blayne is leaving us to become a network correspondent at nbc news help congratulations, blayne. kell us about your new role. >> than you. i will still be around, just not in this current 6:00 p.m. forum. i will be all over news and i look forward to hopefully seeing you more. at 6:00, you wl always be in my heart at this exact time. don't worry. >> that's great to hear. we wish you the best. we look forward to watching all your great work on nbc. blayne, thanks so much. >> i have loved working with you guys. thanks so much. >> we will miss you, blayne. to >>> now a report causing a lot of people to stop and take stock of just where we are right now onamerican politics. "the new york times" reports the trump campaign is soliciting the help of a foreign government for the 2020 election. the mueller report concluded that the trump campaign gladly accepterussia's help to defeat hillary clinton in 2016. even if the admissible evidence did not rise to thelevel of a criminal conspiracy. now "the new york times" is reporting that the president's personal lawyer rudy giuliani is headed t

nbc's blayne alexander joins us live in washington, d.c. blayne, as expected, this has been a contentious showdown. >> reporter: absolutely, raj. only increasingly so as the day progressed. remember this was supposed to be day one of two of barr's testimony. barr says that's it for now. now, as for that letter from special counsel robert mueller to attorney general william barr back in march, barr got a lot of questions about that today. testifying before the senate judiciary committee, attorney general william barr facing increased fire from democrats. pointing to a newly revealed letter special counsel robert mueller sent to barr back in march. >> attorneys don't put things in writing unless they're pretty serious about them. >> reporter: in his letter mueller expressed frustration with the attorney general's four-page summary of the report saying it did not fully capture the context, nature and substance of the report. >> the letter's a bit snitty. i think it was probably written by one of his staffpeople. >> reporter: that giving new am

blayne alexander joins us with all the latest details. hi, blayne. lu>> reporter: you're absoly right. that subpoena was sent by thebl repuican controlled committee some weeks ago, butar appently caught the white house off guard. president trump had a lot to say about it today. for the second time in less than a week, a missile f launchrom north korea stoking tension with the white house. >> nobody's happy about it, but wee taking a goo look and we'll see. they're talking about negotiates, but i think don't think they're ready to negotiate. >> reporter: the from an apparently testy kim jong-un after his denuclearization talks fell apart. >> i think we have to go back to the campaign. >> reporter: today another escalation. the u.s. seizing a north korean ship caught carrying coal, olation of u.n. sanctis. the growing tension abroad coming amid a power struggle back home. on capitol hill, the republican run senate intelligence cmittee demanding donald trump jr. return to capitol hill to testify again about the now scrapped trump tower moscow project. >

blayne,e want to wish y well on your new gig with nbc news. miss i already. >> i miss you guys too, but i'm not going far. i'm just mong over to network,@u so you'll see me in a different form. >> you're staying in the family. that's whathat's important. >> you'll always be in my hearts at 4:00. >> thanks, blayne. >>> newswjfí 4 working for your health with a promising new >> coming up, see how doctors here are adding years torh5ot pants lives across the country. >>> plus confusion for drivers in maryland. the next time you ge pulled #ti%  m. deflating party city's business. >>> and i'm tracking this line of srmong sto very heavy rainfall coming shrough about .7 of an inchfz% wheaton as thi moves around the bowie area along route 50, downo through fairfax county. heads up, this moving on through heads up, this moving on through the area>sñ and you know when you're at ross and you find that perfect spring dress athat "oh, yeah" price? yes! that's yes for less. score the latest spring dresses at 20% to 60% off department store prices, every da

