i couldville talked to these friends for another hour. i'm out of time. sorry, into all of you for watching. that does it for this hour. mtp daily starts right now with chuck todd. nancy pelosi says she doesn't want to see president trump impeached. she wants to see him in prison. the chairman of the house judiciary committee is pushing for an impeachment inquiry. plus, contempt countdown. the white house stonewalling again as two top officials face another subpoena deadline today.

and still no deal. president trump escalates his tariff threats against mexico with the deadline fast approaching. if it's thursday, it's meet the press daily. good evening, i'm steve kornacki in new york in for chuck todd. a congressional aid who was in a meeting between nancy pelosi and a group of congressional investigators has confirmed to nbc news she told hem, i don't want to see president trump impeached. i want to see him in prison. those comments were first reported by politico. which is also reporting that pelosi made those comments as house judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler, was pressing her to allow him to launch an impeachment inquiry. nbc news has not confirmed nadler's confirmed support for impeachment inquiry. this all comes as house democrats reaffirm the authority of house committee chairs to quickly go to court to enforce their subpoenas.

meanwhile, the pressure on pelosi's caucus continues to grow as the administration stonewalls. that pressure could ratchet up even more at this hour. the attorney general and commerce secretary are facing contempt votes unless they comply with a set of subpoenas by the close of business today. in just a moment, i'm going to speak with a member of the oversight committee who has backed pelosi's commission. who says his patience appears to be wearing thin and the administration's defiance with these house subpoenas could change his mind. we kick things off with kelly o'donnell. we're aware of this story line right now, where nancy pelosi has been reluctant, resistant when it comes to these demands for impeachment. now the reports, i understand nbc has not confirmed this, but there are reports that jerry ed

that der, the judiciary chairman is appealing to her to let him go forward anyway. what can you tell us about the latest in the state of play there? >> the way it's been characterized to us, the top committee chairs -- you have people with long relationships, a lot of time on capitol hill, and they're trying to divide up the lanes of power, and how to move forward. and we're told it was not a contentious meeting, but there are differences of opinion on how to go forward at the same time publicly. nancy pelosi says there is no dispute, there's no hand ringing, it's about trying to put together a series of steps, and some of that is visible publicly. what you refer to about some of the steps related to the contempt votes that are expected next week. so you've got democrats trying to say to perhaps an impatient and frustrated public, especially their democratic constituents that there are

steps being taken. nancy pelosi has maintained all along that she wants to keep legislating, she wants the house to be able to do its work. impeachment equals indictment. it is not a quick and easy way to remove a president from office. so she's looking at the accountability she would have as the ultimate decision maker in this, and how can this go forward, she's saying, take issues to court, use the committees to gather evidence. some of those committee chairs feel there is a burning desire that it has been growing among democratic members. we're now up to roughly 60 out of the full congress who say publicly they want to begin the inquiry of course beginning the inquiry is the start of a long process, you get to hearings, you begin compiling the information, it's not something that can happen fast. you have democrats who say if they don't act in 2019 versus 2020. an election year, what's the point? so there is pressure on nancy

pelosi, she says she's not being influenced by the wider conversation, and there is a plan that they are following. but we'll keep tracking some of these skirmishes that might be right below the surface. >> the other issue we just alluded to this, at this hour, the deadline that was set by the house oversight committee for wilbur ross, attorney general bill barr to turn over documents on the citizenship question, that deadline is passing as we speak. >> yes, and the administration has been very resistant to providing witnesses or documents. and part of the action taken today is to try to streamline some of the activities, if there are contempt votes, we know that there are a couple of them scheduled for attorney general barr and don mcgann. the speakers said others could be added to that. they want to try to find a faster lane where they pursue

contempt, to try to get the courts and the process to compel some of these officials to do more. the stonewalling as democrats describe it from the white house is something they say must be dealt with. they're trying to use the different levers of power they have. they're trying to marshall all of their tools and one of the busiest people around here now will be the general counsel. >> kelly, thank you for that. let's turn now to harley ruda. he's a member of the house oversight committee. he unseated a republican. it had been won by president trump in 2016. thank you for joining us. let me start with you, this quote that nbc news has confirmed here. pelosi said she doesn't want the president impeached, but she wants him toe go to prison.

