Had im Ayman Mohyeldin alongside louis burgdorf. Tax plan is facing uncertainty days before expected vote. Senator marco rubio is threatening to oppose the bill. President trump said yesterday he believes rubio will eventually get to a yes vote. Unless they figure out a way to increase the refundable part, higher than 1100. A way they figured out a way to give corporations an extra year of cuts. The way they figured out a way to lower the top rate for a family making a million. Unless they can figure out a way to add to 1100 figure, i wont support the bill. I think hell be there. Hes been a great guy and supportive. I think senator rubio will be there. We have tremendous support. We have tremendous spirit. It will be the largest tax cut in the history of our country. Were really proud of the work that weve done already up until this point with senator rubio already doubling the tax credit. Taking it to 2,000 per child. Continue working with the senator. We think we made Great Strides and frankly pretty Historic Movement in the terms of the Child Tax Credit. Were proud of that work. Going to keep working with them until we get the job done. We expect to happen before the end of the year. The senate bill that passed includes a 2,000 tax child credit. Only maximum 1100 is refundable. Making much of the credit inaccessible to lower and middle income families. Meanwhile, republican senator mike lee who partnered with rubio on the tax child issue is currently undecided on the bill. Republicans can only afford to lose two votes. Senator bob corker previously voted no over deficit concerns. There is a complicating factor. John mccain and cochran have missed votes this week. Party leaders are counting on their votes next week. Federal communications has voted to end obama era Net Neutrality. Voted 32 to take away rules that prohibit internet providers from blocking competitors for charging for Higher Quality service. Met with vocal opposition from a number of people in the tech industry, consumer advocacy groups and members of congress. Advocates rallied outside the fcc building during the vote. Facebook, amazon, netflix are among the Tech Companies that oppose the rule change. Supporting the decision, broad band providers, including comcast who have said they do not plan to block or slow access to any legal websites. President trump celebrated the move as one of the many roll backs from previous administrations cutting symbolic strip of red tape in a ceremony at the white house. Brink of a landmark achievement. House Speaker Paul Ryan is reportedly eyeing exit from congress. Politico spoke to three dozen unnamed source who is know the Wisconsin Republican spanning from lobbyists to lawmakers. Reports ryan has made it known to some of the closest con if i dans that this will in fact be final terms as speaker of the house. He would like to serve through 2018 and retire a ahead of the next congress. Tie up things like social security, medicaid. Something he spoke about at his weekly press conference. This as the white house reacted to the report he was leaving, take a listen. Identify long said there are two things you need to do. Reform the programs. Auto pilot. Grow the economy, people. This is going to be the new economic challenge for america. People. Baby boomers are retiring. I did my part. We need to have higher birthrates in this country. Thank you everybody; appreciate it. The president did speak to the speaker, not too long ago. And made sure that the speaker knew very clearly and no uncertainty terms if that news was true, he was very happy with it. The speaker assured the president those were not accurate reports and look forward to working together for a long time to come. Reporter behind that story will be joining us later on morning joe. You dont want to miss that. Joining us from washington, politico Daniel Litman. Coauthor of the politico playbook. Good to have you this morning. A lot to talk about and break down. First lets ask you are the most likely candidates to step into paul ryans shoes if and when he does exit. So not surprisingly, Majority Leader Kevin Mccarthy from california is a top candidate. If if he wants a job, he stumbled at his last go at trying to become speaker. And, you know, ryan took that job. The other person is Steve Scalice who recovered miraculously from the shooting. If mccarthy ones, scalice has a major decision to make, does he want to challenge his friend Kevin Mccarthy or maybe salaries should wait a couple of years. Lets transition and talk about the tax bill. How heavy of a lift for the gop leadership to get these holdouts. We talked about marco rubio being a no. Corker being a possible know. Two senators with Health Issues that may actually make them absent from the vote on the senate floor. This is a big problem for republicans because rubio and trump dont have the best history. When trump was calling him little marco, that doesnt engender a lot of goodwill will rubio world. Rubio generally believes this bill does way too much for the rich and corporations and not enough for working class families. And so i think his concerns will probably get addressed. Hes just going to play some hardball to get that Child Tax Credit expanded, but the issue is, that would increase the bills cost by a lot of money and you have to find revenue somewhere because this bill already cost about 1. 