potential of a subpoena for the president. a subpoena for president trump. his legal team preparing for that possibility in what could be an historic test of the president's powers. and the president's longtime doctor had glowing things to say during the campaign because the president told him to. now harold bornstein claims his office was raided by trump's bodyguard. you hear about slavery for 400 years. for 4 00 years? that sounds like a choice. >> stunning words from kanye west. the response equally as passionate. good morning, welcome to "early start," everybody, i'm christine romans. that's the water cooler story you'll be hearing interested to. >> a lot of people talking about kanye once again. good morning, i'm dave briggs. wednesday, may 2nd. 5:00 a.m. in the east. good morning to all of you. we start in the capitol. would the special counsel subpoena president trump if he refused to sit for an interview? it now appears the answer could be yes. the trump legal team bracing for

a dramatic subpoena showdown that could end up in the supreme court. sources tell us robert mueller has raised the threat of a subpoena in at least one meeting. >> some of the president's legal advisers are gambling that mueller will not go that far. the legal posturing shows that while the president has not totally shut the door a voluntary interview with mueller's team, the odds are growing slimmer. jeff zeleny with more. >> reporter: in the wake of the revelation of new questions from bob mueller's team to the president, and we learned late tuesday night cnn reported that robert mueller threatened the possibility of a subpoena if the president would not testify. the president's lawyers have pushed back saying, look, they're willing to fight this in court. there are two tracks here, the legal track and political track. the president has always wanted to end this quickly. he says he has nothing to hide. but legally speaking, all the questions in the wake of "the new york times" report this week, some 49 questions, can he

answer them without subjecting himself to any legal peril here? the white house on tuesday did not answer any questions saying if the president would or would not sit down with bob mueller. that, of course, hanging over the white house here amid so many things going on. of course, north korea, other matters. but will the president sit down? we still don't know the answer to that question. christine and dave? >> jeff zeleny. thank you. the threat of impeachment by house conservatives not phasing deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. republicans in the freedom caucus have drafted articles of impeachment against rosenstein. the caucus has been feuding with rosenstein for weeks, unhappy about the justice department's response to congressional document requests. critics say the impeachment effort as simply a way to pressure the department or hamper the russia investigation which rosenstein oversees. rosenstein says he'll not change the course in the face of these threats.

>> i don't have anything to say about documents like that that nobody has the courage to put their name on and that they leak in that way. i can tell you, there have been people who have been making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some time. i think they should understand by now the department of justice is not going to be extorted. we're going to do what's required by the rule of law. >> freedom caucus chairman mark meadows calls rosenstein's response, quote, a lot of rhetoric with little facts and says rosenstein's stonewalling of the investigation has embarrassed the department of justice. also for the record, the deputy attorney general says he pronounces his last name rosenstein. but he has relatives who call him rosenstein, and he'll answer to either, for those that were wondering. >> i want to stick with rosenstein. that's what i've been saying because he says that. >> people losing sleep over that. joining us, cnn digital director zach wolf. good morning. let's stay with the rosenstein story if you will.

sarah sanders yesterday was asked about this from the podium. this is what she said, zach -- >> there are allies with the president on capitol hill who are apparently drafting articles of impeachment for the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. is it the president's belief that rod rosenstein has committed a high crime or misdemeanor? >> i'm not aware of any belief of that. >> does the white house not endorse that -- the white house call on these members not to pursue that? >> i haven't seen the specific document. but we don't have any personnel announcements. and we're continuing to move forward with the department of justice. >> weigh in on the rosenstein controversy this morning. >> i mean, i think if the threat of president trump firing him every day he goes into the office isn't going to change the way they operate, then probably the impeachment effort that doesn't look like it's going to go for far isn't going to have much of an effect either. >> how about the threat of subpoena potentially facing the

president of the united states? it looks like his lawyers are not open to an interview, and it looks like the president is less likely to want to sit down with bob mueller. we saw this, something similar with bill clinton, of course. and that investigation. are we headed to a supreme court showdown? >> it seems like something like that is going to happen. this is sort wherever we've been heading for a long time in that mueller has been doing investigations and the large investigation. seems the end of that would be talking to the president himself. if the president's not going to sit down and talk to mueller, if mueller needs to talk to him, it seems a court battle would be the next obvious step. there is precedent for presidents testifying under subpoena in the past. it seems that mueller would have this possibility. although trump has spent so much time attacking his office publicly on twitter, calling it a witch hunt. it's going to be a remarkable

thing to watch. >> and given the questions we saw in the "times," it would be hard to imagine the president volunteering to sit down for the interview. my favorite story of the morning, the tale of dr. harold bornstein. he's the doctor in 2015, in beltwacase folks forgot, that wrote the letter about president trump -- this guy, in case you forgot, that guy. he wrote this letter back in december of 2015 about the president. if elected, mr. trump, i can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency. >> trumpan hyperbole. turns out -- >> trump, in fact, wrote the letter, at least told him the words that should go in the letter. bornstein also talked about an incident where the medical records of president trump, the president, were seized in a raid or listen to how the doctor described it here --

