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Good morning, everybody. It is monday, april 8th. Im yasmin vossoughian. Ayman mohyeldin is off. Chances are hes wide awake right now but ill explain. Following the abrupt exit of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen late last night she tweeted this, i have agreed to stay on secretary through wednesday, april 10th to assist with an. Orderly transition and ensure that key dhs missions are not impacted. President trump asked for her resignation at the white house sunday evening just 48 hours after Kirstjen Nielsen joined him for a visit to the border. Officials told the Washington Post that a sign of the discord came friday when the white house yanked the Senate Nomination of a long time federal immigration official to lead immigration and Customs Enforcement after senior white houseven miller lobbied trump to cut him loose. On his way to the about the decision to shake up his Immigration Enforcement team. Watch this. Going in a little different direction. Ron is a good man but were going in a tougher direction. I want to going a tougher direction. The president and Kirstjen Nielsens poor relationship was exacerbated by trumps failure to consult with her on his decision to withdraw the nomination, a person close to Kirstjen Nielsen tells nbc news. Trump tweeted her departure yesterday evening and announced that the current customs and Border Protection commissioner will become acting secretary. Last week President Trump was seek agnew immigration strategy over concern for his 2020 campaign as illegal border crossings have surged. The Associated Press reported that trump was considering naming an immigration czar to potentially serve as the face of the administration on immigration issues, showing the president and his supporters that hes taking action. Now on friday kris kobach said he would consider the job. President trump spent most of the weekend trying to get a handle on his border policy. On saturday night he tweeted this. We have redeployed 750 agents on the southern borders specific ports of entry in order to help with the large scale surge much Illegal Migrants trying to make their way into the u. S. Quote this will cause traffic and commercial delays. But the president seemed frustrated by beefing up resources at the ports adding this. Until mexico cleans up this ridiculous massive migration, we will be focusing on Border Security not ports of entry. In public appearances evented his desire to change the laws. Now, congress has to act. They have to get rid of catch and release, chain my grags, visa lottery. They have to get rid of the whole asylum system because it doesnt work and frankly we should get rid of judges. You cant have a court case every time somebody steps their foot on our ground. Weve had some very bad court decisions. The flores decision is a disaster, i have to tell you. Judge flores, that decision is a disaster for our country. However, there was no judge flores in the decision that he was referencing that bars the federal government from detaining minors for more than 20 days. The settlement in the case known as reno versus flores was named after a 15yearold migrant from el salvador. Former president barack obama shared his concerns among the field of different minded democrats while speaking in berlin on saturday. One of the things i do worry about sometimes among progressives in the United States, maybe its true here as well, is a certain of rigidity, im sorry this is how it will be. Then we start creating a circular firing squad where you start shooting at your allies because one of them is strained from purity on the issues. And when that happens, typically the overall effort and movement weakens. You have to recognize that the way we structured democracy requires you to take into account people who dont agree with you and that by definition means youre not going to get 100 of what you want. Obama used the Affordable Care act as an example of not getting exactly what he wanted but compromising to see it through. New jersey senator and 2020 democratic candidate cory booker announced his campaign has raised more than 5 million in the First Quarter of 2019. The New York Times report bookers campaign declined to disclose how many people had donated or the number of contributions that he had received. However bookers Senate Campaign says it also has 4. 1 million. Money it can transfer to a president ial campaign. The senator so far has the lowest announced fundraising totals of his fellow 2020 democratic contenders falling just under the 7 million raised by south bend, indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg who has yet to formally announce his president ial bid. Democratic congressman tim ryan kicked offer his 20 president ial campaign on saturday with a rally in youngstown, ohio. Ryan is the latest candidate to join the crowded democratic field held his First Campaign event in his Congressional District in the industrial midwest, making his case to the countrys Blue Collar Workers. We dont need a superstar and we dont need a savior. We need to come together and we need grit and determination. Just maybe the person that can help heal these wounds is a working class kid from a working class family from a working Class Community that will go work his rear end off for the American People. Flyover states are my states. The flyover states are your states and the flyover states are going to start governing in the United States of america again. All right. Lets talk about some of this. Joining me from washington, senior washington correspondent david