this morning a shooting suspect on the run. police in tennessee say four people were killed when a man carrying an ar-15 opened fire at a waffle house. plus, the white house signals cautious optimism after north korea announced it was suspending its nuclear testing. president trump spent the weekend tweeting about it. the duchess of cambridge has been admitted to the hospital in the early stages of labor. this will be the third child for prince william and kate. good morning, everyone. it's monday, april 23rd.

we begin with the massive manhunt that is now under way for the man accused of shooting and killing four people at a tennessee waffle house. police say 29-year-old travis reinking pulled up to the restaurant just after 3:00 a.m. sunday, sat in his pickup truck three or four minutes, then got out with an ar-15 assault rifle and immediately began firing. officials say he hit two people outside and then shot out the front glass of the restaurant, entered and continued shooting. a patron confronted the shooter and managed to wrestle the gun away from him. police say reinking, wearing only a jacket with two magazine clips inside, ran from the restaurant and at some point tossed the jacket nearby. officials believe he then went to his apartment to dress himself before taking off again. here's the account from two patrons who had been credited with saving lives. >> at the time that he was either reloading or the gun

jammed or whatever happened is when i ran through the swivel door. i hit him with the civil door and the gun was kind of jammed up and it was pushed down, so we were scuffling. i managed to get him with one hand on the gun and i grabbed it from him and threw it over the counter top. i chose to react because i didn't see any other way of me, you know, living. and that's all i wanted to do. i just wanted to live. >> the alleged shooter is no stranger to federal officials. he was arrested last fall after breaching a barrier at the white house. among the four guns seized at the time was the same ar-15 used in yesterday's shooting, believe it or not. the guns were later returned to the suspect's father who acknowledges giving them back to his son but, again, the man hunt for the suspect is still under way this hour. police say he still may be armed. an ar-15. growing worries kim jong-un may be playing a con game with the

president. let's rewind to this week's historic summit. north korean state media announced kim was halting his nuclear and long-range missile testing programs in addition to shutting down a nuclear testing ground, saying the dprk has completed its nuclear weaponization and does not need more tests. now trump responded on twitter writing, quote, this is very good news for north korea and the world. big progress. look forward to our summit. he followed that up adding, quote, progress being made for all, but not everyone is so sure of this progress. "the new york times" writing kim has seized the diplomatic high ground by making symbolic but modest conciliatory gestures leaving officials unsettled and believing kim is simply posturing and has no real intention of denuclearizing. former white house press secretary ari fleischer adds, quote, call me a cynic but based

on history they'll suspend today and begin again tomorrow. two, they have alternative ways to carry out their mission. and, three, they're lying now or will lie tomorrow this is how north korea behaves. nbc's chuck todd also explains the skepticism. >> he seems to be giving very little but making it seem he's giving a lot. there are not many preconditions the united states is asking for so far in this potential summit north koreans have gotten a lot out of it. what has the united states gotten yet? we don't have a release of any of those americans they held captive. we don't have any -- a pledge of denuclearization. there are a lot of things they are not promising. >> the president fired back via a series of tweets, of course. yesterday he wrote, sleepy eyes chuck todd of fake news nbc just stated that we have given up so much in our negotiations with north korea, and they have given up nothing. wow, we haven't even given up anything and they have agreed to

denuclearization. so great for world. site closure and no more testing. we're a long way from conclusion on north korea. maybe things will work out. maybe they won't. only time will tell. but the work i am doing now should have been done a long time ago. funny how all of the pundits that couldn't come close to making a deal on north korea are now all over the place telling me how to make a deal. >> good twitter read. >> how was my trumtrump? >> really good. a story about relationship with personal attorney michael cohen whose dealings with under scrutiny. for years mr. trump treated mr. cohen poorly with gratuitous insults, dismissive statements, and at least twice threats of being fired. according to interviews with half a dozen people familiar with their relationship. in a tweet trump singled out one of three reporters on the story, quote, "the new york times" and a third-rate reporter named maggie haberman known as crooked h i don't speak to, are going

