ally from the phenomena traveled to harbor to take in the speech today and she joins us now hi alexander good to see you so what did you make of the speech and what did students think of it. i total many graduates here and they seemed to be very impressed by the speech and they told me that they think that merkel struck the right tone that that was the right message for this day for this occasion they felt inspired they were talking about the quote we just heard today that say you know everything is possible that it's important to think what is right to do not only what you can do and that was america's message here that it is now up to the students to the graduates to tackle the problems that we are facing and to do that it's important to work together to stay together for a very positive message and i think that the students at least the students i talk to like to do very much our standard there was a lot of speculation ahead of the speech what would she talk about would it be more personal would it be more political do you think this was a political message from the transfer. i think that

buts go to our correspondent in washington alexander a fun good evening to you alexander so tell us a little bit more about i'll call it the trump plan but we all know it's really the trump plan. yes so the trump administration or what trump has said today is that he wants to transform or to create a fur and know full and more darn immigration system that is based on merits and that means trump wants to majority of the people coming into the country to be educated and skilled workers scientists doctors engineers and he wants to limit the number of people who are coming into the u.s. because they have family here family members that are already you as citizens and he also wants to limit the number of people seeking asylum he said today that the u.s. asylum system is being used but by frivolous claims he has not presented any details or evidence for that by basically what the trump white house is proposing is a sort of pine system that would make it easier for skilled well educated workers who can speak english and may already have half a job offer to come to the you asked this planet i

to talk about that i am joined by the journalist alexander buehler. goodo have you back on the show. let me just ask you u for yourr assessment. the u.s. staff anorak basically being evacuated. reporter: the nonvital parts are being sent back. it's a dangerous situation. it shows there is some danger. we don't know how dangerous it is. they have been accused, meaning the shia militia in iraq, of trying to may be stage attacks, although that's not very clear. but he's been talking about a threat all the time. brent: just yesterday we had iran's supreme leader, the president of the united states both saying we do not want a war. that's the official line. yet every day it seems like things are ratcheting up and up and up. reporter: on one hand it looks a bit like 2003 where you had weird things happening at the mention of the wmd threat, which then led to the invasion. on the other hand, i heard the theory that both are playing for position in the negotiations on the trade sanctions, which can also be true. it's a very risky game. brent: the more things escal

we'll start with peter alexander. good morning. >> good morning to you.t was supposed to be house democrats turn to grill william barr. instead he's pulled out of today's hearing objecting the democrats' plan to have a committee lawyer ask questions alongside the lawmakers there. the democratic chairman warning barr could be held in contempt of congress. overni standingy his attorney general. he did a fantastic job. and it's all a big hoax, this whole thing with >> reporter: even supporting william barr's decision not to testify before the house judiciary committee today. a move that could lead democrats to subpoena barr. to force him to testify. democrats blasted barr's testimony wednesday before the senate judiciary committee. some calling for him to resign. >> this attorney general lacks all credibility and s, i think, compromised the american public's ability to believe he is a purveyor of justice. >> that's masterful hair litting. >> reporter: democrats accusing him of giving political cover to the president. >> you've chosen to be the idesident's la

nbc's peter alexander on duty. peter, good morning to you. >> reporter: savannah, good morning to you, president trump challenging possibility of impeachment arguing the real crime was committed by those who launched the russia investigation. his comments after robert mueller gave voice to the findings in his report. and the former special counsel's remarking adding fuel to the drumbeat of democrats calling for an impeachment inquiry to begin. this morning after robert mueller's dramatic public statement, first in two years since the start of the russia investigation -- >> i hope and expect this to be the only time i will speak to you in this manner. >> i hope and expect this to be the only time that i will speak to you in this manner. >> reporter: pressure intensifying among democrats to begin impeachment proceedings. nancy pelosi resisting the calls. >> you don't bring indictment or impeachment unless you have all the facts, the strongest possible case. >> reporter: mueller largely emphasized the top takeaways from his repor

we've got complete coverage starting with peter alexander. good morning.oo >> reporter: gmorning to you. the president clearly concerned about the market's dramatic drop tweeting about it this morning. more thaio a trill dollars was wiped out from global markets yesterday amid this ongoing trade war with china. the dow jones plunging 2.5%. the nasdaq dropping more than 3%. but the president is still sticking with it even as china slaps those new retaliatory tariffs on the u.s. saying we'll know in three to four weeks whether his gamble was a success. >> a brutal day on wall street for the bulls. >> reporter: this morning wall posting mains rattled some of the biggest one-day losses this year. >> a sharp bndroad pullback for stocks. rely across the board. >> reporter: t selloff as china retaliated on $60 billion in u.s. goods targeting the agriculture stry. 10% to 25% on june 1st. a response to president trump's tariff hike on $200 billion on chinese imports. among those hardest hit, tech companies like intel and apple. plus majorre manufacturs lik

