This was day one of three days here in washington for the now former new york lawyer. Along the way Michael Cohen was disbarred today. And today he appeared as a civilian headed to prison at a ninehour closed door hearing of the Senate Intelligence committee. P he has admitted lying to them back in 2017, and indeed a source close to cohen tells nbc news he started off today by n apologizing to the committee. He paused to speak briefly after the hearing was over. I really appreciate the opportunity that was given to me to clear the record and to tellt the truth. Le and i look forward to tomorrow, to being able to give my voice to tell the American People my story, and im going to let the American People decide exactly whos telling the truth. So i want to thank you all again for sticking around and have a good night. A that was it. Tomorrow cohen will testify live, as he puts it before the American People. L but more like on cable news. At a House Oversight hearing that is widely expected to be dramatic from start to finish. The established ground rules call for him not to discuss the russia investigation tomorrow. But a knowledgeable source tells nbc news that he is, quote, ready to share anecdotes about trumps lies, racism and cheating as a private businessman. Bo ready to show evidence of criminal conduct by trump since he has become president. He will explain lies to congress about the trump moskow deal, t reveal information about trumps finances potentially with the actual financial statements. Hes prepared to give granular details of trumps involvement and scheme to keep Stormy Daniels, aka stephanie clifford, quiet. Tonight nbc news confirmed a big story first c reported by the wall street journal, and that is a source is telling us that tomorrow Michael Cohen will show the committee a signed check from the Trump Organization. Cohen will say the check was part of the reimbursement he as received for his 130,000 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels during the 2016 president ial campaign. According to the source, trump signed some of the monthly checks from the Trump Organization to xhoen cohen. But this is important tonight, its unclear whether the check cohin will apparently bring t tomorrow will have trumps unmistakable signature on it. You may recall cohen had postponed his testimony last h month after what he said were po threats from the president against his family like this one in which he singles out cohens fatherinlaw. Well, late today lets just say the threat quotient was raised by one of the president s strongest supporters in the house. S republican member of congress who represents the Florida Panhandle matt gaetz who said this and we quote, hey Michael Cohen, do your wife and fatherinlaw know about your an girlfriends . Er maybe tonight would be a good time for a chat. I wonder if shell remain faithful when youre in prison. Shes about to learn a lot. Responding in a statement cohens lawyer said, we will not respond to mr. Gaetzs despicable lies and personal smears except to say we trust that his colleagues in the house, both republicans and democrats, will repudiate his words and his conduct. Pu earlier this evening congressman gaetz, who is not on the committee conducting tomorrows questioning, defended his allegation on the house floor. Co tomorrow we will find out if theres anyone Michael Cohen hasnt lied to. E we already know he lied to congress. We already know he lied to law enforcement. Lied to the irs. Lied toem three banks. Anded others going to prison fo his lies. And so i guess it will be relevant for us to determine, like, does he lie to his own family . I think it is entirely appropriate for any member of this body to challenge the y truthfulness and veracity and character for the people who have a history of lying and have a future that undoubtably contains nothing but lies. Republican congressman mark meadows, he of the freedom caucus, he from North Carolina, he is on the committee that will hear from cohen tomorrow and issued this warning today. The number of us on the Oversight Committee have been looking at documents that Michael Cohen has been involved with, and i can tell you theres a number of questions that still remain in terms of potential criminal offenses that Michael Cohen may have committed that in believe will come out tomorrow. Cohen is scheduled to begin a threeyear prison sentence in may. P as we mentioned, while the russia investigation will be off limits officially at tomorrows public hearing, democrats on the House Intelligence Committee say russia will be front and centere when cohen talks to them in another closed hearing on thursday. N its a lot to keep track of. Lets bring in our leadoff panel on a tuesday night. Maya wiley, former assistant u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york, now with the new school in new york. Robert costa, National Political lotter for the Washington Post and moderator of Washington Week on pbs. And Emily Jane FoxSenior Reporter for vanity fair who shall we say has chronicled the plight of h Michael Cohen, and author of born trump inside americas