drucker. Thanks for joining us so early. Lets talk about tim ryan as we just heard from him in youngstown, ohio at his First Campaign rally over the weekend, officially joining the 2020 race. What do you make of tims appeal to Blue Collar Workers as a way to stan out amongst a very crowded field so far . I think it depends on where this fits into the democratic primary, especially with so many candidates. The winner of the presidency is going by necessity to have to appeal to Blue Collar Workers and as he referred to them the flyover states, the heartland, manufacturing communities, communities that are no longer manufacturing commune because they have been decimated by a changing and evolving economy. So hes on the right track in terms of his messaging and his approach when youre looking at a 2020 general election. The question is with so many choices in the democratic primary, is this sort of focused message one that is stylistic and will probably shy away from ambitious progressive proposals that have been exciting a lot of the democratic base. Is that going to take off . Is this enough to stand out, to say the least. You have a new piece out, david, this morning about how freshman democratic lawmakers are already pulling in huge fundraising totals. We have heard so much from these freshmen democratic lawmakers in the last six months or so since they have been in office. Obviously they have a ways to go until 2020, and the next election. But what type of thing could this signal for House Republicans in 2020 . Could they be in trouble here . Look, always, whenever you win a House Majority the party out of power figures that its possible it was an anomaly and they have their best chance of snapping things back while you deal with a lot of freshmen trying to get their sea legs under them and havent established themselves with their constituents. What was interesting to me is that were not talking some of the rock stars or media celebrities, if you will, among House Democratic freshmen. Alexandria occasiocortez and some other big names whom im sure will post big fundraising numbers. I started to get these numbers in my in box. Josh harder, joe cunningham, most people never hear from them or see them in the news and republicans never focus on them and they are raising money hand over fist which shows you the level of Energy Democrats have heading in to 2020. It will make for a very competitive president ial race and also for a very competitive battle for the house of representatives with democrats who are in a very good place so far. Thank you. Well talk to you again in just a little bit. As we go to break, we have got some breaking news about the morning joe first look family. Ayman mohyeldin will be off for a little bit of time. With very good reason. He became the proud dad to a new baby boy which was very surprising to them to say the least. Mom is doing great. Big sister could not be happier. So im going to be holding down the fort alongside special guests while he gets some much needed family time with his new bundle joy. That makes four in his family. Acting white house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney warns democrats will never see trumps tax returns. Well bring in danny cevallos. Is he here . Hes not here yet. For his thoughts on that. Stay with us, everybody. Us, eve. Guys do whatever it takes to deal with shave irritation. So, we reimagined the razor with the new gillette skinguard. It has a unique guard between the blades. Thats designed to reduce irritation during the shave. Because we believe all men deserve a razor just for them. The best a man can get. Gillette. Im off to college. Im worried about my parents retirement. Dont worry. Voya helps them to and through retirement. Dealing with todays expenses. While helping plan, invest and protect for the future. So theyll be okay . I think theyll be fine. Voya. Helping you to and through retirement. Nothing can prepare you to hear those words. Breast cancer. We thought that we would travel to Cancer Treatment centers of america. 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You believe demonstrate will never see the president s tax returns . Oh, no, never. Nor should they. Keep in mind that was an issue that was already litigated during the election. Voters knew he could have given his tax returns he didnt and they elected him anyway which drives democrats crazy. Is the Supreme Court said on multiple occasions that congressional oversight cannot become law enforcement. This idea you can use the irs as a political weapon, which is whats happening here is incorrect both as a matter of statutory law and constitutionally. We should not be in a situation where individuals, individual private tax returns are used for political purposes. Joining me here on set, legal analyst danny cevallos. So were hearing from jake sekulow from over the weekend that congress could request individual citizens tax returns only for a quote legitimate legislative purpose. Theres this 1924 law from what i understand where congress can literally request tax returns ever any of us in this room at any moment for no probable cause, right . Not only that. Yes. It used to be before that, the fortunate executive branch had the only power to request this. Since then its flipped and that 1924 law which is our modern 6103 a the army you may be hearing quite a bit in the future has flipped that such that the president no longer has that power its congress and three committees responsible for taxes that have the power to request those returns. Of any individual including the president. But its going to come down to