telling the truth. he has no shadow hanging over him. the uncertainty is gone. he has stepped up to the line and he has admitted what he did wrong, but he is now liberated to tell the truth. everything about donald trump that he knows. from this point on you're going to see liberated michael cohen speaking truth to power. >> and we will hear a lot more from cohen's lawyer who you just saw there, he is going to be joining "morning joe" later this morning. after four days of deliberations the jury in the fraud trial of paul manafort found president trump's former campaign chairman guilty on eight of the counts against him. the jury has unable to reach a unanimous verdict on the other ten counts manafort faced. his trial marked a critical first stage for robert mueller's investigation. pete williams has more. >> reporter: the jury found paul manafort guilty of intentionally dodging taxes on millions of dollars that he earned as a political consultant for the former president of ukraine well before manafort served briefly as president trump's campaign chairman. prosecutors say he stashed the money in overseas banks and used it to indulge his expensive tastes in clothes, antiques and cars, by wiring money directly from those accounts to pay his bills, bypassing tax collectors from the irs. from 2010 through 2014 prosecutors said manafort earned more than $30 million but reported less than half of it as income. when the ukrainian money dried up prosecutors said manafort lied in applying for more than $20 million in loans from three banks to maintain his spending habits. the jury convicted of him in two of those bank fraud counts. in all manafort faced 18 criminal counts, the jury convicted him on eight of them but could not agree on the other ten. of those the judge declared a mistrial leaving the prosecutors free to charge them with him all over again. >> the prosecutors will be happy that the eight counts of conviction were spread out among the different tranches of things that he was accused of so the prosecution will be able to argue at sentencing that the judge should consider everything. >> reporter: the conviction is a boost for robert mueller. manafort was the first person he charged presumably to force his cooperation in the meddling investigation. manafort's lawyer spoke only briefly, thanking the judge and jury for what they said was a fair trial. >> mr. manafort is disappointed of not getting acquit als all the way through or a complete hung jury on all counts. he is evaluating all of his options at this point. >> reporter: the judge hasn't set a sentencing date for paul manafort but he could face up to ten years in prison and next month he goes on trial all over again, this time in federal court in washington where he's charged with failing to register as a lobbyist for ukraine, witness tampering and financial fraud. frances. >> thanks to pete williams. one of the top republicans in the senate said it's up to the president if he wants to pardon paul manafort. here is senator mitch mcconnell's deputy, majority whip john cornyn of texas speaking to reporters yesterday. >> would you have a problem if the president were to pardon manafort? >> if he was what? >> were to pardon manafort? >> that's above my pay grade. that's the president's choice, but i think -- i think i'd like to see the case run its course and i will let the courts do -- do their job. >> and in the house speaker paul ryan deflected on the guilty plea of the president's lawyer. a spokesperson told nbc news we are aware of mr. cohen's guilty plea to the serious charges. we will need more information than is currently available at this point. >> a lot to dive into. for that we want to bring in danny sivalis. great to have you with us because there's so much to get to on both fronts with this one-two punch. let's start with michael cohen here. what level of surprise was there given that he made this agreement, this plea, without necessarily a cooperation nl agreement that we know of where he didn't need to implicate the president. >> my level of surprise on a ten scale is a one. it was a foregone -- >> ten being the most. >> this was a foregone conclusion in my mind inevitably michael cohen was going to plead. when you look at the potential sentencing guidelines in any economic crime with losses approaching a million or more, you are looking at a very, very high sentencing level. the only way to drag that sentencing range down is, first, acceptance of responsibility, you plead guilty, and, two, a 5k 1 motion, substantial assistance cooperation with prosecutors. i just want to stress the fact that there's no evidence that he's cooperating now doesn't mean that he's not cooperating behind the scenes and it doesn't mean that he might not cooperate in the future. you know, the federal rules allow for cooperation to happen even after a defendant is sentenced. not the plea, after he's received his sentence. so there are many opportunities to cooperate and it may just be the case that the prosecutors are timing things for strategic reasons and high level three-dimensional chess that we can't even