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team good morning, everybody. it is tuesday, march 26th. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. top house democrats are giving attorney general bill barr a week to turn over special counsel robert mueller's full report six democratic committee chairs sent a letter to the justice department with a deadline of april 2nd, tuesday that is in a letter to barr they write the four page summary of the mueller report is not sufficient for congress meanwhile senate majority leader mitch mcconnell blocked a nonbinding resolution to release the full report citing national security concerns. the house passed the same rehouse resolution on a vote of 420-0 less than two weeks ago. at the time president trump tweeted this, i told leadership to let all republicans vote for transparency makes us all look good done matter. play along the president deflected when asked about make the report

public >> it wouldn't bother me at all. up to the attorney general wouldn't bother me at all. >> a source tells nbc news that robert mueller informed the attorney general and deputy attorney general in a march 5th meeting three weeks ago he would not be making a decision on obstruction. that comes as the president's defenders criticize the special counsel for not closing that door >> if he wanted to hedge his bettsand refused to come to a decision he ought 0 go to work for a hedge fund the job of a prosecutor is to evaluate the evidence and come to a clung this was especially important in the obstruction of justice case. >> you can call it a cop out i call it unprofessional your job is to decide. >> they are demanding to see the whole report because mueller said i can't, i can't really

clear trump on obstruction i can't find any evidence but i'm going to have to leave this up to the attorney this is not what prosecutors do. prosecutors don't acknowledge the possibility of criminal behavior if they can't find any. so the media and the democrats now have an open roadway to impeachment on the basis of obstruction. >> so president trump praised special counsel bob mueller less than a week as denouncing him as conflicted and questioning his mandate to write a report. the president is hoping for payback investigations into others who he accuses of treasonous and evil things >> yes >> it lasted a long time we're glad it's over it's 100% the way it should have

been i wish it could have gone a lot sooner a lot quicker there's people out there that have done some evil things, very bad things, i would say treasonous things against our country and hopefully that people that have done such harm to our country, we've gone through a period of really bad things happening those people will certainly be looked at. i've been looking at them for a long time. i say why haven't they been looked at. many have lied to congress you know who they are. they have done so many evil things >> white house aides gloated that declared no collusion sarah huckabee sanders tweeted this mueller madness bracket. media and political figures who made comments about the report's possible conclusion. and said judiciary committee chair lindsey graham is weighing on calls for bill barr to

release as much of robert mueller's report as possible >> the hope he'll come to the committee, release as much as possible of the mueller report the things that can't be released are grand jury information prohibited bylaw from being released because it would compromise the grand jury process. it's clear to me from the four page summary by attorney general barr that the russians did in fact, hack into the dnc. the podesta emails, it was the russians it wasn't some 300 pound guy sitting on a bed somewhere >> you say you want attorney general barr to testify? >> yes i'll leave that up to mr. barr as to whether or not he thinks that would be helpful. i don't know the answer to that about the special counsel himself. let's start with mr. barr who is in charge of the department of justice. >> an unidentified foreign state-owned firm that has been fighting a subpoena from robert

mueller won't be getting a supreme court appeal the firm turned to the supreme court after a lower federal court rejected the company's efforts to block a grand jury subpoena for records but the d.c. circuit court of appeals refused to overturn the district court's ruling against the firm in december. the company later wanted temporary stay of contempt from justice roberts but that was bu dissolved making the firm to a $50,000 a a day legal fine impod by a lower court as long as it refuses to turn over the requested information. mueller's office winds down the case will be handled from the prosecutor's office in washington, d.c. a spokes man declined to comment when asked if it keeps pressing theit mystery information for t information mueller was seeking. >> michael avenatti who once on represented stormy daniels in her legal battle against donald trump has been hit with

indictments. it's alleged michael avenatti trite to extort up to $25 million from$2 nike. prosecutors say michael avenatti meat with nike representatives last week claiming to represent a youth basketball coach who had information that nike employees made illicit payments to the families of high school athletes. he and another unnamed co-conspirator threatened to release damaging information about the company if it did not agree to pay him and his clients. in a spate case an attorney in los angeles announced michael avenatti isan facing bank and we fraud charges. hed used settlement from one o his client to pay his own expenses. michael avenatti was taken into custody in manhattan yesterday afternoon. he was released on a $300,000 bond and later told reporters he was confident he would be fully exonerated. >> for the entirety of my career, i have fought against the powerful.

