>> reporter: yeah, geoff, it's interesting.he former vice president behind me attending memorial day services here in delaware. it's been interesting in that the biden campaign, yes, weighing in for the first time after we had this rare on-camera statement from robert mueller. the former vice president himself has been in this presidential race more than a month now. we've heard him not reluctant to raise the stakes of the election and raising what he sees as the threat of the trump presidency to our democracy himself but he has been a reluctant participant in this impeachment conversation. let me read a little bit. the biden campaign says vice president biden agrees with speaker pelosi that no one would relish what would certainly be a divisive impeachment process but that may be unavoidable if this administration continues on its path. joe biden brings a rather unique perspective. he was elected to the senate in 1972 just before the house considered impeachment proceedings against richard nixon. he also served in the senate f

geoff: no, that is not true. the question is why didn't the -- didn't nixon claim executive privilege and prevent their being turned over? that was the fight over the first nine tapes, where the grand jury subpoenaed nine within days of the disclosure of the system. after hearing an argument upheld it was appealed by nixon to the , dc circuit. and we argued executive privilege. and the dc circuit said don't make us decide. go work out a compromise. that's where cox came up with this idea of third-party authentication. and then when we lost, we refused that offer. and after we lost at the circuit level, we said, let's go back to the original idea. he didn't like the idea anymore, having won. but that fight, we lost at the circuit court. and because of the saturday night massacre, we didn't take the appeal to the supreme court. the 1964 tape was roughly the same thing, presented in a very odd way. the argument was nixon has the , power to order the prosecutor not to come after these tapes. he's head of the executiv

>> so far that has been the case, geoff. the biden campaign still politics stops at the water's edge. they don't want to mix it up with the president over this, even if the president wants to mix it up with them. one response in the form of a tweet from senior adviser, to watch trump take credit for the first step of many criminal reforms when, one, other folks did the work for the bill and, two, he is still on the record is exhausting and cdisingenuous. so much about the bill of 1994. the mixed messages being inuvl vaed in this, bernie sanders supported that same crime bill as mitch mcconnell. cory booker has much credit to claim there as donald trump. the whole tweet back and forth here is a bit of a wash. why i don't think anyone from biden's campaign would say this out loud, something to be said for being the campaign that gets attacked pie the president in this way at this stage of a democratic primary. the president is not going after moulton but joe biden who appears to be living in his head even when he is in tokyo a

i'm jasmiyasmin vossoughian wit geoff bennett.now. >>> breaking news out of the middle east. just days after the u.s. embassy in baghdad issued a security alert, the state department has issued a do not travel advisory for iraq, due to terrorism, kidnapping, and armed conflict. in addition, all non-emergency u.s. government employees at the embassy in baghdad and the consulate have been ordered to leave the country. this is developing overnight. joe, quick thought, especially with escalating tensions with ir

nbc's geoff bennett is there. geoff, this yearbook photo is still a mystery tonight. >> reporter: that's right, lester. the eastern virginia medical school has just wrapped up their independent investigation of that racist photo with a team of lawyers saying they cannot conclusively determine whether northam is in thatphoto sparked national headlines when it surfaced four months ago northam said he was in the picture and apologized, thenickly reversed position and denied it today investigators say they found no information to back that up. with the central question about the photo unanswered, governor northam faces renewed calls to resign northam won't step down, he says he's committed to focusing on issues of race and equality lester >> geoff, thank you. >>> new jersey police officer is facing charges tonight after opening fire on a driver nbc's gabe gutierrez has the story. we should warn you the [ sirens ] >> shots fired, shots fired! >> reporter: tonight, the dramatic video that captures how a police chase in

we can't give it all away now, geoff.e got 40 minutes left. >>> still ahead, a controversial bill that would ban abortion as early as six weeks in georgia. that could head to the supreme court. that story and more, coming up next. ( ♪ ) only tylenol® rapid release gels have laser drilled holes. they release medicine fast, for fast pain relief. tylenol®. >>> welcome back. georgia now has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country. after republican governor brian kemp signed a controversial heartbeat bill into law yesterday, fulfilling a campaign promise. the life act makes georgia the 16th state to effectively make abortions illegal after the sixth week of pregnancy, before many women know they're pregnant. it also criminalizes abortion providers with felony prison time up to 99 years if convicted. it's one of nearly 300 anti-abortion bills introduced in 36 states including a separate bill in the georgia senate which would make it a felony to receive an abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest. the sign

