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Her white house that way. I mean, we would be hearing it about it, well, nonstop from republicans who are going back three or four years still attacking Hillary Clinton because they dont want to look at whats happening right now in front of them. Welcome to morning joe. It is monday morning, february 12th. With us we have Political Writer for the New York Times, Nick Confessore, morning joe economic analyst, steve ratner, weve got president of the council on Foreign Relations and author of the r...

Significant statements until we knew what the strategy was, what was the commitment going in. In that regard, the president has made a decision. As he said, he wants to be the one to announce head to the American People. So i will stand silent until then. Until that point. Melissa boy, that is a good tease. We know its going to be good news based on that. John roberts is alive with more. John. Good morning to you. Live from fort meyer, we will find out what the president is going to do about afg...

To work on its the week of november 6th and voting novembe. There is a little cushion time in there, so the house will hopefully be done with this by thanks giving, that gives the senate sometime to work after that, with the goal of putting this package on President Trumps desk by the end of the year. One issue they are looking at is trying to give folks more incentive to save for retiremen retirement. We wanted to increase the amounts that you can give to your 401 k or ira, 44o1 kays up to 20,0...

Over the next few hours. Earlier today, President Trump approved the emergency disaster declaration, so Homeland Security and fema will now coordinate the relief efforts here in louisiana, one of three gulf states that have declared emergencies ahead of the approaching storm. A lot of the preps going on all day, including the closing of some 200 floodgates, like this one, in and around the city of new orleans, and they have also installed protectively about 150 of those barricades to close the s...

Departments full cooperation with congress to lift the gag order that this informant was under. Two sources said that white House Counsel don then gave directions to the justice department. Today the president s counselor, Kellyanne Conway confirmed the president did indeed want that informant to be able to speak. It is not unusual for a president to weigh in. This president , as you saw from everything with jfk files to this particular ongoing investigation, alison, is for transparency. And he ...

The white house releasing President Trump list of immigration priorities. The president saying those reforms must be part of any legislation to extend the protection from deportation many young immigrants had under president obamas daca program. They include overhauling the countrys green card system to make it meritbased while decreasing the number of family members from abroad. Cracking down on unaccompanied minors entering the country and building mr. Trumps promise to border wall. And denyin...

The wind keeps blowing it and its moving quickly, and thats considered shear. That should not allow it to get too much stronger than a category 1. We will see. Biloxi, st. Louis and all the way to new orleans, thats right in the cone, all of this right in the cone right now. Hurricane hunters are in the storm right now flying around, and those are the two airplanes flying around, and 997 for millibars. This is not harvey or irma or maria, but as it gets over the gulf of mexico it could certainly...

Student held in iran talking to us. Now his case is tied to the future of the nuclear deal. But we begin with what could be a make or break moment for that republican tax bill. Now the second time in the month that its come to this, President Trump is heading to capitol hill. Hes going to try to do some arm twisting and this time its with republicans in the senate where there are still some holdouts. And later, hell meet with congressional leaders back at the white house. Msnbcs garret hake has ...

Cnn newsroom starts right now. The Trump Administration has lost another key player. U. S. Health chief tom price resigned on friday. He was under fire for using private jets for official government business. When commercial flights would have been much cheaper for taxpayers. The resignation comes as the president is grappling with a huge Natural Disaster in puerto rico from hurricane maria. Sara murray has our report. Im not happy, okay . I can tell you, im not happy. Reporter President Trump s...

That means the potential for even more flooding in nearby neighborhoods, even more people forced to get out. Fema estimates 30,000 texans will spend at least part of this week in shelters. More than 1,000 people, several thousand people have been rescued from their flooded homes in houston, hundreds more in galveston. Many of the boats manned by volunteers. People just going out to help. Fema says many more are welcome. Helping texas overcome this disaster will be far greater than fema coordinat...