perez fa this morning, a government shutdown in looming as congress returns to washington. president trump is looking for some legislative wins as he inches towards his 100th day. plus the future of the eu at stake as the french presidential election advances after a tense first round. voters will now choose between a centrist or a far right. a third american citizen detained by north korea as the communist regime threatens to sink a u.s. air carrier. good morning, everyone. it is monday, april 24th. m al witt alo.

citizens delivered a mess a j of no thanks. emanuel, he has advanced to the second round of voting after securing roughly 24% of the vote. if he is victorious, he could become the youngest president of france. he faces marine le pen who captured 22% of the votes. it is the first time that neither of france's pain left wing nor right wing parties has had a candidate in the second round. the runoff is set to take place in under two ek wweeks. france's future in the european union is in the spotlight. m while pushing for the country's exit. meanwhile, former rivals are now

throwing their support behind macron. both conceded defeat yesterday are condemning macron condemning le pen. joining us now from london, tammy lightner. good morning to you. what's been the reaction to all of this? these two worthy expected front runners and they won. they did it. >> reporter: that's right, alex. good morning. you know, i can tell you the french people are tired of business as usual. which is evident by the two candidates moving on in this election. neither candidate represents a mainstream party. and that says something about the french voters. and with this heightened tension, we've already seen clashes between protesters and police. thousands of security officers patrolled french polling stations following thursday's terror attack in paris. and likely there will be a heavy police presence moving forward in the final round of the french

presidential election which will be held may 7th. now, this will be a showdown between far right populist marine le pen. and manuel macron. french politicians on both the left and right are already urging voters to block le pen's path to power. macron is considered a novice. he had a grassroots campaign and had no support from a major political party. if elected, what does this mean for france? well, he has an optimistic vision for a tolerant france and a united europe. one with open borders. le pen on the other and has a different vision. she wants closed borders, less immigration, and tougher security. you know, this election really is changing the country's political landscape in a way that's never happened. and moving forward, one big question that's on everybody's

mind, what will france's participation be in the european union. back to you. >> that is the question. thank you for that. all right. back in the u.s., as he nears the first 100 days milestone, president trump's approval ratings are near record lows. in a new "wall street journal" poll, 40% approve. 54% disapprove of his performance so far. that is a negative 14-point rating. it is the worst for a president at this point in the 25-year history of the poll. 42% is still the lowest recorded number at this stage of a presidency that dates back to eisenhower. the president has positive 85 point net approval rating among his own voters. and 69 point rating among republicans. he is a negative 23 points with independents. when trump voters were asked by

"the washington post" poll about the decision to back him, only 2% regret their support. 96% say it was the right thing to do. and when asked who is out of touch with the concerns of most people, the 67% say the democratic party. that's higher than the 62% who say republicans. 58% label donald trump as out of touch. president trump commented on the new polling on twitter sunday afternoon saying, new polls out today are very good considering that much of the media is fake and almost always negative. he continued he would still beat hillary in popular vote even though he lost it by 3 million in november. he voted it was wrong big on election and said i'll stand by their vote on me and 53% said strong leader. funding for the government ends out at the end of this week requiring them to act to avert shutdown. there's hope it can be done before trump's 100 days rally

saturday night in harrisburg, pennsylvania. white house chief of staff reince priebus saying we want to get to a place this week where border security money is being directed to the department of homeland security for surveillance on the structure. asked friday whether he would sign a bill that did not include funding for the wall, he said, quote, i don't know yet. my base definitely want this border wall. the thing they want more than anything is is the wall. but he won't get support from congressional democrats with chuck schumer urging the president to stay out of their discussions with congressional republicans. >> i'm very hopeful we can get a budget done by friday. we've asked the president not to interfere. if he doesn't interfere, we can get this done. if he demands things poison pills like the wall which not only democrats but republicans oppose. every republican on the border.

