In on george. Theyre going to show it again. See, he can lean. He can lean on his side maybe. Hes leaning in. It like in the back seat when youre driving to california and your brother and sister keep going offer the center line. Hes way over the center line. And your dad said get back over the center line or im going to beat the hell out of you. Hes way over the center line. In more ways than one. We have jonathan lemire, Nick Confessore and Yamiche Alcindor is with us as well. Nbc obtained detaste frils f march internal polls that found trump trailing biden in 11 states. In four states where trump edged Hillary Clinton out by narrow margins that proved decisive in his victory, trump trails biden by double digits. In three of those states, wisconsin, pennsylvania and florida, biden leads sit outside the margin of error. Trump also trails the former Vice President by 17 points in virginia, 15 points in maine, 14 points in minnesota, 8 points in north carolina, 7 point in maine and 6 points in georgia and 1 point in ohio. Hes losing. A long, long way to go, jonathan lemire, iowa, a state he won by eight or nine points. I think nine. And georgia plus six. People have been saying for a long time georgia and texas are going blue at some point. Dont know if this would be the year. All that being said, yes, it is early and trump always underperforms in polls. But were going to be showing some fox news polls coming up that show considerable problems for the president as well. Im curious, are you getting information out of the white house that the president is starting to understand this is a real concern, that he has a lot of work to do or does he still think he can go to rallies, ref rev up the base and still win. Hes saying privately, he keeps saying the polls dont make sense, he doesnt believe them. Is there any reason why the president says as much of a show he puts on, we all know hes got an extraordinary gut when it comes to politics. Is there any reason why he believes these polls are so far off . He believes the lk trelectors going to look like it was last time, that his support isnt accurately measured in the polls. He believes those people are still there. Does he believe because it would be the opposite of what i believe does he believe his voters were at a low water mark . We all know black voting turnout went down for the first time in 20 years. I actually think that the Obama Coalition was at its lowest ebb that well ever see it i think in our lifetimes. These are real numbers. There is certainly concern around the president and its a couple things. Not on do they have to hold on to those midwest battle grounds where they squeaked out victories in 2016 but they know those margins are so tight. Theyre desperate to try to expand the map. Were seeing the minnesotas, the virginia, the maines, there arent many places trump can go to swing a blue state. And there are people around the president who are concerned. What does it say internally about the white house staff that there are these constant leaks aimed at weakening their boss, the president of the United States . The leaking of the poll . We dont know exactly where this leak came from but certainly at minimum, its a message being sent, like youre in trouble here, you need to get to work. Its interesting the president believing these polls are nonsense because, you know, 2016, like i said, was everything had to break Donald Trumps way. Everything from the comey letter ten days out to the comey letter one day out to black voting going down for the first time in 20 years. Everything broke his way. As he told me, i could have had ten elections on ten days and probably would have lost nine of them but that one day, that was the day that the stars lined up for me. All that being said, considering everything thats happened over the past several years, i mean, i must say im completely at a loss at how he thinks hes going to get where he needs to go to get reelected again while he still just keeps playing to that small base. Its hard to be a black swan president. If you won the first time by upping the expectations, by coming from behind, it easy to tell yourself you could do it again. I think what the polls tell us is hes consistently unpopular, there are people who voted for him who look back and say, im not so sure about that anymore c can we talk about states quickly. As a guy who grew up cheering for republicans his whole life, can i tell you, republicans dont win wisconsin. Like everything has to break just right for republicans to win wisconsin. Republicans dont win pennsylvania. Ive been calling pennsylvania fools gold for 20 years. So he won it on that day but i dont think everybody understand what a huge uphill climb it will be for him to do that again. He might. Hes an incumbent president , he is outspending his whole field combined of democrats on fabz, facebook. It n its not a referendum on him. Its going to be between two candidates and its hard to know how it going to be. I believe it always a referendum on a sitting president and as far as all of the elections ive seen, we can talk about jimmy carter in 7 of in a second, but this feels a lot like jimmy carter a year before that leelection, a lot le it. But jimmy carter didnt carry one element of the bag and that this president is carrying and its specifically women, women voters. Pollsters say the underlying number on women who are clearly most eligible, most likely to vote are devastating against donald trump in terms of not