powerful people. powerful corporations. i will never stop fighting that good fight. am highly confident that when all of the evidence is laid bare in connection with theseba casec when it is all known, when did you k process occurs, that i wi be i fully exonerated and justi will to be done. >> soll michael avenatti's form client stormy daniels released a statement saying this knowing what i know now about michael avenatti i'm not saddened but not shocked by news reports. i made the decision more than a month ago to terminate michael's servicesel after discovering th he had dealt with me extremely dishonestly. congressional republicans are taking an aggressive ki approach when it comes to legislation dealing with and semitism. in a spring of proposals a gop

aide said ted cruz will introduce a w measure that woul condemna all forms of anti-semitism. it comes as democrats continue to deal a with the fallout stemming from remarks made by ilhan omar about jewish lawmakers and the divide withini the party over how best to respond. president trump has continued to claim that democrats hate jews and are anti-israel. even though his administration was widely criticized for not having myfo mention of the jewi people or and semitism in a statement on international holocaust remembrance day. >> let's talk 20. beto o'rourke has tapped former top obama aide to be his campaign manager. 0 mali-dillon is the veteran of five presidential races including work at the deputy campaign manager for president obama's 2012 f re-election bid. she since served as the executive director of the democratic national committee. she told the "new york times"

she hopes to scale up o'rourke's 2020 presidential campaign. the "times" notes o'rourke is willing to look inside of his inner circle and professionalize his presidential campaign in a way thaten he had resisted duri his unsuccessful senate bid. >>e stacy abrams launched an initiative to ensure the 2020 scene us the include hard to count populations in the state of georgia. her organization will focus on groups likely to be skipped including bnonenglish speakers and renters. roughly 20% of georgians live in hard to count neighborhoods. in 2010 census bureau reports it missed more than 1.5 million minorities including blacks no anticipate hispanic. the informations collected eve ten years not only determines the number of representatives each state gets in congress but

decides how $900 billion in federal funding for health care and education andfo other publi services arer allocated. >> i want to bring in eugene scott. let's starteu with this letter sent to attorney general bill barral from multiple democratic chairmen asking for this april 2nd deadline of releasing the le mueller report in its entirety. talk to us about the possibility this could even happen. is this timeline feasible? >> it's not likely that this will happen by april 2nd. even though democrats believe s it's possible because they are under the impression that while bill barr officially received the letter, the report this past weekend, he was aware of some of the findings in the report as a recently or as early as three weeks ago. so there's this idea that what can be made public is already

available and it's already clear.d but, of course, republicans are going to push back on that because they believe that there's information in the report that they have not even seen that perhaps is not good for the public to see right now. >> what's the significance, eugene, of robert mueller ecological doj officials he would notia come to a conclusio on obstruction of justice charges. there was someju speculation ana lot of questions as to how william barr was able to make e that determination after receiving the reportet friday b sun afternoon it seems now he had a three week head start that this decision was not going to be made by mueller. >> that continue to be one of the biggest questions about the report from bothab the right an the left because mueller did not provide any clear explanation as tor why he was not going to ma conclusion regarding obstruction specifically, perhaps it's that he wanted barr to make it. perhaps he wanted congress to an make it. we'll see in the next coming mi

weeks both sides who want to see some firm conclusion made about this issue specifically express whatpr they believe the report saysth about it and the accompanying information that came out of the investigation. but that all can only happen if the investigation, the report he about the investigation is made public at the very leastis to congress. >> i think there's so many questions about the specific thing.sp one of the biggest questions is did the attorney general begin to makeey his conclusions about obstruction of justice even without all the evidence insi al front of him because he knew mueller wouldn't be making this conclusion and t that's troubli. >> very much so. it'sy been said that what the publicat notes right now -- it' not the n report but bill barr summaryl of the report. bill barr is someone who the president wanted in this position, in part, because of his different approach to this report than jeff sessions would have taken. that's quite telling.

