blayne alexander, thank you. thank you,e blayne. we'r not done with our coverage of tonight's big story. coming up at 6:45 vgs we'll go ho live to the white e. >> peter alexander will join us with how the president's team is responding a what he's working on tonight for nbc nightly news. >>> tonight game four of the caps openingyoound pla series. they need a win tonight. >> oh, they do after that shut out monday night. the team is on the road, of course. tommy mcfly is at cap tital one party.or the watch let's listen to what he has to say. >> we're going to bring you inside the caps watcht party capitol one arena. all these caps fans so excited coming up on news 4. >>> new information on the possible cause of the fire at he notre dame cathedral in paris. paris police now believe an electrical short circuit may haveis all . >> french officials say this is only an initial assessment because investigators don't have the ability to go into the buildinget y and do a full examination. that's because of potential safety hazards. right now

>> yes, yes, blayne. >> great saturday to you. rumble of thunder woke some of i was watching as a storm moved across the region. the good tws, thender and lightning is done for the washington area for the most part and lingering showers particularly east of the beltway. folks in anne arundel county, picking up rain showers. to the west, drying out. looking for drying conditions across this region. the loop of the radar, it will be a nice day today. good day for yardwork and outdoor activities. shers end and sunshin returns. sunday, not a bad day as well. mainly dry. looks like another round of rain showers moving in just in time for the overnight hours sunday into the morning commute. we'll give you hour-by-hou where the showers move out and in and talk about it throughout the weekend. blayne, david, back to you. >> clay anderson, thank you. >>> and 6:02 onhis saturday. up to speed on breaking news ot ince georges county. an overnight shooting leaves a man dead in fort washington.er called to tu road just off saint barnabas road.

i'my i am blayne alexander here with you.reakingw.ews a man found dead called to tucker road just off saint barnabas road. once on the scene found a man outside of a home unresponsive. now police are searching for the unman responsible and for a possible motive. >>> a lot of you will be out and about today for the national cherry blossom parade and you know what that means? street closures. look at this map. highlighting many roads shut down all along the parade routes. the parade runs along constitution avenue to 17th street from 10:00 until 2:00 this afternoon. >>> also today, emancipation that mean as parade, concert and firreorks. make sto stay with us. a check of your forecast coming upext, but for n it's on! get to the ross spring shoe event to score the latest styles for the whole family... ...and something for you. oh yeah. that's yes for less. you heard me - 20 to 60 percent off department store prices! at the ross spring shoe event. on now! and you find the same style you knoyou saw there... ross ...here? that's yes

doreen. >> blayne alexander reporting.hank you, blayne. >>> former vice president joe biden just wrapped up his first campaign rally of his 2020 presidential campaign. he spoke at a teamsters hall in pittsburgh. his theme, rebuilding miamerica le class. >> by the way, i make no apologies. i am a union man. quite frankly, folks, if i'm going to be able to beat donald trump in 2020, it's going to happen here. [ applause ] >> the former vice president is currently leading most polls of the democratic nominees. analysts say that's due in part to his name recognition. >>> turn now to the weather. it warms up a little bit from our chilly start this morning. >> it got a little warmer, but doug, we' ready for those 70s and 80s again. >> yeah, i know. you get kind ofpo sed when they're there for a couple days. then when they go away, wait a second. today was one of those we're on the cool side for sure. average high is 71 degrees. we saw high so far of only 6 take a look at the numbers now. 59 the current temperature in d.c. only 5

nbc's blayne alexander has more. >> reporter: joe biden is officially he. >> y, guys. how are >>you? reporter: the former vice president already a front-runner in a crowdedemocratic field, launching his long-anticipated campaign with a kickoff video focused not on policy, but the current president. >> if we give donald trump eight years in the white house, he will forever and fundamentally alter theharacter of this nation, who we are, and i cannot stand by and watch that happen. >> reporter: casting himsel as democrats' best chance to beat president trump. the president tweeting a greeting of his own. welcome to the race, sleepy joe. >> he's concerned. the president rponded to that immediately. and that should tell youyt everng that's ahead. >> reporter: the chair of the rnc already pouncing along with the president's former adviser. >> no chance that he could take on donald trump one-on-one. he doesn't have the stamina. he doesn't have thesmarts. >> reporter: biden served as delaware senator for nearly four decades, and as number two to the irnation's f black presiden

