monday evening as we start off a new week. thank you so very much for being here with us. good night from nbc news this morning a health update on former h.w. bush. >> and ten killed and more than a dozen injured after a van strikes pedestrians in toronto. mental illness is the leading theory for a motive. >> and president trump's no, ma'am -- nominee has been sidelined. good morning, earveryone. it's april 24th.

the bush family is now praying for its patriarch today. he's in critical condition in houston. the 93 former commander in chief was responding to treatments and appeared to be responding to treatments. on friday, bush saw mourners from the public attending his wife's viewing at the episcopal church and decided to go thank them greeting families from his wheelchair for 20 minutes. the suspect in that incident involving a van colliding with pedestrians in toronto is set to appear in court this morning as we learn about the details. police have identified the suspect as 25-year-old. mental illness, not terrorism is

the leading theory for a motive in this incident. officials say the suspect was not previously known to police, but he had been involved in an online discussion about elliott roger, the man accused of carrying out a shooting rampage near santa barbara, california. it began yesterday afternoon when the suspect started driving a white van down a sidewalk in a busy section of the city. it made it a little more than a mile leaving a trail of bodies behind him. eyewitnesses say the van was traveling at speeds about 45 miles an hour and described the chaotic scene. take a listen. >> he's just hitting people one by one going down. oh, man, it was a nightmare, man. it was a gruesome scene. i couldn't believe what i seen, man. everybody, all these people on the streets getting hit one by one, post office box getting

crumbled up on people. >> so traumatic to see something like that. vigils have begun to pop up and during the last night's nhl playoff game, a moment of silence was held before the game for those killed and left injured. the man accused of shooting and killing four people inside a tennessee waffle house on sunday is in jail this morning held on a $2 million bond. this after an intense man hunt and a tip from the public. travis reign king was captured yesterday afternoon. officials say they found a semiautomatic gun and ammunition if his backpack but he surrendered without a fight. he requested a lawyer. he's due back in court tomorrow. >> switching now to politics. it came down to the wire but mike pompeo has come out with a favorable recommendation on his reck setear of state nomination

he was expected to come out of the committee unfavorably, however, rand paul changed his vote to yes after speaking with the president many times yesterday. he received assurances that pompeo thinks that the iran war was a mistake and that quote, we must end our involvement with afghanistan. tlp was also a last second obstacle republican senator could not attend the vote. he was delivering the eulogy of a close friend even though he voted by proxy senators had to be present for it to advance to the floor and democratic senator changed his vote to present. >> i am recorded as voting

against mike pompeo for secretary of state but i will vote present to allow him to move present now without us having to wait until 11:00 at night. i know how very demanding and draining this eulogy was for him today. i will vote present. >> mitch mcconnell is expected to call a vote on the nomination this week. a reminder that chris countries and rand paul are both going to be on morning joe coming up in a little bit. we learned last night the confirmation for ronnie jackson, the va secretary pick has been delayed. two sources telling nbc news that the hearing was postponed because of unspecified concerns about jackson's background. his confirmation hearing had been scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. the washington post was first to report the news. republicans and democrats both raised concerns about his

qualifications and oversight of the white house medical staff. jackson is the white house physician. he made headlines back in january after briefing where he told reporters that president trump's overall health was quote excellent. right now the timing for a rescheduled confirmation hearing remains unclear. turning now overseas into the crisis with north korea and the white house is responding to concerns that president trump is falling into a trap set by kim jong un. >> certainly the goal is denuclearization of the peninsula and we're going to continue the maximum pressure campaign that has been ongoing to north korea until we see concrete actions taken towards complete and total denucle denuclearizati denuclearization. certainly no sanctions lifted until we see concrete actions taken by north korea to denuclearize. certainly we're not going to

make mistakes from previous administrations and we're not going to take them simply at their word. we're not naive in this process. we've seen some steps in the right direction but we have a longs way to go. >> all right. president trump welcomed french president emmanuel macron at the white house yesterday for the start of his state visit, the first hosted by trump as president. they planted a seed on the white house south lawn and it was a gift. trump also gave macron a tour of the oval office which macron live streamed on facebook. the french president had never been in the room before and trump showed off the resolute desk as well as the phones that he uses to talk to macron among

