and that is our broadcast on this monday night as we start a new week. thank you so much for being here with us, and good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. rters here in new york president trump takes new steps to block congress' efforts to investigate him. the moves he and his family members are making to prevent two major banks from complying with lawmakers. information vice president joe biden officially kicking off his 2020 campaign into high gear with a rally in swing state pennsylvania. the message he delivered to middle class americans as well as the president. and authorities reveal new details about when they knew about that deadly synagogue shooting in california as its members come together to honor one of their own.

good morning, everybody. it is tuesday, april 30th. i'm yasmin vossoughian. we're starting with president trump and several of i had family members taking new steps in an effort to prevent two banks from responding to congressional subpoenas regarding the president's finances. the president along with his sons don jr. and eric and daughter ivanka filed suits against deutsche bank and a capital one in u.s. district court in manhattan yesterday. the house intel and financial service committees have issued subpoenas to several banks as part of their investigations of alleged foreign influence on the 2016 election. the suit says the subpoenas have no legitimate or lawful purpose. deutsche bank has a long history as we all know of doing business with donald trump when other banks they wouldn't do it. trump has a personal checking account with capital one for which he wrote a $35,000 check to his form personal attorney, michael cohen, as part of a hush money payment. now deutsche bank spokeswoman

tells nbc the bank remains committed to providing appropriate information to all authorized investigations and will abide by a court order regarding such investigations. capital one could not be immediately reached for could. i want to start with this story. joining me is danny cevallos. good to see you. thanks for joining me. pretty big story here. it's not just the trump family suing it is also the trump organization. so what more can you tell us about this? what's the legal grounds here? >> there's no question anyone sifting through these massive documents might find something problematic for the trumps but that's not necessarily congress' role and that's what this lawsuit is about. congress is not a law enforcement body. they don't have a general power of inquiry. their subpoenas must be related to a legitimate legislative purpose. congress creates laws -- >> has to be probable cause.

>> in a sense. that's a criminal standard. but you're right. there has to be some nexus between the legislative duties of congress and the issuance of these subpoenas. in other words, congressional members can't say i think there's something rotten afoot in those financial records. let's sift through them all and see what we can find. that's not petroleum of congress. if the plaintiffs here, the trumps can convince a court that that's what's going on the court does have the power to stop these subpoenas even though the subpoenas are not directed to the trumps but to the banks. >> for instance let's look at capital one as a case here. possible campaign finance violation, michael cohen, we have this $35,000 check that was cut from the capital one checking account to michael cohen who is now subsequently will be serving three years or so in jail starting may 6th because of some of these violations that have been made and that was a hush money payment. all these details coming out

because of the work bob mueller did in washington. that in and of itself could be a reason why congress would be subpoenaing these financial records from an institution like capital one. >> yes, but what you just described might also be an argument in favor of the trumps. in other words, the plaintiffs here might say, you are seeking to perform a law enforcement duty. the michael cohen hush payments all had to do with criminal activity. that's not congress' duty. they are not the fbi. they are not the department of justice. unless they can connect, for example your michael cohen hush money payment to some legislative purpose and not just some general power of oversight which congress doesn't have, then the trumps may prevail. >> they may stop this thing. they may stop deutsche bank and capital one from releasing the financial records. >> it's possible. congress in defense really all they have to do is come up with an artifacculate legislative

purpose for these subpoenas. if hedo that then a court might buy their story. >> you're such a defense attorney, danny cevallos, i got to say. so, you is innocent. >> always? >> most of the time. >> okay. danny cevallos, thank you. the trump administration is proposing new restrictions on migrants seeking asylum at the southern border. in a memo sent to acting homeland security secretary lean and bill barr president trump directed additional steps to overhaul the asylum system. that includes a proposal to charge a fee to asylum seekers to process their applications. now the new restrictions would not take effect immediately. trump has given kevin mcaleenan and barr 90 days to carry out his orders. the move is the first significant changes to migration policies since kevin mcaleenan replaced kirstjen nielsen. president trump hit former vice president and now 2020

