putting all of this on thursday morning for congress and the public. there could be a ten minute delay. >> thank you so much. that wraps up this hour of "msnbc live." andrea mitchell reports starts right now. right now on andrea mitchell reports, going public. meet the mayor. pete buttigieg is the breakout star of the crowded democratic field this week. >> i recognize the audacity of doing this as a midwestern millennial mayor. more than a little bold at age 37 to seek the highest office in the land. >> and tiger, tiger burning

bright after a 14-year drought, tiger woods comes roaring back at the masters. >> this is the minute that millions around the world have waited for. waited for years. many doubted we would ever see it. but here it is. the return to glory. and breaking news. good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. some new guidance on when we will all finally see the redacted mueller report minus the redactions outlined by attorney general william barr. joining me now juliaanesly at the justice department and kristin welker. let's pick up exactly what you

are expecting on the rollout now if it goes as they now say? >> reporter: we can now report that the justice department is expected to make this public on thursday morning. that would go public to us, to the media, to the public and to congress on thursday morning. of course, they expect that. they could always push that back. of course, as you point out, this would be the redacted version of the report. it will not be the full report. of course, those redactions will be the subject of some conversation for days to come. >> and kristin welker, the white house has been planning on this, bracing for it, preparing for it, getting ready to rebut it but have prebutted it as the president followed the guidelines the summary that william barr put out saying he is fully exonerateexonerated. >> >> reporter: they say this is case closed. in speaking to the president's outside legal team, white house

officials here continue to really try to push that narrative. we know that the president's legal team will be meeting today as they try to determine how they plan to respond. i wouldn't be surprised if the response we saw here mirrored what we saw after barr put out the initial four-page statement essentially they will put out some type of a statement. i wouldn't be surprised if you saw top officials come to the cameras to try to make the case. the devil is going to be in the details. of course, mueller did not come to the determination about the issue of obstruction. you know there will be a lot of focus on that section. what specifically does mueller have to say around gnat issutha what will the reaction be from democrats. we know they want to see the full report. they are calling for that, saying that congress has the authority to be able to see the full report in its unredacted

version. so those battles are only going to escalate after the report comes out on thursday. >> and stay with us. joining us, as well, former fbi assistant director in the counter intelligence division, msnbc political analyst phil rucker and bloomberg news white house correspondent. first to you, as to the way the white house is preparing for this and the way the president has already declared victory over robert mueller. >> it's been a premature celebration because there could be much more nuanced details that emerge in the report. the president has been trying to say no collusion, no obstruction, total exoneration. we know it's not a total exoneration. we'll see how they end up spinning it. there is going to be a full effort by the president, his white house aides, his legal

team to try to create that headline that the president did nothing wrong and keep this moving forward. we even saw sarah sanders try to carry that message. >> william barr who went through a somewhat contentious confirmation hearing because of the legal opinion he had offered back in june almost a year ago and at the same time coming forward with what he called four points. he denied that they were summaries. how much will he and his decision making be driving all of this in terms of the redactions? >> well, heap is literally in the driver's seat here. we should be looking back at his statements that give us a clue as to what we're in for. he has used the phrase, this first pass in reference to what he is going to first give

congress. that implies this will not be a good faith first effort. he is prepped for a kind of battle of back and forth negotiations. let's look for what percentage of the so-called 400-page report has actual redaction through it. experts have been saying look for anywhere from 50% to 70% to be redacted. i will be kaeenly focussed on ay evident of intentions. will we see a memo, a legal brief from a report that says i think this should go to congress? i'm looking for that as we flip through the pages on thursday. >> i'm going to ask you about that. he had said that the mueller team, the special counsel's office was working with him on the redactions. to what degree was robert mueller himself involved, if at all? >> well, we know this from

barr's testimony. he was anded recently on the hill does mueller agree with your conclusion on obstruction? he kind of dismissively said i don't know. now, that kind of cavalier attitude to me seems to message that he is not really particularly interested in mueller or he is dismayed that mueller didn't make a final call. i would not expect that he was heavily involved directly but a staff member is there for technical expertise on whether something is classified or not. i don't sense a warm collaborative team working together here. >> and the politics of all of this, the timing of all of this, we had thought that it could be as early as today if not tomorrow. now we're hearing it is going to be thursday. thursday is end of holy week, the day before good friday, obviously. a lot of people oare on spring break.