out of their way to destroy michael cohen and his relationship with me in the hope that he will flip. trump later reposted the tweet to correctly spell the name of maggie haberman. trump has known her for years and posed with an oval office photograph where she has conducted one of several on the record interviews with the president. trump went on to claim that "the times" used nonexistent sources and a drunk, drugged up loser who hates michael. a fine person with a wonderful family. michael is a businessman for his own account, a lawyer i've always like and respected. most people will flip if the government lets them out of trouble even if, quote, it means lying or making up stories. sorry, i don't see michael doing that despite the horrible witch-hunt and the dishonest media. so yesterday cohen was spotted outside of a manhattan restaurant where cnbc's brian shorts asked him how everything is going. cohen said it's a lot. and the lawyer who once

represented two women paid to keep quiet about alleged affairs with donald trump is now cooperating in the case against michael cohen. he has worked to broker hush money deals with stormy daniels, karen mcdougal and also a playboy model who became pregnant by a top republican fund-raiser who is close to the president. now a spokesperson for davison says his client was asked to provide electronic information. he adds, quote, he has done so and will continue to cooperate to the fullest extent possible under the law. cnn reports during that raid on cohen earlier this month the fbi seized audio conversations cohen recorded with davidson. he is under investigation for bank and wire fraud and campaign finance violations. he denies any wrongdoing. after ten months of the president hounding for an investigation and even jail for james comey, the justice department is looking into

classification issues surrounding the memos of the former fbi director. at least two of the memos comey gave to a friend outside of government contain information officials now consider to be classified. of those two memos comey himself redacted elements of one that he knew to be classified to protect secrets before he handed those documents over to his friend who shared the contents with a reporter. although they were not classified at the time when he shared them, the parts were later declared confidential which has prompted the doj inspector general to review the matter. president trump continued on twitter saying, quote, james comey's memos are classified. i did not declassify them. they belong to our government, therefore, he broke the law. comey had the legal authority to determine what bureau information was classified and what wasn't and there are no laws prohibiting comey from sharing conversations he had with trump in an unclassified manner. joining us now from washington, d.c., senior reporter at "roll

call." busy twitter weekend, if you will, for the president. let's start with the justice department because it is looking into two of those memos, those comey memos, which he gave to a friend outside of the fbi. could we see comey actually charged with the mishandling of classified information? could it go that far? >> well, what i think we're going to see is at least conservative republicans both on capitol hill and outside the government. this will be the next thing they are pushing attorney general jeff sessions, rosenstein, and company to consider. it'll probably wait until after the justice department inspector general reviews the matter, but i bet the likelihood comey is charged here seems fairly remote considering things weren't apparently classified at the time, but it's just another one of these things that conservative allies of trump can

use to try and get it to the attorney general. >> so alongside of the release of these memos, president trump questioning the validity of bob mueller's investigation, the russia investigation. he tweeted this week along with his many tweets, kim strassel of "the wall street journal" just said after reviewing the dumb comey memos, you got to ask, what was the purpose of this special counsel? there's no there there. don henninger of "the wall street journal" said this would be one of the weakest cases ever brought. to you think we could actually see trump use these cohen memos as a basis for firing bob mueller? >> well, that would be the other extreme possibility. the folks i talk to regularly still don't think that mueller is going to be fired, but this scenario under which the deputy attorney general, rosenstein,

who is overseeing mueller and is basically in charge of the scope of the mueller investigation, you know, that still seems like it's certainly on the table as much as the president and others say that it's not. that seems to be where this is most likely to go if it goes down that sort of road. >> interesting to see how all this plays out. live for us in washington, d.c., we'll touch base with you in a little bit. still ahead, following new reporter jeff sessions told the white house that he might quit if rod rosenstein is actually fired. president trump is slamming at least part of that report. >> and we're heading across the pond here on royal baby watch according to kensington palace the duchess of cambridge has been admitted to the hospital after going into labor. we'll get a live report from there. those stories and a check on your weather when we come back.

