People have made to congress to buttress the russian side of the collusion investigation. Thank you for that. We thank you for watching this hour of msnbc live throughout, i mean, from the very beginning craig melvin whos about to pick up our coverage from the day that Robert Mueller was appointed thrappoin appointed, this story has never been far from the headlines. Among these many days, this is huge. This is an infection pointing deep. Were going to continue our coverage. Good morning, craig melvin, msnbc headquarters here in new york city. That Breaking News on the Mueller Investigation is where we start. Shortly before President Trump left for his meeting with World Leaders in argentina, last hour just a few moments ago he called his onetime attorney and fixer Michael Cohen a quote, weak person, who is lying. Cohen made a surprise appearance in a Federal Courtroom in manhattan this morning. He named the president. He named President Trump in a shocking new plea deal involving Trum
Point, Michael Cohen had a light bulb go off, and in recent times, tried to behave a little bit better and maybe thats whats reflected in the kinder document thats been filed by the Special Counsel. All right. Thanks so much. Our cnn coverage continues right now. This is cnn breaking news. Im wolf blitzer. We welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Were following breaking news. We have just received two major filings involving the former trump lawyer, Michael Cohen. One from the Special Counsel, Robert Mueller, and another from federal prosecutors in new york. And were awaiting another mueller filing pertaining to former Trump Campaign chairman, paul manafort. Theres lots of news thats breaking right now, significant
developments. I quickly want to go to our senior justice correspondent, evan perez. Evan, like all of us, youve been going through these filings. Give our viewers the headlines. What are you findin out . Well, wolf, this is a tale of two documents of
and they re very, very explicit. although the government has very specific targets, say, in supporting women and girls around the world. what this data in this document shows is that those very programmes are being cut themselves. so, that means, you know, help for sexual health and advice, meaning that more unsafe abortions, more women dying in childbirth, there s less help for countries, say, in south sudan with malnutrition. the document says 3000 children could die as a result of these cuts. so, in other words, what s been shown here is, you know, budget cuts in whitehall have real impacts on the ground around the world. but that s, you know, this is proving what we know to be true, which is that if you spend less on development, that means there s going to be less on the ground. let s go look at some other headlines now. online marketplace etsy says it will change its policy after sellers complained of money being held. the u turn comes after the bbc reported that some sellers had
you can do a county-by-county check here in michigan. 154,000 vote difference. there was a republican state senate investigation that looked at, you know, were there dead people that voted? a whole number of different things that were out there. they might have found two cases, i think, as it turned out. clearly not overturning 154,000 votes and as this document shows, the indictment today, michigan is one of those states where they, in fact, tried to send state electors to cast the electoral votes on january 6th and then counted on the house floor on january 6th. thank goodness they were caught. there was a conspiracy. the thing i have a lot of misgiving about were those on the inside. those in the administration that saw this.
story in the uk because nigel farage has published a 40 page document which shows the bank coutt5 lied when they dropped him as a customer, not being rich enough. the document states his views are at odds with the bank s position as an inclusive organisation and concludes he should be retained as a client until his mortgage expires this month. in the last hour or so, the british prime minister has acted in defence of nigel farage and in a tweet rishi sunak said, this is wrong, no one should be barred from using ba5ic should be barred from using basic services for their political views. free speech is the cornerstone of our democracy. iwa5 free speech is the cornerstone of our democracy. i was mentioning what nigel farage has been saying, listen to this. let s be clear what this 40 page document shows. it shows that on november the 17th the reputational ri5k committee met and said, i did not, i did not align with their values. that somehow i