Steve Mnuchkin, isnt it and the treasury . It is in the sense that the president may order Steve Mnuchkin not to turn those over. Ultimately its the courts and the legal battle that will ensue because theres the argument that the president either has executive privilege, or based on some decisions coming out of the 70s that theres this informational right to privacy that prevents the release of this information because it is one thing for congress to see the returns. It is another for congress to release the returns or do something with that information that would allow to it be public. But congress isnt arguing they want to release the returns. Thats right. But functionally once the committee gets it if they lease to it Congress Many view that as well thats just as bad as if it got out to the public because it could potentially leak. The important thing to understand is what jay sekulow said is that the law itself does not expressly require a legitimate legislative purpose, but because it flows from that law, the same congressional powers to investigate, it can be reasonably said that the Congress Needs the same justification it needs for any other investigation sway legitimate committee purpose. Give me the bottom line. Will we or wont we . I think we will. You think we will . Only based on precedent because congress has as recently as 2014 released tax return information even when arguably there was no legitimate legislative purpose. So sometimes the law just doesnt provided equate protection. I feel with tax law too it can be so complicated at times and i feel that could feasibly be in the president s favor because could it be interpreted in many ways. You should see my grades from my tax law class. I will fight for them never to be released. Danny cevallos, thank you. Lets turn now to someone else who i think probably did pretty well in school. Good enough to get here. Nbc meteorologist bill karins. A lot of math, a lot of science. The storm system this weekend, we had a lot of bad weather that rolled through texas and louisiana. Yesterday was miserable in louisiana. Now those storms are rolling through areas of alabama and a little bit here and there in tennessee. Not severe any more but pour in nashville over the next two hours. A slow morning commute there. Atlanta looks like youll be spared more towards this afternoon. You have to watch out for severe storms. Its that time of the year. Today 26 Million People are at risk. Southern half of virginia, north carolina, upstate sections of south carolina, northern half of georgia including the atlanta area and a little spot there from birmingham towards columbus. Were worried today about xpecting a tornado hail. Outbreak. How about whats going on in the northeast. We could have one of those days today where philly break out in sunshine. 80 degrees. At the same time 30 degrees and snowing in areas of maine. This blue on this map shows you where its snowing. North of portland an all out snowstorm throughout the day. Any apologies. Spring can be cruel in northern new england. Steady rain is over in new york city. Wet ride through boston. Heres that snowfall forecast. When you get to the purple thats six inches and up to a foot of snow in northern maine. Good weather is in the middle of the country. Well talk about the week ahead forecast. Theres a blizzard on the map come wednesday and thursday and ill let you know who will get it. I think those people want to turn off their tvs. No dont turn off your tvs if youre watching. We do have some good news. Theres something in the water here, i got to say at morning joe. Last block we told you about ayman mohyeldin. Hes the proud dad avenue baby. This is actually mercy rose. Shes so cute. 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She later released her resignation where she writes in part that she hopes the next secretary will have the support of congress and the courts to fix the laws which she says has impeded our ability to fully security americas boards and contributed to the nations discourse. The president announced her departure by tweet and while he thanked Kirstjen Nielsen for her surface that method was a sign on its very face the tensions the sources said president heard calls by some that she step down including the head of the Border Patrol union. The president went ahead and named an acting secretary. Thats the kent commissioner of customers and Border Protection who was confirmed by the senate for that job. The change of course is striking because Kirstjen Nielsen of traveling with the president the end of last week visiting the border. Shes been under fire at different points during her ten new ye tenure like the family separation policy. President trump is lashing out once again at bob mueller and his team of investigators. The president tweeted yesterday morning quote looks like bob muellers team of 13 trump haters and angry democrats are illegally leaking information to the press while the Fake News Media make up their own stories with or without sources, sources no longer matter to our corrupt and dishonest mainstream media. They are a joke. Meanwhile house judiciary chairman Jerrold Nadler said yesterday congress has a right to see muellers full report. He also vowed that some of muellers report would not leak if an unredacted version of the report were given to his committee. The president s attorney Rudy Giuliani responded saying he would like the congressman to get quote all the information. Are you arguing that the information if it is shared with the committee would not leak publicly . Can you guarantee that . Certainly. Some of