Late yesterday President Trump was out playing salesman to the American People trying to drum up support for the plan. Peter aaron hicks has more on the potentially major changes coming to your taxes. Take a look. Reporter President Trump just in time for the holidays promising to put more money in your pockets. We want to give you a giant tax cut for christmas. When i say giant, i mean giant. What do they agree on. Individual takes rate will drop from 39 to 37. What had been a strategicing capped at 10,000. Mortgage interest deductions protected, but overturned. Crucial component of obama. Ending the penalty for not having Health Insurance and potentially jeopardizing already fragile marketplaces. That repeal, john partisan budget scorekeeper warned leave 13 Million People uninsured for the next decades. This is only a small beginning to the incredible things that our people will achieve over a very sport period of time. For republicans, banking on promoting tax cuts is a signature achievement ahead of next years midterms. Democrats calling on Mitch Mcconnell to hit pause on the tax bill until the new senator is seated. Delay until doug jones gets here and can cast a vote. Plain and simple. Critics argue the bill disproportionately benefits the wealthy. Outgoing fed chair cast doubt on the rosy prediction. It would be challenging to achieve numbers like that. Thanks to Peter Aaron Hicks for that reporter. President trump says he is not responsible for roy moores loss in alabama. Washington post reporting trump spread the blame to former chief strategist steve bannon and Mitch Mcconnell. Siting senior white house officials and advisers the post reports trump blames bannon for urging him to support moore and Mitch Mcconnell for being aggressive in trying to push moore out. Also reports trump is eager not to let the loss be seen as a referendum on him and said he would have one alabama again according to Senior Administration official. Mean while called doug jones to congratulate him on his historic win. Jones told reporters the call was gracious. It was a very gashs call. I very much appreciated it. He congratulated me on the race that we won. Congratulate med and my staff in the manner we handled the campaign and we talked about finding the common ground. Invited me over to white house to visit as soon as i get up there. Joining us from washington, capitol Hill Reporter for the hill. Molly, i love we have you this morning. You love to run with this stuff. Give me your big take aways for the alabama election for the democrats. For the democrats, the democrats are so excited theyre on cloud nine. You know, sort of feeling like finally we have a win. Even despite the circumstances, it is what it is. I think theyre really excited that this is talking to several democratic lawmakers. Members of the house. Who were saying, you know, thnk is a good sign for us. Show how energized women, millennials, africanamerican were in getting this turnout. Thats going to be key for them going into the 2018 elections. You also look at couple that with the fact theres so many people retiring, so many senior lawmakers who are retiring from the house and the senate. And theyre looking at theyre feeling like it might be a wave. Lets switch gears and talk about the implications of this on policy. Doug jones winning on alabama. Now hearing democrats arguing the tax bill, the vote on the tax bill should be delayed until jones is actually seated. Do they have any chance of succeeding with this argument because the reality is republicans still control the senate with 51 seats so what difference is it going to make if hes seated or not. Mitch mcconnell made a similar argument as well. Thats true. Do you remember we had that open Supreme Court seat for a year. Yeah. I dont think the republicans are going to hold off on this one, folks. The truth is if they have the 51 votes, theyre going move the bill and get it to the president s desk. This is a key item the president needs to show hes been successful with at least one major legislative initiative that you discussed during the campaign. In addition to which, if they put it off, its a difference between one vote and essentially nine votes because really one vote in the grand skacheme of things when it comes to the senate meaning very little. You still need 60 votes. Arizona senator john mccain has been readmitted to walter reid National Military center. Office says due to normal side affects for brain cancer. The senator looks forward to returning to work as soon as possible. Mccain has missed Senate Voting this week and has been undergoing rounds of chemotherapy and radiation to treat the cancer he was diagnosed with back in july. Meanwhile, joe biden was on the view yesterday and talked about his friend john with the senators daughter, megan mccain. Your son, beau, had the same cancer my father was diagnosed with six months ago. Theres a lot of hope. I think about beau almost every day and i was told sorry. That this doesnt get easier, but you cultivate the tools to work with this and live with this. I know you and your family have been through a tragedy i couldnt