It is friday, december 27th, im ayman mohyeldin, yasmin has the morning off. We begin with President Trump. Still lashing out over impeachment, while on vacation at the maralago resort, the president tweeted or retweeted 35 times yesterday, attacking democrats, House Speaker nancy pelosi, and the districts she represents. In one post, he claimed, quote, the radical left, do nothing democrats, said they wanted to rush everything through to the senate because President Trump is a threat to the national security. They are vicious, will say anything, but now they dont want to go fast anymore. They want to go very slowly. Liars. He also tweeted despite all of the Great Success that our country has had over the last three years, it makes it much more difficult to deal with foreign leaders and others when im having to constantly defend myself against the do nothing democrats and their bogus impeachment scam. Bad for usa. And on pelosis home state, the president said quote, california leads the nation by far in both the number of homeless people, and the percentage increase in the homeless population. Two terrible stats. Crazy nancy should focus on that in her very own district, and helping her governor, with the big homeless problem. We are also hearing from another u. S. Senator, who will serve as a juror during the impeachment trial. John kennedy of louisiana was asked to react to the these remarks from colleague Lisa Murkowski who is concerned about Mitch Mcconnells coordination with the white house in planning the senate trial. Watch. In fairness, when i heard that, i was disturbed. If we are tasked as the full senate, to do impartial justice under the constitution and the law, thats the oath that we will swear to uphold at the commencement of this proceeding, then to me, it means that we have to take that step back from being hand and glove with the defense. And so i heard what leader mcconnell had said. I happen to think that that has further confused the process. The senator is entitled to her opinion and senator mcconnell is entitled to his. We all see the world from our own bell tower. I will share with you my opinion of what is going on. It is all very odd. Nine out of ten senators secretly dont want to hear this case, and the tenth is lying. Now, many of them are not going to say that publicly, but thats how they feel. Speaker pelosi knows that. And basically, what shes telling us is that the senate is prohibiting, let me try that again, the senate is prohibited from doing from what it doesnt really want to do unless we do it in a way that she approves of. And i find that very odd. I dont know why the senator is taking that position, or rather why the speaker is taking that position, it is as if she has gone from folly to farce. Meanwhile mcconnell is being called out in an oped published in his hometown journal, the louisville courier journal, donald trump has violated his oath, Mitch Mcconnell is about to violate two. Greenfield writes this. Every senator has a constitutional obligation of impartiality but mcconnells role as a Senate Leader makes his obligation even more important and crucial to the constitutional framework. This is not a time for political cynicism or constitutional faithlessness. Mcconnells loyalty to trump should not overwhelm his loyalty to the constitution. If he fails in this, he is not only violating his article one oath on impeachment but article six oath to support the constitution. I spoke to greenfield last night, and asked him to expand on that. Back in the day when the constitution was written, political parties, as we now know them did not exist. So the thought was that the congress would be the control, the power against the presidency, and it would provide a checking function of the presidency, especially in those rare circumstances in which the president has abused his power. And when the president has abused the power of the office, the only legal remedy is impeachment. So when senator mcconnell says this is a political act, it is a political procedure, thats flat wrong from a constitutional perspective. Its legal and the remedy is impeachment. And under the constitution, every senator is required to be impartial. And hes already said that he is going to violate that oath. Now two law professors who testified on opposite sides of the house impeachment hearing are now battling out in print. Professor jonathan turley, called as a republican witness during the house impeachment proceedings wrote in an oped that the notion that President Trump is not technically impeached until House Speaker nancy pelosi actually sends the articles to the senate is false. He writes while this theory may provide tweetready fodder for the president to defend himself and taunt his political adversaries, it is difficult to sustain on the text or history or logic of the constitution. Make no mistake, the house speaks in its own voice and in its own time. It did so on december 18th, 2019. Turley was responding to noah feldman, harvard law professor, who despite being in favor of the impeachment wrote in an oped that trump would not be impeached until the articles were delivered to the senate. If the house does not communicate its impeachment to the senate, it hasnt actually impeached the president. If the articles are not transmitted, trump could legitimately say that he wasnt actually impeached at all. Former Massachusetts GovernorDeval Patricks 2020 campaign has experienced a setback after it failed to collect the 11,000 signatures needed to qualify for michigans march 10th primary ballot. Patrick