thinnest neck i've ever seen. our closing thoughts for this opening day of 2019. he's not a long ball hitter. that is our broadcast for a thursday night. thank you so much for being here but i saw him today. with us. good night from nbc news well, we don't really know, headquarters here in new york. there could still have been some russia collusion. >> wow, molly. so good to see you this morning president trump takes a from washington, capitol hill victory lap on the campaign reporter molly hooper for us. >> what a morning. trail. he had a ral i in michigan last what a morning. >> what a morning, my friend. night where he attacked >> i want a longer, thinner democrats. neck. >> in the wake of the mueller >> let's talk about congressman report house republicans are adam schiff's response, calling on adam schiff to resign republicans attempted take down as chairman. of him. >> education secretary betsy he seemed prepared for it. devos defends the he went on for about five administration's cuts to the special olympics only to reverse minutes or so happen that was a portion of what we saw. course after president trump how is that going over on capitol hill today? said he had overridden the >> well first of all it shows decision. you one thing. i mean adam schiff is a former assistant u.s. attorney. he's a prosecutor. and so as you're listening to him lay out his argument you can >> good friday morning to you. almost see him before a jury

it's friday, march 29th. making this case. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside and that's what he's doing. he has the backing of california democratic speaker nancy pelosi david gura. president trump held a campaign in his efforts to, you kmoshs rally in michigan last night. continue the investigation into he began with a profane en the president's ties to foreign interests and whether that's impacting the current policy. so that's still going on. enunciation of the russian and what it tells us is that probe. >> after three years of lies and he's not going away. smears and slander, the russia one thing that adam schiff has said since the beginning, since friday almost when we learned hoax is finally dead. that the mueller report was coming out is that listen. [ cheers and applause ] the collusion delusion is over. just because bob mueller does not, could not make a case that total exoneration. complete vindication. president trump colluded with you know, it's interesting, russia or obstructed justice, that doesn't mean that the president was squeaky clean or robert mueller was a god to the his administration was above the democrats, was a god to them law or his campaign was above the law. until he said there was no that's not necessarily it. it's just that mueller, a collusion. they don't like him so much seasoned prosecutor could not right now. make that case and convince a the russia witch-hunt was a plan jury that he was guilty. by those who lost the election >> that's the reason why the

report needs to be seen 300 pages or so that report needs to to try and illegally regain be seen because of the details that are in those papers. power by framing innocent americans, many of them. >> it was so fascinating to they suffered. with an elaborate hoax. watch the body language, watching adam schiff looking at the democrats have to now decide his colleagues back and forth. whether they will continue defrauding the public with incredible. nunez looking straight ahead. ridiculous bull [ bleep ] help us understand the potential >> wow. >> incredible. >> but i don't necessarily not fallout for adam schiff to step surprising to say the least. a lot of people were expecting down. >> what we're seeing play out is fallout from what happened when that version of president trump. the republicans were in power and devon nunez then the chairman of the committee was post-mueller report considering what took place. essentially, you know, charged >> new reporting says president with the same, the same trump and republicans plan to use the findings of the special problems. democrats wanted him to step counsel's investigation as a down. you know, he was looking into political weapon against what led up to the opponents and to even make it a core piece of 2020 campaign messaging as the president did investigation, the investigation last night in michigan. the atlantic reports even the probe led to 215, couldn't th-- into the white house. they were calling him to step down.

what you're seeing playing out here on some level with sour count them, found the finding as grapes republicans saying if you're going to do it to us a total exoneration. we'll do it right back to you. >> william barr's summary letter >> that's not how washington works, molly. come on. is inoculating trump from any >> it reminded me of the real housewives, real lawmakers of capitol hill. >> we're fans, by the way. >> that's right. further charges. can you imagine? they are already prepared to attack reporters. any reporter who tries, that following devon nunez around. will be hit with 30 second spots >> at this point i think it of all their ridiculous claims would be pretty entertaining. about collusion said the source. it would do quite well. their tweets have been screen capped, all ready to go. >> that's right. last night the president's so just keep that in mind when you see these type of things attacks on journalists prompted playing out. a lot of times and oftentimes his rally goers to chant, "lock there's an underlying current of them up." >> all the democrat politicians, resentment from another, you know, alleged or perceived myth the media bosses, bad people. or slight. [ audience booing ] >> we'll talk to you in just a little bit. officials in chicago have ordered actor jussie smollett to the crooked journalists. pay $130,000 to reimburse the city for its investigation into . the totally dishonest tv his report of what police say