blayne alexander is at the white house where there's a o lot anxiety behind the scenes. blayne. >> reporter: this renewed countdown is raising the big qustion not only what' inside the special counsel's report, but how much of it is actually going to be seen. we're now lessn tha 48 hours from when we expect to find out. the white house bracing for thursday's expected release of special counsel robert mueller's redacted russia report. more than a dozen current andfo er white house officials have cooperated with mueller. now nbc news has learned that some of them are worri the release of the nearly 400-page report could expose them for potentially damaging information they provided about president trump. >> there's a lot of anxiety. one person described it to us as breakdown level anxiety about what's going to be coming in the report. >> reporter: inside the president's orbit, a flurry of activity. a white house meeting plan ds for all relevant staff. the enpresids outside legal team meeting again to finalize their strategy. >> i think that the t'presiden lawyers quite rig

. >> and blayne and david, good morning. the radar, showing showers exiting stage left. in other words, moving to the east. folks out to our west, shenandoah valley, plibably have le sunshine breaking through the clouds now. radar continuing to move from the north and the south, but from the west to the east is drying out across other area. as it does, sunshingo g to take a little while. not much longer across the area as we show you the live radar. winchester, fredicks, haguerstown, low clouds. showers end this morning. sunshine returning by the afternoon. rain returns sunday night and dr cooler,er air. all details and complete om forecast is cing your way. we'll talk in a bit. >> clay, look forward to that. >>> 8:30. following breaking news this saturday morning from georges county. overnight a shooting leaves a man dead in fort washington. called to tucker road off saint bas road. once on-scene found a man outside of a home unresponsive. crews rushed him to the hospital but he did not survive. police are searching for the gunman responsible and trying to figure out wh

. >> blayne alexander is at the white house this afternoon to bring us up to date on this. blayne. >> pat andou leon, y remember very well when schumer and pelosi were at the white house a few months ago right in the midst of the longest shutdown in history. in fact, president trump walked out ofhat meeting. today it was a very different tone. in fact, the white house described this mee ng as excellent special productive. washington's two top democrats house speaker nancy pelosi and senate minority leader chuck schumer leaving a meeting with president trump with a potential deal. >> we're very excited aboutsahe convon that we had with the president. >> reporter: a broad agreement on infrastructure, $2 trillion to focusn things like roads, bridges, and broad band internet exnsion. >> it's clear that both the white house and all of us want to get something done on infrastructure innd big bold way. there was good will in this meeting. that sas different thane of the other meetings that we've had. >> reporter: meetings like this one last winter over the president's border lwall

doreen. >> all right, blayne alexander reporting. thank you, blayne. we're learning new details tonight about the maryland man accused of plotting an isis-inspired attack at our national harbor. prosecutors toll the frl judge at rondel henry wanted to kill e many people as possible and was prepared to mself. now henry's lawyer paints a much different picture. >> reporter: in court today prlecutors said ron henry was planning a suicide attack and that he wantedblood, chaos, and panic. but his attorney said henry is an american citizen whose rights he government by who interrogated him for hours, then had him committed to a pshiatric ward without allowing him to see a lawyer or noti family. >> this defendant appears to have formed a plot to harm large numbers o innocen people and taken concrete steps to execute that plot. >> reporter: according to court record prosecuto say 28-year-old rondel henry was inspired by isis and wanted to kill as many quote/unquote disbelievers as possible.u- he stole thiul van with a plan to run over pedestrians similar to th

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hi, blayne. >> reporter: three days from now, doreen. that is the expected release date according to the department of justice. speaking to nbc news today, one of president trump's a orneys is appearing confident and prepared for that release. thursday morning, that's when the justice department says attorney general william barr is expected to make special counsel robert mueller's redacted report public. >> this t produy've really known of its importance and they've been pain stakingly going over it for weeks. >> reporter: president trump immediately lashing out on twitter. democrats long demanding the full unredacted report. today the president's legal team huddling to finalize their strategy. a so-called counter report ready to go but no decision on what weather to release it. meanwhile in minnetrta president ump spending this tax day touting his 2017 tax cuts. >> and it's the largest package of tax cuts and reforms in american history. over 80% of american families now are receiving that big tax cut. >> reporter: but the president's

blayne alexander is at th w whie househ more on all this. hi, blayne. >> reporter: while they're trying to figure out how to move forward or wther to move forward, democrats have certainly taken plenty of other action. today the chairman of the house judiciary committee jerry nadler issued his second subpoena in less than a week. this one to hear from the former white house attorneyon dcgahn because of those explosive details laid out in mueller's report. of course that first subpoena is for the full rort without redactions. a sunny day at the annual white house easter egg roll. and president trump displaying a brightutlook despite renewed talk of impeachment among democrats after the mueller's redacted russia report. theresident tweeting only high crimes and misdemeanors can lead to impeachment. there were no crimes by me, so you can't impeach. an pushing back on some of the report's findings that painted him in an unflattering light. >> are you worried that your staff is ignoring your orders with the mueller report ? portrays >> reporter:

