us, and good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. new reporting on the mueller probe. according to the "new york times" some members of special counsel's team feel that attorney general bill barr undersold the report's damage to president trump. plus house democrats make a play to see the president's tax returns. the ways and means committee sent a formal request to the irs. more accusers come forward former vice president joe biden is promising to be more respectful of personal space. good morning, everybody. it is thursday, april 4th.

i'm yasmin vossoughian. we're going to begin with new claims members of the special counsel team feel the public has been misinform by attorney general bill barr's letter about their report. the "new york times" reporting that some mueller investigators have told associates that barr failed to adequately portray their findings which government officials and others familiar with their frustrations say were more damaging for president trump than indicated. barr says he needs time to make redaktions the "times" reports special investigators had already written multiple summaries of the report and some team members believe that barr should have included more of their material in his four page letter. the government officials say justice department determined that the summaries contained sensitive information like classified material, secret grand jury ft. myers and former to current investigations that must remain confidential. while the report said it was not clear what findings the special

counsel's investigators viewed as troubling for the president, barr's letter says that on the obstruction of justice matter quote the report sets out evidence on both sides of the question. and president trump's legal team responded late last night to all of this. rudy giuliani saying quote if there was a significant difference mueller would have corrected it as he did the false buzzfeed report. this is from disgruntled mueller staffers who are rabid democrat supporters. yet another example of unethical behavior by mueller's staff. he goes on it demonstrates mueller had people who leaked as much as comey. how many leaks proved to be false? most. can't obscure the conclusion of no case for collusion or obstruction. the justice department declined to respond to the "new york times" story but the paper reports that attorney general barr' team has its own frustrations with mueller. according to two government officials barr and other justice

department officials believe the special counsel's investigators fell short of their task by declining toe decide whether president trump illegally obstructed inquiry leaving barr to make a decision. but as nbc news reported, mueller gave barr and the doj three weeks notice that he would not make a conclusion on obstruction. officials familiar with the attorney general's thinking tells the "time" that barr and his aides limited the details they revealed because they were worried about wading into political territory. michael smith one of the took times story is coming up on "morning joe" so don't miss that. house democrats filed a formal request with the treasury department asking for six years of mr. trump's business and tax returns. ways and means committee chair made the request seeking details about trump's personal returns from 2013 through 2018, including whether they are now

or have ever been under audit as the president continuously says. the chairman writes in part we have completed the necessary ground work for a request of this magnitude and i am certain we are within our legitimate rights. president trump told reporters last night that he would quote not be inclined to do so. >> chairman of the ways and means committee asked for six years of tax returns. >> is that all? >> that's all. >> usually it's ten. i guess they are giving up. we're under audit despite what people said. and we're working that out as i'm always under awe it seems. but i've been under audit for many years because the numbers are big and i guess when you have a name you are audited. but until such time as i'm not

under audit i would not be inclined to do that. thank you. >> joining us here on set to break this down, our legal analyst danny cevallos. i like having you next to me. >> you're not alone. >> let's talk about these tax returns. obviously this has been a common theme throughout the president trump presidency in the lead up to 2016, which was when we were going to see then candidate trump and now president trump's tax returns. could we feasibly see them now, these six years of tax returns requested by the democrats? what do you make of them? can we see them? is he under audit although we don't have confirmation on that. does that restrict him from releasing these tax returns? >> federal law allows congress to request and obtain these tax returns, and that law has been around is in 1924. before 1924 there was one person in the government who could authorize the release of tax

returns. guess who that was? it was the president. so congress changed that situation in 1924 following a huge scandal called the tea pot dome scandal that some folks may have read about. what it does is it allows any one of three committees to request and obtain the tax returns of any person, including the president. >> so do you think we'll see them? >> i think eventually we are because that same law allows the committees to obtain them and then to give them to congress. candidly once information makes it out to congress as a whole, one way or another, we're going to see them eventually. >> let's talk about this news now regarding the mueller report and how there's some links coming from the mueller team broken by the "new york times" that they are frustrated with this four page summary of this 300 page plus mueller report that didn't include enough information about the entire report and that, in fact, mueller's team actually had