what's your reaction to that? >> i think that emphasizes just how grave these charges against president trump are by the mueller investigation, as well as the investigations going on in the southern district of new york and the eastern district of virginia. we have a president who is corrupt, has surrounded himself with corrupt individuals. and they are circumventing the con 12i tugs and their constitutional obligations to provide documentation and subpoenas to congressional committees that deserve to see them. >> i said your district had been won by president trump. it was won by hillary clinton in 2016. i had a slip of my brain there, it happens a lot. >> let me ask you about this deadline that is passing right now. these documents related to the citizenship question from wilbur ross, from the attorney general, turn them over by the end of today, or face potential contempt proceedings. the deadline is passing right now. you indicated if the administration continues not to

respond to these subpoenas it's time to move toward impeachment. the passing of the deadline right now what does that do to you? >> i said all along, went need to draw a line in the stand and give the administration a set number of days. if the administration does not comply with all document request and subpoenas in accordance with the constitution, i believe we are left with no other alternative but to begin impeachment proceedings than to get to the truth. >> if all these subpoenas are not complied with at that point you say go forward with an impeachment inquiry? >> that is correct. and i don't think they will comply with it. they've shown complete unwillingness to do what is right under the constitution. i think if we want to get to the truth, we're going to have to

take that action. i do agree with speaker pelosi and the leadership, we should continue to use other tools in our tool kit, include iing the court process. >> you have we have to look at impeachment proceedings if we take this unwillingness to provide what they're willing to do. >> is there any significance when you say the end of june, is there any significance in terms of a longer term timetable? whether you would pick that point on the calendar. >> i said 30 days, that would be approximately 30 days for me. i believe with this administration, if you don't give a hard date for compliance, you will be continue to be spoken walled. it's one thing to slow walk witnesses. you know, look, the president just got back from england.

we don't have a monarchy, we fought over 200 years ago, to have a democracy that is bound by the constitution, and we need this president to do what he said in his oath to uphold the constitution. >> do you have any concern? a couple questions. trump should go to prison, it shouldn't be impeachment. it sounds like she may be making a case there to democrats that if you go forward with impeachment, you may be complicating any effort to prosecute trump once he leaves office. do you think there is anything to that line of argument? >> i think there's enough evidence of criminal activity that whether impeachment proceedings begin or not, does not prevent additional action to be taken in a court of law. remember we have over 1,000 district attorneys who have signed on to a letter calling

for action to be feign against this president. this is unprecedented to see that type of numbers of people from the legal community stepping forward because of their grave concerns about this president. >> if an impeachment inquiry is launched. i understand officially you don't have to have an impeachment vote. functionally, if the democrats make that decision. is there any realistic way that does not end with the judiciary committee holding a vote. >> you are correct generally when the inquiry has been begun in the past, it has led to a call for impeachment. you have a president saying one thing contrary to what the mueller report says.

what has transpired here, it is -- in fairness to the american public, let's have an open conversation and hearing on this, if the president would comply with these document requests and these subpoenas, we could get to the truth without having to do an impeachment proceeding. >> you would call for this the end of june, how long of a process do you anticipate here. in you look at the last two impeachments we've seen in this country. two different timetables. it was around thanksgiving time, '98 to the early part of '99. it was very con tensed, truncated, the nixon -- you were talking fall of '73 to summer of '74. do you expect it would be more of a nixon time line or more of a clinton time line? >> i'm not going to speak for chairman nadler. for me looking at it outside in,

i would suggest it would be like nixon. just based on the breadth and depth of allegations in underlying evidence coupled with the lack of the president and the administration willing to work with the committees to provide information as they are obligated to do. there's a lot more digging, a lot more analytics that would have to take place. >> that would take you -- probably some kind of way -- that would take into 2020, that would take you into the election year. is there an argument that democrats should not do impeachment because 2020 is an election year. you have an opportunity to make that case to the voters and members of the house. making impeachment case to voter s. >> there are people making that argument. i can only look at it from my perspective. and i represent the constituents

