rachel williams, you are a survivor of domestic abuse.hing new, but how many more kids need to die until this country wakes up and takes these serious? and let's not forget children who commit suicide because of these perpetrators, i mean my son committed suicide because of one man's action, and i know two other women whose sons have committed suicide because of an abuser in the household. how do you react to the stories we brought you there, rachel's children were granted supervised contact with her ex, despite the fact that police said she was at high risk of being murdered by him. you are a former children's minister, you are the chair of the all—party parliamentary group on children, how do you respond? there is a much bigger problem here. but respond to that in particular. the cases we have heard about, although children should not be given contact to parents who have got that sort of record, drugs, domestic violence or whatever, if it we re domestic violence or whatever, if it were the residential parent, they would be good grounds

we can now speak to rachel williams, a domestic abuse survivor, author and ambassador for welsh womenng his court appearance. i mean, not being released on bail. waiting his courtappearance. i mean, i had 36 police officers dealing with my case within six weeks, i work with gwent police now, my localforce, and they are fabulous and really listening to the victims and survivors. they are making the changes that are needed. what do you say to people who say, well, if you stay with someone for that length of time, there is, not that length of time, there is, not that you are condoning what is happening, but you are prepared to put up with it. nobody is prepared to put up with it, let‘s not put the onus on the victim and start putting the onus on the perpetrator. at the end of the day it is the perpetrator that is raining the abuse on the victims. let‘s not ask why doesn‘t she leave, let‘s ask why is he abusing. so why are we talking about the need for refuge is if we need to tackle this at the heart, the perpetrators. it is great that theresa may is doing this, obviously there are more d

let me read you something, rachel, that the great michael beschloss tweeted while you were on tonight. >> okay. >> it's about william safire, who was a columnist for "the new york times" and a republican. he worked -- he was a -- went into politics to write for richard nixon's -- >> yeah. >> -- 1968 campaign. so he knew -- bill safire new all the republican players. he knew all the players, but the republican players, he knew them very well. in 1992, thanks to michael beschloss, bill safire's column refers to then attorney general william barr, then attorney general william barr as the cover-up general. bill safire was quite the phrase maker, and that was his view of william barr then. >> how do you think they found william barr for this gig? >> they googled "cover-up general." >> exactly. who is famous for cover-up as attorney general? right. >> okay, rachel. go home and don't sleep. >> i will do. >> thank you, rachel. >> thanks. >>> senator elizabeth warren is going to join us later in this hour, and it's on a day when she's enjoyed a significant bump in the polls, including one poll where she comes in second behi

. ♪ >>> hillary clinton on the rachel maddow she, her first tv interview of the year slamming williamrather it's okay for u.s. presidential candidates to invite russian help. perhaps democrats should do it. >> so why should russia have all the fun? and since russia is clearly backing republicans, why don't we ask china to back us? >> i hereby tonight ask china -- >> that's right. not only that, china, if you're listening, why don't you get trump's tax returns. i'm our media would richly reward you. >> clinton remixing that donald trump line when he was asking russia to hack her e-mails. he claimed he was joking, but the mueller report found that hours of that remark, russian hackers targeted clinton's e-mails for the first time. jeanne shaheen joins me now from capitol hill. what was your reaction to the performance yesterday and now his refusal to show up to the house side? >> well i didn't vote for mr. barr to be attorney general. i was very concerned about whether he would actually release the mueller report to the public in full. there's been shown to be good reason he has not don

. >> kamala harris speaking with my colleague rachel maddow last night about attorney general william evasive answers before the senate judiciary committee this week. there is a growing number of democrats who are calling on barr to resign or be impeached. all of this following his explosive hearing and joining me right now is ben wittes, senior fellow at the brookings institute and an msnbc legal analyst. and matt zeppet owski a national security reporter at "the washington post." thank you for being here. so ben, the battle lines do appear to be drawn and the democrats threatening barr with context. how would that play out? >> i don't think we know. i think neither side is likely to let it go. and the result, i think, is that we are on some relatively inex orable tract to some kind of confrontation, whether that is a contempt citation and people are talking about impeachment or whether there is some way to ratchet things down a little bit and reach a kind of negotiated framework for barr's appearance, i don't know. but i do think we're on a collision course at this point. >> and mat

against democrats after they voted to hold attorney general william barr in contempt, saying their focus on investigations is a disgrace. abc's rachel is in florida. >> reporter: president trump campaigning in panama city beach wednesday night, announcing $448 million in disaster relief for the florida panhandle ravaged by hurricane michael. the president blasting democrats and continuing his fight over the full release of the mueller report. >> after two years, nothing. no collusion. now the democrats are saying, we want more. you know, it was going to be like, we want the mueller report. now they say, mueller report? no, we want to start all over again. >> reporter: in washington the republican-led senate intelligence committee issuing a subpoena to donald trump jr. the president's son testified before the committee in 2017, but they want to speak to him again. that subpoena coming as the war between the white house and congressional democrats continues to heat up. the house judiciary committee voting on a resolution to hold attorney general william barr in contempt after he refused to respond to a subpoena for the unredactedd the