certain summaries. this had a different selection of summaries that they gave to the justice department and. yet none of that was used. what do you make of all this? >> first, as to a four page summary that barr gave on a 300 or 400 page report it's not that uncommon that somebody will be disappointed with a four page summary of an opus with that many pages and graphs and different charts. >> but mueller's team made a summary. why not include most of that summary? >> that's the interesting point. the law requires that information go to barr and from there barr must provide a notification. could be barr simply saw his duty opportune law to take that information, put it into his own words, interpret the law requiring notification to congress the way he saw fit and prepare a personal notification of his own without releasing that summary that mueller may have provided him or summaries.

>> quickly what do you make of the fact that bill barr seems frustrated with mueller that he didn't provide any conclusions with regards to obstruction of justice despite the fact that they had three weeks of notice that he would you please have any conclusions on obstruction of justice. >> my theory is mueller started from the outset you couldn't indict a president and that a president can't obstruct justice. he prepared his report with facts on one side, facts on the other side and always going to submit it to barr from the out set. then it would have been rod rosenstein. and leave that to the ag or deputy ag to make the final determination. >> why we need to see this report in full. >> with redactions. >> we'll talk to you again in a little bit. fox news planning to announce a town hall. it is scheduled to take place on april 15th in bethlehem, pennsylvania and will focus on the economy and on jobs.

president trump won the democratic leaning state back in 2016. now last month the democratic national committee barred fox news from hosting any democratic primary dakts citing its insproei inappropriate relationship with the trump administration. beto o'rourke's campaign announced it has raised $9.4 million in 18 days during the first quarter of the year. the campaign said the average do nation was just around $43 and came from 218,000 contributions. o'rourke raised more than $520,000 a day since his campaign announcement on march 14th. the fundraising haul places him just behind as senators bernie sanders and kamala harris for total dollars raised but at the top of the leaderboard. stacy abrams said she's not walking away from politics after narrowly losing georgia's

governor's race last november. >> in response to what i believe was a stolen election, i'm not saying they stole it from me, they stole it from the voters of georgia. i cannot prove that i would have won but we'll never know. and so what i demanded on november 16th was a fair fight. because, you see voters suppression is as old as america. it is baked in to our dna. but so is our ability to fight back. i just buried my grandmother who was 92. she lived through the days when she couldn't cast a vote. she lived to see her daughter become the first african-american woman in american history to be nominated to be governor. but she did not live -- she did not live to see me take an oath of office.

i don't know which oath is coming up next. >> so abrams is actually going to join "morning joe" later this morning discuss her political future. joining me now from washington, white house reporter for axios, elena. let's talk about stacy abrams. seems very much she's the future of the democratic party being that she's a woman, she's a minority, she delivered the retort the state of the union address which she narrow l loss the governor's race in november. has a lot of momentum behind her. then word she would be possibly on the ticket with joe biden when asked about it on air obviously she said look i'm not going to be second fiddle. if anything i'm going run to president, i won't commit to be someone's vice president from the get go. you heard there her saying who knows what oath of office will come next. whether or not she was kidding

is the big question here. so, do we see her possibly entering this 2020 presidential field? could she be the next one? >> i mean if you look at this, she's in her prime right now, stacy abrams. people last night were chanting run, stacy, run. she will be a key influential figure in 2020. what she has going for her and what she recognizes is how important identity politics are. and as a young african-american woman, you know, she brings a lot of diversity to any sort of ticket, whether it be her own or another candidate who is running. and i think that as you mentioned, you know, that someone like former vice president joe biden wanting to select someone like her as a running mate does show, you know, just how influential she is right now and i think she recognizes her power and so i wouldn't be surprised, you know, if she kind of teases this for a little bit longer. still unclear what her

intentions are. >> when it comes to stacy barack obama's, kamala harris, or elizabeth warren, being a woman, whether you're a minority whether or not you embody those things or the fact that you include it in your platform. i think no matter what these type of issues, being a minority in this country, being an immigration in this country, immigration in general all of those things need to be a part of your platform right out of the gate. >> exactly. past elections sometimes women tried hide some of they things or tried to make themselves hillary clinton struggled this a lot in 2016. but now it's more seen as an asset than a liability to be a woman, to be leading the charge, to have, you know, this diversity. i think she recognizes this and really using it to her advantage. >> you got to lead with it. thank you so much. >> it's early. >> i want to talk to you in just

a little bit. still ahead house democrats have questions about president trump's inauguration. what the house intelligence committee is doing trying to get answers. >> what former vice president joe biden say about the growing number excusing him of making physical contact they felt was inappropriate. those stories and of course a check of your weather when we come back.

