Something you know about but is actually getting very serious. This legal pressure on donald trump is entering a different phase. And one way we can see that is pretty simple. Donald trumps aides are now admitting incriminating things they used to lie about. Like that trump was behind that payment to Stormy Daniels and his team has been lying about that. When you think about it, since october 2016. In a moment, i will speak live to Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniels lawyer about that new legal exposure. In another way you can see this pressure building tonight is how much trump aides are struggling to defend these new things theyve admitted. It was not a Campaign Contribution because it would have been done anyway. This expenditure would have been made whether he was running for president or he wasnt running for president. Theres a long standing agreement that Michael Cohen takes care of situations like this then gets paid for them. This was not uncommon for him to do that. Every lawyer
Of trump. So where do all of the republicans who do not agree with the president find a political home . Get to that. We start with breaking news in the Michael Cohen case. Nbc news has learned cohen is expected to split with his attorneys and get new lawyers. We do not know whether this signals a change in legal strategy or, perhaps, future cooperation. Cohen, of course, President Trumps former personal attorney, and vanity fair reports that cohen could soon be indicted. We have details this afternoon from vanity fai gabe sherman, also an msnbc contributor. Daniel goldman, former assistant u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of new york, and msnbc legal analyst danny is a vauv loe savalas is standing by. Cohen says he feels the legal news closing in around him. Yesterday indicated he thought he might be arrested at any moment and we know from today he is worried about the prospect of an indictment coming as early as tomorrow, and what he has told people is that he is considering
Giuliani weighing in minutes ago on atty. Gen. Jeff sessions and alleged fbi informant tracking the trump campaign. It and rehas new details. The commissioners live to talk about a new law aimed at giving terminally ill patients the right to try experiment with drugs when theyre willing to take the risk. Wire democrats opposed . Tonight a highranking north korean official wants the countrys top spy, just dined with mike pompeo in new york. A full course meal kicks off tomorrow. Richardson has what we know about where we go from here. Reporter secretary of state mike pompeo is Donald Trumps point person on this issue. Vice president km jong chol is leading the effort for kim jong un. They met for 90 minutes tonight. A Senior State Department official describes this evening tomorrow at 9 00 for discussions between the two. Another us team is meeting with north korean officials in singapore to work out logistics for the summit between donald trump and kim jong un. Negotiators in korea are
House. Michael schmidt was part of the team at the New York Times that broke that reporting morning. And reverend al sharpton is the host of politicsnation right here on msnbc. He sat down with Michael Cohen for two hours this morning. First, kristin, let me start with you. Ayman jaffer talked to a source about this phone call and he was told the president was unaware that he was being recorded by his lawyer. Right. Effectively confirming a critical piece of the New York Times, katy, which is that the president wasnt aware he was being recorded when he had these conversations with his former attorney Michael Cohen. Of course, someone who was considered to be his personal fixer. We are also told according to the president s legal team that this phone conversation was brief, it lasted only a matter of about two minutes, and the legal team essentially trying to make the case that ultimately its going to prove that there was no wrongdoing. Rudy giuliani telling the New York Times in the bi
North korean leader. Images that come as u. S. Intelligence officials now say that kim jongun has no intention of giving up his nuclear weapons. Which is the exact opposite of what president said. And the white house responds to the new evidence, the images today, with this. We arent going to confirm or deny any intelligence reports. What i can tell you is that were continuing to make progress. And so is north korea. Theyre making progress on thirst weapons program. We just have some of the new evidence that we know about to show you. Take a look at these satellite images. They appear to show the expansion of a key Ballistic Missile manufacturing site. This expansion was taking place actually at the time that President Trump was meeting with kim for that storied summit in singapore. So lets just show you here. This was the image on april 1st. Okay . Then you have the summit and everything else. This is three days ago. So you can see the big shift there. The summit, of course, was june