age of innocence, who ultimately in his own twisted way finally gained the fame he had been seeking all along. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline." i'm natalie morales. thanks for watching. natalie mor. thanks for watching. good morning, everybody. i'm alex witt at msnbc headquarters. now, here's what's happening. deadlines approaching for the attorney general and all the president's taxes. predictions for how this is going to play out ahead. nancy pelosi's warning to democrats. what she says needs to happen to keep the president from sending a shock wave after the election votes are counted. the nickname game in the 2020 race. whether dem contenders should get down in the mud with trump. plus an nbc photographer who survived the rwandan genocide

giving back and honoring his homeland. this is one you have to see. developing this hour, the political and legal battle between the white house and democrats in congress is escalating. tomorrow, that's the deadline for attorney general william barr to respond to a new ultimatum. get the full unredrakted mueller repo report. steve mnuchin will tell us whether he will release the president's taxes. michael cohen begins his prison sentence. don mcgahn, star witness on obstruction, is due to provide documents on tuesday. other deadlines for tomorrow include requests for documents involving donald trump's finances, but of course he's suing to block those subpoenas. and then still undetermined, when would special counsel robert mueller testify before the end of the month? all happening as the white house and the president seek to block an array of subpoenas and requests from democrats in congress. the white house and trump allies defending the attorney general.

>> the facts are on his side. >> exactly. >> he's been so transparent through the process. he understands the law. he's looked at this. he's examined it. and he's one of the most brilliant legal minds. >> barr has been one of the most transparent persons out there. in addition der decided to impeach trump the day of the elections. >> they're trying to make it an impeachment proceeding. >> they have the right to do a little oversight, that's fine. but they're not judge and jury or law enforcement. secretary mnuchin does not abide with tax law that says he shall provide the ways and means committee with any tax returns requested. >> i think we need to move forward promptly with enforcement action. i don't think we need to rely strictly on the courts. i think we need to be ready to enforce that subpoena power whether it's against attorney general barr or mr. mnuchin or the irs commissioner who really has the primary responsibility

here under a law that's almost a century old that says shall but being ignored by this lawless administration. >> reverberating from a phone call in which president trump does not warn the russian president to not meddle in the elections again. the russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion. a democratic congressman, who's been trying to impeach the president says 2017 said this yesterday -- >> i see this as unconscionable, it's inconceivable. one can only imagine what it does to the e-d spirit de corps. we have a constitutional crisis. moral imperative has to trump political expediency. >> let's go to the white house where you find nbc's mike

viqueira. a very good early sunday morning to you. let's get into the reaction of -- one after another. that's just deadline after deadline here. >> reporter: alex, if you listen to the democratic congressman green as well as congressman doggette before that, when you talk about a constitutional crisis people throw that around but we're heading for something that may be uncharted testimony. starting with that deadline where jerry nadler requested the unredacted report from bill barr and there's no indication that bill barr or any of these other officials, whether we're talking about the president's taxes or jared kushnerary security clearance and the process that gave him the high security at the white house, no indication that the white house is going to comply with any of this. the strategy seems to be to stonewall what they're trying to

do in congress, the democratic oversight in the house of representatives. you heard the congressman doggette say we want to do this outside the courts. we don't necessarily want to go to the courts. what does that leave? there are some democratic congressmen openly talking about putting people in jail. let's see if we actually get to that step. meanwhile, how is the white house seeking to react to all of this? by changing the subject. to the economy. unemployment now. and i think we have a full screen here. unexpectedly down. down another 0.2 of a percent to 3.6% for april for african-americans holding steady at 6.7%, hispanics at 4.2% and for asian americans down a whopping 2.1%. sarah sanders and other top white house officials are trying to emphasis. >> i mean, the democrats now running on socialism, a lot of them running for president.