i'mjoined by geoff elections given the way things have shaped., former europe editor of the press association, he will be with us looking at the issues that have cascaded down from these results and the first one, you have the background to prove it, is voter turnout. strikingly high for these elections? it is, i've been here since 1979, the first elections, it's always what people look at, the interest and the apathy level. the problem with a higher turnout is it will bring out eurosceptics, as we have seen this time. there's a double—whammy, of course it is very good news, that's what people here will look at, but the message from the results is clearly mixed. there's a big message for the centre—right leaders in europe, the mainstream parties, but there's lots of interest on both sides stopping the centre—right has squeezed literally from left and right. the centre—right, clearly a big youth vote has turned out as well. you would assume that is presumably a strong green vote, germany in particular, but in a number of countries the greens have

back to geoff white.5 million people were scanned over six months. a facial recognition trial that led tojust one positive identification. the trafford centre scheme was halted, after the uk's cctv commissioner raised multiple legal concerns. other businesses though are pushing ahead. facewatch‘s customers include the british supermarket chain southern co—op. their aspiration is to build up one of the uk's largest databases of facial images of alleged criminals. the company started in a london bar. gordon's claims to be london's oldest wine bar — it's more than 100 years old — but inside here is some cutting—edge facial recognition technology and the company that supplying it has some big ideas for where this stuff is going to go next. this is the main camera to the bar so everybody who comes into the bar comes through this entrance and that's where you're hoping to catch them? yeah, yeah. here we go. he comes in, he looks around the bar, sees where he wants to go. right. he clicks the monitor. it says it

here's nbc's geoff bennett. >> reporter: an unexpected graduation gift for the moho>>his is my class. 2019. and my family is making a grant to eliminate their student loans. [ cheers ] >> reporter: disbelief on students' faces, then cheers. >> mvp! >> reporter: as it sinks in, smith is single handedly erasing the student loan debt of the school's 396 graduating seniors. >> for him to lift that burden off our shoulders, off our parents' shoulders that -- we don't really know what to say. we're at a loss of words right now. >> reporter: robert smith is a billionaire investor, the nation's richest african american. his gift worth an estimated $40 million. it comes as the country's student loan debt crisis hits an all-time high. american college grads owing a total of $1.5 trillion, more than credit loans. do you have student loans? >> i have a lot. >> reporter: how much? >> tens of thousands. probably $60,000, $70,000. >> reporter: last year nearly 70% of students had to take out loans and schools of historically black loan colleges face loans that are 32% higher than other college stude

geoff?> an update on jimmy carter's health following hip replacement surgery. >> and a billionaire investors says he'll pay pai off graduating college students' loans. students' loans. documents related to the documents related to the >>> welcome back. nearly 400 graduating seniors at my alma mater, morehouse college, will leave school debt free thanks to a commencement speaker to deviated from remarks to promise to pay their student loans. >> on behalf of the eight generations of my family who have been in this country, we're going to put a little fuel in your bus. this is my class, 2019. [ cheers and applause ] and my family is making a grant to eliminate their student loans. >> investor robert f. smith had already announced a $1.5 million donation toward school scholarships before promising to take on the class of 2019's student loans which drew stunned looks and cheers from student and faculty. it's hard to estimate the exact cost, but it could total up to $40 million. morehouse says it

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside geoff bennett.ng joe" starts right now. >>> the decision the senate announced weeks ago remains about a principle and not a person. the senate will appropriately revisit the matter when it considers the qualifications of the nominee the next president nominates, whoever that might be. >> if a supreme court justice was to die next year, what would you do? >> we'd fill it. >> good morning and welcome to "morning joe."