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journal" they are seeking an array of materials. now the committee reportedly requested information on efforts by foreign entities to provide gifts or things of value to donald trump, jared kushner, ivanka trump and their affiliated businesses. the committee also reportedly sought records related to the inaugural committee's donors and contractors, guest lists for inaugural events and former on any payments made directly from donors to vendors. according to the "new york times" investigators in the southern district of new york have been investigating since last year. miss wolkoff has been cooperating with that probe since last fall. the "times" said a lawyer for her declined to comment on the latest reports. let's take a turn now and get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. it was such an incredible day

yesterday, can i say. it was just a glimpse. >> did you feel like you were let outside. >> got to walk with something less than 40 pounds on your shoulder. >> windy in the northeast but warm. all the bad weather in the country has shifted into the middle of the nation. that's where it's pouring this morning in eastern oklahoma, little rock just had some heavy rain move through. pour incorporate central missouri. a lot of thunderstorms right now in southwestern sections of louisiana headed towards alexandria and right through the center portion of the state. the threat of severe weather is there. hail likely with the strongest of storms. wind gusts up to 60 miles per hour maybe isolated. may is our peak tornado month, april is second. so far we haven't had much to deal with many tornadoes. today no outbreaks but isolated severe storms. here how it will time out. this big rain maker will head to the east coast by the time we

get to friday. here we are this morning. watching the rain through missouri. throughout the afternoon there are the thunderstorms in louisiana. they spread by 6:00 p.m. heading over the mississippi river. band of heavy rain and storms heading towards montgomery through thursday evening. when we wake up friday morning still a line of heavy rain all the way from pensacola tot to tallahassee. sh charlotte will have rain. friday night if you have evening plans in areas from philadelphia to new york city, d.c. included in this through norfolk, virginia beach, all through new england not a pretty friday night. a lot of rain. cold rain at that in areas of the northeast and high elevations will get snow. saturday morning that system is off the coast. friday night is ruined but your saturday and sun should be good. today's forecast no complaints in areas of the mid-atlantic. chilly in the northeast. storms in miami.

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welcome back. we turn now to an nbc news investigation involving trump inauguration donors who were later nominated to serve as ambassadors. some with no diplomatic experience at all. kristen welker has the details. >> reporter: it was a moment that made headlines. president trump's pick to be ambassador to the bahamas doug manchester pressed on whether the country is a protectorant of the u.s. >> is that a view you believe is part of our relationship? >> well, certainly, for all intents and purposes, we believe that said protectorant. we have a coast guard there. >> reporter: democrats pounced noting the bahamas are an independent country. manchester quickly clarified and tells nbc news i certainly know it's an independent country. i've had a home there for years. but all of it fueling the growing firestorm over the president's picks for ambassadorships. manchester donated $1 million

through a trust to the inauguration. 14 major contributors to the trump inaugural fund later became nominees for ambassadorships. it's nothing new for presidents to offer these to wealthy donors. obama's ambassador gave millions of dollars to obama. a third of ambassadors have been political aponyees. for the trump administration the numbers are higher. it's a sign the system is broken. >> we wouldn't think of appointing a political contributor to the president's campaign to be a general, a one, two, or three star general. why would we appoint a person to lead our embassies. >> right now there are more than 40 open ambassador positions. the white house has only nominated 30 people and blames democrats for slow walk the confirmations. still ahead, with this would

