new you in the russia probe, robert mueller has reportedly told donald trump's lawyers that the president is under investigation but not a criminal target at this point. plus china announces additional tariffs spark new global concerns over a trade war. and what we're learning this morning about the woman who law enforcement sources say opened fire at the youtube headquarters. good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, april 4. we begin with the mueller probe. a new report says robert mueller

reassured donald trump about his status as the special counsel seeks an interview, but some president advisers are worried it is a trap. three people tell the "washington post" that mueller informed trump's legal team last month that he does not consider the president a criminal target at this point. in private negotiations in early march about a possible interview, mueller described trump as a subject of his investigation into russia's interference in the 2016 election. prosecutors view someone as a subject when that person has engaged in conduct that is under investigation but there is not sufficient evidence to bring charges. two sources tell the "post" that mueller also told trump's lawyers he is preparing a report about the president's actions while in office and potential obstruction of justice. the sources say mueller's investigati

investigators have kindicated that they will write on their findings in stages with the first focused on obstruction of justice issues. mueller is required to report his conclusions confidentially to rod rosenstein who can then decide whether to release it publicly. >> so neither the president nor the special counsel's teams would comment on the report which claims that the president and some of his allies seized on the special counsel's words as an assurance that trump's risk of criminal jeopardy is low. however other advisers noted that subjects could easily become indicted targets and expressed concerns that the special counsel was baiting trump into annual ent interview could lead to legal peril. last month john dowd resigned amid dismute putes that the pret ignored his advice. >> this as a judge handed down jail time to alex van der zwann

who pleaded guilty about lying to his conversations with rick gates, paul manafort and a person tied to russian intelligence services. judge jackson said it was intended to reflect the seriousness of the offense, promote respect for the law. and reducing sentencing disparities in a brief statement the dump born lawyer said what i did was wrong, i apologize to the court, my wife and family. let's go to the trade war now. china said yesterday that it is only polite to retaliate and within the last few hours announced 25% tariffs on $50 billion worth of american exports including soybeans, airplanes and autos. this after the trump administration proposed 25% tariffs on $50 billion in chinese imports, mainly tech equipment, identifying more than

1300 goods like flat screen tvs, medical devices, aircraft parts and batteries in response to what america claims is theft of u.s. technologies. now, acting seskts state john sullivan is scheduled to meet with the chinese ambassador at the department of state this afternoon. meanwhile data analyzed by the brookings institution finds that among the tariffs china announced on monday the majority of the industry's jobs are in counties that president trump won back in 2016. the jobs are mostly farming and secondary metal manufacturing. only wineries do clinton counties have the most jobs. and switching gear, in a working lunch with the leaders of lat vee, a lit wayne gentleman and estonia, president trump floated a new idea for the border after pointing blame to his predecessor. >> our laws are so weak, you would not understand this because i know how strong your laws are at the border, it's like we have no border because we had obama make changes.

president obama made changes that basically created no border. it is called catch and release. you catch them, you register them, they go into our country, we can't throw them out. >> but last year top administration officials like mick mulvaney, john kelly, jeff sessions actually said the catch and release policy had come to an end. still president trump proposed his idea posting the millitary there. >> we have very bad laws for our border. and we are going to be doing some things million dollars teariltea militarily until we can have a wall. we will guard our border with our military. >> as for the origin of this idea, last week the president spoke of his admiration for the demilitarized zone between north and south korea. >> look at korea.