first family. Good evening and welcome to you all. Mr. Costa, in our Television Age we tend to trace scandals and investigations by their associated televised hearings, whether its watergate, whetherd its ollie north and fawn hall or whether its clarence thomaso this has not heretofore been a hearingdriven televised moment. Is that all about to change tomorrow in this investigation . Youre right, brian. There has not been an Alexander Watt butterfield watergate type moment in this President Trump era. Mp but tomorrow you have capitol hill, now controlled by democrats in the house, using their powers to ask tough questions of the president s longtime lawyer. And this is long time lawyer who wants to provide new information. How relevant that new information is to the Trump Presidency remains to be determined. And republicans like congressman gaetz and others are at the barricades tonight politically. I just got off the phone five minutes ago with mayor giuliani. He said he doesnt have a war roomhe setup but theyre prepar to fight mr. Cohen on almost every issue he brings up. Theyre not going to update the president every hour, he says. Its just going to be giuliani and the other lawyer, jay sekulow, talking by phone, trying to see what t happens. But even giuliani tonight, theyre not exactly sure whats going to happen tomorrow. It is something variable for our entire political scene. Is the practical reason for not having to update the president every hour the te assumption hell be watching every hour on the other side ofp the world where a 10 00 a. M. Hearing start time is 10 00 p. M. After the workday in hanoi . Giuliani says the president s focused on his vietnam summit, but a lot of the president s confidants say he will be following minute by minute, maybe not every second of the actual hearing because of the time change, but you have a president who had thisha man, m cohen, at his side for over a decade. Someone who worked with him on intimate issues, personal issues. And the question for republicans tomorrow is will anything rise to the threshold to be a threat politically to them . Rr so far theyve suffered a lot of indignities that President Trump has brought upon them and their owngh party. But they want to see is this going tosh a threat for them in 20 to. Emily jane fox, what can you say if anything about the attitude, mindset, bearing of the witness going into tomorrow . This is a day that Michael Cohen has been preparing for, looking forward to, and readying for the last several weeks. He has spent every single day with his lawyers in intense preparation as it was described to me over the weekend. E he has written a statement, rewritten his statement, practiced his statement. He has been waiting for his time to be able to share his story. Now were now going on almost a year since the fbi executed search warrants on his homes and office. He really has very few times spoken publicly since then, and this is a guy as we all know likes to be able to tell his side of the story. So this is a moment that is consequential for him. It is consequential for the fate of the presidency and it is ue going to be consequential for the American People tuning into what is a very hyped and i think deservedly hyped hearing e tomorrow. You reported a minor detail in this story, but i think its so telling. The raid was not on his home because his home, a trump n building in new york, was a destroyed by a burst pipe. He was living temporarily in a hotel room in new york. But it speaks to the state of his life a year ago and his he loyalty to all things Trump Organization. He still lives in a trump apartment. Hes now moved back into. Its actually the building where jared and ivanka live when theyre in new york. What are the chances of that . It is a very twisted world in trump world. And the connection to the family is just highlighted by the area in which they live. All right, maya wiley, counselor, how much damage can mr. Cohen do tomorrow . Look, im going to say it. There has been so much damage done already by Michael Cohen to donald trump. And, you know, one of the thingd that and i agree both with bob and with emily jane, you know, we dont know all the things he could say because the reality is whether he goes back two years, five years or ten years, if he shares a pattern of practice that the Trump Organization engages in that demonstrates that it behaves as Michael Cohens friend Donny Deutsch said on ari melbers show when i was on which is a criminal enterprise thats a quote. I didnt say it. Is that the Trump Organization operates as a criminal enterprise, if that is true there are any number of transactions, events, things an that the Trump Organization did under the direction of their ceo donald trump that could implicate it in a crime. Now, i think the point people have raised is can you believe Michael Cohen. R the issue here is, yeah, Michael Cohen if he says things that implicates crimes could implicate himself. But hes also testifying under c oath. He has already pled guilty to the crime of perjury to congress. That means he is in jeopardy if he doesnt tell the truth. H