Its a signing. Didnt want to do it. At the last minute he decided were going to do this signing inside but he didnt tell anybody. Im just saying i saw it, then im thinking, this reminds me of a show, my favorite show. Lets watch this quickly. Very, very quickly. Thank you very much. Mr. Trump, are you trying to tell the Justice Department to grant immunity to Michael Flynn . Were you trying to do that . Was that your intention, mr. President . Was that your intention, mr. President . Was that your intention, sir . Thank you, guys. They literally didnt have to edit a thing. That happened. Its like a metaphor for he was supposed to sign but he didnt. Hes supposed to behaving like a president but hes not. How many days in are we, donny . Suddenly feels like year six. Everybody goes how do you not how could you not have known listen, weve known this guy for 10, 11, 12 years. We had our misgivings about him. I think its safe to say neither you nor i thought it would be this bad. Definitely not. We were concerned, really, really concerned. Never thought the guy wed known for 10, 11, 12 years would be that much of a petulant brat that when somebody would ask him a question. Leave his entire signing service. It hurts, like he takes a hammer every day. We didnt think he would get a hammer every day and pick it up and hit his hand. Quite the opposite. The day after he got elected i came on your show, maybe whistling in the dark, said you know what, maybe his need to be loved, ego to be successful, pull the left side to the middle and all the above, its quite the opposite. I also think its time, and i know in the post goldwater era theres the unwritten rule in the Psychiatric Community that nobody diagnoses from afar, but i dont think hes a well guy period. When you start doing things, mark halperin, that are against your best interest. During the campaign he did all these horrible things, right . But you could say they are horrible things but theres going to be a segment of his base that will actually vote for him because hes talking about the birther stuff or hes talking about this or hes talking about that. The walls. The wall. In that respect he would do these things that were offensive to all of us but wouldnt say, this is actually like him hitting himself on the hand with hammer. What he is doing now is not in his selfinterest. Thats when you start saying wait a second, how well is he . If hes doing these things that any rational human being would know would hurt him politically. Those things we did that a lot of us found repugnant before are effective. Say, you know what, they offend me but unfortunately its effective among some members in the primary. The glass half empty story is pretty intense. Low approval rating, failure of the health care initiative, disarray in a lot of the government, a lot of tension, and no clear ability to move forward. Glass half full, probably not half but the full part of the glass, last week five dates in five days, people are willing to give them a chance. They are not as impatient as washington. Huge week, can he got gorsuch through . Hold a second. Hold a second. Mitch mcconnell will get gorsuch through just like Mitch Mcconnell conservatives are going to see that as Mitch Mcconnells accomplishment for good reason and not Donald Trumps. Can he get through in the way he gets credit. What does he turn to now . What are the big issues the president wants to put before the country . This week is wide open. Is he going to talk about trade, health care, taxes. So Great Questions to start the show on. Good morning, everyone. Good segue. Its monday. How was everybodys weekend. Mark halperin is here, Donny Deutsch is here as you saw. Also with us in Washington National reporter jonathan swann. Good to have you on board. Baseball started. Baseball season started. All right. Im concerned about the red sox. I wish barnicle was here but i would you know why barnicle is not here . Of course. Im heading out there with my boys. Are you really . Very excited about it. Just like in connecticut, there as special buzzer i cant walk into fenway park. Different reasons. Wow, tries to get off the exit in new canaan. What happens . Red lights but its a long story. Turn around. You cannot have that much cologne combined with human growth hormones. High karate isnt really a cologne, its an after shave. With that mika ready . Okay. Were ready now. Three, two, one. Yes. Well do this later. The president of the United States, the leader of the free world, the Worlds Largest economy, the man who controls the Worlds Largest nuclear arsenal. Powerful man. He spent most of saturday morning tweeting about fox news. Thats a shame. Let that breathe for a second. Think about that. Think about the scope of that problem right there. Can i ask you a question, when did it start . The tweeting . Maybe it started saturday morning around 8 43. I always tell you i was playing your straight guy. I always tell you saturdays are going to be excited. 