other items. >> these are the phones i use to call you. the iran nuclear deal is expected to be one of the main topics of conversation between the two men and despite the continued plea to keep america in historic accord, the white house says trump remains unmoved. >> i'm not going to get ahead of any conversations that we expect to take place over the next couple of days but the president has been extremely clear that it's a bad deal. that has not changed. we think there should be a better deal, one that is positive, that works. >> so later today the presidents will have a joint news conference at arlington national cemetery. trump has decided to play politics ducking traditions by reportedly not inviting any democratic members of congress. joining us now in

washington, thank you very much for joining us. let's start with day two of the french president emmanuel macron's state visit. what are some important things to keep on eye out for? >> yeah, i think the white house here has certainly rolled out the red carpet for the french president. we're hearing this was months in the making. you had this lavish dinner yesterday and a lavish dinner today. they will have that joint press conference but they certainly seem to be having a good time. all smiles and i think it's reflective of their close personal relationship that's developed. that's certainly something i'm watching, this close bond that seems to have emerged between the two. these are two very different men with key policy differences on a number of issues. whether it's what to do with iran, what to do with syria, but they seem to be able to put that aside, to become friends.

they talk on the phone a lot. and we know that macron i think macron is politically astute here. he knows that president trump likes to forge close personal bonds with the people he's dealing with other world leaders. he certainly values those close personal relationships. we've seen it with the president of china with trump kind of bragging about being friends with the chinese president so i think that's what mack ron is doing here to have trump work with limb on certain issues. >> one of which is the iran nuclear deal as we just mentioned. we also have a visit from german chancellor america chancellor. >> the white house says the

president remains unmovered but we'll have to see. i think macron will use his personal relationship to try to get him to move the needle there. he loves to surround hums with the smartest people. listen to what they have to say and act accordingly so we'll have to see if he does that. i think it will point to the recent successes in syria saying that you know, the joint military strike there was a success for both the u.s. and france and that the u.s. and france are stronger when they're working together. >> all right. live for us in washington, d.c. this morning. we'll touch base with you in a little bit. thank you for joining us. the dutch es of cambridge gave birth to a baby buoy yesterday. they appeared on the steps of st. mary's hospital in london to introduce the sleeping member of their family. the arrival of the third child on twitter.

the baby weighed about 8 pournds and 7 ounces. as for the bay di's name prince william says we'll find out soon. the baby is now fifth in line to the throne bumping his uncle prince harry down one spot. he is also kwqueen elizabeth's sixth great grandchild. >> i cannot believe that she walked out of the hospital looking like that and she was able to go home immediately. i beg the nurses when i had my first child to stay in the hospital for at least ten days. i was hoping they would let me stay more. the white house stays mum on whether president trump is considering a pardon for his long time personal lawyer michael cohen. and scott pruitt gets ready to face lawmakers on capitol hill this morning. those stories and a check on your weather when we come back.

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the trump administration would impose new sanctions against russia but that was quickly walked back by the white house. the now the trump administration is considering easing sanctions on an aluminum producing company. treasury secretary steve mnuchin announced extending the wind down period to six months meaning companies won't be penalized for doing business with them adding quote, the u.s. government is not targeting the hardworking people that depend on them and its subsi dares. he is considering the petition of delisting them entirely. one of zemp oligarchs charged with ties to vladimir putin.