for geoff, this is my first happy friday!'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

geoff, thank you. i want to turn to danny. when we were talking to john earlier about the question of these subpoenas, how powerful are these congressional subpoenas? >> they're very powerful to you and i. but congress has always relied on the other branches to actually enforce these subpoenas. and if it wants a criminal contempt to issue, it requires the executive branch to present that to a grand jury. but what happens when congress wants to hold someone in the executive branch in criminal contempt? well, a rift opens in the space time continuum because that same executive branch that you want to hold in criminal contempt is the executive branch that has to prosecute that contempt. there's no other way to do it. and four times since 2008 have executive branch officials been held in criminal contempt by congress. zero times has the executive branch actually prosecuted those or presented them to a grand jury. >> but it's interesting that you do bring up the historical context because we also heard from michael conway. he talke

so geoff, earlier we said that microsoft had refused to put facial recognition into body cams and yeturveillance and facial recognition? i mean, body cameras have a huge advantage which is they're exactly the right height and position forfacial recognition. we have a lot of cctv cameras in the uk. they are up high, they cover wide angle, they're not ideal forfacial recognition. body cameras are. they're also mobile and this technology — by the way — does not have to be in a body camera, it can also be in a mobile phone. software can be put into lots of different technologies so, yes, this is the direction of travel. it is going mobile. we're talking here about private companies using public data, please, tell me that someone somewhere is regulating this. the tragic news is, not at the moment. there is, as you heard, no uk law for facial recognition. it does not even pop up in any legislation. and also facial recognition falls into a lot a people's different remit. so there's a bit about surveillance, there's a bit about biometrics, finger prints et cetera, and there's obviously a larg

[laughter] geoff: pretty good. they were removed by robert kennedy the day jack kennedy was assassinated. he took the system and the tapes. they stayed in private hands until after the government seized nexen's- -- nixon's. they approached the archives and said they wouldn't turn them over until they know what is on them, so maybe you could help us. ultimately, they have donated some to the archives. we have no idea whether there are others that have been held back or doctored. there were clearly tapes. johnson took a different approach. lyndon was senate majority leader. he loved to take -- tape telephone conversations when he was negotiating votes. there's a two-volume set on the johnson tapes. the reused them. they would take over them. it wasn't done as a record. the near two stories about what happened with next and. one story, which is next in's, which is that don campbell, 0 lbjimble, was talking to and asked him if there were something he would do differently. johnson said he wished he'd taped more. he is t

geoff thompson outfits there. was no it. was. this report on the story of a teenage girl who died in the death count and how it's been reimagined for the instagram generation. this film depicting the german army entering hungary during world war two may look like a hollywood film production but it's not in fact it was shot on a smartphone and portrayed format for an instagram audience it tells the true story of thirteen year old eva hyman in one nine hundred forty four she kept a daily journal for three months before the nazis deported her to auschwitz even a story is told in the first person as if she had a smartphone during the holocaust and could have regularly documented it on instagram and israeli tech entrepreneur marty called harvey personally financed the project and together with his daughter directed it with the help of social media they're trying to establish a new way to remember the horrors of the holocaust museums and booksellers for mean portent we bring them in a meaningful and serious way into the social media an

i am joined by geoff mead, this is le this isle figaro. macron begins his dual with marine le pen.as marine le pen who just pipped emmanuel macron's party in terms of most votes in these elections. you have another take on the story?” don't know when this photo was taken but it was after the result. look at it. it says the storm. —— scorn. he onlyjust he only just lived he onlyjust lived in but it's a massive loss. i almost don't believe it. and it is a real challenge now for him, isn't it? absolutely. they didn't exist as a party five years ago, they have 20 seats now in the european parliament, that sounds pretty good. but for the president, a relatively new president to be picked by the person he beat in the residence or election, that is hard to take. she didn't do it by much but it is enough. especially as he came out of the starting gate as a political figure from nowhere, came out of the starting gate as a politicalfigure from nowhere, doing so well. and this mould newspaper —— smile, pointing out as a man

