>> 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 the month.

all of this happening as the president and the white house attempt to block an array of subpoenas. the white house and president trump defending the attorney general. >> the facts are on his side. 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. >> mr. barr has been one of the most transparent individuals out there. he decided to impeach president trump the dye of the election. >> they're trying to make it look like an impeachment proceeding. >> they have a right to do a little bit of oversight, that's fine. they're not a judge and jury and they're not law enforcement. >> democrats vowing a legal battle if secretary mnuchin does not abide by tax law that says he shall provide the ways and means committee with any tax return 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, secretary mnuchin or the irs commissioner who has the primary responsibility here under a law that says shall and it's being ignored by this law and this administration. >> still reverberating a phone call in which the president did not warn the russian president not to medal in the election again. the first conversation since they said the russian government interfered in the 2016 political election in sweeping and dramatic fashion. they said this yesterday. >> i can see this as unconscionable, it's inconceivable. one can only imagine what it does to the esprit de coeurs. i'm concerned if we don't impeach this president, he will get re-elected. i regret i'm the canary in the

coal mine but it has to be somebody. >> mike is joining us from the white house. another week. another showdown. how does the white house prepare for this? >> reporter: we had the distinction of blocking the subpoenas or simply ignoring them or defying them. it appears the white house is doing the latter. it's really a situation where we are heading towards a constitutional crisis, alex. sometimes that's hyperbole. we're heading down a path that we have seldom tread in terms of relations between the co-equal branches of government, the legislative and the legislative. they want to see the full unredacted report from bill barr, the attorney general. they are threatening to hold barr in contempt of congress and

a referral to, of all places, the justice department to prosecute him. meanwhile, they hope to deflect and change the story. you heard mic mull vainy talking about the fact that democrats have the right to conduct some oversight notwithstanding the fact that he was a member from south carolina, benghazi, fast and furious, hillary clinton's emails, endless hearings and oversight on those as well. it really depends on where you sit in this town in terms of position. mulvaney chooses to talk up the good news on the economy. >> it's fast senating to watch everybody get richer. the wage increases have actually been focused at the bottom end of the scale. we're lifting people up out of poverty into the middle class.

it's everything donald trump said would happen. it's fun to sit back and watch it happen. >> let's talk about the facts on the economy briefly. unemployment shockingly low. down a percent in april. across the board with the exception of african-americans holding steady at 6.7%. hourly earnings are up after a very sluggish period, extended period where they were stagnant. inflation remains relatively low. a good news story. here at the white house they choose to deflect. >> thank you for the shout ott. he's going to appreciate that one. thank you, mike. >> right. joining me now, melanie zanona and julia. good sunday morning to you both. let's get to all of these deadlines starting with you, julia. all the ones scheduled for this

week. which one appears most pressing for congress? >> well, we're seeing that the william barr testimony seems to be very pressing right now given the drama that's unfolded over the past week with that. democrats are under a lot of pressure with the release of the mueller report to try to get as many people, such as william barr, to come and testify or to try to get as much information -- additional information about the mueller report out because we saw that before the mueller report was released democrats were obviously pushing this narrative that there was some sort of c conspiracy between president trump and the russians. they're trying to save face in all of this. however, the president's taxes are a huge deadline. that's another thing that the democrats are investigating the president on. a lot to look out for. democrats trying to pinpoint the president on a number of these issues in the wake of this good

economic use. >> mind given any bets on whether steve mnuchin releases the taxes? is there a snowball's chance in you know where? i think we're all on page on that one. the house judiciary committee jerry nadler, he has set this ultimate tim. if the justice department does not comply, if it does not release the full unredacted mueller report, they start contempt proceedings. could they reach an agreement tomorrow? >> the exec tapectations are pr low. nadler said they are willing to prioritize and limit their request for that underlying material, which is a shift from what they had initially said which is they want all of it. their other request is they want to see the sensitive secret grand jury information and the