so we may learn things that we didnt know before. Ar we may learn just more details on things we already knew where he has already implicated donala trump in a crime, specifically the way in which he according to Michael Cohen directed payments to silence women Stormy Daniels, Karen Mcdougal in the catch and kill story that may in and of themselves be campaign violations. We may as well throw decorum a state funeral because it is well and gone in this city where it existed, im talking about the matt gaetz story tonight. Scorsesen. And the response was swift. Two friends of our broadcast. First bill kristol. This is loathsome. It deserves the censure of his colleagues and perhaps of the house coitself as attempted intimidation of a witness testifying before a house committee. More important, though, what does this say about the degree of panic about trump allies esa about cohens testimony . And frank figliuzzi, fresh from a career chasing organized crime figures among others. In an organized crime family the mobsters arent loyal to the c capo out of love and affection. They do his bidding out of fear. What is gaetz afraid of . I lay it before you. A question right now, what id House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy do with congressman n gaetz . Wi is he going to allow one of his members to be out there on a limb saying this kind of thing about a witness appearing before a house committee. S also a challenge for democrats tomorrow. Can they draw blood politically with mr. Cohen . Can they keep it focused at this hearing . Can they walkth through differe issues to try to draw cohen out . Because remember, they have to makere sure theyre concentrati on cohens conduct but also President Trumps conduct. Theyre not going to be able to veer into russia issues. Um as a reporter we all wish we could ask mr. Cohen about trumpe tower moscow, about different interaction with russianer figures. N but because of the Mueller Investigation those areas have been walled off. Ue so the democrats have to pick their spots. Can they actually elicit new information thats both credible and politically earth shattering to try and move the ball politically on President Trump b and the investigation . And maya, youre our lawyer here. If you were starting a case in federal Court Tomorrow and you had someone issue a tweet like this, would you move for witness tampering . If i was a prosecutor and i had it before me, absolutely. The reality here so we have to separate whether or not you have grounds to investigate whether h or not there was a crime. You always have to establish in this context of witness tampering under the federal statute intent, right . So as we heard mike gaetz say publicly, look, his credibility is an issue. Il that is true. And im just saying that there are issues that, you know, we could use to investigate his credibility. That tells you what a defense would say. But certainly that tweet when i read it was really as bill kristol has said, it is completely unacceptable for a s sitting member of congress to issue a tweet like that in this context. But practically, as a practical matter the way this would work, the department of justice would not selfinitiate an investigation here. Congress would have to refer it for investigation. I dont know that that will happen in this case. I think the good news here is that Michael Cohen is agreeing to cooperate and that its not the first time he has suggested hes felt intimidated about his testimony. I think that demonstrates that he is very interested as emily jane said, he wants his story out there. And its not going to stop him that someone tried to intimidate him. Emily jane fox, long before there was a trump administratio the one intersection between politics and the mob was you we dont touch families. You leave families out of it. In coming to know the people we cover for a living, you in sometimes come to know their families. Kn what matt gaetz said was not ini a vacuum. Michael cohen is a father of two, longtime married man with an extended married into family. This has to have huge ramifications within that family. Ug sure. This testimony was already delayed because of the tweets that President Trump sent out that cohen felt were threatening the safety of his family. It wasnt that he was fearful for himself. He was fearful for what it meant for his family. His family will not be there tomorrow. Hes not bringing his family who wanted to come and be there behind him because he was scared of what might happen, what might be said about him, and he didnt want that pressure added on top of the other pressure he is di facing tomorrow. That this happened is almost like his Worst Nightmare came true. I dont think any father would be happy that a sitting Congress Person would say such a py salacious thing about their family. It is such a uniquely trumpian thing that happened today, where a member of congress would attack a witness like this. Mb and it would almost be tomorrows news already yesterdays news, im sorry. Its just exactly what cohen was worried about and it almost speaks to the reason why he deleted it. T