voting for donald trump no matter what. Huge number. But the only candidate the Obama Coalition has come out for is barack obama. Hes the first and last president that coalition came out for. Except in alabama a special election, which is supposed to be extraordinarily low turnout, black voters in the state of alabama came out and voted at the same percentage that they came out to vote when barack obama was at the top of the ticket. Thats extraordinary and suggests that donald trump is going to inspire a lot of people to get out and vote this time. Well, of course the election youre talking about in alabama is doug johns. What we have to remember is doug jones had a long history of being interested in africanamerican issues, being interested in prosecuting the money responsible for the Church Bombing that killed those four girls in alabama and then of course you had roy moore, who was very much a child molester banned from the mall, all sorts of issues. That being said, the president i still think has an advantage here, which is one that i think polls because of 2016, he can look at them and say, yeah, thats what they said last time, i still think i have this. Also he has it as much as his president ial tenure as president has been a rollercoaster ride, hes also been consistent in who he is. Hes been this wild card. Hes been this person who is brash. Theres this idea that evangelicals still like him, the economy is still doing well. I should say white evangelicals still like him. In the president s mind hes thinking ive consistently been myself and if i do that again, i can win. So the one thing the president does not have going for him this time is the element of surprise. I dont know how i stumbled across it but a trump supporter put out a campaign where everybody in the media said donald trump will never be president and every democratic candidate said donald trump will never be president. Ann coulter said donald trump had the best chance of being president on a show and the whole audience laughed uproarously. The mere suggestion of that donald trump could be elected president brought us and anybody else who said it under withering abuse. Right. Freak out. I remember poor, poor nate silver predicted that donald trump was going to win florida and he got absolutely eviscerated and magically his model switched to Hillary Clinton. So thats the element of surprise that he had. Now if you dont think that this isnt like a political bunker hill where everybody is standing and waiting till they see the whites of their eyes, they are and theyre going to take nothing for granted. And the surprising evangelicals who support trump, i dont know what theyre going to stand for beyond trump because the answer would probably be nothing, since theyve let everything go in terms of what they believe in for this president. Speaking as a guy who grew up as an evangelical, i this i the biggest danger for donald trump among evangelicals is undervote. Hell still win most white evangelicals. And after karl rove said they lost a big chunk of votes kept that race to make it the nightmare that it was. In texas where a democrat being nominee hasnt won since president jimmy carter in 1976, trump leads by just two points. Heres more of trumps reaction to those internal polls in a portion of abc newss interview that aired yesterday. Even your own polls show theyre hund rigbehind right no they . No, my polls say im winning everywhere. Weve seen reports youre behind in 15 out of 17 states. Nobody showed you those polls because those polls dont,ist. I ju dont exist. Reporter those polls results so irritating to the president , that a few seconds he had to call his campaign manager. Hold on for a second. Just call brad. I want to ask him that question. Fox news polls show the president trailing several candidates. Senator Elizabeth Warren has a twopoint edge. It gets a little more difficult, jonathan, when fox news is basically mirroring your own internal pollsters who youre firing are saying. Just for everybody to know, this is great news for the president and its great news for the white house because it finally does allow somebody to walk in and say, mr. President , youre losing, youre losing big, everybody saying it. Is there anything who has the guts to say anything to him in the administration right now . Name one, somebody. He might listen to his daughter who is in there but no. That has been whats happened over the last year and a half, in particular, as the erosion of the guardrails there are none. Mind you, it didnt always work. But it doesnt even work. Mick mulvaney doesnt even try to empower him, he just tries to make it work. Nobody who went in, not even ivanka. Can i ask a question . You said hes not going to believe it. Does he not believe it or does he just not admit it publicly hes not going to admit it publicly. Do you think he understands the trouble hes in . In 2016 this were moments that he knew he was under the gun and he had to reform. At this point he Still Believes in himself, he believes that are recreating the comeback narrative, he believes the economy is booming and that will be his vehicle to get reelected. I think theres a sense he knows it will be close but he can do it. You just talked about a booming economy. Can you believe any president have these numbers with the unemployment at 6. 