was a staged hate crime. pundits. they have to be, i'm sorry, they chicago's legal department sent have to be accountable. a letter to jussie smollett and his attorneys yesterday saying the money would cover the overtime work by more than two [ cheers and applause ] dozen detectives and police [ audience chanting lock them officers who spent weeks up ] investigating the actor's claim. >> adam schiff's powerful a spokesperson said the amount is reasonable and legally just defense just hours after the president tweeted that he should to help offset the cost of the be forced to resign from investigation. congress, all nine republican meanwhile president trump announced yesterday that the fbi members of the intelligence committee used hearing on put's and the justice department will election meddling tactics to review jussie smollett's case. call on congressman adam schiff to step down as chairman. >> i think the case in chicago here's part of his defense as to is an absolute embarrassment to why he's pressing on with the committee's russia our country. investigation. >> my colleagues may think it's and i have asked that it be, that they look at it. okay that the russians offered i think that case is an absolute dirt on a democratic candidate for president as part of what embarrassment to our country and was described as the russian somebody has to, at least take a government's effort to help the trump campaign. very good hard look. you might think that's okay. >> however, chicago mayor rahm my colleagues might think it's emanuel blamed the president for okay that when that was offered the environment that led to

to the son of the president, in jussie smollett's allegations. >> the only reason jussie a pivotal role in the campaign that the president's son did not smollett took advantage of a hoax about a hate crime is for call the fbi, he did not the environment, the toxic environment that donald trump created. this is a president who drew a adamantly refuse that foreign help. no instead that son said he moral equivalency between people would love to help with the perpetrating bigotry and those fighting bigotry. russians. you might think it's okay that as someone who started his own he took that meeting. you might think it's okay that paul manafort the campaign chair journey in fighting swoun with great experience in discrimination, donald trump should take his politics, move running campaigns also took that it aside. meeting. he's created a toxic you might also think it's okay that the president's son-in-law environment. now a toxic vicious cycle. also took that meeting. you might think it's okay that >> education secretary betsy devos defending the trump they concealed it from the public. you might think it's okay that administration's proposal to defund the special olympics during a tense hearing with the their only disappointment after senate appropriations committee that meeting that the dirt they received on hillary clinton yesterday. wasn't better. you might think that's okay. >> i love special olympics myself. i have given a portion of my you might think it's okay that salary to special olympics. i hope all of this debate ty lied about that encourages lots of private meeting and said it was about contributions to special adoptions. olympics.

you might think it's okay that so, let's not use disabled the president is reported to have dictate that lie. children in a twisted way for i might think that's okay. i don't. your political narrative. i think it's immoral. i think it's unethical. >> did you personally approve -- i think it's unpatriotic and yes i think a yes or no will do. i think it's corrupt. the $18 million cut of the and evidence of collusion. funding for special olympics? >> no i didn't personally get now i have always said that the involved in that. question of whether this amounts >> i want to tell you whoever to proof of conspiracy was came up with that idea gets a another matter. whether the special counsel special gold medal for incense could prove beyond a reasonable activity. >> hours later from that doubt the proof of that crime is president trump reversed course after facing criticism from both up to the special counsel and i would accept his decision and i democrats and republicans. do. he's a good and honorable man >> why cut money from the and he's a good prosecutor. special olympics? but i do not think that conduct why would you cut funding? >> the special olympics will be criminal or not is okay. and the day we do think that's funded. i just told my people. i want to fund the special okay, is the day we'll look back olympics. i just authorized a funding of and say that is the day america the special olympics. i've been to the special lost its way. >> that's what happened in that olympics. i think it's incredible. hearing room. here's what the president said and i just authorized a funding. last night speaking to reporters i heard about it this morning. i have overridden my people with