texas, arizona, new mexico oppose it. we could get this done. we ask him to let us do our work, not throw in some last-minute poison pills that could undo it. >> the democrats do not support the wall. and i think that the republicans on the border states do not support the wall. the republicans had the votes in the house and the senate and the white house to keep government open. the burden to keep it open is on the republicans. the wall is, in my view, immoral, expensive, unwise. and when the president says i promised a wall during my campaign, i don't think he said he was going to pass a billions of dollars of cost of the wall onto the taxpayer. >> well, late sunday morning the president clarified his position on funding the wall. quote, eventually but at a later date so we can get started early, mexico will be paying in some form for the badly needed border wall. the trump administration is also making a renewed health care push. white house officials have

suggested there could be a vote by wednesday. mick mulvaney said yesterday the administration sees no structural reason why the house could not vote on this issue this week. >> there is bill language. in fact, we know, i believe, senate budget committee delivered some language to the house last night in detail. keep in mind, these are all tweaks to the bill that was taken up four weeks ago which does exist in bill form. if we could have an agreement by the end of the day today to keep the government open. and if the house could get its ducks in a row this week, they could do that on health care as well. >> health care, do you have to have a vote this week? or are you comfortable if speaker ryan says i need the votes. >> i would like to have a vote this week. but it's not -- you know, on monday we're still going to be here working for the american people. so whether health care repeal and replace comes on friday or saturday or on monday in the grand scheme of things, it's a marathon, not a sprint.

so we're hopeful for this week, but again, it's not something that has to happen in order to define our success. >> president trump tweeted yesterday, obamacare is in serious trouble. the demes need big money to keep it going. herwise it dies. house speaker paul ryan offered no specific plans for health care. he made it clear republicans would only bring legislation to the floor if and when they have enough votes to pass a bill. all right. joining us is jonathan swann. you're reporting the president has new executive orders, a very busy week ahead as he heads up to number 100 here. >> yes. by friday donald trump will have signed 32 executive orders at least. there could be more. that's the most executive orders of any new president since world war ii. he's become very frustrated with his inability to get things done through congress, so he's doing

things unilaterally. as obama discovered in his late years. and the big ones here are going to be energy related. there are reviews into decisions obama made to basically restrict energy development. the subtext behind this my great colleague made some phone calls after my story last night and obama basically put large swaths of arctic and waters off the atlantic coast off limits for development. this could change all of that. >> so jonathan, nancy pelosi is saying the burden is on republicans. that they're the ones that have to keep the government open. let's listen to what republican senator marco rubio had to say about it. >> we cannot shut down the government right now. we have a potential crisis brewing with north korea. we've seen what's going on, the ongoing crisis in syria. we don't know what the outcome of the french election is going to be. but that could potentially throw

the european union and the nato alliance -- the last thing we could afford is to send a message to the world that the united stes government is only partially functioning. that would have catastrophic impacts in my view on global affairs. >> there he is saying we can't shut down. if the president tries to force their hand and put in funding for a border wall, are republicans going to support him? >> well, the misconception here -- and look. who knows what donald trump could do. he could change his mind. but this has been consistent for a couple of weeks now. in my private conversations with administration officials, a lot of this talk is bluster. there really is no appetite to do a staredown fight to the death shutdown fight within the white house. they can't afford this. they've got too many fires going at the moment. health care's been a disaster. they want to do tax reform. donald trump cannot allow the government to shut down on his watch. ultimately we saw reince priebus

tip his hand on the weekend when he said funding for border security, not necessarily the wall. so i think we're going to see a bit of flexibility there. >> all right. read between the lines. thank you. >> busy days ahead. thank you. president trump will host mebs of the national security council this afternoon. it's an unusual move for the president. nikki haley who is serving as president of the security council this month will attend the working lunch along with envoys from russia and china. north korea is likely to be a major point of discussion after china abstained from a resolution last week condemning the latest missile test there. still ahead, a volunteer firefighter in the right place at the right time after a 4-year-old falls out of a moving bus. this is unbelievable. plus lebron james sets a record as the cavaliers pull out a comeback win. that and a check on weather when we come back.

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welcome back. volunteer firefighter being credited with saving a four-year-old girl after she fell out of a moving bus. the whole thing caught on cam a camera. take a look at this. the child falls out and lands on the pavement. man is also a emt. rushes over to the girl and carries her away from the road until paramedics arrive. >> it was unbelievable. i didn't realize i was seeing what i was seeing. it looked like something out of a movies. it was pretty terrifies. i just had to keep a level head and just go to the foundation of ems and do everything i could for the girl. >> the firefighter told nbc news the child suffered a broken jaw, but expected to make a full

recovery. in florida officials lifted evacuation orders for 2,000 homes affected by wildfires in the most drought stricken areas of the state. 150 wildfire destroyed nine homes was contained after rain helped battle the blazes. central florida another wildfire was contained after showers kept the flames close to the ground. allows the crews to strengthen containment lines. let's get a check on the weather. florida has been a completely different story than the mid atlantic and northeast where we've had a lot of wet weather. florida has been smokey and dry. here's the map today. shows all the heavy rain. traveling on the eastern sea board today and tomorrow. delays at the airports. enough rainfall to get delays in the morning. keep rush hour driving and coming home. right now the wor is in south carolina, north carolina. charlotte had a lot of heavy rain overnight.