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ayne alexander with more. >> reporter: good morning. let's start witheahe pair of ines. yes, attorney general william barr is under subpoena from house democrats,nt they wa the less redacted version of the mueller report and want it made available to everybody. congress, democrats more specifically, are threatening to hold him in contempt if they it.'t get so that's deadline number one. deadline number two, we should know today how the administration plans to respond to a subpoena from a different use committee over the president's tax returns. steve mnuchin, the treasuriment is, missed the first deadline but said that heill take final action by today. now the other thing that we're watching clely is that president trump's former attorney general and fixer michael cohen, the man who oncy is he'd take a bullet for the president, is set to begin his three-year sentence today for things inart like lying to congress and, of course, for his role in the hush money paents made during the 2016 campaign. finally, it's the possible testimonyof special counsel robert mueller. presi

peter alexander joins us with more. >> reporter: good morning to you.lican-con olled senate judiciary committee today. but he's going to get a grilling from democrats after what was significantly explosive news here that robert muell sent him a letter in le march complaining that barr's initial summary misrepresented his report and even caused unnecessary confusion. reatened to undermine the public's confidence in his findings. some democrats are already calling for bar to resign. th are newing their calls for mueller himself to testify. barr in his statement to lawmakers says he didn't change a word on the mueller report and he kept the redactions limited. also this morning, president y trump who's to comment on the news is unloading an extraordinary tweet storm. more than 60 tweets and retweets today all before 6:30 in the morning. the president seemingly fheious with t suggestion that he doesn't have the support of firefighters whose union one of the biggest in this country endorsed democrat former vice president joe biden earlier this week. >> peter

peter alexander with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to both of you.s morning, the deadlock is deepening bet the president and congressional democrats. the former ite house counsel don mcghan as youvoted saying he will heed the about thepresi trump's order to testify. going back decades, senior officials like mcghan have an immunity from testifying. the president himself is defending the move saying that a ery important -- it's a very important precedent. democrats aredemocratanding tha mcghan appear. nancy pelosi was pushed by members of the house committefo to move rward with an impeachment inquiry if mcghan does not testify. so far, pelosi has pushed back saying there are unexhausted's still to pursue. more coming up on "today." >> peter alexander live for us fromhe white house. thank you. again, peter's full report is coming up next on "today." >>> also happening today, history will be made when the archdiese of washington get a new leader. he first african-american will be installed as archbishop of a region's more than half million catholics. >>

good. >> peter alexander is he on thin ice with the white house? >> reporter: that's a good question. he is the trump appointee. he has said things that the white house has taken note of. i will note as we talk about this issue of robert mueller in the course of this conversation, i press the president's counselor on this issue earlier. we heard from the president in recent days saying that robert mueller should not testify. that was a reversal from what he said formally. remember immediately after the report came out he said that mueller was honorable. that has changed in recent weeks. kellyanne conway said to me the bottom line is they have made a decision if they will stop him from testifying. they do think he should not testify. the mueller report was the final conclusive and outright definitive report on the investigation and she called on democrats to move forward for the sake of the country. i pressed her about congress's oversight responsibilities. she said there's a difference between oversight and overreach and evidenced by the talking points and messaging from the white hou

good. >> alexander is executive director of justice democrats, a political action committee and dana bashical correspondent. so, we know that the vice president certainly opposes same-sex marriage. he has gotten this back and forth with pete buttigieg and has come down to faith. that is what the discussion has been. how do you read this? is this the president agreeing with someone who is basically saying, isn't it great. or is he trying to send a message to the lgbtq. >> i think it has the benefit, if you are, the lgbtq community of getting a message. but it's how the president feels. he's agreeing with that interviewer because it is where he comes from. it is, i mean, he's even talked about his relationship prepresidency, precampaign with elton john. he actually did reach out to the lgbtq community during his convention speech, if you remember, which was the first time any republican had done that. i mean, this is one of the holdovers from the fact that he was a democrat. and he's a new yorker. and the difference between him and mike pence is that mike pence and i talked about this with