presidential contender joe biden in a series of tweets. among them quote the media, fake news is pushing sleepy joe hard. funny. i'm only here because of biden and obama. they didn't do the job. now you have trump doing it big time. he also wrote i'll never get the support of dues crazy union leadership those people who rip off their membership with ridiculously high dues, medical and other expenses. but members love trump. they look at our record. military, et cetera, win. adding the dues sucking firefighters leadership will always support democrats even though the membership want me. some things never change. biden hit back. i'm sick of this president bad mouthing unions. joins built the middle class. they exist for all of us because

unions fought for those rights. joe biden held his first official 2020 presidential rally in pittsburgh yesterday. the former vice president hit the campaign trail with a message of rebuilding america's middle class and he did not shy away from taking on the president. watch this. >> donald trump is only president, is the only president who decided not to represent the whole country. the president has his base. we need a president who works for all americans. we can do this. folks, everybody knows who donald trump is. and i believe, i believe in hope. they know who we are. we have to let them know who we are. we democrats and we independents who have the same view have to choose hope over fear.

o unity over division. most importantly truth over lies. >> former nevada state assembly woman lucy flores who said she had an uncomfortable encounter with joe biden back in 2014 has written a "new york times" op-ed. here's what she said. joe biden and the apologies that weren't in the piece that was the title of her op-ed. the me too movement was not a flash in the pan. it marked a profound shift towards continued female empowerment and self-realization that's still evolving and the rushing still calls all kind of discomfort, powerful rich men who acted with impunity were brought to some version of justice. then joe biden. not a villain. not an unlikable person. not an assaulter. but also as anita hill found out not exactly sorry either. in the context of the democratic

primary election no candidate will be perfect. not all of them will have made women uncomfortable. not all of them will have to account for their role like the clarence thomas hearings. if all we do is call people out and don't give them credit for doing what is asked we're not working for change. evolution can't come without a genuine effort to seek atonemen. let's talk more about some of these stories. joining me now is david drucker. david, thank you for joining us. what do you make, first of all, of biden's response to trump's public slams? it's sort of an indication so far how he'll hit back at the president on the campaign trail as we head towards 2020. what do you make of the strategy? >> i think it's imperative for the democrat that wants to win the nomination to prove they can

take on trump head on. that's what democrats want to see most of all. if you can't handle trump and not effective at just not responding and going after him first, then i think there's a lot left to be desired for a lot of democrats. i don't think you have to be as far to the left as some of the candidates are that are running. i do think that what democratic voters across the board want to see is somebody who is tough and quick and can fight with the president on his own turf. much of that turf democrats feel he took from them and that they want to get it back. >> interesting thing about this tactic this is something we have known about joe biden, that he can kind of go to the mattress, shall we say on something like this. other candidates not necessarily. this is not a tactic that would be as you a the then tick for them as it does for the former vice president. >> i do think that it will end up being something that whoever the nominee is, is going to have to embrace.

in fact, i back up and say that there's no way you're going to be the nominee unless you figure out a way to take on the president in a way that's cathartic for democratic voters and effective and appears to give them the upper hand against the president. a lot of democrats look back on the clinton candidate and didn't feel she did a good job against the president's very aggressive style. >> let's quickly talk about this new push by trump, this proposed fee for asylum seekers. how is this idea going over in his own party right now >> we'll find out. republicans just returned from a two week congressional recess along with democrats and they will digest these ideas. i would say even though a lot of republicans, some very vocally, some quietly have concerns with

how the president has been dealing with the crisis at the border, there is a general agreement that the asylum issue has gotten out of control and that there is a crisis that needs to be dealt with. there are a few republicans proposing legislation to try to address this and the president has a lot of sympathy for trying to fix what they feel is a system that is being gamed. u.s. laws that are being taken advantage of by asylum seekers. so i think the president if he handled this right could have a decent amount of support in his own party. >> david drucker, thank you. still ahead, everybody, authorities stop a planned terror attack in california from unfolding. the role authorities say the deadly new zealand mosque shooting played. and president trump making false or misleading claims hits new heights. the staggering number of untruths from the commander-in-chief. plus a check on your weather with bill karins when we come

