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Daniels. And Rex Tillerson said Vladimir Putin was more prepared than President Trump when they first methe putting the u. S. At disadvantage. Good morning, everybody. It is thursday, may 23rd. Im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside nbc News White House correspondent jeff bennett. Were starting with that fight between houseng democrats and Trump White House and its reaching new heights. An infrastructure ming between President Trump and Democratic Congressional leaders came tocrn abrupt end yesterday after the president nd demanded that they e stop investigating him. Moments afternv walking out of e meetingt the president made a surprise appearance in the rose garden where reporters had been hastily gathered. Watch this. I walked into the room and told senator schumer, speaker pelosi, i want to do infrastructure. I want to do it more than you want to do it. I would be really good at it. Od. Thats what i do. But you know what . Youow cant do it under these circumstances. So get these phoney investigations over with. So the president s impromptu statement came after House Speaker nancy pelosi told reporters earlier in the day that democrats t believed the president is engaged in a quote cover up. One Administration Official told nbc news the president s rose garden statement of quote reaction toot Nancy Pelosis comments, pure and simple. Would you believe that its important for, to follow the facts . We believe that no one is above the law, including the president of the United States. We believe that the president of the United States is engaged in a cover up. Instead of walking in happily into a meeting, i walk into look at people that just said that i was doing a cover up. I dont do cover ups. You people know that probably betterro than anybody. They want toha make this a big deal. Whether or not they carry the big i word out i can imagine. Theyan probably would. Last night i heard they were going to have a meeting before this meeting to talk about the i word. The i wore. President trumps anger abous the Mueller Investigation was apparent yesterday. He spoke at a podium that had a printedd poster attached no collusion, no coverup. It had a mix of accurate and inaccuratecu information. Twoin Administration Sources tes nbc news the poster was created a while ago. Correctlye stated that 2800 pl subpoenas, 675 days and 500 plus witnesses all about the Mueller Investigation, but it incorrectly cited 35 million cost and quote 18 angry democrats as the president likes to say. Investigation costs an estimated 25ed million according to the department of justice and the New York Times reports that 14 of muellers 18 investigators were actually linked to democrats. Ed after President Trump stormed out of his meeting with Democratic Leaders tensions speck between House Speaker nancy pelosi andke white House Counsel h kellyanne conway. Two sources in the room confirmed to nbc news that after trump left n the meeting conway asked pelosi a question. According to a white house source in the room conway asked this, respectfully madam speaker, do you have a direct response to the president. Pelosi responded i dont talk to staff i talk directly to the president. Conway responded sarcastically thats a very pro woman of you. An aide said the speaker did not sayid she doesnt talk to staff. Nancy pelosi sent ao lette tosi the entire democratic cauc. She wrote in part this. Democrats are herear for the country. F sadly the only job the president seems to be concerned with is his coown. He threatened to stop working with democrats on all legislation unless we end oversight of his administration, and he had a temper tantrum for all ofpe us to see. Trump hit back at that. Writing on twitter nancy pelosi said trump had a temper tantrum. This is not true. I was veryno purposely calm. Very polite and calm much as i was minutes later as i was with the pristine rose garden. Can be easily proven. Its such a lie. Heres how Top Democrats who were t at the meeting described what went e down. We w got in the room, the curtains were closed. The president , there was a place for him at the front so he could stand and attempt to tell us why he wouldnt do infrastructure. And, of course, then he went to the rose garden with prepared signs that had been printed up long before our meeting. The president was about ten minute late coming in. Whatng i noticed is there was n chair set fors where he regulay sits. So there is no doubt that in my mind that this was a show with no go on infrastructure. It was a show because the president was angry. And coming up on morning joe later this morning Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer and steny hoyer will both be guests this morning. Ot amid his blow up with Democratic Leaders President Trump is ramping up his attacks againsthi members of that party and the growing calls by its members to begin impeachment proceedings against him. Trump fired off a barrage of tweets claiming the democrats