we have a border at korea. we have a wall of soldiers. you look at that, nobody comes through. but our own border, we don't take care of it. >> so mexico's ambassador to the u.s. has asked the trump administration to clarify the president's comments that he is planning to deploy troops along the southern border. the ambassador said, quote, we have formally requested a clarification on the president's comments from the state department and the department of homeland security. we share the idea of having a secure border, but we do not always agree on how to achieve that goal. mexico naturally will always act in accordance with our own interests. and president trump responded to the news that mexican officials yesterday broke up a dwindling group of mostly central american migrants making their way through the country towards the

united states. watch this. >> i told mexico yesterday that because of the fact that their laws are so strong, they can do things about it that hard to believe the united states can't. i said i hope that you will tell that caravan not to get up to the border. and i think that they are doing that because as of 12 minutes ago, it was all being broken up. we'll see what happens. >> while speaking alongside leaders from three baltic nations that voiced concern over russian aggression, president trump argued that no one has been tougher on russia than him. >> getting along with russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. maybe we will, maybe we won't. nobody has been tougher on russia, but getting along with russia would be a good thing. not a bad thing. and just about everybody agrees to that except very stupid

people. nobody has been tougher on russia than i have and i know that you are nodding yes because everyone agrees when they think about it. there is nobody tougher on russia. and with that being said, i think i could have a very good relationship with president putin. i think. it's possible i won't. and you will know about it believe me, this room will know about it before i know about it. it is a real possibility that i could have a good relationship and remember this, getting along with russia is a good thing. >> so these comments come after president trump called putin two weeks ago congratulating him on his re-election. since then essential tensions have escalated. >> so much to talk about. joining us from washington, jill coleman. good morning to you. we have these new reports, bob

mueller has told president trump's lawyers that he is not currently being considered a criminal target in the russia probe. what do you make of this latest revelation and do you think we use see trump push pretty hard to sit down for an interview with bob mueller now that he knows sort of where he stands? >> this report that broke last night is a significant piece of new reporting suggesting that the president has been saying -- telling allies that he is not under investigation, that there was no collusion, veried a today manhattan in his innocence. but this is the first indication from mueller's team. however for a sitting president of the united states, it is not good even if people are telling you you are not a target of an investigation, it is still not good to be a subject of an investigation. especially one looking into collusion with russian meddling in the 2016 election. so while the president and his aides can put and we expect them to put a positive spin on this, i don't think that we can ignore that larger picture. that said, the president remains very confident in himself and his ability to answer questions

from mueller. his team and mueller's team have now been working for months at this point to try to figure out exactly what the scope of questioning might be. and we will see over the next coming days or week whether the president ultimately decides to answers questions and whether it will be an enter swru interview questions. >> yeah, his lawyers didn't want to sit down but he certainly does. let's switch gears and talk about immigration. and particularly this new twist that president trump floated yesterday that he wants to send troop to the border to secure that southern border with mexico until his wall is built. what is the probability of something like that happen something are there any legal considerations that might neighboring a challenge for the military being deployed on that southern border sf what details are you learning about how the white house is actually planning to carry this out? >> this landed with a bit of a shock. the president was doing this impromptu lunch with the baltic leaders and suddenly he told

everyone that he has been discussing this idea of sending the military to the border with general mattis. obviously we started asking questions throughout the day, folks at the pentagon really didn't know any of the details. couldn't share any of them. the white house later clarified that what he is envisioning is sending the national guard down to the border. now, there are very specific laws that ban the use of active duty forces at the border, bullpen it is actually not unprecedented to send the national guard down to the border to come assistance work, helping border patrol agents. this is something that actually obama did, something that the bush administration did too. and it looks like the trump administration is actually looking to something similar to what the bush strairadministratd back in 2006. >> okay. we'll talk to you again at the bottom of the hour. police in california have identified the woman who opened fire on the sprawling youtube campus. officials say 39-year-old nasim najafi aghdam of san diego

walked into an outdoor patio and dining area around lunchtime yesterday and began to fire. three people were pushed to the hospital, one -- rushed, excuse me, to the honts. o hospital. aghdam took her own life. they say it was a domestic related incident and not terrorism. still ahead, why adult film star donald trump and her lawyer are reaching out to the treasury department in their legal battle with donald trump. plus public schools in oklahoma will be closed for a third straight day as state cap. and of course a check of your weather when we come back.