this is shear on that line in alexander reia, virginia. >> caller: good morning. >> good morning. go ahead. >> caller: i am french american by my french mother, who was a war bride. i have an aunt who was train as a nurse in world war i to deal with the handicap, the injured troops. she was forced -- she and her husband -- to leave a german chemical company. they worked in paris offices. they were warned by their boss that germans were going to invade paris and to save their lives they needed to get out of there. they moved to britainy, the place of her origin her birth and joined the french resistance the two of them. she worked under the guise of a social worker so she could have free access throughout the countryside. and they had two purposes. one was to move messages from the french resistance fighters to britain and receive them and hand them back to the french. and two, to harbor pilots, british pilots, who had been shot down by german planes. i have a mother who was sent by her family from paris to the area of marseille who also joined the french resistance. her job was to

that is times in the united states let's go to washington bureau chief alexander phenomena she's following this story for us good evening to you alexandra i mean you have been talking to pro wife campaigners i mean this law in alabama is in direct violation of federal law how are they justified. well there are saying that they strongly believe that life begins and ends at conception and that this life the life of an unborn baby has to be protected and they say that even it is considered a constitutional right for a woman to have an abortion they believe that in the boston isn't murder and for that there are convinced that doctors performing this procedure have to be church with a felony and that even the women who wants to have an abortion have to be prosecuted so that's their position and now they are hoping and seeing this bill and alabama as a huge win for their position hoping that that eventually the supreme court has to deal with that and that the supreme court eventually will overturn the law and tomorrow carolled v wade decision that's made abortion across the united states' legal oh xander. alabama soon

toys, shoes, household goods costing consumers here, not the chinese. back to you. >> peter alexander there at the white house. peter, thank you >>> new developments this morning connected to the mueller report lawmakers in the white house still fighting over what's next for them the attorney general has appointed a top prosecutor to look into how this whole russia investigation began. nbc white house correspondent kristen welker has that story. kristen, good morning. >> reporter: savannah, good morning to you for months the president and has allies have called on the justice department to investigate the origins of the russia investigation so overnight the president's outside attorneys really cheered this news. but it's a move that could further strain the relationship between this president and some law enforcement officials. this morning, investigating the investigators. attorney general william barr is calling on the top federal prosecutor in connecticut, john durham, to look at how the russia investigation began that's according to "the new york times," citing two people familiar

alexander. >> reporter: good morning. this is happening right now. the attorney general william barr, moments a ago arriving there. you see him there, senate democrats will be grilling open over explosive news that robert mueller sent him until what was an undisclosed letter. some are calling for barr to resign accusing him of misleading the public. >> new details about how the tight slipped robert mueller was fuming. new report that he wrote a letter objecting to the initial description of the conclusions complaining that barr's account caused public confusion. >> this letter is unquestionably a stunning rebuke of the attorney general of the united states undermining, devastating his credibility. >> it is an outright manipulation of the report and statements by special council mueller. >> three days after barr released his summary of the findings, the special council in a letter reviewed by the "washington post" said barr's description did not fully capture the nature and substance of the report. adding there is now public confusion about aspects of

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our mission now is washington bureau chief alexander phenomena joins us now from the iowa developer conference good to see you alexandra now you've been listening to the presentation there seem to be a thousand product updates what stood out for you. actually two things i would say first of all the advanced google lands in google's search the tool is not only helping you know to search for thing you need but it also helping you place them in your place like for example when you're looking for shoes you can not only have a look at them but you can also place them in the your room to see if they match with the rest of your clothes and of a tool with google lens is that when you put the camera on the sign a text or a document google ends can translate the text into a language and it can also read it out loud and that's of course very help for people who cannot read or have problems with reading another thing that i found quite amazing what the next generation of the google assistants that is according to google ten times faster and now better and it helps you navigate through different apps and you do

>>in washington alexander on mound. >>possible good news if you're looking to buy a home in the south bay, the city that is now seeing extra inventory in the housing market and as the summer months come upon us we take a look at what you need to know to be safe at the beach and maybe get closer to summer but the 10 a 10 could man, that's a cool looking hot tub. we should check on the baby.h your home is only as smart as your intert.le at&t fiber and t speeds up to 300 megabits per second and directv. bundle for 75 dollars a month for 12 months. limited availability. may not be in your area. more for your thing. that's our thing. call 1-800-call-att. nightmare this week in north bay couple learned that more than a $100,000 worth of art. >>was stolen from their storage unit in petaluma had his call for us to leave to go reports tonight, the victims say the theft could happen any time over the last few months and it may also be an inside job. fuy on the rental unit at public storage in petaluma few years ago because he was assured the fac