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welcome back. the fbi says it received a tip about an online threat minutes before saturday's shooting at a california synagogue that killed one and injured three others too late to stop it. mourners gathered yesterday at the funeral for 60-year-old lori gilbert kaye who was killed after witnesses said she jumped in front of the rabbi who was shot in the hands during the attack. he published a defiant op-ed in the "new york times" detailing the harrowing events. the alleged gunman who faces murder and attempted murder charges is due in court for arraignment today. the fbi arrested a u.s. army veteran planning a terror attack as retribution for new zealand shootings last month. he's charged with supporting

terrorists. he took delivery of what he thought was a live bomb from an undercover officer posing as a bomb maker. according to a federal affidavit after considering various attacks including against jews, churches and police officers, domingo decided to detonate an bomb at a rally at long beach this past weekend. president trump is twisting the truth at a higher rate than ever. he made 10,000 false or misleading claims. he doubled the figure 226 days later. he's averaging 23 a day including 171 false or misleading claims between last thursday and saturday alone. all right. let's get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> good morning. another dangerous day today, he as we go from this afternoon to this evening.

tornadoes, damaging winds, hail, flash flooding all of it is in the middle of the country. that's where the problem is. this morning we're waking up, worst weather of the country is near wichita, kansas. they are heading towards kansas city. later on this afternoon our threat gets going. 21 million people at risk of experiencing severe storms. not all 21 million will experience severe storms but everyone in this region need to watch out. dallas, wichita false, oklahoma city. it's been a wet spring. these additional thunderstorms will continue to rain for the next two days. we have moderate risk of flash flooding from fayetteville, northern portion of the "ozark"s here along the arkansas border. also included slight risk is oklahoma city, to kansas city and st. louis. three to five inches of rain at

least especially in this area near if i y near fayetteville, arkansas. as this rain gets going and by tomorrow morning i'll be talking about heavy rain in the exact same areas. here's the latest rainfall predictions. not often you see this area like this. this is through thursday. this area of red is three inches. four inches of rain in pink on top of saturated soil. there's a little bit of light rain after this morning exiting the northeast. we'll get rid of that. d.c. gets up to 81 today, atlanta at 87. so, if anyone is traveling airports could be a big problem especially through the midwest. still ahead, everybody, secretary of state mike pompeo speaks out on the reported payment request for otto warmbier's release. further blowing the administration's story. plus isis releasing a new video

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baghdadi although significantly older and heavier praising the terrorists who carried out the sri lanka bombings. nbc news could not verify the exact date and time of this recording or if it is actually even abu bakr al baghdadi. in the past several years multiple reports have questioned whether abu bakr al baghdadi is even still alive. we're now learning more about the terrorist who conducted the easter attacks in sri lanka. people with knowledge of the investigation tell the "wall street journal" that at least one of the suicide bombers traveled to raqqah, syria in 2018 to train with isis. at that time isis was attracting foreign fighters from around the world and raqqah was the terror's group de facto capital. as many as three other sri lanka bombers may have come in contact with isis operatives. isis has claimed responsibility for the attacks. and the investigators believe the attacks were more than just inspired by the terror group.

meanwhile in response to the bombings, sri lanka has banned its citizens from wearing face coverings under an emergency law meant to ensure national security in aiding authorities to identify people. now turning to north korea and how trump administration may have come about securing the release of otto warmbier, we've been talking about this story for a week or so. last week "the washington post" reported that pyongyang issued the united states a $2 million bill for otto warmbier who at that time was in a coma. on sunday national security adviser john bolton confirmed that demand and confirmed the trump administration's envoy signing an official document saying it would pay for otto warmbier's release. yesterday he confirmed he signed that agreement adding it was approved by then secretary of state rex tillerson and that it was his understanding that president trump had also signed off on that decision. the president and the administration have been adamant, they did not follow