you see venezuela is up in flames. you have the best jobless rates since, i think, 50 years. >> it's truly mind-boggling. i don't know why anyone would vote for a system they are literally watch crumble before their very eyes, particularly when they have one that's working so well. under this president, american economy is booming. we're thriving. we're doing better than we've done in a long time. >> sarah sanders, as she often does, setting up a strawman. there are no democratic candidates talking about a venezuelan command economy and nationalizing on the democratic side. nevertheless, it gives you some indication that the direction the white house wants to get in a general sense, to talk up a good economy. alex? >> so glad you pointed that out on behalf of sarah sanders. thanks you. joining me, daniel lippman, reporter from politico, and dave

lef levinthal. i was mentioning at the top of the show there are multiple deadlines in the investigation by democrats in congress. daniel, which one do you think makes the biggest political splash? >> i think this barr report and the mueller report, actually, and whether -- and how this will actually get out there in terms of having all congressmen be able to read the whole thing and what the next steps are on that because the trump tax returns, we've been asking for those for years. there's been no progress on that. >> right. you think there's no way mnuchin is going to release those tomorrow? >> they've been kicking this deadline every few weeks and saying they have to review the issue more. they have to -- i think what they're doing actually is kind of buttoning up their legal arguments to say, no, we're not going to release them. >> okay. so, building on that one, dave, there's certainly anticipation building on whether special

counsel robert mueller will end up testifying at some point before the end of the month. there's a source telling nbc news that his team is in direct talks with the house judiciary committee, trying to schedule this testimony. what do you think the odds are we get to hear from him and how much do you think testimony from robert mueller would be a huge game-changer? >> the odds on the house are actually pretty good. there's a target for perhaps mid-month later this month that may very well be hit. there aren't any major obstacles standing in the way if both sides agree, the house democrats and robert mueller to go and have public testimony. now, of course -- >> when you say public, dave, you mean this is public, everybody, the cameras, the full shebang, or behind closed doors? >> there's absolutely a possibility this could be public. it could be behind closed doors, it could be written. that's what we're seeing in the u.s. senate, lindsey graham last week during the testimony taking place with attorney general william barr opened the door to

saying, hey, we could potentially have robert mueller testify but what he ended up meaning later in the week was written testimony of some sort that addressed some of the points that attorney general barr had brought up. don't expect anything, alex, in the senate. the house is where the spotlight is going to be, if there's going to be public testimony that involves robert mueller. >> let's look ahead to wednesday in florida with you, daniel, as we begin here. the president's rally. there's some head-to-head match-ups that show them behind the top 2020 declared democratic candidates. there's reporting that some of the president's allies, daniel, think he should just focus more, if not exclusively on the state of the economy. what do you think the chances are he does that and how effective would that be? >> he's never been one to stay on message. so, even if his allies are saying, hey, just talk about the jobs number, he can't help himself. and so he's going to try to tweak those democrats running to replace him, you know, every way he can. and i talked to one person who's

close to trump. you know, they say he can't really see danger properly right ahead. so, you know, if he thinks it's a good idea to kind of provide nicknames of the democratic candidates, he's going to do that even though his campaign advisers have been told, don't actually lift up any democrats, don't elevate them. that's jared kushner basically telling them to do that. but trump is not listening to that advice. >> really coming from both sides here, dave, the president and senator bernie sanders both have been criticizing former vp joe biden for seemingly downplaying the threat posed by china. let's hear what biden said about china yesterday and how he reacted to the criticism. >> china is going to eat our lunch. come on, man. they're not bad folks, folks. but guess what. they're not -- they're competition for us. >> i never said china is want a

threat. i said we can, if we invest the right way, we can defeat china in every way. our administration we significantly increased the naval presence in china. >> trying to put a positive spin on what he said. what do you make of this, dave? is this the kind of thing -- you want to call this a gaffe. is this what we're going to expect from joe biden? >> first of all, alex, happy anniversary of some sort. it's going to be nine months until the first vote gets taken in iowa, the iowa caucuses, followed shortly after by the new hampshire primaries. we have nine months worth of joe biden and the rest of almost two dozen democrat candidates who say lots of things. will we be talking about what joe biden said about china five months from now, nine months from now? probably not. but joe biden has a way of being his own worst enemy at times, tripping over his own feet or getting his tongue tied. the president is going to

