Right now, question time. The list of reported questions that Robert Mueller wants to ask the president as passed along to his lawyers and reported by the New York Times. Showing the focus of this investigation for the first time. More than half of these questions are about obstruction. They are about actions the president took since he came into office. Idiot proof. Detailing how john kelly talks about the president behind closed doors in the west wing. With kelly making no secret of how he feels about being chief of staff. I did something wrong and god punished me, i guess. Seeking shelter. More than 100 migrants, mostly women and children in search of asylum. The Trump Administration allows only eight people to cross. Many call this the point of no return. A desperate journey with one last roadblock that may be impossible to pass. Good day. President trump is lashing out in response to two big stories. First on the front page of the new york time, a reported list of 49 questions read by bob muell muellers investigators to the president s lawyers. One question about what the president knows about Paul Manafort reaching out. Mr. Trumps chief of staff slamming his boss behind closed doors calling his boss an idiot on several occasions. We begin with the russia investigation and New York Times. Welcome both. Matt, first to you. Tell us about the story and what it tells you. How does it inform you about the direction of the Mueller Probe as we understand it. My colleague and i spent all of yesterday pouring over those questions. One of things that jumped oult to us is just how perilous this interview is. You can get a sense from reading these one after another, why there was such concern among the president s lawyers about putting him in a room with prosecutors and these open ended questions and obviously one question leads to another question. What did you do when you what did you think when you saw fbi director comey testify . Then what happened. Pretty soon youre down an avenue and this is a president who is obviously known for hi hyperbole and saying things that arent true. Theres a real risk. You can see from the list where the pitfalls were. One of the questions popped out was what knowledge did you have of any outreach by your Campaign Including to Paul Manafort to russia about assistance to the campaign . That issue had never been raised publicly in any of the previous stories or testimony. We know lots of evidence between russias and the campaign. The campaign reaching out asking for assistance. One of the things we did find was there was a story on cnn that actually referenced some intercepts that the United States had obtained in which russian officials were talking about the fact that manafort had sought their assistance. Thats not something that got a lot of traction. Thats the only sign or indication that might be what bob mueller is talk about. There was another questions, what did you do in reaction to the march 20th meeting with intelligence officials with coats and the cia director. How did you follow up . What do you think the significance of that could be . Thats another one. We know that after james comey testified and revealed the scope of the fbi investigation there was some pressure applied by the president to try to get dan coats, the director of National Intelligence to try to put some pressure on comey to slow down that investigation or maybe limited scope. This was the first we heard where they said what did you think and what did you do when you learned that the special counsel was going to talk to your top intelligence officials. Now, its possible, of course, thats just an open ended question. Bob mueller is just curious. More likely the investigators have obtained some information from those intelligence officials or others theyve interview seconddegred at the that made them intrigued. Thats a perfect segue to ask barbara. What do you think theyre going after . This is part of a negotiation trying to get lawyers and the president to agree to an interview. So many of these questions have to do with his time in office and with possible obstruction charges, right . Not with the russia probe. I think so. More than half relate to what appears to be obstruction of justice, theres still a sizable number of questions that relate to russian interference. A significant portion are about obstruction. It doesnt surprise me they are asking questions about what did you know . What were you thinking . A key element and the hardest element to prove in obstruction of justice is someones corrupt intent. This is President Trumps opportunity to tell his side of the story. No doubt Robert Mueller has gathered a lot of evidence from other witnesses and documents and circumstantial evidence of fact to put together a strong case there is obstruction of justice going on here. This is President Trumps opportunity to tell his side of the story. If he doesnt want to avail himself of it, it seems Robert Mueller had sufficient evidence to go forward with the charge. Very likely this did not come from the mueller team. This came from people who had been briefed wi t eed by the no who are were the president s lawyers or related to that side of the case. How does it relate to the fact that john dowd resigned at some point for these questions were specified . Thats really intriguing. I would love to ask matt that question and i know he wont tell us the answer. It seems unlikely this came from Robert Muellers camp. He has his reputation for being tight lipped. I dont see how it advances his cause for the world to see the questions. I think President Trumps tweets suggest a strategy of trying to demonstrate its about obstruction of justice. It