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what we're learning about a possible motive. >> president trump gets back on the road with a campaign rally in wisconsin, hammering its 2020 democratic rivals and taking credit for as he called it sick idea to send migrants to sanctuary cities. >> attorney general dismisses democrats demands to appear on the hill. the latest on the escalating tensions between bill barr and congressional leaders on the redacted mueller report. good morning, everybody. it is monday, april 29th. i'm yasmin vossoughian. i'm joined by jeff bennett. as we all well know so much happening in washington. certainly at the white house. i'll lean on you over the next hour to talk about that. let's start with the latest attack on a house of worship in the united states. one woman is dead and three others wounded after a man opened fire inside side of

chabad synagogue. the gun used was an ar style assault weapon. the victim 60-year-old lori kay jumped in front of rabbi yisroel goldstein. the rabbi spoke yesterday with willie geist. >> she's a primary founding member of our conagrgrconge -- congregation. she's a kind soul. everybody in the community knew her. i've known her for 33 years. i'm so heartbroken and saddened by the senseless killings. the constitution of the united states guarantees freedom of religion for all faiths. we'll not be intimidated or be deterred by this terror. terror will not win.

>> the suspect a 19-year-old san diego resident fled the scene and then proceed to call police to say that he was involved. he was arrested shortly after. someone with the same name as the suspect posted an anti-semitic and anti-muslim manifesto on a far-right message board hours before the shooting in which he also claims responsibility for a march mosque fire and says he was inspired by the recent attacks in new zealand. the shooting occurred exactly six months to the day after 11 people were killed in pittsburgh's tree of life synagogue. president trump tweeted his thoughts and prayers and later addressed the situation. >> my deepest sympathies go to the people that were affected, the families, their loved ones by the obviously looks right now based on my last conversations, looks like a hate crime. hard to believe.

hard to believe. we're doing some very heavy research. we'll see what happens. what comes up. at this moment it looks like a hate crime but my deepest sympathies to all of those affected. america's heart is with the victims of the horrific synagogue shooting in poway, california. just happened. our entire nation mourns the loss of life, prays for the wounded and stands in solidarity with the jewish community. we forcefully condemn the evil of anti-semitism and hate which must be defeated. >> the woman at the top democrats say trump is glorifing a loser. that's the reaction from jim clyburn following the president's comments about general robert e. lee. it started when the president was questioned about his remarks about a deadly white nationalist

rival in charlottesville, virginia back in 2017. >> i've answered that question and if you look at what i said you'll see that question was answered perfectly, and i was talking about people that went because they felt very strongly about the monument to robert e. lee, a great general. whether you like it or not he was one of the great generals. i've spoken to many generals here right at the white house and many people thought of the generals they think he was maybe their favorite general. people were there protesting the taking down of the monument of robert e. lee. everybody knows that. >> the fact of the matter is robert e. lee was a great tactician not a great person. robert e. lee was a slave owner and a brutal slave master. thankfully he lost that war.

and i find i want interesting that the president is now glorifing a losing. he always said he hated losers. robert e. lee was a losing. >> white house counsel chaka khan picked up yesterday where the president left off insisting the president condemned white supremacist remarks. here's the question, jeff that we often have when we see especially the president making remarks on the white house lawn. he was asked on the white house lawn as we just heard the reporter there asking about the remarks that he made about charlottesville and saying there's good on both sides of the scenario. i'm paraphrasing. if he feels like there is any question marks about that statement and how he feels about white nationalism in this country in general why not reiterate what you feel and why not condemn white nationalism to

shut down all of the types of questions he's getting. >> i asked that question to people who are close to the president. the president will not offend members of his political base. that's why you see these condemnations from him. >> is he then, in fact, embracing members of his own political base that are white nationalists? >> that's a consequence of this approach. >> unbelievable. >> the nra is face a major shakeup after its current president oliver north announced he would be stepping down and not returning for a second term. it comes amid a bitter power struggle inside the organization where north attempts to oust the nra's long time chief executive officer. on thursday mr. lapierre

