Loud about the companies he doesnt like and doesnt understand why he cant unilaterally using the power of government to push them. An alabama tragedy. Communities coming together after the deadliest tornado outbreak in six years. The father of a 10yearold girl killed in the storm tells lester holt how Police Stopped him as he rushed to the scene. You told the police, obviously, who you were looking for. They were very kind to let me come be with her and helped me carry her out. They had to help a little bit. And good day, everyone, im Andrea Mitchell in washington where President Trump is firing back at House Democrats spearheading the deep dive into his personal, political, and business background, calling chairmen jerry nadler and adam schiff stone cold crazy in his first tweet of the morning, later writing the investigations are, quote, the greatest overreach in our country and a big fact fishing expedition desperately in search of a crime. Joining me now, msnbc correspondent kristen welker, phil rucker, and harry litman, former Deputy Assistant attorney general. Kristen, this is an angry president pushing back. Were hearing from Sarah Sanders as well. Are they going to cooperate, are they going to stonewall . What do you think theyre going to do . In terms of the strategy, andrea, they are on the same page now when it comes to maevenlg messaging. You read the tweet from President Trump and Sarah Sanders echoed that, calling this disgraceful and a fishing expedition. Theres that term again. President trump was asked yesterday by our hans nichols if he would in fact cooperate. He said, look, i always cooperate, at the same time this is a witch hunt. Based on my conversations, whats going to happen now is the requests will be reviewed by the white house counsel. And by the way, there are of course requests for folks outside the white house, so their attorneys are reviewing those requests as well. The question becomes what may be protected by executive privilege, will they claim that. I anticipate, and i wouldnt be surprised, if some of the documents, a number of the documents are in fact, the white house will argue, protected by that. And you might see the outside allies of the president making the same case depending on what specific documents are requested. So theres the messaging and then the legal strategy. Theyre huddled here behind the scenes trying to determine what the next steps will look like now that they have the specific requests, andrea. And the other committees, the other chairs who have gone after the president with a broad request which is to include the translators covering the white house, the translators from the putin summit and the suggestion that the president may have tried to destroy records, phil, what about that . Thats an extraordinary request we saw come in from the Foreign Affairs committee. Its not likely that the white house will cooperate with that. People i talked to yesterday indicated that seemed like a real reach. But its certainly something that the White House Counsels Office will be reviewing. Remember, they added more than a dozen lawyers earlier this year to prepare for this very moment, to prepare to fight back against some of these oversight investigations. Theyre going to be reviewing every request. And by the way, its not over. My colleagues are reporting that House Democrats are preparing, theyre in the final stages of preparing to request ten years of the president s tax returns. That could come any day now. And there will be additional investigative inquiries as well. Well see some more explosive tweets. Of course this is the only modern president who has not released his tax returns when he was a candidate, even, so a sensitive subject. Ty cobb. Harry litman, lets talk about ty cobb, former president ial lawyer, speaking out on a podcast. We wanted you to hear what he had to say about robert mueller. What do you think about bob mueller . I think bob mueller is an american hear roro. I think the world of bob mueller. He is a very deliberate guy. But hes also a class act. And a very justiceoriented person. I was there for the white house. Rudy is there to represent the individual. But keep in mind that you can criticize the strategy, it wouldnt have been my strategy. I dont feel the same way about mueller. I dont feel the investigation is a witch hunt. I guess we can understand why ty cobb is no longer working at the white house, harry litman. Yeah, well, look, what ty cobb had to say is, the conventional view, the universal view in d. C. , and the accurate view. The attempt to try to demonize mueller gets traction only within the trump base. And its just a political and a false talking point. Its also very bad lawyering. To the extent this winds up in the courts, weve seen from roger stone, from Michael Cohen, from paul manafort, how judges react to this kind of demonizing of mueller in particular, who everybody regards with the highest respect. So its merely a political strategy. But of course were now, especially having moved to congress, in a political sxheetg and it may just get some traction with the people that trump and rude ruy giuliani are playing to, the base and some of the republicans in the senate. Harry litman, kristen welker, phil rucker, thanks so much to all of you. Minnesota democratic senator and president ial candidate Amy Klobuchar joins me now, member of the Judiciary Committee. Senator, thank you very much for joining us. William barr has said hes not going to recuse himself. Its one of the questions you asked during his confirmation hearing. And your reaction to that . Did you think he should have recused himself . I think it was pretty clear that whoever succeeded Jeff Sessions was not going to