8 43 tweeted when will sleepy eyes chuck todd and nbc news Start Talking about the obama surveillance scandal. Can i stop you here . I never got that sleepy eyes chuck todd thing. Do you make fun of chuck todd. His goatee. Im used to his goatee now. His eyes are awake. Who has really sleepy eyes . Huckelberry hound. Theres sleepy eyes. But not chuck todd. Why are you saying sleepy eyes chuck todd. If youre going to insult somebody, make it work. Like paul manafort. Little chucky todd. Little miller, tiny dictator. Okay. About 20 minutes later adding same Fake News Media that said theres no path to victory to trump now pushing a phony russia story, a total scam. And around noon he started tweeting parts of a column about health care writing, the failing New York Times finally gets it, adding, o care is dead. Good things will happen either with republicans or democrat. Throughout the afternoon and into the evening he tweeted praise for fox news. Quote, wow, fox news reporting big news. Source, official behind unmasking is high up. Known intel official is responsible. Some unmasked. Can i just ask, i thought the white house said you should never do any stories with sources, with unnamed sources. Im confused. Only when it benefits them and this very powerful leader of the free world tweeted all day. Finally reading the treats. I read them trump speak. Trump team spied on before nominated. If this is true, does not get much bigger. Would be sad for u. S. And around 6 21 p. M. , the president tweeted, thanks for a fox segment about consumer confiden confidence. This is very small behavior that is so unbecoming its hard to even describe. Hes president of the United States and all he does is watch tv. Hes like a little kid. All he does is watch tv. And comment on it. And comment on it. Those two things. Donny deutsch. All these two things people want him to do, all these condescending womens events he has all week, he just ruins them with his stupid tweets. Why doesnt he watch billions. Thats good this season. A lot of people talk about hes 0 and a billionaire, hes not doing to change his behavior. His entire life, this is man who does not travel, this is a man who does not read, a man not in electially curious. The only information hes gotten is like a 12yearold eating cereal, hes not going to change now. Spent all weekend watching fox news. Were not knocking fox news. I definitely wat judge piro now. Oh, my gosh. 9 00 p. M. Wow. Obviously no selfcontrol. Again, this guy is literally bumping around the white house, wherever he goes, with nobody else around minding him. This gets to problems with scheduling. You hear when you talk to staff theres sort of a flat level of people competing for his time. Donald trump just decides on a whim i dont want to do this or i do want to do that. Hes very impulsive. He changes very rapidly and the staff sort of scramble around to do that. He might Say Something in a meeting and they scramble out. Were going to change this because the president said that. It creates a very unstable working environment. They are all trying to adapt to it. Amend disclosure form shows former National Security adviser Michael Flynn did not originally disclose payments he received from russianlinked companies. In the new filing he names tv network rt and two other russia linked firms as sources of income. Documents released by House Oversight democrats last month showed rt paid flynn 45,000 to speak at its gala in 2015. An attorney for flynn said bundled together speaking fees and draft disclosure process ended because of his resignation. Meanwhile the Congressional Committee said they are not at the stage of granting former security adviser Michael Flynn immunity he offered. House tells nbc news the discussion with flynns lawyer did not include immunity. Sources close to the Senate Community saying immunity is not on the table at this time. It doesnt make sense, would not make sense for them, mika, to do that right now, because the fbi is conducting an investigation. If hes broken the law, then immunity from the senate gets in the way of that. A long way away from that. Not clear what crimes might be being investigated. The committees have to decide if they want to bring him in and take the fifth. Thats a big decision before them. It appears he wont testify right now. The broader issue, what are these two Intelligence Committees going to do . We dont know at this point what direction they are headed. Senate made a big show, house more divided. What are they going to do next if they dont hear from flynn. White House Press Secretary shawn spafr said he spoke with the president s about his friday tweets saying flynn should ask for immunity. The president is very clear he wants mike flynn to go and be completely open and transparent with the committee. Whatever it takes to do that hes supportive of. Not trying to suggest to the fbi or Justice Department that it grant immunity. I think he was asking im not entirely sure of the process whether the congress does it or doj or both in this case. The point i get it. I understand. Right. The bottom line not instructing his Justice Department instructing mike flynn to do everything he can to cooperate with committees he asked to look into this. The president tweeted yesterday, the real story turns out to be surveillance and leaking. Find the leakers. So here we are. Deep throat was the real story on watergate. I thought they missed it. It was. It wasnt actually the burglary of the dnc. History will tell that. Jonathan, this is their story and they are sticking to it nonstop. Yeah. And the staff has absorbed this. Its the donald trump message of this is the real story. This is whats happened. Of course thats what started this scramble to justify, rationalize, find the evidence which has got devin nunes in all that trouble. Mark halperin. You look at the history of this, at least a distraction for them and he brings on a lot of it himself, the most famous tweet about president obama. The most constant tweets, keeps it alive in the media. It does it does, jonathan said, its so hard for this white house staff trying to learn how to do their jobs under the media and legal pressure of these investigations. Again, we talked about this before, how well the guy is off mentally. Any sane, rational person would know if i keep bringing attention to something, then im going to to keep churning up attention on something, and it is not going to be in my best interests. Nothing to do with jobs and the economy, which is all he said he wants to focus on. Its got nothing to do with hes