new overnight president trump's latest tariff hike on chinese goods has gone into effect and beijing is promising necessary counter measures. how the tariffs are having an impact here at home. >> president trump said he was surprised that his son don jr. was subpoenaed while richard burr is defending the move. pentagon says north korea tested multiple ballistic missiles in its most recent weapons launch as tensions escalate. the u.s. has seized a north korean ship suspected of violating sanctions.

good morning, everybody. it is friday may 10th. >> i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside jeff bennett. we're starting with president trump's long threatened tariff increases on chinese goods. they have now taken effect at 12:01 this morning the tariff rate on $200 billion worth of chinese goods was raised from 10% to 25%. china's commerce ministry says it will retaliate with necessary countermeasures without elaborating. the hikes come in the middle of the latest round of trade talks between the world's two largest economies which began last night and set to continue today. the president and his administration this week have accused beijing of quote reneging on prior commitments and of seeking substantial and substantive changes to the draft deal which 90% complete according to treasury secretary steve mnuchkin. >> yesterday the stock market continue this week's major sell

off due to the tariffs and on fears the two sides are not close to resolving the situation. president trump who once labelled himself as tariff man is also threatening to impose 25% tariffs on the remaining $325 billion worth of chinese goods that currently are not taxed. now despite trump's ongoing insistence his tariffs are not paid by foreign companies but are passed on to u.s. consumers in the form of substantial price increases and cost americans $1.4 billion per month last year. here's how he described the status of the situation yesterday. >> we were getting very close to a deal and then they started to renegotiate the deal. we can't do that. really paid ultimately paid for largely by china.

businesses will pour back into our country. we'll take in well over $100 billion a year. we never took in ten cents from china. >> is it still possible to get a trade deal with the chinese this week? >> it's possible. i have no idea what will happen. i did last not got a beautiful letter from president xi. let's work together. let's see if we can get something done. they renegotiated the deal. whether it's intellectual property theft, they took many, many parts of that deal and they renegotiated. you can't do that. >> for months americans across this country have felt the real life pains of president trump's trade war with china. that includes soybean farmers who have sean prices for their crops nose dif in th-- dive in on going dispute. watch this. >> reporter: good morning. as the chinese delegation

continues its meetings with the white house the conversation around the midwest continues to be on the real life impact that those tariffs and the retaliatory have had on the industry in the area particularly on the agricultural front. i want to introduce you to rob. he's a farmer north here in iowa. we met him yesterday as we made our way down along the mississippi river. he grows soybeans, nearly 1,000 acres a year. the issue has been a drop in soybean prices because of those retaliatory tariffs and the question where they are going. here's what he told us. >> it's challenging would be about the best word to put. the issues with our market prices, you know, that's the biggest thing. we're a business first. if we can't make money then we have some issues. >> reporter: as a farmer what has the tariffs been on you >> negative. when we get in a trade war with

china, obviously that's our number one customer for soybeans. when you take that away, then that has a huge impact. when they were buying roughly 25% of our production in a year's time, and all of a sudden you don't have that market it's going to affect it. >> reporter: last year because of those low soybean prices rob did not even break even. the issue for farmers is that it's more than just the prices of soybeans. there's other factors that go into play when you talk about the ag industry. look at the mississippi river behind us. because of high waters there's no traffic up and down this river. tho those barges are stuck here. there's no cash coming in. so between the idle river and the threat of these increased tariffs there's much to be

concerned about if you're a midwest farmer. >> thank you for that report. president trump reacted with astonishment yesterday that his 41-year-old son donald trump jr. success subpoenaed to testify before the republican led senate intelligence committee as they conclude their investigation on russian interference in the 2016 election. the topics are said to include the discussion of building a skyscraper in moscow and june 2016 trump tower meeting set up after trump jr. responded quote i love it. when told of a kremlin lawyer offering dirt on hillary clinton. >> mr. president, as you saw the senate intelligence committee has subpoenaed don jr., the republican led senate intelligence committee what do you make of that? >> i was very surprised. i saw richard burr saying there was no collusion two or three weeks ago. the mueller report came out. that's the bible. the mueller report came out and they said he did nothing wrong. my son testified for hours and

