Good morning, everyone. Its thursday june 14th. We begin with the pressure on Michael Cohen. Nbc news has confirmed that hes expected to split with his current attorneys and many are now wondering what that means for the president. More from the white house. Reporter is Michael Cohen ready to cooperate with federal investigators . Thats the question looming over the white house. After abc news reported cohen, the president s long time fixer and personal attorney is likely to strike a deal with prosecutors. So far, cohen hasnt been charged and several sources familiar with the matter tell nbc news cohen has not even spoken with prosecutors. Still adding fuel, cohen is looking to shake up his legal team according to those close to the situation. Prosecutors are poring over documents they seized in a dramatic fbi raid. Federal investigators in new york are focusing on cohens business dealings including that payment to Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election. Michael cohen should be concerned about being charged. The fbi executed a search warrant on his residence and his office. They dont do that lightly and they dont do that without cause. Reporter the cohen case came out of Robert Muellers russia probe who referred it to investigators in new york. That april raid sparking fury from President Trump. Its a disgrace. Its an attack on our country in a true sense. Its an attack on what we all stand for. Reporter mr. Trump later tweeting most people will flip if the government lets them out of trouble. Sorry, i dont see michael doing that. Danger to the president is that mr. Cohen, if he cooperates hell have to dell everything he knows to anyone who asks. A. Reporter the president s attorney Rudy Giuliani tells nbc news hes not concerned about Michael Cohen flipping adding he has no information suggesting cohen is going to flip. Ayman . Thanks for that report. In an interview that aired on fox news last night President Trump shared his admiration or autocratic rulers again prizing chinese president for his iron grip on his government and dismissing kim jong uns brutal treatment, imprisonment and murder of those he suspects of opposing his regime. Take a listen. I have a very Good Relationship with president xi. Hes an incredible guy. They just, you know, essentially president for life. Pretty good. Chairman kim wants to resolve the problem. We have a very i really say for, you know, for a fairly short term relationship because it was unbelievably hostile. It was unbelievably hostile and i think we have a very Good Relationship. We understand each other. You know, you call people sometimes killers. You know, he is a killer. Hes clearly executing people. Hes a tough guy. Hey, when you take over a country, tough country, tough people and you take it over from your father i dont care who you are, what you are, how much of an advantage you are. If you can do that at 27 years old, i mean thats one in 10,000 that can do that. Hes a very smart guy. Hes a great negotiator but i think we understand each other. Reporter but hes done some really bad thing. Yeah, but so have a lot of other people done some really bad things. I can go through a lot of nations where a lot of bad things were done. So President Trumps words are similar to his view of the say assassination of vladimir pewters opponent comparing it to actions of the United States. Did you like Vladimir Putins comments about you . Sure, when people call you brilliant its always good. Especially when the person heads up russia. I mean, also a person who kills journalists and political opponents and invades countries, obviously that it would be a concern, would it not . Hes running his country and at least hes a leader unlike what we have in this country. But again, he kills journalists that dont agree with him. Well, i think our country does plenty of killing also, joe. Putins a killer. A lot of killers. Weve got a lot of killers. You think our country is so innocent . You think our country is so innocent . I dont know of any government leaders that are killers. Take a look at what weve done too. All right. So President Trump also discussed his desire to have russia readmitted to the g7 and his relationship with Vladimir Putin. Im not for russia. Im for the United States. But as an example, if Vladimir Putin were hitting next to me at a table instead of one of the others and we were having dinner i could say, would you get out of syria, would you get out of the ukraine, get out of ukraine, you shouldnt be there, just come on. Now, i think id probably have a Good Relationship with him. Or id be able to talk to him better than if you call somebody on a telephone and talk. I will tell you as an example, if he were at that meeting i could ask him to do things that are good for the world and are good for the country and good for him. A reporter asked me do you think wed be better off with russia . Absolutely. We spend 25 of our time talking about russia and i said to myself, wouldnt it be better if we were here . And a lot of people agree with me. You think hes going to im not sticking up for anybody. Im just saying this. He didnt respect our leadership previously. He walked all over them. Look what he did to obama with crimea . He took crimea. He took ukraine, he i mean, sections of ukraine. Which is why he got kicked out of the g 8. But he didnt respect our leadership. He didnt respect it and so but this wasnt me. So interesting is beyond the killings