department of justice has made that very clear they are not going to hand that over. i do think we are barrelling towards a contempt proceeding tomorrow. i think the strategy for the democrats are showing that they're being accommodating. they're trying to get the public on their side. we're trying to be reasonable, trying to be accommodating. we don't want to go down this route. >> barr's testimony on wednesday, it trying dwerd a really new sense of urgency. to melanie's point, the fact that they're not going to release a full unredacted report. if you get mueller on the stand though, what's the likelihood that that even happens, but what might he be able to testify to and are there talks surrounding all of this that you know of that says, yeah, we're trying to get him? we're trying to set the date? >> alex, there are clearly talks

trying to get talks with lawmakers trying to get him here before coming later this month. however, robert mueller is an interesting character in the way that he doesn't necessarily like that public scrutiny surrounding that. it's up in the air whether this will actually happen. with robert mueller before congress, i think democrats would like to get more information on the issue of obstruction of justice and what information he was able to gather there not in the report. we're going to see democrats really press him on his relationship with william barr. you're going to see republicans ask about that letter. while democrats have come at william barr for giving i guess conflicting testimony in terms of whether there are reservations around that obstruction of justice question the -- and the full report,

you're going to see republicans coming at mueller from the other side. it's up in the air whether mueller would do this. it's good if they would get another character to testify. >> it's really weird. you have the doj spokespeople splitting hairs saying that barr was not in his answers reflecting robert mueller's position but rather the position of investigators. oh, come on. so, melanie, you have democrats who have been pretly split on whether to start impeachment proceedings. pelosi said defeat him in 2020 by a margin so big he can't challenge the legitimacy of a democratic victory. what's behind the statement. >> it's a pretty stark statement from pelosi. it's something we heard in 2016

and it's the first time we heard it in 2020. the strategy is she is sending a very clear message to the troops, keep your eyes on the prize. the best way to remove the president, the democrats thinking, is not through impeachment but through the ballot box. the way to do that is focusing on the kitchen table issues that got them elected in 2018 whether it's health care, economy, jobs, infrastructure. she seemed to take a little bit of a veiled shot on the progressive policies. she's clearly protecting her moderates. i am interested to see how progressives are going to respond to that. >> good to see you both on a sunday morning. >> thank you. let's go to history making kentucky derby. yesterday's 145th running of the roses ended with the first horse over the finish line losing. nbc's christ pollone explains.

>> reporter: it was a wire to wire win for the pre-race favorite, maximum security, the undefeated 3-year-old finished a length nava head of the long shot country house but shortly after the race ended it was clear something was amiss. they spent 20 minutes reviewing video of the 145th run for the roses. then a controversial decision. >> after the objection country house wins the kentucky derby. >> the apparent winner disqualified. country house moved up from second to first place and declared the winner of the kentucky derby. he said he impeded his rivals by drifting too wide. he was almost clipping heels with war of will which could have caused a chain reaction accident. >> it was the two horses that were impacted the most.

those two horses lost their opportunity to win a 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. now that it's happened i think we'd like to do this last year. >> it paid 132: 40 to win. can the president really claim executive privilege to keep him silent? we'll get an answer from my legal panel next. panel next

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new criticisms this morning for attorney general william barr. "the new yorker" published this piece arguing barr's job as trump's attorney general is to, quote, treat anything that does not serve his interests as an urgent threat. this comes after comments made on the hill that raised concerns with his relationship with the president. take a listen. >> if the president is being falsely accused, which the evidence now suggests that the accusations against him were false, if he -- and he knew they were false and he felt that this investigation was unfair propelled by his political opponents and was hampering his ability to govern, that is not a corrupt motive for replacing an

independent counsel. the president does not have to sit there constitutionally and allow it to run its course. >> joining me now, msnbc political contributor katie fang and ashley merchant. do you agree, katie? how far can barr go to protect the president? and then put this in the context of the way it fits into the rule of law. >> he's not supposed to be protecting the president of the united states. he's supposed to be protecting the rule of the law which we know has gone by the way side during the trump administration. more accurately, the attorney general of the united states, bill barr, there's a reason why he's getting the moniker pander barr. he's pandering to what trump's position has to be on certain legal issues. the fact that barr continues to opine on a personal and professional level in front of congress and in front of the american public in terms of the mueller report, its outcomes, its findings, how it was delivered, even the way he