threatened to send damaging information. lapierre claims north was pressuring him to resign over alleged financial transgressions. the new york attorney general opened an investigation into nra's tax exempt status. president trump stepped up his rhetoric while addressing the gun rights group in indianapolis on friday. >> they tried for a coup. didn't work out so well. [ applause ] and i didn't need a gun for that one, did i? corruption at the highest level. a disgrace. spying, surveillance. trying for an overthrow. and we caught them. we caught them. [ cheers and applause ] >> following his speech of course on friday president trump spent part of his weekend

hitting on what will likely be one of the key focuses of his re-election campaign immigration. that included going after some of his potential 2020 democratic rivals. kellie o'donnell has more on this. >> reporter: the president's political fire starter, immigration. >> democrats want to allow totally unlimited, uncontrolled and unchecked migration all paid for by you. >> reporter: this season's campaign message builds on 2016's wall. in part he attacks democrats support for protected communities that do not enforce federal immigration laws. at his green bay rally president trump boasted of already taking action to relocate migrants. but his administration said that has not happened. >> we're sending many of them to sanctuary cities. >> reporter: nbc news reached out to the white house and department of homeland security. but officials provided no

response and previously stated legal and logistical issues make such a plan unworkable. while the words stirred his base, actions sometimes do not come to pass like repeated threats about the border. >> we're going to close the damn border. >> reporter: portland, oregon is a sanctuary ski. >> i haven't seen any evidence at this point that relocations are taking place. that's not say they are not under way. that's not say the president hasn't already put the wheels in motion. there's been no communication with my administration. >> reporter: 2020 candidate taking on joe biden over immigration in a phone interview. >> i said is that really joe biden? he doesn't look the same to me. >> reporter: the president jumping on beto o'rourke who says some existing border wall should be removed. >> so beto o'rourke wants to

take down the walls. that means he's finished. >> reporter: president trump will host congressional leaders here at the white house at the request of house speaker nancy pelosi. the meeting they are planning is on infrastructure. and that is an issue that both parties have long said is important to the american people and might be an area where they could fine some common ground. >> thank you to kellie o'donnell. joining us now from washington reporter for the hill, julie manchester. thank you for joining us today. let's talk more about trump's rally over the weekend making a lot of headlines. what do you make about him boasting a claim that the u.s. is already transporting migrants to sanctuary cities, a controversial policy. >> reporter: this is the president's rallying up his base while at the same time hitting democrats on a subject that he always hit democrats on, sanctuary cities. we've seen the trump administration has been embroiled in numerous blaelts with cities over the issue of

sanctuary cities. what's interesting the trump administration hasn't necessarily won a lot of those legal battles so trump really looking to rally up his base with this sort of thing. i think the president realizes that immigration is to his base what health care is to the democratic base. going back to 2020 we saw republicans and president trump really rally up that republican base through usie ining jie in m this immigration. >> the other big story is nra's internal power struggle. we're seeing cracks in this organization that we haven't seen before. >> reporter: this is an unprecedented public falling out between wayne lapierre and oliver north. democrats have been watching this situation for the last couple of years.

the nra is a very powerful lobbying group in washington and across the u.s. and has been used by the republican party to really attract voters, influence voters as well as candidates. however, over the past couple of years as moments like the gun control advocacy groups or march for our lives have gained a lot of traction the nra has suffered and suffered some financial disparities, if you will. so that's been an issue for them right now. >> julie manchester thanks so much. sit tight we'll talk to you in a bit. much more on the shooting on a synagogue in california. msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos is here to help us break down the case prosecutors are now building against the 19-year-old suspect. for all out confidence...

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welcome back. we want to turn back to this morning's top story in that deadly shooting at a california

synagogue. >> joining us is danny cevallos. good to talk to you. let's talk about some of the charges that the suspect is currently facing. one count of murder in the first degree, three counts of attempted murder in the first degree as well. what kind of sentencing could he be facing here? >> death penalty, mandatory life in prison. those state penalties applicable in california. there's the possibility of a hate crime. people will be surprised to find the additional maximum for a hate crime in california is only three years at the most. the real charges, as is usually the case with hate crimes is the underlying assault and murder charges. the hate crime statute in california only adds a few years and hate crimes are very difficult to prove. that's why prosecutors often don't bring them, they just go with the underlying crime because that has the real penalties.