it would not leak publicly. Some of it would be decided. Some grand jury information first of all some grand jury information would be decided, mufrt be released by court order to the public. Thats happened in the past. Might happen again in the future. But, again, the committee has a very good record of protecting information which it decides to protect. Would you like to respond to the congressman who says he has the right and the committee has the right for all of this information. Do you agree . I would like him to get all the information. Including the things that are protected. Everything. I guarantee you, except for little quibbles. Former Vice President joe biden joking about the reason controversy surrounding complaints about inappropriate contact just days after promising to be more respectful. Just want you to know i had permission to hug ronnie. [ laughter ] [ applause ] i dont know, man. But you realize 54 of the American People think their children will never reach the standard of living they reached. Thats never happened before. 54 . And you guys can sit on the edge i dont want you to have to stand all alone by the way he gave me permission to touch him. All right. [ laughter ] so the speech was bidens first public appearance since several women made allegations he made them feel uncomfortable cluing lucy to resa former democratic nominee for nevada lieutenant governor. Flores reacted to bidens remarks tweeting its clear joe biden has not reflected at all on how his inappropriate and unsolicited touching made women feel uncomfortable and to make light of something as serious as consent degrades the conversation that women are trying have. Shortly after the speech biden addressed his comments saying he did not intend to offend anybody. Wasnt my intent to make light of anyones discomfort. I realize my responsibility is not to invade the space of anyone who is uncomfortable in that regard and i hope it wasnt taken that way. Joining me now from washington, nbc news political reporter. Aesthetic, good to see you this morning. Some mixed reviews per bidens response on friday. First of making light of the situation with those young kids and then secondly what he said on that driveway that we just heard. What your hearing . It seems like hes trying to have it at both ways. He put out this video that had tones of an apology and seemed you were supposed to takeaway from it he wassi apologizing bu he never said the words. Then he focused on his intentions rather than how it came across. Doesnt seem he takes this issue seriously. Thats what concerns a lot of democrats who have been watching this and who have been aware that this was going come because after all weve been watching joe biden for years interacting with women this way and it was foreseeable this issue would come up and be litigated. I think people hoped he would have a better response to it. It done seem hes taken it that seriously. For him he considers himself a hero on these issues. He talked about how he was the lead sponsor on violence against women act. He still is not going to be able to put this issue away until he settles one way or the other. We had a vote on the violence against women act last week i believe on thursday or so. We had a vote on that. Lets talk about your new reporting on the expanding democratic president ial field. Do you think an influx of candidate options could end up overwhelming voters in 2020 or do you think its a good thing . Alex . Did i lose you . Looks like i lost alex. Which happens on live television. Already, though, thank you for weighing in, alex. Coming up, six weeks after saying he would release his most recent tax returns soon Bernie Sanders had this to say. You have filed your taxes for the past ten years. Why not release them today . They would be released very, very shortly. April 15th is coming. Well do our taxes for this year. And 2016, 2017. They will be there. Youll be happy to see them. When you want to talk about taxes, President Trump well release ten years of our tacks you do the same. With you calling on the president to release his taxes why not do it now . Not right this minute. Not today. Do you think i have them in my back pocket, no. Lets bring back alex. Looks like his audio has been corrected. Do you think this field for democrats will be overwhelming. I think it is already overwhelming. Its overwhelming for people like me. Its one of those menus at a diener that keeps unfolding. Depending on who you include 14 candidates or 17 candidates already in. Another five or six that are almost certain to get in. That makes at any time biggest field in history. The biggest so far 2016 republicans that had 17 candidates. 1976 democrats had 16 candidates. So i do think theres kind of an issue for voters here. How do you keep track of them all . You want choices but you dont want so much work in sorting through them all. I talk to a Behavioral Scientist that said too many choices can overload people. They can have buyers remorse. In 2016 and 1976 those big fields ultimately produced a nominee who won, but as we know with donald trump the party was not super excited, not totally unified by that choice in the end. Thank you very much. Well be seeing you on morning joe in just a little bit. Also, everybody, the latest deadline for brexit is this friday. Theres still no deal in place. Nbc news Foreign Correspondent kyra simmons joins me on set for that conversation next. video games have evolved. Addle why hasnt the way you bank . Virtual wallet from pnc bank helps make it easier to see what youre spending, stash more into savings and stay on top of