, and we quote, due to ongoing threats against his family from President Trump and mr. Giuliani, this is a movie script, as well as mr. Cohens continued cooperation with