hours. my son was totally exonerated by mueller, who frankly does not like donald trump, me, this donald trump. and frankly for my son, after being exonerated to now get a subpoena to go again and speak again after close to 20 hours of telling everybody that would listen about a nothing meeting, yeah, i'm pretty surprised. >> will you fight that subpoena? >> we'll see what happens. >> trump jr. testified before the judiciary committee in 2017. the mueller report states trump jr. declined to be voluntarily interviewed by the office. the special counsel did not force his testimony. as for trump tower meeting the report says quote on the facts here the government would unlikely be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the june 9th meeting participants had general

knowledge their conduct was unlawful citing the ban on accepting foreign contributions to campaigns. >> republicans anger over the subpoena focus don't chairman of the senate intelligence committee, senator richard burr. but colleagues in both parties telling politico despite a day facing attacks, burr is on moved by it and there's no talk yet of withdrawing subpoena. he's defending his decision. according to the "new york times" burr told them that the subpoena was sent in mid-april, weeks before mitch mcconnell declared case closed. last night mcconnell went on fox news to reassure the president. >> what is senator burr doing? didn't he hear your message? >> the good news is that senator burr indicated that the committee will find no collusion. that's consistent with the

mueller investigation. i think this will have a happy ending. i understand the president's frustration but i think this is just a blip. the case is closed. the controversy as been concluded. >> all right. joining us now from washington senior staff writer for the hill, scott wong. let's talk about this response from the president with regards to the subpoena on his son don jr. obviously he said he was very surprised by the whole thing. he was not clear if they would fight the subpoena. he didn't give an answer. but considering the track record so far, it looks as if a fight is probably in our near future. will this cause a rift between some members of the party? >> i think we're already seeing that rift play out. you know, this is not a position

that republicans want to be in where they are criticizing their own republican chairman of the intelligence committee. in recent months, after the mueller report has come out you've seen republicans try to turn this into partisan warfare and really take aim at the democrats and now you have a republican committee chairman going after the president's eldest son donald trump jr. it really is not a position that republicans like to fine themselves. the other interesting thing about richard burr is that he is sort of liberated from his party and the president because he has decided many months ago not to seek re-election in 2022. and so he really feels like he can pursue his own course, pursue the investigation freely and it appears that's exactly

what he's doing now. >> let's turn back to trade given the extra tariffs set to take effect today. the president as we saw earlier he likes to frame these tariffs as hurting china but it's really every day americans who indirectly pay the cost through higher prices on consumer goods. how might this affect the economy overall, do you think? >> well, it remains to be seen. we've seen what's played out with the stock market taking a plunge earlier this week. certainly it's hitting investors and i think investors are genuinely worried about this and we'll see what happens later today as the effects start to play out. i think it's notable that you are seeing criticism of the president from members of his own party, particularly in the farm built. people like chuck grassley who represent numerous farmers, obviously, in the state of iowa and has been critical of the

president's policies on tariffs and so, you know, it really remains to be seen what will happen here. but it's notable that he is taking incoming fire on many front now with richard burr on intelligence and now with other republicans on the tariff issue. >> scott wong, thank you. we'll talk to you in just a bit. jeff quickly i know that we were speaking about richard burr yesterday, obviously you know, you have a lot of knowledge with regards to capitol hill. the big question for me here is, is he going to double down if a fight ensues? if don jr. ignores the subpoena will he stick to his guns? >> i think so for the reasons scott mentioned and the reasons we talked about yesterday. burr has a different range of considerations here in part because he's not seek re-election. and he's conducting this that's above board and independent. the question is what does he do if and when don jr. ignores the

subpoena. that we don't know yet. >> still ahead a key figure involved in bob mueller's russian probe is speaking out exclusively to nbc news. >> former army intelligence officers chelsea manning has been released from jail but might not be be for long. those stories and a check of the weather when we come right back. my joints... they hurt.

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welcome back, everybody. one of the key figures at the center of special counsel bob mueller's investigation recently sat down with nbc news for an exclusive interview. a russian oligarch with close ties to the kremlin was linked to president trump's former campaign manager paul manafort whom he loaned millions of dollars through his company. joining us now live from london, keir simmons. good morning to you. thanks so much for joining. you spoke with him. what did you learn?