hes actually blaming president obama for russias invasion for crimea and not necessarily acknowledging until the reporter said thats why he got kicked out of the g7. And he thinks by simply having dinner saying hey, do me a favor, can you get out, Vladimir Putin is going to say ablu absolutely anything for you. Interesting. Guys one of the other major headlines was the president announcing he was ending the quote, war games exercises with south korea and in the ber view he went one step further. Take a listen. I would love to get the military out as soon as we can because it costs a lot of money. A lot of money for us. We dont get paid fully for that military which ill be talking to south korea about, but we have 32,000 soldiers in south korea. Id like to get them home. I would like to, but it is not on the table right now. At the appropriate time it will be. The u. S. Has on araverage ab 28,500 troops and seoul pays for about the cost which is 821 million back in 2016. One the main takeaways trump is touting as a success is kim jong uns promise to return remains of american troops killing the korean war. We have thousands of people that have asked for that. Thousands and thousands of people. So many people asked for it when i was on the campaign, i said, wait a minute. I dont have any relationship, but they said when you can wed love our son to be brought back home, you know t replains and i said, would you do me a favor . The remains of these great fallen heroes, could we do something . He agreed to it immediately. Pretty great. Now, per the va the average age of korean war veterans is an estimated 87 years old. Which means the parents asking for their sons remains if still alive would be well over 100. Give us the key if youve got it to live that long. Were learning new details about the two immigration bills the house is expected to vote on next week. One of the bill is a compromised measure aimed at bridging the divide between moderates and conservatives. The compromised bill will include a provision that children will not be separated from their children at the border. The congressman also says it will protect dreamers in the United States now, eliminate the diversity lot rtery. Speaker paul ryan reportedly told House Republicans that he had spoken to President Trump and that he seemed quote, very supportive of the compromise measure. This has a chance of going into law because like i said before, last thing i want to do is bring a bill out of here that i know the president wont support. Weve been working hand and glove with the administration on this to make sure we bring a bill that represents the president s four pillars so we can come together and have a vote that everybody is looking for but more importantly this represents a consensus between our members. An inside look yesterday at an immigrant Detention Center in texas where more than 1,000 people are currently being held. The facility is a former walmart and the children get only two hours a day to be outside. Heres how he described what he saw last night. This place is called a shelter, but effectively these kids are incarcerated. There are over 1,400 of them that are spending not weeks, months inside this place. Theyre not actually literally in cages or in cells, but i kid you not, one of the first things an employee said to me is when we walked inside can you try to smile at these kids because its weird to see people from the outside. They feel like animals locked up in cages being looked at. It was an extraordinary thing to see. Absolutely incredible description there. Hes going to have a lot more on what he saw coming up in just a little bit on morning joe including a trump mural that he saw inside the facility when he walked in there. Joining us now, reporter for the Washington Post, jew neeugene s. The house passed two immigration bills. Could we see the senate move to act on immigration between november and the midterms . Theres certainly input from voters on both sides of the aisle. The optics of the situation has been alarming to republican and democrats alike and this is a issue thats not likely to go away before the midterms and congress would be in their best interest according to some voters to address it as quickly as possible. Lets talk to the new revelation regarding to Michael Cohen and his legal team here and the fact that hes possibly dropping his legal team. Do you think that could create more pressure for the president here to sit down sooner with bob mueller . Certainly. Especially considering that the president kind of already does want to sit down and has said that he does. What his legal team will advise is worth paying attention to, but i think one of the main takeaways from where we are at the Michael Cohen story is how unsupported and neglected cohen feel from the president himself and its it will be interesting to see if the president makes any changes to that considering what could come from that. Lets switch gears for a moment and talk about the kim summit. What do you think the appetite is going to be on capitol hill including members of the president s own party about the way the president has announced his desire to withdraw troops from south korea, the ending of the military exercises, even the praise for the north korea dictator . Weve seen republican lawmakers since trump got in the white house pretty much go with anything he has put forward and we even saw paul ryan mention in the previous clip that the