theres every reason to believe well be watching clips from tomorrow 50 years from now. It will be interesting to be back at this hour in this time slot tomorrow and see what it is we are covering and talking about. C maya wiley back in new york. Robertac costa. Emily jane fox here in washington. Y our thanks for starting off our broadcast tonight and always. Coming up, were keeping an eye on what is transpiring right now in vietnam with just hours to go before these two world ns leaders meet for the second time in this second summit. We have a live report from hanoi. And later how congress sent a message to the president today while he was 8,000 miles from home, halfway around the world in a preview of the most watched event on the congressional docket tomorrow. At Michael Cohen, though, isnt the only drama on capitol hill. The 11th hour in washington just Getting Started on a tuesday night. 1 you want a freshsmelling home, but some air fresheners use heavy, overwhelming scents. Introducing febreze one; a new range of innovative air fresheners with no heavy perfumes that you can feel good about using in your home to deliver a light, naturalsmelling freshness. 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Most experts cant really imagine the secretive duplicitous dark state ever really doing that. Sources tell nbc news the u. S. Could offer incentives to north korea like negotiating a formal end to the korean war, easing minor sanctions and opening up a bare bones diplomatic outpost. Two of our own journalists, carol lee, and courtney kuby, who covers the pentagon for us wrote, quote, some Senior Trump Administration officials and others involved in the negotiations are worried establishing a diplomatic outpost and agreeing to an end of a war declaration in addition to a second president ial meeting for kim would amount to a de facto u. S. Recognition of north korea as a nuclear state. Well, with us here in washington to talk about it jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and pentagon, and Andrea Mitchell, nbc news chief Foreign Affairs correspondent. Of course the host of Andrea Mitchell reports, weekdays here on msnbc. Welcome to you both. Andrea, lets start with the atmospherics. The video before this even started. You have kim jongun stopping for a cigarette break and his sister as one does following him around with a crystal ashtray. You would do that for your sister. I would. But then who are you going to trust in that country but your sister to be the carrier of the ashtray . And then getting off the train after a 68hour first of all, if you want to spend 68 hours on a train, take amtrak from seattle to san francisco. But i kid. 68 hours on a train in part because of the threat of assassination and in part because of the shortage of dependable aviation equipment in that country. That gives you the setting for these two guys to sit down. Its a perfect metaphor. The economic need. The sanctions have hurt. But theres also cheating from china and russia, playing both sides against the middle. And there is sort of a metaphor there, and it may be more than symbolic of him going through china, through chinese territory, paying respect to china on the way to this critical showdown with the leverage that china uniquely holds over whether any deal will ever be consummated or obeyed. And yet at the same time the cult of personality cultivated of course by kim jongun and his entire dynasty going back three generations. Its a state and a cult really. What do we have here . We have a president of the United States who believes he is uniquely capable through his own personality of somehow breaking through as no other president has with that shiny nobel prize as the allure over the horizon. Jeremy bash, do you fear the degree to which trump feels the need to emerge with a deal of some sort . I do. I think the result in hanoi is actually already known, which is that our president has accepted north korea as a Nuclear Weapons power. And by that i mean in 2017 under the umbrella of trumps tweet storm, you know, my button is bigger than your button and rocket man, the north actually flight tested an icbm twice, they detonate aid nuclear device, they overflew japan twice, they showed the world and themselves they have the technological capability to threaten the western part of the United States. And with that as their arsenal they proceeded to play ropeadope with our president. And now with those Nuclear Weapons intact theyve actually destroyed zero Nuclear Weapons since the june singapore summit. Theyve destroyed no nuclear material. Theyve destroyed not a single icbm. They stand on the world stage with an american president. And they are ready to get an amazing number of concessions from the United States. Lets put the president s tweet on the screen. Were quoting it at the bottom of the screen. He called kim jongun his friend tonight. Andrea, just that will put cold water in the veins of all the Foreign Policy professionals that you know in this city. And just think of the one issue thats never discussed in the trump administration, which is human rights. Human