. >> let's get the inside scoop from patrick ryder keefe. jeff mason, reuters white house correspondent. welcome both. jeff, first, the a-plus grade in a week when scott pruitt is taking fire on the hill, ronny jackson has had to pull out after not having been properly vetted and we've got michael cohen being damaged, you know, legally by the president's own comments on "fox & friends" today in that filing in the southern district of new york for starters. >> indeed. i don't think a lot of people would agree with that grade but i'm not surprised that's the grade the president gave himself. he's optimistic about what his administration has been able to accomplish and it's fair to also point out that he likes chaos, you know, and that chaos has sort of stayed around him during his first year in office and into the first few months of this year and continues. >> and let's talk about your incredible mcmaster profile. patrick, you have the first insight from all the rumblings we've all heard. what are your big takeaways about the way mcmaster was

. >>> we have a report that macron was in discussions with the iranian leader, working to keefe that deal together. he's been coy whether or not he'll stay in that deal. what are you watching for here? do you have any confidence that deal would continue? >> i think the only way the deal continuing -- i hope the president doesn't cancel the deal. because the north koreans are watching. i think the only way out for the president is to say i have four months in which i can make a decision. i said you to work out a agreement -- they continue still the bad pals on yems, ma'am on syria, but i think a missile agreement and if the iranians want it, they probably should do it. if he doesn't get that assurance that maybe we'll look at an agreement, i think he'd cancel it. they're going to say why should we make a deal when a new president might throw it out. >> we've been watching our colleague's footage of what's happening along the u.s./mexico border. that my grant caravan making its wait to the border. i just wonder how you react to what you have seen, what you have heard about that what's

president on regulatory reform is because of this reporting from reuters and this reporting from patrick keefe at the new yorker magazine. reuterss a and the new yorker documented how carl icahn used that trump administration white house gig like it was just any other carl icahn corporate raider business opportunity. he leveraged that gig into what may have ended up being hundreds of millions of dollars in personal profit for himself. one of his interests at the time, his business interest was a refinery concern up against significant environmental cost. he was very outspoken against those environmental regulations that impose those cost in his refinery business. when he was announced as trump's regulations are, the market responded especially by expecting that those environmental regulations would go away. turns out carl icahn placed his own bets on the markets that they would do that. and so when his bet paid off, he pocketed tens of approximate ss dollars and the value of his refinery went up into actions e he took as a government official. it's slightly more complicated than that but that

the police keefe credits community relations for the turn around. here is leslie brinkley with the story. >> this is the scene of the last murder in richmond back on november 14th, 2017 in the hill top green neighborhood. two people died. irene per dom o cousin was one. >> i'm grateful there haven't been more homicides. but i also know there is more work to be done and that the fight isn't over. >> since november there have been many shootings in richmond but no homicides compared to 15 deaths last year, 59 homicides every oh the last three years. >> oh, my god. yeah, i mean, community involvement and engagement is higher than it's ever been historically high here. >> residents are calling in suspicious activity. and opening their doors to officers asking questions. he credits federal help in curbing gang violence and winning the public truss that led to popular community policing programs. >> i do see -- just the community trusting the police more from a residents perspective. >> you look on the police department facebook page and you know they pos

chief and keefe. >> as an introduction that's not my strong point i'll do my best. one thing i would suggest is that we really need to approach the issue of school standpoint from the standpoint of problemcephalic process. i had incidence to do that as police chief in the cincinnati whether a school over the ryan and the superintendent expressed the with educational quality was affected by the external virmt, the neighborhood had a high level of crime. i worked it as a young police officer. i knew the area very, very well. but i did something probably unusual. and i said we need to ask the kids. and so we partnered up with the university of cincinnati and some early childhood development professors and we designed a survey to actually survey the children and ask them about their perception of safety. not what we thought about their safety. we also did data analysis too process. because we look at children -- or traveling back and forth to school during -- right before an hour before and hour after school. saying what does the data tell us? literally there were certa

is it -- >> joanna henden and reed keef. this is the counsel from lesser known law firms, spears and eye mus, this is the president's personal representation but not not the president folks who are on the russia side. >> so i don't know what, if anything, is to be made of that since it's being handled by them, maybe that's an indication that he too sees the cohen investigation as touching on different matters other than the russia investigation, and those different matters are matters in which donald trump believes he has a stake, such as what was the trump organization up to all those years before he ran for president, before he became president. >> right, and what does donald trump know about that that makes him willing to be interviewed personally? you're making an important distinction. this is some of his attorney's on other matters than the criminal defense team when in the nda litigation, there were questions about his time and availability, he said he's not available for depositions, he's not going to be personally i

patrick radden keefe, thank you so much.or your piece in the april 30 issue of the "new yorker." thank you. >> thanks, patrick. >> thanks. >>> still ahead on "morning joe" -- >> he put his name on everything. there was at one point a trump-branded urine test which you could send back for donald trump-branded vitamins. there was furniture, vodka -- >> urine test? >> urine test. they would send the donald trump urine test to your house and you would send it back so people in the world were like, you know who could analyze my urine?'s o "kasie d.c." reporting on the collapse of trump's merchandising empire. can you believe urine test? he's out with new reporting on the manhattan condo building that wants to shed the trump name. the "washington post's" david fahrenholt joins us next. it took guts to start my business. but as it grew bigger and bigger, it took a whole lot more. that's why i switched to the spark cash card from capital one. with it, i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy. everything. and that 2% cash ba