>> when it comes to the investigation involving his personal attorney the white house says he has nothing to hide and won't rule out a pardon. the president has treated his loyal fixer mcpoichael cohen poorly. they were quote going out of their way to destroy michael cohen and his relationship with me in the hope that he will flip. the president continued quote, most people will flip if the government lets them out of trouble even if it means lying or making up stories. however the president did not deny that his fixer did anything wrong. he's christen welker. >> he tweeted over the weekend that he doesn't expect michael cohen to flip. has he been offered any assurances? >> i'm not sure, i'm only aware of the conversation from a couple of fridays ago. >> why open the opportunity to

flip? it suggests he has something to hide? >> i think he's been quite clear on that. >> tis the president open for a pardon? >> i don't think we're going to talk about hypotheticals that don't exist right now. >> one of donald trump's accusers is backing up the claim from stormy daniels that she was threatened to keep eye get about an alleged affair. he kissed them on the lips without their consent. drake also claims that daniels told her about the man that she says approached her in a las vegas parking lot. >> was she threatened in any way? >> yes. >> was she threatened physical harm? >> yes. >> oh, wow. >> she actually told me about the threat twice. so the first time she told me about the threat was shortly

after it happened. she relayed this experience to me. i said something like i'm so sorry, i can't even imagine, what are you going to do. >> last week daniels and her shs weather now with bill karins. >> a slow moving rainstorm. we started tracking on saturday int. yesterday was still drenching the south and now today we're still watching. still spinning itself over the top of tennessee. also as we head into the louisville area, but the bulk of the rain is going to be through the carolinas and virginia and eventually that's going to work its way up through richmond and washington, d.c. this goes through the next two, two and a half days and all of the blue is in the carolinas here. this heavier purples and reads, that's the heaviest. i'm not too worried about flooding but it is going to pour at a certain period of time.

so let's time it out for you. this is at 7:00 a.m. this morning. charlotte in and out of showers. the bulk of your heaviest rain is over with. it slowly inches up toward richmond. washington, d.c. you look to stay dry until about 4:00, 5:00 p.m. hefzi heavier rains in d.c. after 6:00 p.m. if you have activities outside you have to watch the rain moving in during the late portion of the day. then early tomorrow morning heavy rain right over the top of new york city. and then we'll take that up to boston as we go throughout wednesday afternoon. so there is some great weather out there today. texas is fantastic. oklahoma city near 80. chicago looks great too and the west coast is fantastic. so no snow and still no severe weather. we get any break from any horrific weather coverage. >> we'll take it. better than the snow. >> all right. still ahead, mitt romney, yes, former presidential candidate,

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11 119- 119-100 win. >> it's the end of the road for the blue jackets after the 6 hfr 3 game six victory last night. they now look ahead to the second round series against pittsburgh. meanwhile the first round series between the bruins and the maple leafs will be decided in game 7. the win or go home series finale is tomorrow night in boston. so a lot of exciting sports out there, guys. >> i'm sure mike is going to be leading to boston to watch game seven. >> he's there already. >> all right. still ahead, the white house struggles to explain the president's latest tweets targeting robert mueller. >> plus, a senate panel narrowly recommends pompeo for secretary of state. we'll be right back.

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian. it is the bottom of the hour. we'll start the with the top stories. pompeo cleared a first hurdle last night. pompeo will now go to the full senate for a confirmation vote. andrea mitchell has more.

>> mike pompeo survived a critical test. the foreigns relations committee supporting him on a party line vote. rand paul switching at the last moment. >> i've decided to vote for director pompeo. >> also picking up a vote for jeff flake. >> i'm a yes. >> he had become a lightning rod pick by president trump. first in his class at west point, a top student at harvard law, but his controversial past comments on muslims make some question the cia director's fitness to be a top diplomat. >> i just want to see a diplomat that is a dip lomat. >> pompeo's con ffirmatioconfir.

and pompeo who met secretly with krch over easter is now planning the summit. tweeting sunday, they have agreed to denuclearization, so great for world. >> a big plus for pompeo is he tries to rebuild a hollowed out state department, he has the president's ear. buzz critics worry he will not be willing to tell the president inconvenient truths. >> and thank you for that report. >> the white house attempted to clarify president trump's weekend tweets that questioned the basis of the mueller investigation alleging the special counsel was based on an illegal act adding does everybody knows what that means? here's what secretary sanders said. >> as we've said many times before, we have no intention of firing the special counsel. we've been beyond cooperative