6 in the nineyear obama recovery . No, its unprecedented with kind of economy. The question that i have has he not been shown those numbers before by his own staff . Did they come as a surprise to him . Thats a question for all of us. But as part of his reaction, his own staff wont show him the pad news. What you saw in the reaction to the nbc report is this ferocious pushback, stupid, bad polls, old polls but they were real according to brad pascal, just the response to those poll numbers changed. Oh, those arent true. Okay, theyre true but theyre old, theyre bad. His staff, they know theres certain things they cant bring to him. Hes a president he doesnt like to be confronted with bad news. They know hell react, hell explode. Can you tell me the last time the president of the United States stood up and spoke exclusively and extensively about the single source, the potential source, of his strength, the American Economy . No, he just doesnt do it. He will do it as an aside to attack barack obama or do it as an aside to attack somebody else but, i mean, man, if im sitting there, this is all im doing. Im not tweeting, im in the doing anything. Im just going around from one factory to nor factory, to another Entrepreneurial Company to another. My gosh, the guy could be sitting at 50 with these numbers, but he gets in his way every day. He should be in a factory in ohio every day or some place where he can display the economy doing well. He cant actually care about that. Still ahead on morning joe but thats the thing, its in his on pebest interest. Last week when he said i forg forget, what did he say . Hed get help from a foreign country. Everybody goes, hes evil, hes evil. While hes got three people in the back room sending emails to russia saying well kill him a mr. Magoo presidency. If he is completely oblivious to the train thats coming, then hes going to get run over. I think hes somewhat oblivious. Still ahead, iran is stockpiling uranium and facing u. S. Allegations of sabotage on the high seas. Also, incredible images from hong kong, shows mass demonstrations making beijing very nervous this morning. Plus, new reporting suggests the president is hesitant to brief the president on u. S. Cyber attacks on russia offver krns concerns he might spill the beans to russia. That is bad news. Over the weekend dallas got hit hard. We had 70 mileperhour winds reported in the area. This is time lapse photography. You could see the storm rolling through. 70 mileperhour wind gusts rolled through. As we go throughout this afternoon, well continue to watch whats happening here in areas of louisiana and then shifting up into the ohio valley. 42 Million People at risk. Flash flooding is going to be be a problem here and we could get some service ear storms. Washington out washington, d. C. , philadelphia, baltimore, later this afternoon around 4 to about 7 p. M. Is when the strongest storms will be in this region. Then well do it against wednesday throughout thursday. Its not until friday that we finally see the rain exiting friday afternoon. Its a very stormy week ahead. If you have airport plans from d. 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Lets do that over. Hes coughing in the middle of my answer. I dont like that. Your chief of staff. If youre going to cough, leave the room. You want to do that a little differently then . Yeah. We just changed the angle. So at some point i look forward to frankly, id like to have people see my financial statement. Whoa. I mean that was on purpose. What was on purpose . He coughed on purpose. He didnt want him to continue going down that financial, you know, theyre beautiful and im so sorry, mr. Trump. You saw the flash of the president s temper, though. That is how he often deals with staff. A number of his aides say he will turn like that. Hes mindful of television. And dont cough, later. Thats what i do when i want to you be quiet. Sometimes i just hit you. The contempt in his voice. Imagine being in his core staff and having that go on all day. You have to treat your people well. I think this is the big story of the day. The u. S. Is ramping up digital attacks on russias power grid in an effort to deter future cyber activity. It was conducted under new cyber authorities citing currents and former government officials. Two Administration Officials tell the paper they believed trump had not been briefed in any detail about the operation, while pentagon and intelligence officials, quote, described broad hesitation to go into detail with the president about operations against russia for concern over his reaction. And the possibility that he might countermand it or discuss it with foreign officials as he did in 2017 when he mentioned a sensitive operation in syria to the Russian Foreign minister. After the New York Times published that story, President Trump accused the paper the paper off engaging in treaso. So hes saying it was a true story by saying it was treason. We should go over the definition of treason. Yes, we should. He probably never watches but he does. Trump lashed out in a pair of tweets on saturday night writing, quote, do you believe that the failing New York Times just did a story stating that the United States is substantially increasing Cyber Attacks on russia. This is a virtual act of treason by a once great paper so desperate for a story, any story, even if bad for our country. He also called the story not true, adding anything goes with our corrupt news media today. They will do or say whatever it takes with not even the slightest thought of consequence. These are true cowards and kout doubt the enemy of the people. The times responded