nbc's blayne alexander joins us in washington, d.c. with the shake up and what it moons, blain. >> reporter: raj, major shake up within the trump administration and already some lawmakers are saying this is dangerous to have so many positions vacant within the department of homeland security. so kirstjen nielsen has said she's going to stay on the job at least through wednesday to help out with transition, but the big shake up is just another sign of the president's growing frustration at the border. >>> the department in charge of securing the southern border is without a permanent leader. homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen has resigned under pressure from president trump. >> i share the president's goal of securing the border. i will continue to support all efforts to address the humanitarian and security crisis on the border. >> reporter: the president's frustration with nielsen has intensified in policy of separating migrant families at the southern border. nielsen resisted. >> she has said legally he just can't do it. th

thank you, blayne. pat. >>> breaking news now in the college admissionsda sc a grand jury has indicted 16 parents on fraud and money launring charges including actress lori loughlin. prosecutors say she and her husband paid $50000 in bribes to get their daughters into the university of southern california. these new charges could mean ditional prison time if they are convicted at trial. >>> the man federal prosecutors say was planning a terrorist attack on national harbor appeared in fedal court this afternoon. prosecutors told the judge rondel henry wanild to as many people as possible and was prepared to die. news 4 mark segraves joins us live. mark, henry'sai lawyers a much different picture. what is it that he's teying? >> rep yeah. good evening, pat. with his family in the courtroom, rondel henry sat there silent and listened as you say as prosecutors painted a picture of a man who they say was an isis-inspired terrorist bent on killing as many innocent people as hecan,ut his defense attorney paint

blayne alexander. thanks, blayne. >>> anay emotional tribute t for slain rapper nipsey hussle. >> the celebration of life held at the staple center in los angeles. ♪ anthony hamilton one of many artists beforing in that crowd of more than 20,000 people. there was a poignant moment during the ceremony as a letter was read from former president barack obama. >> i've never met nipsey, but i've heard his music through my daughters and after his passing, had the chance to learn more about his transformation and his community work. he set an example f young people to follow and it is a legacy worth of celebration. >> after service today, the hussle's casket will be taken on a 25 mile procession through the streets of los angeles. >>> a man in montgomery county is going back to jail after stalking a woman for years. this time around the judge hit him with some serious jail time. erika gonzalez is in the newsroom with the disturbing details of this case. >> michael had already served three years for harassing

blayne alexander tracking the race for us. blayne. >> reporter: leon, that is one thinghat's already setting joe biden apart in a very crowded field of democratic candidates. rather than talking about health care or other policy issues or taking a veiled swipe at the president, today joe bid kicked off his campaign taking direct aim at president. tru joe biden is officially in. the former vice president already a front runner in aow crded democratic field launching his long-anticipated campaign with a kick off video focused not on policy, but the current president. >> if we give donald trump eight years in the white house, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation. who we are. i cannot stand by and watch that happen. >> reporter: casting himself as democrats' best chance to beat president trump. the president tweeting a greeting of his own. welcome to the race, sleepy joe. >> he's concerned. the president responded t that immediately and that should tell you everything ahead for this president in ter

blayne alexander standing by at the white house to break it all down and explain it fors. blayne. >> reporter: leon, lawmakers will get a chance to press the ttorney william barr on all of that. that's because he's going to be on capitol hill next week testifying before congress. democrats are increasing their calls to h tr from special counsel himself. meanwhile, top republicans say it's time to move on. a sunny day at the annual white house easter egg roll. and president trump displaying a bright outok despite renewed talk of impeachme democrats after the release of special counsel robert mueller's redacted russia report. >> are you worried about impeacent, mr. president? >> reporter: the president tweeting only high crimes and misdemeanors can lead to impeachment. there were no crime by me so you can't impeach. and pushing bk on some of the report's findings that painted him in an unflattering light. >> are you worried that your staff is ignoring your orders as oce mueller report portrays? >> reporter: demrats divided on impeachment. some pointing to mueller's findings