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was laid to rest on saturday in houston. past presidents and first ladies, family and friends, gathered to celebrate the extraordinary life and legacy of one of america's most memorable first ladies. the service was filled with moments of laughter and immense emotion as bush's son, jeb, remembered his mother, the enforcer. >> mom got us through our difficult times with consistent, take it to the bank, unconditional but tough love. she called her style the benevolent dictatorship but, honestly, it wasn't always benevolent. we learned to strive to be genuine and authentic by the best role model in the world. her authentic plastic pearls, her not coloring her hair. by the way, she was beautiful until the day she died. her hugging of an hiv/aids patient at a time when her own mother wouldn't do it. her standing by her man with a little rhyming poetry in the 1984 election.

and 1,000 other ways barbara pierce bush was real. and that's why people admired her and loved her so. >> so the funeral also brought together past first families including first lady melania trump. this photo going viral after it was taken. president trump did not attend the funeral saying he wanted to, quote, avoid disruptions due to added security and out of respect for the bush family. turning overseas now, excitement is in the air once again as royal baby watch number three is now under way. the duchess of cambridge was admitted to st. mary's hospital in london this morning in the early stages of labor. joining us now live from london nbc news correspondent tammy leitner -- we do not have tammy. she's having some ifb issues. we'll go to bill karins for the weather and will get back to baby watch as soon as we have her. it is the fifth baby in line to the crown and a very exciting

time in london. if anyone's been in london during baby watch time it's always, always an exciting time. >> i didn't know you knew so much about the royal baby. i'm fascinated. >> he's our royal expert. >> he is a royal expert. did you hear about pippa? >> on watch. >> sitting at the supermarket with the magazines. >> "national enquirer." bill wants to know. so the storm system this weekend did produce some tornadoes. this video comes to us from the sonic drive-thru in louisiana, the one area that got hit hard. the car in the background -- look at the car tossed 100-mile-per-hour winds. what's amazing when you see footage like this how quickly the damage is done as the tornado rolls on through. thankfully no one was in those vehicles at the time. no one was injured. no one was hurt.

we don't have permission for that video yet but it is on my twitter feed. areas of kentucky, illinois and indiana, a rainy morning for you from st. louis to louisville. it's been raining all morning long and all night long in atlanta. flood watch has been dropped so that's good. from athens to greenville to asheville and boone we are expecting a wet day, possibility of minor flooding concerns. this is a slow moving storm. it's not going to arrive until late tuesday night, early wednesday morning. for today, 7:00 p.m., we take the rain. we bring it to charlotte. raleigh, you stay dry. the clouds will increase. raleigh, you'll have to wait until your tuesday morning. charlotte will be a rainy afternoon today and into tomorrow. washington, d.c., you are dry until 8:00 p.m. tuesday and then the rain moves in. by the time we get to about wednesday about 2:00 a.m. or

3:00 p.m. that's when it gets into new york city. coastal carolinas but everyone gets a good soaking out of this. one more great day new york to boston. nearly perfect after a horrible beginning to april. looks like we're in for a nice finish. >> i feel we all should be holding hands. is that awkward? >> i'll be the camera guy. >> tell me when and where to show up and i'll be there. in the nba it was king james doing what he does best and actually doing it in style with the rest of his teammates taking matters into his own hands. on the ice the defending champs move on to the next round. details in sports. whether it's a big thing, small thing, or something unexpected,