rights, the gulags, the prisoners. Were no longer hearing about otto warmbier, the one individual, or the millions who have been slaughtered. And to say that, and as jeremy says, he is accepting the status quo of a nuclearpowered state. We have not seen an inventory. We have not seen even a definition of denuclearization, which was going in the argument there was not going to be a phased out ordinary arms negotiations you do this you do this and eventually we get here with inspections, with verification. But initially it was were getting everything up front, which they claimed to get, and then to the shock of defense chief mattis he even agrees or suggests to give up the joint military exercises which are critical for readiness and have still not taken place since singapore. And jeremy, what part of north korea do you think is going to agree once and for all to give up on their cherished nukes, say nothing of the artillery that is the daytoday threat to seoul, south korea, all those tubes packs on mountainsides, hundreds of them, ready aim and fire away from hitting south korea . Probably tens of thousands of those artillery tubes, probably 40,000 that are in range of seoul as you referenced. And not only in range of seoul but in range of u. S. Troops that are there in seoul and throughout the peninsula. Not only guarding the security of our ally south korea but actually promoting u. S. Interests in the region. I think were a long way from peace although of course thats what ultimately kim jong un seeks. He seeks acceptance. He seeks the world stage with an american president. He seeks the relief of sanctions so he can feed his own people. And im sorry to report hes going to get many of those things without making a single solitary concession. And i fear, brian, i think this is kind of the elephant in the room, that in light of whats happening in washington tomorrow with the cohen hearing the president s going to be more eager to please, more eager for a headline, more eager to get a big show and a headline at the summit. Hes going to cave harder and faster than he really should. A chilling thought. But well pause the conversation there, take a break. Jeremy and andrea both staying with us. And coming up, you dont see this every day. What was russias foreign minister, the one who visited our president in the oval office, doing in vietnam this week . More on that after this. 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The president said he did not believe that the north koreans had the capability to hit us here with Ballistic Missiles in the United States, and he did not believe that because president putin had told him they did not. Intelligence officials in the briefing responded that that was not consistent with any of the intelligence our government possesses. To which the president replied, i dont care, i believe putin. Maybe the most bracing moment from that recent interview with 60 minutes, former fbi Deputy DirectorAndrew Mccabe revealing the moment President Trump in his book as depicted in his book, revealed his trust in russian intel over his own team. Which makes this headline all the more interesting, quote, u. S. Asked for advice on north korea talks. The Russian Foreign minister sergei lavrov, who again was in vietnam the same week trump and kim are in vietnam, told russian News Agencies the u. S. Wanted and sought insight on dealing with north korea. Among the reported recommendations, offer security guarantees to kim jongun in order to move forward with nuclear disarmament. Helpful. Still with us, jeremy bash and Andrea Mitchell. Jeremy, i dont know which to start with. The advice from the russians as to how to proceed with the north koreans or the threat of believing putin over your own home team, and more than that saying it out loud. I know. And i think its important for us to be cleareyed as we think about whats going to unfold in hanoi over the next 48 hours. The Russian Federation has an interest in diminishing u. S. Influence in asia. They have a strong interest in removing u. S. Troops from the peninsula because they see it as a strategic counterweight to russias effort on their eastern seacoast. And in addition they have a strong interest in diminishing u. S. Missile defense systems, which are there not only to defend against north korea but also to actually play a deterrent role against the Russian Federation. These are live pictures on the lefthand side of the screen. And while completely unimportant, trump watchers may notice something he never does. The president has buttoned his suit coat. He normally pointedly leaves it open. But here he is about to sign what is a jet engine and aviation deal. This is with the host country of vietnam, our former adversaries. The president there with vietnams trade representative, Prime Minister and president. Theres the handshake among the seconds. Andrea, what does putin get out of any or all of this . Well, he gets, first of all, a reduction in the u. S. Military presence he hopes. Especially that antimissile defense, and the u. S. Troop presence ultimately. Thats one of the things he had