nbc blaine alexander is following it for us. >> reporter: francis, good morning. he is one of the people we're watching closely to see if mule ler testify. he weighed in on the possibility overnight in a pair of tweets and it's only escalading the growing feud between the white house and democrats on capitol hill. a new week with new deadlines. house democrats demanding attorney general william barr respond to request for a more complete version of the mueller report by this morning. >> we want the information so we can do our work and the oversight our committee is required to do. >> reporter: barr made a redacted version available but democrats want all members to see. >> muestion is why doesn't he read what is available and then if he wants more, work with the department of justice to figure it out. >> reporter: with lawmakers working to bring mueller before the judiciary committee, president trump said that mueller should not testify tweeting. >> i don't know. that's up to attorney general. >> reporter: democrats accusing the president of trying to silence mue

we're going to start with peter alexander on duty. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning to you. overnight president trump on twitter challenged the possibility of impeachment arguing the real crime was committed by those who launched the investigation. the counsel's remarks adding fuel to the drum beats of democrats calling for an impeachment inquiry to begin. this morning after thera dmatic heblic statement, his first two in years since t start of the russia investigation -- >> i hope and expect this to be the only time that i will speak to you in this manner. >> reporter: pressure is intensifying among democrats to begin peachment proceedings against president trump. house speaker nancy pelosi so far resisting those calls. >> you don't bring anndictment or you don't bring an u impeachmentnless you have all of the facts, the strongest possible case. not clearing the president. >> we would have said so. >> reporter: mueller and his team said from the beginning they would follow justice policy. >> charging the president with a cri

sheinelle jones and peter alexander standing by with a preview. good morning.coming up on a saturday morning on "today" a passenger plane skids into a river after landing in jacksonville florida. amazingly everyone onboard survived. live with the latest. >>> also ahead this morning, the drama surrounding that cruise ship in the caribbean. a crew member onboard has measles. the ship quarantined. the late, breaking detail. t> and the kentucky derby this morning, dylan'shere with a look at the big race and of course the fashion. >> all that and more when we gert started ony a saturda morning here on "today." ever been to the derby? >> i have not. looking at e mint julep. >> you need the big hats, too. >> dylan's doing if ft for us. >> stand by. we have some. >> you had no idea. see? >> all right, guys. see you about 10:00. ew> a beautiful beach, breathtaking vi and all the seafood you can enjoy all wyithn driving distrance from our area. virginia's eastern shore on one tank of gas. ♪ >> reporter: on one tank of gas we drove three hours into allop's island to looan

a check with sheinelle jones and peter alexander ining us live from new york. good. >> good morning. coming up on a saturday morning on "today" a hiker miing in maui over two weeks found alive and only slightly injured in a hawaiian forest. how the yoga instructor was rescued and how she suvived. >>> also ahead.u unsual theme park just opening in w tennesseeth atractions designed around the wild stories from the "national enquirer" stirring controversy with an exhibit that centers on the death of princess diana. >>> and break out the movie mints, a preview of top movies headed your wear. >>> those stories and a lot more when we get started on a saturday morning here on ayoday." beautiful ded ahead. >> beautiful day, yes. i can't get over that hiker. i woke up, saw the news about her. wow.af survived r two weeks. >> cahenomenal. 't wait to hear her story. absolutely. >> guys, thank you. >> see you in a bit. >> see ya. >>> this weekend marks the official start of the summer beach season. news 4 is working for you helping you to decide which beach you might want to tak

peter alexander has detates. >> repor good morning to you. as you know well for anything in the past on immigration, you need buy in from both republicans and democrats. but nancy pelosi immediately dismissed the president's plan saying it is not are tely serious proposal. and some conservative republicans are already complaining that it doesn't go far enough. president trump rolling out a new immigration plan that he says will be the pride of the nation. >> our proposal is ,pro-american pro-immigran andpro-worker. it's just common sense. >> reporter: but it landed with a thud among democrats on capitol hill. >> it's a political document that is anti-immigration reform. >> reporter: the president's proposal would enhance border security including some wall construction and make sweeping changes to legal immigration creating so-called merit system favoring young, educated workers over those with familyn ties ihe u.s. immigrants looking to come here would have to pass a civics test and would be judged on their age, ability to speech english, ed