of orange county, i took an oath to the constitution. i serve on a committee that is to serve the constitution, i hold those responsibilities with deep regard. and as such for me, there's a point where if the president and the administration are going to continue to tell lies under oath and/or continue to not honor a valid document request and subpoenas, i feel i'm left with no other choice. it's a choice i did not want. i did not come to washington to impeachment president. i came to get corruption out of washington. to address climate change, health care and gun violence the president is forcing many of us to focus on issues that don't allow us to work with the administration in a way to address these issues. >> thank you for taking a few minutes. we'd like to have you back here at the end of june.

ask you what you think about impeachment then. to see if anything has changed by then. >> thanks. ahead, the democratic tug of war, some may be calling for impeachment, the speaker, she's still shying away from it, though. that isn't stopping the president from trying to give her a new nickname. >> nancy pelosi, i call her nervous nancy. nancy pelosi is a disaster, let her do what she wants. i think they're in big trouble. . but sometimes life gets in the way, and that stubborn fat just won't go away. coolsculpting takes you further. a non-surgical treatment that targets, freezes, and eliminates treated fat cells, for good. discuss coolsculpting with your doctor. some common side-effects include temporary numbness, discomfort, and swelling. don't imagine results, see them. coolsculpting, take yourself further.

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>> welcome back, that was jerry nadler on the issue of impeachment last night. the decision will be made as a whole, it's hard to see that happening without the eventual support of nancy pelosi. let's talk to some guests to talk this over. democratic strategist and former executive director of the democratic state party. thanks for being with us. let me start with you. harley, traditionally republican, suburban. it did go to clinton bear in 2016. this is swing suburban territory. the fact that he's coming out now. comply by the end of june, he doesn't think it's going to happen. does this signal that that move is growing to a different layer in the congress?

>> yes, certainly, he comes from an area of politics here that has been trending. is very much the heart of a certain kind of republicanism in this country. when you see nancy pelosi making comments about districts in the nation. in irvine, in that part of southern california, he's quite weak right now. his movement is very significant. and you're seeing p more and more at the end of the day this is down to nancy pelosi. she's going to listen to her caucus. >> let's talk about that a little more. we have the quote from her. behind the scenes, she's saying, i don't want him impeached. i want him in prison.

she made that comment on jimmy kimmel a couple days ago, take a look at that. >> why i think the president wants us to impeach him. >> you think he wants us to impeach him? >> he knows it's not a good idea to be impeached. the silver lining for him is, then he believes that he would be exonerated by the united states senate. there's a school of thought that says, if the senate acquits you. why bring charges against him in the private sector when he's no longer president opinion. >> i'm thinking back to bill clinton. he got impeached. he was acquitted by the senate. he had to cut a deal before leaving the presidency. they held up the possibility of prosecuting. this idea that pelosi's putting out there, that legally you don't want to do this, i'm listening to that, and suspect that is in the place of making a political argument to remember.

>> it is a political argument, especially when you hear i don't want to see him impeached. we have to put a deadline on this, i think it's more of a warning to his fellow democrats. we have to get a message. and we need to move forward in a clear concise way. as you know, i believe that -- i believe the mueller report, and i believe that there are reasons for impeachment proceedings to start. i've been calling for it. this process should have started a long time ago. why? because it was clear there was something wrong that mueller found. and the president was in the wrong. now it seems like it's a political argument, and that's a bad place for the democrats to be in. >> can she tell democrats ultimately bottom line, this is bad politics? or this is risky politics? if she believes that? and she's got more and more

democrats speaking up. not the argument about he can't be prosecuted when he leaves office. can he sell that to democrats? >> i think she's trying to i think during this entire time, she's saying this is a risky move. not just for where the country is in taking back the white house, it's risky for all the gains we made in 2018. if we want to continue these gains. do we need to go down this path. in doing so, they're trying to collect evidence. if we go down that path, it may have an impact in his private live, which is likely to happen. we're close to that tipping point, though. we're close to this place where if the members in those swing districts feel a certain level of comfort, and we're starting to collect the evidence and the