congress is on recess. they are putting this release as late as possible before easter weekend when they might get the least amount of attention. >> there was an expectation that the president would be traveling to mar-a-lago where he spends the easter holiday and good friday is a government holiday. i know there have been many times we have gotten a sense that this is coming and pretty much the entire process, slipping from tuesday to thursday almost seems to fit a pattern. to this political point of the president trying to set the narrative, he has had this running start out there. now if in these 400 pages it is more nuanced than total exoneration and no collusion which we have a sense there will be, there are 2,800 subpoenas, so we know there is going to be a lot of information. i would say barr even gave us hints in his letter saying things like most of the insta e

instances of obstruction is out there. there could be more we don't know of saying there are multiple approaches by russians to offer assistance. we know the narrative will change to some extent. we don't know how much. it definitely is not going to be as simple as total exoneration no collusion as the president is trying to paint it. whether that gets through the holiday weekend is your question. >> it is clear that this is somehow kointally or not going to land just before the holiest weekend and holiday weekend, spring break, a time where there is in fact the government offices are largely closed and congress ight. things always take a little bit longer at d.o.j. this product they have known of its importance and have been pain stakingly going over it for

weeks. it is mueller's team that is doing the redactions in the first instance, not mueller. as best we can tell mueller is not on the scene anymore t. is mueller's team doing the initial redactions. they can be overruled. it is going to be hard to do a lot of overruling of individual redactions at the barr level. second, again, as frank says, the biggest thing here is going to be mueller's thinking and analysis and that really shouldn't be covered by any redactable material. that ought to be naked for every wup to see. why didn't he bottom line and then we begin to know why barr might have and be able to judge that which is after all the most important. >> you have been talking of course to the president's lawyers. how are they preparing for it? i know that in your conversations with rudy giuliani, they had a prebuttal

report all ready to go even though we are told that the president has not seen this report. >> reporter: i have been talking to the president's legal team, rudy giuliani who made the point that they have this counter report ready to go. they are holding on to it. i think that is notable. it's been described to me as voluminous. i think it touches on a range of topics. we know there is a robust portion that relates to the issue of obstruction. is in the wake of that initial sort of barr summary we asked the legal team if they would release the initial report. until they see what comes out on thursday, i just reached out to see if he had any new reaction to this news that we are going to get the full report on thursday. his response is we will spaupd on thursday after the report is out. >> and when william barr was testifying, he refused to answer questions on the house and senate side as to whether or not

he has had conversations with the white house lawyers about this. >> right. and the white house is essentially not commenting on that as well. i can tell you that i asked the president directly at the end of last week whether he had actually seen the mueller report and his response to me was he had not seen the mueller report. no indication that that has changed, but want to make it very clear essentially the white house declining to comment oon whether there has been any type of communication with barr's team. >> it has been a rough couple of weeks for william barr. he has gotten really poor grades from a lot of people who want to see the report and feel that there is an obligation that he embraced to a certain extent iphis confirmation hearings. what is the mood and the moral at the justice department? >> reporter: i do think it puts a lot more pressure on the report that we get later this week because william barr is going to have to prove that he is not an attorney general for this president but an attorney general for this country. so the amount of information he

includes specifically on the obstruction piece will be key. obstruction is an area that wooewe think won't have as much classified material. and so they expect that he will have to get more information to explain this decision. again, a decision he didn't have to make to exonerate the president on obstruction even when rhoobert mueller did not d that. as far as the mood inside, i think there is a presumption to trust william barr. he is someone who had a lot of experience and felt call today come back in this position. after this week and the use of the word spying it seemed to counter act and contradict a lot of officials who were here and open to the counter intelligence probe. they want to see an attorney general who will come and give more base for these decisions that he is making because right now that presumption of building

up william barr is possibly starting to crumble. >> you see a lot of i would say optimism out of the white house. they seem to feel they have gotten ahead of it with or without the help of william barr whether based on law or politics or a combination of the two. they certainly seem very encouraged. he has been -- i don't know how you read the behavior of the last two weeks where he has been going in so many different directions. we'll talk more about immigrati immigration. he seems both emboldened and also more aggressive against his perceived opponents. >> that's right. you could also look at what president trump has been doing the last couple of weeks and surmise that are could be some anxiety there about the mueller report because he has been creating so many big headlines in other areas, going after representative omar very aggressively and other areas where he has been tweeting.