rachel: this is a time to be on the side of the venezuelan people. >> jessica: good thing i am. president trump using the words "nasty" to describe kamala harris' questioning of william week. and now her campaign is fund-raising off the president's comments, calling them sexes. we will debate it next. ♪ te, balanced nutrition for strength and energy! whoo-hoo! great-tasting ensure. with nine grams of protein and twenty-six vitamins and minerals. ensure, for strength and energy. we're on the move. hey rick, all good? oh yeah, we're good. we're good. terminix. defenders of home. >> mayor pete, kamala harris. >> well, i don't see either of them. i think she has got a little bit of a nasty wits, but that might be it. >> rachel: president trump taking aim at senator kamala harris, twice using the word "nasty" in reference to the candidate. paris weighing in, but not bringing the issue of gender into it >> that was the second time he's use the word "nasty" about you. what's that about? >> god only knows. [laughs] listen, i'm going to be very clear about how i think about what is important and what is before us. we have the president the president of the united states, whos

william barr which is set for tomorrow. barr is refusing to hand over the unredacted version of the mueller report and the underlying evidence. cnn political analyst and "washington post" congressional reporter rachel ba deis on capitol hill for us. does it look like they will reach an agreement on this, rachel? >> reporter: i'm very skeptical on that, but even if they would i would expect it would be a delay the of this inevitable contempt citation. last week the justice department in a letter to the committee said that their requesting for the full unredacted mueller report was, quote, not legitimate oversight and there's a fundamental disagreement between the justice department and how democrats about whether or not the house should be sort of relitigating all these findings that mueller put out a few weeks ago, and so the house wants to bring in all these people, these witnesses. they want to go through the documents and look at the underlying documents and hash out of whether the president obstructed justice since mueller did not make a decision on that but the doj says that would be bad for the country, and they don't want them to do that, so even if they reached some sort of accord it's goin

rachel. >> let me just ask your reaction, first of all, your response to this reporting from "the washington post" tonight, that the special counsel expressed both in writing and by phone to william barr that the attorney general was mischaracterizing the mueller findings. >> bob mueller must have been pretty upset. you know, what's so interesting to me, we always disagree about stuff at the department of justice, but we don't always write letters about it. we have a phrase called going to paper. you don't go to paper lightly, because you don't want to box them in or show them up. you go to paper when you want to make a record for the history books. if turns thing out really bad, if things don't work out the way you wanted them to, you go to paper to make that record, to paper the trail. so for bob to do this, he must have been quite upset. the other reaction i have is that the letter that devlin barrett read is probably the second letter. because you write the first one when you're really angry, put it in your desk drawer, you sleep on it and come back the next day and take out some adjectives and then you send the second one. and i've done that myself. >> yeah, see, i'm the one

to james williams and michael mckee will talk to the cleveland fed president at the hoover institute. alix: it's time for the first take. we are joined by a u.s. economist and rachel evans. what is your call? >> our expectation is this rebound from the fed were installed will continue to get legs. we are a little bit higher than that consensus. we are at 210. i think the risk is we could see the unemployment rate grind lower. we are talking at 0.1 decline. if that happens, that means the fed has hit their targets for the year in april. that presents the risk that there is some downside risk to their unemployment projections. there estimates could be too conservative. david: how much will employers be paying for these numbers? i think we will see more evidence of those warm but not hot wage pressures today. with the echo again cost index. >> it's a little bit different than when we went into the fed meeting on wednesday. that's what we will be watching for today. i think there is going to be a lot of focus on that with the fed speakers coming up. everyone will be looking for a sign or indication of rate cuts by the end of the year. miss statement? there is a long d

it's a first world cup for francesca williams and natalie panagarry, 36 year old shooter rachel dunnce uganda, followed by matches against scotland and samoa. many of the teams have being paying tribute to formula one legend niki lauda who passed away this week at the age of 70. so many tributes are going to be paid. on red bull's car the words danke niki and the message — niki, our wingman for the monaco gp weekend. ferrari — where he won two of hsi three world titles have said : ciao niki this mercedes — where lauda was nonexecutive chairman, say their car will have a a single red star. they have the words, "for our chairman and for ourfriend." hamilton has set the fastest lap so far, a fraction quicker than max verstappen of red bull. hamilton's mercedes team—mate valtteri bottas finished first practice third. but monaco is a street circuit that is notoriously difficult to navigate, as lando norris found here. the 19—year—old british driver is getting his first taste of f1 on this famous track and had a close shave. katie swan is through to the final round of french open quaifying