this week has seen associates of president trump mired in block buster legal developments. special counsel robert mueller s team refusing to rule out new charges against paul manafort, this after he allegedly broke his plea deal with mueller. and president trump s former personal attorney michael cohen pleaded guilty thursday to lying to congress and falsely down playing trump s effort to build a trump tower in moscow. joining me now is anna, seth atenna, joyce advance, former u.s. attorney professor of alabama school of law and an nbc news contributor. anna, you have just had a conversation. you just sat down, and we re going to get to the pieces of news i just brought up, but you have some news yourself because you just met with the lawyer of donald trump jr., and that s important because of the developments of what happened with michael cohen on thursday.