repeated this over and over and over again. It really is like picking the same scab over and over again. Im sorry to say that, but thats what hes doing. His staff, like any sane, rational staff would be pulling their hair out right now saying, my god. Instead, they keep making excuses for it. An article overtime weekend about election night. Right after his triumph he was focused on a threeday old negative article they literally couldnt get him off of. Thats what this is. I dont know what the disorder is. Im not glib. Regardless of whats wrongf hes been pricked in some area, theres an inability physiologically to move off of it, even if its selfdestructive. Hes president of the United States, and he starts lying about 3 million votes being illegally cast. Hes obsessed on that from the day hes elected president of the United States in the most shocking political upset of our lifetimes. Or maybe ever. Probably ever. Most people go, im good with that. You know, what im going to kind of just take that to the house and relax and golf and smile. Then the day hes inaugurated, mika, he is now the 45th president of the United States. What does he do . He starts obsessing about crowd size and starts lying about crowd size. Im sorry, that is not a healthy, normal, well functioning man. And he obsesses and he lies about crowd size for another three or four weeks. Still does. Until he starts lying about barack obama. Not healthy. Something is deeply wrong with this man that he cannot show hell, hes not even a day trader, hes a minute trader. He keeps again, here is the critical thing. Dont say, please, on twitter, stop being stupid. Dont be stupid and say you should have known this was coming because of what he did with the birther stuff. I will say it again, donald trump cynically knew if he played the birther card that 45 of the Republican Party would be in support of him and say, hey, thats our guy. Hes saying what nobody else will say. That was in his selfinterest. It was offensive. It was a lie, and it was racist, but his political selfinterest was cynically forwarded like a bigot in the south back in the 1940s would do that. In this case, mika, everything he is doing just as offensive, but it is against his political interest. Thats where you start saying, okay, wait a second. Theres no rational reason he should be doing this every day, even if you think hes a cynical, horrible human being, this hurts him. Right. Joe, what you and i are dancing around here and going back to, yes, there was logic, but everything now points to certain disorders. My hair is not on fire, and im not a clinician. Once again, doctors dont diagnose, hes not well in many ways. Anybody who is behaving this way, if a school teacher, your friend was behaving this way, youd be concerned. If any ceo behaved this way, they would have been fired by the board 60 days ago. Thats what i wonder about the administration, this incredible Foreign Policy team. We never get to talk about. The advisers are all too afraid to say anything, even members of the family. They just cant do it. They get in the room with him. They talk to people who have really good advice, talk to you sometimes, and you give really good advice, same stuff you say on the air, better, maybe even more clear, then they get in the room and they cant do it. They just cant do it. The question, mark halperin. They just cant do it. What are republicans doing on capitol hill in the house . The senate is standing up. What is Jason Chaffetz doing . Whats paul ryan doing . Were going to have jason on today and see what he says. Paul ryan, whats paul ryan doing . They know this is not sane, rational behavior . What are they doing and at what point do they start speaking out . They were willing to as they were in the campaign compartmentalize, look, we want republican president to move republican agenda, were going to avoid dealing with this other stuff. The point at which they intersect and hes not getting things done, cant move legislative agenda, thats what happened on health care in the shortterm, then they are going to Start Talking about more aspects of his personality they dont get. Jonathan swan, thank you very much. Still ahead on morning joe, talk about National Enquirers connection to this. Why the newspaper sold at every Grocery Store leveled broadside. Oversight Committee ChairmanJason Chaffetz and chamber of judiciary Richard Blumenthal. Over the weekend my dad spoke and was honored at the Global Leadership award. Tell you what he says including a warning on president ial focusing on entertainment. Bill karins with a check on more Severe Weather. We cant get to break. Active start to april, two fatalities in southern louisiana. In all 11 tornadoes reported, most in louisiana, a few in texas. This unfortunately was where a mother and young daughter were killed as the tornado went through southern louisiana yesterday morning. Not much left there. As far as what they are dealing with now, we have a lot of flash flooding problems. Interstate 20 across mississippi and jacksonville near jackson, mississippi, a lot of roads flooded, water going into homes, evacuations taking place as i speak. Tornado watch, strong storms through new orleans later this afternoon. Threat from mobile to tallahassee to atlanta, isolated tornadoes. 20 Million People at risk. Once again the deep south into the southeast. Then if you have plans on tuesday, any travel plans from washington, d. C. , to new york to boston, heavy rain coming in late tonight, early tomorrow morning at this time. Heavy rain around hartford to albany headed for boston. A lot of airport delays possible on tuesday morning, areas around new york city especially with airports. A very active weather pattern, once every two or three days, a lot of big storms rol