your finances in a digital world. Just one way pnc is modernizing banking to help make things easier. Pnc bank. Make today the day. There are just a handful of days to go until the uk leaves the eu. No divorce deal is in place. On friday theresa may formally requested another brexit extension, this time until june 30th. May also sat down with Opposition Labor Party Jeremy Corbyn in an effort to find some sort of way forward. Temp u agreed late last month to conditionally delay the original march 29th brexit date until this friday if the Prime Ministers deal of not approved under a deadline. Joining me here on set, kyra simmons. What are the chances that the eu doesnt grant the uk a second brexit extension. Its groundhog day. Look first things first. Anything i say about brexit could be wrong. Thats where we are. So as long as you put this on tv were all good. Dont bring me back at the end of the week and say what are you talking. I think there will be a delay. A long delay. The french will be persuaded there should be a long delay. Honestly from europes perspective thats the best policy to just drag this out and allow the british electorate to become exhausted, worn out. Why . Because theres a sizable section of the British Public who want to get out and are angry that the politicians havent delivered that for them. As long as this drags out it wont happen. Potentially more locked in perspective, that polarization in the country similar to here gets, you know, gets shaken. Its a little bit like football. You need to move the ball along the field if you want to score. Its going to be another tense week. Friday is another crucial deadline where britain could crash out of the european union. But i suspect that we will see a longer delay. Ultimately i think what well see is a soft brexit, kind of a brexit but many, many ties still with the european union. How are people in the uk feeling about all this . Its tough. This is a battle for the future of europe. And there is again a sizable section of the British Public who have never really been bought into europe, feel their sovereign is being taken away. Youre looking at something for the british similar to the Syrian Crisis in the sense that this idea of british pride, of postcolonial british exceptionalism is being shaken again. There are a lot of british people who bought into that. I saw the snl sketch on saturday night the Prime Minister balking through the streets of britain being hated by everyone. You know whats sad about this is that the people, many people who voted for brexit voted for pride and, in fact, what they are getting is humiliation. What happens with theresa may . Theresa may is finished. Absolutely. Just a matter of time. Yeah. But first shes a bit like a School Teacher who is desperately trying to control a classroom of unruly students. All of those unruly students, the politicians are desperately trying to become Prime Minister themselves and to see their version of brexit happen without getting the blame for it if it goes wrong. Its very messy. The fundamental reason why its messy is the country is divided and polarized. For people to understand, i feel on a local level when things happen politically in new york state or in this country you think about things economically, you think about real estate, your value of real estate, that sort of thing. There has got to be a sense in the uk right now where that type of thought is similarly going on. People are what will my Property Value going to be like, the job situation will be like, none of which they can predict. Exactly right. Partly whats happening were having the debate that should have happened before the vote now after the vote with still all of the possible options on the table. One of the thing that i found stunning through all of this is that britain is the fifth largest economy in the world. Europe is the biggest economy in the world if you take the whole thing together. And the idea that you can rip britain out of europe and that doesnt have a sizable effect economically around the world, the fact that markets havent been shaken by this indecision is stunning to me and i think is an indication that maybe on the markets they think there will absolution. Ill go out on a limb and say this conversation is the overwhelming conversation at water coolers versus Meghan Markles upcoming baby. Its a tie. Its a tie. Wow. There you go. Thank you. Lets get a check on your weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. A very busy week coming in. We have some storms to deal with in the southeast. Northern portions of new england will get snow and heavy snow in maine as we go throughout monday. Nystatin middle of the country. The next storm is moving on to the west coast. Tuesday snow into the rockies. On wednesday this storm goes out to the plains. Full out snowstorm from wyoming, portions of nebraska, south dakota, southern half of minnesota. It looks like a little bit of rain still mixture as far as south as milwaukee. Southern half of the country will be nice. Not dealing with a lot of Severe Weather this week. But well deal with this huge storm. Thursday is a blizzard day. The storm moves off to the north on friday with light rain on the east coast. We have pictures of hail i want to show you. On saturday we had baseball size hail in texas. Some of these smashed wind shields. Thats the baseball size. Its that time of year. Thanks, bill. Still ahead we might see a negative open on world series this morning. Well get the latest from cnbc about why and what we can expect from the stock market today. Well be right back. Correct agerelated volume loss in cheeks with Juvederm Voluma xc. Tell your doctor if you have a history of scarring or are taking medicines that decrease the bodys immune response or that can prolong bleeding. 