with them. we're continuing to cooperate with them, turned over nearly over a million pages in documents to the special counsel and have been cooperative. exactly what the president's been saying all along that this was a false premise, that this entire thing started on. we continue to repeat that we think that the idea that the trump campaign was involved in any collusion with russia is a total witch hunt. our position on that has been very clear since the beginning of this process and the president's echoing exactly what that position is. >> and house republicans say they have reached an agreement with the justice department to produce documents about decisions made related to investigations in 2016 and 2017. this after house secretary says he is turning his attention from the department of justice to the state department. after he claims there is no foreign intelligence in launching the trump russia investigation. >> what we've found now after the investigators have reviewed it that in fact there was no

intelligence. we think there's some major irregularities at the state department and we're trying to figure out how it is that this information about mr. pop do lis of all people who was supposedly meeting with folks in london, how that made it over across into the fbi's hands. >> so you're investigating the state department, does that mean it was hillary clinton pulling the strings? i mean, here you have hillary clinton, former secretary of state. she's the other candidate. is she pulling the strings on an investigation launched on her opponent, her political opponent, donald trump? >> well, we don't know that yet. >> in his october guilty plea, trump foreign policy advisor admitted to meeting in london with a person who claims with connection with high russian government officials and that person told him that the russians had obtained dirt on hillary clinton, quote, they have thousands of e-mails.

and the white house is remaining tight lipped about scott pruitt as a new report suggests the administration's support for him may be waning. two people familiar with discussions. white house officials are cautioning republican lawmakers to temper their defense of pruitt. over the weekend congressman of new jersey became the fourth house republican to call on the epa cheefz ief to step down. pruitt was the wrong fit for the agency. meanwhile three senate republicans are calling for hearings by the environment and public works committee to look into pruitt's actions. some revealed yesterday they want pruitt to appear before the panel. the epa chief is scheduled to

appear thursday on back to back hearings. the white house was asked yesterday about whether there are concerns about pruitt appearing on the hill given the bad headlines. take a listen. >> we're continuing to review a number of reports that you mentioned. and we'll let you know if we have any changes on that front. pruitt has done a good job of implementing the president's policies particularly on deregulation, making the united states less energy dependent and becoming more energy independent. those are good things, however, the other things certainly are something that we're monitoring and looking at and i'll keep you posted. >> definitely hesitating a lot more than usual. joining us now washington corresponde correspondent, good to talk to you once again. so obviously talking about scott pruitt facing a new scandal.

seeming like the white house support for him is waning a bit and also his supporting congress is eroding as well. do you think we could see pruitt step down before the white house steps in? >> i would say he's going to stay on. you know, there's been so much more coming to light over the last weeks, it feels like every week we're learning something new about scott pruitt and he's managed to hang on this long. the fact that there are these republicans calling for hearings into his background i think that is concerning and we'll have to see if pruitt thinks he wants to avoid going through all those hearings and have more details come to light but i think the white house, you know, and sarah sanders you heard it there, not particularly harsh when talking about pruitt. so i think as long as he has the support and the president hasn't been vocal about pruitt, he'll try to stay on.

>> are we likely to see a similar contentious process play out on the senate intelligence committee considering cia director nominee? >> so i think pompeo's biggest hurdle was rand paul. so paul being a hawk, where isolationist was concerned about pompeo being a hawk and he was worried that pompeo might want to keep troops in afghanistan which trump has pledged to withdraw from afghanistan. but after he tried to convince him that he and pompeo were on the same page, paul eventually flipped his vote and got on board. so i think that was pompeo's biggest hurdle. as for as gina has kell, not looking so good for her. over a hundred military leaders saying that they feel her ties

to the former u.s. torture program is not fitting for someone who's going to be in the top cia job. >> so the white house once again so that the president has no intention of firing bob mueller. we've been talking about this for weeks although we did see that tweet over the weekend suggesting the special counsel's investigation is illegal. so what do you make of this mixed messaging? are they trying to keep the door open saying that we're not interested in doing it now? we've been open with the russia investigation, yet the president still sort of hammering on the russian investigation on twitter? >> this mixed messaging is something we've seen time and again from the president. the president tweets something that causes a lot of controversy. and they have a hard time explaining to the public what he meant. i think in this case when it comes to that mueller tweet, what's interesting is the timing. this comes as the president -- there's reports that the president may be looking into firing rod rosenstein and while