funding the special olympics. >> how much can change in a few hours in washington. after trump's announcement devos issued a statement supporting the move writing i'm pleased and grateful to the president. we see eye to eye on this issue. he decided to fun our special olympics grant. this is funding i have fought over behind-the-scenes over the last several years. the congress mapp wisconsin who grilled the secretary in a separate hearing issued a statement reading in part quote can someone pull betsy from under the bus. still ahead new reporting that the department of homeland security plans to ask congress sweeping authority to deport unaccompanied minor children. >> the sentencing of maria b butina. that story and a check of the weather when we come back.

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let's turn now to weather and get a check on it. >> good morning. you've been waiting a long time for me to say this. we're talking about temperatures, they are back in the 70s for the northeast. it does come with a price, though. we're going to lose that sunshine. you can see from satellite composite radar storms are sparking up in kansas city. we have a severe thunderstorm risk, risk for isolated tornadoes throughout the afternoon. with temperatures this warm in the upper 60s to low 70s the atmosphere is very spicy and can produce some damaging winds. accumulation for rain here, potential flooding from st. louis to kansas throughout your afternoon up to about two inches throughout the day even for nashville. we'll continue to watch this storm system make its way across the northeast into new york. potentially into maine

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so today was supposed to be the day that the united kingdom left the european union. that obviously is not happening. at least today. prime minister theresa may's brexit deal has twice been rejected by lawmakers by historic margins and parliament proved on wednesday that it is far from being able to come to an agreement on any sort of divorce deal. joining us now from outside parliame parliament, is ali. thank you for joining us. with really no end in sight. what do we expect out of the palace of westminster today? >> reporter: good morning. welcome to another installment of brexit where decisions are driven by desperation. today was meant to be the day that the uk leaves the european union. instead members of parliament are going to be voting for a third time on the prime minister's deal. well, at least part of her deal. they are going to be voting on

the withdrawal agreement, which covers the divorce bill, citizens rights and the controversial irish backstop. they are not going to be voting on the political declaration, which determines the united kingdom's future relationship with the european union. now, today is, obviously, a very important day, and if the deal is accepted the uk is set to leave the european union on the 22nd of may. if the deal isn't accepted, they are going to be leaving on the 12th of april. as we discussed yesterday the prime minister said she would quit if the deal is accepted, but she will stick around if it's not accepted. so everything still up in the air. >> there you go. no idea what's going to happen. thank you so much. good seeing you. >> still ahead the first democratic debate of the 2020 presidential primary is on the books. we'll tell you where it will be and what to expect. >> the confirmation hearing for

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president donald trump held a campaign rally last night in michigan a state he won by fewer than 11,000 votes back in 2016 and where he's currently deeply unpopular. a poll by mra of lansing, michigan find 49% of michigan voters say they will vote to replace the president in 20. 31% say they will vote to re-elect him. trump rallied those supporters making a profin enunciation that he described as a conspiracy. >> the crazy attempt by the democratic party and the fake news media right back there -- [ audience booing ] -- and the deep state to overturn the results of the 2016 election have failed. they tried to do everything possible to take us out but we're very tough to take out,

aren't we? we do not abuse the law enforcement and intelligence power to target our political opponents when they spy on me. whoever heard of this. they spied on me. they spied on our campaign. they did it all because they refuse to accept the results of one of the greatest presidential elections probably number one in our history. >> new report by "the washington post" finds president trump frequently crafted financial statements that exaggerated his assets and hid his debts while a businessman. according to the "post" when trump wanted to make a good impression he sometimes sent them official looking documents called statements of financial condition. the "post" reviewed several of these documents laying out