hey, blayne. >> pat and leon, this question is not completely new to the u.s. census. it's been there before, butsn i ha been on the main form since 1950. now the trump administrion is working to bring it back. it's a supreme court showdown over a single question. can the trump administration ask a person's citizenship. 18 states are fighting to remove that question saying it would scare undocumented immigrants away from participating in the census together. in fact, the government estimates as many as 6.5 million people would not fill out the form. aning the population count that decides federal dollars for things like roads and schools could be skewed. >> it was so severely damaged, the accuracy of the census, that six states are at risk of losing a seat in the house of representatives. >> reporter: but the trump administration argues the information is needed to help enforce the voting r hts act. >> we want to know who is in this country and i think as a sovereign nation we have that right. >> reporter: inside the court, the justices clearly sprit. justice sotomayor

nbc's blayne alexander is at the white house with more on the countdown nearly two years in the makingorter: for a third straight day, president trump's legal team hunkered down, prepping for the release of special counsel robert mueller's nearly 400-page redacted russia report expected tomorrow morning, handed over by attorney general william barr who will hold a news conference tomorrow with his deputy, rod rosenstein. tonight "the new york times" is reporting the president's attorneys have had numerous conversations with justice department officials in recent days about mueller's conclusion, talks that have helped the president's team plan their rebuttal. >> you do not brief the white house on an investigation into the white house. >> reporter: some members of congress will see a different version of mueller's report with different redactions, only available for limited members and staff. but tonight some democrats are upset that congress will not receive a hard copy of the report until more than an hour after barr's news conference. from the white house -- >> we're going to read th

back to you. >> blayne alexander. thank you. we're going to pick up where you left off. more on the president tweet thar appe to refer to the specialep counsel rort and the testimony of former white house counsel don mcgahn. the president wrote, quote, watch out for people that take so-called notes when the notes never existed until needed, end quote. that's an apparent reference to a sec of mueller's report referring to a time when the president wanted mcgahn to deny published reports that mcgahn was directed to remove the special counsel. each time he was approached, mcgahn responded that he would t refute the press account because they were accurate. and according to the report, the president then asked what aut those notes? why do you take notes? lawyers don't take notes. i never had a lawyer who took notes. end mcgahn responded that he keeps notes because he's a, quote, realth lawyer. e president said i've had a lot of great lawyers like roy cohn and he didn't take notes, end quote. important to neat her that roy cohn was disbarred in new yorkr in 1986 founethical c

blayne alexander at the white house with reaction from there. >> reporter: leon, today sarah sanders said the critics are looking for new ways to attack president trump. meanwhile, the chairman of the house judiciary committee, jerr, nadlent a new letter to the attorney general william barr saying he is b troubled the way mueller's report was handled and he wants bar to immediately release any summary written by the special counsel. a u.s. offial tells nbc news some membersnsf special c robert mueller's team are frustrated that president tr,p's attorney gener william barr, in hisge four summary, cleared president trump of obstructi of justice even though mueller reached no conclusion and mueller's teammb mes say the evidence that president trump tried to disrupt the investigation is s than barr suggested. >> i have full confidence in the attorney general andis assessment. >> reporter: the justice department says barr had no choice but to reach a conclusion on obstruction because ruless sy he ultimately in charge of the russia investigation. >> we nd a full accounting of the president

blayne alexander, nbc news, washington. >>> our political analyst larry gersten is with us.hy is nielsen out? maybe she was pushed out by a senior adviser. >> she doidn't do his bidding. he wanted her to separate the children from the parents. he wanted her to do things that she thought were illegal. not that she was a softie on these tings. she was a hard-liner but she drew a line where the president didn't and that cost her her job. >> it seems to be the trump administration everything looking towards next year election. this immigration battle, hard line immigration will get them to get him reelected. does the polling suggest that? >> the polling suggests that immigration is a big issue but not as big as health care. some people say bringing in all kinds of crime. rs a humanitarian issue. just to say it's a big issue is not enough. how it's affecting people eric is running for president. he by his own admission saz i don't have a chance to run so why run. >> he's got his name out there already. true, we know him here better than anybody else, but he's getting his name out

let's get right to blayne alexander and get the lest on where this stands. it sounds like the family separation flip flop you saw last week. >> reporter: that revival that you mentioned came in the form ofnt two tweets from presi trump earlier today and he doubled down on it again during a sceremony the white house.o at he's getting a lot of pushback from demrats alreadyho say this is just not the solution. president trump eyeing an even harder line on immigration announcing his administration is giving strong considerations to a policy that would bus undo undocumented immigrants who have been detained to so-called sa sanctuaryan citierelease them. >> we can give them an unlimited supply. >> reporter: his announcement contdicting his own homeland security department which hours earlie it would nbc news this was a rejection that was floated and rejected. a source tells nbc news the idea this would be done as political retaliation is, quote, absolutely ridicisous. but in tweet, the president cited democrats unwillingness to change whate calls very dangerous im

