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Im Yasmin Vossoughian along with jeff bennett who is in for ayman mohyeldin. Judiciary committee Holding Bill Barr in contempt of congress after he refused to comply with a subpoena to turn over the unredacted Mueller Report. Yesterday morning President Trump following bars suggestion to assert executive privilege, democrats declaring that the Justice Department is standing in the way of a congressional investigation. T the Judiciary Committee voted for a contempt. The attorney general could not comply with the house Judiciary Committees subpoena without violating the law. Its deeply disappointing that elected representatives of the American People have chosen to enthe agency in such inappropriate political theatrics. There could be a lengthy legal fight which Jerrold Nadler put in dire terms. We talked for a long time about approaching a constitutional crisis. We are now in it. Were now in a constitutional crisis. Now is the time of testing whether we can keep a republic or whether this republic is destined to change into a different more tyrannical form of government as other republics have. The House Intelligence Committee issued its own subpoena to attorney general bill barr for documents and materials related to Robert Muellers ruin investigation. It accused the Justice Department for failing to negotiate with the panel or comply with its bipartisan request for muellers files, his unredacted russian report and underlying evidence. In a tweet the committees chairman adam schiff wrote the doj has responded to our request with silence and defiance. Congress needs the material. We wont be obstructed. The move comes after schiff and devon nunez sent a letter to the doj reiterating their month for mueller to brief the committee over its findings. Jerrold nadler says his committee is still working to have mueller appear. You said that the president thats ordered mueller not to testify. Yes. Has mueller specifically told you that . It puts a lot of pressure on mueller and the discussions are ongoing. So in an interview with politico chairman nadler said trumps claim in executive privilege could succeed. Nadler told politico he has not received a definitive assurance about when mueller intends to leave the Justice Department but that by all accounts its very short. Nadler indicated hes banking muellers departure to ease his path to testify to the Judiciary Committee. President trump did not mention the subpoenas or contempt vote at his Campaign Rally in florida last night. However, the president did praise attorney general barr and i complained about the russia investigation while also suggesting that he only talks about extending his term of office past the eight year constitutional limit as a way to provoke criticism. Two years, witchhunt. I could have got enanybody in this audience, i could have found something on you. [ laughter ] two years. After two years, nothing. No collusion. Now the democrats, we have a great attorney general, now the democrats are saying we want more it was going to be we want the Mueller Report. Now they say Mueller Report, no we want to start all over again. Its a disgrace. Those people back there, i call them the fakers, fake news media. You know in six years they are all going to be out of business, folks. If we want to drive them crazy, ill say in ten years they will go crazy. See he is a despot. Hes a despot. Well ten or 14, lets see, whatever we like. Watch. There will be headlines tomorrow. Donald trump wants to break constitution now. I just screamed out 14 more years. 14 more years. Okay. Joining us here on set Senior Reporter for business insider. Good morning. Thank you for joining us. Lets talk about these political lines that have been drawn yesterday and we have the contempt vote from the house Judiciary Committee and also the president very much exerting his executive privilege and following the letter from the doj. What do you make of it . I think you hit the nail on the head in that the ramifications here are political because the legal ramifications dont really change based on whats happened here. Whats going to happen is that congress is going to go to a court in washington, d. C. , and move to get the entire Mueller Report released. First thing the judge will say why didnt you take the dojs offer to read less redaction versions of the court. They invited certain members of congress to look at a very, very lightly redacted version of the report. The why said they made this offer, you didnt accept it. I want to you look at what they offered you and then come back to me and tell me why you need to see the entire report. What about this testimony from Robert Mueller himself. They missed that may 15th date some on the Judiciary Committee. How does that complicate potential for mueller to testify on the hill . Right. So that i think is a bigger question here because chairman nadler did say yesterday mueller leaving the doj would ease his path to testifying but it doesnt change anything as far as what mueller can testify about. So whether or not hes at the Justice Department doesnt affect the topics that he can talk about. The work he did as special counsel while working under the Justice Department. I want to go back to the contempt proceedings because