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wing where so many others from the royal family have been before her. now the way this works once she delivers kensington palace will announce that the baby has been born most likely this will come by tweet. the town cryer will make the announcement outside the wing and the official declaration of the birth is put out on an easel outside of buckingham palace. now this baby will be fifth in line to the throne displacing uncle harry once again following prince charles, prince william, big brother george, and sister charlotte. now one thing to note regardless of the baby's gender, charlotte is going to keep her place in line for the throne. and this is under something called the succession to the crown act which essentially means that princes no longer take precedence over their sisters, and that's something that had been in place since 1701. louis, back to you. >> really, really interesting, tammy. tammy, give us a little sense of the atmosphere over there.

for people here that don't know, what's it like over there during these types of times? >> reporter: louis, i can tell you people have been camped out at the hospital for more than a week. so this is a very, very, very big deal. people are excited. even though this is baby number three, the anticipation just grows. i mean, bookies have been taking bets on the gender, the name, and, of course, when she was going to go into labor. louis? >> tammy, thanks so much. i like that harry has been pushed off to the side once more. all right. time now for sports. it wasn't supposed to be this way. the cavaliers' lebron james has never been down in the first round of an nba playoffs. it is uncharted territory. in the third quarter of game three cleveland went into sunday with the threat of going down 3-1 in the series against the pacers. however, lebron and company were able to hold off olidipo.

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin and louis burgdorf. there's been some cautious optimism from the white house after north korea announced it was suspending its nuclear and

missile testing. president trump weighed in a number of times on twitter over the weekend. nbc's kelly o'donnell has the latest on this. >> reporter: leaving palm beach, president trump posed with officers from the sheriff's department. and over the din of air force one's engines responded to shouted questions about north korea. this week north korea's kim jong-un and the president of south korea are scheduled to meet. after kim, seen here inside his private train, announced friday the north's nuclear program is complete and, therefore, would stop its missile testing. a move seen with both caution and optimism for potential negotiations. >> there's every reason to think he will not agree to give up his nuclear weapons so the question becomes, are we willing to live with some kind of compromised solution? >> reporter: president trump oversold on twitter declaring inaccurately they have agreed to denuclearization.

north korea has not gone that far. corker said the arsenal secures the grip on power. >> he views having deliverable nuclear weapons as his ticket to dying as an old man in his bed. >> reporter: later the president dialed back expectations. we are a long way from conclusion on north korea. maybe things will work out and maybe they won't. the white house repeated its goal for trump/kim negotiations. >> i think from our perspective it means full denuclearization, no longer having weapons that can be used in warfare against any of our allies. >> reporter: two of europe's most powerful leaders come to the white house. french president emanuel macron who is on good terms with president trump, and german chancellor angela merkel at the end of the week. they have a more complicated relationship, but they are both expected to urge president trump to stay in the nuclear deal with iran. there's a may deadline coming

up. in part to signal north korea that the u.s. would keep its word if it makes another nuclear agreement. yasmin? >> thanks to kelly o'donnell for that report. president trump is hitting back on a report. on friday "the post" reported sessions had recently told white house counsel mcgann that he might have to leave his job if president trump fired his deputy rod rosenstein. sessions did not intend to threaten the white house but wanted to convey the untenable position rosenstein's firing would put him in. but the part of the article that had the president slamming the paper was a line that read, quote, trump has at times referred to sessions as mr. magoo and rosenstein as mr. peepers, a character from a 1950s sitcom, according to people with whom the president has spoken. this is according to people with whom the president has spoken,

there are no such people and don't know these characters. more fake and disgusting news to create illwill. asking sessions to investigate comey and clinton. good luck with that request. the democratic national committee has filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit over what it says is a far-reaching conspiracy to meddle in the 2016 presidential election in the favor of donald trump. the dnc filed the civil complaint friday against president trump's campaign, the russian government, and wikileaks. it claims the top trump campaign officials worked with the russian government and its military spy agency to hurt hillary clinton and help trump by hacking the dnc's computer network. with wikileaks then publishing the information with the encouragement of then candidate trump and his campaign. the complaint is unrelated to bob mueller's criminal investigation as well as congressional investigations

into russian meddling. the dnc's lawsuit could force the trump campaign and wikileaks to reveal internal communications about the hack through the legal discovery process. a reporter citing claire mccaskill says the senator considers the lawsuit a silly distraction. congresswoman jackie speir says it's not in their interests. in the decision to include some but not all key players in the trump campaign in the suit. take a listen. >> we brought a case against the people we feel there's sufficient evidence to move forward in a civil case. that doesn't preclude us from moving to amend the case as we discover more evidence. i'm a big believer in making sure i have confidence in every aspect of my case. in the watergate case, that complaint was amended over time.