get the job if they didnt answer that question the way the president wanted it. I thought he should have recused himself, i made that clear at the hearing. You look at the 19page memo he wrote which was kind of an application for the job, in which he espoused a very, very large role for executive power, outsized role, not consistent with a lot of the case law. And so i was very concerned, given what he said in that memo about a president and what a president can do and whether a president can basically make the laws. So that really bothered me. So thats why i asked him that. And i noted that, you know, he had commended others for recusing themselves in the trump Justice Department, like attorney general sessions. And yet he himself isnt recusing himself. I will say it doesnt surprise me, andrea, at all. I thought thats what he would do. But i dont think it was the right decision. I think the question is what he would do with the advice as well of career justice people. I dont know myself what that advice was in this case. But i asked him if he would also follow that and he wouldnt commit to that. Now, Something Else has come up in jane mayers new yorker piece on fox news and the white house. Well be interviewing her shortly on all of that. But one of the things which came out which surprised a lot of people, evidence she has from her sources that both gary cohn and john kelly when they were in the white house were being pressed by the president to get the Justice Department to block the merger, the time warner merger which involves cnn, a frequent target. I want to play this from the confirmation hearing, because you brought this up, because william barr was on the board of at t. You were on the board of time warner and you signed a sworn affidavit questioning whether the Justice Departments decision to block the merger was politically motivated given the president s private public animus toward the merger. At that meeting i was concerned that the antitrust division was not engaging with some of our arguments. And i got concerned that they werent taking the merits as seriously as i hoped they would. But i have you know, i have no, uh, im not sure why they acted the way they did. In your oversight function on judiciary, do you believe the committee should revisit this issue with barr and the Justice Department as to what kind of pressure they had from the white house, given what jane mayer is reporting about what gary cohn and former chief of staff kelly were told . I do. And thats why, andrea, i sent letters to the white house and to the Justice Department. I never got a straight answer. I have my own issues with this deal. But you have issues with the deal, they should be related to the merits, not because you dont like cnn. Thats what the president was focused on. Thats wrong. And im glad this reporting is coming out now. Its going to give me a second shot at this, to make the point. And as a bigger matter, antitrust is something we should be talking about more. I was with robert reich this morning, and he is appearing before our antitrust subcommittee today for a hearing. You have more and more consolidation in this country. It means prices go up. It means innovation and entrepreneurship go down. Were basically going back to the gilded age in terms of consolidated power. And this white house talks a game that they want to do something about it but every time they do it its just a political hit on a Certain Company or liking a Certain Company. Thats what were hearing out of the white house. And i think the Justice Department should be taking this on, have the resources that they need, and do this in the right way, not just because of some kind of political grudge match. Robert reich, of course, the former labor secretary under bill clinton and a professor of economics. Let me also ask you, just to wrap up the questions about the Justice Department and this attorney general, he gave you a very lawyerly answer at confirmation about whether he will disclose the results of the mueller probe, which we think is immine imminent. How much do you think he should be forced to disclose of the report . This is going to be a moment for attorney general barr, because he said at the hearing that he respected mueller, he wanted the investigation to be completed, and that he would do all that was possible to release the report. Now, i didnt like the words he used because i felt that he was kind of hiding behind the rules. And the rules do have some restrictions in them. But there is every reason that he should put the publics interest in mind, the interests of our country as we approach another election in 2020. We saw what russia did last time. We know from intelligence officials that the trump administration, what they may do again. And for the sake of our democracy and our country, he must make this report public. That is what i will be saying, what those of us on the Judiciary Committee not to see. And otherwise we are never going to what happened. We need to have the facts. Now, of course youre running for president , we want to ask you about the campaign. Hillary clinton has now for the first time on camera ruled out running. This was to bronx news 12. Let me play a little bit of that. Im not running. But im going to keep working and speaking and standing up for what i believe. Im not going anywhere. Whats at stake in our country, the kinds of things that are happening right now, are deeply troubling. What role should she play as the former nominee . Well, first of all, this doesnt surprise me. I had a really good meeting with secretary clinton about some of the things that she needs to be taking on in the country. Of course foremost is how were dealing with Foreign Relations and