conceive of. What would you tell people. Its not about me. It is about everyone, but look. One of the things that gave beau courage, my word. Was john, your dad, you may remember when you were a little kid, your dad took care of my boy. Your dad would work with me became friends with beau and beau talked about your dads courage. Not about ill nness, but about s courage. There is hope. If anybody can make it her dad is one of my best friends. Just an incredibly real and touching and civil moment you dont always see. After that mccain tweeted thank you joe biden and the entire biden family for serving as an example and source of strength for my own family. Thats what we need in politics today. You can tell the relationship between those families are so incredibly general and emotional to watch that. And the respect they have and the way they talk to each other. They have political differences, but personal relationships is whats missing. He wasnt able to joke about the political differences that exist. House republicans railed against bob muellers interference yesterday. In the wake of the Justice Department releasing Text Messages between 2016 and two romantically involved fbi officials in which agent peter worked on both the Hillary Clinton and trump investigations called President Trump, quote, idiot and shared proclinton views. Mueller removed from post when he learned of the messages last summer. That did not satisfy how republican who is question the veracity Mueller Probe supervisor Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein. Rosenstein held his ground. This is not just political opinions. This is disgusting bias and theres no way that cannot affect a persons work. How can you with a straight face say this group of democrat partisans are unbiassed. These text are evidence. Not evidence of appearance of inpropriety. Evidence of a actual bias of actual prejudice of actual hatred for the subject of the special counsels investigation. What do you have to see in terms of action with people with demonstrated bias against the president of the United States before you will appoint a special counsel to investigate the clear bias that has infected this investigation. This is unbelievable. I think the public trust is gone. Have you seen good cause to fire special counsel mueller. No. If you were ordered today to fire mr. Mueller wharks would do you. Ive explained previously. I would follow the regulation. If there were good cause, i would act. If there were no good cause, i would not. Youve seen no good cause so far. Has President Trump ever communicated with you about removing Robert Mueller from role as special counsel sgll im not going to be discussing my communications with the president , but i can tell you that nobody has communicated to me a desire to remove Robert Mueller. Joining us, cia station chief who spent five years in moscow. Dan hoffman. Glad to have you here. The preliminary indications are hes addressed it. Hes been asked about it and denied any metaling in our election. He does that just to add a measure of conspiracy. Hes a k Gordon Beckham guy. He wants to deny everything. Make counter accusations and by doing so make us she weve actually witnessed more russian soiling of democratic process than otherwise. Do russians know this . I think it does. I think it elevates his status among his own people. Demonstrating hes used asymmetric tools to play on a level Playing Field with United States and to show he interfered with our election, makes russians believe hes actually pretty powerful. Looking ahead to yasmins point about the elections in russia. Are those going to be anything more than just a sham election. Or possibility some of these candidates are going to be genuine. No, the kremlin vets all those candidates and has a pretty iron control over who gets to run and who doesnt. There are no serious candidates. Its pretty much a rubber stamp for Vladimir Putin. What happens if your run without the blessing of Vladimir Putin. You dont run. You might wind up in siberian prison. I just want to put that out there. Were going to talk to you again at the top of the hour. Still ahead. Another a list actress adds her name to the long list of Harvey Weinstein accusers. 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Forcing her to do a gratuitous sex scene and threatening to kill her while working for the film. Spokesperson has released a statement refuting the claims. Saying all accusations are inaccurate. Did admit to borish behavior. Rustle summons is accused of rape by three women. Stepped down last month following accusations by two different women. Summons denied allegations saying he never committed any acts of aggression or violence in his life. Responding to most recent charges, simmons released a statement to the New York Times writing i vehemently deny all these allegations. These horrific allegations have shocked me to my core and all of my relations have been consensual. If you have an opportunity to read this from salma hayek, its incredibly powerful. You can never judge what is happening in someones life. Don trump junior spent nine hours in a