trump's properties debt and net worth. newspaper notes if someone was trying to get a true picture of trump's net worth the documents were deeply flawed. some simply omitted properties that carried big debts. some assets were overvalued. some key numbers were wrong. now investigators on capitol hill and in new york are looking into these documents in an apparent attempt to determine whether trump's familiar habit about bragging about his wealth ever crossed a line into fraud. statements were the center of at least two inquiries that continue to follow trump unaffected by the end of special counsel robert mueller's probe. on wednesday the house oversight committee requested ten years of his statements from one of trump's accounting firms. "washington post" reporter who helped break that story will be on "morning joe". >> we're learning new details about robert mueller's russia report as nancy pelosi addition in for a fight over releasing

that investigation. a justice department official tells nbc news that mueller' report to attorney general william barr is over 300 pages long. barr released a four page summary on the report on sunday. the doj said it would release a version of the mueller report with sensitive information contained in the original report will not be included. speaking yesterday, nancy pelosi hammered the attorney general over i had summary reiterating her calls for the full report. >> in terms of this, this is a responsibility we have to uphold the constitution. i have said and i'll say again, no thank you, mr. attorney general. we do not need your interpretation. show us the report. we can draw our own conclusions. we don't need you interpreting for us. it was condescending and

arrogant. the sooner they give us the information the sooner we can make a judgment. >> pelosi's comments follows mika brzezinski's commenting to use her full force of her position to have the report released. the speaker elaborated on those remarks as well. >> the will of the congress on the floor of the house, 420 members voted to release. if the administration wants to ignore overwhelming 100% vote of democrats and republicans alike on the floor of the house, i think it's a really important message that the american people need to receive. we're a reflex of the will of the people. more than 80% of the american people want to see the report released. that's reflected in a 420-0 vote in the congress. and so we will not be ignored. >> you'll get your hands on

this? >> it will happen. just a question of time. the sooner the better. >> despite some objections, acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney reportedly help persuade president trump this week to get behind the effort to invalue date the affordable care act. mulvaney and his allies told trump joining the lawsuit to overturn obamacare will help him fulfill a campaign promise and could help lead to his re-election. but congressional republicans worry he has sent the president on a suicide mission and while republicans are united in opposing former president obama's signature health care law, the party remains divided about how to replace it. for instance house minority leader kevin mccarthy yesterday reaffirmed his support for maintaining the current requirement that heat insurers provide coverage for pre-existing conditions. >> make this promise you and this is a conversation i had with the president. the republicans will make sure pre-existing conditions are

protected. >> joining us again from washington, d.c., capitol hill reporter molly hooper. you got the president saying the republicans will be the party of health care. as i mentioned there's nothing to back that you want. we got 54 words from the press secretary yesterday outlining, i guess, what the plan might be as of yet still no plan. >> well, it was interesting when he was making those remarks that first day, i think it was tuesday when he sort of broke this to republicans. guess what? you got to come up with another health care plan. remember the ones that didn't fail. that's okay. forget about that. move on. he said he knew how complex the health care system was. and that may be the case. he may know how complex the health care system is but it seems like in talking to some lawmakers on the hill it seems he still doesn't understand how complex the reality of getting something passed through the

senate and house will be, especially given that democrats are in control of the house. and if this law goes away all together, then republicans are left number one without a plan that they've passed. keep in mind they couldn't pass anything. there were four iterations back in 2017 and they weren't able to pass any of them. so it's unclear how they will move forward. keep in mind there are several senators who have been working on producing a plan because, again, this is what republicans ran on and won during the tea party movement, back in 2010. even a majority in the senate will be very difficult. >> interesting because this could have been their moment. they knew the mueller report of coming out. they could have made a plan with whatever comes out with regard to the mueller report or barr letter let's change the march negative, go in on health care, have a plan to go out to the

public. people can concentrate on health care and not the mueller report. that's not what happened. instead the president announced the republicans will become the party of health care but not having a plan to back that up and losing that momentum and losing that moment that the trump administration could have taken ahold of. i want to quickly turn, molly, back to the mueller report here and the doj's reasoning behind having a four page -- i mean this is like, it's like writing a bad paper for, like a book report based on a really long book and i just got two pages out of it. i wouldn't get a good grade. we have a four page summary on 300 plus pages of the mueller report. what's the reasoning behind this? >> that's a good question. that's what democrats in the house want to know. that's why they are pushing for the mueller report to be released by april 2nd. again, those key committee chairmen of the six committees in house that are investigating