main goal is suggest, do things that make trump happy or that trump will support legislatively. Whether or not Republican Voters will be as sensitive and understanding to the president s willingness to work with someone with such long list of Human Rights Violations remelanias to be seen, but democratic lawmakers are going to make sure they know that not much has changed from north korea. Well touch base with you in a little bit. Mike pompeo seems to take a page out of the president s play book and criticizes the press, but a new poll shows what voters feel about what the president calls fake news. Those stories and a check on your weather when we come back. Can you love wearing powerful sunscreen . Yes neutrogena® ultra sheer. Unbeatable protection helps prevent early skin aging and skin cancer with a clean feel. The best for your skin. Ultra sheer®. Neutrogena®. Adapt supply chains based on trends, tweets and storms. And make adjustments on the fly. The ibm cloud. The cloud for smarter business. The ibm cloud. I think, keep going, and make a difference. At some point, we are going to be able to beat als. Because life is amazing. So i am hoping for a cure. I want this, to uh, to be a reality. Um, yeah. Welcome back, everybody. Mike pompeo was in seoul, south korea just hours ago giving a personal briefing to moon jae in on the developments which pompeo says will move forward quickly. Pompeo agreed the objective is for major disarmment before the end of President Trumps first term about two and a half years from now. But pompeo balked when asked for details about President Trumps claim there will be verifiable denuclearization. From the transcript the reporter said quote, the president said it will be verified. Pompeo said this. Of course it will. Asked, can you tell us a little bit more . Pompeo said of course it will. Pou pompeo replied i find that question insultdiing and ludicrous. President trump is declaring the press the biggest enemy but americans dont necessarily see it that way. A National Survey found that majorities trust news organizations over the president , asked in individual questions voters said they trust nbc, abc and cbs more than they trust donald trump by an average of 53 to 39 . Cnn is regarded more trustworthy than trump. While the New York Times and Washington Post also have the trust of half of the country as les than 4 in 10 americans side with the President Trump. Still trump tweeted yesterday, so funny to watch the fake news especially nbc and cnn. They are fighting hard to downplay the fight with north korea. 500 years ago they would have begged for this deal. Looked bike war would break out. Our countrys biggest enemy is fake news. Lets get a check on your weather with bill karins. And bill, you are tracking some Severe Weather that happened last night over pennsylvania, but you say today is going to be a Beautiful Day here in new york. And thats all that they care about. People got hit by a tornado last night. This was a mall around 10 00 p. M. Last night. There was a panera bread located there. Cars were flipped in the parking lot. For a while some people were trapped in the building. No fatalities and they said none of the injuries are too serious. Lets get into that forecast. That cold front that went through with those storms is gone. Just a few showers to the north and its going to be a very nice, summer like day through the ohio valley and still cool in new england. So today the area of concern takes us into dakotas. Enhanced risk of severe storms. Maybe an isolated tornado. Biggest threat is going to be large hail and wind damage and how about the heat . It doesnt stop. 109 in phoenix today. The little magenta you see here, thats 100 degree temperatures, so very hot through the middle of the nation. In the southeast our typical afternoon storms. The upcoming weekend is going to see this heat on the move and for fathers day it looks like the east coast is going to see some of the warmest temperatures that its seen so far this year. You doing something nice for your husband . Who . Oh. Okay. Moving right along. Of course. 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I think being on the wrong side of trump and the way he did it probably hurt. He was a critic and its okay to be critical but you also have to had value. This is paul ryan dismissing the defeat in South Carolina was to blame with President Trump. It was very close election. Some of our members have lost primaries. Thats just what happens in contested primaries. Should it be a warning to people who oppose the president . Every cycle we lose people lose primaries. This happens. Following his primary loss sanford disputed this country has now become a cult of personality. What were about as a nation is not being for or against one penalty. Again were a nation of laws and not men as the Founding Fathers said. Congressman sanford will have much more on his defeat and the role the president may have played in that defeat coming up in the 7 00 hour of morning joe. And scott pruitt is facing yet another scandal. This time hes being accused of using an agency aid to ask big republican donors to help find his wife a job according to the Washington Post setting multiple individuals familiar with the individual pruitt had the aide contact a prominent donor with ties to the oil industry last year for a job more marlin pruitt. When he said he could not hire him because of a conflict of interest pruitt continued to