pillary him at every chance he sees fit. and trump is his own -- no matter what any aide or adviser tells him, donald trump will see fit to do whatever he wants. if that's joe biden and beat up via tweet, he'll do did. >> biden had this to say about the republicans who support the president. >> we all know who donald trump. even the republicans know what kind of person he is. they get it. they may be supporting him for other reasons butthy don't have any illusions about who he is. guys, here's the deal. i want to make sure they know who i am and who we are. we chose hope over fear. we want unity over division. >> interpret that message. is that joe biden saying, trump is the problem. it's not all republicans are the problem. do you think other democratic candidates hold that view? >> i think it's mixed in the

party. you don't want to focus entirely on trump because that didn't work last time in 2016. where most people didn't know what hillary clinton wanted to do if she was elected. this time around you have a record of trump that he's going to defend and that democrats are going to attack, but we also need to hear what joe biden wants to do, but he also sees it fit to attack trump over his character. remember charlottesville was in that opening announcement video biden did. and you can expect if biden is the nominee in those debates, he's going to hit trump for his character time and time again to kind of remind americans this is a guy that, you know, we've given him a shot to be president, but he doesn't have the character to continue for a second term. >> let's go back to sarah sanders who yesterday was asked on fox news if she's looking forward to her newest press

briefing. >> we take questions from the press every single day. i took questions from reporters yesterday morning for quite a bit of time and continue to do that. happy to do it anywhere, any time, anyplace. >> hang on. what do you make of that? if i'm not mistaken, it was march 11th the last white house press briefing and she admitted to special counsel she lied under oath. >> press briefings has become a huge issue. any time, anyplace, anywhere, that's not true. many questions go asked and unanswered for the white house writ large, whether it's sarah sanders or other white house folks. give the white house its due. donald trump is oftentimes speaking directly to reporters. one day he's calling "the washington post" and "the new york times" the enemy of the people and fake news and the next day he's literally having conversations with reporters

from those various news agencies. there's this whacky, hyperbolic take it has. as for the press conferences themselves, the white house says one of different entities within the trump administration that has just moved away from having press conferences and having an open forum for this. there's no rule or law that says they have to, but it's definitely a step away from tradition, but for democrats and republicans having this type of forum so that reporters can ask questions on behalf of the public. >> thank you for taking my questions. good to talk to you both. >> thank you. the president's former fixer, michael cohen, the parting shot he's going to take at his former boss before heading off to prison tomorrow. first, a look at kate mckinnon as elizabeth warren on "saturday night live" talking about joe biden. >> oh, yeah, great, everybody make room for good old joe, the amtrak masseuse. what a hero he is.

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violating campaign finance laws. cohen, in what could be his last interview before heading to prison, questioned the prosecutor in "the new yorker" saying, how come i'm going to prison? i'm not the won who slept with the porn star. in this interview by cohen, he questions why he is the only one being sent to prison when he, to quote from the southern district, acted in coordination with and at the direction of individual one. so, what do you think about that question that cohen brings up and how likely is it that the president faces jail time for this after leaving office, given that he is individual one? >> i've got to give cohen some credit. he is not the one who slept with the porn star and the other women that were the subject of the campaign finance violations to which michael cohen has pled guilty. alex, we know special counsel robert mueller declined to prosecute donald trump, the sitting president of the united

states pursuit to office of legal counsel reasons for obstruction of justice. but we do know that the sitting president of the united states is also a private citizen. he's looking at several legal battles outside the scope of the mueller investigation, but something like the southern district of new york's investigation into campaign finance violations, assisted by the testimony and cooperation of michael cohen, could still come back to haunt donald trump. just this past friday i tweeted out a friendly friday reminder that donald trump is individual one in that information filed in the southern district of new york. we know exactly what tth trump's involvement has been. if i were donald trump, i would not be breathing a sigh of relief. there are statue of limitations procedures that go into the prosecution of someone. >> let's play a part of cohen's testimony for you. of course, we all heard it before, but this is when he was with the house oversight committee. take a listen. >> indeed, gwynn my experience working for mr. trump, i fear

that if he loses the election in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition of power. >> you saw the date, february 27th. in a "new york times" interview, house speaker pelosi has expressed her concern that, quote, trump would not give up power voluntarily if he lost re-election by a slim margin next year. so, what happens if that happens? think about it. you can just envision donald trump saying, no, i'm challenging this, challenging that. that would bring on a constitutional crisis, yeah? >> that auto would, a legitimate constitutional crisis. think about the illegitimacy of that presidency. it was always called into question in 2016. if you have a valid 2020 election where donald trump does want win the presidency and he ignores the actual outcome, then we're going to have a battle in the courts again. it's amazing exactly how much goes on in the judicial system in terms of trying to establish the legitimacy of a presidency.