thank you, blayne. blayne alexander. >>> a man in south florida is facing federal charges for allegedly leaving threatening voice mails for three democratic lawmakers. according to the criminal complaint, michigan reprveentative receid a threat as did california representative eric swalwell and new jersey senator cory booker. both of those men by the way running for president right now. police arrested john class in florida. he allegedly made the calls to the offices in capitol hill. >>> gunfire on a street with several bullets a hitting house. one resident in the grand central square had to duck for cover. this area is not far from a i similarncident that happened a few days ago. news 4's aimee cho reports. >> reporter: bullet holes in a house. this is the site neighbors in sterling woke up to this mornine after som fired shots in the middle of thenight. >> they unloaded the whole gun, very violent. >> nei sborven was taking his trash out. >> the shot went o and i ducked down just like this and i staye

blayne alexander is standing by where nbc has learned some gaffers there are worried this report could them in trouble with the boss. >> reporter: leieriothis latest countdown has people inside and outside of the white house wondering how much is going to be seen on thursday. we're less than 48 hours away from congress and the public getting a partial look at that report nearly twors in the making. the white house bracingor thursday's expected release of special counsel robert mueller's redacted russia report. more than a dozen current and former white house officials have cooperated with mueller. now nbc news has exclusively learned that some of them are worried the release of the nearly 400-page rert could expose them for potentiallyor damaging ition they provided about president trump. >> there's a lot of anxiety. one person described it to us as a breakdown about what could be coming. >> reporter: inside the president's orbit, a flurry of eeactivity. ang in the coming days for all relevant staff and the president's outside meeting team to finalize their strategy. i think that the p

>> well, i agree wit blayne. the majority of the cot, the five conservatives, will say that this was not an abuse of dis kr discretion. when they asked this to be added to the census, did he exceed his powers? the opponents of the 18 states who say they will lose money, l they coulde seats in congress say that by adding the question, you actually get less accute information because fewer people will respond to the census form. the government, though, says that there's actually a tradeoff anytime you want to get more information by adding a question to the census. in this case the government says they wanted the information to better administer the voting rights act. so they say it's always a tradeoff and that tre is no perfect way to get an accurate counter. e days of knocking door-to-door to figure out how many people live here are long gone and the census hasong relied on other government databases, social security, s and estimates. so they say wilbur ross's decision to put this question on, even though the cen

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blayne alexander is tracking this story with the latest for us tonight. >> jim and wendy, for years now national security experts have been making the link between julian assange and russia. nack in 2012 he had a political top show a state-sponsored russian run television network. now u.s officials are working to get him back on u.s. soil and inside a courtroom. after seven years holed up in an ecuadorian embassy, julian assange arrested in london tied to what officials call one of the biggest intelligence leaks history. the justice department working to extradite assange. according to court documents charging him with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion. officials say bac in 2010 he worked with chelsea manning, a former army intelligence officer, to hack into a government computer later publishing tens o thousands of secret government documents related to the iraq war. >> he's never been a hero. he released classified formation that put our troops in danger. >> it means that any journalis can be extradited for prosecution in the united states truthfulg published information about t

doreen. >> blayne alexander. it's going to be interesting. >>> aowuick fact check n on a claim president trump made today about an interaction with his ormer white house counsel don mcgahn. in a tweet this morning the president said he never told mcgahn to fire special counsel robert muell. e problem is mcgahn told the special counsel he resisted the' presiden order to remove muell mueller citing he would rather sign. after the mueller report came out, democrats on the house judiciary committee subpoenae mcgahn to testify but president trump is fighting that subpoena. most legal experts say it will be difficult for the whitelaouse to cim executive privilege since mcgahn's testimony is already public. >>> well, the fate of the redskins season could lie with decisions being made tonight. >> in a lot of ways the season actually starts tonight f the redskins and that's because it's the first round of the nfl draft which begins in just a few hours from now. the team could be looking to make some really big moves. >>>