geoff a special delivery for a special boy. gets a formula 1 car delivered to their front door, but this was a thank you to five—year—old harry shaw after his good luck message to his favourite formula 1 driver. hello, lewis hamilton. good luck winning the race in spain. and thank you for all the gifts. lots of love from harry. edit was a message that inspired limits how to then —— lewis hamilton to move back to the top of the drivers table. i got this great message from harry, and so he became my spirit, that was my inspiration when i woke up this morning, i was initially a bit lost, and then i saw that a message and i was like, i see you, harry, i've got you. iwant that a message and i was like, i see you, harry, i've got you. i want to dedicate this one to harry. if you're watching, buddy, i am sending you're watching, buddy, i am sending you love. harry is terminally ill with a rare form of cancer. today is a thank you, if formula 1 car at the trophy from barcelona were both brought to him. we cannot believe that we have th

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside nbc news white house correspondent geoff bennett. let's start with the morning's top store ris. the stock market is set to start the week on a low note as u.s. and china negotiators, and as the president continues to needle china via twitter. joining us live from beijing, nbc news correspondent good morning to you. thanks so much for joining us on this. what is the feeling so far from what you're hearing from china surrounding these trade talks? >> reporter: well, 11 rounds of talks and they have ground to a halt, and there's the expectation that today president trump will also give instructions to start the process of putting tariffs on all chinese goods. beijing so far has promised retaliation. they haven't said in detail exactly what that will be, but they have many options before them, and there is the full expectation they will follow through with them. it's likely that farmers and farm exports will be likely targets because they know that that can cause some political pain for president trump. there is some confusion, though, p

dear geoff. we are close. you did a splendid job on the naming of the fbi building. i wanted you to know that i appreciate your efforts in helping us honor director hoover. we go from this to the width of the investigation. they announced they would investigate every allegation made against the nixon administration. you they have the 60 lawyers, all of the fbi, the irs. these are quotes from their final reports. they put out in october, 1975. this is a year after nixon resigns. this is a victory lap. they talk about how nixon resigned and how they convicted many of my friends. they did. but what they tried to do and failed. these were fully investigated but found no grounds for prosecution. the lawyers' role in white house tape transcriptions. they found none by democrats. any campaign dirty tricks by democrats. the itt payoffs. the wiretap investigations. the irs enemy audits. the mistreatment of demonstrators. that is this. the 30 pay to play investigations of agency decisions. they said these people gave money because they wanted a regulatory decision. we did not

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside geoff bennett. easy, man! >> i said to everybody before i walked in, i said i'm going to be very calm. >> i'm perfectly calm, dude. >> yeah, waving the [ bleep ] gun around? >> i don't want them going out to the press and saying i was anything but calm. >> will you just take a easy? >> i was extremely calm, very much like i am right

. >> hmm, nbc's geoff bennett on capitol hill where attorney general barr is set to testify starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern. but i want to start with nbc justice correspondent pete williams. pete, what were you learning about robert mueller's letter and specifically that phone call to the attorney general? when you look at the sound bite from last month and bill barr saying, i don't know, tough to spalio given this information. >> a couple questions. number one, there was a phone call from barr to mueller. he sends the letter and barr says let's talk about it. what the justice department is saying about the sound bite you played, what do you think mueller makes of your conclusion, and barr said i don't know, i think barr there is talking about the attorney general's conclusion that the president didn't commit a crime, which is not the subject of the letter as well understand it. let me read part of the letter to you. it says, "the summary letter department sent to congress and released to the public late afternoon march 24th did not fully capture the context, nature and substance of t

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geoff, a brilliant summary on the wisdom of prices.not pricing correctly right now. the distortions you mention from your real estate conference are absolutely extraordinary. every bank has to deal with this. commerzbank cfo aggressively told matt miller he can't work with negative interest rates. can any bank work with negative interest rates? inffrey: can any bank work such a weak growth profile right now? ultimately we have to look at the growth -- at the source problem. central banks are trying to force out some growth but if you can't identify long-term growth trajectory, the banks are going to be stuck with future lending. there is no yield curve. hence this entire debate about monetary policy. there are many adjustments going on in european banking and there is decided adjustments going on in asia and the pacific rim. it is a stunning result. mr. modi, you tell folks you know what is going on. modi wins but modi wins big. we will discuss that in a moment. futures at -27. this is bloomberg. ♪ tom: good morning. francine lacqua in

