on friday a federal judge grant add 90-day delay in her civil lawsuit against president trump s long-time lawyer michael cohen citing a criminal investigation the attorney is facing. cohen asked for a delay after fbi agents raided his home and office earlier this month. the judge said on friday that the issues in stormy daniels civil suit overlap with the criminal probe into cohen. meanwhile, the national enchoirer enchoir er the national enquirer is going after cohen. american media incorporated is run by david pecker who is a friend of president trump and some believe that the two often collude to get national nation enquirer front page stories that trump wants so that s probably bad news for michael cohen. joining us now, a pair of former colleagues, mimi rocca and daniel goldman.
bush or george h.w. bush or newt gingrich or any other republican of prominence. it is unbalanced. that s just the way it is. hold the damn awards show. reward people like maggie haberman and josh dossy. and there s seven journalists that just got killed in afghanistan. there s seven journalists that just got killed in afghanistan. we don t have to like be entertained at the end. we can just celebrate one night a year. i agree. still ahead on morning joe, two new developments in the russia probe. the lawyer who met with don jr. tells nbc news she s more linked up to the kremlin than previously known. plus we ll talk to a member of the house intel committee that just released its report on russia collusion. before she admitted that she was closer to the kremlin than previously known. president trump is seizing on that. and so is james comey.
he chafes at this idea that he s not being given credit. and he does deserve credit for seizing the moment when it arrives. we don t know where that moment is going. i just would stress for viewers that the driving force in this story is this really quite unusual and surprising young north korean leader kim jong-un who it was easy to take him less than seriously given the way he looked and acted, but he has had for the last couple years, if you look carefully at his speeches and statements an idea that north korea would push to get nuclear weapons. i m sorry to say they do have nuclear weapons and then would pivot towards negotiation, towards working on its economy, towards turning to the west. he s done exactly what he said. he laid out the script in a speech on january 1 and he s been following it, helped along by south korea. so i think it s great that president trump sees that moment
this is progressing toward an extraordinary moment in which donald trump will meet this outlaw leader of north korea and, again, you have to hand it to trump for seizing the moment. i think this set, this scenario has been drawn by kim jong-un. since 2016 he s said what he was going to do and then he did it but trump was there to respond to it against the advice of a lot of people and so i think he s lucky to have john bolton. very hard line national security advisor who is the professional skeptic about north korean claims. watching him on television yesterday on one of thess th sundays show, he was very skeptical. so we were worried trump would get hoodwinked.
that wasn t it. that is unbelieveable. words to live by, mika. no, nick. president trump welcomed 200 u.s. olympians and paralympians from this year s winter games to the white house on friday. trump, who did not attend this year s olympics in person praised their athletes for their performances in pyeongchang, including saying this. so today on behalf of the united states i want to thank every olympian and paralympian and that was just incredible and what happened with the paparaly is inspiring to me. it s a little tough too watch too much but i watched as much as i could. no. that was incredible. just incredible. a complete buffoon. i m going to offer a dissent. he s saying i didn t watch it. i m going to offer a dissenting view.