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nbc's blayne allaexdest on this power struggle. >> reporter: inn mueller's unredacted russia report,rking a dramatic escalation in the white house fight with house democrats. >> the president now t take a wrecking ball to the constitution. >> reporter: the president's decision giving new fuel to democrats on the house judiciary committee, voting to hold attorney general william barr in contempt for not complying with a subpoena for the unredacted report. that measure now going to the house floor. >> we've talked for a long time about approaching a constitutional crisis. we are now in it. we are now in a constitutional crisis. >> reporter: from the committee's top republican -- >> what a cynical, mean spirit the, counterproductive, irresponsible step it is. >> reporter: a justice department official told committee chairman jerry nadler his decision to move forward with a contempt hearing terminated good faith talks between the two parties. it was barr who urged the president to invoke executive privilege in a letter citing millions of pages of documents classified and unclassified, no

blayne alexander live. >>> tiger woods is going to be visiting the white hose on monday.ident trump is going to be awarding him the presidential metal of freedom. woods won his fifth masters golf tournament last month. the president said he is awarding woods the metal because of his success in golf and in life. he two played a round of gfl earlier this year. >>> a local foamily is grappling with a slur and a threat hurled atad a first grer by a classmate. they're planning more training for stafrs, but as meagan fitzgerald explains, the student's well known grandfather says the fight w stop here. >> reporter: playing outside and being a kid ishat most first graders are focused on. and school work, of c>>rse, too. ou have to do a lot of homework and then you get a break. >> reporter: but lately 6-year-old max dyson has been thinking about something else. >> in my class he was saying bad words at me. he pushed me around. >> after he and a coupleof school mates raced to the cafeteria because it was pizza day. >> reporteth his grandfar, prominent scholar and commentator michae

blayne alexander reporting live. pat?drinking water safer at school. this afternoon the council voted toly dramatical reduce the amount of lead allowed iner wat. five parts per billion which is down from the state maximum of no more than 20 parts. montgomery county has already replaced fountains with lead levels that exceed thegher amount. exposure to lead can affect cognitive and bone development in children. >>> this is teacher appreciation week, and all week ronning -- long we are celebrating. >> reporter: millette green stopped by one school with carla flores with our sister station telemundo 44. >> reporter: happy national teachers day from st. mary's school in rockville! [ cheers and applause ] okay. i'm here with carla flores from telemundo 44. you ta it away, girls. >> let me hear it! good job! >> reporter: carkarla did a gre job. the kids here speak multiple languages. we love ss mary'nd their fantastic teachers. 25 teachers, look, holding up their teacher pictures andi b here, i love it. okay. so one. teachers h

blayne. >> this was supposed to be the first of a two-day apprance by the attorney general on capitol hill. instead, this isissentially and pulled out of that hearing tomorrow. we already know some members of mueller's team were frustrated with theour page barr report and now we know some frustration was shared by mueller himself. ti his first day of congressional tny since the redacted russia report, attorney general william barr facing increased fire from democrats including literary mueller sent to barr in march.rn >> attos don't put things in iting unless they're pretty serious about them.ep >> rter: in his letter, mueller expressed frustration with the four-page report.it he said oes not fully capture the context, nature and -- >> the letter is a bit snitty and i think written by one ohi staff people. >> i think the american public has seen quite well you are biased in this situation. >> reporters the special coun did not dispute the accuracy noting he wanted more t informan made public. >> at that point, it was my baby, and i was making a decision as to whether or not to make it

blayne alexander is tracking that battle and many more tonight.blayne. >> reporter: doreen, we saw a lot of things inside that hearing room today. several momts of political posturing. even a pukt bucket of fried chi. one thing we did not see the attorney general. tha h disagreement overow the hearing would play out. no secret there's been bad bloor between thesident's department of justice and how democrats. tod that went to a whole new level. inside today's house judiciary e committ hearing, a seat reserved for attorn general william barr standing empty. >> he has failed the men and women of the department of justice by placing the needs of the president over the fair administration ofc justi he has even failed to show up today. >> reporter: barr did not attend after democrats insisted he answer questions from committee lawyers, not just lawmakers. >> we're not getting that opportunity today because the stunt and the circus continues t er here. >> reporter: iomes as the justice department in a letter refused to comply with a subpoena from the co

blayne alexander, nbc news, washington.ly >> if you on uber and lyft to get where you're going in own, you mit want to have a backup plan tomorrow. >> it's going to be a rough one, folks. transportation reporter adamtu ss digging into the strike that drivers are planning and the ripple effect it could have. >>> plus, drunk drivers walking free ash crashes on one of our region's deadliest roads. the news 4th i-team wi numbers you won't believe at 6:30. >>> and things just went from bad to worse for this year's preakness stakes in baltimore. why there is no hope for a triple crown excitement this year. >> and it is just a beautiful day all across you're region, but things will nots look thi good tomorrow. we'll be talking more clouds and chance of showers and much cooler weather. things going downhillas we head >>> the hits just keep on coming for the preakness stakes. today the winner of saturday's controversial kentucky derby race dropped out of preakness. the owner of country house says his horse developed a cough. country house won saturday's kentucky derby after an interference cal