>> the other point people saying that determination should have been made byon the congress, particularly the house of representatives to decide whether there was obstruction of justice. >>ct eugene scott, thank you. we'll talk to you again in a little bit. thett british airways fligh takes a wrong turn and not only epidemics up in the wrong city, but the wrong country. now staffers are weighing in on what exactly happened there.pe >> i don't know whether you rather end up. an unprecedented end move. british lawmakers seize control of brexitit negotiations from prime ministerne theresa may. we'll havere those stories and check on weather when we come back. check on weather when we come back i'm 53.

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incredibly heartbreaking. you can't imagine what it's like. >> grief and pain. >> to lose a friend, a sister, a brother, and to be a survivor carries its own guilt. especially when you're a parent you can't do anything about it to help save your child. a british airways flight from london to dusseldorf, ji germany went well yesterday until their plane landed in scotland. the problems started when a ground staff typed in the wrong code. leaving the pilot and air traffic control officials to assume they were to go to edinburg. >> do you think when they arrived they were surprised to seeing people wear kilts?

so norwegian officials are investigating why the luxury cruise liner viking sky set sail despite storm warnings. viking sky was headed for southern norway when its engines failed leaving its ships and passengers to face winds of 40 miles per hour and waves of over 26 feet high. authorities launched a daring rescue operation taking nearly 500 passengers off the ship one by one by helicopter. although police say there's no suspicion of a criminal offense the question on everyone's mind is why did the ship set sail into a tax reform in the first place? >> there were over 1,000 passengers on that thing. literally like you say they were airlifting them one by one. >> also it looks scary from the video inside. panels falling on passengers. bill, give us your weather. >> those stories -- i have a friend who works for the cruise industry as a meteorologist.

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confidence in the wake of mueller's russian probe. the president touted the summary of the report and praised the special counsel in what is being touted as a major political victory for him. nbc news chief white house correspondent hallie jackson has more. >> reporter: basking in his biggest political wins the president is elated by irritated. >> what they did and it was a false narrative. it was a terrible thing. we can never let this happen to another president again. >> reporter: joined in the oval office by his outside of attorneys the president expressed vindication and vindictiveness against those who investigated him. >> there are a lot of people out there that have done some very evil things, very bad things, i would say treasonous things against our country. >> reporter: on robert mueller himself a shift after two years of this. >> sadly mr. mueller is conflicted. >> reporter: a different tone.

asked if he thinks mueller acted honorably the president said yes. fallout from the mueller report is far from over. nbc news has learned top democrats are now demanding the attorney general release the special counsel's full report to congress, no later than next tuesday, april 2nd. >> key can't rely on what may be a hasty partisan interpretation of the facts. >> reporter: on the republican side lindsey graham is calling for another special counsel to investigate how the fbi and justice department handled the opening of the russia investigation during the 2016 campaign. >> going forward, hopefully in a bipartisan fashion, we'll begin to unpack the other side of the story. >> reporter: at least four congressional committees are examining the president's conduct and issues like potential abuses of power. but even as those investigations continue the president and his allies are still seizing the end of mueller's work. senior campaign official tells

nbc news they plan to feature at a rally in michigan. and as for the potential the president might pardon some of his former aides and associates convicted in the russian investigation, the president said yesterday he has not given it any thought. back to you. >> our hallie jackson. thanks for that report. >> the house intelligence committee has postponed its planned testimony from felix sadder about his work with michael cohen. he set to testify tomorrow but committee spokesman cites continued questions from the attorney general summary of the mueller report. the delay comes after news that s sater is being sued by kazikstan bank. and lindsey graham said that his late colleague john mccain showed him the document when he

received it back in 2016. the senator says he recommended to mccain that he give it to the fbi adding that he told his friend, quote, that's what you do. i don't know what's in the thing. it could be a bunch of garbage from the russians. senator graham says that now he wants to investigate the dossier's origins. >> the fisa warrant application on four different occasions, what role did the dossier play. was it primary, supplemental, outcome determinative? i want to hear from mr. orr why he warned people why you may not rely on mr. steele. i want to know the role comey played in there. was the only reason you recused yourself is it because of the tarmac meeting with loretta lynch. what were the rules about counter intelligence briefing.