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here is nbc's geoff bennett. >> everybody know about john singleton, right?retired firefighter carlton chapman, john singleton's death was a wake-up call. >> i'm 58 years old and he was 51. so it makes me mobecome more a and doing the things that we need to do in order to stay healthy. >> reporter: more than 40% of black men and women have high blood pressure. as a result african-american men are at a greater risk of having a stroke than any other group ice as likely as more likely to have a stroke at a younger age and more likely to die from it. >> the most common symptom is no symptoms. >> reporter: canaan baptist church in washington offers free blood pressure screenings each week. one reason black men men are more prone, a possible gene. it's possible to overcome the risk. >> diet, exercise, cutting out the sodium. those are sort of behavioral things we can change. we can't change our genetics, but we can change the behaviors in order to decrease our rates of obesity. >> reporter: and creative outreach works. a study that provided blood pressure monitorin

nbc's geoff bennett is in washington with more. good morning, how does it work?: hey, peter, good morning, turo and other car sharing companies give people to rent luxury and at affordable prices and give the car owners make money off their vehicles that might otherwise be parked. i downloaded the app, picked the car i wanted and the location i wanted it, and that was pretty much it. that sounds simple, right, but here's the deal, traditional rental car companies see churro as competition that's not playing by the same rules and now they're fighting back. >> i'm veronica. >> reporter: verionica tran is handing over the keys to her car to a total stranger joining 200,000 others across the country using a smartphone app to make extra cash. >> it's the air bnb for cars kr connecting the service with people who want to rent a car and those who have one to spare. it's convenient and 35% cheaper than traditional rentals. >> it was so easy. all you have to do is take a few photos, write a little description, set your availability, and that was it. >> we're driving in yo

next, on the presidency, geoff shepard, who was principal deputy to the president's lead defense lawyertaught a temple university class this semester called "watergate revisited: an insider's view." in his white house role, he helped transcribe the white house watergate tapes. in this lecture, he gives his views of those tapes and what they did and did not reveal. he begins with a review of previous lectures. this is about one hour and a half. geoff: we're not talking about current events, and we're not really focusing on the chronology of watergate because what i'm trying to tell you is what went on behind the scenes. the back story, both of developments at the white house, where i worked, and the special prosecutor's office, where i have done a tremendous amount of resear

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>> geoff stults came down. he was like, what's up, you all right?knee, and i was like, i don't know. let me stand up on it, and i stand up and it immediately gives out and i fell back down. then everyone came down and was like hey, are you okay? like that looked, like bad. no, no, i think i'm fine. i didn't know it was that bad. then dylan came by, and dylan, he didn't stop, actually. >> jimmy: your brother? >> yeah, he didn't stop. he was just like whatever [ bleep ]. >> jimmy: is he still living with you? >> he is. joi >> jimmy: he is. >> but he also works with my production company. >> jimmy: with support like that, you know. >> he's doing a really, really good job. >> jimmy: what is he doing? >> he is getting me hurt. >> jimmy: does he help you, like when you can't walk or you're laid up or whatever? >> no. >> jimmy: he doesn't. >> that's crossing the line, i think. oh, he brought me a sandwich. but i was down for like six weeks. >> jimmy: one sandwich. >> yeah. >> jimmy: well, yeah. you got to spread it out, then, huh? >> in fact, he wasn't eve

geoff: what we will talk about today, we will hit with a sledgehammer. judicial and prosecutorial abuses that categorized the watergate cover-up trial. people were conducted by lawyers -- but you need to understand that lawyers do not play fair. they argue two things. they can argue that the person did not do the crime, the person was not guilty. usually in a political scandal, the argument is there was not enough proof to find them guilty without a reasonable doubt. it is not that they were blameless.