when we heard from Jerrold Nadler yesterday he seemed very confident they would farewell in the court system with regard to these contempting allegations. The way you frame it, it seem they wouldnt necessarily farewell. It could go in their favor but the main issue working against them is the fact that the court system is very slow, and so whether or not, you know, they get a ruling thats favorable to their view, that could be months and months down the road and i think thats the primary reason why President Trump invoked executive privilege. Its mainly a stall tactic. Thanks for your time. Well talk to you in just a bit. The student killed in the shooting at a Colorado Charter School that left eight others students injured on tuesday success heralded as a hero. The father of 18yearold Kendrick Castillo said his son died while attempting to subdue an assailant. His son and another boy charged one of the shoofters once they entered the classroom taking action that helped safe others. He cared about people. You know, and thats thats how he lived his life. Still ahead, treasury sector Steve Mnuchkin is refusing give House Democrats President Trumps tax returns and new York Lawmakers are trying to do something about it. Senate Intelligence Committee subpoe subpoenas donald trump jr. That and a check of the weather when we come back. Yesss, im doing it all. The water. The exercise. The fiber. Month after month, and i still have belly pain and recurring constipation. So i asked my doctor what else i could do, and i said yesss to linzess. Linzess treats adults with ibs with constipation or chronic constipation. Linzess is not a laxative, it works differently. It helps relieve belly pain and lets you have more frequent and complete bowel movements. Do not give linzess to children less than 6, and it should not be given to children 6 to less than 18, if you develop sculptureget immediate help unusual or severe stomach pain, especially with bloody or black stools. The most common side effect is diarrhea, sometimes severe. 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Kim jongun saw a series of test launches which included multiple rocket launchers which the ap reports are modeled after a russian Short Range Ballistic Missile system. Comes ten weeks after President Trump said kim promised him during the failed hanoi summit that there would be no more tests. Joining us now live from beijing our reporter. What can you tell us about this launch and what does it mean for denuclearization talks and growing tension on the Korean Peninsula . Reporter it is starting to feel like 2017 all over again with north korea firing something for the second time in less than a week. South Korean Military Officials Say that, indeed, north korea fired a projectile up the northwest coast. It headed east. Japan saying it was resultly several projectiles. This is coming several days after a series of launches overseen by kim jongun that included whats believed to be a new advance type of Short Range Ballistic Missile. The concern, of course, is always how will this impact talks which right now are at an absolute standstill. Lines of communication with pyongyang have been silent. Whats ironic is that the lead u. S. Envoy for the region is here, hes in south korea for talks today and tomorrow. He had just been in japan. The focus of the Trump Administration remains to be disarmament. Its unclear what sort of reaction well have from President Trump. Over the weekend he noted kim wont break his promise him to. So its yet to be seen if there will be a harder reaction coming from the white house. President trump is facing pressure from new York Lawmakers over his tax returns. According to the Associated Press new York State Senate has approved a bill that would allow three congressional committees to get access to trumps state tax returns. The bill which now heads to the state assembly doesnt target trump by name but would authorize state tax officials to release any state returns filed in new york if requested by the leaders of the house ways and mean committee, the Senate Finance committee or the joint committee on taxation. Both chambers of new York State Legislature are controlled by democrats. Some of the president s closest allies weighing in on the New York Times bomb shell report that trump lost more than 1 billion over the course of a decade. The hosts of fox friends showed trump has repeatedly praised had this take. It is an interesting look, those at how new york City Real Estate Developers Work in the 80s and 90s. Its impressive what hes done. In his mind hes wildly successful. The thats part of his branding. Is to be bigger than life. By any reasonable defending he is successful. Hes the president of the United States. He owns a bunch of golf courses that are a lot of fun to play. At his rally last night President Trump ridiculoused grahams close friend the late john mccain for repealing obamacare. Joining us on set is danny cevallos. Im sure you dove into this New York Times piece about trumps taxes. And youre hearing southeast defenses out there. This is the way real estate works. He did a lot. In his mind hes incredibly successful. Also you heard the defense of the fact that the president knew how to work with tax loopholes and thats the reason why. A sport. Thats why his taxes look the way they do. What do you make of this . 