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subpoena barr to force him to comply. yesterday he addressed why he believes barr is trying to stonewall the committee. watch this. >> this is the attorney general is afraid to subject himself to questions where we can follow up or may indicate lack of his position. not up to the attorney general to tell the committee how to conduct his business. >> are you worried white house is trying to obstruct the democrats -- >> of course the white house is trying to obstruct. there's no question. president said there's been enough oversight and he's going to oppose all subpoenas. the president said he directed witnesses not to appear and to oppose subpoenas and, obviously, that's obstructing oversight and is trying to make the presidency a monarchy to get rid of congressional accountability. >> does this change your mind on impeachment at all? >> that's a different subject. >> rod rosenstein has formally

notified the president of his decision to leave the justice department. rod rosenstein submitted his resignation letter to the president yesterday. informing him that his last day with the department would be saturday may 11th. the deputy ag was expected to leave following the conclusion of the mueller investigation. rod rosenstein oversaw that investigation after jeff sessions recused imself. that resulted in a number of public attacks from president trump on the matter. he also faced scrutiny following a "new york times" report last year that he had discussed secretly recording the president and recruiting other officials to invoke the 25th amendment to remove trump from office. rod rosenstein we denied that report. amid the tensions on capitol hill democratic leaders are pitching president trump on an infrastructure plan. house speaker nancy pelosi and senate minority leader chuck schumer sent a letter to the administration yesterday out

lining their big and bold ideas. they are proposed bipartisan plan would include clean energy initiatives beyond transportation and demand female veteran and minority owned business protection among other things. no specific dollar amount was requested but "the washington post" reports that the figure could be in the $1 trillion range. democrats hope to source the funds from a potential roll back of the gop's 2017 tax cuts. pelosi, schumer and trump are scheduled to meet over the proposed plan later. democratic presidential candidate beto o'rourke rolled out ambitious $5 trillion plan combat climate change. o'rourke lined out his idea which combines proposed executive action with legislation he plans to introduce within his first 100 days in of. the former texas congressman's

proposal calls for zero net gas emissions by 2050 ending government fossil fuel use and setting aside capital for clean energy research. o'rourke's climate change marks the first policy proposal of his campaign. joining me once again, david drucker. david, talk to us about beto o'rourke here. how do you think his plan is going over so far with his 2020 opponents? >> well, he's already receiving some criticism but i think this is an area where democrats will jockey for position, and fight for voters. this is a topic that has really taken off among the liberal base. it's something that those voters really care about. i think we'll see a lot of this in the first and second round of debates where candidates will argue over climate policy and the best way to deal with all of the concerns that a lot of voters have about climate change. i think that the real question

here is where the general electi alexandria will be. climate change and the government needing to get involved is very attractive. voters want to see that. i don't know if the voters believe in all the doom and gloom warnings that we have ten years to do this or we're all going evaporate. i think that it's important for democrats to balance their base and what the party wants on climate with where rank-and-file voters will be, you know, left of center, a little bit of right of center and right in the middle. i think that's a sweet-spot that nobody yet has quite addressed. >> be interesting to see what voters think about beto o'rourke leading with this being his first proposal, policy proposal out there that he's leading with something like climate change. i would be interested to see what the reaction is there. let's talk about this infrastructure meeting going down between pelosi and schumer. we remember the meeting the last time when then incoming house

speaker pelosi made her mark in that meeting and then resulted in a pretty log historic government shutdown. any idea what we could expect today? i mean we had some indication from the president, we knew this infrastructure plan was coming from the democrats. at one point we heard from the president there's no way i'm giving them anything. we felt that was a reaction to his border wall funding. >> right. look, this has always been a very interesting topic because if there's anywhere, where the president ought to be able to negotiate with democrats it would be on a topic like infrastructure where the president is perfectly willing to spend the kind of money it takes. democrats obviously want to spend a lot of money. and the president coming into office with his reputation, at least as he sees it, as a builder. i don't think the president has learned how to work with congress in a way that's productive for him. i don't think at this point

