The breaking news down in my home town, in miamidade, florida. Just outside of the campus of Florida International university, known as fiu. This afternoon a nearly thousand ton pedestrian bridge still technically under construction, hadnt been opened for use yet, collapsed across a sixlane highway. It is a busy intersection off of tamiami trail. And police say multiple people died and at least eight have been transported to the hospital and witnesses say the traffic light was red and cars were stopped under the bridge when the bridge gave way without warning. At least eight vehicles were crushed. Rescuers are still carefully working to get to those cars. The most recent rescue happened last hour. It is not known if there are any more trapped survivors. At this point fiu is on spring break but there was a youth fair going on nearby and that was causing traffic at the time of the collapse. Now this no socalled instant bridge was not being built over the highway, but in an adjacent area. And it had just been swung into place last weekend. They bragged about the stateoftheart way they were trying to build this bridge so not to cause disruption in traffic and as you could see in this time lapse video from the university, the walkway was being touted as a first of its kind bridge. And was not expected to open for the public until early 2019. It was actually constructed after a student was hit and killed at the intersection last year. The ntsb is on the way to the saep to investigate the cause of this collapse. Governor rick scott is headed to the campus to be briefed by officials and the white house is also monitoring the situation. Rescue operations are expected to continue into the night until they can account for every single one of the boodys the cars. Well keep you up to date if we have good news to report about any more rescued survivors. Turning now to a busy 24 hours of political news. But lets boil it down in a more simple way. The president and his credibility is going down. And Robert Muellers credibility is going up. And they are on a dramatic collision course. Today all 13 of the russians that mueller recently indicted for meddling in our election were sanctioned by the president s treasury secretary meaning muellers findings were given a white house seal of approval. It is hard to muellers investigation is a hoax when his work is seamingly dictating white house Decision Making when it comes to foreign policy. And a little over three hours later, the New York Times broke this story. That mueller has subpoenaed the Trump Organization. He ordered them to hand over all documents related to russia and other topics hes investigating. He didnt ask the Trump Organization for corporation. He went straight to the subpoena. And in a statement the Trump Organization said it is fully cooperative with the investigation. So as muellers word is seemingly getting more credible, the president s is not. Yesterday mr. Trump admitted to making things up while talking with justin trudeau. Here is a president speaking yesterday in missouri for Senate Candidate josh holly. An auto of his remarks were leaks and weve confirmed the authenticity of this ourselves. Here is a sampling. Trudeau came to see me, hes a good guy. Justin. He said, no, no we have no trade deficit with you. We have none. Donald, please i said wrong justin i df i didnt even know. I didnt know. He just said it. Why the president would boast about that isnt entirely clear. His defense on twitter, i was right. We do have a trade deficit with canada. But the office of the u. S. Trade representative said the president is wrong. The u. S. Goods and Services Trade surplus with canada was 12. 5 billion and the source the u. S. Trade representative office. But Sarah Huckabeesanders insists the president is right. And so she decided to cite data from the u. S. Census for 2017 to prove her point. But her data includes trading goods only with canada. Goods, not services. Wondered are they cherry picking their data. We are not trade experts but we know somebody who is. At cnbc, Steve Liesman and the trade with canada, including both goods and services for 2017 and that number was you guessed it a surplus. Weve had three years running of trade surplus with canada and not deficit. It appears as if the president said something wrong and doubled down and the white house found a misleading set of facts in an attempt to prove that he is right. It is a very long way of showing you that it is very hard to take this president or the white house at their word. We just showed you a they totally misled us on canada. The president already has a credibility problem on capitol hill. Is he going to now have the same problem with World Leaders after admitting to making stuff up when he speaks with them oneonone . Joining me now is steven hadley, security adviser for president george w. Bush. Welcome back to the show. Nice to be here. Let me start with sanctions. I think i saw both senators graham and mccain put out statements saying about time, this is what needs to be done. In your opinion, tough enough . About time, needs to be done, probably coming late as you pointed out earlier in the show, following on the heels of mueller. I suspect mueller will give them more opportunity to sanction folks as well and they ought to do that. But in addition to the issue about sanctioning russia, we need to be paying as much attention to hardening our electoral infrastructure, which is after all critical infrastructure, so whether it is russia, china, iran, north korea, nobody can do this again beginning in the november 2018 election. So yes, weve got to crack down on russia, we have to make it clear that this cant be done. But we have to harden were on notice. And if