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 SecurityKirstjen 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. 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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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