i am confident we will file an amended complaint over time. >> and president trump spoke out saturday when he tweeted this. so funny the democrats have sued the republicans for winning. now the rs counter and force them to turn over a treasure trove of material including servers and e-mail. >> and the senate foreign relations committee is set to vote on mike pompeo's secretary of state nomination later today and things aren't looking good for the cia director. the current nbc news count shows he's going to come out unfavorab unfavorably. it would be the first time a nominee has not received the committee's approval. despite this majority leader mitch mcconnell can still call a full vote on the senate floor and is expected to do so later this week. only one democrat has come out in favor of pompeo's nomination. joining us from washington senior writer at roll call,

neal, good to talk to you once again. talking about mike pompeo as louis was facing his first roadblock in the confirmation process obviously. do you foresee him getting the votes he needs in the senate foreign relations endorsement before moving forward to the senate? >> no, i think that director pompeo is, in fact, going to come out of the foreign relations committee unfavorably, but, again, this isn't going to preincluded confirmation particularly with senator heidkamp having announced. i would expect other senators come out in support of pompeo to be secretary of state in the next 24-48 hours and we're probably looking forward to seeing him confirmed probably thursday afternoon regardless of what goes on at the committee today. >> so let me switch gears quickly and ask you about this

lawsuit the dnc have brought forward against the trump campaign. what's the analysis could this lawsuit backfire on democrats with midterms just around the corner? walk us through why some are suggesting that. >> over the weekend i've seen multiple fund-raising e-mails from the trump campaign or its political arm or the rnc. there will be republican fund-raising off this. the other thing, if you're someone like claire mccaskill in missouri or another moderate red state democrat, you have this problem potentially if it becomes relitigating 2016 in places where president trump is still more popular. >> all right, good seeing you. >> thank you. still ahead, the man at the heart of the facebook cambridge analytica scandal speaks out

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welcome back, everyone. the man at the center of facebook's privacy scandal is speaking out on his app that harvested the data of tens of millions of the social media giant's users. in an interview with "60 minutes" he disputed facebook's claim that it was unaware of his practices. >> it seems crazy now but this was a core feature for years. this is not a special permission you had to get. this was something available to anybody who wanted it who was a developer. >> how many apps do you think there are, how many developers who did what you did? >> tens of thousands. >> tens of thousands?

facebook was obviously aware? >> of course. it was a feature not a bug. at the time i thought we were doing everything that was correct. i was acting, honestly, quite naively. >> facebook says that you lied to them. >> that's frustrating to hear, to be honest. if i had any inkling that what we were going to do was going to destroy my relationship with facebook i would have never done it. if i had any inkling that i was going to cause people to be upset i would have never done it. >> aled of kogan's interview with "60 minutes" facebook acknowledged he was a paid consultant for their company writing in part, quote, in october of 2015 kogan had a brief consulting contract with facebook. at no point during these two years was facebook aware of kogan's activities with cambridge analytica. it was not until december of 2015 we first learned kogan had broken terms of service by selling to cambridge analytica

information collected via an app that he built. >> cambridge analytica issued a response on its own relationship with him saying in part dr. kogan made contractual obligations and was responsible for data protection legislation, and we took these assurances in good faith. cambridge analytica's research showed the personality types licensed by gsr/kogan underperformed compared to more traditional ways of grouping people by demographics. much more on his role when he joins the conversation coming up on "morning joe." let's get a check on your weather with meteorologist bill karins. bill, some good news for once. >> a lot of good news this weekend. it was fantastic. the great lakes deserved all that snow that fell is now gone. we tracked a rainstorm. in dallas it was over you on saturday. sunday it was over new orleans. montgomery to birmingham and now a soaking rain coming for you, jacksonville, florida.