democrats can bend over backwards to work with the president because democratic voters that's not what they want to see any more. so i don't have -- i wouldn't have a lot of confidence these talks will get anywhere but they are talks that both sides should have and if they were going to surprise us, i think it would be on something like infrastructure. >> right. okay. david drucker, thank you so much. still ahead the outbreak of measles in the u.s. hits a 25 year high as officials in new york take new steps to stop the virus from measles. hollywood, remembering an award-winning director. john singleton. a look back at a ground breaking career. your first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment. we call it the mother standard of care.

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vaccination orders as the measles outbreak hits a new record, 704 across 22 states. it's the largest number of cases reported in the united states since 1994. according to the cdc about half of those affected are children under the age of 5. there have also been 66 reported hospitalizations, a third of them with the onset of pneumonia. officials expect numbers of affected to continue to grow. the cdc is calling for parents to get their children vaccinated and suggesting adults born before 1989 get a booster particularly before traveling. health officials across the country are trying more aggressive measures to stem the outbreak cluing keeping hundreds of students and staff members at two california universities under quarantine after potential exposure to the virus in lecture halls. let's get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> good morning. dangerous next 24 to 36 hours.

then i'm concerned about the flooding especially on the mississippi river as we go throughout next week. 21 million people are at risk of suffering severe storms. greatest risk for tornadoes will be in areas of oklahoma, typically right through tornado belt back up into areas of missouri. even for dallas and fort worth, kansas city, isolated severe storms. tomorrow we do it again. 18 million people at risk. when you get two days in a row with numerous thunderstorms you get some higher rainfall totals and the ground is already saturated. we have flash flood watches for 16 million people and a lot of you it's the same people. that's where all the problems will be. let's go over some airport problems. if you're traveling during the day today you're going out of dallas-ft. worth, especially this afternoon, some issues. already raining hard in kansas city. expect airport delays there. st. louis same for you. chicago more or less this afternoon will be some of your issues. denver it was 31 degrees and snowing about two hours ago.

so you could have some delays there. minneapolis not quite as bad. light rain. anyone driving through the region some of the worst drives with those thunderstorms will be 44 from oklahoma city to st. louis. 35 as you head northward. chicago later today if you're driving anywhere in the rockies too you'll get some snow. snowing in about four states. chilly highs continue. northern plains and rockies. does feel like spring and will be warm and there's humidity in the air throughout the south. not everyone is experiencing the cold weather pattern. rapid city 37 today. nashville 86. raleigh has a chance of hitting 90. notice boston lie 50 degrees. there's a big division right now between the northern half of the country and southern. d.c. warm air for wednesday. up in maine you do not. atlanta stays pretty warm. by the time we get to thursday that warmth is confined from the mid-atlantic down carolinas. so, it's a have and have notes as we go into may. hard to believe we're done with

april. thank you, bill. john singleton, a prolific filmmaker. the first african-american and youngest ever to receive a best director oscar nomination has died. the director and screen writer behind classics like "boys in the hood" was taken off life support yesterday. singleton had problems with hyper tension and had been unresponsive following a stroke horsepower his commercial success expanded beyond films. he co-created and produced "snowfall." he also mentored black film makers, screen writers. what an incredible loss for hollywood and some amazing films that john singleton produced. he'll be missed. he was 51 years old at the time of i had death. also investors behind the