he is creating brush fires which we know from covering him the last few years this is what he does when there is a big story that he waupts todnts to distra aides and allies express concern that the report could be politically damaging to them. you have to wonder if it is a bad report from the president does total exoneration become his mission accomplished which president bush had the ban on the aircraft carrier declaring an end to the iraq war. >> he has been to your point about distractions and anxiety levels, as this announcement was coming, he was tweeting those illegal imms who can no longer be legally held, congress must fix the laws and loopholes will be subject to homeland security. this is carrying out what sarah sanders and kellyanne conway

were getting into this weekend. the fact is there could be a lot of distraction going on here. that certainly would fit with what you are hearing, as well. >> yes. if we are talking about immigration, that is a good day for president trump. that is the number one issue with republicans and his base. he wants to be talking about immigration. he has tried to leverage the mueller report to make it a tool to attack his enemies and bludgeon the press with. so he is trying to take the mueller report which is an unfavorable story and use it to his advantage. immigration, immigration, immigration is what the white house wants to be talking about. that is what they see as a political winning item here. and to a number of democrats they might be appalled that the president wants to have people talking about sending immigrants to sanctuary cities for example or violating the law even if they know it is against the law. but that is the winning hand we see going into 2020 not so much the mueller report. the best case scenario for the president is to put the mueller

report behind him next week and move on to topics he wants to be talking about like mimgration. >> it is tax day as well as a lot on immigration. underlying all of this, the mueller report, how much will this be sort of a disappointment to the president's critics, to a lot of democrats who are waiting on this mueller report to give them the goods, to give them what they thought was in plain sight which was the president firing comey, the president talking about russia thrks president trying to get a break from michael flynn, the trump tower, very suspicious meeting. the president with lavrov saying he was trying to get rid of this russia thing? so many different instances which don't apparently add up to any kind of criminal charge, but many people had believed were obvious examples of him working hand and glove with russia.

>> well, for many people, the fact that the president wasn't let out of the oval office in handcuffs is a disappointment to them. we knew that that was not going to happen and mueller likely acted within the constraints of d.o.j. policy to not be able to indict a sitting president. this report can go either way. it can be a continued disappointment because of a lack of smoking gun. but we already are tipped off to that by barr's summary. what is quite possible, though, is as the details unfold in this report that there is actually more ammunition revealed and this becomes a disappointment for the white house. i think the distraction method we are seeing from the white house is in part due to the president's concerns not only to himself but about his family members. let's look for the color coding. when it comes to third party references like family members, trump's family members, let's look for the color coding as to

whether it is coded because of pending investigations, been redacted because these people are caught up in pending investigations or their names have been redacted because of privacy interests. if it looks like third parties are being redacted for continued investigative interest, that's not a disappointment. that's a clue that this is still going and perhaps aimed at him and his family. >> so thank you to this great panel to start us off. thanks to all. straight ahead, audacity of hope. a 37-year-old indiana mayor tries to capture the 2020 magic in a crowded field. in a crowd d to be a leader in invention and progress. but only 11% of its executives are women, and the quit rate is twice as high for them. here's a hack: make sure there's bandwidth for everyone. the more you know.

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[ cheers and applause ] because there is a myth being sold to industrial and rural communities, the myth that we can stop the clock and turn it back. it comes from people who think the only way to speak to communities like ours is through resentment and nostalgia. they are selling an impossible promise of returning to a by gone era that was never as great as advertised to begin with. >> joining us is josh letterman, former democratic congressman joe crowley, kimberly atkins and david jolly. welcome all. josh, you were there. what was the magic in the space? how was it? how would you grade it as a kickoff rally even though we knew he was running this was the hometown kickoff. >> not a lot of response about what he was going to announce.

for someone who really came out of nowhere out of political obscurity, quite a lot of enthusiasm. thousands of people packed into a converted old car plant with rain coming through the sealing, people getting soaked for hours but not really caring, very revved up for someone that they say they see as a viable political candidate. we know that some of the enthusiasm we are seeing from people at his events is mirrored by what we are seeing in the polls in new hampshire, in iowa both placing third in recent polls and in his fundraising announcing he brought in a million bucks yesterday and another 7 million earlier this year. it's not easy to sustain the level of momentum that someone like pete buttigieg has had.