1 billion in losses over a decade. Our tax laws generally reward companies and individuals who suffer, especially in the real estate market, who suffer huge losses. But what trump did is an interesting piece of tax jujitsu. He borrowed heavily. When you borrow money thats not taxable, youll pay it back. If that debt gets forgiven. The for example if you fail to payback me money that money i gave you for launch its income. Thats the argument here. What trump did was more interesting. He borrowed other peoples money and then took the deduction when he didnt payback the loan on the other peoples money. So its a really interesting piece of use of the tax code, but ultimately one that stretches limits and may not be illegal but its a questionable practice. Its an aggressive, what they would call in tax law an aggressive move. So weve seen how the president has leaned on the treasury secretary to slow walk the demands. How can he do that with this new state request the new York State Legislature . Its going to be a lot more difficult because President Trump only has his article ii power in the federal system. In new york its limited only by new yorks individual state tax laws. As the president believe it or not he has zero power over state laws or state government. So its a totally different sovereign as we call it, a different kingdom literally between the states and the federal government. So that is something that wont be as easily slow walked because trump doesnt have the same power over the state government. So for the New York Legislature its a way around for them. It is. There may be other laws protecting the privacy of individual taxpayers but trump doesnt have that article 2 power that president ial power to order the executive branch including the department of the treasury to do whatever he wants hem them to do. Lets get a check on your weather now from bill karins. We made it through yesterday, considering we went into it considering well have a lot of tornadoes. They were over open areas. One did a little bit of damage. The bigger concern yesterday was a heavy rains. A lot of problems with water issues especially in areas of texas, austin evers one of those spots where we had a couple of water rescues. All the rivers are full. Streams are full. Ponds are full. When we get those thunderstorms nowhere for water to glow. Flash flooding is the concern. Overnight torrential rain around shreveport, louisiana all through southern arkansas and now heading to greenville, mississippi. These storms have produced up to two to three inches of rain. Nowhere for that water to go. Still flash flood warnings for shreveport and pine bluff and new flash flood watches being issued for southern louisiana and eenl well head houston to this mess because youll get soaked. Heres the rainfall forecast. This is through saturday. So areas of pink, thats four plus inches of rain. Thats a huge area here from southern mississippi, southern louisiana right into the houston area. Houston is very susceptible to flooding. Totals could get up to eight inches of rain. Almost like a tropical system over the top of you. A lot of flooding problems. As far as Severe Weather, tornado threats are a lot lower. Maybe an isolated one or two. 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Hes seventh in line to the throne but not expected to have a royal title youre under so much pressure in a situation like that and then especially after having given birth two days prior, having to walk out in front of those cameras, answer questions. Its just, its incredible. What do you think of the name . I love it. Its not as, i think, historical, i guess, as the other names. They said it would be unusual. That wasnt necessarily unusual. But anyways. Congratulations. Still ahead Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell said the case is closed on the Mueller Report but that didnt stop the republican led senate Intelligence Committee from subpoenas donald trump jr. Yesterday. Trump administration imposes new sanctions on iran. Those stories and more coming up next. Audible members know listening has the power to change us make us better parents, better leaders, better people. And theres no better place to listen than audible. 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Republican led panel is demanding that donald trump jr. Answer questions about his previous testimony before Senate Investigators over moscows election interference. The move first reported by axios marks the first congressional subpoena against one of President Trumps kids. Trump jr. Testified in september of 2017. At the time he said he was only peripherally aware of the trump tower moscow project. In an interview at the beginning of this year trump jr. Down played his familys role in that project. In addition to questioning him on that the committee wants to ask trump jr. About his account of what he told his father and others about the june 2016 russia at that trump tower in new york. A number of Top Republicans have slammed the senate Intelligence Committee and its republican chairman richard burr for his decision to subpoena donald trump jr. Senator rand paul tweeted apparently the republican chair of the Senate Intel