the white house says -- and potentially bob mueller and while the white house says he has no intention of firing mueller, sending off a tweet like that is just provocative. if you're trying to send the message that you're not firing rosenstein or mueller. >> something tells me the president likes to keep it in a guessing type situation for folks out there. >> still ahead, everybody, hundreds of migrants traveling to the u.s., reportedly in the final stages of their journey, the steps president trump he says he's taking to keep them from crossing into this country. >> and some wet weather that could cause some problems for travelers in the northeast. a check of the forecast when we come back.

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carolina through virginia. umbrella weather around pittsburgh this morning. there's a little band of rain heading up toward tennessee and it continues to trek its way into the lexington area. the rain will become more steady around washington, d.c. just a few showers this afternoon. so maybe want to bring that umbrella with you if you're getting home late from work or school today. temperatures across the board, remember the colors here, below average temperatures, colorado, nebraska, kind of seasonal to near average. much above average in northern new england. just a little bit longer. one more day of sunshine in maine, new hampshire and vermont. there's still snow up in the mountains so we'll call it cool to mild across the country. the really warm stuff is on the west coast. some areas could hit 100 in areas of southern california and the deserts. so nashville 55.

d.c. 59. that's because of the cloud cover. much cooler today than it was yesterday and new york city is much cooler on wednesday because of the clouds and rain. we can deal with 50s considering it was snowing literally about two weeks ago. >> still ahead, in investors are keeping a close watch on a key threshold that could send the stock market down as much as 40%. >> and a pass on his bonus as the company shakes up its leadership. details on those stories and the others driving your business day. whether it's a big thing, small thing, or something unexpected, pnc will be right there when you need us. because when it comes to your finances, if you focus on today, tomorrow has a way of working itself out.

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let's turn to business after facing a number of public relations disasters the ceo of youphy united airlines took home half of what he did last year. remember there was an animal that died in an overhead bin, there was also a passenger that got dragged off the plane. now not only is the ceo taking a pay cut but the parent company is set to have a new chairman. what else can you tell us? >> that is the full story, but the bottom line is the ceo of united airlines was apparently awarded $9.35 million in compensation. that's still half of 2016 compensation but apparently he's asked the board not to award him

that because of the several pr disasters that you just mentioned including the violent dragging of the passenger of one of its airlines as well as some of the recent deaths of some pets who were on board as well. so it hasn't been a very good year from a pr perspective but the stock for united airlines is still up 4% this year. that is compared to a 10% drop for american airlines and 2.5% drop for delta. as you said the chairman is going to be replaced as well. some other news in markets, bond markets are getting a little bit excited because ten year yields are now approaching 3%. this is a level that hasn't been seen in about four years or so and people are saying that the yields are moving higher because expectations are moving higher. the other thing as well is that investors are beginning to expect four hikes is now 40% from just 28% two

weeks ago. >> joe manna, koogle's parent company, alphabet has reported a first quarter earnings, shares dipped in value. what are investors concerned about? >> so alphabet beat on both top-line and bottom line if you want to look at the numbers, the profits were up 84% quarter-on-quarter. the revenues came in at $31 billion, of which advertising accounted for about $26 billion. still up 20% year on year. but the stock ended down because there was concern about a revenue slowing in the second quarter and also the announced very heavy expenses on research and development side so that's going to weigh on the operating margins. the bigger picture, they haven't seemed to be too affected by some of the regulatory concerns as others in the sector, of course facebook being the main one has been in the last couple of months, back to you. >> joumanna bercetche, live from

london, thanks so much. coming up, axios's alexis mccammen has a lk at the one big thing and "morning joe," the president's pick for secretary of state, last-minute key support clinched by mike pompeo. committee member rand paul will discuss the last-minute reversal. and chris coons will join the conversation and why he changed his vote, allowing pompeo's nomination to advance. "morning joe" just moments away.