. >> good afternoon, commissioners, i'm christie alexander, planning department staff. the items before you are conditional use authorizationation to allow a hotel use and findings of consistency with the general plan for vacations at sea lots 323 and 324. this project site is under port jurisdiction. the project, which is also known includes the demolition of a existing ser face parking lot and a mixed-use development consisting of three com compones and entertainment venue and 112,700 gross square foot four-storey, 450-foot tall hotel accommodating 194 guest rooms and 14,000 gross square foot privately financed and maintained public park. now, this project would include the portion of billow hoe street and david street which total up 14,461 square feet. these portions of davis street currently do not exist as actual roads and are being used as a surface parking lot. the easement bisect for the park. the continued existence of public easement would make it feasible for privately financed public park. since the publication of the final mitigate negative declaration on d

that's why we find peter alexander with the latest on all this. good>> report nice to see both of you this morning. when it comes to this relationship between the president and top mocrats, this really could be a new low. president trump, as you noted, storming out of this meeting with democratic leaders, threatening not to work with them unil they stop what he called "these phony investigations." the president was fumiar about rem you noticed that house speaker nancy pelosi accused him of hiding information from congress. she said the democrats believe that he's engaged in a cover-up. the president in the rose garden shot back, "i don't do cover-ups. for now, the showdown is actually threatening the possibility of a bipartisan agreement on key issues like infrastructure, disaster aid, and otthers. but e are some must-do items that just need to got done like government spending and debt and the debt limet that need to g done at some president obama. the president's comments -- some point. the president's comments, espite them, officials say negotiation

. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i am angel alexander on behalf of posh green. to address the concerns of the hoa members. >> excuse me. are you part of the project team? >> yes, sorry. >> your presentation was during that five minutes. commissioners may call you up for questions later. >> okay. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello. i am lisa shin. i am project sponsor of two cannabis projects in bayview in a similar neighborhood. i have seen the project sponsor at are every outreach meeting. i have seen her engage with the community. i do think that she would be one to work with the community, take feedback, and try to be a positive impact on the neighborhood. you know, we have seen a number of consumption lounges open up downtown. we have dispensaries in the bottom of office buildings. the opportunity to bring a consumption lounge to pay view is an opportunity. some might see it as a risk with respect to theft, but i also see it as we are here to change the perception and stigma of this business, the industry is o involving, laws are evolving. the oppo

nbc's blayne alexander joins us ow live with the latest. goodr: good morning to you both. certainly a lot to watch. let's start with the two deadlines. first, thene on william barr. remember, democrats had long called for him to release a less redacted version of mueller's report to all of cong ss. upon jue 12 -- not just the 1 2 lawmakers he previously mad it available. he may be held in contempt if he didn't comply or make a good fai effort to work onhe subpoena. that's one. the second one is that we should note today how the administration will responds to a subpoena from house democrats -- will respond to a s from the house democrats regarding president trump's tax returns. teacher secretary steve mnuchin missed the first deadline but will take final action by today. the other big thing happening is thathe t president's former attorney michael cohen is going who head forrison for -- is going to head to prison for day one of a three-year sentence. he's facing time for lying to congress and role in the 2016 election hush-money payments. finall

nbc's peter alexander live from the white house with more. goodorning. >> reporter: hey, good morning to both of you. this escalating trade war triggering a brutal day as you noted on wall street. monday, the stocks posting some of the biggest one-day losses of the entire year. as you said, all of this responding to china's retaliation withs of its own. that $60 billion worth on u.s. goods. 10% to 25%. those would take effect june 1st, provides a litofe bit a grace period. maybe some window for negotiating to take place here. the u.s.h, again, thoug suggesting, even threatening, id the prest is, that he would hike tariffs up to 25% on basically everything that china sends to the united stat. hat's another $300 billion worth. everythis, from la tools, toys, think about what you put your shopping cart. that could be affected. those pentially wouldn't tak effect until a little later. perhaps into june at some point. that's when the president says that he willing meet with chinese president xi jinping at the g20 summit to take place. for now the presi

district of new york, from the pace university school of law, and dan alexander returns, reporter for forbes, according all things trump. good evening and welcome to you both. mimi, i hope you brought your legal mind because i need it. we have three elements. we have the deutsche bank, capital one, we have, i had to take notes here. the new york state effort. and we have the draft letter inside the irs. put this all together. does it mean that congress and by extension the public, will have any understanding of the president's tax returns sooner rather than later? >> yes, it does. that's the short answer. and really, you can sort of put some of these other things aside for a moment. the first thing to look at is the law which says that the irs shall turn them over. it doesn't say shall if there's a legislative purpose. it doesn't say maybe or under certain circumstances. in the law, to most people, shall means shall. in the law, it really has a certain meaning and a certain weight. and judges refer to that kind of language all the time. like in bail statutes. it says i shall reimagined someone. that means i have no discretio

