by the way, is this better than that phony washington white house correspondence? is this more fun? i could be up there tonight smiling like i love where they're hitting you shot after shot. these people they hate your guts and then i'm supposed to -- >> president trump knew he would be a target at the annual white house correspondents dinner. >> and president trump hits the campaign trail to help republicans to fight for control

of congress. >> and kim jong un promises to shut down his main mu nuclear testing facility. good morning, it's april 30th. >> we begin with the controversy over this entertainment at the white house correspondents dinner. it opened a divide over the limits of comedy under a president who rarely hesitates to attack the press. the biggest dividing lines about sarah huckabay sanders. watch this. >> we are graced with sarah's presence tonight. i have to say i'm a little star struck. i love you as aunt lydia and the hand maid's tale. i think she's very resourceful.

she burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye. maybe she's born with it. maybe it's live. >> a little uncomfortable there. many are now calling on the white house association to apologize to the press secretary. here she is reacting after the morning after. >> it was a great honor to be able to preside over last night's dinner and to represent all the journalists to cover the white house. my aim was to build a spirit of unity in that room. my only regret is that to some extent, those 15 minutes are now defining four hours of what was a really wonderful night. >> also a statement last night saying quote

this year was an embarrassment to everyone associated with it. the filthy comedian totally bombed. couldn't deliver her lines. much like the seth meyers. she and the incoming president are quote, committed to hearing from its members on the format of the dinner going forward. >> with roughly six months until the midterm elections, the president used his rally in michigan to toutd his accomplishments while also attacking democrats. kelly o'donnell has more on

this. >> nancy pelosi and her gang, they've got to be voted out of office. >> honing his partisan fire. >> a vote for a democrat in november is a vote for open borders and crime. >> but also voicing the political jeopardy he faces if democrats take control of congress. >> we will impeach him, but the people said he hasn't done anything wrong. oh, that doesn't matter. >> he's using that personal risk and history of a president's party losing seats at the president's midterm to animate his voters. >> we've got to fight like hell and we've got to win the house and we've got to win the senate. >> though he is not on the ballot himself, gop dand candidates are expected to keep their distance, but president trump argues he has a case to

make. >> the economy is raging our military is stronger and getting stronger every single day. >> big unknowns from the world stage could cast a shadow over november. the president is already taking credit for progress and nuclear talks with north korea. >> what do you think president trump had to do with it? i'll tell you what. how about everything? >> beyond his rally bravado, democrats offered a more strained presence today. >> i think it's a terrific opportunity. >> the pressures go beyond the issues with north korea. president trump has to decide in the next couple of weeks if the u.s. will continue to be part of a nuclear agreement with iran. that's something he's been talking about since he was a

candidate, kreucritical of thatl and european allies want very much for the u.s. to remain a part of that agreement. on saturday, the president spoke to israeli prime minister. so the white house has suggested he's likely to withdraw. at the same time they say no final decision has been made. >> all right. thank you for that report. after a year long investigation into russia's interference in the election, they've released a final report saying they found no collusion. the 253 page report only shows the lengths to which gop leaders wednesday to shield president trump from scrutiny. they argue that republicans failed to interview key witnesses. a trump responded to the news on

friday and seized on the republicans' finding. >> it was a great report. no collusion, no coordination, no nothing. it's a witch hunt. that's all it is. there was no collusion with russia. you can believe this one. there was -- you probably can't believe it, there was no collusion between the trump campaign and the russian people. as i've said many times before i've always said there was no collusion but i've also said there has been nobody tougher on russia than me. with that all being said if we can get along with russia that's a good thing, not a bad thing. i was very honored by the report. it was totally conclusive, strong, powerful. >> meanwhile james comey dismissed the report yesterday. >> just curious if you believe

what the president says it proves. it was all a big hoax by the democrats based on payments and lies. is that your interpretation? >> that is not my understanding of what the facts were before i left the fbi and i think the most important piece of work is what the special counsel is saying now. >> did it serve a good investigative purpose? >> it damaged relationships with the fisa court, it was just a wreck. >> let's turn now to the late es out of the korean peninsula. north korean leader is vowing to shut down his nation's nuclear test site by the end of may. kim also says that he will open the process up to foreign

experts and journalists from south korea and the u.s. north korea last used the site during last september's test of a thermo nuclear bomb. north korea also says it will alter its time zone by half an hour to align with south korean's dinner time. >> a lot of very positive things happened over the last 24 hours. we're in total touch with both north korea and south korea. we're speaking very much with south korea and with north korea. the relationships are building and building strongly and this will be a great thing for the world. >> i don't think he's playing and you know, it's never gone this far. i don't think it's ever had this enthusiasm for somebody for them wanting to make a deal. the united states has been