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welcome back. i'm alex. in for amy. we're going to start you off with morning's top stories. congress returns this week. senate today and house tomorrow. with only days to go from keeping the government from shutdowning. if a fix cannot be found, shutdown on president's 100th day in office. current funding expires friday. battling the trump administration over funding the border wall. reaching a deal could be tough. lawmakers could extend the deadline for about a week to allow more time for negotiations. >> today, barack obama scheduled to make first public appearance since leaving the white house as part of his goal to inspire the next chen ratigeneration of lea take part in a forum at chicago

of students. he is not expected to criticize president trump and will focus on the policies he's advocated for while in office. the formers president's trip to hometown staed yesterday. met with several at risk young men in a nand he used to work as an organizer. jam 8400 u.s. troops stationed in afghanistan. earlier this year the top u.s. commander there told congress he needed a few thousand more troops to overcome the stale meat against the taliban. >> president trump says roll out tax reform. stunned own treasury department. revealed news during an event friday. stopped short of providing specifics. >> in fact earlier in the day the treasury secretary steve

mnuchin said it would complicate things. faces obstacles on both sides of capitol hill. also trying to push through another version of health care reform. joining us from washington, political reporter, jonathan swan. look at numbers here. new wall street journal poll. americans have a new view of government as this administration begins. 57% want the government to do more to solve problems and help people in need. 39% say, no, better leave it to business and individuals, but that is the highest demand for a government role that has ever been record instead this poll. give me your thoughts on what's behind that. >> for the first time in recent memory, we have gone through an election campaign where both leading party advocates played a role advocating big government.

we did not have a conservative. you did not have a ronald reagan type figure saying government is the problem. you had donald trump saying we need to take care of our people. we need to protect social security. i'm going to protect your medicare. you just didn't have anyone out there making that sort of paul ryan argument. it's no surprise to me. i think we've seen a shift in politics. >> part of that shift is whether the president will have wins as he hits day 100. instead necessarily focusing on what he can get done, get to a campaign rally in pennsylvania at the end of the week. what's behind that. >> a couple of things. one is donald trump loves creating a scene, and we're going to have a split screen that he wants on saturday. one side going to have journalists in washington, d.c. in black tie at the white house correspondence dinner and then you're going to have donald trump delivering a full throated

economic nationalist message in pennsylvania to heart land voters. it's perfect for donald trump. >> thank you so much, my friend. >> it's a pleasure. through the weekend, dnc chair tom perez continued unity tour out west appearing alongside senator bernie sanders in las vegas. >> we need to articulate our values clearly what we stand for, what we're about and that's what we will do today because when we put our values in action, we succeed and folks, i'm here today because you know what, our greatest strength is our unity of values. >> left out of the growing pains over how big the parties should be, sanders and independents turned heads when he told the wall street journal i don't know

when asked if georgia candidate is progressive. some democrats are progressive and some are not. sanders tried to fix that comment this weekend. quote, let me be very clear. it is imperative he be elected congressman and that democrats take back the u.s. house. then there's a case of heath mellow. oklahoma's candidate. perez and sanders took him campaigning last week in nebraska in front of a crowd of 6,000. at issue a senate bill he sponsored requiring women to be informed of their right to request a fetal ultrasound before having an abortion. a pro-choice group called the dnc backing a ing a ing a betra later he said in a statement i fundamentally disagree with heath mellow's believes about reproductive health. it's a promising step he now shares the democratic party position on fundamental rights. every candidate that runs as a

democratic should do the same because every woman should be able to make their own health choices period. yet, here's what nancy pelosi said on "meet the press." >> can you be a democrat and the support of the democrat party if your pro-life. >> of course. of course. i have served many years in congress with members who have not shared my very positive, my family would say, aggressive position on promoting a woman's right to choose. >> minority leader joins the conversation in just a bit. maybe he can put to bed once and for all who is and isn't a democrat. set to welcome u.n. members to white house today. white house has repeatedly said all options on on the table when it comes to dealing with kim jong-un's regime. comes after korea warned australia of a possible nuclear strike over the weekend. amid a visit by mike pence. north korea has also threatened to sink a u.s. aircraft carrier