lean on him for help in other possibilities. She landed a job in the Judicial Crisis Network who has backed her husband for years. In the wake of the latest controversy republican senator of oklahoma is questioning whether his long time friend should actually keep his job. I see these things. They upset me as much as they upset you and i think something needs to happen to change that. One of those alternatives would be for him to leave that job. In an interview with the Washington Post following that radio interview, he said that he was not calling on pruitt to resign, but the conservative magazine, the National Review is calling for pruitt to be replaced. In an editorial released yesterday, they applauded the deregulatory work but said its time for him to go do his numerous scandals. Joining us now for the Washington Post, you gene scott. Another day, another scandal for scott pruitt. I ask once again as weve been asking for the last, how long, five or six months or so. Ive lost track. Im not going to lie. What is it behind pruitts staying power. I think whats behind the staying power is that he has a positive relationship with the President Trump and as long as trump sees him as someone who he shares something with, what he would interpret thats criticism from the media hes likely to remain in good favor with the president and therefore the president wont push him out but some of the president s closest allies at least from his Kitchen Cabinet from fox news are increasingly calling on people to get pruitt to leave. Let me ask about the Republican Party and its relationship with bob corker given the recent comments that hes been making. Where does that relationship go . Do you get the sense that the Republican Party wants to be bob corker to be outspoken or do they want him to retire quietly, go off into the sunset . I think the reality that people in congress from the gop realize they have to worry about voters in a way that bob corker does not and so some of his preaching falls on deaf ears but another reason why some of his preaching falls on deaf ears because corker is rarely selfreflective about the role he has played in this. Hes very much encouraged many of his voters to get on the trump train when the president was saying equally problematic things more than a year ago as hes saying now. Very valid point there. Even at one point trump considered bob corker as secretary of state. Absolutely. Thank you very much. Lets go to the new revelations involving the president s personal attorney Michael Cohen. Abc news was the first to report that cohen is expected to split with his current attorneys. The network cites a source familiar with the matter saying that a fee dispute is among the reasons for the change in counsel. The report also states that cohen is likely to cooperate. People familiar with the matter tell nbc news though that cohen has not even spoken to prosecutors yet about what he could offer. Tomorrow is the deadline for cohens attorneys and the Trump Legal Team to finish identifying what materials seized from the cohen raids should be protected by attorney compliant privilege. One person with knowledge of the legal shakeup reports that the president has reportedly told people he is angry with cohen over the messiness of the acts especially those involving Stormy Daniels. He is worried that if he pushes cohen away too hard it will increase the likely had that cohen will offer information to the government. Heres Rudy Giuliani rekt aing last night. Hes not cooperating nor do we care. The president did nothing wrong. Were very comfortable if he cooperates theres nothing he can cooperate about. Michael cohen will say hes got nothing incriminating with the president. The reality is theyre trying to frighten him. As the pressure intensifies and legal bills continue to mount the Washington Post citing reports that cohen is feeling neglected by the president. His long patron for whom he has long professed his loyalty. Cohen has not been charged with a crime. Joining us an analyst, lets talk about what this means. Why would the change of Michael Cohens team of attorneys have an impact on his possibility that he may actually cooperate with the government against the president . Its only a possibility right now that Michael Cohen will cooperate with the government. Its one of many possibilities because there are many reasons why attorneys and kwlientclient separate. Sometimes were required to separate if the accusation is another crime. The first rule for tone attorneys youve got to be paid. So it could be as simple billing issue, it could also be a signal that he wants new attorneys to negotiate whats called a proffer agreement, a deal to come in and talk to u. S. Attorneys and offer them whatever he has and only if the u. S. Attorneys believe hes telling the truth and they like what theyre hearing will they even consider making a deal and that would take many, many days, those meetings. Why would he need new attorney to do Something Like that. He doesnt necessarily need new attorneys to do that but it could signal a dispute over straj ji or simply a money choice. He may be thinking maybe ill go with an attorney who is smaller infrastructure, smaller overhead and he can negotiate this proffer more cheaply than these guys who are reviewing documents at 1,000 an hour. Michael avenatti mentioned yesterday this was calling more than 500,000 a week to represent himself. So this was tweeted out yesterday, i