this happens again, the blame is on us. Right. Now i think that is a very fair statement. Let me ask you. This does putin see todays action as a gut punch or a slap on the wrist . You know, i think hes pretty much absorbed this notion that were going to be doing these sanctions. I think it is the right thing to do. But quite frankly, there have been sanctions in the past, this is not the first set of sanctions imposed because of his meddling in the election. And quite frankly, it doesnt seem to have deterred him much and that is one of reasons we have to now take matters into our own hands and prevent. That is what i hear you there. But i want to go to something gary casperoff, the long time chess master wellknown putin critic ran against him for president. Right. He said the response and he was referring to what the u. K. s ousting of the 23 russian spies back to moscow for the poisoning there on british soil and then the United States, france and germany signed on backing up what the u. K. Did. But casperoff is arguing, yes, these are these are the correct measures and this is an appropriate response but he was arguing for a disproportionate response. His argument is putin he can absorb in use your words sh the proportionate responses. He needs to be punched in the nose essentially. Is he right . It depends. It is great rhetoric. And you i think we could all agree with the spirit of it. The question is so what does that look like . That is what im asking you. That is why youre here. What does that look like . One of the things is there are other one of the things that putin know we know does not like is the magnitsky act here. That is something that european capitals could be doing in their own capitals in terms of legislative basis for this kind of thing. That certainly is one of the terms that we can do. Second of all, i think we need to look at those russians who are in the United States. And we need to monitor the situation. So russian agents cant get into this country, cant get into the u. K. , and do this kind of stuff. That is a second the question is, thirdly, we heard a very hawkish speech from russia from putin touting his his offensive nuclear weapons. I think there has to be a response to that. The Nuclear Posture review is part of that. Our own offensive systems we need to do more on Ballistic Missile defense and think about how to deter putin from thinking of using those systems. So there is a this is one issue. But there is a much broader question of the need to have a much broader strategy for dealing with putin and what hes doing. Does it matter to putin that the president himself has never put himself out front in criticizing russia . You know, people will say that. I think the president is gradually moving a little too slow, i think, but the president is moving. Hes now said it is pretty clear that the russians were behind the intervention of the election and hes called for hardening our system. Hes now agreed that the russians were behind the poisoning in london. Hes clearly trying to keep open the option for a personal relationship with putin in the event there is an opportunity to improve that relationship. But that is not going to come until we get this intervention in the election through our political system and i dont think it will come until we do something about getting ukraine back in control of the do they have taken control of. A president caught on tape admitted that he tried to pull one over on an ally, how does that sit with World Leaders . Can the president words be taken. This is a different kind of leader than weve had for a long time. And he says a lot of things on a lot of different sugge subjecd some where right and some are wrong. As i read the press report he said he didnt know for sure whether there was a deficitment but he assumed there was a deficit because we have a because there is a deficit between and the United States and most countries. And then when he was challenged on it, he asked folk foz go ak up the fact and probably talking about goods, not services which is the distinction you drew up before. I think World Leaders now know this man and know how he operates. I dont think theyll overreact too much to it. Probably overrackeact less than have here. Theyll adjust is what you are saying. Theyll adjust. Were still the United States. Steven hadley. Thank you for coming on. Much appreciated. Delighted to be here. I want to go to the other big story of the day. So joining me to help is the former u. S. Attorney and now an msnbc contributor joyce vance. I want to talk about the mueller subpoena of the Trump Organization. I think the surprise here is that it was a subpoena and not a request for documents. Do you assume a request was made and denied and that is why what was your reaction to the subpoena aspect of this . I think we have to be careful not to make assumptions here but something that weve heard from the Trump Organization over time is that they were in a cooperative posture with the Mueller Investigation and sharing documents that were needed. So this news that there is now a subpoena that the subpoena was issued some weeks ago is definitely a different trend. And does it signify anything . It may just be mueller trying to cut square corners. But far more likely it indicates that they need a document of legal significance that offers them teeth. And whether that is because cooperation was faltering or because they were not receiving documents that they expected would be in the companys possession, but well learn more as weeks move forward but it does signal a change in attitude. So he wants Trump Organization and all things having to do with russia. So what does that tell you about what how hes going about this