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really convinced people who didn't already agree with him. the public has had a year to internalize their feelings about comey and president trump's decision to fire him. now we're learning to a new poll that his book tour and media tour haven't moved the needle much. >> let's break down the public's view of comey and the president here. we're seeing a split when it comes to sort of the parties between republicans and democrats. talk to us about that. >> right so this breakdown is predictably along partisan lines, 67% of democrats believe comey over trump and 70% of republicans believe trump over comey and people are nearly split over how or who they believe. it's 35% believe comey and 32% believe trump and that's really shows what i was just saying that you know, no matter how much comey is talking about his book or doing interviews about his experiences with the president, that's not changing people's minds and i think he's realizing that if he wants to change people's minds, a book

tour isn't maybe the way to do it. >> i know you kind of highlighted on this a little bit. do we have a sense, i know you're saying that james comey's book and tour didn't do much to change the minds of the american public. but do we have sense of how the book may be performing? is that in any way a measure of the public's appetite to hear the jim comey story? or is there too much saturation of jim comey at this time? >> the book has been selling well and i think that reflects the general palace intrigue. comey's firing was a pretty controversial decision by the president and people are interested in seeing that. the sales of the book is reflected by people's hopes or expectations that he would reveal new things in the book but basically it sort of relitigated everything we knew and one interesting stat from the survey is that 56% of the people we polled think comey's interviews and book tour are mostly for himself and not necessarily to tell truth about trump.

think that's interesting we can sort of use that thinking among people to then apply to other situations like stormy mcdaniels or karen mcdougal, people who are telling their truth about the president. >> let's switch gears here, alexi, i know that axios sat down with chicago's mayor rahm emanual yesterday and he had some advice for democrats heading into the mid terms with regards to what they're saying about the president. how they're acting towards him. what did he say? >> mayor emmanuel told mike allen that democrats shouldn't politicize impeachment. which he i talk to democrats on the hill they definitely understand this. but i think there's a worry that in the anti-trump resistance movement, democratic candidates across the country. especially in more liberal areas, will want to campaign on impeaching trump and mayor emmanuel made the argument that this has legal consequences, it's not something that should be useds a political tool. >> alexi, i want to ask you

about a follow-up on that rahm emanual interview. he also talked about his big ideas for government, including things like modernizing public services. explain that concept for us. >> he argued that government should be able to act like the private sector, in that it should create a system in which you know blasts can go out to the community and there can be a better way for the government to target residents and also for residents to communicate directly with the government. he gave an example to mike allen about how feedback from chicago has showed him that he needs to replace street lights with l.e.d. smart bulbs and so that's one example of government acting like the private sector can lead to beneficial changes for residents in the communities. >> what are we going to be seeing on axios today in. >> ronnie jackson is supposed to have his confirmation hearing that is maybe delayed because of new allegations of improper conduct. i reported last night about a call that senator joe manchin hosted with ronnie jackson and

west virginia veterans to feel out his positions on privatization and understand more about his manager experience. but it's gone into a wash as we're figuring out whether or not the confirmation will be delayed. >> not the smoothest of sailing. >> alexi mccammen, we'll be reading axios in just a little bit. you too can sign up for their newsletter at axios.com. that does it for us on this tuesday. i'm yasmin vossoughian, along side ayman mohyeldin and lewis bergdorf. age 71 years and seven months at the time of the exam. height 71 inches, some people have just great genes, i told the president if he had a healthier diet over the last 20 years. >> his weight 239. just shy of obesity.

>> it is. >> you're confident of that number? >> yeah. >> all right so doctor ronny jackson is confident that president trump is in fine physical is shape. account white house say the same for jackson's nomination to be va secretary? new information this morning about the sudden brakes that were put on his confirmation hearing. everything went dark right away. welcome to "morning joe," it's tuesday, april 24th. we have mike barnicle, farmer aide to george w. bush elise jordan. former treasury