>> i feel raped. that's how i feel -- raped, frightened, and sad. >> what were they looking for? >> his medical records, pictures, anything they could find. they must have here for 25 to 30 minutes. created a lot of chaos. >> so zach, he says that with keith schiller and a trump lawyer the white house said it was, however, standard operating procedure. the white house medical unit took possession of the president's medical records. what in the heck is going on here? >> i don't know. all i know is that we've had two kind of strange instances with the president's doctors. there's this one where he essentially dictates his own bill of health, total over the top. then there was ronny jackson, remember him? from last week, the last couple of weeks.

he also gave an over-the-top diagnosis of the president's health. it's clear that trump is obsessed with people perceiving him as fit. as far as it being standard operating procedure to send people into a doctor's office, that's not something i've ever heard of before. >> to say nothing of the verb he uses to describe two men walking into his office and taking some records. it's actually offensive. very offensive. gross. >> no question. >> let me switch gears and talk about something i've been watching. you know, you've got all of these great signs in the economy. maybe you could see a 4% gdp in the second quarter. i think that could happen. full employment basically, wages going up. gas prices going up here, mortgage rates are going to rise. we're shifting into a new zone here where people could start feeling like the ease money of the last ten years will be gone. do you think that will have any

effect on midterms? >> it's hard to tell at this point. the one -- the major bright spot for president trump has been the economy which has continued to boom under him. the stock market has been going on this record tear for a long time. his major promise to pull people up in middle america essentially, he's running out of time to show dividends on that. then the issue of the tax bill, his major legislative accomplishment. if people don't feel like that's helping them, i think there's a danger that they wonder what they bought into with this. >> we saw apple give back $100 billion to shareholders, essentially two teslas -- i don't mean the car, i mean the company. two teslas it gave away. in midwest, you've got forms lowering their cash rent on their farms because farm prices are down. there's concerns about retaliation there. that is a big dichotomy.

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30 minutes past the hour. we begin with this -- would the special counsel try to get a subpoena if president trump refused to sit for an interview? it appears the answer could be yes. the trump legal team bracing for a dramatic subpoena showdown that could end up in the supreme court. sources tell us robert mueller has raised the threat of a subpoena in at least one meeting. >> some of the president's legal advisers gambling mueller will not go that far. the legal posturing shows that while the president has not totally shut the door on a voluntary interview with the team, the odds are growing slimmer. senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny with more. >> reporter: in the wake of the revelation of new questions from robert mueller's team to the president, we learned late tuesday, cnn reported that robert mueller has threatened the possibility of a subpoena if the president would not testify. the president's lawyers pushed back saying, look, they're willing to fight this in court. the reality is, there are two tracks. the legal track and the political track.

the president has always wanted to end this quickly. he says he has nothing to hide. but legally speaking, all these questions now in the wake of "the new york times" report this week, some 49 questions, can he answer them without, you know, subjecting himself to any legal peril here? so the white house on tuesday did not answer any questions saying if the president would or would not sit down with robert mueller. that, of course, hanging over the white house here amid so many other things going on, of course. north korea, other matters. will the president sit down? we still don't know the answer to that question. >> all right. jeff zeleny, thanks. the threat of impeachment by housing conservatives not phasing deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. republicans in the freedom caucus have drafted articles of impeachment against rosenstein. the caucus has been feuding with rosenstein for weeks, unhappy about the justice department's response to congressional document requests. >> critics see the impeachment effort as a way to pressure the

department or hamper the russia investigation which rosenstein oversees. rosenstein says he will not change course in the face of threats. >> i don't have anything to say about documents like that that nobody has the courage to put their name on and that they leak in that way. i can tell you there have been people who have been making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some time. i think they should understand by now the department of justice is not going to be extorted. we're going to do what's required by the rule of law. >> the department of justice is not going to be extorted. freedom caucus chairman mark meadows calls rosenstein's response, quote, a lot of rhetoric with little facts. he says rosenstein's, quote, stonewalling of the investigation has, quote, embarrassed the department of justice. >> wow. turns out a famously glowing statement about president trump's health was dictated by mr. trump. that's the claim of dr. harold bornstein. that guy. mr. trump's eccentric former physician who said in 2015 he

wrote the letter stating if elected, mr. trump, i can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency. well, cnn has learned exclusively that dr. bornstein said he never wrote that letter. donald trump did. >> that's not the only bizarre headline surrounding dr. bornstein. he's going public with claims that he was robbed when a white house aide arrived at his office and retrieved the president's medical records in february of last year. bornstein telling nbc news keith schiller, the president's former personal bodyguard and con confidan confidante, led the way. >> i feel raped. that's how i feel. raped, frightened, and sad. >> what exactly were they looking for? >> well, his medical records, pictures, anything they could find. they must have here for 25 or 30

minutes. created a lot of chaos. >> the white house and say source familiar with the hand-over of the president's medical records dispute bornstein's description as a raid. they said it was standard operating procedure that the white house medical unit seized the records. >> and didn't even need to seize them. there was some kind of conflict with the copy machine or something, right? and so -- i don't know. >> easy process. you don't normally send keith schiller and a trump lawyer to take physical possession of records. let's discuss this with zach wolf. according to notes, his physical strength and stamina are extraordinary. those are the notes zach wolf sent us. who wrote that. you write about this. what's the deal with donald trump's now former two doctors? >> yeah. it's interesting, they both have given these glowing recommendations of the president's health and his -- his heart health, you know, all