investigation. I have a theory but im curious what you would say to this and what you would be comfortable saying . I havent seen the exact language of the subpoena. And that is something that wed like to see. Some prosecutors will occasionally write a broad subpoena and then negotiate the details with the folks they are seeking documents from. This is a subpoena deuce us tan cant cloak the production of documents so the fact it is focused on all things russia, indicates to me that there is some coming together of these different themes of trumps prior dealings in russia long before he became a candidate of those developments in russia that were con tem ptemporaneous the campaign and the trump tower in moscow and then whether or not those preexisting Financial Relationships had anything to do with the approach from russia in the 2016 trump tower meeting in manhattan, that offer of help meeting. But this really suggests that mueller at least is investigating whether there is a commonality among all of that conduct. Let me ask you this. If the if the special counsel wants to see the tax returns for the Trump Organization and a slew of llcs that are related because essentially every Development Project that the Trump Organization starts, usually is the own llc. It is something we all learn going through the president s personal financial disclosure. Could he get those records without going through the Trump Organization . Could he go through subpoena the irs or bank records or is he to get those filings he has to go to the Trump Organization directly. He can absolutely get those without going to the Trump Organization directly. It is something prosecutors do routinely. Do you assume hes done that. I would assume that would be the first thing that he did. So he probably already has tax returns for every llc and you probable and probably already has financial records with Deutsche Bank, people like that . Are those things that he would already likely have and not have to go through the Trump Organization to get . Exactly. Those are the types of financial records financials that prosecutors use to follow the money, chuck. So one facet of this new subpoena request to the Trump Organization could be possibly to see if what the organization turns over to mueller matches what he already has, what he knows about and what he expects. Or whether theyre with Holding Information from him. That is one possible spin on this. So this could be a test. If you are the Trump Organization, the smart thing to do is assume mueller knows everything . And mueller certainly does at this point. That is an interesting way of putting it. Joyce vance, former u. S. Attorney down there in birmingham. Thank you very much for coming on and sharing your views. Thanks for having me. Up ahead, more on the subpoena of the Trump Organization and what does it mean for the russia probe. There was a tripe a time when trump said going to his financials would break the record. Well have that next. We are back tonight on meet the midterms, looking ahead to the next election which is happening on tuesday in illinois. The primary races there a little bit of everything. A fight for the Democratic Party soul as a long time congressman faces a challenge from the left. Progressives want to push out a conservative democrat for a candidate backed by Bernie Sanders and then the suburban districts where they are more fired up. Seven democrats want to take on peter ross com in a district Hillary Clinton carried in 2016 and weve seen a battle of the billionaires for the governor and will we see one this fall. Both republican bruce rauner and j. B. Pritzker have to get through the primary and they are spending like crazy. If they both win the illinois governors race will be the most expensive race in the country, probably in all time as well airs, two of them, would pour so much of their own money into the campaigns. But by the way, they both actually have fairly tough primaries. It is an interesting tuesday. Well be back with more mtp daily in 60 seconds. Welcome back. Lets get right to the panel so i could watch the basketball game. Im kidding. My colleague here at nbc news, carol lee and bill crystal and daniel deeth a. Carol, i want to begin with the subpoena in the Trump Organization because i want to remind people it was a New York Times interview, i believe this summer with Maggie Haberman and i think Michael Schmidt where the president said the more mueller get news his personal finances or his business that would be a bridge too far. Well, my guess is that is why he had to do a subpoena. Right. And he the question was whether it would be too far if it was unrelated to russia and he so there was that piece. And we know this subpoena is russia related but also other things. And we dont know specifically what they are. I think this the potential for this to set the president off is so high. The white house already is sort of like this powder keg and has been in the last week and this is just this is exactly what the president said he didnt want. And in that interview it said, would you consider firing mueller, would that lead you to fire him if he went in this direction and i said i dont have to worry about that because he is not going to do that and clearly he is and i think the team knew he was looking into his businesses but this subpoena is very tangible and something very hard to contain the president on. And what is interesting about it is, im guessinged records he wants from the Trump Organization are records he think he already has or may know what records they should have. Right. And as weve seen though in this whats her name the adult film actress i forget her name. Stormy daniels. I wanted to see who was the quickest. I knew. What