here's geoff bennett. >> reporter: inside washington's museum of the bible, a single volume that is like no other. the so-called slave bible. remarkable not for what's in it but for what's not. >> so about 90% of the old testament has been removed and about 50% of the new testament has been removed. to put it another way, a normal king james version has 1,189 chapters in it. the slave bible has only 232. >> reporter: missing are chapters and verses that might have encouraged uprisings. book of exodus redacted. no story of moses demanding pharaoh, let my people go. gone is galatians and the verse, there is neither bond nor free, for ye are all one in christ jesus. and no jeremiah. woe unto him that useth his neighbors' service without wages. >> what they've left in are verses such as ephesians 6:5 which is the famous verse, slaves, be obedient to your master. >> reporter: looking at this bible, it's hard to tell anything has been taken out of it. >> that's correct. it looks like a normal book. for many enslaved africans, this would have been the first time they were exposed to the bible.

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nbc's geoff bennett is on capitol hill for us with the latest. ough what we're expecting to see wednesday. >> reporter: ayman, look, a power play on the part of congressional democrats. attorney general william barr as we know on friday said he would release the redacted version of mueller's report to congress by mid-april. democrats have said all along that's not good enough. they say their april 2nd deadline stands, and so this vote on wednesday is aimed at issuing or authorizing subpoenas to gain access to the full, unredacted mueller report and all of its underlying evidence. legal experts i've talked to say it's not entirely clear whether the subpoenas will hold up in court, because this deadline imposed by democrats is an arbitrary one, but you have democrats on the house judiciary committee going the extra step of voting to authorize subpoenas to gain access to white house documents from five former white house staffers. that's former white house counsel don mcgahn, strategist steve bannon, former communications director hope hicks, reince

geoff bennett, thank you. you can catch "the beat with ari melber" right here on msnbc. >>> attacking the mueller report has been a mainstay of this presidency, along with threatening to shut down the border and creating chaos within the u.s. department of homeland security. according to the "washington post's" jennifer reuben, it's all by design. she writes "chaos is an authoritarian's best weapon, allowing him to distract and make others pine for order. all of this conduct suggests we have a presidency whose primary tools of governance are lying and law-breaking. the 2012 election is now a referendum on constitutional government. democrats are for it, republicans work to subvert it. cast your ballot accordingly." joining me now, "washington post" opinion writer jennifer ruben and msnbc political columnist. jennifer, this is an interesting point, because history is ripe with examples of leaders who either create disorder or sort of underscore and emphasize where disorder exists to make people say, well, you'r

environmenotection agency, white house reporter for "the washington post" "the washington post" and geoff bennett, white house correspondent for nbc news. geoff, you're at the white house day in, day out, tracking this president. what led him to back away from the decision to close the border?it geoff: you had mcconnell on the hill making clear the threat to close the border would cause disaster. there are a couple of things that account for h hard-line approach and his trip to the border today. one, absent any domestic agenda, the president is returning to an issue he thinks works for him and on the political atspherics of it, when you've engaged in theog demry in the issue of immigration the way the president has, he makes it so he can'teposition or find common ground because to do anything less than pursue one of the positions he's staked out would seem as if he's capitulating to his base. robert: did mexico change its behavior at all? the predent said mexico has been helpful this week. is that accurate? geoff: a couple of experts said the president was right on t numbers, saying that mexico a

nbc's geoff bennett is back on the hill for us. any update on the time line, a, time line with the vote, and b, let's say it passes, then what actually happens? >> they're set to vote any minute now, steph. we expect the democrats to be successful because the democrats do have a seven-eat majority. so jerry nadler said today when these are authorized and he fully expects them to be authorized, it's entirely up to him when they he will issue them. will he keep them in his back pocket likely to use as a source of leverage to apply pressure to the attorney general as he will give the attorney general time to make up his mind, to see if he will find a way to issue the full unredacted report to congress much faster than the democrats want by this april deadline that attorney general william barr announced. that's kind of the state of play. you have the attorney general saying he will release the redacted version some time mid-month. the catch there is that congress is taking easter break for two weeks in the middle of april. so they're

. >> let's start with geoff bennett just outside that hearing room on capitol hill. and peter alex ander lexander a white house. and geoff, two big headlines appear to be that the new investigation, the attorney general is leading, also more detail about what is getting redacted. what have we learned? >> reporter: right, craig. when you heard the attorney general talk about his effort to look into these allegations that republican lawmakers have made for years now, that there was they say anti-trump bias at the upper echelons of the fbi and justice department, that infected the initial probe into the trump campaign and any ties between the trump campaign and the russian, you saw him say that there was in fact spying. his goal is to see if it was probably predicated. and senator patrick leahy tried to appeal to bill barr on the point of legacy. saying that because this issue is of such grave concern and such national interest, that the way this is handled is going to be remembered long after these two men are gone. and he says the mueller report will become public one