almost casually referred to robert mueller as bob repeatedly during his testimony that he carries himself with a certain level of disrespect for people that are not subscribing to the trump protocol. i think that's problematic for people who are hoping the department of justice is being objective. >> this new moniker, ashley, pander barr. is he acting like the president's defense attorney? >> he definitely is. we need to remember what the attorney general's role is. it is to seek justice, represent the american people and it's to represent the good of the people. it's not to represent the president. he is not the president's lawyer. he is the attorney general of the united states. it's just like when you have a local law enforcement person like a district attorney who's representing the people, the county, the state. it's the same thing with william barr. he is representing the united states of america and the citizenry. he is not representing an

individual person. he needs to reshift that focus. he's forgotten who he represents and what his role is and that independent role that he is supposed to have. >> so this "usa today" article, it's really quite extraordinary, kalt katie. it shows the president has been the recipient of a lawsuit has been involved in 3500 laws. he sued congressman cummings, he sued capital one, deutsch bank. so stacking up laws, uits, is tt a good strategy when you're trying to delay things? >> donald trump, the private citizen, has been involved in business for decades. nobody has anticipated the legalpaloosa. people knew about donald trump and his legal trey vails. that is where donald trump likes to go. he enjoys running to court and

advancing a position on his own. i think what we're going to see is see more. it's rare to see a president enter into lawsuits. >> what about the president, he's not going to allow former white house counsel don mcgahn to testify. he's threatening to use executive privilege. does the white house have authority over a former employee? and i kind of point out in this washington post article, there is a former federal prosecutor by the name of gene rossi. here's how he puts it. this waiver is unwise. you can't pull it back. you don't say i'm consenting to a search of my car and then withdraw it after they find a kilo of heroin and he allowed

him to testify and now he is saying no. >> that is the problem. he has allowed the testimony. he has waived this privilege. he's going to be able to compel him to testify. the problem, i don't envy mcgahn's position. he has got to see side how much of a waiver actually happened. where was that waiver? how extensive was it? what exactly did the president waive? he unlike william barr was the president's counsel. he has to maintain that privilege to a certain extent. he has to decide how much was waived and make sure his testimony comports with that. the president can't undo this waiver. >> thanks, ladies. >> thank you. the measles outbreak has now spread to 22 states and you may be at risk and you might not even know it. talk about it next. lly? while you ponder that, consider adopting a rescue pet. there are 6.5 million of them; they all need a forever home.

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a new effort on the front lines of the measles outbreak. it is happening in new york state which has the largest number of cases in the country. nurse melody butler at good samaritan hospital center in long island is trying to debunk the myth circulating on social

media. melanie is here to talk about her efforts with a big welcome to you. i wish people could have eavesdropped on our conversation during the commercial. let's get to what you've founded, nurses who vaccinate. tell us about your program and how successful it is. >> thank you so much for having me on. it's so important that nurses like myself are getting out there to share the important message that vaccines are safe and vaccines save lives. that's exactly what our mission is in nurses that vaccinate. we help empower people to become vaccination champions. no one's calling their doctor at 2:00 in the morning. they go to google. the first thing that pops up is making or breaking whether they vaccinate. we want to make sure whether it's a facebook parenting group, a blog they're coming across that is accurate, up to date information. >> here's what's scary. there are some nurses that are going out there and they are not

armed with accurate information. they're scaring people. >> yes. we do get a good foundation for the science and background information in nursing school. it's so important they keep up to date. the cdc puts out webinars that they can go to. not many nurses may be aware of that. it's so important we keep up to date with this information. there's a lot of it. >> look, i've got a couple kids and i know that you were pregnant with your third child and you had concerns about a flu vaccine that you thought you needed to get. tell me that story. >> it was during 2009 h 1 n 1 outbreak. everyone had to get it across the board if you worked in health care. i did research so i spoke to my phenomenal pediatric nurse educator, dr. nancy now. she did a great job calm down from my fears and explain that the information i was looking at