. >> i totally take your point, geoff.y that they're going to try to make work for them is essentially the idea that, hey, amazon lost a lot of money for a long period of time as a public company, and you've got to let us do the same and i kind of look at it similar to how snap was comparing itself to facebook, rather than twitter when it was going public they just want the benefits of like a semi-plausible comparison, but there's a good amount of problems in that direct analogy i also think that they're, like, trying to say, hey, we might have something like an amazon web services, an aws, up our sleeve that may happen at some point. eventually, you just have to give us the room to build out that platform over time. >> what do you think that platform would be, mike? >> yeah, so, i think to geoff's point about driving things back to the core business -- something that they've been -- uber has been hinting at for a long time is this idea of, like, memberships, and maybe transportation as a subscription or something that you

that does it for us, i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside geoff bennett.ow. >> man, starting with a jam. >> welcome to "morning joe." it is thursday, may 9th. we have along with joe, willie and me, we have jonathan lemire, julia ainsley is with us. nbc law analyst benjamin

geoff bennett who has been helping us out is himself on investigation.nd on the virginia governor northam medical school yearbook. he's going to have that tonight on nbc and "nightly news." >>> we're going to start with a draft reviewing that president trump's tax returns must be given to congress unless he asserts executive privilege. the memo contradicts the justice department's justification for denying house democrats' requests for the president's tax returns. trump has refused to turn over six years of returns but not invoked executive privilege yet, and treasury secretary steven mnuchin has denied the request, arguing that legislators have no legislative purpose for demanding them. however, according to the ten-page irs memo, the disclosure of it returns to the committee, quote is mandatory, requiring the secretary to disclose returns and return information requested by the tax-writing chairs. it also rejects the reasons mnuchin cites for holding lawmakers, replying the only basis would be the indication of the invocation of the doctrine of executi

i'm jauf alongside geoff bennett.ou've seen the good and the bad, the highs and the lows and i would not be in this position with all of your help. in and 97 i won the masters and i was there to -- i ended up hugging my dad, my mom. my dad is no longer here but my mom's here. i love you, mom. thank you. >>> good morning. welcome come to "morning joe." we have mike

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. >> i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside geoff bennett. right now. >>> north korea best not make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. >> and then we fell in love. okay? no, really. he wrote me beautiful letters. and they're great letters. we fell in love. >> you're not bothered at all by the small missiles? >> no, i am not. i am personally not. >> good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is tuesday, may 28th. along with joe, willie and me we have national affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc john heilemann, former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments he will ease jordan, president to then council on forei

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside geoff bennett." starts right now. >> in those days the deputy job was a lot different but i'll tell you now, the attorney general job was a lot different also. you like records. this must be a record of attorney general being proposed for contempt within a hundred days of taking office. >> attorney general william barr joking about the contempt resolution. now he seems to have more material. >> you saw what happened yesterday with barr and nancy pelosi.

. >> i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside geoff bennett.ht now. >> as a democratic governor of a state that trump won by 20 points, i don't have the luxury of just talking to people who agree with me. i look for common ground to get things done. that's how i was able to bring democrats and republicans to the. we needtrump in 2020 and defeat the corrupt system that lets campaign money drown out the people's voice. i'm steve bullock and i'm running for president. >> that was montana governor steve bullock declaring he is in the race for the white house with an announcement that

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there is no byline, or transcriptions by geoff shepard. i have a letter. i know many long hours went into these. i just want to thank you for your assistance on the most demanding process. i am grateful for your spirit of cooperation and patience on such short notice and especially for the excellence and professional skill which marked your efforts. i just ran across that recently. it is my book. there are lots of mistakes in the book because we were working off of these copies and you just could not hear. i can promise you that there was no fledging on the transcripts. we did not alter what we were presenting to the public. you could not get enough of these, so the times and post published their own. i have one. i just bought this. i thought i would be able to say that they eliminated the first 50 pages, but they did not invent new york times version. they put in another commentary. i have the washington post version on order. unturned,no stone looking for prejudice. the first was not time that we thought of doing this, releasing the transcripts. we were