>> this is a different kind of candidate in so many different ways. olivia took this on in new york magazine saying in her profile that he is the wonder boy and has something for everyone. scare offend young people. he looked like -- religious. he is a christian. atheist, he is not weird about it. he is from fly over country. he has degrees from harvard and oxford. i should say also -- so is this the new breed of candidate? how does he match up? >> wide berth of people running. i think we are desperate to find someone who kind of sticks out in some respects. he certainly sticks out in a lot of different ways. revitalization of his home city

is not something to dismiss. this middle america. he speaks to the values of middle america and to the dreams and the hopes. i think it is certainly catchy. >> and pretty smart of him to take on mike pence as a way of going after donald trump and going after the evangelicals and say figure you don't like me speak to my creator. >> does trump worry about this candidate or going after joe biden? >> this is an exciting candidacy. an openly gay man exceedingly qualified who can talk about his faith and red state issues.

his candidacy is transformational. whether he can be a transformational candidate remains to be seen. in many ways the honeymoon will quickly come to an end. he is entering a race with other candidates in a democratic field. as a contrast to trump, there are a lot of contrast business tween mayor pete and donald trump. that is true of a lot of other democratic candidates. there may be others that take on the incumbent president. >> speaking of other candidates in the race, there are a number of women who have not been getting very much traction, have been overlooked, klobuchar, gillibrand. even kamala harris with her big rollout has not been getting as much attention at pete buttigieg. is it possible that a married gay white man from indiana is less threatening to some of the voters than a woman or a woman of color? >> i think that is something

some democrats are believing. had democratic operatives say they are worried about a woman getting nominated and how that would be going against donald trump. >> is that the hangover hillary effect? >> i think it is part of that. at the same time, you have these women candidates, a lot ofphobes, pete buttigieg's new campaign pointed out the fact that he doesn't differ from a lot of these folks on policy. they put out a lot of policy positions like senator warren and senator harris who is farther ahead in organizing in the early states and is getting a lot of attention on the ground if not in the media and wondering if that is some inherent bias going on where we see the top folks are still white men. >> speaking of bias and inherent bias and what the president is doing with congresswoman omar, congresswoman omar clearly talked about 9/11 in a way that

was -- it seemed insensitive to some people. at the same time, it was a phrase in a conversation that she was having with the muslim american community and the president is just going after her. >> he is. no doubt about it. he looks for every opportunity to take the slightest thing and embellish it and blow it up into something that wasn't meant to be. i think we need to be careful how we may describe what happened that day. for myself, i lost my first cousin that day. it was very personal to me. i was in congress when it happened, at the white house after that and involved in so many ways. i was one of the first people to speak out against donald trump on this particular issue because i felt he was least qualified person. >> tell me why.

>> jeff jerry pointed out that the 9/11 event certain funds were made available for small businesses to get back on their feet, up to $150,000. president trump utilized that aspect for 40 wall street, the building that he owned. it wasn't a small business. it was a rather large business. it was looked upon by myself and others as greedy, not something that needed to be done and something that father figure of the city of new york would do. that's for the folks who are struggling. i'm okay. let's focus on the people who are struggling. i went after him on that at that time. it takes away the mort authority for him to speak on something that affected his hometown. i think again i have some issues with some things gnat representative omar says on this particular issue. i think the president is just looking for an tubt opportunity beat up on her. >> here are remarks she made.

you will hear where she seems to refer to 9/11 in a dismissive way. that's what he seized upon. >> cair was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties. >> so david jolly, he seized upon that and it wasn't what she said about 9/11. it's what she didn't say perhaps, talking about it as the worst tragedy. she is absolutely clear that after 9/11, george w. bush went to a mosque. he brought an imam to the national cathedral and reached out in every way to try to diminish potential anti-muslim retaliation and hatred. >> that's right. i have listened to that clip over and over. i can hear it both ways. i wish congresswoman omar would

clarify her remarks a little bit. we know donald trump has done the exact opposite of bush 43. he has chosen in a very fox news branded way to demonize congresswoman omar. the intriguing thing here is congresswoman omar, we have a member of congress on a national platform presenting a contrar yn view to the american foreign policy when it comes to policies in the middle east. and i think republicans and donald trump could fairly confront that and say democrats where do you stand on the policy of these issues but do it in a way that is respectful and policy oriented. donald trump has chose toon demonize her. it's wrong and increased threats to the congresswoman and is a further reflection of how he has debased the party and caters to a very small group within this country. >> we will have more on that in a moment. thank you so much for your