what kind of briefing did you give to the candidate at all. those are the questions. when it comes to the fisa warrant, the clinton campaign, the counter intelligence investigation it's been swept under the rug except by a few republicans in the house. those days are over. going forward, hopefully in a bipartisan fashion we'll begin to unpack the other side of the story. >> so senator graham revealed yesterday that he spoke to president trump this weekend about his recent attacks against senator mccain saying that he was quote very direct to the president that senator mccain deserves better. >> joining us once again eugene scott. lots to unpack here. what would a potential senate judiciary probe into the dossier entail? is it likely to happen? >> well that certainly is to be determined but there's a good chance that it will happen in part because republicans, we know, are still in control of the senate and there's been concern from the right about the

legitimacy of the dossier since it came out. but something very specifically that i believe graham spoke about is there was some speculation, perhaps, from lawmakers on the right that this could have been tied to some back channel efforts by the fbi to spy on the trump campaign for illegitimate reasons. they want to get to the bottom of that. if the president still believes that the fbi is an agency that does not have his best interest in mind and biassed against him, an investigation into that could support his lebron james. >> let's talk about this vote that took place yesterday on the senate floor with mitch mcconnell and how he blocked this vote for have a total and complete disclosure of the mueller report. why would they want to keep the mueller report secret if trump claims complete and total exoneration from this? >> the main argument i'm hearing

is there would be concerns about national security. there's information in this report related to russia and the campaign and what has been done and what hasn't been done and efforts made to hack into american elections in 2016. that some republican lawmakers aren't certain that the masses need to know. so they want to keep this close to them as possible. or maybe not even close the home. but certainly away from the public eyes. the challenge with that also, obviously, it leads questions that many people in the public will continue to have on both the right and on the left about what actually happened, what didn't happen and whether or not the trump campaign actually was as innocent as the president believes this report says they are. >> we've had a lot of very important reports by this government in congress that have been released that get redacted all the time and it's not

inconceivable a report like this being released and issued to the public. it's interesting mitch mcconnell has not read the full report he's making an argument it will compromise national security. >> he said it was about timing as well. he felt bill barr needed time to go over the full report to make sure there were no security concerns. chuck schumer's retort to that is we didn't put a timing in though. there was no timing involved. who knows what will happen here. >> frpg yothank you, eugene. >> susan collins will have an pony in her race in maine. a blogger and former police officer made the announcement on facebook last week. he plans to run on trump's america first policies in the wake of collins' decision to oppose the border emergency declaration. levassaur not yet filed with the

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some of america's closest allies. israel captured the area during the 1967-'68 war. the international. community considers it occupied syrian territory. the decision is also a political gift to netanyahu who faces re-election for a fifth term on april 9th. >> so in an unprecedented move the uk's parliament voted to take control of brexit from theresa may for one day. it highlights how far confidence in the prime minister has fallen especially as it relates to brexit. parliament has twice rejected may's brexit deal by historic margins and may admitted again yesterday it still doesn't have enough support to pass. lawmakers are expected to vote tomorrow on a host of alternative nonbinding brexit options in an attempt to push may's government in a specific direction. if may's deal is approved this

week which appears unlikely. other option is to delay to april 12th if no deal is agreed upon which the european commission said was likely. >> what a scenario playing out over there. i can't wrap my head around that. let's get a quick check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. it took me a second. >> well done. let's continue to update you on our flooding concerns in the midwest. we've been kind of slowly draining since our big flooding a week ago. another heavy rain heading towards region. this is the current river status. every where you see pink and orange that's moderate to major. now we're really starting to melt the snow quickly in dakotas and minnesota and that will add more water to the system.

here comes our next storm. this is on thursday. this is where heavy rain is. where the missouri river runs. it snakes upward along the border and slides over the top of the mississippi river. a lot of issues in the spring flooding in rockford, illinois. more heavy rain on friday. by the time we're said and done, by saturday or sun rainfall totals will be between one to two inches. additional snow melt from the north. the rivers are already running high. a big recipe for more additional flooding and rivers will go back up again after they've been falling. today's forecast cold in the northeast and great lakes. the sun will be out. temperatures will be in the 40s. real warmth for the east coast will wait until friday and saturday. still ahead boeing faces more fallout over the deadly 737 max crash as some airlines look elsewhere for their planes. >> apple unveils a hosts of new products and services to expand its empire.