Committee didnt get the memo from the majority leader that this case was closed. And House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy wrote, donald trump jr. Has already spent dozens of hours testifying in front of congressional committees, endless investigations by Eritrea Party wont change the fact that there was no collusion. Time to move on and time to focus on issues not investigations. In 2017 the Washington Post reported on a recorded private conversation involving congressman mccarthy from 2016, in it the post says the republican claimed he believed then candidate donald trump could be the beneficiary of payments from russian president putin. You were making some calls on this and i can imagine that people were shocked to see the subpoena come out with donald trump jr. Being led by burr. Youre expecting this from House Democrats not senate republicans. So how is this playing out . Richard burr has been very intentional about making sure the senate Intelligence Committee investigation is bipartisan and independent. Hes not running for reelection. He has a different set considerations. Donald trump jr. Did purger himself you can bet burr and the other top democrat will check into that. Will the Trump Administration, will they ignore this . Will they encourage donald trump jr. To ignore this subpoena . If recent history is any indication seems they will. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Top Democrats are arguing President Trump is building his own case for impeachment because of his administrations noncompliance with congressional subpoenas and stonewalling democrats efforts to push forward with investigations. Listen to this. The point is, is that every single day, whether its obstruction, obstruction, obstruction, obstruction of having people come to a table with facts, ignoring subpoenas, every single day the president is making a case. Hes becoming selfimpeachable in terms on southeast things. I do think that the degree to which the administration is now obstructing congress after what may be criminal acts of obstruction of justice in the Mueller Investigation aedes weight to the argument of those who are urging impeachment. The administration is not helping their own cause here unless impeachment is exactly what the president wants. At his rally in florida last night, President Trump says the u. S. Is being invade by hoards of migrants. He expressed frustration he isnt capable of stopping them. Thats until an audience member appeared to shout that he should shoot them. The president reacted with a joke about florida. Take a listen to this. This is an invasion. When you see these caravans starting out with 20,000 people, thats an invasion. I was badly criticized for using the word invasion. Its an invasion. Folks, its crazy. Then they say and the wall would help. Not help. The wall would stop it. Okay. The wall would stop it. I mean when you have 15,000 people marching up and you have hundreds and hundred of people and you have two or three Board Security people that are brave and great and dont forget we cant let them use weapons. We cant. Other countries do. We cant. I would never do that. But how do you stop these people . You cant. [ laughter ] thats only in the panhandle you can get away with that statement. [ cheers and applause ] only in the panhandle. So its a tough situation. Joining us again here on set is Senior Reporter for business insider. Thanks for being with us again. What do you make of this subpoena by senate intel for donald trump jr. This came from a republican led Senate Committee whose investigation has kind of stood in stark contrast to the, you know, parallel investigations going on in the house intelligence and house Judiciary Committees. Chairman richard burr and vice chairman mark warner have worked very hard to maintain the integrity of this investigation. But i think this is by far the most significant move to come out of this panel because we already know donald trump jr. Was under scrutiny for his congressional testimony before but mueller decided not to charge him with any kind of criminal, you know, criminal charges related to perjury or Campaign Finance violations but this is another reminder because the Mueller Report is out doesnt mean these people are out of the woods. A reminder how dangerous Michael Cohen is to the trump family in particular because a lot of these revelations are based on his conversations with fbi prosecutors and also his testimony to the House Oversight Committee Earlier this year. One of the reasons why they may know about the fact that donald trump jr. Knew about trump tower moscow project he knew more. Michael cohen went into great detail about just how much members of the trump family, top executives of the Trump Organization were aware of the trump tower moscow negotiations. Will he ignore the subpoena . Based on what weve seen so far, it seems hes very likely to ignore it. The white house, the president and perhaps even the Justice Department may now start telling a lot of these people to, you know, comply more with the white houses direction. Weve seen people adhere to that. For example don mcgahn who was to turn over documents to the house Judiciary Committee earlier this week he said he would wait for the white houses green light. Their