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian. it's the bottom of the hour. let's start with former vice president joe biden saying he'll change the way that he interacts with people even as more women accuse him of making them feel

uncomfortable. after listening to the women who shared their stories, female friends and advisors biden aides telling the "new york times" he wanted to address the matter directly. here he is in an informal video recorded at his home and posted to twitter. watch this. >> i never thought politics as cold and antiseptic. i thought about connecting with people. i always said shaking hands, hands on the shoulder, a hug, encourageme encouragement. now it's about taking selfies together. social norms have begun to change they shafted and the boundaries of protecting personal space has been set and i get it. i get it. i hear what they are saying. i under it. i'll be much more mindful. that's my responsibility. my responsibility. i'll meet it. but i'll always believe governing quite frankly life that matter is about connecting.

about connecting to people. that won't change. but i will be more mindful and respectful of people's personal space. >> lucy flores the first woman to come forward responded to biden's statement tweeting in part vice president biden should be aware of how important it is to take personal responsibility for inappropriate behavior. and yet he hasn't apologized to the women he made uncomfortable. as we mentioned three more women have come forward to share their stories including one in this widely circulated photo from the 2016 academy awards. sophie was part of a group of 51 sexual assault survivors who appeared on stage. she tells "the washington post" after sharing a potential story with buyen back stage he responded by clasping her hands. she appreciated biden's support but felt awkward. another woman described a similar forehead press while a

third said biden squeezed her shoulders and held her for a beat too long. the reports have not been verified by nbc news and a biden spokesman declined comment referred only to the video. we're getting a different perspective. atlanta mayor tweeted this photo of being embraced by biden posting quote, everyone's experience is their own. as for mine i thoun my introduction with joe biden to be genuine and endearring. biden signaled he'll enter the race saying in that home video saying in the coming months i expect to be talking to you about a whole lot of issues. meanwhile president trump have knocking biden to republican donors tuesday night said he wished him luck. joining me now from washington white house reporter from axios. good to talk to you once again. it seems like it's just a matter of time before biden announces his bid. does the situation with helps women coming forward, how this

going to affect his announcement? >> well, i think that -- first off i just want to say following that video yesterday, we're told that joe biden and his team and i had family are actually really in good spirits about how that went. despite the video lacking an apology but promising change. but i think the big thing to note is the political ground has shifted under biden. you know whereas before his hands on, you know, way of approaching to connect with voters was seen in the era of me too that behavior is more questionable. i think as a 76-year-old candidate in a field with a lot more younger fresher faces, this exacerbates some of the narrative that people are trying to pain that perhaps someone like biden is unfit to represent the democratic party. >> i remember with al franken, there were people that criticized the democratic party with how they dealt with al

franken, but in defense of that, people like kirsten gillebrand said we can't necessarily have anybody vulnerable to attacks like this. we need to make sure we draw a very hard-line when it comes to any complaints coming from women, whether it's something that just makes someone uncomfortable to other more harsher accusations or more extreme accusations. is this going to make it harder for democrats who want to make president trump's history with women a campaign issue when you have someone like joe biden running for president? >> i think it does. it is a bit different. it is funny, you know, the president the other night at a dinner, joking welcome to the club joe. i think it is a difficult, you know, space to navigate. we haven't seen any big name 2020 candidates yet say that joe biden shouldn't run. i think they are all really

trying to figure out how to go about this and how to approach this, especially, in these changing times. it does make it a bit difficult and i think what people will do is show the comparisons between joe biden wasn't accused of sexual assault or sexual harassment bwhat the president has been accused of. it does make this whole discussion a lot trickier and all candidates are struggling with how, how to answer something like this. >> it seems like for the most part they are passing the buck back to joe biden in response whenever they are asked on the campaign trail or anybody in washington for that matter really wanting to pass the buck to joe biden in saying we'll wait and see what type of response he has on all of this because no one wants to resolutely get behind him and support him or denounce him for that matter. i wonder why. >> they are. they are putting the pressure on him to answer for himself. it is interesting, especially

with a lot of these candidates. kirsten gillebrand, she's someone who has been a big champion of the me too movement and trying to lift women up in these situations yet no one has flatly denounced him. it's interesting to see how the democratic party is trying to reckon with some of these where we've seen republicans have to deal with this in the past with president trump. >> thank you. good talking to you. house democrats have officially sent a letter to the irs asking for president trump's tax return. the house ways and means committee are seeking six years of trump's six years of person and business transactions. the president said he's not inclined to allow them access to those returns. hallie jackson has the latest on this. >> reporter: good morning to you. this morning we're waiting for more reaction from members of congress, the treasury department, the white house on that request now from the ways and means committee, from democrats on that committee asking to see six years worth of the president's tax returns.