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The state Party Central committee voted yesterday to use the states 2020 president ial primary results to allocate delegates to candidates using washingtons vote by mail system and caucuses to select which delegates will represent the state at the national convention. In the past, the party has only used precinct caucuses. Washington states governor signed a bill last month moving the primary from may to the second tuesday in march. Coming up, jim vandehei has a look at this mornings 1 big thing. And much more on Kirstjen Nielsens abrupt resignation. Hans nichols will have the latest from the white house. Plus texas congressman colin allred will join the conversation. Hes ramping up conversation on the administrations plan to eliminate obamacare. Morning joe just moments away. Morning joe just moments away. You should be mad your neighbor always wants to hang out. And you should be mad your smart fridge is unnecessarily complicated. 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Current competitive owners get 20 below msrp on most equinox models when financing with gm financial. Thats over eight thousand dollars on this equinox. Welcome back, everybody. Joining us from washington with a look at axios a. M. , jim vandehei. Good morning to you. Good morning. Talk to us about axios 1 big thing today. Nobody leaves this white house on a high note it seems, especially in these National Security positions. You had the Homeland Security chief departing last night. Lots of drama leading up to that. Obviously she didnt get along with the president that well, went into that meeting hoping to have what she called a reasonable conversation with him. It was clear he just wanted her to resign. A lot of bitterness around her. One of her aides telling us its clear the white house just likes to eat their own, not just her but john kelly, tillerson, mattis. The reason that thats problematic is it really hurts recruiting efforts when they want to bring in someone else to run defense or Homeland Security. It narrows the number of people who want to go in and have to endure a lot of pressure from the president on your Job Performance in realtime. Well see who replaces nielsen. Steven miller in the short term emerges even more powerful. He shares the president s view on immigration and immigration probably more than any topic today really consumes this president and this presidency. What does this mean for the president S Immigration policy Going Forward . You have a, quote unquote, National Emergency the president declared and saying theres an emergency at our borders. Thats in the president s words. Now you have no secretary of Homeland Security, just an acting secretary. Its a critical time. The hard line gets harder. There is a problem on the border, you do have a massive surge of people coming especially from honduras, el salvador, other Central American countries who are trying to get asylum and you have Border Patrol truly be overwhelmed. The president wants to take a lot of drastic steps and a lot of people at the department of Homeland Security dont think it will help. People leave because of political instability, rampant gangs and its a not a nice place to live. Whoever comes in is going to have to share the president s down the border and take more radical steps to stem the flow of Asylum Seekers into the United States. There was a possibility that one of the reasons why Kirstjen Nielsen left was about the president wanting to close the border. Is there any merit to that, that they disagreed over that . I think they disagreed over a lot. They had a lot of meetings, not necessarily that were heated in person, i think they had a pretty good personal rapport, but the president always felt he was getting lectured by her and always being told why he couldnt do the things he couldnt do what he wants to do. Whenever people say no, no, you cant do that, the laws dont permit it or, no, no, that would disrupt things in the international order, he doesnt want to hear that. He wants to hear theyre going to move quickly and do what he wants to do. That ends up creating tension. A lot of people fall in line publicly until they cant fall in line anymore or he loses patience with them and ousts them. When she went in yesterday, i think she was probably thinking maybe i can reason with him and maybe well get a deal here where i dont have to leave. But the president even before she could get her letter out saying she was going to resign, resigned her. He usually uses twitter to stay someones been ousted. Shes not necessarily leaving on a high note to say the least. Were going to be reading axios a. M. In just a little bit. That does it for us on this monday morning. Morning joe starts right now. What is a chain link fence enclosed into a chamber on a concrete floor represent to you . Is that a cage . Its a detention space, maam, that you know has existed for decades. Does it differ from the cages you put your dogs in when you let them stay outside . Is it different . Yes. In what sense . Its larger. It has facilities, it provides room to sit, to stand, to lay down. The person who oversaw the seizing of children wasnt tough enough for the president. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is monday, april 8th. With us we have White House Reporter for the Associated Press jonathan lemire, tom nichols, vjim vandehei. So kirstjen el