5 trillion. When you think of the four names i mentioned, three of them have had personal beef with President Trump at some point. Mccain, bob corker, and marco rubio. No surprise there. Lets talk about the possible shutdown. Why are House Republicans sending a bill to the senate they know will not pass. Are they playing a game of chicken with democrats you think or what. I think House Republicans, this small segment, the freedom caucus, they are driving the train on this. This is theyre familiar gamut of kind of holding own leadership hostage and forcing the senate to do something. I dont think were going see a shutdown because its in no ones interest to have the Government Shutdown during the holidays, but House Republicans want to get their priorities in written into law and dont want democrats to get any wins at the end of this year. A lot of drama to close out the year between the tax bill and this. Daniel litman, well talk a little later on in the program. Thanks for that. Yesterday, standing in front of a backdrop consists of Ballistic Missile and other military equipment. U. N. Ambassador nicky haley accused iran of violating u. N. Operations. In this warehouse is concrete evidence of illegal iranian weapons proliferation gathered from direct military attacks on our partners in the region. Behind me is an example of one of these attacks. These are the recovered pieces of a missile fired by militants from yemen into saudi arabia. The missiles intended target was a civilian airport. All of these weapons include parts made in iran. Some by irans government run defense industry. The evidence is undeniable. The weapons might as well have had made in iran stickers all over it. Addressed some next steps without getting too far. Repealing part of the step of declassifying the missile. The nuclear deal has done nothing to moderate the regimes conduct in other areas. Where do we duofrgo from here . I think the president made the first start by decertificat dec iran deal. Yes, we have already started to talk to partners in the security counsel. In a statement, the iranian government says it, quote, categorically rejects the accusations as unfounded, irresponsible, provacative and destructive. Adding this evidence is as fabricated as some presented on other occasions as part of an agenda. Perhaps eluding to that, foreign minister also tweeted this out. When i was based at the United Nations, i saw the show and what it had along with the picture of then secretary of state powell. Turning now to another overseas crisis in the state Department Says is on the same page at the white house. Any talks with north korea would have to be predicated on the goal of denuclearization. That appears to be in contrast to comments made by the man in charge of that agency. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson who said earlier this week that the u. S. Is open to talks with no preconditions saying they could talk about the weather or the shape of the table as long as they sit down facetoface and that it is not realistic to only talk in north korea agrees to end nuclear program. Meanwhile, north korea says that should the u. S. Enforce a naval blockade which has been alluded to, but not specifically proposed by the administration, the dprk would take assault measures against the violation of sovereignty in a quote, act of war. Still ahead, new allegations of Sexual Misconduct against powerful men of entertainment in the media. Later, what we are learning about Reality Television star turned trump aide omarosas exit from the white house. Bill karins is here for a check on weather when we come right back. Let out your inner child at the lexus december to remember sales event. Lease the 2017 is turbo for 299 a month for 36 months. Experience amazing at your lexus dealer. more people shop online for the holidays than ever before. clapping and the United StatesPostal Service delivers more of those purchases to homes than anyone else in the country. because we know, even the smallest things are sometimes the biggest. Evenwifiso if you cants live without it. T it. Why arent you using this guy . It makes your wifi awesomely fast. No. Still nope. Now were talking it gets you wifi here, here, and here. It even lets you take a time out. No no yes yes, indeed. Amazing speed, coverage and control. All with an xfi gateway. Find your awesome, and change the way you wifi. Welcome back. New allegations of some of the most powerful men in media. Publically fighting back against the claims. New accusations surfaced against nbc matt lauer. Kate snow has the very latest. On instagram, russell summons was defiant. Today i begin to properly defend myself. Nine more women accuse ed simmo of a wide range of misconduct. I shut my eyes and waited for it to end. Tina baker told new york times. Adding simmons said dont fight me. Two weeks ago, simmons stepped back from running Business Empire after two other women accused him of rape. Simmons is denying the allegations. Vowing to share evidence of his innocence. And to contrast the popular hashtag writing not me. Its clear this has gone too far. I for one intend to fight back. Travis smaly smiley on offe variety reports expressed concern their Employment Status was linked to the status of a sexual relationship with smiley. Pbs launched socalled investigation of me without ever telling me about it. Smiley added if having a consensual relationship with a colleague years ago is the stuff that leads to this kind of public humiliation and personal destruction, heaven help us. Yes is now if theres too much blurring of the lines. We dont want to find the assaulters are somehow blurring into other guys. Before she joined the army. Worked at the today show. In july 2000, when she was about to leave nbc. She says lauer began sending her flattering messages. Then invited her to his dressing room. It was a consensual encounter, but she was 24. He was one of the most powerful men in the company. Even though my situation was consensual. I ultimately felt like a victim because of the power dynamic. Nbc news declined to comment on the story. Matt lauer has been terminated for inappropriate behavior in the workplace. Spokesman for matt lauer said he has no additional