>> reporter: the russian billionaire has close ties to paul manafort in the sense he employed him before paul manafort worked with the trump campaign. oleg deripaska denies the claims that the suggestion in that report that campaign information was funneled back to him through intermediaries. what i find fascinating about this interview and the southern we're about to play you president trump likes to talk about the mueller report as the end of the story. actually when you read it frankly throughout it there's evidence that he was not able to gather evidence, particularly from russian actors. now oleg deripaska was asked to give evidence to the mueller inquiry. he refused to do so on the advice of his lawyers. take a list enabout what he has to say about the range of evidence he was asked to submit. >> it's a long list of companies

which they tried to get information of and just for your understanding, he was asked -- turn over documents from 2005 to present. huge documents. in my view it's completely irrelevant because it was a company. it was a stupid question just to report on every negotiation, contact with trump advisors and team. >> reporter: he says it was a fishing expedition at the same time what it shows you is the mueller team wanted so much information that they western able to get. oleg deripaska is now suing the u.s. government to have

sanctions against him removed which he says is going to cripple his businesses. he goes on to talk about his relationship with president putinin, guys, because it's a fascinating conversation because you get a sense of the tension, the difficulties in that group of very rich russians and the president of russia. >> two things, why is he talking now? why is he speaking out now? what also what we do know about oligarchs around president putin they have personal relationships, did he get into that, the personal relationship he has with him? >> reporter: he argues he doesn't have a personal relationship with president putin. what's interesting is when i say to him, can you criticize president putin, he kind of pauses and says do you expect me to answer that? so, you know, you get a sense of this kind of tension.

the way that russia works, if you like. why now? that's a great question. the answer is because he wants to try to get the sanctions removed. what's fascinating about that question the russians are desperate for a relationship with america despite everything and despite the actions of the russian government. >> the question is which returns are desperate for a relationship with the united states? maybe oleg deripaska is desperate for that but whether or not vladimir putin is, is the real question. thank you so much. we'll see you in a little bit on "morning joe". >> let's get a check on your weather with our meteorologist. >> good morning. can you believe we saw a foot of rain in texas and we're still talking about snow, unfortunately, for the rockies here. now the severe weather threat has really diminished, but the flooding rain will continue for the south and southeast throughout the weekend here. it's a stalled out front and it's going to cause copious amounts of rain for texas into

louisiana throughout the weekend. you can see this ban currently. it's making its way offshore. baton rouge, to lake charles under threat of rain. totals through sunday possibility of nine to 12 inches. from the video, what we've seen here, remember turn around don't drown due to this flooding rain that really don't happen across the houston area. this will be a prolonged event the next 36 hours. man, going to be dicey for the south. fortunately the weekend, the same system is headed our way. >> i was seeing those images out of houston. i felt terrible for people stuck in that floodwater. still ahead the white house made an embarrassing typo before the boston red sox visit erand it's not the first time we've seen that happen. we'll explain that next.

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside nbc news white house correspondent jeff bennett. it's the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top stories. president trump appearing to have backed off his statement that special counsel bob mueller should not appear before congress. this past sunday the president tweeted that mueller should not testify but while speaking to reporters yesterday, the president left the issue in the hands of a.g. bill barr. >> do you allow robert mueller to testify before congress? >> i'll leave that up to our very great attorney general, and he'll make a decision on that. there was nobody that was in the history of our country more transparent than me. i said give them every document, give them every person.

leapt the white house counsel testify. i think he testified for 30 hours. i guess they must have asked him the same question because it wasn't very much to testify about. i gave them white house counsel. i gave them other -- anybody you want you can talk to. at the end of the testimony no collusion and essentially no obstruction. >> mr. barr told lawmakers he didn't have a problem with mr. mueller testifying. >> i'm going to leave that up to the attorney general. i think to me it looks like a redo. >> house speaker nancy pelosi suggested yesterday that the house could pursue contempt charges not just against attorney general bill barr but also against others close to president trump as well as democrats fight the administration's efforts to inner investigations. >> in terms of timing, that will come to the floor and we'll see because there might be some