closed door meeting with senate intel yesterday. This was his third interview on capitol hill related to the russia investigation last week. He spoke with a House Intel Committee and met with Senate Judiciary committee back in september. When asked by reporters last night whether he would be back or done with this testimony, trump junior replied, you never know. Mean while, republican senator and member of the senate Intel Committee tweeted, quote, senate Intel Committee is continuing to follow the fact wherever they lead in bipartisan manner. This is not important for the president. Important for the president s seat. Russians wills try to interfere in the election again. We must be ready. Get a check on the weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins skpch karins. Theres a nice dusting of snow on the ground this morning. Nice if grow dont have to walk in it or drive in it or shovel it. Who has got tennessee snten the overnight. Winter weather for cleveland up to erie. Snow is moving out and transferring energy. Still snowing pretty decently in areas of central pennsylvania. Coverage of the blue all of a sudden starting to dissipate a little bit. Storm is weakening as a new storm takes over just south of southern lirr. Heavier snow earlier this morning. Heading out in the cape cod area. Additional snowfall totals. Not much. Maybe one inch. Maybe half an inch, one inch in northern jersey. Southern extreme portions of new england could get more. Heres the timing. 7 00 a. M. This morning. Little bit of light snow over the hudson valley. Watch how quickly we get rid of this. 15 a. M. To noon. It is gone. Sun back out this afternoon. Roads are worse this morning and a little slick. This afternoon it will all be wet and gone. Treated roads are okay this morning. Secondary roads and bridges have to watch out for. Right now the windchill not bad with the snow, but behind this, brutal once again. Green bay at minus six. Chicago at six. Detroit at nine. Buffalo at six. A lot very cold morning in the great lakes. Rest of tv country looking and going sorry. The southeast is like 60s and 70s. Mid 40s in montana this time of year. Is very warm too. I like how bill said unless youre walking in it, shoveling it, driving. Basically just sitting at home today and not going out, you be are the only person who will be appreciating the snow. I liked walking out the door and seeing a dusting this morning. Appreciated it. No one else did, obviously. Still ahead. New top flight record in the books for man city. While the fire shows no sign of slowing down. Sports is next. Oh, look. Another antiwrinkle cream in no hurry to make anything happen. Neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair® works in just one week. With the fastest retinol formula available. Its clinically proven to work on fine lines and wrinkles. One week . That definitely works rapid wrinkle repair®. And for dark spots, rapid tone repair. Neutrogena®. See whats possible. hard exhalation honey . Can we do this tomorrow . grunts of effort can we do this tomorrow . 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The name to remember. By warm, i mean booed. Every time george touched the ball, he was booed. That didnt stop the thunderer from defeating former team. 100 to 95. It was close throughout. Gets the tip in before the shot clock expires giving okc a three point lead. Steels the ball and ices the victory. Hitting two free throws to extend the win to five. He was glad the circus is over with. Meanwhile across the pond in plan chester ci manchester city. Manchester city has set a new top flight record notching 15 con sec tiff wins. At the defeating city. 40 last night. David led the way with goals coming in the 27th and 52nd minutes. And kevin and sergio also contributing to the 40 shutout. Currently tops premier league with 16 wins. Yet to lose a game. More on that when Roger Bennett joins the conversation later on on morning joe. Go to baseball real quick. Miami marlins continue purge. Giancarlo stanton, dee gordon and now marcel ozuna. Reportedly heading to st. Louis cardinals. So far unclear what the marlins will receive in return. Righty pitching prospect will be part of that deal, but ozunas agent joined the course of criticism of the miami front office calling the organization a, quote, pawnshop. I got to admit, one thing. Really excited about man city, the fact they are now on this running record. Unbelievable season. I like the fact were actually doing a little premier league in the sports, louis. I think we should do more. We have to explain to her what man city is. Excuse me. Excuse me, you know. I know what it is. Still ahead, fcc set to vote on proposal to repeal Net Neutrality rules. How that decision could impact internet service. Republicaning reached a deal on tax reform. Warning about speeding ahead with a vote. Those stories and more coming up next. [ mouse clicks, keyboard clacking ] [ mouse clicking ] [ keyboard clacking ] [ mouse clicking ] [ keyboard clacking ] good questions lead to good answers. Our advisors can help you find both. 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