>> is there a potential additional charges could be filed. >> yes. california is a two tier hate crime structure. you can have an independent standalone hate crime or an enhancements where you commit murder or assault. but hate crimes are unique in american law because they punish motive. we typically don't punish the why you committed a crime. all we care about is that you intended to rob a bank or steal car. we don't care about the why. hate crimes are unique because they punish the why. that's a real hill for prosecutors to climb to show what was in your heart and mind and the move behind why you committed the crime. >> you talk about why hate crimes are so difficult. but you have a manifesto here. >> that's correct. first amendment protects your right to draft a manifesto and have these horrible thoughts. but be warned. if you commit a heinous crime, that can be admissible evidence

of your motive and evidence of a hate crime. >> let's touch on the rift in the nra between oliver north and wayne lapierre. we have this potential tax fraud. the attorney general is dig in on all of this. and the charter of the nra was established in new york. which is why they have jurisdiction. what do you make of it so far? >> the new york bureau like many state attorney generals have the responsibility of investigating charities. when you have a charity you have enormous tax benefits. if you are abusing that the government can investigate and take that away which is devastating on an organization.

this is the kind of investigation while not exactly criminal, not win the a.g.'s criminal authority it coma you're the into criminal charges or loss of that very important charitable status. >> this type of investigation shuttered the trump administration. >> exactly. >> danny, thanks so much. still ahead president trump once genre buffs tradition and skips the annual white house correspondent's dinner. how his presence was still felt despite him not actually being at the annual event. >> new avengers film dominates the box office this weekend. danny cevallos is shaking his head. just how much? it is a lot. the superhero blockbuster pulled in over the weekend. he gave us a so-so review it seems. enter deep into the enamel surface. you have an opportunity to repair

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i confess that i was surprised when i received the invitation to speak here tonight. i mean i know they weren't approaching me as an international sex symbol, right? then i was told they wanted to try boring at this incident -- at this year's dinner. oh, now you're talking my language. >> while this year's toast to the washington press wasn't like anything like last year's biting performance by comedian michele wolf it didn't stop the pulitzer

prize winner from throwing a few jabs of his own. >> campaigns against the press continue get your face carved into rushmore. when you chip away at the press you chip away at our democracy. we've seen the wisdom of our constitution at work with the boldness of the press and independent judiciary and rejuvenated congress to provide checks on executive power. we're being tested fiercely tested but i like this will prevail. facts are the foot solves our respected profession. they do the hard marching and should wear no ideological coloring. without facts we can't have agreement on a divided nation. without the facts we can't have an honest disagreement. i applaud any president who aspie

aspires for peace. >> we were both there. i thought it was incredibly funny and smart delivery of what he was trying to get everybody to understand from the which is the history of the press has had with former presidents and now remain the balance to the white house and do checks and balances on the white house and stay true to our facts. the big question will be what the white house correspondent's association decides to do next year. you know whether or not they will stick with a turn out type guest or choose a comedian. >> that was a big question. he set a high bar. he narrated the history of journalists in the white house and spoke in support of the first amendment. >> with that we also have "the avengers" over the weekend. "avengers: endgame" is thatting box office records. $350 million opening in u.s. and canada combined. fourth and final avengers movie.

it drew $1.2 billion in ticket sales around the world beating records set last year by avengers "avengers infinity war. 22 films surpassed $19 billion at the worldwide box office. "avengers: endgame" is not just popular with fans, it has a 96% fresh rating on film critics site rotten tomatoes. we both have not seen that. no comment. when we do maybe we can comment on it. still ahead members of congress are eager to question bill barr but there's hardly a guarantee, he may refuse to testify and he's face tlegt of a subpoena. we'll bring an update on a feud tween the democrats and the a.g.. d the a.g. oh! oh!