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welcome back. joining us from washington a look at axios. nick, good morning. talk to us about axios one big thing today. >> today's one big thing facebook takes a licking but keep on clicking. that headline thanks to our tech editor. it perfectly encapsulates the state of things with facebook right now. there's always some kind of

scandal, multi-billion dollar fine. but earnings report from last week facebook is doing well. they are making billions of dollars. making lots of profit. still over a billion people online. largest english language social network. mark zuckerberg is about to kick off his annual development conference in san jose. look at how well they are doing and they are very well. people are still online and still the main social network for a lot of americans. and zuckerberg is as powerful as he's ever been. he'll merge the three big pieces into one. facebook, instagram, what's app anticipate moving a big push no virtual reality head set. facebook is looking great despite scandals. >> it's incredible to me because as you talk about all the scandals that surrounded facebook over the last couple of years, it doesn't seem, as you

said, there are any dents in any facebook products whatsoever. they don't make money. they continue to have as many users as they had before if not taking on more users. what do you think it is? why is it that facebook is able to just punt everything? >> they've built the perfect marketing machine a way to identify people, serve them up perfectly to advertisers. we call them the duopoly. they can slooice and dice those users. until someone figures out a way to chip into that or any kind of real dent in their reputation that draws users away we don't see that changing at all. >> come 2020 it will be platforms like facebook despite all that has surrounded it in the 2016 athletics that will be important. not just for candidates running

for president but users and voters looking for information. let's talk about some of these campaign websites that axios has been looking at when it comes to 2020 and the lohr schemes of some of these websites and what these color schemes mean. talk to me about what you guys find. a

and remember when candidates get this right, like the infamous ' obamao. >> beto o'rourke dropping his climate chang poe policy. what do you make of him leading with climate change and how do you think it going to resonate

with voters? >> i think that is raheally fascinating. he's al talk, no real details. i think it is very fascinating he kicks off with climate change. this is is an issue that's bein driven a lot. there as a push among the democratics to have a debate that is completely focused on climate change change is a hugely motivating issue. i think it makes sense beto would read with that. >> let's look ahead to the morning. we understand the president is going to be sitting down with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi on this infrastructure plan the democrats are proposing that could cost the trillion dollar mark. we know the president is an

infrastructure guy p, he's had numerous infrastructure weeks. this could be the one moment there could be a bipartisan plan, that being infrastructure. but we also understand the history between has to three individuals and the fact that the democrats held money from the president on his signature border wall plan. so what do you predict is going to be happening this morning with this infrastructure meeting? what do you foresee coming out of it. >> what's the joke in washington? every week is infrastructure week? even before the lelection. there's a tension between chuck and nancy that bubbled over and it went off in or directions. i'm fascinating in watching are we through that now. i was skoalicrolling through th white house guidance, that's a closed press meeting.

i hope they open it up. i want to see them negotiate in real time. >> you never know. you never know. >> coming up on "morning joe," jim clyburn will discuss congress's push to investigate the president along with angus king and steve ballmer joins the table. and steve ballmer joins e table.

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welcome back, everybody. before we get to "morning joe," steve kornacki is going to be looking at new polls at the top of the hour with joe and mika. i want to start off talking about 2020 and joe biden who had his first rally yesterday. he talked about wanting to

elevate the middle class, changing the soul of america along with that. he got into the economic conversation, which we thought -- a lot of us had been talking about the economic conversation could feasiblely be owned by the current president. >> i thought it was interesting. he had that announcement video from biden last week. that was not a nuts-and-bolt policy video at all, it was somebody trying to stake out a bigger, grander purpose for his candidacy. this was about what more of a more specific issues oriented message he was going to teake. there was a line that jumped out

at me that said if i'm going to be successful, it's going to happen here, and everyone thinks of the state of pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, those three states that had not gone republican in 30-plus years that all went for trump. so biden connecting that message, his image to that electoral map. >> yesterday biden and the president went after each other a little bit. we could have predicted this from joe biden considering his history. do you think going after him is -- >> biden comes after this with a

stature, a former vice president, so it allows him to mix him up with president trump a little more. >> i'm yasmin vossoughian. "morning joe" start right now. >> why didn't you deny calling the president a moron? >> you know, that's a really old question. >> you understand by not answering the question, some people thought you were confirming the story. >> i think i've answered the question. >> you think you've answered the question. >> i've answered the question. >> did you call the president a moron? >> i'm not going to answer that question. >> quote, "i wonder how he goes into work every day because deep in his heart he believes the president is a