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political accomplishment. independent candidate emmanuel macron has advanced after securing roughly 24% of the vote. if he's victorious could become france's youngest president. faces marine la pen. sit the first time in six decades neither of the left wing or right wing party has had a candidate in the second round. joining us from paris, matt bradley. i'm curious what's next for the two candidates. just under two weeks to get this done. i imagine a debate in that future, right. this is going to be a major major battle coming up over the next two weeks. about a little less than two weeks now you're going to see the final round of this vote. already the media here using language like tsunami, earthqua earthquake, and sounds like an exaggeration, but really it's not.

as you just mentioned the major parties the ones that have been fixtures in french politics since the second world war. they've been pushed to the side. over these next two weeks, both of these new contenders are going to be in the ring. fighting against each other for the nearly 50% of the voters. slightly more than 50% of the vote that didn't go to them. they're going to be picking up the pieces from those establishment parties that are now going to be wondering what happened. the conservatives and the liberals have both been pushed aside. not exactly clear that everybody is going to go in exactly the way the polls are predicts. while it's true marine le pen is far right populist candid. also stands for essentially stripping down and dismantling the european union and political establishment. the far left candidate who got votes. some votes might actually be going to marine le pen.

very clear in the next two weeks, emmanuel macron is probably going to be the winner. we're going to see when he comes out. oogs of the votes from marine le pen and what she's opened is not going to go away. >> given theresa may's appointment, election, kind of hard to predict what's going to happen in france. already moving the markets in wall street this morning. >> also. president trump awards first purple heart. some are wondering if he understands the heart of the award. >> attorney general sessions is supposed to be the leading law enforcement official in america. why would he insult the men and women who do this work every day who put their lives on the line in order to achieve so much. attorney general jeff sessions calls the nypd soft on crime, earning him and the president an invitation to say to the officers faces. we'll hear more from a very angry new york city mayor next. what if technology

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the justice department's latest threat did not sit well with the mayor of that list. letter went out to nine cities friday warning they would lose federal grant money if they did not approve or cooperate with federal immigration officials. press release signaled out several cities including new york saying it continues to see gang murder after gang murder and victim of consequence of the city's soft on crime stance. here's new york mayor bill de blasio's response. >> we did not become the safest big city in america by being, quote, unquote, soft on crime. i've never met a member of the nypd that st on crime. this police commissioner is not soft on crime. this is an insult. i would say to president trump and to attorney general

sessions, if you believe this statement is accurate, come here to new york city, look our police officers in the eye and tell them that you believe they are soft on crime. see how that feels. see what the people in new york city will feel about that. >> the justice department claim comes at a time when nypd reports low crime rates. 2015 was the safest on record. sided with the justice department on this saying they're absolutely correct. president trump awarded first purple heart over the weekend. bestowed upon sergeant first class alvaro bar yentosisrietos >> when i heard about this. i wanted to do it myself. took criticism on social media saying a simple thank you for your service would have been more appropriate.

latest incident reminisce acceptabilisent of the campaign trail. >> something very nice just happened to me. a man came up to me and he handed me his purple heart. i said to him, i said to him, is that like the real one or a copy. and he said that's my real purple heart. i have such confidence in you and i said, man, that's like -- that's like big stuff. i always wanted to get the purple heart. this was much easier. >> the criticism then that the purpleeart is never easily received since it's only awarded to service members who were injured or killed in battle. i thought you would have a

better report for this monday. >> our friends in the southeast have the rain sunday. still raining today. that's building up the coast. entire nation because the flood potential. we see the yellow on the ma'am. that's when we goat to higher intensity of rainfall. pouring through charlotte almost towards raleigh now. that's why we have about 15-16 million people under a flash flood watch all through the carolinas. we got slow moving storms. with us for at least two days. exiting not the northeast until wednesday during the middle of the day. heaviest stuff, the flooding, greatest potential of the river and roadways flooded is in the carolinas especially eastern carolina. and good solid one to two inches of rain all the way up through new england in the days ahead. there is good news that's going to happen. all the warmth in the middle of the country, beautiful weather today and tomorrow, will eventually make it to the east coast by the end of the week. some areas rainy and chilly will

be up to the 80s. here's today. the beautiful weather chicago, all the way down san antonio. get toasty in texas with 90s. a lot of airport problems around new york as we go through tuesday potentially. by the time we get to wednesday, d.c. jumps to 73. atlanta 84. gorgeous weather will head to east coast and new storm system in the middle of the nation. april rngts living up to the reputation. storms thrghout the country. thankfully not many tornados this week. >> that's good news. still ahead, the trump administration shows it can be tough on russia. plus fiery new report on the time apple ceo tim cook stole the head of uber. even threatening to remove from the apple store. that's next. what's the best way to get