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that first republic bank flagged the payment as suspicious and reported it to the treasury department. now daniels' lawyer michael avenatti has written a letter to the treasury secretary that says in part, quote, the suspicious activity report could not have been filed by the bank unless the bank conducted a thorough internal investigation of the transaction and the source of the funds and had a good faith basis to determine that the $130,000 transaction was suspicious. we tracked the money based on public reports, records shoe th show that on october 17, 2016, michael cohen created a company used to make the payment. and an e-mail shows that nine days later on october 26, first republic bank e-mailed cohen at his trump organization e-mail address alerting him that the funds have been deposited into your checking account. the very next day, the wau"wall street journal" reports that first republic wired $130,000

into the porn star's account. and she signed the non-disclosure agreement. >> cohen claims he made the payment personally after taking out a home equity loan. the president says he never knew about the payment. donald trump denies the claims of the affair. yesterday a reporter shouted asking if the president had a response to stormy daniels. the president did not answer. four marines are presumed dead after a marine corps helicopter crashed in southern california yesterday afternoon. the crash occurred during a routine training mission shortly after 2:30 p.m. it was assigned to the third marine aircraft wing. the cause of the crash is currently under investigation. public schools in oklahoma will be closed for a third day as teachers push for higher pay

and increased school funding. about 20,000 marched to the he can la oklahoma capitol yesterday. they are paid on average the 48th lowest in the nation. ray sanders is a republican educator that was part of the protest. here's what he had to say. >> for the last four years, i worked at subway sandwich and general dollar store. there is something wrong when you have a master's degree and you are ringing a cash register to help put your kid through college and pay for things like scouting. >> you are a republican. you told me is this a republican led legislature here. what is your message to lawmakers? >> this is bigger than party politics. maybe they were saying well you're a democrat, you won't vote for me anyway. i'm a are. there is midterm los angeles of elections coming up. as i told you, so help me, if they put an r on the fence post and run against one of these incumbents who don't fix this

funding, i will vote for the fence post. >> very passionate there. >> he makes a really good point. you have a master's degree, you are a teacher, these are the people teaching our children. >> and having to work two or three jobs to make ends meet. >> living pay check to paycheck. and let's get a check now on your weather. >> good morning, guys. yesterday a lot of severe weather was reported across the country and now that storm system is heading to the east coast. so be prepared for a day full of a lot of wind an brief periods of heavy rain. we had 301 storm reports. each of these dots is it a storm report. either large hail, wind damage that was either significant or did damage itself. and welts had tornado repor als. one in illinois did damage a few homes. no injuries thankfully. so for today, the severe weather threat much lower. about 3.5 million people at risk of severe storms. southern maryland, southern

delaware, chesapeake bay, norfolk, virginia beach included. roanoke, kingston, washington, greenville areas. as far as the winds go, these are nonthunderstorm related winds. these are independent withes just associated with the storm itself. high wind warnings from butch low to albany, philadelphia included, washington, d.c. and baltimore in a windlow to albany, philadelphia included, washington, d.c. and baltimore in a wind advisory. there will be significant airport delays and we may see power outages and downed trees in the purple color. new york city is under a wind advisory. right now wind s already up to 8 miles per hour in buffalo area. so it will be a windy wild day in many areas. and the timing of the showers and storms throughout the middle of the day right around the lunch hour, new york city could get a brief squall moving through. so very springlike weather pattern changing like this. >> i'll tell you where it did not feel like spring yesterday

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welcome back. let's start with the top stories. >> president trump is stepping up tough talk on immigration while speaking to he said he isg on the military to guard the border with mexico. peter alexander has the story for us. >> reporter: president trump signaling a dramatic escalation in his crackdown on illegal immigration. >> until we can have a wall, we'll be guarding our border with the military. that a big step. >> reporter: later saying that he will meet with jim mattis. >> i think that it is something we have to do. >> reporter: the pentagon readying i options.