guess at right now. >> so then the question becomes what does this mean for president trump and his legal team? everybody is focused on michael cohen, what he may or may not be able to offer to implicate the kate but how does this change trump's legal strategy? >> the u.s. attorneys yesterday would not have given you an answer to that question but you can divine an answer from the rules that u.s. attorneys follow and it is a general rule in the u.s. attorney's manual that you don't name an uncharged third party. in fact, you don't even identify him or her with specificity. who are we kidding, him. you don't identify him with specificity so that he can be identified. so, in other words, you can't say senator so-and-so, but you might say a member of congress. you don't do that as a u.s. attorney unless you have a really good reason or naming that person is essential to describing the crime. for example, bribing a member of congress is the example the manual gives. but for them to name -- to go into that level of specificity and to allow cohen to name him in that level of specificity really is telling. it means that there is something the government believes that there is something more there against that third party and we all know who the third party is. >> and whether or not bob mueller takes that with his investigation we'll see, especially according to cohen's attorney. paul manafort, the time that we have, we will delve into that. surprised that we have not full agreement from here when it comes to all the charges? >> not surprising at all because these charges are not your garden variety federal charges, they are complex, they involve a lot of paper, they involve a difficult interpretation of federal law, however, i am not surprised that he was convicted on the tax charges. tax perjury is a very easy charge to make out. you essentially ask when he signed -- when he tested to the part about perjury that we all do with our tax forms, was that false. so that's an easier charge to make. the f bar charges maybe the jurors struggled with that, maybe one juror struggled with that, we don't know right now, but in any case like this these charges are in the substantial minority of federal charges brought every year. it's not something that regular jurors see, it's not even something regular attorneys see. >> now we have his next trial and then a pardon if that's even going to happen or possible. a lot to talk about at that point. we will check in with you a little later. and house speaker paul ryan has stripped california congressman duncan hunter of his committee assignments, this following news that hunter and his wife have been indicted. the couple is accused of converting more than a quarter of a million dollars in campaign funds to pay for personal expenses. according to the indictment the hunters used campaign funds for ski trips, hotel stays and european vacations. they golfed, they bought makeup, they paid for airline tickets for friends and relatives and invested in tequila shots and gourmet steaks. the indictment alleges incident after incident in which they spent campaign money on personal outings and meals and told their campaign treasurer the expenses were legitimate including $1,900 spent sending a family member to a pittsburgh steelers game. both collins and hunter are now under indictment. the spokesperson for hunter said yesterday that the congressman believes this action is purely politically motivated. hunter, a republican, is up for reelection in november. california secretary of state says there is no process to remove his name from the ballot and the state does not allow write in candidates, guys. >> what an interesting development. very busy political and legal there on many fronts. still ahead, a tragic ending to the search for a missing university of 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an undocumented immigrant whom they say has been in the country as long as seven years. the crucial break, surveillance video showing mollie the day she disappeared in a car belonging to mr. rivera. >> we first approached mr. rivera yesterday. >> reporter: authorities say rivera told them as he drove he saw mollie running, approached the car. >> he ran alongside or behind her and at one point he tells us that mollie grabbed ahold of her phone and said you need to leave me alone, i'm going to call the police, then she took off running. >> reporter: rivera told officials he ran after her and doesn't remember what happened next, though later he said he noticed mollie's headphones in his lap and realized he had put her in a trunk. he led authorities to a body in a cornfield. for weeks her family and friends held out hope she was still ali alive. >> she's loveable, fun to have around as a friend. >> to know mollie is to love mollie. >> every single day, just as hopeful as from day one as i am until now. if you are not that, then you're not going to make it through any of this. >> reporter: officials have fielded more than 4,000 tips and that the investigation was emotionally difficult. >> we just spoke with the family and i told them that they