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that protects what's important. and reaches everywhere. this is beyond wifi. this is xfi. simple, easy, awesome. welcome back. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside jeff bennett. it's the bottom of the hour. let's start with this morning's top stories. tensions are flaring between congressional top democrats and bill barr ahead of his hearings on thursday. democrats revealed yesterday that barr is threatening to skip the hearing over the terms of his appearance. the "new york times" reports among barr's top concerns are democrats demand in addition to the usual five minute round of questioning by lawmakers he would take 30 minutes of followup questions by staff

lawyers. democrats proposed the panel go into closed session to discuss the redacted sessions of the report which barr is actually objecting to. arguing that such closed door testimony rarely remains private. in response the chairman of the judiciary committee had this stern subpoena warning for barr if he does not comply with their terms. >> he's not going to dictate the format of the judiciary committee. we'll use all legal mechanisms to get him to comply with the subpoenas and he'll comply because ultimately the law says they have to comply. what the administration is doing is just seeking to draw it out and waste time. >> this must be such a difficult time it seems for democrats when it comes to issuing a subpoena. barr wanting to ignore the subpoena when it comes to thursday testimony. white house digging in their heels especially when it comes to subpoenas with the president's taxes. what's the tactic here overall not just for the white house but for the democrats to make sure

these subpoenas matter the? >> house democrats have to figure out how to put some teeth behind these subpoenas. they talked about openly considering issuing personal fines to people, cutting appropriations to the relevant departments. we'll see how that plays out. white house strategy is to defy, obstruct and pun this to the courts and run out the clock that way. >> also over the weekend the president has rallied not addressing any of this but more digging his heels on immigration. >> at his rally this weekend in wisconsin president trump re-ignited his attacks against the fbi and the mueller investigation. take a look. >> if you look at what's happened with the scum that's leading the very top of government. people that others used to say oh, these were dirty cops. these were dirty players. >> meanwhile the latest abc news and "washington post" poll shows 58% of americans believe trump

lied about the mueller investigation while 31% believe he told the truth. but just 37% believe congress should begin impeachment proceedings while 56% say they oppose the idea. now president trump also took credit for an idea to sends thousands of migrants to sanctuary cities across the u.s. in spite of democrats wishes. >> democrats want to allow totally unlimited, uncontrolled and unchecked migration all paid for by you, the american taxpayer. we're sending many of them to sanctuary cities. thank you very much. [ cheers and applause ] they are not too happy about it. i'm proud to tell you that was actually my sick idea. [ laughter ] hey, hey, what did they say? we want them.

i said we'll give them to you. thank you. then they said we don't want them. >> although the trump has floated the idea the white house has not confirmed a policy is in place. >> president trump said now that his administration's family policy separation has ended the southern border has become like disneyland. >> we go out and we stop the separation. the problem is you have ten times morten coming up with their families. it's like disneyland. before you get separated. people say let's not go up. now you don't get separated and you know while that sounds nice and all what happens is you have literally ten times more families coming up because they are not going separated from their children. >> i can all but guarantee migrants don't see this as disneyland. "the washington post" is reporting fox business host lou dobbs has become an influential voice to the president on policy. close associates of the two men say they often speak sometimes as often as every single day.

trump said lou has a strong opinion on the border and i do listen. dobbs has urged trump to take steps such as declaring a national emergency, firing kirstjen nielsen and pulling back from potentially ending the trade war with china. joining us again from washington reporter for the hill julia manchester. let's talk more about this impact of the fight going on over attorney general barr's house judiciary committee testimony. what kind of continued back and forth do you think we'll see before thursday's hearing if thursday's hearing even happens? >> reporter: it was interesting. i was listening to your back and forth what happens if they continue toish the subpoenas. that's a tension point in this because democrats have tried to push these subpoenas and ordering these officials to come and testify. however, the trump administration is completely digging in its heels and. that includes the department of justice. an enormous amount of tension between the trump administration and house democrats at this point and i think you're going

see house democrats try to scramble to figure out how they can force these administration officials, if they even can to come and testify before their committees. but i think president trump is looking at this very politically and essentially saying i'm going to dig in my heels because knows his political base doesn't want to see any relenting on this issue. so i don't see the trump administration or house democrats letting up at this point. >> we know also that mueller is set to testify later in may. is this any prediction or reflection of what that possible testimony may look like in that, if mueller chooses toly ignore a subpoena if he were to appear in may, if they issue a subpoena for mueller to appear in may if he were to ignore, should he be worried about possible leaks if they wanted closed door testimony following a more public testimony? >> reporter: i think that's very possible and i think robert mueller in the past has shown he's sprieft and likes to