diplomacy. I think she could be a very strong voice because she understands the need to stand with our allies. You look at what the president just did, coming back from north korea, taking the words of a dictator, kim jongun, over the hearts and souls of this family, the warmbiers. You look at what he did with respect to the Jamal Khashoggi case. All of these things are not standing up for americas democracy and not standing with our allies. That is where i think secretary clinton, among many other ways, can be a strong voice as we head into this election. What about joe biden, who is kind of the hamlet of this drama . Many people including myself, from my reporting, believe he is going to get into this, perhaps not before april. Does he then sort of take over the democratic field . I think that first of all, i have a lot of respect for Vice President biden. I truly enjoyed working with him when i was in the senate. I think were going to have a lot of competition, thats a good thing. I dont think its fair to say, when you have so many excellent people running, that any one person will take over the field. Its going to be a long year. Let me ask you about another big issue, medicare for all. Theres an oped by david brooks today in the New York Times saying medicare for all would be plausible if america were a blank slate, but the easiest way to get health care for all, to go back to 1776 and undo the current system. We should be open to ideas. Health care premiums are too high. We made strides with the Affordable Care act to make sure people are covered. But thats just a beginning. What we should be doing is some immediate fixes, reinsurance cost sharing, then go to a public option, something that president obama wanted to see when he passed the Affordable Care act. You can do it by expanding medicaid and medicare. We can get to universal health care, which is where we want to get to immediately, because weve just been through the Affordable Care act. To not mention pharmaceutical prices would be wrong because thats the one area the Affordable Care act did nothing about and congress has done nothing about. Its finally time to move to take on those pharma prices by bringing less expensive drugs in from other countries or unleashing the power of 43 million seniors to negotiate better prices, lifting that ban on medicare, and then stopping the practice where big pharma pays off generics, a bill i have with senator grassley so we can have true competition. One of the results in our new nbc news wall street journal poll that came out sunday is a majority of americans do not like the socialist label. Is that a problem for Bernie Sanders . You know, you should talk to bernie about that. He and i have worked together on a number of issues including these Prescription Drug issues that i just brought on. I will just speak for myself. Im not a socialist. Im a democrat. Im proud of that. And i work both in the private sector and the public sector. But that doesnt mean that were not living at a time where you want to have some checks on the private sector. Thats why i brought up the antitrust laws earlier, andrea. That is an area where decades of conservative court decisions, inaction by congress, more big companies, sophisticated companies that our government hasnt been able to put any kind of a check on. Thats an area where, no, this isnt about socialism, its republicans. Teddy roosevelt, the trustbuster, took this on early on. And its time to bring this issue back again. Finally, since you took this on, your opening line at the gridiron where you asked, jokingly, how did everyone like the salad, obviously trying to deal with the New York Times story which criticized you for your staff relationships, for an an incident involving salad and your frustration with your staff. Do you think that report, that that story is unfair . First of all, i was just making fun of myself, it was the gridiron, and thats what you do when youre on that stage. Understood. But i am what i can say is this. I have a great staff. I wouldnt have had such a great announcement and town hall, you name it, how weve been getting around the country, both on our Political Campaign and in our official office. Im proud of them. Weve just had the news which wasnt about me, about our staff, that vanderbilt found that i was the most effective democratic on 15 metrics. The first one since 1994. And john mccain was able to be in the Minority Party and break in the top five. Thats not about me. That is about an incredible staff. Senator Amy Klobuchar, candidate for president , senator from minnesota, thank you so much. Thanks for being with us. Thank you, andrea. And up next, ill talk to the reporter who broke that news about the president s role in trying to block the at t time warner merger, among other big scoops in that new yorker piece. Youre watching Andrea Mitchell reports on msnbc. Youre watching Andrea Mitchell reports on msnbc. Ron soh really . Going on at schwab. Thank you clients . Well jd power did just rank them highest in Investor Satisfaction with full Service Brokerage firms. Again. And online equity trades are only 4. 95. I mean you cant have low cost and be full service. Its impossible. Its like having your cake and eating it too. Ask your broker if they offer awardwinning full service and low costs. How am i going to explain this . If you dont like their answer, ask again at schwab. Schwab, a modern approach to wealth management. In jane mayers explosive and exclusive new yorker article, the making of the fox news white house, she details the exchange in the summer of 2017 in which President Trump reportedly ordered his then director of the economic council, gary cohn, to tell the Justice Department to ki