up i-95 towards savannah and charleston, a rainy morning for you and eventually newspaper charlotte. the rainfall forecast. a lot of water. not enough for a major flooding but two to three inches of rain is possible in the next 8 hours. coastal south carolina, wilmington to jacksonville, washington areas and then the mountains of north carolina will get it, too. let me take a look at the week ahead. this is today, a great deal of sunshine. just picture perfect day in the northeast. we're still sunny and drip throughout texas. not bad in the northern plains. there's a little bit of snow in the high country, in the rockies, montana and northern wyoming. we take the rainstorm today. your wednesday plans, that's your bad day of the week in the northeast. if there's going to be any problems at the airport it's wednesday from d.c. all the way up through new york and including boston. just periods of rain and breezy. it's not going to be snow or anything like that. by the time you get to thursday heading into northern new england. friday showers on the east coast. still mild and showery weather

in the middle of the country. i don't expect much in the way of severe weather or in the way of any snow this week. >> we'll take it. >> let's hope that will happen for the next how many weeks? >> the rest of the summer. >> 16, 20, 25 weeks. >> thanks for that, bill. starbucks suffers yet another scandal amid protests over the recent arrest of two black men. >> and wells fargo is set to hold its annual shareholders meeting after being hit with a record $1 billion fine. the latest on the fallout over the massive penalty for the bank. ply the best ♪ ♪ better than all the rest ♪ better than anyone ♪ anyone i've ever met ♪ i'm stuck on your heart, the best just got bigger. ♪ i hang on every word you say applebee's new bigger bolder grill combos. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood.

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welcome back. let's turn to business. federal regulators have slapped wells fargo with a $1 billion fine for charging customers for unnecessary services making it the most aggressive penalty since president trump took office. wells fargo shareholders are set to meet tomorrow. what can we expect from the meeting? this brings into focus the power of president trump's tweets as well. >> reporter: it does. what's interesting that fine is noggin expected for those following events at the bank. employees were getting bonuses for opening accounts for customers who didn't know anything about it. they face this fine after making a settlement with two federal regulators. you have the cfpb as well as the office of the control of the currency. now "the wall street journal" is reporting that not only have they faced that challenge they may fail to make a deadline for

correct identification of a corporate account. this really underlines the problems they're having with compliance and it happened in a part of the bank that was run by the now ceo tim sloan that's going to pak his life even more difficult when he some of these shareholders in des moines tomorrow. there are demonstrations planned outside that event, i should say. >> police are also investigating a hidden camera found in the bathroom of an atlanta starbucks. this just comes weeks after the controversy around the two black men arrested at philadelphia, pennsylvania, store. what more can you tell us about what the company is facing? >> so, this was in a store just north of central atlanta. it was a unisex restroom. she handed the camera into store manager. she called the police. the police said the camera recorded two dozen videos showing eight to ten men and women with an hour's worth of recording. obviously another damaging episode for the company.

that event with the two men arrested in philly that went viral, that prompted the firm to hold training for every single employee in the u.s. we were quite concerned to learn this and are grateful to our customers and partners who took action to involve local authorities. we'll continue to support them in any way we can. the question is what do you do to prevent this thing from happening? you want bathrooms who are clean, so you want staff to go regularly. do you expect them to start looking for hidden cameras? i don't know. >> it's a bizarre story. thanks so much. >> not a good month for starbucks. coming up, we have a look at this morning's one big thing. "morning joe," skepticism over north korea's nuclear announcement. >> the fresh concerns over president trump's as questions rise whether kim jong-un may actually be playing the president. president of the counsel on foreign relations richard haass