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director james comey tried to ward off accusations of favoritism when he chose to inform congress fbi was investigating hillary clinton's e-mails. a report details comey's decision to violate his agency's policy of not revealing veigations. when asked if he should consider hisctions helped dond trump's chance, he said, quote, if we ever consider who might have affected in what way by what with we do, we're done. when it was feared she would win, comey feared a backlash if

it was found afterwards the fbi was investigating the next president. one senior fbi official said the damage told the damage to the fbi would have been irreparable. yet what comey did not disease was the fact they were investigating the trump campaign. comey later confirmed this fact four months after election day. the "times" points out he rewrote the script based on the expectation she would win and they would be accused of helping her. with mr. trump they did it by the book with secrecy. "morning joe" has more. the trump administration is refusing to give exxonmobil a waiver to drill in russia of the the administration will not grant special permission to u.s. countries to carry out oil and gas drilling while sanctions against russia are intact. last week they applied for a

waiver of sanctions imposed by obama administration with a russia state oil company. that request came a month after former exxonmobil ceo came sblgt of state. he has promised to recuse himself from matters of exxonmobil during his first two years at the state department. more top business headli headliners. le pen and macron advancing to a runoff. carolyn, dow futures are up some 200 points. help us understand why the markets are celebrating this outcome. >> look, i think relieved is an understatement. markets soaring here but asia and u.s. dow futures seen hire to the tune of 215 points when i last checked. also taking a look at euro versus dollar we're seeing that at a five-month high. this is over massive relief

macron has made it to the second round with le pen leader of far right national party. in the second round which happens in two weeks macron, the business friendly candidate, he's expected to win with a landslide against marine le pen. that pretty much removes the risk of france exiting the eurozone. there had been some nervousness around that and, hence, the reaction in the market. >> one follow-up here. there was a big piece in "new york times" about the ceo of uber, he landed himself in hot water after reportedly violating some of apple's consumer privacy policies and tim cook was not too pleased by that. >> yeah, that's a pretty juicy story reported bit "new york times" that apple ceo tim cook met with uber ceo in 2015 and even threatened to kick the app off the app store.

that's after he learned uber was not only violating privacy guide linebackers they tried to cover them up. essentially what they did uber was fingerprinting iphones that were difficult to be removed once deleted or wiped and tried to cover that up. >> carolyn, live from london. thanks so much. coming up next on "morning joe," the senate returns to capitol hill from its easter break today hoping to avoid a government shutdown friday. >> the big question there will democrats work with republicans and white house to prevent that from happening. senate minority leader chuck schumer joins the conversation. "morning joe" just moments away. travis clannic clang cal ank

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kelly, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, lewis. president trump says his is a different kind of presidency and that's why he thinks the 100 day scorecard coming up saturday doesn't really apply to him. he calls it an artificial barrier, something that isn't that meaningful. having said all that trump white house is rolling out high-profile events this week to try to shine a light on things they think the president has been able to get done, even though that does not include big legislation. at the same time there's a different kind of deadline going, that's the budget showdown. by friday if there isn't budget extension to keep the government open, there's going to be a shutdown. no one thinks that's going to happen but there's a lot of work to do between now and then to agree on a budget. avoiding any kind of government shutdown is critical as the president winds down towards 100 days and tries to mark and highlight the things that he thinks define his early presidency. lewis. >> kelly o'donnell from the

white house north lawn. >> 100 days. >> how do you recover? >> i don't know. "morning joe" starts right now. there are five days until a government shutdown and it all could come down to president trump insisting that congress, not mexico, pay for his promised border wall. >> it's also five days until president trump's 100th day in office. despite him brushing it off as a ridiculous standard, a last-minute push on health care and also tax reform. can he gets some points on the board before saturday. >> all this as french voters set the stage for their own election shocker with europe and the world bracing for a final result that could have an even bigger impact than brexit. another critical week with north korea, as the rege

kidnaps another citizen. >> we have executive producers and co-host of the circus. also analyst for nbc news and msnbc. also with us council on foreign relations and author of the book "a world in disarray" richard haass. former democratic congressman harold ford, jr. richard haass, "world in disarray," a little less after yesterday. you look at the results and everyone focusing on le pen coming in second. the way this is shaping you, it seems mainstream political thought in europe may be a little more back in vogue. >> after dutch election, populism,