the obama administration sent 1200 national guard members to combat drug smuggling. despite the number of people arrest aed trying to cross illegally, lowest level since 1971, mr. trump is seizing on reports of a caravan of migrants claiming credit for stopping them in their trek north. >> i have just heard that the caravan coming up from honduras is broken up and mexico did that. and they did it because frankly i said you really have to do it. >> reporter: mexican authorities didn't address that claim, but said that they were offering protections to some of the my grants and deporting others. the president also reinforcing his assume to baltic allies anxious about their own shared border with russia, repeatedly touting a tough track record despite having never publicly condemned vladimir putin. >> probably nobody has been tougher to russia that be donald trump. getting along with russia would be a good thing, not a bad thing and just about everybody agrees

to that except very stupid people. >> reporter: and before concluding the news conference, that glaring moment -- >> you can pick a reporter. real new, not fake news. >> reporter: and a lawyer becoming the first person to go to prison, a federal judge making an exapple spell out of alex van der zwann sentencing him to spend 30 days behind bars for lying to special counsel robert mueller's team. >> peter alexander for us, thank you. president trump and his administration are sending mixed messages about u.s. involvement in syria. during a news conference yesterday, the president said he is thinking about withdrawing troops from the war-torn country, but the u.s. special envoy for the global coalition to tweet isis told a forum that the u.s. mission in syria was far from over. >> as far as syria is concerned, our primary mission in terms of

that was getting rid of isis. we've almost completed that task. i want to get out, i want to bring our troops back home, i want to start rebuilding our nation. so it is time. we were very successful against isis. we'll be successful against anybody militarily. but sometimes it is time to come back home. and we're thinking about that very seriously. >> in terms of our campaign in syria, we are in syria to fight isis. that is our mission and the mission isn't over and we'll complete that mission. >> mixed messaging there to say the least. u.s. and coalition partners have been able to regain control of almost 95% of the territory in syria once held by isis. but u.s. officials have said it could sthal monill that months eliminate their presence. and president trump continues to carry out a series of attacks on amazon as investors begin to shrug off his criticisms. trump tweeted out yesterday i am

right about amazon costing the united states post office massive amounts of money for being their delivery boy. amazon should pay these costs plus and not have them borne by the american tax player. post office leaders don't have a clue. or do they? the president continued their attack before a working lunch with the heads of the baltic states. >> you take a look at the post office, you take a look at the post office, and the post office is losing billions of dollars and the taxpayers are paying for that money because it delivers packages for amazon at a very below cost. and that is not fair to the united states. it is not fair to our taxpayers. and amazon has the money to pay the fair rate which would be much more than they are paying right now. >> now, despite the president's repeated false claims, the post office losses are mostly due to pension and health care costs.

federal regulators have found the postal service's contracts to deliver some amazon orders has actually been profitable. meanwhile shares of amazon ended their week long drop yesterday following a bloomberg report that the white house is not actually considering any action against the online retailer. and the u.s. chamber of commerce criticizes the president saying that it is inappropriate for government officials to use their position to attack an american company. embattled epa chief scott pruitt is speaking out over the ethics questions surrounding his tenure. in an interview, he pushed back against the mounting criticisms he's faced over his use of a condo that he reblted at reportedly below market rates. he claims questions are just the latest attempt by his and the president's attackers to resort to anything to stop their agenda. calling the environment in washington toxic. at an event on fuel emissions,

pruitt made no mention of the nim number of scandals surrounding him. and sam stein is reporting that the woman who rented the condo to pruitt citing campaign finance records that steven and vicky hart began donating to pruitt's campaigns for oklahoma attorney general back in 2010 and his re-election effort. amid pru it's defiance, two house republicans are calling for him to resign tweeting that the corruption sdanl is an embarrassment to the administration and his conduct is disrespectful to american taxpayers. now, ros-lehtinen tweeted that dsz tracti distractions have taken over and another person should fill the role. and a white house official says that the president called the epa chief telling him that