believe. A person close to cohen says he hasnt flipped yet. Quote, hes sending up a smoke signal to trump that i need help. What do you make of this considering the news that were hearing with regards to him separating from his current attorneys. Now is the time to send up that signal. The time to approach the u. S. Attorneys and ask for a proffer or a deal is before youre indicted. Earlier the is better. You want to make that critical decision to seek to cooperate with the government but even if you do, i cant stress enough that you have to tell the government the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and they have to believe you have something good to give them on somebody else. Yesterday, giuliani goes on there saying hes being treated badly. Theyre trying to pick on this guy, Michael Cohen, so i wonder if he also saw the reports that Michael Cohen has been somewhat disappointed with the lack of defen defense. All right. Still ahead, new figures shedding light on President Trumps potential impacts on the midterm elections. Well break down the numbers and the message voters may be sending the president in november. 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With a look at axios a. M. , editor in chief for axios, nicholas johnston. What is axioss one big thing for snus. President trumps jarring extreme. You may remember it was seven months ago that the president was referring to north korean president kim jong un as little rocket man, a sick puppy. Compare that to what the president said just over the weekend after the summit. After their historic meeting. Said he was a tough negotiator, very talented, a great man, a symbol of how the president can move from one extreme to the other. The same thing happened to Justin Trudeau when he visited the United States recently. Trump and trudeau were the best of friends, now on his trade in singapore, the president went after him on twitter. Were looking how quickly trump can go hot and cold on world leaders. Do you think this was part of the president s strategy that he saw the singapore summit as part of his long game when he began the whole rocket man scenario . It was an effort to sort of push them. I think less so the twitter strategy than what some of the military strategy. Some of the exercises with the south koreans and japanese in the area, to show the north koreans that theyre serious. President trump does view the issue with north korea, something as a great thing for his presidency. Having such kindness and nice words to say about kim jeong ton push it to the next level. If you survey all the president s relationships with other world leaders, is there an example where the president has a good working relationship with a world leader on a personal level, but also on a posse level. How everyone said their relationship with Emmanuel Macron was very good. But theres stark policy differences between france and the u. S. Even with china, he says i have a very Good Relationship with president xi, but then theres a trade war going on. Weve seen that hot and cold. One world power where its just been good news and thats the saudi arabians and one way to look at that is remember the president s visit to saudi arabia. What a show that was and the saudis were pretty smart in playing to that. They know exactly what President Trump likes. He reflects back on that, how great the pomp and circumstance, he loved it and the saudis played it correctly. The saudis projected a big image of President Trump on the side of the hotel. Talk about Rudy Giuliani here. I know that axios has new reporting with regard to his son losing his west wing access. What happened . Andrew giuliani, rudys son is a regular at maralago. The president sees him as a friend. He went to white house chief of staff and said, get that guy white house access. In fact the opposite happened. Andrew giuliani lost his coveted blue pass and now has to walk around with a green pass, which will only get you to the Office Building across the street. Access denied. Nick johnston. To all of our viewers, can you sign up for the axios ne newsletter. Im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside Ayman Mohyeldin and louis burgdorf, morning joe starts right now. Good morning, its thursday june 14th. Welcome to morning joe. With us we have msnbc contributor, mike barnicle. Former aide to the george w. Bush white house and state department, elise jordan. And chair of the department of africanamerican studies at princeton university, eddie glaude jr. Joe, i think im going to dive right in. Weve got to show you this and then well assess. Look at this interview that aired on fox news last night, President Trump again seeming to share his admiration for autocratic rulers, praising chinas xi jinping for his iron grip on his government and dismissing kim jong uns brutal treatment, imprisonment and murder of those who he suspects of opposing his regime. Take a look. I have a very Good Relationship with president xi. Of china. Hes you know, incredible guy. Just essentially president for life. Thats pretty good. Chairman kim wants to resolve the problem we have a very, i really say for fairly shortterm relationship, because it was unbelievably hostile, the rhetoric, rhetorically it was unbelievably hostile and i think we have a very Good Relationship. We understand each other. You know you call people sometimes killers, he is a killer. Hes executing people. Hes a tough guy. When you take over