impeachment helps the courts in collectsing that information, it's going to be hard to ignore those calls. >> there was so much in there -- so much to unpack in there. that's what the basic problem is facing the democrats. that's a lot to deal with. >>ny need a message of what they're going to do. >> flaez the question here, the calendar. >> if you take a one month deadline, use that for the sake of discussion here. impeachment hearings were to begin in july. you have that traditional house recess in august. if you use that nixon timetable he's outlining, that takes you into 2020, the primary season. you're in the height of the presidential election. >> the democratic party is then defined as the party that's doing. >> take it off the table, do something, decide it's not good

and deal with their conference. decide it is -- which i believe is the constitutional right thing to do and go ahead and take a risk because you're standing up for the constitution. do not let this keep feterring out there. this is what's going to hurt the chances of getting the country behind impeachment. >> i agree with susan. i don't want our candidates saddled with this as they're trying to go across the country and talk about policy which so many of them are doing. do it, get it out of the way. if the senate is not going to convict, put that to the side, that strengthens our case to voters. if we wait, we lose that -- we lose the strength opinion. >> you're not doing the right thing. >> one of the interesting things that harley has said to me, when i said if you do the inquiry. because a lot of democrats are

trying to draw this distinction. we're not calling for impeachment, we're only calling for inquiry. if you have the vote to do that how does he not lead to an impeachment. >> it's exactly the reason you don't see nancy pelosi. >> going this far yet. do democrats see the message. the reason that they are leaving open the possibility of this inquiry, we know that electorally, politically, voters like the idea of investigating the president. that worked in 2018 and nancy pelosi is keeping open the option. leaving the door slightly open, they will be able to say continue these investigations. the hard part is that leadership realizes. voters see it as a red line. they have to decide whether this is impeachment or not impeachment. they don't yet know whether they've crossed that line or

not. if you look at the people running for president, a lot of them say that line has been crossed long ago. that is going to be the problem. those are going to be the people voters are listening to more. >> another school of thought here, hold the hearings, have the impeachment inquiry, and public opinion will change. if you open this up and commit to it as democrats, and you're locked into it for 6, 9 months, something like that, and you discover four weeks into it, 8 weeks into it, you're stuck with it. >> that is the hard part. >> as all this information is collected. if nothing new is gleaned. and the country isn't learning anything more about the trump administration, we're sort of locked in this place, because we haven't done more to convince the average voter that there's so much out there we have to go through this process. and i -- again, that's part of the risk, but my concern is, if there are more voters telling

members of congress that they have to go down this path because they do like the idea of disciplining the president, i don't know how you turn away from that. especially if we're in the summer. and you have presidential candidates. >> there is the risk that the president's space could be riled up. the corollary is a mask of disillusionment. we put you all into congress for this, and -- >> i'm a broken record here. >> that's why they decided to go forward with impeaching clinton. we better keep the base happy. >> you're sticking around, you're not done yet. no deal with mexico as negotiators walk away.

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a lot of people, senators included they have no idea what they're talking about when it comes to tariffs. they have no -- absolutely no id idea. president trump today dismissing concerns from his own party. the tariffs are set to go into effect on monday.

unless a deal with mexico can be struck. a second day has wrapped up without a deal. significant progress has been made toward a potential deal. >> in an interview with laura ingram p. he reiterated his support for tariffs. >> when you're the piggybank that everyone robs and steals from. tariffs are a beautiful word if you know how to use it properly. >> isn't this congress's fault? >> yes. >> why does it seem like mexico -- >> they're letting millions of people walk up through their country. they shouldn't let anybody walk up through their country? >> nbc news white house correspondent has been covering the back and forth over this issue. she joins us with new reporting about what's really happening.

what is happening behind the scenes with these negotiations? >> you hit the nail on the head. according to u.s. officials. they are expected to continue throughout the night. there were a number of sticking points yesterday. i'm being told that mexico seems to be indicating a willingness to investigate on those tariffs. some of the other sticking po t points require migrants be held and seek asylum in the first country that they enter. another key sticking point was that migrants would be held in mexico.