was not accurate, totally out of date and it was incorrect. going forward i realized that even myself as a nurse, i can see how people can fall victim to the misinformation and how important it is for nurses to have a good concrete foundation and have a place to go to ask information. there's a lot of stuff out there. >> can i ask you about that myth out there that vaccinations can lead to autism. how do you combat that? where does the truth lie? >> the truth lies in the evidence and there's evidence across the world by private and public researchers that show time and time again that vaccines do not cause autism. you may hear stories parents are adamant and they feel strongly but when you look at the evidence and you don't go by singular individual stories, the evidence is clear. you cannot get autism from being vaccinated. >> melody butler, keep up the good work. >> thank you so much. >> i appreciate that.

royal baby watch, that's on high alert this weekend after prince harry announced he was canceling a trip to amsterdam. that has fueled speculation that she has either already given birth or will do it soon. sarah harmon is close to the home in windsor england. sarah, what are you hearing this morning? >> alex, let's get this out of the way. there is still no baby yet but two of the bookies have suspended betting on meghan's due date. they are taking bets on the baby's name. the nation is putting the bets on a girl. grace, victoria, diana, but also interestingly, allegra. a bit of an outlier. it's said to be the name harry's mother princess diana would have chosen if she had a daughter.

there is a bit of family connection. whatever they name this baby won't be prince or princess unless the queen intervenes because this child is only seventh in line to the throne. it's not entitled to a royal title. lack of standing has not put any damper on the level of media interest. there is a tremendous amount of press here in the small town of windsor where harry and meghan live at frogmoor cottage where the queen often spends her weekends. the flag means the queen is in residence this weekend. there is no time like the present for baby sussex to be born. >> that is the queen's favorite residence. thank you, sarah harmon, for keeping watch for us. we're just getting started on this sunday morning. coming up is "up" with david

gura. >> we'll get polling data about the 2020 campaign and what americans think should happen next now that robert mueller has finished his investigation. i was in new hampshire talking about this. we're also going to talk about facebook's decision to ban several extremists. plenty of people think this has been a long time coming. facebook should have done this but the president is taking a stand against what facebook has done and it's reignited a debate about what role companies should do in regulating speech. >> which means we're going to tune in for that. >> thank you very much. it is president trump's $2 trillion deal with democrats. it could mean lots of jobs but now the gop may be putting that in jeopardy. talking about it next. my insurance rates are probably gonna double.

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let's go now to morning headlines. deadly airstrikes and tank fire threatening faltering cease-fire on the gaza strip. large explosions, billowing smoke shook gaza city on saturday and they were in retaliation to hundreds of rockets fired over the border by palestinian militants. it began on friday after two palestinians were shot and killed during protests along the border. the search for two missing people will resume this morning in the massive silicone plant. it let two dead, three injured. one of the dead was found at the

scene. no word yet on what caused that blast. president barack obama boulevard. thousands celebrated the renaming of los angeles's historic black avenue. the unveiling ceremony was in the baldwin hills crenshaw section. they are hoping it will help revitalize the area and be a source of inspiration. friday's job report showed unemployment at its lowest since 1969 but it does remain a bit higher for hispanics, almost double for african-americans. little progress since last month. joining me is democrat mark vici, a member of the small business committees with a welcome back to the broadcast. so you know what i think is really cool. i've heard about you. you drove uber during the legislative recess. >> yes. >> you wanted to get out there and meet constituents. talked to me as you were driving around and there in your back seat you were talking about

whampt did you talk about? >> good morning. yeah, absolutely. i work at a different job once a month. since i've been in congress i've probably worked 60 or so jobs. i've delivered packages for ups, worked at tacareas. >> you've been a firefighter, too? >> yeah, worked with a firefighter. a couple of weeks ago during the recess i worked as an uber driver and it was very interesting. using uber in dallas fort worth is much different than d.c. people didn't talk much with me about what was going on around the country. i think they were excited that i was driving around an uber. one man was in town from mexico, monter monterey. he was in dallas from a convention. i picked him up. he talked to me about the economy and was happy that things were going well in texas but told me that people in