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we heard from the chairman elijah cummings speaking to our geoff bennett. >> this white house has madeclear. they are basically going to stone wall us. in other words, they seem to want to deny us information in order to prevent us from doing our job. now, we understand that there are at times legitimate argument for not really seeing information. but, we have an unprecedented situation here. we have asked for information with regard to security clearances and the census. we have not gotten the things we need. >> so ali, i would underscore here that chairman cummings is first of all widely respected on both sides of the isle and is somebody that's focused on how the process is here on capitol hill are supposed to work. he does it by the book and you can see here that he's saying look, this is absolutely unprecedent unprecedented. he acknowledges why the white house did not give documents. i will also point out republicans have asked the white house for some documents when they were running it a short month ago, they never received documents from the white house. this is in many ways to

. >> joining me now is geoff bennett. it was clearly an explosive day, geoff, an amazing one.ar an attorney general tacking about spying and later saying, well, we're looking into it. so what are people saying today? >> reporter: yeah, steph, i think the most charitable interpretation of the attorney general's deliberate word choice comes from people close to him, who are telling julia ainsley and me that william barr doesn't see much of a semantic difference between spying and surveillance. in fact he's not invested that much in the surveillance as he is trying to make sure the fbi followed the proper procedures in the probes between the trump campaign and the russian government. they also point out he's not calling for a full investigation, he just wants to review the information that already exists. okay. so here's the deal with that. as you know. -- congress has looked into this question several times. last year the then congressional leaders, former house speaker paul ryan, richard burr, still chairman of the senate intelligence he committee, and trey gowdy, he of the ben

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside geoff bennett, appreciate it.> mr. president, how old is too old to be president? >> i just feel like a young man. i'm so young. i can't believe it. i'm the youngest person. i am a young, vibrant man. i look at joe, i don't know about him. i don't know. >> how old is too hold? >> i would never say anyone is too old. they're all making me look very young, in terms of age and i think in terms of energy. i think you people know that better than anybody. >> yeah, just look at him. he's so young. and it's almost like he's saying he so happy, he's so rich and he's so smart. >> you know what else

. >>> joining me, geoff bennett, who is live on capitol hill. "the washington post" white house bureau chief and msnbc political analyst philip rucker. darren samuel son and former u.s. attorney and former deputy assistant attorney general harry litman, also a contributing columnist for "the washington post." so geoff, what is the harm in democrats' minds for waiting until mid april to see this report. >> reporter: democrats make the argument that the trump white house las had a jeff start by way of the four-page summary, which? derisively call a press release, with the attorney general summarizing on his own. the democrats wasn't the full report, and the underlying evidence. the other thing they point to is the doj's general m.o. is to wait, to buy time, to stall. so democrats see it as being in their interests to jump on this as quickly as possible, katy. >> darren, what about the subpoena related to bannon, hicks and others? what exactly are they looking for this? >> they're looking for information tied to their time in the white house, tied

geoff bennett, white house correspondent for nbc news, frank figliuzzi for counterintelligence, and robert costa, moderator of "washington week" on pbs. good evening and welcome to you all. frank, given your experience, y tell us how easy or hard it is to get a fisa warrant, and could the work done under a fisa warrant be construed as spying in the name of that warrant? >> brian, look, the performance of this attorney general over at the last two days has been t abysmal. what he did today by invoking the spying connotation is he flew what i would call a flash g ban grenade into the room. by that, anyone who has been associated or involved with tactical teams will know that a flash ban grenade is meant to disorient and distract with a flash of light and a loud noise, but it's not made to take out personnel. what he did was throw in the flash band grenade into the room. he is falling in line with this president, and the notion that the fbi was somehow spying on a campaign when what it has proven to have done is lawfully investigate with predication allegations that the russians were involved

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let's head to peter alexander at the white house and geoff bennett on capitol hill. peter, let's start with you. the president is set to leave any moment. he's denying cleaning house, but obviously he is. he's declared the situation at the border a national emergency over 50 days ago and the department that is focused on all of this, at least at the top, is now a complete mess. >> yes, stephanie, you're right. the president said he's not cleaning house and his allies, republicans on capitol hill, say there's now a vacuum of void in leadership, latest departure taking place yesterday. we learned about it overnight. claire grady was the acting deputy secretary of the department of homeland security. according to kirstjen nielsen, outgoing homeland security secretary, grady said she would be resigning, she offered her resignation. i spoke to kellyanne conway, the president's counsellor moments ago, she said she was not forced out, that this was simply a resignation on her own terms. but it follows the departure of kirstjen nielsen, ouster of tex head of dallas and the r