blayne alexander starts us off. blayne. >> reporter: well, pat and erika, 448 pages. there were some pages completely redacted. there is still plenty to read thatheds new light on what the specia counsel found. nearly two years in the making, robert mueller's russia report is final with redactions. when trump learned mulleller ha been appointed, oh my god, this is terrible. this is the understand of myid prescy. he details several examples of potential obstruck of justice including the firing of fbi director james comey andne o instance where the presidented direct then white house lawyer don mcgahn to order mueller's firing. mcgahn refused. e people around him declined tory out orders but that does tt exonerate him if we had confidencet the president clearly did not commit obstruck of justice, we would so state. still president trump declaring victory. i'm having a good day too. no collusion. no obstruction. mueller found no criminal conspiracy between the trump campaign a russia. something highlighted today by attorney general william barr echoing a frequent phrase

the president could be carrying out that threat as soon as this week as nbc's blayne alexander shows plan affects not just migrants but trade on both sides of the border. today new orders from the trump administration reassigning hundreds of customs and border patrol personnel to deal with the highest number of migrant border crossings in morehadecad >> i'm not playing games. >> reporter: it follows a threat by president trump to close the southern borr crossings into the u.s. experts say that could deal a huge blow to the u.s. economy. >> mexico is the third largest trading partner for the u.s. after china and canada. one of the biggest product categories specifically that the u.s. gets from mexico, beer and wine and snack foods. if we get fewer of those, the prices go up, that's something that you could feel pretty soon. >> reporter: the president tweeting, homeland security is being so nice but not for long, urging congress to fix what he calls a major national emergency, something long disputed by democrats. >> this is an administration led obviously by the president that only kn

. >> blayne alexander in washington for us you, thank you. >>> governor newsom also formed conclusions after a trip to el salvador. he outlined the stories he learned about gang violence. after hearing from many who tried to flee the country, the governor says the u.s. needs a realistic and thoughtful approach to immigration. california has more salvadoreans than any other state. >>> we showed you a few minutes ago that water main break in oakland. here's good news. the water main break has been turned offer at alice and 7th street on the edge of chinatown. you can see a lot of water there. in fact, this is a live picture from our nbc bay area skyranger. let's show you a few minutes ago what it looked like, and there it is, spouting a couple stories high, again near chinatown and oakland. you can see that one house there and the neighbor. it looks like significant water damage. but this water main break has been capped on 7th and alice in oakland. >>> the hot ticket in town is on the ice. it's opening playoffs for the sharks. this is a look inside the shk' head. about 17,000 fans headi

blayne alexander has our report. >> reporter: president trump taking a step back from the health ce battle he reignited tweeting his party will vote on health care after the 2020 election when republicans holdt senate and win back the hous but just last week president erump declared his will be the party of health cn a move surprising evenellow republicans, the administration backing the full dismantling of obamacare. >> when the plan comes out, which we'll be showing you at the appropriate time, is much better than obamacare. >> reporter: democrat >> it's the same old song they've been singing. translation, they have no health care plan. >> reporter: republicans not eager to go back to aop that has vexed them for years. >> i hope that the court will uphold the aca. >> reporter: president trump backing away from one fight for now while diggin on another. immigration. >> if we don't make a deal witht congress border is going t >> closed. 100%. reporter: but he says in recent days mexico has stepped up its efforts to stop migrants from coming into the u.s. >> mexico has as of yesterday made

blayne alexander joins us to break it all down. >> reporter: we're learning about another disagreement beeen the outgoing homeland security secretary and president trump. now, nieden has s she will stay in her post at least through wednesday to help out with transition, but this big ent isp within the depar yet another sign of the president's growing frustration with border security. ryhomeland security secre k kirstjen nielsen has resigned. >> i will continue to address the cries on the border. reporter: the president announcing her departure on twitter briefly tweeting his thanks. his frustration in nielsen intensifying in recent months. nbc news has learned the p president wanted t reinstate the policy of separating families at the borr. nielsenresisted. >> she has said legally he can't do it. the president got irate i'm hearing there were heated exchanges. >> it's a policy she publicly defended last year. >> what we dido was applied the lawqually to anybody who broke it. >> her resignation comes two days after traveling to the rder. the acting dhs secretary leaving his post as the

blayne. reporter: a lot to cover. the president and house democrats are on a collision course.he house consists issued a number of subpoenas. the president made it clear he will notom cy now escalating the battle between two branches of government. >> reporter: president trump vowing to fight subpoenas from house democrats vowing to fight everything. following robert muler's redacted russia report. >> ridiculous. i have been the most transpareen presidt in our country by far. d>> reporter: he s he is opposed to his current and former white house aides testifying noting he has alr cooperated with mueller's investigation. >> i thought, after two years, we'd b finished with this. >> reporter: house docrats ramping up their investigation after mueller's report revealed the president tried to take control of the russia probe. president trump today tweeting if the partisan dems ever try te h, i would first head to. the u.s supreme court. but the court has ruled congress has sole power over impeachment. it comes as theen presids senior advisor, jared kushner, down plays mueller's find

