Sunday, august 9th. Im kendis gibson. And im corey coffin, we are live from msnbc World Headquarters in new york. We do say hello to boston, looking to be a Beautiful Day today, red sox pitching, now that was a little bit more of a mess. Heard them again yesterday, the blue jays 21 over the red sox, but luckily here in new york, corey yes. We have the amazing mets and the amazing weather. The weather is looking fantastic. If youre looking at the live shot right now, it is a great start, great sunday in new york. This is usually a downtown shop from 30 Rockefeller Center looking at the beautiful Empire State Building and one world trade center. Wow. So good that we pay for that view. Just a gorgeous shot this morning. Thats awesome. Absolutely. All right. All right. Lets dive right in. First this morning President Trump seizing the power of his podium and his pen bypassing congress and signing an executive order and three memoranda on the covid relief after stimulus talks with democrats
This is real life. This is stranger than fiction. Im going to hand it off to my friend chris jansing. Wow its a deluge of news. I am chris jansing. We have more on that bombshell news in the Mueller Investigation. Right now in manhattan federal court, President Trumps former personal attorney and self proclaimed fixer, Michael Cohen, entering a new plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller. He is Pleading Guilty to lying to congress in closed door testimony about his contacts with the russians during the president ial campaign. Remember, this is a man who was once who once said he would take a bullet for donald trump. And now hes given more than 70 hours of testimony to the mueller team. It would be tough to overstate the significance of cohens cooperation because for more
than a decade, there was, perhaps, no man closer to donald trump and his businesses outside the family. This Breaking News after another dizzying day of developments in the Robert Mueller investigation and as Pre
No point in objecting except on principal. A source tells nbc news that on the tape they discuss whether to reimburse National Enquirer. The white house denies any affair took place. This morning President Trump tweeted that it is inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client totally unheard of and perhaps illegal. The good fuse is that your favorite president did nothing wrong. Reverend al sharpton hosts politics nation and sat down with cohen yesterday. Here is what he has to say about the meeting. He said, i want you to know, rev, i am not going to be the sacrificial lamb here. Im going to do what is right for my family and im go doing do what is right for my country. He seemed to feel like i was out by my himself. That the president had not stood by him. He would say things like i have been loyal. But loyalty has not been given to me. And i think the fact that he reached out to me, someone very known to be a trump critic, sent a message both to trump and to the investigators that
Broke right here on this show on friday. But we begin with bob mueller grinding down two former trump aides. This is a pivotal week in the Mueller Probe. Youve got one federal judge who will issue rulings that will define the fate and possibly the freedom of both roger stone and Paul Manafort, two former trump aides whove also worked together for decades. And its through their work on behalf of donald trump that both men are now in position. They both await rulings from amy berman jackson. She is known as a pretty tough federal judge. She is the one who first cracked down on manafort, putting him in jail obviously before his trial. Obviously a tougher tack than the other federal judge that gave him a lenient sentence late last week for separate crimes. Also, at any moment, roger stones former lawyers will formally submit their argument to her, to judge jackson, basically trying to convince her that roger stone didnt really violate her gag order. He is something of an instagram band did
Cages . To my knowledge, cbp never purposely put a child in a cage if you mean a cage like this. And mind the gaps, the federal budget deficit ballooning 77 in the first four months of the fiscal year as the trade deficit hits an alltime record. Both driven by the president s tariffs on china and a trillion dollars tax cut. Is this a case for his unconventional policies now catching up to him . Im still looking for the trickle down. Well begin this morning with the kind of headlines that would be stunning in normal political times. The president s former Campaign Manager Paul Manafort is about to be sentenced to prison, possibly for the rest of his life. The president s former lawyer Michael Cohen has been handing over evidence that he said sheds light on what the president and his attorneys knew about cohens false testimony and all of the while the shadow of president ial impeachment is hanging over both the white house and capitol hill. I have a fantastic team here this morning. To b