The president , john dowd. For more, msnbcs jeff ben tet white house, nbc news and msnbc legal analyst, senior fellow and government toids at the bookings institution, and editor and chief, carrie johnson, and jeff mason, reuters correspondent. Weve had development in the last hour, reaction to the report thats come out so far. What . Richard, the topline takeaway from the New York Times report is the white House Counsel don mcghan, over the fear that the white house was setting him up to take the fall over any obstruction of justice, is now cooperating with the special counsel. Its a fairly breathtaking revelation. The New York Times is reporting that in a series of interviews totaling some 30 hours, mcgann is telling the special counsel about the president s outrage, his anger over the russia investigation and how he has urged mcgann to respond to it. This includes things like firing james comey, pressuring the attorney general, jeff sessions, to do the president s bidding. Also atte
Remembering an american hero, the boundless spirit of america. This is someone we can look back on as a leader of American History that we would like our children to be like. Its tough to imagine politics without john mccain, but we need to go on. Im not a pessimist about the future. I still think were a shining sitting on the hill. Coming up, the passing of john mccain. Also ahead, honesty on the russian probe. Why the new poll could be a warning to President Trump, especially to republicans. An impeachment talk. The worst week for democrats to call for his ouster. Ill alex witt here at headquarters in new york. New this hour, the makeshift memorial outside senator mccains Phoenix Office is growing as his constituents pay their respects. On capitol hill, majority leader mcconnell putting out a statement saying, the senators body will lie in state as part of a ceremony there. Also new at this hour, colleagues on both sides of the aisle are reflecting on his life as they prepare to say
Guilty to the two charges was it a straight guilty plea or cooperating, and we have learned that in the past hour, he has flipped. A as colleague pointed out on twitter, when you cooperate with the prosecutors you dont get an opportunity to decide what to talk about, but you have to tell everything that you know, and if you are lie, you can be be charged with perjury, and so they have a huge hammer over his head, and he has to tell them about his time as the Trump Campaign manager and he came with massive connections to the russianbacked figures and including a man that the mueller team says was tied to rusrussia and he was in Constant Contact with constantine kalymnik, and so he is going to have to cooperate. And you said, i think that this is a bombshell, and what you said when i came on, and why . Well, not so much that he is pleading giuilty to, and unrelated to the time on the campaign, but as ken pointed out, when you are cooperating you are agreeing to tell the prosecutors about
Consulate. He was with secretary of state mike pompeo during the call and told me that he has already started and will rapidly expand a full and complete investigation into this matter. Answers will be forthcoming shortly. While the president has remained hesitant about directly criticizing saudi arabia. His colleagues had this to say. Wheres the body . Why wasnt his family notified. Why have they spent eight or nine days say they dont know anything about it. He got killed in there and the saudis have knowledge of what happened. This guy is a wrecking ball, he had this guy murdered in a consulate in turkey, to expect me to ignore it, i feel used and abused. Were going to sanction saudi arabia. We deal with bad people all the time but this is in our face. I feel personally offended. Lets go to the white house with jeff ben fetnett. Weve been waiting 24 hours for the response from the saudis about how this was an interrogation or an extradition. It was surprising to see another comment f
Loyalty. Also, a look inside the room where it happened. Where michael chokchael cohen a National Enquirer agreed to the deal to silence the women and a third person inside. They are learning that person was donald trump. An executive joining us for later on that. A troubling death at the border. A 7yearold migrant girl dies after being taken into Border Patrol custody. Well have more on what happened and what the head of dhs is saying about it. A secret pow wow between two heavy hitters on the left. A former obama official throws his hat into the ring. Were diving into all of that. We start with Michael Cohen firing back at his former boss after the president claimed cohen plead guilty to embarrass him. Watch. I did not do it to embarrass the president. He knows the truth. I know the truth. Many people know the truth. Under no circumstances do i want to embarrass the president of the United States of america. The truth is, i told the truth. I took responsibility for my actions. Instea