blayne alexander, washington. >>> president trump hinted today at a third summit with north korea.he meeting today with south korea's leader, he sounded upbeat about talks with north korea which so far have failed to result in meaningful progress. the second summit in hanoi abruptly ended outnorwithout no korea agreeing to end its nuclear program. >> i think north korea has potential as great as anything i've ever seen. >> the president backed up attorney general william barr after he told a senate panel without evidence he thought there was spying on the campaign by the u.s. government. the democrats accused barr of saying what the president wants to hear. >>> people are divided on governor newsom's moratorium on the death penalty. 44% approve of the executive action, 46% oppose t and when the quinnipiac poll asked specifically about the death penalty, 41% are in favor of it for murders. 48% prefer a sentence of life in prison. >>> it could be an unwelcome sign of the times. your pg&e bill might double by next year. a retired professor issued a report claiming if wildfires continu

blayne alexander is at the white house with more. >> reporter: a lot of peopl ll be hitting the refresh button on the special counsel's website tomorrow morning. while the plic is expected to see one version we are now learning some embers of congress will see a different version with fewer redactions. we also know we can expect to hear from thera attorney ge himself tomorrow morning. >> reporter: for a third straight day, president trump's legal team hunkered down prepping for robert eller's barly 400 redacted report handed over attorney general william barr holding a news conference with his deputy, rod rosenstein. the president's lawyers ready with their own much smaller counter report, between 30 and 40 pages. >> i think they've been workingt on it a longe. they haven't seen the report but have seen antot of iligence and information inside the report. >> reporter: inside the white house, a different meeting expected with reality sta. >> we have meetings on any will of issues but we read the mueller report like anyone else. >> reporter: for weeks barr has been working with eller's te

blayne alexander, nbc news, washington. >> we've posted every single page of public version on our webesterday afternoon shut down a few lanes on the benicia bridge. here is view of the aftermath there. can you see there is damage to a few of those booths there. it took crews hours to clean things up. good thing here, no one was hurt. >> 7:38 right now. still ahead for you here on "today in the bay," first a long rain delay and then a nasty collision there. we'll show you what happened at last night's giants game. for gi fans.. one of those games...you look back and say -- maybe it should >>> it was painful to watch. the giants fans and pirates fans. these are one of those games you look back and say maybe we should have allowed the game to come on and move the game on. in pittsburgh you might have seen that game here on nbc bay area. the rain delayed the game about 90 minutes. b this was a scary moment here. two of the pirates collide. this pop fly there. starling mart ese had to be car off. the final score 4-1. the toronto blue jays jumped out to an early lead, never looking back. th

thank you, blayne. >>> a local family said they are living in fear. they're too afraid to even walk past the windows in theirome after someone fired a shot here etinside. bull shattered a window, created a hole here in the wall of their house on t street in d.c.east the family tells news 4 meagan fitzgerald this isn't the first time they've felt threatened i their home. >> it just couldn' believe it. i really couldn't believe it. >> mikaya is still in shock after what happened two weeks ago when she was home with her year-old daughter, her young son and boyfriend. >> it is very sad that, you know, you can't have peace of mind. >> we're concealing her identity because she fears for her family safety,ut she vividly remembers the night of 19th. >> i just got off from my part-time job. trying to get some rest. i just laid on the couch and looked at my daughter. >> on april 19th she was singing songs tor-erd daughter before she fell asleep. ments later her boyfriend started yelling. >> he's, like, shots fired, shots fired. we're crawling to safety in the b

blayne is at the white house to bring understand to date. ubd the attorney general say when thec might see that mueller report? >> reporter: hopefully sometime next week, pat. that's what hesaid, slightly different than the guidance he said yeerday, within the next week. every one is holdg onto the attorney general's word for when the report would be made public. he's getting a lot of attention for something else he said today. attorney general william barr again on capitol hill facing question esabout mueller's report. ndd the beginnings of the russia probe what he calls possibleor unaued surveillance into the 2016 campai. >> i think spying in a political otmpaign is a big deal. >> you're suggesting spying occurred? >> i don't -- well -- i guess u could --ing spying did occur. >> reporter: barr said he is not investigating the fbi n does he have evidence of anything improper. >> i feel i have an obligation to make sure government power is not abused. >> reporter: it's enough to draw praise f tm presidemp today leveling a new attack against