recommended before the first summit. We didnt need that american troop presence, especially not if a peace treaty is signed, and that would be the next demand. And we see also in that signing this inducement. This is the carrot, if you will, to say you see, you can get these kinds of deals, kim jong un, for your country if you just do what vietnam did. Of course vietnam didnt have Nuclear Weapons. I was there when we saw in the normalization and diplomatic relations agreement with vietnam, we did get many of our remains back. It was negotiated by warren christopher. It was in the mid 90s, 1995. And i was throughout the country before that. And its a very different place. They no longer had these prison camps. Its a socialist communist country and a totalitarian regime and it still had a very rigid pliolitburo but nothing, nothing at all like north korea. Is this idealistic political fancy . Do you think anyone proffered the notion of the president going over to the hanoi hilton where john mccain and all of our suffering pows were held . I cannot imagine, and it would actually perhaps demean and diminish that place. As horrific as that place is, ive been there. And john mccain of course has gone back, went back with john kerry and others who were on the opposite side of the vietnam debate back then. But its not a place for donald trump, i would argue. And i think the mccain family even would argue. I just keep thinking about its looming presence over that country and that city and the meaning it has to all those americans especially who had fathers, sons over there. Jeremy bash, Andrea Mitchell, thank you so much for joining us for this conversation tonight here in washington. Coming up, tomorrow will be the tale of two major breaking news stories. A viewers guide to what could be a split Screen Television viewing moment as we said between hanoi and washington, d. C. Thats when we continue. Ats wh. President trump in vietnam right now. He has been meeting with the countrys president there ahead of tomorrows meeting with kim jongun of north korea. The summit event started with some confusion at the hotel where the north korean dictator is staying. It happened to be the same hotel where the white house had designated for all the journalists traveling with the president. What we like to call a press filing center. Upon kims arrival the White House Press corps was evicted from its workspace. As our nbc news team reports the forced move was highly unusual because the white house had approved of and supported the use of the space by media who cover the president. The Washington Post summed up the situation this way, and we quote, what happens when the authoritarian ruler of north korea checks into a hotel teeming with american journalists filing round the clock reports, the free press loses. With us from vietnam our own carol lee, nbc news National Political reporter who happened to be in the hotel lobby when the north korean contingent arrived. Here with us in d. C. Two of our returning veterans. Peter baker. Chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times. And a. B. 120drd, columnist and associate editor at real clear politics. Carol, im not sure whether body clockwise it feels you should be going down for the night or having lunch, but we wont keep you long. Having once seen gadhafi in a hotel lobby in tehran, you now have the better story. What was it like to be there . What did you i dont know about that. Well, brian, it was so interesting because none of this was a surprise to anyone except for perhaps kim jongun because the u. S. Government, the vietnamese government and the north korean government all knew that we were staying there. There was a setup for more than 200 journalists, members of the White House Press corps there, and i happened to be staying in the hotel. And the morning that i arrived on monday they gave us a notice saying they were going to include security measures because a head of state was staying there. So we were notified. And then were having breakfast Tuesday Morning and were told they have to move the press center. And so packing up, came down into the lobby, and they had rolled out a red carpet for kim jong un in the lobby and told us we werent allowed to step on it, so we had to walk around that. Then we were shoved into the restaurant in the hotel lobby and we were told to wait there and that we couldnt take any pictures of him and could barely see. We managed to i saw him through almost a hole in this wood lattice wall that we were looking through. And what was funny about it or just curious was that, you know, usually when a president or head of state arrives at a hotel its done very quietly. The motorcade arrives, they go through a back entrance and theyre not seen. And this was almost like a Hotel Arrival ceremony for kim jongun. He had cleared out the lobby except for his security detail, there were bouquets of flowers out, there was the red carpet. And so he walked in and immediately went into the elevator and went up to wherever he is staying. And then we were held there for a little while before we were able to go back up into