other contempt of congress, issues that we want to deal with at the same time. >> as politico points out pelosi's comments indicate that democrats could wait weeks to take further action against barr while they determine other cabinet officials are interfering with committee requests from requesting trump's tax returns to determining census question. ted lieu said we won't wait a few months but could wait a few weeks. >> president trump has tapped patrick shanahan as the nation's official pentagon chief. since filling in for the role after jim mattis' departure shanahan has steadfastly stuck by trump's decisions including supporting a border wall and pulling troops from syria. white house announced the news via twitter touting his outstanding service to the country and demonstrated ability to lead. but according to multiple

officials that spoke to nbc news, shanahan was not trump's first choice to lead the department of defense. it follows a month long pentagon investigation into whether shanahan acted improperly in official meetings discussing military contractors including boeing. he has since been cleared of any wrong together but some lawmakers are also skeptical about his limited foreign policy experience having never served in the military. joining us again from washington, scott wong. patrickti shanahan is not the first civilian to lead the department of defense. will the current investigation of the boeing 737 max planes, do you think that's going to have an effect on shanahan's nomination process? >> oh, i think it's almost certain that the boeing investigation into some of these

recent crashes will come up in questioning, during his confirmation process. obviously, that's been the big headlines in the news related to the aerospace company. i think the other interesting thing regarding shanahan is that, you know, i think a lot of people in washington are breathing a sigh of relief very soon we'll have a very permanent defense secretary because a lot of these cabinet positions, a lot of these top security positions, homeland security have been acting positions. a lot of critics of president trump including many democrats have been concerned that trump has been trying to consolidate his power in the executive branch by having these acting positions, people whom he can dismiss at a moment's notice. so there's a little bit of a sigh of relief this will be a permanent position. >> will we have these new appointments happening in the

white house, we also have house speaker nancy pelosi alluding to the fact there could be more contempt charges coming up. who could she feasibly be alluding to? are we talking steve mnuchkin here? >> well, as you know, democrats are fighting the administration and the president on many front from trying to seek his tax returns via the ways and means committee to seeking the president's business records and bank statements, you know, related to his real estate and other businesses. so it could be a range of people. i think mnuchkin is one of the names we heard. yesterday nancy pelosi said she agreed with chairman nadler calling this situation that our country faces now a constitutional crisis. that sort of got a lot of house

democrats interested and perked their ears up a little bit. but she has said, i will point out, she has said we're not ready at this point to impeach the president but we need to continue down methodically, down the path of these investigations in order to see what they reveal and then perhaps impeachment may be the only recourse at that time. >> we'll be talking about the constitutional crisis that the house speaker brought up a little bit later on in the show. just to put things in perspective think about how many contempt of congress charges can be coming up. >> it's staggering. >> it is staggering to imagine that we're currently in this position. scott wong, good talking to you. thank you. president trump raised the stakes in his trade conflict with china yesterday as the u.s. increased tariffs on $200 billion worth of chinese goods to 25%. cnbc joins us live from london. as tensions continue to rise how

is this affecting markets this morning? >> reporter: i can't tell you quite how widespread the impact has been but it's been extraordinary in terms of the various asset classes that have been affected. if you look at the equity markets in the u.s., it's their worst week so far. we're looking to a lower open on the three major indices in the u.s. in term of the asian markets today, they've done quite well in terms of equity. major indices in china up more than 3%. in europe they are trading higher. oil, the price is falling slightly because they are worried about future demand. when you look at things like gold, typically a safe-haven asset, that's seeing its price rise. in terms of treasury yields, u.s. government debt people are seeing the yield on that falling, the price going up, people putting their money inu.s. to government dent safe place to leave it. >> quickly, i just want to talk

about the global economy how this can have ripple effects. we do know hine had huge growth, economic growth last year but could slow growth in china and have ripple effects throughout the world. >> that's right. the analysts have been saying that, the big concern is if you see not only these fresh tariffs take place in two or three months and the impact it might have on the u.s. consumer, may pay more on products they are buying but chinese producers but ripple effects here in europe, companies like in germany. there's concern amongst investors across the board if these trade negotiation break down or if they continue on much longer. >> thank you, sir. still ahead more on the growing battle between president trump and congressional democrats as house speaker nancy pelosi says the u.s. is facing a constitutional crisis. legal analyst danny cevallos is