aspects of the trump administration have demanded the special counsel office, office of the special counsel release the full report by april 2nd. now granted that's not going to happen. likely that's not going to happen as we've seen in the reporting. what they are doing they are setting up, getting the ball rolling towards subpoena, you know, towards trying to subpoena the report, the release of the full report. maybe all but the classified portions of it because keep in mind part of this was a counter intelligence investigation. so intel committee will get that. again they are trying to get that timeline moving up. it takes a while to get these subpoenas through the house and then the court system. they are working on it. again, it's unclear. >> interesting because if you tick through some of the major investigations in our history, most of those reports were released publicly. sensitive information and intelligence redacted from those reports but nonetheless most released publicly. why is it this hasn't come out?

>> because it's under this new special counsel law which is different. the independent counsel law which republicans and democrats learned from. they said maybe we did to do something to rein this in a little bit. when you do that you're also kind of making it more difficult to have the entire report releas released. >> thank you very much. still ahead, everybody the latest on the democrats 2020 field cluing a warning to former vice president biden on delaying his potential run any further. >> plus this video once again we'll explain this bizarre scene during a hearing on capitol hill yesterday. get another check on your weekend weather as well.

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june 26th and 27th. it will air on nbc as well as msnbc and thrisnbc msnbc. timing will be announce later on. the democratic national committee said the lineups for each debate will be chosen at random not strictly for how candidates are ranked in polls. to qualify a candidate will need to either have 1% support in three qualifying polls or provide evidence of at least 65,000 unique donors with a minimum of 250 different donors in 20 states. >> let's talk about some of those polls you were just seeing. even though he hasn't entered the race new andy poling shows former vice president joe biden leading the democratic primary field in iowa. a new focus on rural america poll shows 25% of voters support biden. senator bernie sanders comes in second. david axelrod tweeted joe biden was at 37 in the same iowa poll

in september, 25% here. that must give his camp a sense of urgency about delaying it much longer. big clump of candidates behind biden and sanders which is a wide-open first in the nation race. let's get a check on your weather now. >> good morning. we're seeing the warmest weekend of the season so far and unfortunately that still involves snow here for upstate new york into parts of ohio, h ashtabula, erie. potential for severe weather from oklahoma to kansas city. let's talk about the bright side of this system. a southerly flow. the wind bars starting to make their way up. it's causing a temperature change back into the 60s and 70s. for the east coast you'll get spoiled this weekend with that warmer air before the colder air starts to push in. now please don't lose the winter

coat. we're talking about the 40s for the upper midwest. i want will continue to slide over to the carolinas, baltimore and portions of the northeast by monday afternoon. we're only going see highs back in the 40s. even my home state, look at this. they are getting spoiled by temperature in the 40s. that's record breaking for alaska. >> that's your home state >> my home. >> i learn something new every single day. we now have the video so at the confirmation hearing of acting interior secretary david bernhardt yesterday there was an unexpected viewer in the crowd. a green unblinking swamp creature watching over his shoulder. the creature was one of several scattered throughout the hearing room in protest of his nomination. activists from green peace and public citizens staged the demonstration. wow. just look at this. >> very unsettling.

>> to draw attention to the nominee's historic anti-environmental past. so after nearly two hours the protesters -- it was being escorted out of the room. i think we found the swamp thing. we were looking for it. >> discovered in the raburn building. there it goes. >> the thing is if you watch her. can we replay it again. if you watch her she seems suspect because she's looking around, trying to get her bearing. maybe get some courage up. there she goes and then she slips it on. >> i love it. still ahead wall street is looking at the most anticipated stock debut of the year. >> and a top bank makes an abrupt departure. that and other stories are coming up.