want a do over on bob muellers special investigation. The president wrote this, everything the democrats are asking me for d is based on an illegally started investigation thatar failed for them. Now they say impeach President Trump even though he did nothing wrong while they quote fish. Asuo mepged the number of democratsmb calling for impeachment proceedings against President Trump and his administration is growing as the white housein resists cooperati with lawmakers investigations. Now the calls come as House Speaker nancy pelosi and other top Democratic Leaders continue to urgeic a more cautious approh to the situation at least for now. By nbc news count 32 House Democrats and republican congressman justin amash expressed their support for opening up an impeachment inquiry. Several democrats signed on to a resolution thatto calls on the Judiciary Committee to inquire whether the house should impeach President Trump. Pr joining us here on set is john from political insider. Not much to talk about. Nothing is happening this week. Pp what a day yesterday. It was a long wednesday. It wasng a very long wednesd to say the least. Wednesday t was a long year. Yeah. Lets talk about the calls for impeachment. Im were hearing more calls for impeachment from Freshman Congress people in d. C. Right now. Obviously nancy pelosi, House Speaker, nancy pelosi still ve measured in her calls for impeachment despite how outspoken she was yesterday in saying shesda praying for this country in whats going on with the president. You also have some people on the campaign trailhe like beto orourke and Elizabeth Warren calling for impeachment as well. As were heading towards 2020 from the democratic pointds of view,t there is this question, think,on amongst democrats that they are asking themselves as to do weem go down the road of e impeachment or do we go towards 2020 . Do we head towards talking more about the issues and getting voters out to the polls and a win at the ballot box. Are these two things mutually exclusive or do you think the Democratic Party can do both . They are meshing together. In theres reluctance along the campaign trail with candidates to talkmp about this because th areis worried about being divise and they want to focus on the issues and not make it about trump. We saw Bernie Sanders in a town hall, aow reason town hall say we focus on trump this entire campaign trail well lose in 2020. Thats why i think we still see a reluctance among some 2020 candidates to talk about impeachment the i word as trump call it yesterday. Well i continue to see that. At the sameo time it seems as though its not really a matter of if impeachment will occur any more, its a matter of when. Just really seems that theres growing pressure. Pelosi is trying to take a very piece meal approach here. She is trying to not appear political on this. Butli shes under a lot of pressure. Lets talk about the president s reaction to this. Every president has had to deal with some level of congressional oversight. It seems President Trump wants none much reit. I talked to some democratic staffers yesterday thatti said president s temper tantrum works for them because it allows democrats to say hey look, we told you this back in 2016 during the Campaign Donald trump is all aboutdu himself, hes no for the country. Do you think the president s approach to thisnk could end up blowing back on him . Thats a good question. A pollgo that came out this wee showed that roughly 54 of americansy oppose his reelection. I think it also would be a mistake for democrats to assume that he cant be reelected. His Approval Ratings arent that bad overall. They are notd that far off fro where obama was before reelection a year off. Do theyn follow the process he and look at the evidence and the 11 possible incidents of obstruction that mueller outlined for them . You know, ensure that they dont set a precedent where the president is above the rule of law or do they continue these kind of piece meal approach of investigations taking itpp very slowly because they are worried about dividing voters. Thats the big question. Everybody is anxious right now. Do they have a strategy . Its too early to say theres a y tragedy. Pelosi istr trying to pump the brakes. Shes trying, to again, not appear too political and allow the p process to unfold and saye did everything we could to cooperate with this administration before we above towards impeachment. Still ahead Attorney Michael Avenatti charged with defrauding his exclient Stormy Daniels. Well talk to Danny Cevallos about that. Dozens of tornadoes have been reported in last 12 hours as Severe Weather strikes theur middletr of the country. Meteorologist bill karins will havebi a full check of the forecast coming up next. When i was diagnosed with breast cancer, there was no hesitation, i went straight to ctca. After my mastectomy, it was maddening because i felt part of my identity was being taken away. When youre able to restore what cancers taken away, you see that transformation firsthand knowing that she had options that she could choose, helped restore hope. My team made me feel like a whole person again. Cancer Treatment Centers of america. Appointments available now. 