Imagination. Good morning, and welcome to am joy. Joy reid is wrapping up her appearance on memeet the press and will join us shortly. The trump show is painfully real and bolstered by his partys congressional leaders and cabinet members all who flanked the president to outline the agenda. Yet his proclamations that hes, like, really smart, underline the prepliomise of the book. What wolff described as some of the most peculiar remarks delivered by a president. I say i had an uncle who did a fantastic job in so many different ways, academically, he was an academic genius, and then they say is donald trump an intellectual . Trust me, im like a smart person. Joining me is Michelle Bernard and perry bacon, jr. , of 538. Com. Yall, i dont know where to begin. Yesterday was pretty incredible with the tweet storm the president delivered yesterday morning and then the remarks yesterday. Lets go around the horn and get your generally actions to that and what we are all dealing with now over th
Brian two people greet me at my limo. They will have umbrellas every day if they dont they will be fine you had. Steve exemplify what kind of a rainy day they are expecting here. Outside the door here at studio f they have two dozen sand bags. They are waiting for a flood to come to the northeast. Ainsley a deluge. Brian actually survive the blistering weather. Talk about whats going on, talking about blistering, thats exactly whats going on with this whole dossier controversy and seemingly some rivalry not only between republicans and democrats. Senate and house as it relates to the intelligence committees and this investigation about what went on leading up to this election. Steve thats right. That man right there, hes what we are talking about right now. Devin nunes, who is the chairman of the House Intel Committee, he has sent that blistering letter that brian was talking about to the attorney general. And essentially what he says is the fbi in using that dossier, which was unverif
Mika. With us weve got the host of the redhot show on msnbc. The Communications Director for george w. Bush. Youre kicking jake tappers butt. And we love jake. No. It is the definition of mustsee tv. 4 00. And Donny Deutsch is here, redhot for other reasons. The world over. And susan del pursio, the cofounder and ceo of axios, jim vandehei. And New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt and Pulitzer Prize winning historian. Jon meachum, the soul of america debuts at number one on the New York Times best seller list. Meachum still has it. Ill congratulate you. Someone else will have to do that. Ill take that as a sweet passiveaggressive congratulations. If you have not read his book youve got to read it. It will tell you everything you need to know, it gives you some hope looking forward. Were going to have walltowall coverage of the Royal Wedding today. Donny deutsch is our royal correspondent. Any initial thoughts on the wedding. Theres been a big kerfuffle about meghans father. I think
Candidates make a lastminute push ahead of tuesdays california primaries while one former attorney general may have his eye on the white house in 2020. But we begin with new insight into the 20page letter the Trump Legal Team wrote and handdelivered to special Counsel Robert Mueller back in january as part of their efforts to argue among several issues that the president is incapable of obstructing justice and that he cant be subpoenaed. One of the New York Times reporters who broke the story says the legal teams argument that President Trump had no criminal intent in any of his actions is flawed. Heres Charlie Savage on msnbc last night. This goes to the quality of the legal advice the president is getting from the lawyer who is are willing to work for him. They have a lot of arguments that center on a sort of technical legalistic parsing of a statute of obstruction of justice. The problem is that is an outstanding obstruction of justice law. Way back in 2002 as part of the act after