Which will make us competitive again and Companies Wont be leaving our country. Finally, our tax plan will return trillions of dollars in wealth to our shores so that companies can invest in america again. At the same time, were working to reduce wasteful government spending. We will hear from budget director Nick Mulvaney who is working with my cabinet to find taxpayer savings in each and every department. The cabinet members that are with us today are working on getting reductions to their various departments that we think were going to be able to save a lot of money even lower than the budgets and the budgetses that were submitting. Well be working on health care, infrastructure, and welfare reform. Were looking very strongly at welfare reform. And that all take place right after taxes. Very soon, very shortly after taxes. So well be submitting plans on health care, plans on infrastructure. And plans on welfare reform which is desperately needed in our country. Soon after taxes. Today well also discuss the Opioid Epidemic that is ravaging so Many American families and communities. Last week, i was proud to nominate alex azar to serve as the next secretary of health and human services. I urge the senate to the swiftly confirm his nomination and i want to thank acting secretary for being with such devotion and for doing such a great job in the meantime. Thank you very much, eric. Finally i want to wish the American People a truly happy and blesses thanksgiving, especially to our brave men and women serving in our military and our Border Patrol and i. C. E. Agents along the very dangerous southern border. As you heard, we lost a Border Patrol officer just yesterday. And another one was brutally beaten and badly, badly hurt. Looks like hell make it. But very, very badly hurt. And we talk about the wall. Were going to have the wall. Its part of what were doing. We need it. Thats rough territory. Thats where the drugs are coming in. A lot of things are happening along the border, the southern border. Were going to straightton out. Weve already reduced the numbers and you see the numbers, back to 78 , down from what they were. And those numbers will get better and better but we have to stop the massive drug flow from pouring in. And my respect to the families that were so badly hurt yesterday because they were devastated. Those two families were devastated. I just want to wish everybody a very, very happy thanksgiving. Were going to be working very hard during the recess in florida. Were going to florida. And i want to thank you all for being here and lets start our meeting and to the media, to the press thank you very much. We appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thanks. And good day. Im andrea mitch in washington. Thats President Trump just finishing speaking at his seventh Cabinet Meeting since he became president. Speaking at the white house, of course, saying he will designate north korea a state sponsor of terror and that the treasury will announce more sanctions against them tomorrow. This without answering any questions about roy moore. Joining me Kristen Welker at the white house, peter bake, New York Times chief White House Correspondent and political analyst. Kristin, first to you. We had anticipated this when he returned from his asia trip. There was going to be a redesignation of north korea as a state sponsoring terror. This had been lifted by the george w. Bush administration. Thats right. This wasnt a surprise. President trump signaled this during his 12day trip in asia coming after recent provocations by north korea after the death of Otto Warmbier in north korea. You heard the president reference that. And obviously, the centerpiece of his trip was to try to rally the International Community and regional partners against north korea to try to get it to stop its Nuclear Program. Now, President Trump taking this step. What does it mean. That there will be a new round of sanctions as you mentioned, the Treasury Department is going to announce those sanctions tomorrow. The president saying that it will be one of the largest sanctions packages to date. At this point, we dont have spec whats it will entail but of course, andrea, the question is, what will the impact be. North koreas already heavily sanctioned by the United States as well as other countries including dhooin some extent. What will the impact be . How much will it hurt north koreas economy . Will it in fact get it to abandon its Nuclear Program . At this point, nothing has worked in terms of stopping kim jongun. And the war of words has only escalated between the president and kim jongun. A lot of question marks what the real world implications will be of this announcement today. Peter baker, this is going to be a state department designation. Thats the way this works. Then the treasury can impose those sanctions. Sanctions that can include not only Otto Warmbier but the north korean assassination of kim jonguns stepbrother. There are a number of incidents that they can use to cite it as a state sponsor of terror. Well, thats exactly right. Youre right. Of course, they had been listed for many years as a state sponsor of terror but george w. Bush at the end of 2006 beginning of 2007 took them off the list as an incentive during talks they were having at the time. The moment they felt like they were making progress towards convincing north korea to give up its Nuclear Program, those talks ended up not succeeding. Now here we are a decade later putting them back on that list. There isnt by itself as kristin is saying a big tangible impact. The sanctions hes announcing tomorrow may have more of an impact. Theyre not you know, nobody needs this designation in order to keep putting sanctions on north korea. But the real target of anxiouses that might make a difference most experts say at this point would be china because