we saw that with the infamous hanging chads, if you recall. in terms of getting that done, i'm not surprised if donald trump shrugs his shoulders but nancy pelosi has made the declaration. she's not bullish on impeachment. she thinks we need to focus on the center left politics that got democrats into power in the last election. what's the problem with that, a lot of people are looking at donald trump and saying that his continuing spree of crime, his crime spree, needs to come to an end. they're looking at the 2020 elections as perhaps the time it ends. >> let's go from there now to bill barr, who's being accused by legal experts as well as democrats of hiding evidence of criminal wrongdoing by the president. is there a strategy behind bars efforts here and refusing to release the full unredacted mueller report, is he asking as the president's defense attorney because he's politicizing the

justice department? >> i join in the chorus of people saying he's the attorney general of the united states and not the personal counsel of donald trump. he's clearly acting at the behest of and the directive of donald trump, but you know, he does take hard lines in the sand, he being bill barr, that do have legal support. there are reasons why there are portions of the mueller report that have been redacted. the american public is clamoring to see the entirety of the report. what's problematic is there's a lot we're not supposed to be able to see legally. bill barr is saying, i was going for transparency. i turned it over with redactions but jerry nadler has said, we in congress are entitled to see it. the one thing i find troubling is the following. the grand jury information, nadler and barr. barr in and of his own right could ask the judicial system in the courts to say that we and congress and people could see that grand jury information and he's not doing it. there's a reason why. he doesn't want that information to come out because it would be more damaging to trump than it

already has been. i do believe there is some legality to the idea that bill barr can stand behind certain principles and theory and not give the american public the entire mueller report. >> katie phang, more questions in the next hour. let's go to a history-making kentucky derby. the 145th run willing of the roses with the first horse over the finish line actually losing. >> maximum security wins the kentucky derby! >> reporter: it was a wire-to-wire win for the prerace favorite, maximum security, the 3-year-old finishing a length and a half ahead of country house. before the race finished, something was amiss. churchill downs stewards spent 20 minutes reviewing the film. >> country house wins the kentucky derby. >> reporter: the apparent winner

disqualified. country house moved up from second to first and declared the winner of the kentucky derby. the jockey flavien pratt saying maximum security drifted too far in his lane coming out of the final turn. country house almost clipped heels with war of wills. >> it was mainly the two horses that got it the worst. they lost all chances. those two horses lost their opportunity to win or place in the kentucky derby. >> reporter: the disqualification made country house the winner despite 65 to 1 odds. >> this isn't something that happens to people i know, so, no, this is not anything i ever expected to happen. but now that it's happened, i think we'd like to do this next year also. >> reporter: country house paid $132.40 to win, the second highest paid out in derby history. >> just a stunning win there.

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it cause water to run off? >> it would pretty much be like a hump. the runway would not be flat like most international airport runways. there would be a curve. if you were traveling down the runway, the curve -- the higher part would be in the center and then the water should, in fact, run down. most commonly we see the grooved runways because that permits the water to flow off and prevent the ponding. >> but wait, i have to ask. when you say this is something that's not common on most international airport runways but it is present here, why do they allow that to remain present? is it safe to have this crown there or ought they -- would it have been better to flatten that out, add the grooves? >> you know, i would say it would be more ideal to have the grooves, but it is safe to have what they have. and keep in mind, this is a

military airport, not a commercial international am airport. so, you tend to see fewer flight ragss on military airports. for example, i -- that particular night, i mean, i think it's safe to say there are not large commercial airliners landing there or large transport airliners landing there like at a military airport. >> we still have to get the cockpit voice recorder. i'm sure more answers will be answered at that time. kyle bailey, thanks for answeringmy questions. a remarkable story about an nbc cameraman's return to his roots. his homeland of rwanda. torn apart 20 years ago by war and genocide. how he survived and how he's helping others there today. that's next. msnbc, we're now live every saturday and sunday at 6:00

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now the extraordinary life story of a cameraman so many at nbc know and love. it's a story that began 25 years ago with the atrocities and heartbreak during the genocide of rwanda. harry smith tells the story. >> reporter: kicking around in a foreign country, it's just bustling. >> it is bustling.

