Quote, i dont believe the four congresswomen are capable of loving our country. They should apologize to america and israel for the hateful things they have said. They are insecure people who could never destroy our great nation. Also this weekend, President Trump shared a defense of the send her back tweets from right british commenter who in the past linked a movement to the shooting at a synagogue. A writing saying send her back is the new lock her up. Also sharing a statement of a tweet, we need a final solution manchester. After the Mass Shootings last year in pittsburgh that left 11 people dead, she wrote, look to the chief rabbi and his support for mass migration. There youll find your truths. It is unclear whether trump was aware of the background. In a move reminiscent of his racist comments in charlottesville, he pulled back from comments about the chant send her back. He refused to call the chant racist or stand by his claim that he was not happy with it. President trump, you said you were unhappy with the chant, however you know what im unhappy with, im unhappy with the fact that a congresswomen can hate our country. Thats what im unhappy with. Those people in North Carolina, that stadium was packed. I could have filled it ten times. As you know. Those are incredible people and patriots. Im unhappy when a congresswomen goes, im going to be the president s nightmare. Shes lucky to be where she is. The chant, send her home. Is that racist . No, you know what is racist to me, when somebody goes out and says the horrible things about our country, the people in our country and hate everybody that speak with score and hate. That is a very dangerous thing. Turning to a series of aggressive acts in the strait of hormuz. Stopping and boarding another. The revolutionary guard said it seized the tanker for violating regulations and crashing into a fishing vessel. That claim has been rejected. Iranian state tv has released this video saying it is from the revolutionary guard showing the seizure of this tanker including when comandos repelled from a helicopter on to the vessel. Reviewing audio demanding the tanker change course adding, if you obey, you will be safe. A British Naval officer then responds warning the Iranian Forces of, quote, unlawfully attempting to board the tanker. A mediator says the incident may have been in response to of uk sei seizure and impoundment of a ship in the sea of gibraltar. Iranian media also says they are describing it as a, quote, reciprocal action. President trump discussed the situation at the white house. As you know, we have a very close alliance with the uk and we always have. We heard that. The United States has very few tankers going in because we are using our own energy now. Weve made a lot of progress over the last two and a half years so we dont have many tankers going in about we have a lot of ships there that are warships. Well talk to the uk. We have no written agreement but we have an agreement. Theyve been a great ally. Theyll have a new Prime Minister soon which is a good thing. We have no written agreement but i think we have an agreement which is longstanding. I know it is not an american ship. It is a uk. Well be speaking to them. They have a new Prime Minister soon. Thats a good thing for the uk. Statement that iran is detaining citizens they say are cia trained spies. We are looking at new polls. In iowa, showing biden with a slim lead over sanders. Warren takes 17 and harris is at 16 . Buttigieg at 7 with klobuchar at 4 and booker at 3 . Bidens lead is wider in new hampshire. Boden at 27 . Sanders at 20 . Orourke at 2 . North carolina is bidens best state where he leads the vote. Broougt is at 5 , booker at 3 and orourke at 2. In california, biden and harris are tied 23 to 24 with warren at 19 , sanders 16 and buttigieg at 6 . In texas, biden holds a tenpoint lead over orourke. 27 for biden, 17 for orourke. Warren at 16 , harris and sanders at 12 each. Buttigieg and castro with 4 each. President trump could win five million fewer votes in 2020 and still secure an Electoral College victory. He has a narrow path. Both states are growing more diverse due to booming asian and latino populations trending towards the democrats. Despite the increase in voters neither blue california nor blue texas would play a pivotal roll. The 2016 victory relied on other states white states with the highest share of white voters without college degrees. President trump could actually lose pennsylvania and michigan. If he picks up every state he won in 2016, he could secure the victory. As we get started here, lets talk about how this potential edge in the Electoral College could impact his strategy. I think this will impact the democrats more than the president s campaign. If you talk to his advisors, they say they are running the same race for 2016. They are making a play for all of those states. They are considering a few states out side of the ones that carried trump to his narrow victory in 2016. They are focusing on North Carolina, florida, wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania. All of the states hell need to perform well in or carry to win reelection. If you look at democrats, the nominee is going to have to run a 50state strategy. That is something we didnt see Hillary Clinton do and something that led to a lot of criticism after she lost to President Trump. She never went to wisconsin, which was one of the biggest things democrats that were disappointed in the results last time continued to point out. Let me get your thoughts on the new polls showing joe biden in the lead in several key battleground states. How could this impact strategy as his lead begins to narrow a little bit . Joe biden will be on the stage with both senators harris and booker and a number of other progressive, fiery democrats who are sort of languishing at 1 and will be looking for an opportunity to lan a moment that sticks. Hes in a precarious position heading into this second round of debates. If you notice, after the last debate when he got into that Tense Exchange over bussing with senator harris, it allowed her to shoot up in the polls. I think there will be a lot of democrats on stage who want a similar moment. He can find himself in a position where he is emerging as a leader, he is a frontrunner he is or come under attack from all different sides. That could bode not so great for joe biden in that second debate. I think his camp has suggestsed hell be a little better prepared. Not surrender like he did during the first debate. Thank you. Still ahead, former special counsel mueller more coming up. And heat wave in the east but cooler temperatures coming. 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With two days to go before special counsel Robert Meuller testifies. Working on some of the countrys most ard ant voices. Others plan to go full throttle with the claims of a corrupt investigation. Reportedly planning to ask whether mueller knew there was, quote, no coordination and no conspiracy by the president. Reporting that the evidence found insafishent evidence of any wrongdoing. And instead give credence to the claim of an unlawful presidency. Jerry nadler had this to say on fox news yesterday. The report presents substantial evidence that the president is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. We have to let mueller present those facts. The Administration Must be held accountable. No president is above the law. Robert mueller is set to testify on wednesday morning. Joining us msnbc legal analyst. Give me a sense of what we can expect to happen. If i were a betting person, i would say we are likely to hear the contents of a little thing called the mueller report. He himself said if you call me to testify, i will essentially be reading the report that has been public to everyone and apparently polls show anywhere from 2 to 5 to 10 of americans have even bothered to read. Even democrats have been forth coming to say, we are really calling him so americans will see what is in the report. The report that is readily available and no one appears to have read. If im robert mueller, i would be saying, couldnt you have an audio book. They have celebrities doing it. I would be saying, i created this report, now you want me to read it in my own voice. Hes saying, hey, folks, everybody is really interested in obstruction where i concluded there was all this russian interference and we indicted a number of individuals. My report was a success if you depending on how you define success. If you just want to get the president , then maybe not but in this case, hes got to be wandering why am i here. You are giving us insight of what is going on in muellers head what about the other side. What is the first line of questioning . For the most part will say, on page whatever, you say blank. Then tell us more about that. Tell us about where did you get that information. You are going to hear a lot of, i cant answer that question because as you can plainly see in the report with the big blacked out area, it is redacted. It is harm to an ongoing area or invasion of privacy. Well hear a lot of declining to answer and sticking to the letter of his own report. Let me ask you this, many questions are out there still. Why didnt he call on President Trump to speak with him directly instead of written statements. Will that come up . I think that is one of the biggest questions. He explained that in the mueller report. It is in the pages. He concludes he could have done it but it would have taken a long time and maybe he didnt need it. Im paraphrasing because it is wrong for me to say what is in the report without reading from it. Hes saying in our process, we didnt need to do that to get to where we needed to be. Could he be asked about the memo that essentially steers prosecutors away from indicting a sitting president . Of course. I expect hell be asked a lot about it, what went into his thought and how much that memo influenced him. It is not a Supreme Court case law, it is an office doj memo guidance that could be disobeyed if somebody wanted to. Thank you, my friend. Thank you. With that, lets get a quick check on the weather with meteorologist janessa webb. Temperatures are really going to be different this afternoon. Right now, you can see where the defined cold front is across iowa to minneapolis. We are seeing temperatures in the 60s. Still very warm air across new york city and the warm air across the northeast unfortunately caused a power outage in parts of brooklyn and queens, reporting over 50,000 people without power last night. Generators were on overload this weekend with heavy humidity and oppressive air in place. That is going to change this afternoon, look at the difference in our highs. We are back in the mid70s to lower 80s. The big threat is the enhanced risk of severe storms that are really going to run across the northeast. On our raider, washington, philadelphia, new york and boston will deal with torrential rain. We go from heat wave to damaging winds and very gusty winds to rainy conditions across the northeast. In your defense, i dont think any of us were prepared for this weekend. Well take the rain now which will mean afterwards cooler temperatures. Still ahead, a new class of baseball royalty as six players are inducted into the hall of fame. Well be back in a moment. 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