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welcome back. house speaker nancy pelosi says she agrees with judiciary committee chairman jerrold nadler's assertion that the u.s. is facing a constitutional crisis. here's some of what she told reporters yesterday. >> impeach or nothing. it's not that. it's a path that is producing results and gathering information. and some of that information is that this administration wants to have a constitutional crisis because they do not respect the oath of office that they take to protect and defend the constitution, to support the constitution of the united states. >> joining us here on set msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos.

danny, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> are we or are we not at a tipping point where we're having a constitutional crisis in this country because of the the evenings we're seeing between congress and the white house? >> we may be at a tipping point but i don't believe we're at a constitutional crisis. i think we're at a constitutional challenge. the constitution is built to stretch. it doesn't answer every question. but as to some of the issues we're seeing now, we've been here before. we have had an attorney general held in criminal contempt in the past. we have had the executive branch refuse to comply with congressional subpoenas. and whether you call it a feature or a bug of the constitution, the legislative branch has never really had formal power to enforce its subpoenas. it relies inherently on the other branches to enforce these subpoenas with the exception of what's called the inherent power of congress but that requires sending somebody called the sergeant of arms to go out and

arrest people and it would be interesting to see if they sent that lone person up out against the entire executive branch to enforce the subpoena. constitutional crisis not quite yet but this is one of the challenges that the constitution faces from time to time. >> setting aside the political messages we're seeing from democrats, substantively democrats say one thing they want is what they've been asking for weeks perhaps months and that's the full unredacted mueller report. how does this compounded with the subpoena and contempt charges for the attorney general how does this complicate this effort to get the mueller report? >> on one hand congress' power to subpoena is very broad. they can validly request a lot of different things. it's a points to be made in requesting the full mueller report congress may have the legislative power to do that. but on the other hand, the argument the republicans are making is that what more of the mueller report could be

released? and attorney general barr has said and we know from the regulations it was intoned to be confidential. that attorney general barr arguably stretched the limits in releasing the mueller report with the 10% redactions that were released. so on both sides it's setting us up for a decision that maybe a court will have to make that's a challenging one but not prepared to say crisis yet because our constitution was built to last and built to stretch. >> quickly we have about 20 seconds left. what does a constitutional crisis look like to you in 20 seconds? >> looks like tanks running through. looks like coups. molotov cocktails. civil unrest. look, a constitutional crisis is in the eye of the beholder. reasonable minds can differ. but the idea of a constitutional crisis means the constitution is breaking down, that it's failed somehow. i don't believe that the constitution has done that yet. we have -- it may not speak the

over tory possible situation and maybe this administration is pushing the limits in a way that other administrations have not. but i have confidence, i guess as a lawyer, to study the constitution that it is designed to handle even the situations that it didn't anticipate. >> danny cevallos, enlightening as always. appreciate that. let's get a check on your weather now. >> good morning. parts of texas are seeing rain that they haven't seen since hurricane harvey and we're seeing this band continue to track offshore. we'll see a slight reprieve but more enhanced moisture will continue throughout the weekend. 22 million under a flash flood watch, flash flood warnings from southeastern texas to louisiana, also alabama into mississippi as well. so we are talking about isolated total potential of up to 12 inches and this is breaking records from sleeve forth jackson, houston as well. the monthly totals around four

to five inches here and we're going see double that, really throughout the weekend. so flooding still going to be a major concern. now the severe weather risk will tart to decrease but that same front will make its way in across the northeast for mother's day unfortunately. so happy mother's day. >> thank you. i appreciate it. happy mother's day to your wife as well. >> thank you. thanking you on her behalf. >> president trump calls on iran to come to the table over the country's nuclear program. >> what the president is saying about options for a sit down. your first look at "morning joe" is coming right back. we have to be able to

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zplfrmt welcome back. the president is also accusing former secretary of state john kerry, who helped negotiate the 2015 iran nuclear deal that trump abandoned of breaking a federal law by having contacts with the iranians. >> what i'd like to see with iran. i'd like to see them call me. up know john kerry speaks to them a lot. john kerry tells them not to call. that's a violation of the logan act but frankly he should be prosecuted for at that. only the democrats do that kind of stuff.