played beautifully like a fiddle because you had a different kind of a leader. we're going to hopefully make a deal. if we don't that's fine. we don't play games. >> this moment where we are right now, it's taken a long time, many, many decade to get here. let's see what happens. we will not repeat the mistake of past administrations. maximum pressure will continue until denuclearization occurs. i look forward to our meeting. it should be quite something. >> have you spoken with kim jong un himself or do you -- >> i don't want to comment on that but we have a very good working relationship. we're setting up a meeting. things have chaenged very radically from a few months ago. you know the name calling and a lot of other things. >> all right. joining us now, white house reporter steve nelson.

good to have you with us. let's rewind a little bit and talk about the buzz of the town so to speak which is the white house correspondent's dinner, president trump deciding to skip it. he held a rally in michigan and given all the reactions that we've seen to michelle wolf, what do wepex ectothe president to do? are we going to see him skip it next year? do we see the rhetoric going against reporters in the upcoming weeks and months? >> we'll see if he's going to make a big peace with the media and showing up one of these years. i -- it will be interesting to see what happens with the other white house staff. of course there is the very brutal comedy at sarah sanders' expense and now that it was not

in keeping with the theme of the night. these kind of things happen at these large dinners with comedians. there is precedence for the response and the tradition continues. i imagine that will be the case here. >> i was surprised the president has not come out and tweeted in defense of sarah sanders. >> so as we know, steve, sort of the house intel committee releasing their findings saying there was no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and the russia campaign. and in spite of what the findings were the democrats are going to continue their investigation to interview people because they don't believe the republicans did their due diligence in regards to the house republican

committee. what are you hearing? >> the investigation by the committee was highly spl politicized. james clapper, he gave false statements under -- while testifying before the committee. you know, each side has their own angle and perhaps room for followup here. what the committee's investigation did though isn't really the most importance is everyone is saying what the special counsel is doing and how that investigation wraps up that really matters. >> all right. we'll touch base with you in a little bit. >> president trump wraps up his attacks against john tester. >> and the latest surrounding paul ryan's firing of the house

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conditions by thursday. we're probably not going to have a spring. straight from winter to summer. the warm air is already showing up in kansas city. 60 degrees. that's beginning of the warming trend that will spread across the country. this time of year you get the warmer air colliding with the cold colder air. we could have a couple here and there. today slight risk of thunderstorms and a little slice from amarillo to lubbock down to areas of west texas. tomorrow is a more dangerous day. marginal to slight to enhanced and then we could go moderate to high risk. tomorrow is a high risk so the nebraska, kansas line, that's where we could have a chance of weather. this is the coldest april on record and you're going to end

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down to the jets. game two would be decided with two thrilling overtime. finally broke the tie giving the nationals the 5-4 win. and during the game the team honored the hero who disarmed the waffle house shooter a week ago and they gave him his own personalized jersey. for game two of the second round matchup between the penguins and the capitals. after blowing a two-goal lead, the capitals hold them to a ing is l goal tying the series. turning now to mlb, the red sox and the rays, eight-game winning streak with the 4-3 victory, the result makes boston the first team to 20 wins this season.

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out a series of tweets aimed at senator john tester, the top democrat on the veterans affairs committee. allegations against ronny jackson are just tot true saying that tester should resign because of those claims. the senator has raised charges against jackson questioning his prescribing and accused of being drunk on the job. casually implying he could ruin the senate's career. watch this. >> he took a gentleman who is a truly high quality human being and what they said about him, what they said about this great american doctor ronny jackson, this is a high quality

individual like they would love in montana and tester started throwing out things that he's heard. well, i know things about tester that i could say too. and if i said them, he'd never be elected again. >> so senator tester released a statement in which he did not respond directly to the remarks but rather he has a duty to get the veterans what they earned. >> we have o$1.6 billion and we had to fund our military, folks? we got -- our military was

deplet depleted. mattis could not be happier. >> i said to him yesterday i said do you think we really needed this much? we needed it sir. we really did. we feed it. so by doing that the democrats don't care about our military. >> the liberal politicians who support criminal aliens and they support them over -- far over american citizens nancy pelosi and her gang they've got to be voted out of office. they've got to be voted out of office. we have to have bosrders and we need security, we need the wall. we're going to have it all and again, that wall has started. we got 1.6 billion. we come up again on september 28th and if we don't get border