physical evidence to the contrary. and we're sort of left with impressions of these doctors that, you know, in the case of dr. bornstein, things don't end that well because he -- he feels like, well, after he talks publicly about giving the president propecia, they send in keith schiller to take the medical records. in the case of ronny jackson, dr. ronny jackson, nominated to be v.a. secretary, that didn't turn out so well. people probably haven't forgotten that one yet. it is a curious case, i think, that we've ii doctors that are both say -- we have two doctors that are both saying this. >> and from the beginning, a new york character. the character in this reality show. >> straight out of central casting. >> let's talk about the chance of a mural sit down as they look like they're getting slimmer between the president and robert mueller whose team is investigating the russians and

russian influence in the election. what about the chances this morning of a subpoena to get the president to sit down with robert mueller's team? >> it certainly seems, and cnn has reported, president trump has sort of turned against the idea of wanting to sit down with robert mueller. earlier he did, and then he was vascillating. now i think latest cnn reporting is that he sort of turned against it ever since that raid on michael cohen. and now he doesn't really want to sit down with mueller. if you read the questions that "the new york times" had that mueller wants to ask him, wide ranging, scores of questions. you can imagine that that would make trump and definitely his lawyers a little bit nervous. mueller can't subpoena him. can basically compel him to testify. and there is precedent for this. we're heading up to the legal showdown now of will mueller basically force the president to talk about the russia investigation. >> right. precedent in that during the ken

starr investigation of bill clinton, prosecutors subpoenaed mr. clinton. will this head to the supreme court? >> i mean, you could imagine if the trump lawyers stands in the way and won't comply -- stand in the way and won't comply, it's got to go someplace at some point. the supreme court ask the law of the land. they would have to weigh in. >> 1974 united states versus nixon comes into play there. >> yesterday rod rosenstein said the doj will not be extorted. the idea that there could be people drawing up, you know, impeachment papers against him. listen to what he told our laura jarrett yesterday. >> any reaction to the news that certain members of the house freedom caucus have talked about drafting up articles of impeachment despite your best efforts for you to comply with their document requests? >> they can't even resist leaking their own drafts. >> would you care to elaborate

on that? >> i saw that draft. yon w.h.o. wro-- i don't know w it. >> what do you make of this? the pressure, you got to go to work every day with nerves of steel if you're rod screrosenst with people threatening to fire you every other day. >> yeah. if you're able to go to work every day under threat of president trump firing you, and that's essentially what he's doing, then i'm not sure the house freedom caucus of impeachment is going to change your activity very much. it's kind of the state of the city we're living in now. >> yeah. rosenstein's a registered republican. and these are house republicans on the attack. another extraordinary turn of events in the nation's capital where you are. appreciate it. thank you. >> thanks, zach. a series of new headaches for embattled epa administrator scott pruitt. two of his top staffers at the agency stepping down days after pruitt's management and spending practices came under scrutiny during congressional hearings.

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the iran deal. he is saying to his european allies, fine, we have this deal. it works. it's good enough at monitoring iran's current nuclear program. but we need much more. we need to look at it beyond 2025, in the wider region, and tehran's ballistic missile program. precisely, those points donald trump wishes to the see addressed. all of this is saying, look, the rest of the world is now willing to consider these other pillars, to use macron's jargon. the first pillar has to be with sticking with any nuclear deal. up until 2025. the french president trying to reconcile what had to be, until last week when he first raised the idea of this, i reconcilable positions. in whichever way he goes, this is the best bet the world has had in finding some sort of

compromise. after a week of controversial twaoeteets, kanyet took a bizarre turn. listen to what what he told tmz about slavery. >> you hear about slavery for 400 years. for 400 years. that sounds like a choice. you were there for 400 years. and it's all of y'all? it's like we're mentally in prison. >> west later asked tmz employees, do you think like i'm thinking free and feeling free? that's when an employee fired back. >> i actually don't think you're thinking anything. i think what you're doing right now is the absence of thought. and the reason why i feel like that is because, kanye, you're entitled to your opinion. you're entitled to believe whatever you want. but there is fact and real world, real life conscious questions behind everything that you just said. the rest of us in society have

to deal with these threats to our lives. we have to deal with the marginalization that has come from the 400 years of slavery that you said for our people was awe choice. >> west later took to twitter to clarify his comments saying, of course i know that slaves did not get shackled and put on a boat by free will. my point is for us to have stayed in that position even though the numbers were on our side means that we were mentally enslaved. suffice it to say, there was no choice in slave isry. do you think he does this by design to drum up controversy? >> to drum up controversy and to be in the news. a lot of people are talking and a lot of people are very unhappy with that. >> i'm dave briggs. >> i'm christine romans. "new day" starts right now. the president's legal team is getting ready for a standoff. >> the president will decides if he wants to