conduct his business privately and i don't think from what we've heard about robert mueller, what we read about robert mueller he's not the type of person that likes this conducted in public. he rather do this behind closed doors. he doesn't want to play this partisan game. he's a person that wants to get his work done. it will be interesting to how he reacts if there's some sort of subpoena or forcing him to testify, if you will. the difference between robert mueller and william barr, if you will. william barr has become a sort of political tool for the administration. he's gone along with it. that press conference that he made right before the redacted version of the robert mueller report was released, it was very political and setting up the stage for how the trump administration was going to roll out the report. so, you know, clearly tension there and we'll have to see what happens. >> the big question here is

especially when it comes to the bob mueller testimony in over a month or so how much more would we actually learn from bob mueller? what we do know he sticks to script. would he reveal any more than what we already know? >> great point. thanks so much. former vice president joe biden holds a slight lead in the crowded 2020 democratic field that's according to a new "washington post"/abc poll. 13% of democrats and democratic leading adults support biden. ed by inis four points ahead of bernie sanders who has 9% of support among democrats. the poll was conducted mostly before biden's campaign announcement last week. however ask to name the candidate they support, the majority did not volunteer anybody. meanwhiled by inis expected to be endorsed by the largest

firefighters union in the country today. it represents over 360,000 firefighters. plans to invest heavily in biden's 2020 presidential bid. harold schaitberger will join "morning joe" later. >> president obama over the weekend spoke about leadership and something his comments may have been a veiled swipe at joe biden's 2020 bid. the take a look. >> most important job we can play now, and i think sometimes african leaders, american leaders, leaders every where forget this, is that there comes a time where your contribution is not on the field or on the court but it is as a coach. it is as a mentor. >> dan five ear former obama adviser pushed back against the comment tweeting i'm going to go out on a limb and suggest obama

may have been been talking about mandela and himself since he was at the mandela event last night. "new york times" reports in 2016 obama didn't think biden should run for president and tried to find ways to nudge his vp to stay out of the race. >> it's the definition of insult to injury. north korea bills the united states $2 million for the release of otto warmbier. >> john bolton confirms that america signed a document agreeing to pay. that's your first look on "morning joe". to look at me now,

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welcome back. the trump administration has confirmed it signed a document telling north korea it would pay a multi-million dollar ransom payment to get otto warmbier out of that country. >> did north korea demand money for the release of otto warmbier? >> it appears that they did. this occurred before i came into the administration. that's my understanding yes.

>> did the u.s. official who was there to get him out of the country did he sign a document pledging the money in order to get him out >> that is what i'm told, yes. >> and, i guess, the bottom line question is, did the u.s. pay any money to north korea, however it was disguised after otto warmbier was released? >> absolutely not. >> so, behavioral, we signed a document fully intending not to honor it? >> i don't know the circumstance. it's very clear from me looking into it no money was paid. >> president trump said after the collapse of the hanoi summit that kim jong-un told him he quote didn't know about what happened to otto warmbier and that he takes the north korean dictator quote at his word. meanwhile speaking after his visit with russia's vladimir putin, kim criticized washington for taking a unilateral attitude and bad faith leading to the summit's downfall. >> let's get a check on your weather with bill karins.

>> severe weather is the story. how cold it was in areas of the country with the snow we had towards chicago on saturday and in the northeast on sunday. it was ugly. we'll talk about the severe threat first and give your week ahead forecast. severe thunderstorm threat today in areas inmld, texas to oklahoma city and wichita falls. tulsa to joplin and areas in central missouri, 8 million people at risk for tornadoes. let's talk about the cold side. we have snow currently in areas of north dakota. that's going to slide into northern portions later today. the rockies will get nailed with a significant snowstorm. ski resorts getting a foot of snow. some thinking about staying open until memorial day. cold morning in the northeast.

let's fast forward to wednesday. still looking at this storm very slowly moving to the east. flood threat areas in texas, some spots could get four to five inches of rain in the next three days. rain continues wednesday to the ohio valley and great lakes and still more snow in the mountains of the rockies. not until friday and yes, friday again on the east coast more rain. this will be like third or fourth friday in a row with rainey weather up and down the eastern seaboard. your mike is on. then the rainfall about two to three, maybe five inches in areas as we said from dallas to chicago. midwest has the worst of the weather. >> a warm up? >> it has to eventually. >> nothing specific. all right. still ahead, everybody the u.s. and chinese talks to end ongoing trade war looks to enter its final lap. >> we'll go live overseas for the latest on the negotiations