>> blayne alexander on the hill. thanks. >>> todayarks another monumental achievement in tiger woods' career. perhaps even bigger than his comeback win from them ters. president trump will bestow on tiger the nation's highest honor for a ci, the presidential medal of freedom. woods is the 33rd athlete to receive the medaln and the fourth golfer. president trump tweeted that he gave tiger the news while congratulating him on histe mas victory. >>> 4:45.n overnight, nbc news has learned that all protective restrictions have been lifted for southern israel signaling a cese-fire with gaza. no official announcement has been made, but there has been an agsence of israeli air strikes. a cease-fire reement could end what has been the bloodie fighting between israel and in hamas five years. the two sides have fought since the islamic milita group took control of gaza more than a decade ago. >>> howard county police are trying to figure w t led the death of a woman and a man badly hurt. the woman's body was found in ag apartme

today'saction on executive privege has no bearing on mueller's ability to y.testif >> blayne alexander, thank you. >>> tonight, a "new york times" bombshell undermines the core of prident trump'sbrand as a savvy businessman and may shed ght on his refusal of income taxes. they contain years of previously undisclosed income tax returns from decades before a candidate as president. he spent 10 i years the red with losses, totalling more than a billion dollars from 1985 to 1994. according to the times, year after year mr. trump appears to have lost more money thanearly any other individual americ taxpayer. nbc news has not independently reviewed or confirmed that tax information. pritident trump reacted w tweets suggesting real estate developers in the 's and '90s purposely showed losses for tax returnses and called the report highly inaccurate and a hit job. >>> uber and lyft drivers t pledging rn off their apps. >> was today's strike a big deal or bust? adam found drivers still out there taking fares today but has details of a protest later tonight. >>> up in the skies, the blue angels

blayne alexander is there to break this down. quite a battle. >> only getting more intense.house democrats raising the iaryudicn their own in the past committee just voted 22-16 to hold the attorney general innt coempt. that will then move o to be the house of representatives. major action from house democrats. it does come as the white house raises the stakes, president trump exerting executive privilege. >> reporter: in an explosive new step, protest exerting executive privilege over the russia report marking a dramatic escalation with white house democrats. ow>> the president n seeks to take a wrecking ball to the constitution. >> reporter: the president's decision announced just as the house judiciary committee held a hearing what to hold the attorney general, william barr, for not complying with a subpoena for the unredacted redeort, giving add fuel to dem rats. >> noperson, not the attorney general, nor the president, can be permitted to be above the law. >> reporter: from the top republicans. >> what a mean-spirited irresponsible step it is. >> reporter: telling jerry

blayne. >> this was supposed to be the first of a two-day apprance by the attorney general on capitol hill. instead, this isissentially and pulled out of that hearing tomorrow. we already know some members of mueller's team were frustrated with theour page barr report and now we know s

blayne alexander joins us live with more on how democrats are responding. good morning, plain. >> reporter: good morning to you both. a pair of tweets came out from the president overnight. he is weighing in on the possibility of mueller testifying before lawmakers. as you can imagine, democrats had a lot to say back. it's only escalating this growing battle between the two. a new week with new deadlines. house democrats demanding attorney general william prar respond to their request for a more complete version of the mueller report by this morning. >> we just want the information so we can do our work, so we can do the oversight that our committee is required to do. >> reporter: barr has made a less redacted verbal vacation to 12 top lawmakers, but democrats want all members to see it. if not, threatening to hold barr in contempt. >> my question to the chairman is why doesn't he read what's already available. if he wants more, then work with the department of justice to if eurg this out. >> reporter: and working to bring robert mueller before the house ju

nbc's blayne alexander joins us ow live with the latest.porter: 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. f

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