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it will include original series, movies and documentaries created by celebrities by none other than oprah winfrey and steven spielberg. not yet been announced. also unveiled the apple news app offering content from 300 magazines and access publications for 9.99 and a credit card for iphone owners. i was waiting for oprah to come on and say you get a car, you get a car, you get an apple tv. >> it goes to show how much of the industry is changing. streaming services allow interesting points, some have brought up whether they will have a different model than netflix. or whether apple is going to try to do it the more traditional way which is like one episode

per week. >> it's also just, you think about the competition that cable providers have, first netflix and now streaming service with apple. they got to be a little bit nervous about this. >> coming up on morning joe, the fight over robert mueller's russia report takes shape. more on the demands by top democrats on getting their hands on the report. and senate judiciary member, john kennedy, and democrat chris murphy join the conversation on the after math of that report. morning joe is just moments away. and you don't have to be a genius to know that donald trump was excited to hear this news. in fact, we have footage of when he found out that mueller had left him off the hook. >> when it comes to donald j.

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attorney general william barr has summarized that while the report does not conclude the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him. >> we have a lot of big stories to get to, spreading them out and digging deep. welcome back, everybody. joining us from washington, we'll look at axios a.m. national political report, jonathan swan. >> good morning to you. >> we take readers behind the scenes with president trump's weekend, as he waited for the initial summary of bill barr's report. he was initially very angry about barr, including the line that he was not exonerated.

and he also quickly turned his attention to investigating the investigators, so we get a very rich picture, and we spoke to people like lindsey graham who were with the president for the weekend. >> were they popping a lot of bubbly down there, a lot of celebrations. >> what did senator lindsey graham say about president trump's assessment of the russia probe and how he views the last two years. there's some reporting that suggests lindsey graham encouraged john mccain to move forward with passing the dossier. >> lindsey graham admitted that publicly. the way he described the conversations to me sounded like he played golf with the president on sunday and he was basically trying to encourage the president to be happy and take the victory lap and be quiet. he said the president is incredibly frustrated and lindsey graham told me that he promised trump that he would do an investigation of the fisa

process and the origins of the mueller investigation. we should expect him in his capacity as senate judiciary chair to do that investigation effectively on trump's behalf. >> so what are you hearing, jonathan, from white house sources about the trump administration's plans here now going forward after the mueller report was released. >> they don't really have a plan which is the usual situation. i have heard people say they have this great plan of retribution. it's not. it's a bunch of instincts drawn together. instincts for vengeance and payback. they're in a booking frenzy. the trump campaign and outside groups in the white house, surrogates are putting people on tv. they're wanting to flood the zone. they have had huge fundraising through text messages. the campaign is leveraging bill barr's summary to raise money. i spoke to a source who was with trump at mar-a-lago, and they

said he repeatedly brought up paul manafort, and said he thought paul manafort was treated very unfairly, and i have been trying to sniff around to see if he is considering pardoning him. it seems like it's something that's on his mind. he certainly hasn't shut the door to it. >> let's switch gears and talk about another announcement that axios is looking at expected from kamala harris later today. >> my colleague alexei mchammond, she is going to announce a big pay raise for teachers, federal investment in teachers pay, which would give the average teacher, 13,500 pay raise, costing 315 billion over ten years and plans to jack up the estate tax and close other loopholes to do that. >> paying our teachers would

receive bipartisan support. jonathan swan, good morning my friend, we'll see you on morning joe. don't go anywhere. to all of our viewers, you can sign up for in news letter by going to sign up @axios.com. the media and democrats have called the president an agent of a foreign government. that is an accusation equal to treason which is punishable by death in this country. >> so the white house press secretary is shocked, stunned, and deeply saddened that anyone would ever be so irresponsible to raise the prospect -- >> this is america. >> of treason. >> when talking about the russia probe. >> you don't do that in america. >> right boss? >> there are a lot of people out there that are done some very very evil things, very bad things, i would say treasonous things against our country.

okay. good morning, welcome to "morning joe", with us we have k columnist and associate editor of the "washington post," david ige -- ignacious, jeremy bash, host of andrea mitchell reports, andrea mitchell, former chief of staff to the dccc and former director of strategic communications for hillary clinton's presidential campaign, adrienne elrod, and national political reporter for axios, jonathan swan, and with us, msnbc contributor mike barnicle from new york city. good to have you all on board. >> last night i was watching some news. >> you shouldn't have done that. >> you watched the wrong news. >> after watching, some of the most ridiculous commentary. i had had