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and president trump is ramping up his immigration battle with congress responding to a crisis that critics say he helped create but is now a touch stone of his reelection campaign. this is as filers rush to get their taxes in and his spokes woman taunts democrats on the congressional tax writing committees. take a look at this. >> this is all about political partisanship. this is a dangerous, dangerous road and frankly chris i don't think congress particularly not this group of congressmen and women are smart enough to look through the thousands of pages that i would assume that president trump's taxes will be. >> and back with us now, former democratic congressman joe crowley, kimberly atkins and david jolly former republican congressman and msnbc political contributor, as well.

amy klobuchar has just tweeted back to sarah sanders. she tweeted try me. i suspect that the ways and means committee knows how to look at it. >> if that's the case, if they are not smart enough, then what do they have to worry about? absolutely nothing. >> they are smart enough to write the tax laws. i think as amy klobuchar says, try me. the reality is i believe at some point the committee will see the taxes. i believe that will happen. let the chips fall where they may at that point. >> kimberly, you are our lawyer of counsel here. being a lawyer, what about the counter arguments between steve mnuchin and the others on the tax writing committees who say

that the law is very clear that those committees should have access to anybody's taxinizecluding the president of the united states as long as they keep them confidential. >> i think that is right. the tax code is pretty clear on that. that section of it speaks very clear. it says shall produce the documents. it is very difficult. i think that's why you are seeing the white house largely mounting a political response to this as opposed to a legal one. >> now, of course, not all of the 2020 candidates have put out their taxes. i don't think we have seen bernie's yet. it was supposed to come out today and maybe has come out in the last couple of minutes. he is acknowledging that he is a millionaire and maybe an artful response saying if you write a best selling book you can be a millionaire, too. it certainly -- they are reluct

tonight show how much money they really have. >> sure. kamala harris showed in her tax returns that they are millionaires. the same standard should apply to all candidates. i'm glad state legislators are moving to have them disclosed. to the earlier question, sarah sanders should not be so concerned if members of congress are smart enough to review it but rather if criminal investigate rors are smart enou that's why they are -- if steve mnuchin continues to say no it is a violation of the law and i think congress should consider impeachment proceedings. they can open an impeachment proceeding just as they could any other federal official. >> that would be a new front indeed. already today we see that jerry nadler and elijah cummings and thompson are challenging the

president on immigration. n they say the administration lacks legal authority to transfer detainees. what are they asking for? what do they want to see? is there any way to get steve mill toer to testify? >> i do think it is reprehensible, givep his own family background and having to come to this country at some point for refuge that it really has counted everything we believe as americans. i think it is ironic that women drop them off at the sanctuary cities where they said we welcome them. we want them. we recognize the value these people bring. that's why i want to see comprehensive immigration reform. >> by the way, on that steven miller front, i interviewed his

uncle after he wrote that op-ed. i was particularly interestinged because they are from the same small village which we used to call russia. it's a small jewish village where refugees came mostly in 1905. that's where my family is from. >> absolutely. that's why i think it isn this >> so the immigration experience for many of us is really a raw topic. it's a difficult topic and one that the president believes works with his base. >> immigration is going to be the number one issue that he is going to run on. we saw him. he ran on the wall the first time. but what is interesting about this is his own policies and rhetoric are actually increasing what he is calling the crisis at the border. policy is deny funding to the countries. that is less opportunity for

people as they flee, fear that he will close the border, that he will resume family separations is causing people including smugglers to say you have to get to america now. it is fuelling more people to come to the border and making the problem worse in a waye seee problem. >> we have to leave it there. thank you. coming up, eye of the tiger, the most extraordinary comeback in sports history. we can debate that? i'm not debating it. you're watching andrea mitchell reports on msnbc. 7 watching andrea mitchell reports on msnbc. in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life.

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. it was arguably the greatest comeback in sports history, tiger woods winning his fifth green jacket at the masters sunday and 14 years after his last victory on the course just steps from the 18th green woods hugging his son and his daughter, the same spot where woods hugged his father, earl, after his first masters win in 1997, 22 years ago.

for woods it was also a story of redemption after problems in his personal life and working his way back from debilitating injuries. >> the back fusion surgery is the physical reason. the mental hurdles were significant, as well. he could not be the same golfer the same way he used to. he did tell some of the champions for all the past winners of the tournament that i think i might be done. there was real genuine concern. it's an amazing part of his comeback. >> we always fight. giving up is never in the equation. this has meant so much to me and my family, this tournament. to have everyone here is something i will never, ever forget. >> joining me now is jonathan jones, staff writer for sports illustrate skpd matt adams, golf channel contributor. it's something i don't think any of us will ever forget. jonathan, first to you, when we

talked just there, you saw him in a very different emotional way. it was just not the tiger that we have come to know and both admire admire and at times he was widely criticized. i'm thinking of president obama's tweet, congratulations, tiger, to come back and win the masters after all the highs and lows is a testament to excellence, grit and germgs. donald trump as well. >> he really doesn't, and this era, tiger can play golf with president trump and still be accepted by a large number of his fans, fans that have been there since 1997 when he won the masters for the first time, when he sort of, you know, began his run and, you know, we love this.