based on my conversations, mexico now seeming to be open to discussing some compromises on those key areas. areas that were once red line. what does this mean? as you point out, president trump has been clear, if there is no deal on monday. he is set to impose those tariffs. mike pence traveling today in welcome. he struck a note of optimism, he made it clear, until there's a deal, those tariffs are still going into place. >> the president announced 5% tariffs will be imposed on mondays on all goods coming in from mexico. that's the policy of the united states. the president has said what he means and he meant what he said. we made that clear to the mexican delegation yesterday, that -- for anything to change. either before or after monday. mexico has to step up. mexico has to take decisive action to end this surge of

illegal immigration that is overwhelming our southern border. >> the vice president underscoring what an official told me, which is there are a lot of details that still need to be worked out. nothing is finalized until president trump signs off on it, we expect these discussions to continue into the night. we expect president trump to be briefed regularly. he returns home tomorrow. so ultimately, he would -- you would anticipate be the one to announce any type of major compromise. but again these negotiations are ongoing. >> great information there. thank you for joining us. and ahead, the democratic field that's been for a fight with joe biden. they want to take down the front-runner, now they may have one. we're heading to the big board for a look at what to watch. alright, i brought in ensure max protein...

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welcome back. well, when you are the front-runner and joe biden is right now in the democratic side. it means you have a target on your back. it means all your opponents are going to start looking for ways to take you down. maybe you're starting to hear the democratic rivals are not necessarily going head on yet. as long as he remains the front-runner, that's going to earn tense phi. it's also worth watching, because you want to see this, with biden, one of the key questions is he's qualified to beat don amd trump. how insulated is he going to be when the hits start coming. >> donald trump was unpopular in the polls. he was 38 favorable. 60 unflavorable. why was trump barely able to get through.

he was baseball able to get through because his opponent was a little less unpopular. it was unpopular enough for hillary clinton, that there was a path for donald trump. you know the whole story there. biden's pitch to democrats here is essentially, this won't happen to me, i will be insulated for that in a way hillary clinton wasn't. take a look right now. where is biden right now. this is the most recent poll this week from cnn. his favorable sits at 36.58. that is better than where hillary clinton was on election day. 46.38. let me show you, if you look just a month ago in the same poll he was eight points above water now. 12 above water now. go back to the end of last year. he was way above he was plus 25 favorable, unfavorable. he started to take? attacks, started to get some scrutiny.

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the hyde amendment is a direct assault to black and brown communities, like the one i've been missing most of my political career. >> i'm going to be speaking out against it. >> time now for the lid, that was cory booker today in atlanta. campaign multitasking. he's courting african-american voters. and he simultaneously is criticizing the front-runner.

not using his name there. you knew what that was in reference to. biden was attending a different event in atlanta tonight. he's under attack for his continued support of the hide amendment. that funds federal funds for abortion, in cases of rape, incest and to save the mother's life. mike joins us from atlanta. susan back with me. let me start with you, i think this is an interesting moment for biden. there was a lot of debate yesterday when biden made that initial statement about the hyde amendment and saying he supported it. was this an intentional signal on his part trying to get away from maybe the core democratic base, declaration of independence if you will, the democratic interest groups or was this him stumbling into an answer where he didn't appreciate what the political fallout would be in your party? >> what's your sense 24 hours later. >> my sense is that this is not about him sending any signal where he wants to position

himself this is about heidi bringing to their attention a flub of the votes. answering directly an important question about this issue of abortion. this is an interesting milestone in this campaign. joe biden has been in this election campaign for a little over a month. this is the first time joe biden will be appearing on stage with another candidate. in beto o'rourke. they're going to be separated by seven different people here in atlanta. this is an signal of just how important the black vote is the other person who's also going to be on stage here tonight is stacey abrams. you'll remember they had that