our rooms. And now the lobby is completely cleared and there are very few people milling around. And kim jongun is coming and going as he pleases outside the front door, which is very unusual. Wow, carol lee in hanoi where its already been sporty and they havent sat down for the first session of this summit. Thank you very much for either getting up or staying up for us. Good luck with the time difference, 12 hours over there in hanoi. Peter baker, first of all, just as people who have covered president s, you get in from the motorcade and often, though not maybe customarily, youre at the president s hotel and sometimes they come and sweep your room, which is a direct indicator the president s either one floor above you or one floor directly below you. Exactly. But they dont usually put you in a hotel with a foreign leader particularly one as sensitive and prickly as the dictator of north korea. Carol said they clearly knew it and thought it wouldnt be a problem only to learn otherwise. As you know the president has Something Better than tivo. They are called waca, the White House Communications agency. And before the age of tivo, they were the folks who actually marched into the modern era taping television for our president s. They can do virtually anything. They have the world wired. He has complete capacity to watch this live, to watch it without commercials tomorrow, 10 00 p. M. , end of his workday tomorrow night. Our 10 00 a. M. Theres our friends at waca, as theyre known abbreviatedly. What could happen here other than a sleepless night for as they sate head of the free world . We know he stays up late under normal circumstances. Whether hell feel jet lagged after a day of high diplomacy is another matter. But one of the things weve seen in these foreign trips is a diminution, a lessening of his twitter, you know, messages youre so used to at home. You could picture him in bed in a hotel room in hanoi watching this on tv and giving us instant reaction. But i suspect that might not happen. Because i think when hes overseas hes shown some restraint on that. We might hear about it the next day at some length, but i think in the immediate moment hell probably keep it to himself. Live pictures of the president s exchanging each others flags. The Prime Minister of vietnam and the president of the United States at a planned it looks very spontaneous the way theyre waving the flags, welcoming ceremony, celebration. Peter, what if the first visual tomorrow is his former personal lawyer holding up a check god forbid with the instantly recognizable sharpie kind of ekg signature of donald trump . Thats a good question. Of course hes going to be questioned mainly on the question of this hush money for women who say they had sexual encounters with President Trump. Hes denied that. And the question is whether or not he directed it. Michael cohen we believe is going to Tell Congress that he did. And that the future president of the United States directed him to take this action, for which hes now pleaded guilty. Its considered to be a Campaign Finance violation. And he makes the president basically out to be a coconspirator. We know what the republicans are going to say. Theyre going to say hes a convicted liar, which is true. Hes been convicted of lying to congress. So Michael Cohens credibility will be on the line. So will President Trumps. A. B. , i want to ask you about something, a subject you have strong feelings about, and thats the relevance and attention north korea craves on the world stage. I think in all our conversations we forget how rare and unusual it is that an american president has agreed to sit down with chairman kim. This is what theyve always wanted. Talk about that dynamic. And in that regard they kim jongun has prevailed. He got a head of state to head of state meeting with the u. S. President last summer. Afterwards they got rid of some antiamerican propaganda on the streets, but then soon were so belligerent that secretary of state mike pompeo had to cancel his visit there. Our own pentagon has assessed they remain an extraordinary threat. Dni coats has come out and said so at risk of for maybe being fired for having said so, and gina haspel has said they dont intend to denuclearize. So they can send back some remains, but the president has given kim jongun another eliot elevating, legitimizing event. Bringing him out of the her mitt kingdom. He is no longer a pairia. He visits with the chinese, the russians and the chinese immediately after the summit last year. Eased trade restrictions. This is also at the help of moon jaein, the south korean president. But certainly trump is accountable. His son said tonight on fox, my father got a meeting with these people, as if that was the goal all along. Unless something very surprising happens i really fear that President Trump is going to walk away with nothing concrete from the summit and promise a third summit. And i think chairman kim cannot believe how much he is winning. Another chilling thought with which to take a break, but happily our guests are staying with us. And coming up the story that would