. >> i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside geoff bennett.ard to figure out what's going on right now, it's because we are living on one of those blanc pak pages in betwee chapte chapters. i believe running for office is an act of hope and so is voting and volunteering for somebody. i hope you'll join me in making sure that next era is better than any we've had so far. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you, mayor. and thank you -- wow, a standin

i'm jf alongside geoff bennett, "morning joe," everybody, starts right now. >>> under long standing departmentsident cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. charging the president with a crime was, therefore, not an option we could consider. if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. >> that is the voice and the face of robert mueller summing up two years in about 20 seconds. good morning, welcome to "morning joe." it's thursday, may 30th. i'm willie geist, joe and mika are off this morning, off on a long planned belated honeymoon. they will be on the show next week from normandy, france, for the 70th anniversary of d-day. this morning we have with us mike barnicle, former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments elise jordan. white house reporter for the associated press jonathan lemire. former chief of staff at the cia and department of defense, now than nbc news national security analyst jeremy bash, former u.s. attorney for the north

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside geoff bennett. "morning joe" starts right now. >>> good morning. may 31st, i'm willie geist. joe and mika are on their belated honeymoon. we will see them next week from normandy for the 75th anniversary of d-day. with us this morning we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, msnbc police cal analyst susan del percio, the host of saturday night politics, lighten up msnbc on saturday nights mr. donny deutsch, political writer for "the new york times" nicholas confessore. also with us heidi przybyla and associate editor of the "washington post" and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson. donny, let's talk saturday night politics. what do you got dialed up? >> we have diana ross and the supremes. >> again? >> what's interesting is we have a whole segment on a bunch of pollsters looking at the last 40 years of polls as of june 1st ranging from giuliani on down, the leaders are not always the winners. an interesting look at that. we've got ari melber to help us break down the crazy legal things of the week. all kind of hijinks. >> it's a great

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside geoff bennett.this was going to be a weird one. before trump even got there, he had a sign printed up in front of the podium with the words "no collusion" and no obstruction" on them. he made the words "no" super big and the other words super tiny. if anything, this looks like the world's most infectieffective anti-drug psa. >> i just saw that nancy pelosi just before our meeting made a statement that we believe that the president of the united states is engaged in a coverup. well, it turns out -- and i think most of you would agree to this, i'm the most transparent president probably in the history of this country. >> no, we would not agree. i mean, we could see right through you but i don't think

. >> good to see you in the flesh, geoff bennett, good to see you very much, in fact. >>> good morning, msnbc headquarters in new york city. breaking news from the u.s. supreme court, a big decision on abortion tackling a key part of a law in indiana. how could it affect the states in the middle of passing laws of their own to restrict abortion? >>> and an outbreak of tornadoes tears through western ohio. one person dead, homes, schools, businesses, destroyed. and the danger is not over just yet. >>> also ahead this morning, a new warning about the safety of products that we use with our children every day. the woman who used to run the agency tasked with making sure that those products are safe is sounding a new alarm about how her former agency is being run. she's going to join me live. >>> we start with the breaking news, the supreme court striking down parts of an indiana law that limited abortions. the measure was signed into law back in 2016 by then-governor mike pence. and the decision comes as eight states have passed new restrictive abortion laws. this year alone louisiana is

there is no byline -- transcriptions by geoff shepard. but i have a letter. [laughter] shepard: i know that many hours went into the preparation of the submission of the recorded conversations which i submitted to the house yesterday and i just want to thank you for your assistance on this most landing project. i am grateful for your spirit of cooperation and patience on such short notice and particularly for the excellence and .rofessional skill i just ran across this recently in the dusty corner. it is my book. now, there are lots of mistakes in the book because you were working off these high-speed copiers and you just can hear but i can promise you, there was no fudging on the transcripts. we did not alter what we were presenting to the public. announcer: was his class on the watergate tapes sunday at 8:00 p.m. and at midnight on the presidency. you're watching american history tv on the on c-span3. >> h week, american artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums and historic sites around the country. , we visit the museum hearing washington, d.c. to le