strategy is to stonewall and run out the clock. Thank you. Embattled venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro Security Forces arrested the number two leader of the opposition yesterday. The move comes after last weeks uprising failed to foment significant military defections or overthrow maduro. Yesterday President Trump tweeted america stands with the great people of venezuela for however long it takes. Its all unfolding as a report in the Washington Post details President Trumps frustration with his own administrations strategy for venezuela. Former u. S. Special president ial envoy for the Global Coalition to defeat isis told morning joe on monday it resembled the strategy for syria and that there really isnt one at all. Administration officials and white house advisors tells the pot trumps annoyance is focused on john bolton whose views are at odds with the president s. One Senior Administration official says trump has said in recent days that bolton wants to get him into another war while three other Senior Administration Officials Say trump is complaining that bolton under estimated maduro who trump said is quota tough cookie. Tensions between the United States and iran continue to rise. One year after he withdrew the runs from the landmark 2015 nuclear agreement, President Trump imposed new tariffs on iran. That came hours after iranian president rouhani announced teheran well cease compliance with the accord. Rouhani also said that unless the other signatories hoped the reach new terms in 60 days iran will scale back more compliance including an increase in its uranium enrichment level. It comes days after the u. S. Announced it is sending a bomber strike force to the middle east which is indications of a credible athlete by iran. A lot of people are supporting this move. Heres why. The iranian economy is being choked out right now. Because the europeans are asking the iranians to comply the jcpoa despite americans pulled out of it, iranians said lets put the europeans feet to the fire. We dont want europeans to comply with the sanctions that are being led by the americans. Its obviously an escalating situation there. We have to wait and see. 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President trump is pushing for a tougher direction at the border using the monthly enforcement statistics as a yardstick for his administrations immigration policies. But it has done little to stop flow of migrants fleeing violence and poverty as they make their way to the u. S. The 9th Circuit Court of appeals point of contention for President Trump just happened down a significant win for his administration. The three judge panel ruled yesterday that the government can resume sending Central American Asylum Seekers to mexico while their cases are still pending. The decision reverses a california judges halt to the migration protection policy last month after finding that it failed to evaluate the dangers they faced in mexico. 9th circuit decided the likelihood of harm is reduce fwid mexican governments commitment to honor its International Law obligations and to grant humanitarian status and work permits. Immigration and civil Rights Groups that filed the initial lawsuit on behalf of 11 Central American migrants believe mexico cant be trusted with the task. The overarching case decideding the legality of the governments migration policy still makes its way towards the lower court system which could reach the supreme court. Lets get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. Good morning. Just about the last 30 minutes we added 16 Million People to the flash flood watch. A rough two, three days here from san antonio, Corpus Christi to houston and a very difficult morning with life threatening flash flooding ongoing in areas like central louisiana, shreveport area and now we added greenville, mississippi area to the flash flood warning. Tremendous amounts of rain on saturated soils. On top of that some of these thunderstorms could be severe. We could see isolated severe storms in the yellow. Heres how it will play out. Todays forecast showers and storms in florida. A late day shower in d. C. New york is chilly but dry. Areas in the midwest, denver, chance of snow. Duluth, eight inches of snow on the ground from yesterday. Ridiculous. So how does the weekend forecast look . Theres the flood threat. Saturday still dealing with heavy rain. Here it comes towards the east, saturday into sunday, more rain spreading to the north. You may get away with a dry morning early in the day in new york city and boston but the rain will be moving in for much of the afternoon and evening. Looks like colorado and wyoming are the places to be on mothers day. Go hiking. Markets around the world are once again in the red in the ongoing standoff over u. S. china trade deal. Well get more by the latest shot by President Trump as negotiators prepare the to meet today. Today. You should be mad at tech that makes things worse. 