the white house has his back, and that john kelly reiach it t reiterated the president's message. but watch this. >> scott pruitt, sir? >> i hope he will be- >> not exactly vote of confidence. >> yeah, it's been kind of -- yeah. joinings again jill coleman. good to have you back with us this morning. so the white house yesterday said that the president and the chief of staff john kelly both backed scott pruitt. but as we have seen calls for pru iitt to step down are growi. is he becoming too much of a distraction for trump to ignore? >> at this point you've had a series of trump administration secretaries who have had these allegations most having to do with misspending. however, shulkin was the last one who the president decided to

fire. and you have seen this pattern where even though the president sometimes publicly praises these figure although the comments from yesterday wasn't exact any growing praise, emdo that while at the same time plotting the way forward in replacing that person. interviewing people behind the scenes. the president is quite averse to personal confrontation. also sources say that although the president did that i can that call on monday evening, the president's kind words was more directed at the type of work that pruitt has been doing at epa. the president has been really pleased with the efforts to roll back the environmental regulations, but the call from general kelly we're told was actually far less congratulatory and was actually telling him that the white house is not pleased with this pattern of behavior, and what is seen in the white house as a feel being that pruitt has not been completely truthful to them about what allegations are going to be dropping next. >> and it also follows a pattern

we've seen that the white house says they have a good work relationship -- >> and then it starts to wain. if we were to take off everything that pru its hitt ha, it seems like he has been one of the more effective energy heads within the trurmp administratio if you support what he has done. obviously president trump very much all about loyalty. all right. trump says that he wants to pull u.s. troops from syria. which is in direct conflict with some of his top military advisers. what do you make of this mixed messaging? >> this is quite extra ordinary. you have the president of the united states saying we want to pull troops out of syria and pretty of the president's entire national security team telling him that that is not a good idea. you had this really interesting split screen yesterday of the president making these comments and then a whole number of his officials, political takmilitar also speaking in washington

saying actually this isn't a good idea. that the u.s.'s campaign in syria is really just beginning. there are all these concerns about iran and different influences that russia could have in syria and leaving there vacuum for other people to fill. >> thank you, jill. still ahead, coalition of states takes legal action to try to block the trump administration from including a controversial question on the upcoming census. >> and bill karins will be back with a look at a wet wednesday in store.

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congressional seats, delegates and federal funding is allege l allocated now, according to data from the 2010 census bureau, american community is survey, there were 22.5 million noncitizens in the u.s. in 2016, roughly 7% of u.s. residents. let's switch gears and get a check on your weather now with bill karins. >> another active day. airport delays, possibly power outages in the northeast from the high winds. so the storms have weakened overnight. we still got pretty storms southern louisiana and still rain out there, also snowing by the way in chicago and areas of northern michigan. but the rain is not severe at this time. later today is when we'll be dealing with some isolated strong storms, maybe damaging winds. and if we get that, most likely going to be occurring in areas of the mid-atlantic region. so keep that in mind for norfolk, virginia beach, eastern

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it's list of tariffs. and it seems like this is spiraling towards a full blown trade war here. >> how are markets reacting? >> exactly. and markets are not reacting well at all. the news came out an hour ago and we saw a 400 point drop in dow futures. so pointing to an opening of 2% lower. and of course china responded tit for tat, $50 billion worth of tariffs on chinese chinese as well. and that includes soybeans, car, beef and aircraft. and all of those sectors in plea market trading are down 4%. soy futures down 4%, autos down 4%. and one thing i should say is that it is merely a proposal. these have not been applied yet. chinese just held a press