president trump said he would not be inclined to comply with that since he's under audit but nothing prevents him from releasing those returns anyway. president trump broke long standing precedent in the 2016 campaign when avenues candidate by not releasing his tax returns then. bottom line this is the start of a long legal battle ahead. back to you. so after the justice department missed house democrats tuesday deadline to hand over the mueller report the house judiciary committee voted to authorize chairman jerrold nadler to issue a subpoena. nadler said he wants to give attorney general bill barr time to change his mind about redacting the report before submitting it to congress. take a listen. >> we're going to work with the attorney general and for a short period of time in the hope. that, that he will reveal to us the entire mueller report but if that doesn't work out in very short order we'll issue subpoenas.

>> your willing to do that as soon as this week? >> i'll say very short order. i can say how many days. >> joining us here on set once again legal analyst danny cevallos. not surprised about the subpoena that nadler now has in his hands with regard to the mueller report but the fact that he said but he wants to give bill barr, the attorney general some time to quote-unquote change his mind on all of this and what he's going to be releasing to congress. why do you think that is? why do you think he's holding on to this? >> congressional subpoenas are not like judicial subpoenas they are not normally as adversarial. they are more about compromise. because congress knows that if this battle goes to the courts when they subpoena documents it can be a very prolonged process with appeals and just a lot of undefined areas like executive privilege that could really, really prolong the issue. that's why congress, whenever it

can seeks compromise, agreement, and. giving folks the opportunity to voluntarily turn things over. >> and avoid getting into this long legal battle. >> even though precedent is on congress' side. historically they do try to work things out. >> even if they issue the subpoena doesn't necessarily mean the mueller report will get released to congress in full. it will take some time. >> take some time and if attorney general barr wants to fight it, it can take longer as the case winds its way through the district court and appellate court. that's why for congress is to try to negotiate and give an opportunity for ag barr to turn over the report as much as he's willing. let's talk about the president's taxes as we mentioned at the top of the hour when i was talking to you and the fact that the president obviously does not want to disclose his taxes. he says only because of the fact he's been audited for quite some time and there are some big

numbers in there as the president said. there are some big numbers in there and that's why the audit is taking so long. >> i'm sure. >> can the president legally deny access to his taxes? can he strike this down himself? >> no. federal law allows three different committees of congress to obtain this tax return information. not just for the president but for any human being who has filed a tax return. so if they want it, they can eventually get it. in the past that's been blocked by republican members of congress when they had a majority. but now they can, they can obtain these records and if they want them they will get them. >> all right. danny cevallos, if they want them they will get them. if you build it they will come. still ahead are the chinese trying -- see i did a baseball reference finally. did it work? probably not. still ahead are the chinese trying to infiltrate mar-a-lago.

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make today the day. >> "the miami herald" reveals federal authorities are investigating possible chinese spying operations targeting the president at his florida golf club. >> the woman was trying to enter mar-a-lago with a slew of electronics including a thumb drive. she was unknown federal authorities before she was arrested in the fbi's counter intelligence division is investigating her. the paper reports the ongoing investigation has recently focused on cindy yang, the

former owner of a massage parlor who has been promoting events at mar-a-lago which target chinese national wishing to gain contact with the president. she was arrested. officials are looking into any potential ties between these two women. and top congressional democrats yesterday called for investigations into security and protocols at the club and whether classified information stored on site is at risk. . the president, however, says he's not worried about the threats to u.s. national security. >> mr. president, are you concerned that chinese may be trying to conduct espionage against the u.p.s. at mar-a-lago. >> i saw the story. i had a brief meeting. gave me a little bit of information. we have extremely good, getting