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Despite small groups of picketing and imploring others to shut down their apps, they didnt see any shortage of ride availability. Uber and lyft deny the decrease in wages. Uber issued a statement saying it will be continue to make the Work Environment better continuo goad china as ongoing trade negotiations take a harder line. What more can you tell us about this . Yesterday President Trump did say that china negotiators had, quote, broke the deal and that he will impose additional tariffs as a punishment. The Commerce Ministry said if the u. S. Go ahead and impose additional tariffs, theyll have countermeasures as well. They also said the fact that the vice premier attending these discussions is indeed a sign of sincerity. Tariffs are set to move up from 10 to 25 on 200 billion worth of goods at 12 01 a. M. Friday eastern. So thats not very far away. The Trump Administration has threatened tariffs on another 325 billion as well. You can imagine the market has not responded well. Its been a week of losses across all of the sectors, materials have led the decline. Not as heavy a week as back in december when the markets recoiled to the tune of about 7 but certainly gripped in fear. The Chinese Markets have felt it a little bit more than u. S. Markets. Live from london, thanks so much. Coming up, everybody, Axios Jonathan swan has a look at this mornings 1 big thing. And coming up on morning joe, t the president hits the road. A busy morning joe is just moments away. Morning joe is t moments away ive booked your shower, sir. How far you travel is up to you. How comfortable you travel is up to us. Fly emirates. Fly better. How comfortable you travel is up to us. burke at fso we know how ton almost evercover almost anything. Even rooftop parking. Strange forces at work . Only if youre referring to gravityand we covered it. Talk to farmers. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. 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I havent seen this kind of or received this sort of republicanonrepublican violence since the days of bob corker and jeff flake in the final months of their senate careers. You pointed this out, i think its 100 right, that richard burr is perhaps unusually resilient in the sense that hes not running for reelection, he does have this sort of independent way of running the committee. But nonetheless, its not just Kevin Mccarthy and rand paul, lee zeldin, congressman, theres a ton of pressure being applied to a whole lot of other members who havent come out yet from allies of don jr. Thats going to continue today. Theyre basically just going after richard burr now in a very concerted way. Republicans obviously going after richard burr. What about don jr. . What about the president . Are they basically going to fight this thing or straight ignore it . I dont want to speak for and i cant speak for either of them but i believe that don jr. Is going to continue fighting this and that his i know his allies are already out there on his behalf going after richard burr. So its pretty clear theyre not going to back down. Lets talk about these trade talks. Negotiators from the u. S. And china are set to meet today to talk about trade. Jonathan, what are you going to be looking for . So myself and some other reporters were with the top two negotiators on the u. S. Side, Bob Lighthizer and steven mnuchin. They made clear these are massive, substantive retreats from the chinese on the negotiations. Unless theres some sort of hail mary from the chinese, were going to see tariffs kick in at 12 01 a. M. Friday morning, and i dont think we are going to see any deal because i just heard from somebody who is there in beijing who is very close to the china leadership and they said the mood here is very defiant. And lou hurr i dont believe has been sent with the authority to flip back. I think there was an opening for that to happen because donald trump loves nothing more than they came begging and i triumphantly solved this deal but i dont think the dynamics are there to achieve that. What are you hearing from the administration on their strategy with regards to china and what kind of support is the president getting with his china strategy with regards to capitol hill . This is the interesting dynamic. Capitol hill hates Donald Trumps tariffs on steel and aluminum and they will go completely berserk if he applies tariffs to autos, to cars. On china he has an incredible amount of support from democrat and republicans, everyone from Chuck Schumer to marco rubio on the right saying hold strong, hold the line. Theres a piept consensus that chan has been abusing america for too long in terms of trade, i. P. Theft and he has a lot of running room to be tough on china. What are you guys watching today . The chinese negotiations very squarely. The other thing is iran, the Trump Administration is just strangling them. They put new tariffs on yesterday. Were watching to see how the iranians react, whether they do anything in terms of their military or their proxies, any attacks on u. S. Forces. Were watching for any signs instability in the gulf. Jonathan swan, thanks for your time this morning. Thank you. Well be reading axios a. M. In just a little while. You can sign up. That does it for us, im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside geoff bennett. Morning joe starts right now. Man, starting with a jam. Welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, may 9th. We have along with joe, willie and me, we have jonathan lemire, Julia Ainsley is with us. Nbc law analyst benjamin