conference and the vice minister said china's retaliation were a forced move on back of the 301 probe but that the door for negotiation does remain open and that they do want to start discussions with the even just as a proposal it's enough to rattle the markets. >> spotify is making its debut on the new york stock exchange yesterday. it used this rare unorthodox listing. we've been talking about a lot about this and speculating as to what was going to go on with the markets. how did it go yesterday? >> yeah, so it was quite an interesting day for spotify. of course all eyes were on how this direct listing was going to go. the first trade only happened around halfway through the session at 12:30 and it opened up 25% higher than its original reference price of $132. it did pair some of those during

the day but ended up 15% higher on the day gifziving them five times of the enterprise value. looks like a success. >> so i am more of a -- currently more of a pandora person. i just use pandora more only because i'm lazy. >> live from london, thank you. coming up, axios' mike allen has a look at this morning's one big thing and on morning joe, president trump no longer a target in the mueller probe? more on her new report that the special counsel's efforts to entice the president into an interview and the potential trap he may face. >> and the war between u.s. and china as beijing launches its counterpunch on american goods, "morning joe" just moments away.

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d.c., the cofounder of axios, mike allen. good morning to you. what's the one big thing? >> yeah, our one big thing is peak volatility in both markets and our politics, so this is part of an axios future trends issue that looks ahead to the next quarter and what we've found was that president trump is threatening war with the economy, with the national defense, and with law enforcement establishment with robert mueller. so we've been hearing this morning about china escalating the trade war, responding faster than people might have thought which is rattling the markets even more. you have the president continuing to talk aggressively about north korea and if that summit that he's been talking about with kim jong-un doesn't work out, very few ongptions le and the president has continued to talk privately whether or not

he's willing for mueller to go deep into the family finances. >> why do you think it's peak volatility now and does that mean it can't get worse? >> well, we're at the high so far and what we're seeing both in the markets and politics is a little bit of a delayed reaction. i think you and i a year, a couple months ago around the inauguration would have predicted that if you had all this volatility in public life, all this uncertainty coming out of pennsylvania avenue, that you would have had the markets react and you would have had less stability in the president's approval rating. in fact, the markets kept on their bull run and president trump's approval rating which is at a historic low but has stayed stable with his people. now we're suddenly starting to see cracks and changes in that and all the market forecasts are that this big optimism may be

evaporating quickly. >> let me ask you quickly about the dynamics inside the white house. trump feels he actually doesn't need anyone else to get the job done. what is your team hearing about this? >> yeah, the president has increasing self certainty and what we hear in listening to those outside advisors that you and i have talked about, listening less and les s to experts inside. so a completely improve president, he wakes up in the morning, watches tv and decides what he's going to do makes it so hard to forecast and makes people who have been sort of worried, but hopeful, it makes them more worried than hopeful. >> no other example than what we saw yesterday right before the president says that he wants to withdraw u.s. troops from syria,

you had brett saying the exact opposite. >> of all the threats facing the president and his administration right now, which do you think should be the most concerning to the white house? >> well, people are most concerned about the idea that the president is acting on his own, that the checks and balances that you traditionally have on a president aren't applying and the president has discovered what i think generations of aides probably wished that they -- their bosses didn't know and that was, when you're president you can kind of do what you want. you don't have to follow recommendations. you don't have to follow processes and we have a long history of that happening, but president trump in ways that are only beginning to appreciate is saying no. like, i won and i'm going to do what i feel like at this moment. >> all right. mike allen for us live in washington, d.c. this morning. of course we'll be reading axios

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oil. we didn't keep the oil. who got the oil? isis got the oil. nato was delinquent. they were not paying their bills. they wor not paying a lot of states as we discussed. they were not paying what they should be paying. since i came in, many, many billions of dollars additional have been paid by countries that weren't paying and now they're paying and they will have to pay more, frankly. pick a reporter, please. you can pick a reporter. a baltic reporter ideally. real news, not fake news. go ahead. do we have enough? yes. go ahead. pick -- mr. president, pick a reporter from the baltics. not the same man. he was very tough. >> president trump disparaging american reporters in front of the foreign press while hammering campaign talking points from three years ago a