security we'll have no choice, we'll close down the country because we need border security. you watch comey and you watch the way he lies and he's got the memos. i wonder when he wrote the memos. and he puts them up, watch the way he lies. do you remember john lovetts? the liar. well, comey is worse. he's a liar and a leaker. you know, i did you a great favor when i fired this guy. i tell you, i did you a great favor. >> all right. stormy daniels will have to wait a little longer for her day in court. on friday a federal judge granted a 90 day delay against michael cohen. cohen asked for a delay after fbi agents raided his home and

office earlier this month. in judge said on friday that the issues on stormy daniels' civil suit with the lap into a criminal probe into cohen. the national enquirer is going into cohen. it's run by david pecker, a friend of president trump. >> all right. switching gears here, a former white house ethics lawyer if president bush is running for a u.s. senate seat as a democrat. according to a commission filing richard painter will be vying for al franken's former seat. smith has said she intends to run for a six-year term as well. so paunter's impending announcement is bound to set up a primary before november. he's been a constant critic of the republican party saying

americans are fed up with the gop and his campaign tweeted that americans are quote, in the fight of our lives sating that our democracy is under assault. >> switching gears and back to congress. nunes is no longer considered safe in his election bid. downgraded nunes district to likely republican. nunes is still considered a favorite in this year's race but will face a strong challenge from dans who has raised more than $1 million in the first quarter of the year alone. >> white house reporter steve nelson, good to talk to you. as we just heard president trump sort of renewing his call over the weekend in michigan for john tester to resign after the allegations he made against ronny jackson. do you think this could actually

impact tester's re-election tans chances in november? up until now it seemed like he was pretty secheiroure in his s. >> president trump hasn't been in office long enough to really go after a sitting senator and try to knock them off. this could be an opportunity. tester and trump appeal to similar bases. the swaths of white americans who are willing to vote for democrat or republican. she could conceivably influence the race but the republican candidate is not going to be a well known personality and president trump really hates to back a loser. what becomes of it we'll have to watch. >> let me ask you about president's messages in michigan.

so many of these trump rallies they seem to have a campaign feel to them. he was running some new messaging if you will. do you think that his message will work with voters ahead of a mid determine and fend off a blue wave as many have described it coming in november? >> i really don't know. the campaign events that he has, it's really a donald trump show. it's not a senator nil in the blank show. president trump entertains his supporters. he as a unique spiel. whether it's going to work for republicans in the various states where there are contested races, i don't know. >> it's interesting. the big question now which i was reading over the weekend is what to do with president trump in a run up to the midterms. >> do we march him out to the campaign trail or do we let them

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the middle east. we must ensure that this regem does not even get close to a gnaw clear weapon and that iran ends its proliferation of dangerous weapons and its support. iran is right there. >> macron and iranian president have agreed to work together to preserve the agreement. macron also said it comes as america merkel has -- >> it's the first time trump has hosted an aftrican leader.

also turning now to the president's budding bro mans with the curious case of the disappearing oak tree. you may recall on the first day of the visit last week they planted an oak tree sapling. it was a gift and came from the wood where thousands of u.s. marines died during world war 1. now, however, the tree has vanished. in its place nothing but grass. >> i wonder if it was moved to some other part of the white house grounds. >> it was a perfect photo op. >> not sure if it would have a lasting place. >> let's speculate on this tree? the tree -- no, the speculation.

>> do you have sources inside the white house? >> settle in kids. >> possibly they're concerned that it could spread thing oother trees. >> do you think the french president brought a contaminated tree to the white house? >> i didn't say that. >> we'll get customs and border control on that. >> let's get into the severe weather forecast the next couple of day. then tomorrow a little manufacture dangerous. today's going to be large hail and gusty winds. tomorrow we watch out and maybe even in kansas city and we could get some tornados out of this so that would be -- we haven't had a lot of tornados. but now that we're starting to warm things up our severe weather season is going to heat up too. here's your reward for a miserable april.

the last day is going to be absolutely gorgeous. omaha 83. can st kansas city at 79. great lakes, detroit up to the 80s. and then the first really warm day of the spring season looks like 84 in new york. some interior sections could be getting into the upper 80s so this morning it is snowing in central new york and it's about 36 degrees and about three days from now you're going to be air conditions and low 80s. >> what a swing. >> ahead a mega mobile merger. >> and the the tails in the uni union and what it means for consumers consumer. we'll be right back.