he was the prodigy at first. he wins in '97 in a sport because of his race, he's not supposed to be there. and then he continues as this dominant force in this sport for about a decade and then we saw the fall. like so many other great american sports figures, i think what we're seeing, is the comeback. and it has made him a central figure in american sports history. >> and, matt, i'm not a golfer. i've tried and failed at golf. i don't know enough about the so-called smart game, the way he was so focused and relaxed. but i thought that molinari was up there. >> this is a different tiger woods. this was a 43-year-old tiger woods. yes, this was a tiger woods that

had back surgery on four different occasions. what he did this time was he picked spots. and as the round progressed yesterday, you could see that when he was standing on the t box, he knew where he needed to put the ball to play it safely. it was a chess game for tiger woods in 2019. he didn't play it like the dominating tiger of old, he played it as the new tiger, the tiger who would pick his spots and hang in there. >> to that point, jonathan, he was much more relaxed, at least between rounds. he was talking to other players. he was not as isolated as he had been in the past. emotionally he seems to be in a different place. >> absolutely. this is not the tiger, in the

early 2000s, he wouldn't talked to a partner. we're seeing a different tiger. i'm excited to this someone who is very different from 22 years ago. it speaks to his career arc and how he's doing it through the decades. he's won this tournament in three separate decades and he's done it in different ways throughout. >> i saw jack nicklaus talking to our colleagues at the golf channel. mat he thinks he can win again, the u.s. open coming up, what is your projection as to what comes next? >> if you look at where tiger is going to be playing two of the three major championships, he's won at beth page black, he's won at pebble beach which will be hosting the u.s. open this june.

he has a very good shot because he's going back to places where he has known success before. >> and jonathan, i know we're running out of time, but do you agree with that? >> absolutely. i think at 18 majors, he has 15 now, if he gets to 19, he's the greatest of all time. no question. >> that was great to see that interview as well. thank you both so much for helping me through the golf. my game is tennis, but it's great to see you and have both of you on today to talk about the greatest golfer of our time. thank you. >> thank you. and we'll be right back. we'. it's better. this is seven days to put your carvana car to the test and see if it fits your life. load it up with a week's worth of groceries. take the kiddos out for ice cream. check that it has enough wiggle room in your garage. you get the time to make sure you love it. and on the 6th day, we'll reach out and make sure everything's amazing.

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millions of americans are bracing for another round of severe weather after the deadly system ripped across communities of southern states. we're in alto, texas, where two separate tornados slammed that down. the devastation is just extraordinary. >> reporter: these two tornados, one was an ef 3, the other an ef 2. we're talking winds of 140 miles per hour. looking at the house behind me, you can see how destructive these were. we spoke with the homeowner, he was out here for the last two days, picking up what he could. he told me, they didn't have time to leave.

all they could do was huddle together in the hallway and pray. listen to what he said. >> as i look back at it, i still wonder to myself how did i survive this because there ain't no way. >> it blew you through the back of the house. >> it blew me through the back of the door, through the house, through the whole deal. >> reporter: amazing that they survived with just some cuts and bruises. we heard story after story of survival. people are bracing for more weather coming on wednesday. they're expecting rain, hail, and possibly for tornados. >> gothat does it for us for th edition of "andrea mitchell reports," follow the show only and facebook and twitter. here's stephanie ruhle for "velshi & ruhle." >> we got a lot to cover today.

hello, everyone. i'm stephanie ruhle. my partner is off. it is april -- it is monday, april 15th. when ali is not here i can't even get the date out. we begin with breaking news. we got word about when we actually can expect to full mueller report to drop. julia ainsley covers the justice department. i should probably qualify that. when i say the full report to drop, help us understand what we're going to get. >> less than 400 pages, but they will be heavily redacted. the attorney general has been working with robert mueller's office to go through different categories that they think should be redacted. they'll be color coded. we'll know if they left it out because it came from grand jury or a further investigation which is is telling. and it will redact anything that