raised a great daughter. she was a phenomenal individual and so we are saddened for the family. >> our thanks to ron mott for that report. you're right, it was absolutely heart breaking to see the details of this person and when you hear the sound bites from the people that talked about her you can clearly tell how much love she had in her and how much love she gave to the people. >> and heart breaking for the family. they thought that she would be found alive. >> there was a sense of optimism. facebook has taken down more than 600 fake pages, groups and accounts organized by russia and iran that targeted hundreds of thousands of followers worldwide as part of separate disinformation campaigns. the iranian effort dates back to 2011 and had ties to state media operations in that country facebook said. the new revelations frustrated some members of congress who have urged both the trump administration and the tech industry to take more decisive steps to thwart nations from spreading disinformation online. president trump spoke on cyber deck writ during a campaign rally yesterday, saying he preferred fake news to censorship. >> i would rather have fake news, it's true, than have anybody, including liberals, socialists, anything, than have anybody stopped and secensored. it can turn around and be them next. >> and on the heels of facebook's revelations twitter also said they had removed 284 accounts for engaging in coordinated manipulation. twitter said the accounts also appeared to originate from iran. facebook, twitter and google are expected to testify at a hearing at the senate in september. the fifth. it is expected to focus on foreign interference in u.s. politics and social media. still ahead, president trump 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the case that legal experts say could pose the greatest threat to the president, the guilty plea of his former lawyer and fixer michael cohen. among the eight counts against him are two for campaign finance violations by directly implicate donald trump. hallie jackson has more. >> reporter: that bombshell plea deal means the man who used to fix donald trump's problems has now become one for the president. michael cohen implicating his former boss after pleading guilty to eight felony charges of tax fraud, bank fraud and notably campaign finance violations. paying out hush money, telling a judge he broke the law because a candidate told him to. he doesn't name the person, but he only worked for one, donald trump. >> he worked to pay money to silence two women who had information that he believed would be detrimental to the 2016 campaign and to the candidate and the campaign. >> reporter: that includes $130,000 payment cohen made just days before the election to porn star stormy daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged affair with the president which he denies. michael avenatti represents daniels. >> she feels very vindicated. she believes that she has fought the good fight and she's going to continue to fight the good fight. >> reporter: the president has said he didn't know about the payment at the time. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. >> reporter: the president's attorney rudy giuliani tells nbc news late tonight there is no allegation of any wrongdoing against the president in the government's charges against mr. cohen. it is clear that as the prosecutor noted, mr. cohen's actions reflect a pattern of lies and dishonesty over a significant period of time. the president himself has suggested he's not concerned with what cohen might say. >> i just want to know if you're worried if he's going to cooperate. >> no, i'm not because i did nothing wrong. >> reporter: cohen will not have to go to trial, but faces three and a half to five years in prison. he will be sentenced in december. >> he can go to jail for a number of years and so he still has an incentive to help the government, but if he wants to avoid jail, the more information the more truthful information he provides, the better off he will be. >> reporter: it's a stunning development for two men whose relationship dates back a decade. cohen once memorable blee said he would take a bullet for the president, but this summer signs of a split when cohen declared his family and country come first. now a flip for a former loyalist and perhaps to the president a betrayal. >> if he's still your friend -- >> i always liked michael cohen. i haven't spoken to michael in a long time. >> is he still your lawyer. >> no, he is not my lawyer. >> your personal lawyer. >> but i always liked michael. >> thanks to hallie jackson for that report. we should mention that cohen's lawyer lanny davis, will join "morning joe" later this morning. special counsel robert mueller has landed a victory as part of his russia probe after the jury in paul manafort's fraud trial found him guilty on eight of the charges he was facing. manafort who briefly served as the chairman of donald trump's presidential campaign was convicted of five counts of tax fraud, one count of failure to file a report of foreign bank and financial accounts and two