Im alex. In the span of five days, republican chairman leading the house Russian Investigation assertions President Trump and his team were monitored and then rode back those claims 48 hours later. Now revelations about the source of his information has democrats calling for his recusal. Nbc News White House correspondent Hallie Jackson reports. Hey there, good morning to you. This morning we do expect action from President Trump on environmental regulations. One of the big stories, of course, here in washington continues to be what happened with congressman devin nunes and his secret meeting here on white house grounds last week. A new plot twist in the surveillance saga consuming congress and the white house. If this was a movie, youd turn it off because you wouldnt believe its believable. Reporter the latest bombshell coming from congressman devin nunes. Hes the republican head of the House Intelligence Committee who first revealed u. S. Spies may have scooped up communications involving the trump transition team. Its called incidental collections. While nunes has specifically said theres no evidence to back the president s claim trump tower was wiretapped by president obama, President Trump said he felt vindicated anyway. I somewhat do, i must tell you, i swho do. I very much appreciated the fact that they found what they found. Reporter turns out, one day before he briefed the president , nunes was on white house grounds reviewing secret information from a secret source. The congress has not been given this information, these documents. Theres no way for the folks that i have been working with to actually to bring this forward to light, there was no way i could view that because they couldnt get it to the House Intelligence Committee. Reporter nunes looked at those intelligence reports not in the west wing but in a special secure room at a building a few hundred feet away. You cant just walk into the white house grounds under the cover of darkness, go into a secret room, logonto a computer unless someone on the white house staff allows to you do that. Reporter nunes says his source is not a white house staffer but a member of the Intelligence Committee. The administration is not worried about any inappropriate leak despite for weeks railing against other leaks to reporters. Why is it okay but other leaks are not . Theres a difference between leaks and someone pursuing a review of a situation. Someone who is clear to share classified information with someone else cleared is not a leak. Reporter democrats are concerned about the coincidental timing with more questionsing now on whether nunes can really be impartial as he leads one of the congressional investigations into russias interference with the election. Chairman nunes is falling down on the job. And seems to be more interested in protecting the president than in seeking the truth. Reporter senator schumer there wants paul ryan to replace nunes as the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee but the House Speaker says he continues to have full confidence in congressman nunes. Alex . Hallie jackson, thank you so much from the white house for that. In an interview last night, congressman nunes said he would remain in charge of the house committees intelligence investigation. He wants you to quit the investigation. Youre not going to do that . Well, im sure that the democrats do want me to quit because they know that im quite effective at getting to the bottom. Well, lets hope so. The president tweeted from the white house around 9 30 last night suggesting the clintons should be investigated for links to russia saying, quote, why isnt the House Intelligence Committee looking into the bill and hillary deal that allowed big uranium to russia. The praise of russia by hillary. Trump russia story is a hoax. He attached the make America Great again hashtag. Tauted in a book published by steef bannon. The Washington Post deemed the claim false claiming nine agencies involved and no evidence it ever rode to the level of the secretary of state. Hillary clinton will be speaking at Georgetown University later this week. Well, the white house is trying to move onto the next agenda item but does so with a number hanging around their neck. 36 . That is their latest Approval Rating in the gallup tracking pole. Even in the heat of battle on Health Care Reform, the president said hes ready to get down to overhauling taxes with Steve Mnuchin targeting august as a deadline. Now Jonathan Swan of axios says the white house considering doing tax reform and infrastructure at the same time. Yesterday voices called for infrastructure to be front and center. Lets go with tax reform first. I think we have an opportunity to marry that together with infrastructure. In essence in one big reform package. I think we may have one opportunity. I say we should pivot infrastructure because its easier to pivot a Bipartisan Coalition everybodys for pork, charlie. I understand. We sent so many signals after the election that maybe a place we might be able to Work Together was on the issue of infrastructure. The first thing they ought to do is open up the whole issue