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welcome back. treasury secretary steve much mnuchkin and other trade negotiators is heading to beijing for trade talks. this has been a very long process. it's taken over a year or so. how is this latest round of

talks being framed? >> well, good morning. good to talk to you as always. according to u.s. treasury secretary steven mnuchkin we're entering the final laps of these negotiations. negotiations. really trying to set the tone this is the critical point of negotiations. he said while the two sides are closer to an agreement than they have been in the past, more work is to be done. it's really at a make-or-break-it stage. they will move to washington where the chinese delegation will meet with u.s. representatives there. i want to highlight a new development in the boeing 727 max saga, that we've been following since the fatal crashes in indonesia and

ethiopia. >> i'm wondering if this is real, the london marathoners asked pop to eat bottles? >> instead of offering cups of water, they're using seaweed capsules. it is something new. you have to have an open mind. >> i'm going to speak from

experience here. i've run a marathon or two in my life. you need to drink and throw, drink and throw. maybe they can figure out a solution. i know there are a lot of paper bottles that we can drink and throw from and they can subsequently be picked up and recycled but a seaweed capsule i don't think think if i'm running 26.2 miles it's something i'm going to want to eat. coming up, axios' mike allen as a look at this morning's "1 big thing." and president trump spending his weekend trying to wind up his base again. >> and dick durbin and max rose on what they need to do to take

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welcome back, everybody. joining us from washington with a look at axios a.m., co-founder mike allen. >> the axios "1 big thing" is the voter group driving the future. and spoiler, the answer is youthful minorities. listen to these fascinating stats that just came out from the census bureau. one, the majority of under 18 people next year will be non -- sorry. by next year the majority of people who are under 18 will be a minority. within ten years, the majority of people who are under 30 will be minority. and by 2045 the majority of the country will be minority. so we can see very quickly we're

becoming majority/minority nation. and listen to this, the largest ethnic or racial group that's growing is biracial. you can see over a year, ten years, a decade, we're going to have a massive change in the american electorate. >> how does this trend change politics, specifically political messaging when it comes to things like identity politics? >> there's two things about this. one, we see politicians seizing on this polarization, we saw president trump tapping into people worried about their world changing around them. second, all of these trends favor democrats, minority voters, youthful voters, all of the groups at the moment favor democrats. we quote a couple of people who say republicans could try to adapt to this, some of these groups as they get older could

have conservative values that republicans could appeal to. at the moment that's not what's happening. >> we do know the 2020 democratic field is the most diverse in the party's history. is this really important, do you think, for democratic voters? especially considering whoever it is they end up voting for? is it important for them to have a diverse ticket? >> listen to the 2020 democratic field. you have six people of color, you have six women and of course you have a gay man, mayor pete, and yet you look at the top of the polls and it's two white guys, it's joe biden and bernie sanders. as we've been out in the country talking to voters, they say they love the diverse field, they love the conversations about race and color going on in america but voters care ultimately about beating president trump and that's something the joe biden forces are really counting on and

bernie of course is out there with lots of money and lots of excitement. >> that's the answer to the question we asked earlier, what are voters thinking about, is it someone they believe in or someone they think can actually beat the president. >> president trump is set to meet with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, the top two democrats on tuesday to talk about infrastructure but what's his next big legislative push? >> this chuck-and-nancy meeting, as the president likes to call it, axios has learned the president wants to spend money on one thing. he wants to spend as much as $2 trillion on infrastructure on roads, bridges, ports. that's going to be a big top being they're going to have going in. the democrats are very prepared. they're going to say they want this to be real money. it's hard to see this happening but this is one thing that the president wants to allen, than. you, too, can sign up for the

newsletter. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside geoff bennett, appreciate it. "morning joe" starts right now, everybody. mr. president, how old is too old to be president? >> i just feel like a young man. i'm so young. i can't believe it. i'm the youngest person. i am a young, vibrant man. i look at joe, i don't know about him. i don't know. >> how old is too hold? >> i would never say anyone is too old. they're all making me look very young, in terms of age and i think in terms of energy. i think you people know that better than anybody. >> yeah, just look at him. he's so young. and it's almost like he's saying he so happy, he's so rich and he's so smart. >> you know what else