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A long night for people in the central plains, oklahoma, missouri, illinois and indiana as severe storms and large tornadoes have rolled through the area. We had one that we were focusing on extensively. It formed near joplin. Joplin, missouri where eight years ago to the day is when they got nailed by a huge tornado. This was north of joplin. In areas of Carl Junction got hit. This stayed on the ground for about an hour. Hit over towards golden city after this, after sunset and three people died from this storm and this tornado during the overnight hours. Then we continue to see severe storms overnight. 29 tornado reports in all. This is the super cell that was in this general direction in the northeast. In the middle of the night sometime after midnight Jefferson City got hit. The capital of the state of missouri. Even the governor tweeted out after midnight that he was safe but theres a lot of destruction in Jefferson City. The local station there is reporting about 100 plus people are in the hospital from injuries. We still have storms that are rolling that are very dangerous even at this hour. We have one confirmed tornado in South Central parts of illinois and then this line of thunderstorms thats flowing through indiana, 70 mileperhour plus winds. Then after we get done with this mess later on today we have 42 million people, Severe Weather outbreak in the northeast and once again in north texas, oklahoma and kansas. As far as the areas go tomorrow that were remaining back here in the middle of the country. A lot of issue out there. When we get these pictures in i expect the number of injuries to go up. Unfortunately from what ive been hearing and how bad these tornadoes are, i bet the death toll will go up. Sad situations in many areas. Sunrise is coming shortly and well bring you those pictures when we get them in. Michael avenatti is in even more legal trouble. Yesterday the highprofile attorney was charged with roughly stealing 300,000 from his former client Stormy Daniels. According to the indictment filed in Manhattan Federal Court Michael Avenatti pocketed money daniels was owed from a book deal he used to fraudulent documents to bear daniels name to convince her agent to an account she was owed controlled by Michael Avenatti. Michael avenatti spent some of that money on trips, travel, drycleaning and a lease payment on a ferrari and gave daniels half of the money she was owed. When asked for comment Michael Avenatti referred nbc news to a tweet. No monies related to miss daniels were ever misappropriated or mishandled. She received millions of dollars worth of Legal Service and we spent huge sums and expenses. She directly paid only 100 for all she received. I look forward to a jury hearing the evidence. Also ned Michael Avenatti was formally indicted for trying to extort 20 million from nike and embezzling a clients settlement money. Joining us her on set, nbc legal analyst Danny Cevallos. Michael avenatti has a lot going on. He sure does. How does this Stormy Daniels case going to influence the separate nike case along with indictments in california . They are not. They are separate. They deal with separate issues. The california and the case here involving Stormy Daniels is really, really problematic because as lawyers we are trained from day one in ethics you can have a drinking problem, can you get arrested in a bar fight, but we will not work with you if you steal from your clients. If you monkey around with your Clients Trust account youre out of here, your ticket is pulled, youll be disbarred. This is the kind of thing we have to keep a lot of paper work on. So, for example, even if Stormy Daniels as Michael Avenatti said at the end of the settlement, this happened sometimes, clients say at the end of settlement instead of putting in in the Client Trust Account give to it me and i promise me ill pay your attorney fee. The money should have gone in. That trust account. The lawyer prepares a distribution sheet that shows the client every penny, every pound thats spent on costs, expenses. But not a ferrari. You can take a clients prospective settlement money and start treating it as your own. Thats why we have cline trust accounts and every one us including me should know the exact dollar amount in that Client Trust Account at all times. If you mess around, if you rob peter to pay paul, youll be in huge trouble. I think about Michael Avenatti, theres this weird parallel between him and paul manafort. Both of these men inviting trouble upon themselves by becoming public figures. Do you see anything there . Possibly. When it comes to some things we talk about, messing with client trufrt accounts sooner or later a cline will complain about that. It doesnt matter if youre a highprofile lawyer, a ham and eager handling a few m