of infrastructure. You can get at least half the Democratic Party to work with you to pass an infrastructure bill. Can you start to build a trump majority, which is bigger than the republican majority. The president and white house have indicated theyre rethinking their coalition of how to get legislation through, including working with democrats. The president made the point less delicately, tweeting, the Republican House freedom kak cuss was able to snatch the defeat from the jaws of victory. Then later tweeted the democrats will make a deal with me on health care as soon as obamacare folds. Not long. Do not worry. We are in very good shape. Joining us from washington, reporter for politico and coauthor of poe litdcos playbook, daniel litman. Thinking about on the sunday shows, the Trump Administration telegrafd theyre exploring new opportunities to build their coalition and looking to get something from reince priebus. Where are they looking first . I think theyre trying to reach out to democrats but the sources weve talked to in shum measu Schumers Office and pelosi say they have not heard from trumps aides about infrastructure bill or tax reform, and theyre waiting on getting that outreach from the white house because if you dont start the conversations now, then the legislative calendar only continues Going Forward and there doesnt seem to be a lot of momentum to get these bills through. One more for you. Theres concerns about another Government Shutdown possibly as early as april. How serious are those concerns right now and what impact could it have on the agenda . I dont think the government will shut down itself. Thats in no ones interest. The more interesting question is what happens to trumps budget. Both democrats and republicans are against that. And im wondering what happens when trump finds out his budget is going nowhere. Does he lash out and does steve bannon say, what are we doing here spending all this money that, you know, they did not want to spend . With the signal of august being the timing for infrastructure, tax reform, congress is out of session at that time. How effect ive of a time frame s that . Sources on the hill say thats completely unrealistic. Tax reform is much harder than the Trump Administration thinks. There are so many competing coalitions. There are splits with the Democratic Party, the Republican Party. And so that mnuchin is a new player to d. C. And he doesnt understand exactly how difficult this proposal is. Its an ambitious timeline to say the least. Great to have you with us. Coming up on morning joe, we have lawmakers from both sides of the aisle. Attorney general Jeff Sessions is renewing the white houses commitment to cracking down on socalled sank sctuary cities. Jeff sessions urged states and local jurisdictions to cooperate with immigration authorities or risk losing federal money. The attorney general said the Justice Department could withhold as much as 4. 1 billion in federal grant money from cities that dont comply with immigration laws. Such policies cannot continue. They make our nation less safe by putting dangerous criminals back on the streets. I strongly urge our nation states and cities and counties to consider carefully the harm they are doing to their citizens by refusing to enforce our immigration laws and to rethink these policies. And dozens of municipal leaders from across the country are dismissing the Trump Administrations threat to cut funding. One new York City Council speaker said, quote, we are going to become this administrations worst nightmare. In california the state Senate President pro tem Kevin De Leon says it is pushing on prohibiting state and local police from enforcing federal immigration laws. President obama trump is ex to sign an executive order. An official tells nbc news it will serve twin goals of protecting the environment while also moving forward with Energy Production in the u. S. Joining us here on set is msnbcs cal perry. Good to have you with us this morning. Lets talk about this executive order. What do we expect to come out of it . What particular issues could be possibly overturned . Youll see a signing ceremony today and this is aimed at overturning the policies of barack obama. We have bullet points for you that will late on you what youll see. The top line is clean power plan. That was Barack Obamas plan to shut down coal power plants around the country. Part of that was frozen by the supreme court. Were talking big time about coal. This is idealogical battle. This is trumps belief that jobs are more important than the environment. Thats what were going to hear a lot about today. Jobs, jobs, jobs. There is a reality here about coal. Coal production is down across the country. Coal needs are down across the country. Youll hear a lot about that today as well. Again, this is about rolling back obamas policies. I know a lot of people that supported president obama were worried, for example, that obamacare would go down in a ball of flames. That was sort of stopped. Today youre going to see the rolling back of policy that it took eight years for president obama to land. Jobs versus the environment, what