>> reporter: it's always better when you have local intel. >> you have to try the return. >> reporter: kigali, rwanda. our colleague, we call him j.b., grew up here. >> it's so quiet. >> reporter: he almost died here. we found his own grammar school. this was the home of your ideal childhood. >> we were kids. we didn't care who was who. i wish things remained that way. >> reporter: 25 years ago rwanda was a countries at war with itself. >> as the war goes on, civilian massacres are still being carried out. >> reporter: rival hutus slaughtered tutsis in staggering numbers. >> i just see the faces of the people taken out of this world for no apparent reason other than hate. they died in the most awful, awful way possible. >> reporter: 800,000 to 1 million people were killed in just 100 days. a genocide that was as rapid as

it was ruthless. as this is happening, are you thinking, i'm going to die now? >> oh, absolutely. >> reporter: a teenager, half tutsi and half hutu, he was in danger, he fled to the border with his brother where they founded a chaotic, crowded refugee camp. days later j.b. encounter now retired nbc producer. >> i hear this voice saying, can i help you? and i go, what? you speak english. that was john bernard, he was sitting on a fence. >> reporter: multilingual, he quickly found a job working for australian tv so nbc hired his brother. the nbc team let them sleep in their van, gave them water and food. >> what doesn't like to admit, there are the little things the nbc team did for me, the simplest act of generosity actually -- it really saved our lives. >> reporter: one day an nbc

cameraman asked j.b. if he wanted to look through his lens. >> for that camera to have been there and show everything that was going on in the camps, the suffering, the death toll, it made people react. and then aid started coming in. i understood the power of the camera. and i guess i never looked back. >> reporter: i tears in my eyes listening. j. bmplg j.b. used the money he earned as a translator to get to england where his uncle lived. when that didn't work out, she took him in, helped get him to college, became his second family. >> when you're out there seeing so much misery and so much death, you feel as a journalist, you have to witness it, you have to record it, but you're completely helpless. and to be able to do something for one of those people was a healing experience for me. so -- >> reporter: you all right over

there? >> i'm okay. i'm glad i was that person. >> yes, you were lucky. >> yeah. >> i was lucky to meet you. >> reporter: j.b. assumed his mother had been killed. but six years after he fled rwanda, he got news. what was it like when you found out she was alive? >> it was the most joyful moment of my life, i must say. never thought i would see her again. >> reporter: his mother came to england for j. bmplgb.'s gradua from college. after years of freelance working and honing his craft, he joined nbc news as a photographer in los angeles. >> you are revealing them to the front but at the same time you keep walking. >> reporter: he feels he owes a debt to those that didn't survive. for several years now, he's traveled back to rwanda to teach a class in videography. he's darn good at it. >> it gives me such a joy and fulfillment that at least i've

given something back. >> wow. a lot of tears watching that one. of course, harry smith, nbc, reporting with j.b. i want all of you to know that 30 people on j.b.'s mother's side of the family, only 6 survived the genocide. that baby you saw in there equally and very especially precious to all. so, what's in a nickname? joe biden comes up with one for the president. but is the democrat going to be like trump and stoop to name calling? calling?