be receiving front page attention on any other day but tomorrow. Your favorite restaurants now it doesnt matter dash. Where you are. It doesnt matter what youre hungry for. It doesnt even matter how many you are. Restaurants come to you. Delicious at your door. Download doordash. First order, no delivery fee. Here in washington, this is about to get interesting as to how this affects the traveling president. The house voted today to block the president s national emergency. Well try to simplify this. With democrats in charge of the house, the vote was never in doubt, just the margin, and in the end 13 republicans crossed over to join them. It gets very interesting in the senate where the nature of the resolution compels Mitch Mcconnell to schedule a vote on this. Three of his republicans have indicated with conditions theyll cross over. One more and it passes. That would force the president s first veto. It would take a whole lot more republicans, and as we see it, a contiguous outbreak of profiles in courage to override the president s veto. Peter baker and a. B. Stoddard remain with us here in d. C. A. B. , whats on the minds of Senate Republicans these days and do you have any nominees for profiles in courage . Well those not up in 2020. Right. Thom tillis came out from North Carolina last night. He said hes going to have to go with the democrats to block the declaration. This is a very, very tough time for republicans. This is perhaps one of the worst jams the president has put them in. I talked to a member on the house side, a defector this morning, who said there is no way that we could he could live with the precedentsetting vote like this when a democrat comes in and uses Eminent Domain to lock down land that has coal mines on it or whatever. This is an indefensible vote for any republican who believes who is a constitutional protector and believes in limited government, and this is an abuse of the balance of power. I spoke to a conservative who is ready to back the president , who said essentially the 1976 law is so broad and statute is so badly designed that they can hide they are shielded by it. There is room there. Because it is likely to be upheld by the supreme court. So the congress in 1976 has allowed this disaster. But on the senate side, im very interested. Mitch mcconnell looks like he might have snookered the president. This is going to be fascinating. He said to get the president to open the government february 15th, i support this emergency. After he had privately and we know it was reported at the white house urged him not to do this. If hes going to get a whole bunch of guys to jump on this, not just the fourth vote, but maybe it gets up to 56 to send a strong rebuke, you see people like mitt romney and people who are retiring, pat roberts maybe start coming out. Its not a vetoproof majority, but that will be a strong sign that Mitch Mcconnell has had it. Peter baker, the question we asked rhetorically before the break. Youre the photo editor for the New York Times website tomorrow. Do you take the photo of the resolution being agreed to or, say, Michael Cohen holding up a cancelled check that is a payment to a porn star . Why cant you do both . I suppose you could. Its a big place, the web. Both are important stories. This is an important story because it does push the divide weve seen between President Trump and his party onto the front stage. And its been a philosophical one going back on a number of issues, whether it be free trade, whether it be tough on russia, whether it be limited government or executive power. Now theyre forced to choose. I think youre right. If you get the one more vote, youll get five or six. There will be a jailbreak and a number of them will feel its safe to go ahead and do it. But youre not going to get a vetoproof majority. It will be a rebuke but not the end of the story. Two of the best friends of this broadcast. Tonight were visiting on their turf. Peter baker, a. B. Stoddard, thank you both for coming by. We appreciate it. One more quick break. More 11th hour when we come back. Quick last thing before we go tonight. Its difficult to overestimate the importance of the news day ahead, and for this network and for our loyal viewers, it will be a long days journey into night. Michael cohen gets sworn in, 10 00 a. M. Eastern time. Or all day live coverage goes on all day. Then tomorrow evening with time off for Good Behavior and nourishment, we will join you at our usual time and then some. The summit in hanoi is expected to get under way in earnest on our watch. And if need be, well be up especially late as wednesday gives way to thursday in the states to cover it all. Thats tomorrow morning through tomorrow evening and then tomorrow night on this network. And that is our broadcast for this tuesday night. Thank you so much for being here with us. Good night for all of us here in our nbc News Washington bureau. Tonight on all in mr. Cohen, should the president be worried . What evidence do you have of tonight on all in. Mr. Cohen, should the president be worried . 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