seems consistent with that strategy. Now that Rudy Giuliani is on board they have a different outlook on how to pursue the strategy. Thats one speculation as to how these came into the public view. Doesnt it make it weigh in on that first. Sure. You know probably as well as anybody in washington that when you break a story, it triggers some sort of parlor game to try to guess a source. We werent trying to be cute with this. We put we got this information from somebody who was not involved in the trump legal team. Obviously, we were not trying to be cute on that. We also said that these were orally briefed to trumps lawyers and were put in a document. Yeah, obviously, thats the origins of this and were trying to protect the people who are helping us tell the public whats going on. Barbara, doesnt it make it clear the president while not a target, because technically he cant be a target if mueller is following the office of Legal Counsel guidance that he cannot be indicted while in office. Hes not a target but he clearly, from these questions, its about what did you know . What did you do at that time . What was your thinking . Hes a subject. Absolutely. The definition of a subject is someone whose conduct comes in the scope of an investigation. Its quite clear this is the person were going to charge were youre a target. I think the fact that hes a subject is not surprising. I agree with you that these questions indicate hes not just a witness here. Theyre not just interested in what he observed but what he did. Thank you so very much. Matt congratulations to you. Youve done it again. Way to go. We have breaking news this hour involving two key figures in President Trumps past. His long time personal doctor in new york and the former director of Oval Office Operations was his top assistant before that and has since left. Anna, you had done the first interview with the doctor in new york. Now what is he telling you about what happened more than a year ago after the New York Times published some interviews that he had done. We feels spurned. There were three men that showed up at his office and took all of President Trumps medical records. They were unannounced and he feels that didnt really have to happen. They were under lock and key. A person familiar with the incident says that there was a letter from the white house doctor at the time, Ronnie Jackson. The letter from Ronnie Jackson asking for the president s records. This came after the New York Times, the doctor Lawrence Altman who has covered president ial medical records for decades. Writing with interviews on the record for the first time revealing that the president takes a number of medications including propecia for hair growth. A prostate medication that can promote hair growth. Thats right. The story published on february 1st and february 3rd, three representatives of trump went to pick up the medical records. Including keith shiler who was the director of Oval Office Operations. Thats right. It was early in the morning. They showed up unannounced asking for the records and even a photo of donald trump and dr. Bornstein together hanging on the wall in the waiting room wads taken down. He says they asked him to take that picture down. Let me play a bit of your interview just now. What were they looking for . Methdical records, pictures. Anything i could find. They must have been here for 25 or 30 minutes. It created a lot of chaos. I couldnt believe anybody was making a big deal about a drug thats to grow his hair which seemed to be so important. Its not a breach of medical trust to tell somebody they take propecia to grow their hair. Whats the matter with that . This doctor, hes been way very public about the president s medical conditions. You can understand, i think, how someone going to a doctor would not want the doctor to talk about it without being authorized. I think thats right. I think dr. Bornstein felt spurned. He was his doctor for 35 years. He didnt get the job in the white house. He wasnt communicated with the president after the election. He did start to talk about it. When the gentlemen showed up, he calls it a raid. That characterization is disputed but he calls it a raid. Thank you very much. Now to our nbc news exclusive reporting on john kellys private criticisms of the commander in chief. Taking a page from Rex Tillerson who called the president a moron and never recovered. Ended up being fired. Four witnesses say john kelly has called mr. Trump an idiot on multiple occasions. The chief of staff pushing back hours after saying in part i spend more time with the president than anyone else and we have an incredibly candid and strong relationship. He knows where i stand and he and i know this story is total bs. President trump weighing in on twitter writing the fake news is going crazy making up false stories and using only unnamed sources who dont exist. Joining me nbc White House CorrespondentKristen Welker and nbc National Political reporter. Kristen, first to you on whether or not john kelly gets passed this given he was already on thin ice no matter what they say. Reporter its a good question and remains to be seen. You saw the very firm pushback from the chief of staff and from the president i wouldnt be surprised if Sarah Sanders pushes back vigorously from the podium today. We know, based on our conversations with a number of current and former white house officials and administration officials, that in addition to disparaging the president behind his back, john kelly has made some comments that have concerned some of the female staffers, including saying they are more emotional than men can be. This is raised some real concerns. Adding to all