. >> thank you, geoff bennett. we have to head to the white house now. nbc's peter alexander stands by. first, peter, white house pushing back on a new "the new york times" piece just out about 2020 election security. and we should remind our audience, the president tweeted earlier this week that "the new york times" owes him another apology for their fake news reporting. and peter baker reminded us on twitter they didn't apologize the first time and they don't owe him one now. >> stephanie, you're right. this goes to "the new york times" new reporting in the final months she was forced to resign then homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen was really trying to focus the white house's attention on efforts to compat new ways that russia was trying to interfere heading into the 2020 election. but according to "the new york times," the president and his chief of staff mick mulvaney told her not to bring it up in front of president trump. to the president any sort of public discussion by maligned russian activity he equated with questions about his own

joining me from capitol hill nbc news correspondent geoff bennett, also with me former staffer and dncte for bernie sanders wally cha heed. he's currently a spokesperson for justice democrats and adrienne el rod. jeff, i want to start with you, kind of what this looks like in the senate. we have seen republicans use some of these campaign trail initiatives to try and beat up on democrats certainly, mitch mcconnell forced to vote on the green new deal for example. we know this isn't going to be made law under this republican conference, but is there any sort of political future for it along those lines? >> no, and here's my guess about this, my educated and informed guess. it's likely that this proposal is going to end up where it started, a big ambitious idea designed to help bernie sanders set himself apart as the most progressive candidate in this crowded field. house speaker nancy pelosi isn't going to bring this bill up for a vote in part because as you well know she represents members from a wide array of districts, ideologically split districts, and she doesn't want to play on th

. >> thank you, geoff bennett on capitol hill. >>> he will speak with the house and senate judiciary committee to decide if more is needed. joining me now as a house of the democratic committee democratic congresswoman representing the virgin islands stacy. representative, good to see you. thank you for being with us. >> good to see you. >> what questions do you have after hearing bill barr talking about the report and what will be redacted. >> well, of course, i think that my colleagues did a great job in the questioning during the hearing. so the questions that remain are the questions that come from the actual report itself. so, it's until we have that 400-page report that we should at this point really be able to hone in on the questions that are plaguing not just us members of congress, but the nation. and my concern, of course, is as to the redaction process, barr says that there are going to be four categories in which he will do the redactions. we have incidents where reports in full were given to us and closed sessions that we could not take out so we could comb through it p

let's take you now to geoff bennett on the hill where the battle is escalating between house democrats and attorney general bill barr and his scheduled appearance thursday. give us an update. jerry nadler has issued a new threat to compel barr to comply. what exactly is he saying? because barr isn't worried about being shameless. you have to legally force him to go. >> reporter: right. and to bring people up to speed here, the attorney general is objecting to the format of thursday's scheduled hearing. so nadler wants the committee lawyers to be able to grill the attorney general on the mueller report. about a are oig are barr is saying he will only take questions from members of congress. now the committee has announced that they will formally vote to authorize the extra hour for thursday's hearing that would allow the lawyers to ask those he questions. and nad ler nadler is also still threatening a subpoena. >> the attorney general is afraid to subject himself to questions, that may indicate lack of confidence in his own position. it is not up to the attorney general to tell the comm

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i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside geoff bennett, appreciate it. "morning joe" starts right now, everybody. >>> mr. president, how old is too old to be president? >> i just feel like a young man. i'm so young. i can't believe it. i'm the youngest person. i am a young, vibrant man. i look at joe, i don't know about him. i don't know. >> how old is too hold? >> i would never say anyone is too old. they're all making me look very young, in terms of age and i think in terms of energy. i think you people know that better than anybody. >> yeah, just look at him. he's so young. and it's almost like he's saying he so happy, he's so rich and he's so smart. >> you know what else he is? 239 pounds. that's what dr. ronnie said. >> hmm. it's monday, april 29th. with us jonathan lemire. >> joe, you're creepy. >> that's for jonathan lemire. eddie glaude jr. and clint watts. >> there are three things we got to talk about. >> oh, no. >> jonathan lemire, chris sale now 0-5 for your boston red sox. >> it's a good thing we just gave him a $150 million, tension. -- ext