better and cyber what we're doing with cyber is a story in itself. no, i think that was just a fluke situation. >> all right. let's gate check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> we're looking forward a weekend here with good weather. we need it in areas that's been miserable spring and cold and chilly. many areas of the great lakes up through the northeast. people looking to get outside. let's get to today's forecast. yesterday was a nice warm day in the northeast. very windy. today cool engineer. boston 51. not as windy. d.c. 69. 75 in atlanta. all the rain and wet weather getting soaked in areas of arkansas and that will spread. let's get into the weekend outlook. on friday the storm that's now in areas of louisiana and arkansas is over the east coast. soaking rain throughout the carolinas. wake up to even showers and thunderstorms through georgia and north florida. we may even get wet snow out of this on friday in areas of the poconos, catskills and

adirondack's. chilly rain especially friday evening. areas from new york city to hartford to providence. the next storm more heavy rain. we're going to get in a pattern with one rain storm after another moving through the middle of the country. pretty wet middle of april. saturday looks nice in the ohio valley. by time we get to sunday, notice the rain. it's lingering in this area in the deep south. we already have the mississippi river very high. more water to that area too and light rain in the great lakes. sneak out a decent day on sunday right along the east coast after that all our friends on the west coast a lot of storms will be coming in over the upcoming weekend too. april showers and may flowers should look pretty. >> thank you, bill. >> that's the saying. >> that's the saying. not sure if it's put into practice. still ahead another facebook breach this time more than 500 million users were exposed and

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welcome back, everybody. joining us from washington with a looks at axios a.m. editor in chief for axios, nicholas johnson. good to talk to you this morning. talk to us about axios' "1 big thing" today. >> it's trump's bottom line on the border. there's been a lot of talk of threats to close the border down. a lot of republicans we're talking to are cautiously optimistic that won't happen. one, the administration is somewhat happy about the steps that mexico has been taking in light of the increased rhetoric to take steps on immigration and the so-called caravans moving up through the country.

and president trump is getting a sense that it will be bad for the market. he's tweeting out and taking credit for when it hits new highs. but there's feedback that any move to close the border would be terribly damaging to the market. any shutdown of the border would be devastating in the short term. a lot of republicans are telling us donald trump is aware of that. also, a lot of business groups and even republicans in texas have been speaking out very forcibly against this. we're starting to think this may not be something he will do soon. the caveat, something the president thinks at 10 p.m. one night can change by 10 a.m. in the morning. it depends who he talks to. >> we do know the president is going to the border on friday. i feel like this could change on

a dime. it could be quite a moment if he's having a press conference and makes some sort of a sweeping claim like closure of the border. >> i think that's totally true. the fact that he's going out there to look at it himself could factor into a decision. but a lot of people are pushing back publicly and privately saying the business interest effects could be massive. >> and let's talk about some of the accusation business women that felt uncomfortable by the way in which joe biden touched them. what is his mood? i know you have some reporting on that. >> the joe biden team is upbeat they finally stepped into the fray here and have begun to push back against some of those allegations and biden has been silent for many days. remember, joe biden is not running for president yet. he's not out on the campaign

trail speaking to voters. he doesn't have a big public presence to push back on the drip, drip, drip of these stories. so yesterday he took some responsibility to say he's changing. we're seeing a lot of women allies saying that this is joe being joe and they appreciate that kind of authenticity. we'll industristill have back a here, it's a matter of how many more people come out and say something. when he's out more forcefully public on this, he may be more forceful on this. >> still wondering when that will come. >> any minute now. >> you can sign up at action xa. "morning joe" starts right now. will you release ten years of your tax returns as you know

elizabeth warren has decided to do that? >> yes. >> will you release any of your tax returns for the public to scrutinize? >> we'll be working on that over the next period of time, chuck, absolutely. >> what was the delay? why haven't you done that so far? >> the delay is our tax returns will bore you to death. >> what's a period of time? >> i don't know. >> before the volting begting b? >> it's not like this is a tax return. >> this is mechanical issue. my wife is working on it right now. >> we're working on it right now. at the appropriate time i'm sure you'll be satisfied. >> so will it be sooner or later? >> soon. >> neither presidential candidate has released his tax returns in the run-up to 2020. now house democrats are making a formal push to see the president's number