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♪ welcome back, everybody. joining us from washington with a look at axios, jonathan swan. a lot of news to break for us this morning, jonathan. what is axios's one-big thing. >> a tale of two leaders. we take you inside president trump's personal relationships with the two foreign leaders visiting the white house this week. president emmanuel macron of france and german chancellor angela merkel. these two european leaders both internationalists or globalists in trump's lexicon, but they have a strikingly different relationships with the president. >> jonathan, i wanted to follow up with the president and mr. macron really two very different leaders, as you said, but axios sources point to the fact that they get along really well. what has led to these two men having such a strong bond early on in their terms in office?

>> a source who watched them in the room very close had a very memorable description of what he saw. and he said that it was like watching an investment banker sweet talk a prized client. and remember -- >> can we ask which one is the investment banker? >> macron was an investment banker, so he's the guy. look, he understands trump's psychology. he talks to him in a casual way, which is what trump likes. he doesn't like the formal go by the talking points, deal with the issues in logical order, which is howdy plo diplomacy is traditionally done on a telephone when you have limited time. he dolls out the pageantry. >> inspired him to have one here in the u.s. at some point. >> yeah. we'll see when and if that

happens. so on the one side you have macron but on the other side you have angela merkel said to visit the white house this coming friday. the relationship with merkel, jonathan shall we say quite different than the relationship that trump has with macron. explain sort of their relationship. >> well, it's sometimes overstated, sometimes you read stories to suggest that they hate each other. it's not quite that. it's more of a distance or a coldness. look, by disposition, culturally, merkel is not as warm as macron, but there's also substance to it. trump feels that germany is ripping off america and there was this memorable conversation, which we report in axios am this morning, trump had lunch with her last year and lit into her about german cars. he said, everywhere i look i see german cars flying up and down the streets. and he went on this whole riff about it.

he said, do you have a chevrolets and fords flying up and down german streets. so he's had some sort of odd conversations with her there. and another anecdote that illustrates that, when she did that joint press conference, trump made a joke about the fact that they both had something in common, they both been surveilled by barack obama. he told staff afterwards he thought that was a very funny joke and was surprised she didn't laugh at the joke. >> he was quite upset that angela merkel didn't respond. he thought it was the best line of the day. >> he did. >> seemed like angela merkel thought so. >> let me ask you quickly about another nice nugget of reporting you have at axios about a rather frank conversation i should say between president trump and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. >> so this conversation happened in the spring or summer of last year, it was a telephone conversation. and it was, look, it might

surprise people who see president trump gushing publicly about netanyahu, the israeli prime minister. but in this conversation he said to him, do you actually care about peace or not? this is again where he sort of con veered into areas that are quite unexpected and certainly not part of any briefing notes or script. and he just bluntly confronted him because he had seen news reports that netanyahu was building settlements and thought that was unnecessarily provoking the palestinians. all of this is iranic that trump moved the embassy to jerusalem blowing up the peace negotiations. >> jonathan swan, of course we'll be reading axios a.m. in a little bit. all our viewers out there, you can sign up for the newsletter at axios.com. >> that does it for us this monday morning. "morning joe" starts right now.

good monday morning. it's april 23rd. welcome to "morning joe." we have a lot to get to. president trump insists his lawyer won't flip on him while taking a simultaneous shot at hillary clinton and "the new york times" in the very same tweet. it's just one of many messages he posted online over the weekend on north korea, the special counsel, james comey, mr. magoo and even silverster stallone. meanwhile, his wife melania paid respects to the late barbara bush. also, mitt romney joined several other republicans in holding back an endorsement for president for 2020 and joe has a new column on why trump's re-election bid is far from certain. along us this morning, we have national affairs analyst, executive producer and co-host of the circus on showtime, john heilemann.