are the critics saying . Take a look at the sierra club. They put out this statement. This is deaf stating, what youll see on your screen. The single biggest attack on Climate Action in u. S. History, period. Again, a lot of people are looking at the paris agreement, is that next . Thats the agreement between industrialized nations to reduce carbon emissions. Youll hear strong reaction today from environmental groups. All of this follows on from the keystone pipeline. Thank you for that. Well, well talk a bit more about the president s executive order on Climate Change. That will happen on morning joe with secretary of the entire ryan zinke. Supreme Court Nominee neil gorsuch is close to falling short of the votes needed for confirmation. After years of dealing with leadtainted water, flint, michigan, is getting new pipes but residents may have to deal with bottled water for potentially years. And a check of when we come back. Trust 1 doctor recommended dulcolax. Use dulcolax tablets for gentle dependable relief. Suppositories for relief in minutes. And dulcoease for comfortable relief of hard stools. Dulcolax. Designed for dependable relief. The dinosaurs extinction. Got you outnumbered. Dont listen to them. Not appropriate. Now im mashing these potatoes with my stick of butter. Why dont you sit over here. Something for everyone is awesome. Find your awesome with the Xfinity Stream app. More to stream to every screen. Welcome back. The confirmation of supreme Court Nominee neil gorsuch has hit its first roadblock after democrats on the Senate Judiciary committee forced the delay of a vote by a week. Now, so far at least 19 democrats have said they will oppose gorsuchs confirmation. Chuck schumer has said he will filibuster the vote. Republicans only hold 52 seats in the senate. Theyll need the support of eight democrats to reach the 60vote majority or be be forced to use what is known as the Nuclear Option to break the filibuster. Yesterday two more democrats, senators hirono and bill nelson announced they would vote no on gorsuchs confirmation. Coming up on morning joe, joe manchin is still undecided on whether hell support the judge in the final vote. The state of michigan agreed to spend 87 million in a proposed settlement to replace thousands of leadcontaminated water lines in flint. If approved, government officials would have to dig up and replace pipes in at least 18,000 homes by january 1, 2020, nearly three years from now. The agreement comes nearly three years after flint officials switched the citys water source as a costcutting source from detroits water system to the untreated flint river. By now you know the rest of the stories. Residents reported Serious Health problems with experts say the water corroded pipes causing lead to infiltrate the water supply. Severe weather across the country today. Texas strong storms brought hail in the size of golf balls. Hail and strong winds have been reported in several other states across the southeast as well. With that lets bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins. Bill, when you have softballsized hail raining down, its not a good day. You come out and see your car looking like that, you know youre in trouble. We watched the worst of the weather throughout tennessee mississippi. It wasnt the huge hail. We called it nickel or dimesized hail. In some quarter sized hail but we didnt see the huge softball sized hail yesterday. Thats good. We didnt have a lot of significant damage out of that. Going through atlanta with heavier downpours over the next hour or two. Charlotte, youre just about done with your rain. We also have rain around new york city, pittsburgh and cleveland. Its umbrella weather in areas of the northeast. Severe weather threat. This is a new storm system out of the rockies. Theres a tornado risk. One of those days you have to make sure you know your safety plans. Its that time of year. Oklahoma city to dallas to ft. Worth, wind damage threat mostly for you. A lot of tornadoes we have earlier in the day should weaken by the time they get to you. That takes us into wednesday. This should be our most active day tomorrow of our Severe Weather. A huge section from st. Louis down to houston. 19 Million People at risk and we could see strong tornadoes going into wednesday. This storm system is slow. Even into thursday we have enhanced risk for 20 Million People, tupelo, greenville, jackson. Look how widespread from the ohio river down to new orleans on thursday. Todays forecast, we are watching a dreary type day. D. C. , baltimore, phil y new york, bass ton included. You will see on and off rain throughout the day. The real dangerous stuff back here, oklahoma and texas, over midafternoon through this evening. Were glad for the heads up on all that. Thanks. Still ahead, the bouncing ball. Oakland, l. A. , Oakland Raiders are leafing for las vegas. Uconn Womens Basketball team is heading to the tournament for the tenth straight time. Just c. Now shes into disc sports. Ah, no shes not. Since when . Since now. Shes into tai chi. She found disc sports too stressful. 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