comment at this point. Reviewing the allegations against Russell Simmons. New allegations against actor dustin hoffman. One woman accused exposing himself to her when she was a minor. Did not share the story of 1980 encounter with hoffman until seven years after it occurred. Two other women have accused the man of assault. Representatives have called the accusations defamatory falsehoods. Lets get a check on weather. Bill, a late coastal snowstorm for the northeast. Glancing blow. Catch a lot of people maybe surprise when they see the forecast. Offshore a little more. Little bit closer to areas like d. C. , baltimore, philadelphia and new york. Heres the scenario. Its very cold. Plenty cold enough to get any snow to stick from the great lakes all the way through areas of new england. Windchill 23 in d. C. Zero in vermont right now. Winter weather alerts. Under Winter Weather advisories. Washington, d. C. , baltimore, dover. Atlantic city and eastern portion of long island. Cause Winter Weather headlines. 15 Million People in the advisories. Right now Crystal Clear in the region. No storm on the map whatsoever. Later today we see it developing. 7 00 a. M. , lets fast forward. Blue shows you where the storm is. Right over philadelphia. Back to new york. 5 00 p. M. Shifts to southern new england. 11 00 p. M. Its almost completely gone. Very light snow. So cold, untreated surfaces will accumulate. If youre driving home from work and youre on secondary roads or untreated roads, it will be a little slippery. Heres the updated snow cast snowfall. Not a lot of snow. Just the timing of it right during the Late Afternoon into the early evening thats going to make i95 a little bit slick. Lake effect enharness ehanced s. Grand rapids possibly 12 inches of snow. No big headlines. Flights and roads. Wont have any cancellations. Could have problems and slowdowns. Todays forecast. The cold is mostly in the great lakes. Look how nice it is today for mid december. Oklahoma city, 52. Dallas at 57. Denver another great day. 60 degrees. Even la. Still warm in Southern California and the fire flaring up overnight. New evacuations for the fiarea. If you have a flight this afternoon, ayman, anyone we know has a flight. Thanks for giving away my travel plans. We have 100 Million People traveling in the next week or so ahead of christmas and the new years. A lot of people are going to be watching. The worst will be this afternoon. Especially heading down south. Yes, just for you. Still ahead, all the highlights from thursday nights football. Plus, new rumors about where king james may play in 2018. Lakers fans, listen up. Sports is next. And thats wins goat, adi. The coffee here is amazing. Because the volcanic soil is amazing. Making the coffee erupt with flavor. So we give farmers like win more plants. To grow more delicious coffee. That erupts with even more flavor. Which helps provide for wins family. And adi the goats family too. Because his kids eat a lot. All, for a smoother tasting cup of coffee. Green mountain coffee roasters. Packed with goodness. So this is the allnew chevy equinox. Its gorgeous. It offers rear seat reminder, builtin 4g lte wifi. Apple car play compatibility. Wow. And teen driver technology. Thats crazy. Now to get all of these features, youd need all six of those crossovers. Thats insane yep, and you still wouldnt get everything thats in this equinox. Wowww. Six cars in one. Use your employee discount for everyone to get forty five hundred dollars below msrp on this 2018 chevy equinox. Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. Welcome back. Time for sports and thursday night football. Broncos and colts both teams eliminated from playoff contention. This game was for pride. Which team was better. Time to find out. Colts had spring in step early in the first quarter. Getting the touchdown with legs there for the lead. Broncos ran into trouble with quarterback. He went down leaving the game with a shoulder injury after being tackled. His diving headfirst into the zone for the score. Also throw 194 yards two touchdowns, connecting with cody and jeff. Looking like plays. Took this one 54 yards for the score with the spark. The broncos come back to win this one, 2513. Lets switch now to nba to cavaliers lakers matchup. Is lebron going to los angeles next year . Who knows. Seems to have a rapport with alonso ball. Both showing what they do best on the court. Ball would score 13, hitting several threes in areas which he struggled this season. Lebron equals power. Slams dunk got toms excited to play with the king there. Get a triple double. Ball, a double, double cavs win this one. 121112. Post game conversation is now sparking a lot of rumors. Both montgomery on what was said there. I guess its confirmed lebron to la. Just kidding. Going to have to wait and see on that one. Turning to the olympics. Russian president Vladimir Putin accused the government from manipulating evidence from the main whistleblower at 2014 sochi olympics. Putin questioned the testimony of former chief whose testimony was utilized by the International Olympic committee to ban russia from 2018 olympic games. Saying because he is in the federal Witness Protection Program in the u. S. That the antidoping director is under the control of the American Special services. Fled the u. S. Fearing own safety. For life including six women from the hockey team. Thats a lot of drama there in la between the cavs and the lakers. A lot of excitement. A lot of people waiting to see what going to happen with lebron james. You think hes going to make the move. You can tell, even that little conversation. Creates a lot of buzz. The other thing is this. The lakers would have serious star power between the two of them. I wonder whose team it would be. Its still Lebron Jamess