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so, we've heard the president's nickname for joe biden. >> i -- >> joe biden. >> biden seems to have a lead. i'd be very happy if it were biden. >> happy why? >> sleepy joe. >> now the former vice president has a new nickname for president trump, telling donors at a private fund-raiser, quote, there are so many nicknames i'm inclined to give this guy. you can just start with clown. joining me is radio talk show host rashad richie and justin safy. rashad, you first here. biden says he's not going to allow himself to get down in the mud with the president. does anointing the president

with the nickname clown change that at all? >> i don't think it changes it whatsoever. i think biden was simply being somewhat funny and, yeah, it's kind of hyperbolic, but at the end of the day, day this guy has to run an election in his own lane. i think the biggest mistake that the former vice president can make right now is attempting to run an election that's reactionary to the campaign strategy of president trump. >> okay. with regard to the word clown there, justin, do you think that will work in biden's favor or could it even fuel team trump more? >> well, i really think joe biden has to make a choice. he has to make a decision. is he going to use the same campaign tactics as donald trump or is he going to try to tell voters, i'm going to set a different tone. i'm going to do something different. if he's going to run around the country calling the president of the united states a clown that's a choice and decision he'll make. i think it will make it more difficult for him to say he

wants to change the tone of the country, that he wants to bring civility back to the office of the president. >> justin, to that point, how is it that this kind of mentality works for the president then, the lack of civility and the tone that he employs 24/7? >> yeah, that's a really interesting question. when you think about it, think about the rhetoric the president has used. he used it all throughout the 2016 campaign, both in the republican primary and against hillary clinton and it worked. he won the election. so that's a really -- that's why i say, joe biden has to make a decision as to whether he thinks that strategy will also work for him. >> what about the new article, rashad, in the washington post. it says that joe biden's strong debut is putting pressure on the other candidates who are vying to challenge trump. how exactly is this forcing other democratic hopefuls to change their strategy with biden in the race? >> i think they see that a number of progressives are actually favorable to joe biden

in a way that they probably did not predict. here's what you see, alex, in the cross tabs of the data. progressives, not all of them, many of them, are supporting biden because of one factor. it's called the electability factor. basically what you have here are progressives saying we would prefer to have somebody who can beat trump rather than having someone who can represent or articulate our ideology. this is them playing chess rather than checkers in the political narrative. >> what about the president, justin? who's kind of been brushing off biden. does he really not see him as a threat in 2020? >> look, i think that the president realizes that it was a close election last time. i think he knows it's going to be close. look, it's going to be a tough race. i think the question for the

president is going to be how much attention does he want to give to his potential democratic opponents. that's a strategic choice. you don't want to elevate any of them, on the other hand, the president has been so successful at defining with these labels his potential opponents so it gives him a chance to define them before they define themselves. >> so, guys, nancy pelosi has a new warning for democrats. smee she's concerned the president will not respect a loss unless it'sing about enough. own the center left. own the mainstream. do you think candidates are going to heed this warning? does she make sense to you. >> she doesn't make sense to me and nancy pelosi is wrong. it doesn't matter how much the president is beat by. he will say the election is

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>> no, i don't. i think that's hyperbole by nancy pelosi. she was trying to send a message to the progressives in the party, listen, we have to win by a really big margin. let's not get carried away. we have to win by a wide margin. we have to win the people in the middle in order to prevent the president from claiming that. i don't think she does mean that. the underlying message she was trying to get to the progressives in the party. >> i appreciate you getting up with me early on a sunday. come see me again. >> thank you. what could be the president's personal tax day tomorrow and what's riding on steve mnuchin's decision on whether or not to release trump's taxes. pay as much for insurance... as not safe drivers!

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next, countdown to contempt? what happens if william barr fails to meet tomorrow's deadline to hand over the mueller report? plus, the rainy day monday possibly facing the white house amid a series of events that could rattle the president. pelosi's warning. why the house speaker says president trump might battle to stay in power even if he loses the 2020 election. what she says democrats need to do to stop him. maximum security wins the kentucky derby.

>> hold your horses. a derby drama ends with the winner ending up the loser. good morning to one and al. welcome to "weekends with alex witt." developing this hour, the political legal battle between the white house and democrats in congress, it is escalating. tomorrow is the deadline for attorney general william barr to respond to a new ultimatum for the full unredacted mueller report. also tomorrow treasury secretary steven mnuchin will say whether or not he's releasing the president's tax returns. michael cohen begins his prison sentence. then on tuesday, former white house counsel don mcgahn is due to provide documents. other deadlines for tomorrow include request for documents involving donald trump's finances. he's suing to block those subpoenas. still undetermined, when will robert mueller testify before the end of