joined the race after the state had prepared its initial ballot, meaning his campaign had to collect the signatures to qualify. However, even though patricks campaign submitted over 13,000 signatures by the december 13th deadline a report by the Michigan Department of state removed 5,000 signatures due to error, incomplete addresses or incorrect dates and it left him 6,085 signatures short. And michiganers deserve to be able to choose from their full range of choices for president , and we are weighing our options to ensure that Deval Patrick is on the ballot in michigan on march 10th. The michigan board of state can vancors will meet this morning to consider whether patrick will be on the march ballot. Still ahead my question for you, sir, is home alone 2 your favorite holiday movie. Well, a im in home alone 2. It was an honor to do it. And it turned out to be a very big hit, obviously. So it is a Big Christmas hit. One of the biggest. So it is an honor to be involved in Something Like that. Why the cbc has removed President Trumps home alone cameo from the broadcast. We will show you how the president responded to this international incident. That story and a check on weather when we come right back. Hi, im dave. I supply 100 farmfresh milk for lactaid. Its real milk, just without the lactose, so you can enjoy it even if youre sensitive. Delicious. Now, ive heard people say lactaid isnt real milk. Ok, well, if it isnt real then, i guess those things over there cant actually be cows. Must be some kind of really big dogs, then. Sit bad dog. The unitedllaxin. 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While the edits were made in 2014 when it acquired the broadcast rights for the film the move recently sparked outrage among the president s supporters who view the omission as politically motivated. Trump responded to the cbc for editing the cameo blaming none other than the canadian Prime Minister himself, Justin Trudeau. Trump quoted, i guess justin t didnt like me making him pay up on nato or the same. And then said the movie will never be the same. Just kidding. And donald trump jr. Calling the edit absolutely pathetic. Lets turn to our home alone expert here in the studio, nbc meteorologist michelle grossman. It is an international incident. And i watched home alone maybe four or five times this season. All the original form with, you know, trumps cameo and everything . I saw the cameo, many, many time, yes and then my 6yearold calls him donald trunk, so we watch that. Kind of glad its over. Lets talk about weather. We have mild, mild air. Staying in place through the weekend for many of us. And you can see the map, the jet stream dipped so low allowing the warm air to come up and seeing temperatures 15 to 25 degrees above typical this time of the year and temperatures record breaking in some spots, you can see all of the colors on the map indicating that warm air, cleveland today, 50 degrees, and thats 12 degrees typical for this time of the year. Chicago, 46. And they broke a record at 61 degrees yesterday. No complaints there. And 64 were looking in nashville. 15 degrees above normal. Saturday, same story. Then things start to change on sunday. We have cold air back to the west. And we are going to set the stage for some snow in the Northern Plains. And this is where the cold air is. Where you see the purples and the blues. So minneapolis, 32. Billings, 41. 41 in denver. As we mentioned, we will see some snow on saturday, and some blowing snow. And maybe blizzard conditions. So rough travel here in the middle of the country, in the Northern Plains, down to the central plains, and weather winter alerts are in place now, and winter storm warning where you see the pink, north platte, we have the blue, the winter storm watch, so it is going to be very, very tricky travel here as we head through this part of the country, the Southern Plains we are looking again at some pretty heavy rain. This crosscountry thermal will development as we go throughout the day will strengthen. And heavy snowfall in the rockies and four corners. Rain and ice in the plains. As we go to saturday, this is the bulls eye for that really tough travel time. Many of us are still traveling home. Maybe we have new years eve plans that we need to get to. This is tougher in the middle of the country. You can see the blue back to the west on the cold side of the storm, six to 12 inches of snow, and then some very heavy rain, even Severe Weather on the Southern Side of the storm. This is up on sunday, temperatures start to crack in the midwest and again, this will set the stage for some cold rain, and also some freezing rain, in parts of the upper midwest into the great lakes. By sunday, we are looking at pouring rain in the east. The good news for the east though, we are looking at that warm weather in place so it looks to be mainly rain for all of the big cities as you travel home on sunday. So a little piece of good news for us in the east at least. All right. Thank you very much, michelle. Appreciate that. Still ahead, a lighter take on one of the biggest issues of the 2020 president ial race. Journalist and comedian Francesca Florentini joins us for a look at her new special. Back in a moment. T her new spec. Back in a moment steyer im about to say two words that will make washington insiders very uncomfortable term limits. You and i both know we need term limits, that congress shouldnt be a lifetime appointment. But members of congress, and the corporations whove bought our democracy hate term limits. Too bad. Im tom steyer