Good morning, everybody. The tuesday, may 1st. We start with the Times Publishing a list of topics and questions that it says bob mueller wants to ask President Trump to determine whether he attempted to obstruct the probe into russian meddling and learn more about potential ties between his campaign and moscow. The report describes questions read by the special counsel investigators to the president s lawyers who compiled them into a list. That document was provided to the times by a person outside mr. Trumps legal team. Of the four major topics, three relate to potential obstruction of justice including the president s knowledge of and reaction to the investigation of the National Security advisor michael flynn. The firing of the fbi director james comey, the recusal of Jeff Sessions and finally alleged Trump Campaign coordination with the russian government. The list has not been verified by nbc news. The special counsels office has not responded to the times request for comment and the president s inhouse and outside attorneys both declined to comment on this. Well have lots more on the story when the new york sometimes Michael Schmidt joins morning joe next hour. One question has raised the question of whether mueller might know something new about the russia investigation. A new question described to the times mueller wants to ask the question quote, what knowledge did you have of any outreach by your Campaign Including by Paul Manafort to russia about potential assistance to the campaign . The times notes there is no publicly available information linking the former Trump Campaign chair in such outreach. They note that rick gates is cooperating with the probe. Politico reports that manaforts lawyers filed a motion monday night claiming that leaks from government officials hajeopardid his right to a fair trial and that mueller has presented no evidence linking him to russian intelligence. Manaforts lawyers write quote, despite multiple discovery requests the special counsel has not produced any materials to the defense. Russian government officials or any other foreign officials. The office of special counsel has advised there are no materials responsive to mr. Manaforts request. A Spokes Person for mueller had not immediately responded for comment to that report. All right. Nine months after taking the reigns of the Trump White House chief of staff john kelly may be eroding moral ex e in the west. Hes becoming increasingly vocal in his criticism of the president , calling mr. Trump quote, an idiot. Reporter nbc news has learned exclusively chief of staff john kelly is increasingly on the ropes. His relationship with the president souring with four officials telling nbc news they have witnessed kelly calling the president an idiot behind his back including around the time of these january discussions about an Immigration Reform bill which ultimately fell apart. It should be a bipartisan bill. This should be a bill of love. Truly it should be a bill of love. According to officials mr. Kelly questioned the president s grasp on policy saying some version of quote, im the one saving the country. Adding to the west wing drama kelly has royaled some of the female staffers by telling aides multiple times that women are more emotional than men and when it came to dealing with rob porter, ousted after allegations of abuse from two exwives kelly was consistently protective. Kelly wondered aloud much more porter would have to endure before hed have his honor restored. Kelly says things you cant believe. Three spokes people say the president does at times get frustrated they say the two men have a good relationship. Its the white houses chief job to accept the decision and execute it and thats a real problem if the chief of staff is criticizing the president out loud. John kelly fired back in a statement calling his relationship with the president candid and strong, adding quote, he and i both know this story is total bs. I am committed to the president , his agenda and our country. And remember, secretary of state Rex Tillerson was ousted in march after a number of policy disputes but Officials Say mr. Trump never got over reports that tillerson called him a moron. So is kelly leaving any time soon . Thats anyones guess but there is broad agreement that kellys standing has been diminished. Thanks for that report. One of the reporters who work pd on this story, carol lee is going to be a guest on morning joe coming up. Joining us is a capitol reporter from the hill. So we have this list of topics and questions and special counsel bob mueller wants to ask President Trump reportedly. What does this sort of tell you, these questions that weve seen so far about the direction of muellers probe when it comes to the president and what do you think the impetus was behind releasing these questions for the public to see . Your second question is the one that i keep asking and i actually am asking it about the other story thats the big news of the day. What was the impetus behind releasing the information behind john kelly calling the president an idiot. But back to this investigation and the leak of the questions, it is fascinating that this happened shortly after giuliani comes on board as one of the lawyers for donald trump in this matter. Keep in mind until a few months ago or actually not a few months ago, but a few weeks ago donald trump was looking forward to talking to bob mueller and answering all of his questions, but then dialed that in a little bit and so i think the questions are, you know whrks you talk to members of congress who are prosecutors, these are the folks that i go to to make sense of whats going on behind the scenes, the one thing that they have brought up is mueller is trying to establish a pattern of behavior that could, you know, demonstrate what his intention truly was behind firing jim comey and if that was obstruction of justice then they want to go to the root of that. Keep in mind that even if mueller does talk to the president and the president is, you know, considered to be lying about it, its unlikely that he will be indicted. However, whatever that document comes out with, the findings that mueller presents, thats something that the house of representatives will deal with and so thats why getting to this pattern of behavior to establish intention behind the firing of jim comey is key. Yeah, i agree with you. So i want to get to that second topic that you brought up which is the report surrounding john kelly calling the president an idiot. Basically the chief of staff saying the president knows the true story. I didnt do this. Do you think this is about sort of an eroding morale that were seeing in the west wing . Well, keep in mind theres been a lot of turnover in the white house and the immediate vicinity of the oval office recently. You know, weve had hope hicks is gone. New National Security advisor. John bolton is in place and hes bringing on members of a new team and youre looking at the new faces of the white house and what are the old faces doing . I want to get to the bottom of who leaked this information and why. What was the intention behind it . Is this to diminish john kellys role or is it to set the stage for somebody whos more in line with what say john bolton is thinking . Its all fascinating when you come to leaks like this in washington, d. C. Because you always want to go to the intention of the source. You know, whats that intention . And its fascinating to see this play out, but its im not sure, you know, im not sure which aspects are true and how true they are and what context that john kelly said these in, because he is a marines marine and they take orders. And so it seems difficult to believe that he would be openly questioning the president and the white house. And to a certain extent when we heard about the moron comment from Rex Tillerson that was sort of the beginning of the end for him so well have to wait and see who leads this. Ill talk to you again at the bottom of the hour. Lets turn to iran. Yesterday israeli Prime Minister claimed that he has quote new and conclusive proof of Irans Nuclear ambitions unveiling what he says is 110,000 documents and files iran kept on project ahmad which he says is really intelligence from a Storage Facility in teheran. That program centered around designing,est thing and Building Nuclear weapons. He said it was halted back in 2003. It shows iran was lying about never having a Nuclear Weapons program and as such the 2015 deal should be thrown out since it was based on iranian laws and deception. He also says that iran kept the files in order to jump start its Nuclear Ambitions at a later date. Mike pompeo later confirmed that the documents are authentic and adding that the kwus has been quote aware of them for a while. Iran has consistently denied these accusations. In a statement the white house says in part quote, this provides new details of Nuclear Weapons. These facts are consistent with what the United States has long known. Iran has a robust Nuclear Weapons program that it has tried and failed to hide from the world and from its own people, however, the white house later issued a major correction changing the present tense iran has to quote, iran had a robust Nuclear Weapons program. President trump addressed the news earlier in the day. In seven years that deal will have expired and iran is free to go ahead and create Nuclear Weapons. Thats not acceptable. That is just not an acceptable situation and ive been saying thats happening. Theyre setting off missiles which they say are for television purposes. I dont think so. So well see what happens. Im not telling you what im doing but a lot of people think they know and on or before the 12th well make a decision. So that doesnt mean i wouldnt negotiate a new agreement. Well see what happens. But i think if anything whats happened today and over whats happened the last little while and what weve learned has really shown ive been 100 right. Okay. 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