what they should be doing is their economy is a mess ever since i took away the iran deal. they have inflation that's the highest number i've ever heard. they're having riots every weekend and during the week even and what they should be doing is calling me up, sitting down, we can make a deal, a fair deal. we just don't want them to have nuclear weapons, not too much to ask and we would help put them back in great shape. they're in bad shape right now. i look forward to the day we can help iran. we're not looking to hurt iran. i want them to be strong and great and have a great economy. but they should call. if they do, we're open to talk to them. >> so following the president's remarks, a spokesman for kerry released a statement that read in part this. everything that president trump said today is simply wrong. end of story. >> let's turn to the korean peninsula where the u.s. has seized a north korean vessel, allegedly used to conduct coal

trades in violations of sanctions. that came hours after north korea launched two short range ballistic missile, which marked the second time this week that pyongyang has conducted new tests. >> well, we're looking at it very seriously right now. this were smaller missiles, short-range myself ill short-range missiles. nobody's happy about it. we're taking a good look and we'll see. the relationship continues. they're talking abouting in t negotiating but i don't think they're ready to negotiate. >> coming up, axios' mike allen has a look at this morning's "1 big thing." and coming up on "morning joe," the latest on new taxes and how this trade war is impacting americans just trying to get by. >> and democratic senator and

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welcome back. joining us from washington with a look at axios a.m., the co-founder mike allen. give it to us, mike. >> good morning. for geoff, this is my first happy friday! >> talk to us about axios's "1 big thing," mike. >> it's trump's new impeachment trap. so as we saw in those sound bites earlier on first look, democrats are getting hungrier for impeachment and their appetite is being stoked by the president's scorched earth strategy of refusing to comply with anything, just say no. an outside adviser to the west wing tells me that the president's statement that he's not going to comply with these document requests or subpoenas, they said that's not posturing,

that's not an opening position, that's administration policy. so why does it matter? that means we're going to have these continuing multiple confront agenations confrontations, the two branches of government and some of it will go eventually to the supreme court. >> white house officials think democrats are going to overplay their hand. in a way they welcome the chance for democrats to revive this liberal dream of seeing donald trump frog marched out of the white house. what's the strategy to deal with this? >> that's a good point. can you say the president is a little damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. if he does comply, there's a chance that democrats will turn up new information that could restoke this debate. if he doesn't, if he keeps dragging his feet, democrats are going to keep getting more

pressure for impeachment and more appetite for impeachment. but, geoff, you're right, the white house sees this as a little bit of a win-win. if they can get democrats pushing this going into 2020 and if they keep the fight going in the court, they figure that will actually benefit the president politically. >> you're also looking at the subpoena for don trump jr. and the battle that has erupted over that. what are you hearing on this front? >> we have a scoop on don jr.'s end game. the president saying yesterday that he was surprised that the republicans who control the senate intelligence committee subpoenaed his friend. look what happened yesterday. look at this -- subpoenaed husband son. look at what happened yesterday. look at the backlash. so rare as both of you know for a senator to attack a senator of the same party, let alone a committee chairman. yesterday up had six republican chairmen criticizing the senate

intelligence committee chairman richard burr of north carolina for this subpoena. and donald trump jr. forces are saying if you come after donald trump jr., if you come for don, you're going to have a problem with us, you're going to have a problem with the base. >> the senate is becoming pomor like the house with the lack civility. i'm hearing donald trump jr. is going to ignore the subpoena. >> he can say hold me in contempt. one ops would be to take the fifth in writing. and what we've heard is the most likely option all in washington y'all guys can guess is going to be some kind of compromise, probably answering questions in

"morning joe"? just a bit. >> that does it for us on this friday morning. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside geoff bennett. "morning joe" starts right now. how much are you worth right now as you're sitting right here? >> zero idea, david. it depends on what's happening with the world and the market. >> let's get back to the assessment of your wealth for ament. >> if you had to liquidate, if you just decided i'm going somewhere else, i'm going to live in a trailer and you wanted to sell off everything, how big would that check be that you put in your pocket when you headed west for the trailer? >> i hate to disappoint. i have no idea. how come this seat is so low? he has this stage rigged. i'm not going to give