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welcome back. tim sloane is stepping down after years of trying to convince lawmakers and regulators the scandal-plagued bank was no longer a dangers to customers. what do we know about his departure so far? >> as you said, during his tenure as ceo o, sloan has been

trying to convince the public that wells fargo is in a different place now, that the culture has changed and really trying to do damage control and apologize for years of consumer abuses. sloan himself was under a huge amount of pressure and scrutiny around his compensation. he received a $5% bump from 201. so he was under a lot of scrutiny for his pay. wells fargo is going to search for his successor starting this week. switching to the tech space and b big news this morning, lyft has placed its ipo and is the first ride app to ever hit the public

markets. we're expecting a slew of silicon valley unicorns and this is one to keep an eye on. >> waiting in the wings, uber. >> waiting in the wings. >> coming up, a look at "1 big thing." and an emboldened president trump takes his post-russia report on the road to michigan. >> plus xavier becerra and jeh johnson will join the conversation. "morning joe" just moments away. "morning joe" just moments away. stage 2 breast cancer. i have three little kids. my baby's seven years old. i can't have cancer. we really wanted a cancer team. so we thought that we would travel to

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but in my mind i'm still 35. that's why i take osteo bi-flex, to keep me moving the way i was made to. it nourishes and strengthens my joints for the long term. osteo bi-flex. because i'm made to move. welcome back, everybody. joining us from washington with a look at axios a.m., alexi mccammon. good to see you today. >> good morning. >> talk to us about axios' "1

big thing." >> the "1 big thing" is beto showing trends and shifts that show over the last several years, not just 2018 with beto o'rourke, that the state is more willing to vote for democratic candidates up and down the ticket and 2020 could be the first time that the state votes for a democratic nominee for president since 1976. and all these folks that i talked to said that beto o'rourke certainly brought a lot of attention to the state and provided a lot of tv and air coverage, but he's not the sole reason the state has been shifting this way. they pointed to things like voter turnout in the 2018 midterms which increased by 18 percentage points in 2014, they talked about racial demographics shifting, more latino and younger people in the states and also looked at trends across the

country and how that was reflected in texas. they're looking at it as a way to make texas more competitive in the next election cycle. >> beto o'rourke announcing his campaign this week. you talk about this blue wave in texas. as it laps up on the shore of the american southwest, what spillover will that have on other states? how can a blueing of texas affect states we thought of as red or purple? >> as i talked to people, they said the presidential election is essentially over because that's one of the most competitive states for democrats to win. >> i also know you guys were looking at the fallout of the trump administration reversing

its decision to scrap the funding of the special olympic,s as we've been talking about in the last hour in what you're calling "trump the tormenter." break it down for us. >> president trump decided to go against his own people and override his own cabinet member but saying he's going to decide unilaterally that he'll fund the special olympics. he's the tormenter because this is a clear pattern of behavior with president trump. he did this with jim mattis who resigned after president trump tweeted he was removing troops from syria. he's told folks not to listen to rex tillerson, secretary of state, about north korea and he would handle it himself. he loves to show himself making unilateral decisions and be the good guy where other folks might look like the bad guy.

that's what he's doing with betsy devos as he's done with others around him. >> let me ask you about jared kushner, who is up on capitol hill this week, making his first comments following the end of the russian investigation. what's he had to say? >> reporter: he spoke with my colleague and released his first statement echoing what we heard from president trump, that he feels a little bit ai there was no collusion and he said he hopes his testimony yesterday which was behind closed doors will hope further clear things up and hopes congress ends the investigations. >> thank you very much. you can sign up for the newsletter at signup @axios.com. >> "morning joe," everybody,

starts right now. >> i'm so proud of the work of chairman adam schiff in stark contrast to the almost criminal behavior of the previous chairman of the committee. so what is the president afraid of, that he's afraid of the truth, that he would go after a member, a chairman of a committee, a respected chairman of a committee in the congress? i think they're just scaredy cats. >> little pencil neck adam schiff, has got the smallest, thinnest neck i've ever seen. he is not a long ball hitter. but i saw him today. well, we don't really know, there could still have been some russia collusion. >>