argument at his start. we heard speaking there. abortion has been the big issue of georgia of course, another one of those states that has passed another one of those heartbeat bills. it will be interesting to see if joe biden takes that opportunity to address that tonight. >> we have that clip from cory booker. tieing his position on the hyde amendment. it's going to frustrate booker looking at the polls. biden is not the front-runner in this race, he's doing much better with black voters than he is with white voters. his advantage among black voters over cory booker. what do you think is driving that. that strong support biden has. >> i was thinking about this the other day. remember at the nba finals,

obama walks in to the arena, and he gets a standing ovation. that kind of reception is a nostalgia about the obama administration that clearly joe biden is going to tie himself to as long as he can. as long as it's positive. and i think i think that will h. or if he thinks it will help him with african-american voters. you will see the support for the crime bill. 25 years ago. right? the biden case would be the world has changed can. something from 25 years ago have resonance in a way that could take him down as a front-runner? >> i want to be clear. there were african-american votes for that crime bill as well. it is a tough issue for some. you're judging it in this current context. if he gets to a debate stage and people are starting to bringback

up things like the hyde amendment and the crime bill. how he handles that will be the big issue. does he waffle and say i voted against it before i voted for it like john kerry did? will it seem like his views are archaic in comparison to folks like a cory booker or kamala? >> that is a good question for hillary clinton and jeb bush. much of what biden is doing is running on a very specific kind of nostalgia. the problem is that it opens the door for people saying, if you want the talk about the past, about your record, you don't just get to talk about the eight years in the white house. we have to look at your senate record. that's not necessarily what we're doing. we do see democrats talking more and more about it. and i think they have said basically behind the scenes, we're not going to do it until

the debate stages but they're going after him in a very explicit way by name on the debate stage. they have to soon. >> i can imagine. you look at booker there. they are all rehearsing their lines for the moment when they can turn to biden and say explain this. one of the interesting variables, they're not all going to be on the stage with biden. two nights, if you're in that ten, it is not on the stage with biden. tough cookies. >> that's the way it goes. they are going to take everything out. it will include not just video from 25 years ago but whatever research they have. they say they won't use it. they're going to use it. this is a very big make or break. there's something else biden has going for him. he is very appealing to moderate republicans or generally

moderates. so when you look at the head to head numbers, and he's doing so well against president trump. that helps fulfill the prophecy for him that he's looking for that he's the best candidate to take on donald trump and the democrats' top priority is, looking for the best candidate to take on donald trump. so that -- >> you know what? i've been thinking about that. to the extent that remains the case, that's great news for biden. i'm remembering with rudy giuliani. the moderate democrats could like giuliani jue. america's mayor started as a front-runner and there was not one event that did giuliani in. people just slowly -- >> that's specifically what's going on today. biden is leaning so hard into this electability argument. what democrats are saying, they're making moral arguments and political argument. what they're saying is that biden is actually separate from the rest of the party. he may be electable but he's not

electable within the democratic primary. and they're trying to show specifically where he's cleveland from the base of the party and the majority of the vote orders abortion. that's a central issue. >> and i think it is important to note that 20 some o'candidates, it will be really difficult to differentiate. you see elizabeth warren. she's really talking about policy in a sort of profound way. and because of that, joe biden can't do things like he did last week and avoid the california convention. he'll have to start going to stuff and talking about policy. the front-runner status. >> we're three weeks away from the first debate. and it's a different campaign in a lot of ways. coming up, a grateful world pays tribute. teful world pays tribute. award winning interface.

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that he made 75 years ago. and that's all for tonight. we'll be back tomorrow with more "meet the press daily" and "the beat" begins now. we have a special show tonight including the republican civil war. trump attacking his own party over tariffs and saying it is now a trump, quote, cult. and this has people fascinated. these new secret memos from inside the mueller probe which allegedly go into all kinds of details. it is all part of a clear indictment of trump world from the pretty famous author, michael wolff. i have a lot of questions about this and i'll put them to him as he administration his first appearance on "the beat." and i have a special report for you that we've been working. on this is about a brand new story that relates to trump's immigration policy turmoil. it involves the president's recurring nightmare which involves never trumpers, ted