theyre the one who have kept north korea afloat. That doesnt seem to be what trump is thinking at this point given his praise of x ji ping after his visit the last few weeks in china. So we dont know. As kirstin said what we can expect from impact from more sanctions on north korea itself. The president had a busy weekend on twitter. He is as you just saw at the Cabinet Meeting not answering questions about roy moore. He had said when he returned from his trip, he would speak out on this. Instead hes been radio silent on the subject of roy moore and whats going on in alabama. He certainly talk to twitter to talk about lavar ball, the outspoken father of one of the basketball players, one of the three ucla basketball players who the president helped get out of a chinese jail after they were caught shoplifting and they had in turn after he said why dont they thank me, they at a News Conference when they returned to l. A. Thanked him for what he did. Then of course, lavar ball, the father sounding off and so the Twitter Response from the president s gotten a lot of raised eyebrows. He wrote now that the three basketball players are out of china and safe from years in jail, lavar ball, the father of liangelo is unappreciative of what i did. I should have left them in joil. Kristin how is this going over . Well, look, i think that it has sparked a backlash to some extent. You have democrat adam schiff firing back at the president saying how can someone in such a big office act so small . That was on twitter. Within the white house though, theyre defending the president and say look, lavar ball is someone who is no stranger to controversy. He likes spinning it up. Hes, of course, engaged in other controversies. He was baiting the president. When you press officials here about why the president is engaging back with one of these fathers of course, they go to that talking point that hes a counter puncher. Its not a surprise. But bottom line, andrea, for republicans more broadly, it is a distraction from what they want to be talking about. What you started off talking about, tax reform. The fact that it passed in the house and now the focus is on getting it through the senate. And the challenges there and they see these types of twitter feuds as yet another distraction, yet another thing that makes it that much more complicate ford them to focus on the tack at hand, andrea. To that point, peter baker, in terms of what we did on meet the press with all the other programs have been doing is talking about roy moore in addition to taxes because the president went after al franken which, of course brought it all back to his own past history with the access Hollywood Tape and then it brought up with kirstjen gillibrand then bringing up the clintons, as well. So we have this conversation now which seems to be talking more about 2016. Look at Hillary Clinton in the little rock this weekend. They were to be celebrating the 1992 president ial victory of bill clinton. This was a reunion. Im going to keep speaking out. Apparently you know, my former opponent is obsessed with my speaking out. Apparently there was another somebody told me tweet today. Honestly, between tweeting and golfing how does he get anything done . I dont understand it. Obviously, thats an appreciative proclinton audience, peter, but all of this is distracting from the tax cuts because i dont prefer to call it tax reform which it is not. Its basically big tax cuts and it is moving closer to picking up support now that the white house is signaling that it is open to removing the Obamacare Repeal of the individual mandate from it and moving it closer to what the house passed. Well, thats right exactly. Thats a very delicate dance theyve got to try to get this through. 52 republican votes in the senate. Therefore, they can only lose three assuming they get no democrats. Ron johnson has said hes upset about the pass through business rate. Weve heard as you mentioned other senators are concerned about the Affordable Care act mandate being in there. The president himself attacked jeff flake who has been broken for the president from arizona, call him jeff flaky saying hes a no vote on taxes. If thats the case that, leaves them 5050 unless they can talk ron junz to coming back on board and they might lose other senators, as well who expressed concerns about the deficit and the elimination of state and local Tax Deductions and so on. Its a very, very delicate puzzle piece to put together to get, if you lose support here, you might gain it there. Theyre not there yet. The question is whether they can get there in order to get to a conference with the house and really hash out the details. Peter baker, Kristen Welker, thank you both so very much. And coming up, going public. Roy moores first accuser speaking out for the first time in an exclusive interview with Savannah Guthrie on the today show recounting an alleged sexual encounter with roy moore when he was 32 years old and assistant da, she was just 14. Well bring that to you in full coming up. He trash . sigh dad molly trash whoo mom hey, molly . Its time to go bell ringing class, lets turn to page 136, recessive traits skip generations. Who would like to read . molly i reprogrammed the robots to do the inspection. Its running much faster now. See . Its amazing, molly. Thank you. mr. President . Do you believe his accusers . Do you believe roy moores accusers, mr. President . Thank you very much. At his Cabinet Meeting today, at that photo opportunity, President Trump still radio silent on all things roy moore. The Alabama Republican Senate nominee unwaivering in the face of nine separate misconduct allegations ranging from inappropriate sexual advances to molestation of a 14yearold and sexual assault. Claiming hes a victim of a conspiracy from the washington political establishment in both parties. I believe with all my heart that Mitch Mcconnell and the establishment are in cahoots with the democrats to stop this campaign. They have taken a calculated risk for two years with the democrats and tried to elect another republican in two years and they want me out. And so thats whats going on. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is in alabama. That is not the posture of the local newspapers down there in alabama which had front page editorial above the fold with an editorial to actually support the democratic candidate. Reporter yeah, thats right. The three three of the largest newspapers in alabama owned by the same company ran editorial over the weekend urging voters to reject roy moore. Certainly the interview this morning with Savannah Guthrie on the show, lee corfman detailing her allegations for the first time on television saying some powerful things to savannah and roy moore, as you mentioned as denied the allegations but he has ducked specific questions about the latest round of allegations, andrea, you mentioned at least nine women so far have come forward publicly accusing him of varying degrees of allegations from inappropriate flirtinging to sexual assault. Still 22 days before the special election and on friday, i asked the governor of alabama, kay ivy whether she still planned to vote for moore and she said she did. She did seem pained when she said it as if she was trying to wrestle with a very difficult decision. She did say it was more important at this point to have a republican seat in the senate but she had no reason top disbelieve moores accusers and despite that reservation, she said she still planned to vote for roy moore. Were still gathering reaction to lee corfmans interview this morning. I spoke with one of leighs friends who said she was very proud of her friend, has known her for decades and knew of the story for decades. In that sense she corroborates her story. The campaign copies to insys these allegations are false. They have no planned events today. As far as we know, the democratic challenger doug jones, his wife has an event today but he is not expected to be seen publicly either. Andrea . Gabe gutierrez in alabama and now to that today show exclusive interview. A remarkable discussion between Savannah Guthrie and Leigh Corfman the first to come forward with allegations that a 32yearold moore sexually abused her when she was only 14. How are you doing . Im doing really well. I feel like a weights been lifted. Ive had huge support which i cant say how important that has been. And ive had a lot of people that have come out and have said that because of my courage ta theyre able to do the same. I know the details are difficult. But for those who arent familiar, can you tell us your interactions with roy moore . You said you were 14 years old, sitting in the courthouse with your mom. He walked up, introduced himself. Right. And then ultimately called you and asked you out for a date. Right. Well, i wouldnt exactly call it a date. Id say it was a meet. At 14, i was not dating. At 14, i was not able to make those kind of choices. I met him around the corner from my house. My mother did not know. And he took me to his home. After arriving at his home, on the second occasion that i went with him, he basically laid out some blankets on the floor of his living room. And proceeded to seduce me. I guess you would say. And during the course of that, he removed my clothing. He left the room and came back in wearing his white underwear. And he touched me over my clothing, what was left of it. And he tried to get me to touch him, as well. And at that point, i pulled back and said that i was not comfortable and i got dressed and he took me home. But i was a 14yearold child trying to play in an adults world. And he was 32 years old. What did you think in that moment . Did you think, i was just molested or assaulted or did you not really think about it in those terms . I dont know that i really thought about it in those terms because it wasnt part of my vocabulary. Ive been reading harlequin romances for years at that point and i was expecting candlelight and roses and what i got was very different. Did you tell anyone at the time . Right after it, i told two of my good friends. And then i told one other, and they told me how bad of an idea this was. And. To be with an odor man like that . Right and that we werent prepared for that. When he called again, i didnt go. I made an excuse. You know, and i didnt go. How do you think that interaction affected your life . Well, it took away a lot of the specialness of you know interactions with men. It took some trust away. It allowed me delve into some things that i wouldnt have otherwise. It took years for me to regain a sense of confidence in myself and i felt guilty. You know, i felt like i was the one that was to blame and it was decades before i was able to let that go. You speak of decades and, of course, it has been decades that youve held this secret there will be people watching who say, why now . Why not bring this up over the last few years. Particularly when roy moore was a rising star in alabama politics. Ran for election. Was a chief justice of the supreme court. Right. And they say it doesnt add up. Why wait . How do you respond to that . Well, its very simple really. I did tell people. My family knew. Family friends knew. My friends knew. I spent a lot of time every time he came up railing against, you know, him, and what he had done to me when i was 14 years old. My children were small. I was a single parent. And when youre in that situation, you do everything you can to protect your own. And i sat in the courtroom, in the courthouse parking lot and thought you know, im going in, im going to confront him. Years later you thought about it. 2000, 2001. And i wanted to walk into this office and say hey, remember me . You kno