nbc white house correspondent peter alexander in washington this morning. good to see you. >> good morning. this standoff between the white house and house democrats has been escalating for months. the latest confrontation, house speaker nancy pelosi calling out the attorney general, stopping short of calling for president trump's impeachment, but comparing the president's behavior, specifically ignoring congressional subpoenas, to richard nixon. >> reporter: president trump defending william barr in an interview with fox news. >> i think they are treating our attorney general, who is a highly respected man, very unfairly. >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi accusing barr of breaking the law, lying to congress. >> the attorney general of the united states of america was not telling the truth to the congress of the united states. that's a crime. >> reporter: zeroing in on this exchange during a hearing last month. >> reports have emerged recently, general, that members of the special counsel's team are frustrated at some level with the limited information inc

alexander skarsgard! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> thank you, thank you. very good about your history and different things i didn't really know about you. and so i did not know about this thing. one of your first gigs was in a a video, a lady gaga video. [ light laughter ] do you know what i'm talking about? >> yeah. yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: but that's -- how did -- this was for "paparazzi." >> yeah. >> jimmy: that's a giant song. but how did you get -- how do you get involved? and how did you -- >> well, i was -- i was in l.a. shooting one of my first jobs, which was season one of "true blood." >> jimmy: oh, yeah. >> oh, yeah. >> jimmy: i loved "true blood." [ cheers and applause ] absolutely. yeah. >> yeah, it was -- it was a a good time. >> jimmy: that's where i knew you from. >> yeah. >> jimmy: yeah. >> but it was the very beginning. so the show hadn't aired yet. and my friend jonas akerlund, a a swedish guy, he's the director and he was gonna direct the music video. and he called me and asked if i wanted to play the boyfriend. and i said, "boyfriend?" i didn't kno

. >>> nbc's peter alexander is live at the white house now this morning. peter, goodning. >> reporter: aaron and eun, good morning to you. this has theot ptial to be a game changer. that's the way the democrats view it. the attorney general will be making what appears to be his first appearance before congrese today, behe senate specifically. since the release of that redacted mueller report, he's ceain to face particularly from the senate democrats after the stunning revelations that robert mueller attorney wrote the general a letter after saying his initial description of his conclusions. >> now as democrats get ready to come up with an idea. if mueller didn't want confusion he should have made a decision him self-. pete williams will join us a ro little bit f now. aaron, eun, on a big day preparing for william barr to testify. >> peter alexander. look for his full report next on "today." >>> 6:49. still looking to get details. chopper 4 still over the scene. one person died when the car slammed into a tree.he t was no one else in the car. >>> coming up on 6:50 righ

good. there will authorize some badly needed funding for better fences and better security along our borders maybe they'll need a moment. they do want to alexander's in the way you know secure our borders with technology personnel physical barriers if necessary and some places we will not build a wall instead we will build an economy where everyone who wants a good job can get one journalist and author daniel as are told us that there's hypocrisy in the democratic camp when it comes to security. it's really difficult to criticize trump to call him or her strong the borers who are the same time as our recognizing that the more liberal border region that's promoted by now after. the the transport of more drugs and other assumptions is across the border so the democrats enjoy playing both sides that. they have tried their best to keep immigrants out they have contributed to. this more conditions and central america which are generating waves and waves of refugees you're in the same time they want to point trumpet for not having where i grew up rather a humane attitude of a both major parties are. implicated in this border disaster which is reaching t

for more, we go live to nbc's peter alexander at the white house for us this morning. peter, good ing. >> reporter: hey, good morning to you. you're right. democrats are blasting the attorney general's testimony after thats contentiou hearing before the senate judiciary committee on wednesday. the democrats accusing william barr of givingolitical cover to president trump, some even calling for barr to resign. as you mentioned, he was due to appear before the house but iary committee today, the justice department announced that he's just notoing to appear. certainly not under the proposed format. as for the president, he's made it clear that he's standing by the attorney general, praising him in an interview overnight. even supporting william barr's decision noto testify before he house today. it, of course,is a move that could lead democrats to subpoena barr to try to force him to testify. they've already warned that they could hold him in contempt of congress. more of the escalating battle when we see you a few minutes from n coming up on "today." back to you. >> see you then. th