and i approve this message because the only way we get universal healthcare, address Climate Change and make our economy more fair is to change business as usual in washington. What is medicare for all . Theres no exact definition. Because it doesnt exist yet. But the basic idea of the two proposals in congress is that the government runs one National Health care program. And everybody is on it. Private Insurance Companies are pretty much put out of business. And doctors, hospitals, and pharmacists bill uncle sam. Copay, premiums and deductibles would mostly disappear. But nothing in life is free. The government needs money to pay for all of that care. Which means side effects could include a payroll tax, income tax, progressive tax, tax on wealthy and treemy wealthy and imposing fees on institutions and negotiate with Drug Companies and pharmaceutical companies. That is a clip from the msnbc special airing this sunday, red, white and who, francesca takes a closer look at debate on health care in the united states. Fran ches francesca joins us now. I love that parody that you did on like the pharmaceutical advertising. Yes, indeed. You saw the dog kiss. I think there was a freeze frame on that. Yes, no, no, that is great. On national television, kissed by a dog. This is fun. Let me play you this sound bite from, because i know you spoke to Bernie Sanders, this is a signature issue for him, obviously something he has focused his entire campaign around. Let me play you what he has to say for medicare for all and we will talk about it afterwards. Watch. Lets say that i like my health insurance. Good. I like the logo. I like the billing system. I like that they play careless whisper when im on hold with them. Ive got some bad news for you. Despite that you love your Insurance Company and you love arguing with them you will have to find somebody else to argue with. Okay. Youre going to get all of the coverage that you into ed. The idea that somehow it is going away the point that nobody loves their Insurance Companies. What people love is the doctors, maybe the care they got in the hospital, and you will retain that. And in fact, you will have more choice. On the medicare for all, everybody is in it together, you go to any doctor you want. It is a side of Bernie Sanders we dont get to see too often on the campaign trail, relaxed in his element talking about what i was suggesting, a signature issue. Do you think though he has moved the needle on the debate about medicare for all for the president ial candidates in the primary season . Oh, yes, no question, hes moved the debate. I mean ever since he was running in 2016, or in 2015, he has moved the debate. He set a watermark for democrats. And weve seen that actually medicare for all is polling really strongly with americans. It polls, even the low polls are around 51 , and thats pretty good. 51 of voting age americans, come out to vote for the president. So we have to remember that, you know, things like Social Security werent popular, or medicare when it first, you know, was introduced, was unpopular, but from americans i spoke with, we went to three different states across the country all in different states of health care, so National Health care policies playing out for them really differently. And were always told that americans, they just dont want governmentfunded health care. They have a choice. They want choice. You know, we always think, you know, americans on our health care, it is like a bad boyfriend, you know, like were afraid if we break up, we wont find anything better, so were like well we will just put up with this. He never washes the dishes. You know, like that. And obviously, it is a little more serious than that. But it seems like from the folks i talked to, for example, uninsured people who just turned 65, a woman with leukemia who said she would be dead if she didnt turn 65 and wasnt able to get treatment for her leukemia, and thats thanks to governmentfunded health care. Well, i will say quickly, one of the arguments people make against the medicare for all program that is advocated by Bernie Sanders, including some from his own party is, it is going to be too expensive. I think you asked him about that. Lets watch what he has to say and ill talk to you about it. How much is medicare for all costs, how many iraq wars . That is a great question. Like one and a half. I mean that is a hard apple to orange to make. Here is the more important point. People say medicare for all is expensive but the status quo, you dont brink in the cost efficiencies for medicare for all. And there are estimates out there we will be spending 150 trillion over the next ten years for health care so were spending far more than any other country per person on health care. So hes taking an answer to it, because going back to my first question a little bit, other candidates in the primary debate have kind of qualified the medicare for all, they have certainly adopted the mantra of medicare for all but added on if you want to keep your private insurance and he is against that absolutely. He is saying the government can in fact get rid of private insurance and totally afford to do so. I think the reason, and Elizabeth Warren has a different approach, the reason that bernies medicare for all policy is bad is that you eliminate the private health care system, is some of the things that we uncovered, and the americans have known for a while, which is when there is a profit motive in our wellness, in getting healthy, if we have cancer and someone is making money off of us being a