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♪ welcome back, everyone. joining us now from washington, d.c. with a look at axios a.m., political reporter alexi. great to have you with us on this monday morning. >> good morning. >> what is the one big thing for this morning? >> it's about bill and hillary clinton making a more aggressive return. hillary clinton is leading a meeting in new york with her on ward together group. she's trying to help teach them how to capitalize on this energy and activism we've seen since the 2016 election.

later in june, bill clinton is releasing a book titled "the president is missing." >> so let's talk about that. we do have the midterms on the horizon. how are democrats feeling about the fact that bill and hillary clinton could sort of be back in the spotlight? >> you know, i think most people are sort of sick of reliving the 2016 election, but top democrats have told axios they want new, fresher faces within the party helping folks ahead of 2020. i also think that in the metoo moment there could be problems with bill clinton helping democrats. and i think people are sick again of seeing the clintons after 2016 and they want a new generation of leaders helping out. >> not necessarily happy. >> yeah, i was going to say. let's stick with elections and talk about the midterms but from the republican side. i know that axios has new reporting by some efforts by republicans to make a new push. what's the plan with this

effort? what more can you tell us? >> sure. the nrcc helps congressional republicans across the country is launching a $60 million ad campaign to help some of the most vulnerable republicans across the country in 13 cities. it's a large amount of money for an outside group spending on digital and tv advertising and shows sort of where they're most concerned about heading into the election in november. >> so how worried are republicans feeling about potentially losing these districts going forward? >> so as i mentioned there's 13 districts they're targeting. they're being strategic in not releasing the specific districts bauds they don't want to show their cards to democrats, but they released some of the cities and areas they're targeting like d.c., virginia, detroit, minneapolis and targeting districts in which there's a republican incumbent in the district that hillary clinton has won. we've seen how republicans lost

that trump won. we expect them to go all in that hillary clinton won because they are most worried about those. >> is there indication or reporting to suggest which way the republican party is leaning on how much they want president trump to play a role come the midterms? we saw his campaign style rally in michigan with some of the messaging there? is the republican party unified how visible they want trump to be? >> that's a great question and they are not. so my colleague at axios talked to 23 of the republican vulnerable running for congress, only two said they wanted trump to come out and campaign for them. but i have spoken with folks who are familiar with the republican strategy for senate races and they have told me they are going to lean all in on president trump in their advertising and campaign. so we can see how these two strategies are different. as you said, maybe not unifying the republican party. >> so before we let you go, axios is also looking at how

climate change is always taken a backseat to other issues they say they care ability, why does this issue keep getting pushed back? >> there's a couple reasons. one is that it's sort of this long-term problem that they don't know how to approach. the second and perhaps more important issue is that under president trump and with the republican controlled congress, this issue hasn't really been prioritized. and so corporations are responding in kind by not coming to washington and prioritizing that issue. we can see them doing things outside of washington and seen state and local governments doing the same thing. but it's not becoming an issue in the capitol because they're seeing it's not a priority here. >> before we let you go, what are you looking out for this week in washington, d.c.? more fallout from the washington correspondent's dinner or what else is on your agenda you're keeping an eye on? >> i personally hope we can move past the michelle wolf

discussions after it was taking everyone's attentions yesterday. we'll look for more information on ronny jackson will now not return to his post as the doctor in the white house. and i'm personally following the fallout from trump's attacks on senator tester and what democratic senate groups are going to do to help him moving forward. >> lots to watch out for in another busy week in washington. thank you very much for that. >> good seeing you. >> always a pleasure. we'll be reading axios a.m. in a little bit. to all our viewers there, sign up for the newsletter. >> that does it for us on this monday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. ♪ >> i think that was unnecessary. >> good morning, everybody. >> that was one of the dumbest things to put on twitter.

>> monday morning. >> i don't understand. >> welcome to "morning joe." >> how can he keep saying that? >> stop. we're on the air. >> he put out a tweet a couple days ago that was hateful and uninformed. fit right in with yesterday. >> last jedi, he was hateful? >> oh my gosh. >> back to the news. >> april 30th. oh my gosh, it doesn't feel like it around here. >> unless you're in nova scotia. >> with us we have political writer for the new york times and msnbc analyst nick confessorry and caddy cay whose book "the confidence code for girls" is number one. it's amazing. >> it was out this weekend. >> in the sunday paper. it feels good. i was so happy with the response. >> they're reading it. >> who told