mexico pretty generally think negatively of president trump. >> interesting. so tell me what you think this administration and congress should do to close the unemployment gap for african-americans, hispanics as we looked at those numbers. yeah, the numbers are good overall but not for those two communities. >> yeah, no, absolutely. i think the one thing important to keep in mind, even in texas where millions of people are moving here. in the dallas fort worth area alone we've had a million people move here in the last seven or eight years or so. but we've also seen a 1% decrease in wages here in texas and so with the decline of unions, with a lot of employers not giving back to employees even as productivity has climbed, i think it's a big problem. the president has not addressed this. he talks about things on the surface level and of course

president obama helped really put the economy where it is now. we have a long ways to go to increasing wages in the country. folks will see an increase in the minimum wage. it's been a long time since minimum wage has been increased and that needs to happen. more importantly, we need to increase what we talk about here in texas, good paying jobs. a job where you can pay your car note, put a little aside to take a vacation, put some money in the kids' college fund. that's what needs to be happening. enough of that is going on, not here in texas or around the count country. >> there are a lot of good jobs that could be done if infrastructure repairs were happening. the president as well as with top democratic leaders announced they are backing this bipartisan infrastructure plan to the cost of $2 trillion. there are folks concerned about that. that would include the acting

chief of staff mick mulvaney. he's telling people this is too expensive. it's unlikely to succeed. what are your thoughts on that? >> we need to pass an infrastructure bill. i think that's clear. i talked about all of the growth in the dallas fort worth area. right now the way how we manage that growth is through toll roads. we have an indexed fuel tax since the 1990s from the state and the federal standpoint. we need to pass an infrastructure bill. we need light rail and other ways to move people around but we don't need to do it with more debt. we need to look for ways that we can fund infrastructure. there's a lot of talk of infrastructure banks but we need to create new revenue. we don't need know what the republicans did on their very terrible tax bill and put the country further in debt. we need to sit down, make some

tough decisions how we're going to pay for this and move the country forward. we need to invest in the country. >> how do you do that? even discussions of reversing the corporate tax which lowered it from 25% to 31%, that would not make a difference. if you had a 35% fuel tax, that would only pay for 1/4. where do you get the money to pay for a double trillion dollar plan potential? >> you know, i'm not on the transportation and infrastructure committee but, again, i'm not saying that it needs to be the $2 trillion but we certainly need to invest money and a lot of money in our infrastructure. you talk about border officials. again, i think a lot of people are musing managed lanes. we need to step up and do the

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treasury secretary steven mnuchin is expected to make a decision tomorrow about whether to release six years of the president's tax returns. he will have a legal battle if he does not provide with providing the ways and means committee with any taxes requested. big welcome to you both. if mnuchin does not comply, do you expect democrats to stick to their word? is this going to escalate into some sort of a standoff? >> potentially.

if they have an opportunity to see oversight, they have subpoena power. you will see them make sure they are doing their job. i think the committee is authorized to do that. i think we'll see in the coming days or weeks what democrats will end up doing to make sure that they get trump's tax returns. >> so this new article in the washington examiner, brian, it says that the president is gambling, that he can stall democrats tax returns demands. it can go past the 2020 election. do you think turning this into a court battle plays right into his hands? >> well, yeah, but i also think that it's wrong for congress to try and use their power, their over sight power just to help whoever the democrats are going to nominate in 2020. when you look at the law, the law does say that congress has a right to get tax returns but that doesn't include the right to get them to disclose them, just to help for partisan