. >> blayne alexander. thanks so much. >>> democrats on the house tt oversight com just prevailed in a vote to subpoena the former head of the white house office that handles securitytle blower trisha newbo told the committee recently that 25 clearance deniaed were reve the chairman immediately requested documents related to the clearances of sever top white house officials including the president's daughter and son-in-law. >> overturning the security clearances is a choice the commander in chief can make. >> the president can fire anybody he wants. the presi can squelch criminal investigationsnd tell prosecutors to drop cases against people. we've got a king in america. >> white house press secretary sarah sanders told reporters today democrats have no right to see theum dts. and in case you missed this tweet from nbc's peterwilexander in the past hour, he just sat down with the whistle blower to talk about white house security practices. that exclusius interview in jt a few minutes on "nbc nightly news".

. >> blayne alexander joins us to break it all down. >> reporter: senator dianne feinstein is cling the vacancies a threat to national security. part of the nate's role is advise and consent. some critics say by putting people in these positions that are not senate confirmed, even if just on a temporary basis, the president is actually giving himself more leverage in these departments. all of this comes as president trump increases his frustration the border. the dartment in charge of securing the southern border is without a permanent leader. homeland security secretary kirsen nielsen has resigned under pressure from president trump. >> i share the goal of securing the borderon i willnue to support all efforts to address the humanitarian and security crisis on the border. >> reporter: the preside announcing her departure on twitter over the weekend briefly tweeting h thanks. his frustration with nielsenyi intens in recent months.ne nbc has lethe president wanted to reinstate the policy of separating families at the border. nielsen resists. >> she has said legally he just can't do it. t

blayne alexander, nbc news, washington. >>> he wants to go from dublin to the white house.t bay congressman eric swalwell is on the campaign trail less than 24 hours after announcing he's running for president. the 38-year-old democrat is in sunrise, florida, this evening where he held a town hall on gun violence. gun control is one of the main issues he's pushing during his campaign. swalwell says he talks to kids who are afraid they'll be the next victim of gun violence and it's time for washington, d.c. to do something about it. swalwell is hosting a town hall meeting at his alma mater, dublin high school, this weekend. >>> stakes are getting higher in the college admissions cheating scandal. the feds are turning up the heat adding new indictments today against actress lori loughlin and many bay area parents. loughlin and the others were initially charged with two kinds of fraud, but today prosecutors added money laundering. that's a reference to the bribes and other payments that were funneled through admitted scam lead eric singer's purported charity. so far 16 parents

. >> blayne alander is at the white house with that story. >> reporter: let's start with thatim growinggration fight. today the trump administration announced they are moving resources to help with what they call a crisis at the southern border. democrats say they have to fight back saying thoseolutions are only creating more problems. today new orders from the trump atration reassigning hundreds of customs and border patthol personnel to deal w the highest number of migrant border crossings in more than a decade according to the agency. it follows a threat by president trump to close the southern border this week unless mexico does more to stop migrant crossings into the u.s. experts say that could deal a huge blow to the u.s.om ec >> mexico is the third largest trading partner for the u.s. after china and canada. one the biggest product categories specifically that tht u.s. from mexico, beer and wine and snack foods. if we get fewer ofhe those and prices go up, that's something you could feel pretty soon. nt>> reporter: the presid tweeting homeland security is being so nice but not for long

blayne alexander is tracking this story with the latest for us tonight. >> jim and wendy, for years now national security experts have been making the link between julian assange and russia. nack in 2012 he had a political top show a state-sponsored russian run television network. now u.s offic a

and there'sre mo blayne alexander reports. >> reporter: president trump eyeing an even harder line on immigration. announcing on twitter his administration is giving strong considerations to a policy that would b meundocunted immigrants who have been detained to so-called sanuary cities and release them. >> they want more people in their sanctuary cities? 'll give them more people. we can give them an unlimited supply. >> reporter: his announcement contradicting his ownomeland security department which hours early early told nbc news this wa w a suggestion that floated and rejected. a source tells nbc news the idea that this woulde done a political retaliation te, quote, abso ridiculous. but the president cited democrats unwillingness to change wha he calls very dangerous immigration laws. >> just anotherotion that is unworthy of the presidency of the united states andsr pectful of the challenges that we face as a country, as a people t address whoe are, a nation of immigrants. >> reporter: the president has long slammed sanctuary cities mostly democratic areas across the country that