of that and compoundsing all of this is theres been some real tensions between the chief of staff and the president when it comes to determining staffing decisions, for example. Policy choices and messaging. Theres been some tensions that are at the backdrop to all of this. Is john kelly leavleaving. A number of white house Officials Say july marks his one year since taking this position. Would that be a time for him to go. They are look at that date very closely to see if theres any potential moves around that time. Others say theres no way to know. Theres been a lot of speculation surrounding a number of different white house officials. Sometimes its right. Sometimes its wrong. There is broad agreement that his standing has really dimin h diminished. A lot of folks feel its important to have a strong chief of staff. Another part of that is his defense of rob porter and diminishing of women saying porter needed to be restored, rehabilita rehabilitated. What can you tell us about that . There are two things going on here. The president s relationship with the white house staff and kellys relationship with the white house staffer a and kelly relationship with the president. There were many senior officials in the white house who felt like kelly was saying one thing or putting forward a story publicly in one way and then doing things differently behind the scenes. There was this disconnect between what he was saying and what he was doing. They told us that he was he was saying during that time he had access to information that others didnt about porters marriages and what he was seeing didnt match up with the stories that had come out about rob porter and he really defended him for many hours after the first story published where kelly then went to senior officials and said you can tell everybody that i moved to fire him within an hour which really just took a lot of senior staff by surprise. And courtney, weve seen a lot of disconnects where kelly doesnt seem to be involved. He wasnt there for the call with vladmir putin. He doesnt seem to have that key, the pivotal role that he had previously especially connecting back and forth with defense secretary mattis on important Foreign Policy decisions. Thats absolutely right. You know kristen mentioned a diminished role. Thats what our reporting found. John kelly was brought into this white house about a year ago, just under a year ago to restore order to what had become a lot of chaos. Unfortunately for him, President Trump likes chaos. Hes said that on numerous occasions. Thats a tough job he had to undertake. As he was undergoing that, we have several stories cases in our reporting where he actually did that. Where President Trump wanted to do something and john kelly was able to draw him back in. While this is all occurring he started to have trouble getting along with and his dealings with other staff, senior staff in the white house, including some congresswomen. D women. He made comments that bothered some women. There was the rob porter incident that carol mentioned. He made comments that women found offensive. Saying things like women are more emotional than men. While he was undertaking this difficult effort to try to restore order, it really caused more and more morale problems among the senior staff in the way he was doing it. I wanted to ask you about Ronnie Jackson. Theres now reporting there had been a warning about Ronnie Jackson that came from karen pence, the Vice President s wife through the Vice President s medical doctor alerting the white house that there was a problem with the way Ronnie Jackson was operating that office. Reporter thats right. This reporting is confirmed that the chief of staff to the Vice President brought those concerns to john kelly effectively. There was some concern about the way Ronnie Jackson was handling karen pences medical information. We dont have the specifics around that and we dont know if the president was aware of this. Its important to point that out as well. It does underscore theres been concerns raised about Ronnie Jackson prior to this latest incident when there were a number of ethical questions raised ahead of his confirmation process for v. A. Secretary which he wound up dropping out of. Let me ask you a follow up question because one of the criticisms of the appoint of john kelly is he was not of politics. He was a military guy. If he was not attuned to know that someone as important as nick airs said that karen pence had a problem here, you would think that john kelly would say to the president , we may have a problem with Ronnie Jackson. Thats a big enough tell that the chief of staff should have made sure the president was aware of it. Reporter really important point. You can bet white house officials at the senior level will be asking this very question, was this brought to the president. This basic qechoes what we saw e handling of the rob porter incident. Some of the red flags raised by rob porter werent taken immediately to the president by the chief of staff. This, again, becomes part of the broader picture and a part of this relationship that seems to be continually deteriorating around all of these revelations. What team work. You are the best. Thanks. Great reporting. Thanks so much. Hard sell. Israels Prime Minister making a high profile pitch to try to kill the iran deal. When is the president going to decide . Well have more on that coming up. We check the facts with the former Energy Secretary who helped write that agreement. Tech dont wait for a chip like this to crack your whole windshield. With safelites exclusive resin, you get a strong repair that you can trust. Plus, with most insurance a safelite repair i