purpose. >> no, no, no, no, no, wait, brian. is that why it's being done or is it because people believe that the president's hiding stuff? that he may have things in his tax returns that show he has not been telling show he's not been telling the truth about his financial standing? i mean, isn't that why they're doing it? you really think they're doing it to try to help support a democratic presidential candidate in 2020? >> well, they clearly don't have the right to get his tax documents just to disclose them to the american public. that's not the purpose of the law. the purpose of the law is to get tax returns, to do investigations, to find out if they're going to change the law. >> how about to get tax returns to find out if something illegal or untruthful has been represented? >> well, that's not the role of congress. congress does not have that oversight role. the oversight role is not unlimited. they can't just go on a fishing expedition, yet another wish hunt to go after the president for the purposes of embarrassing him. that's not the purpose of

oversight in congress. >> you have secretary mnuchin who's arguing democrats wrist undermining the -- not undermining, the privacy of all taxpayers. he's also suggesting, look, there's no legislative reason for releasing the president's tax returns. he's echoing something of what brian is saying there. he writes, exposure for the sake of exposure is never a per miss able purpose of congressional inquiries. is that an argument at all that this is exposure for the sake of exposure? >> we have had republicans in power and they vent done anything to do oversight. now democrats are doing what they were elected for in the first place. >> are they overreaching? >> they're not overreaching. you can do oversight based off a presidential audit. theist is supposed to do a presidential audit. they want to make sure that's what the irs is doing. this is within their means.

this is not a campaign issue. this is something that our government must do. they should be looking at donald trump's tax returns. now, they can do that within the committee and that is their legal right. but it is ridiculous. exactly what you said. what is donald trump hiding? and we don't know. and so i think that's exactly what you're going to hear from democrats over the coming weeks. >> what about the recent washington times article, which is highlighting how more than a dozen deep blue states are trying to keep trump off the 2020 ballot because of his tax returns. but the question is being asked as to whether the president would just say, so what? brian, would it altiul ultimate matter if president was left off states like hawaii, california, illinois? >> it wopt matter at all. he's not going to win california. he's not going to win hawaii. i can make that confident prediction right now. this is clearly a partisan effort. think about our taxes. i just filed my taxes recently.

i think all americans believe that's a private system. we give it to the government voluntarily. the government is supposed to keep that information private. they're not allowed to disclose that. if they are, and it's happened a number of times where tax officials have looked at private information, people in hollywood or music industry, and they end up going to jail or get fired. it's illegal to disclose information because of the purpose we keep that information private. we have a fourth amendment privacy right to that information. >> for sure. but do you ever wonder why the mt doesn't release his tax returns? do you ever wonder why he doesn't do it? >> of course. i like every american is interested in what's in president trump's tax returns. but there's a balance of interest where he has a right to privacy, too. all these hollywood people, i want to see their tax returns, too, but they have a right to

privacy. i think there's a balancing of interest. if we do go too far and disclose a president's tax returns, then we're going to have a whole new standard with regard to people's taxes that i don't think the american people would be comfortable with. >> okay. let's move from taxes now to 2020. as we look at a piece in the new york times is pointing out how joe biden is extending an olive branch and republicans in general. do democrats want a bipartisan deal-maker or a partisan warrior? >> you're running for president of the united states. you're not running for president of the democratic party. we need to make sure we're reaching out to democrats, independents, republicans, everyone. there's a difference between, you know, going out and reaching and talking to all voters and not holding republicans accountable. and we need to hold republicans accountable. we must talk to all voters.

i think you are seeing democrats do this across the country, running for president, crisscrossing the state, talking about the issues -- or the country, talking about these issues, talking about the economy, talking about health care. that is how we win. >> what about, brian, you have biden and fellow democrats disagreeing on how to take on trump, but the president seems to have his attention just on biden. is this the proof that the vice president -- former vice president might be doing something right? he's getting under trump's skin and that's the guy he thinks he needs to focus on? >> i don't think there's any doubt joe biden will be a formidable candidate if he wins the nomination. the big question, will democrats embrace democratic socialism or embrace a more establishment candidate, or is joe biden going to have to embrace democratic socialism to get the nomination? it's going to be very difficult for democrats to figure out what direction they're going to go in. no doubt, joe biden is a strong candidate.

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