counts of bank fraud. the judge declared a mistrial on ten of the other charges manafort faced after the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict on them. the charges at the center of this trial weren't directly related to russia's interference in the 2016 election. in fact, they predate his involvement in the trump campaign. when the verdict was read manafort looked straight ahead offering no reaction as he was led out of the room he whispered into the ear of one of his defense lawyers and nodded at his wife who was sitting in the front row of the courtroom. speaking after the verdict manafort's lead attorney said his client is now evaluating his options. >> mr. manafort is disappointed of not getting acquittals all the way through or a complete hung jury on all counts, however, he would like to thank judge ellis for granting him a fair trial, thank the jury for their very long and hard fought deliberations. he is evaluating all of his options at this point. >> now, manafort faces the possibility of seven to nine years in prison. prosecutors have until next wednesday to decide what they will do about the ten mistrial charges. manafort also faces another trial on related charges next month in washington, d.c. special counsel robert mueller has asked to postpone the sentencing hearing for president trump's former national security adviser michael flynn. the joint filing yesterday by mueller's team and flynn's defense both parties asked for the sentencing timeline to be pushed back to september 17th. the court had asked for an update by this friday. the special counsel's office writing, quote, due to the status of the investigation the special counsel's office does not believe that this matter is ready to be scheduled for a sentencing hearing at this time. the judge accepted the request last night. mueller's team had previously asked for a delay in sentencing back in july. flynn pleaded guilty in december to lying to federal investigators and has been cooperating with the special counsel since then. joining us here on set danny cevallos. bob mueller asking another delay for flynn's sentencing. the delay, does it tell us what role michael flynn is playing in the bob mueller investigation? why possibly the delay? >> typically prosecutors will delay a sentencing date in order to do one of two things, continue to cooperate with a cooperating witness or their investigation into all the other big fish is still ongoing and so they need that cooperating witness, they don't want to sentence him because after he's sentenced his obligations may be completed. there may be less to offer him, although he can cooperate after sentencing in order to organize everything and tie everything up into a nice neat bow. prosecutors will simply delay the sentencing as long as they need to in order to secure the level of cooperation that they want from this particular cooperating witness. >> you just mentioned big fish. do one of those big fish be michael cohen, especially when you have lanny davis on with rachel maddow saying he might have some information about the president here that could include topics of crime, computer crime of hacking, whether or not the president knew ahead of time about the crime or even cheered it on, could that be it? >> that was a mind blowing revelation to me because that was the first inkling or first suggestion that the computer hacking might be part of the bundle of things that donald trump is being implicated in or not too subtly implicated in as he was yesterday in court. when lanny davis said that that was the first time any of us yesterday really hearth computer hacking. i think many jaws dropped and people said, i've got campaign finance, bank fraud, all the other things, but the hacking -- because the hacking suggests, although it's not conclusive, that it might involve interference in the campaign or even russia collusion. >> but this can also factor in when it comes to a cooperating agreement down the line. when it comes to michael cohen. >> absolutely. you mean for michael flynn or michael cohen? >> michael cohen. >> for michael cohen. michael cohen, yes. cooperation is an ongoing evaluation. just because we didn't see any evidence of a cooperation agreement it's very common. in my cases you don't want to mention a cooperation agreement in open court unless you absolutely have to. there are two major reasons why, number one, you could compromise an ongoing investigation but number two your clients could be at risk if people out there, bad actors, know that he is cooperating. as they say, unfortunately, snitches get stitches. that's a saying that's thrown around the courthouses for a reason. it's dangerous to be a snitch. it's not uncommon even at sentencing to go to sidebar and say, hey, judge, we have a motion here which is a signal that there's cooperation, then go back in open court and proceed with sentencing. >> danny cevallos, i am sure it is going to be another busy day for you. >> we haven't even talked about manafort yet. >> i will save that for later. still ahead, the white house economic adviser larry kudlow speaking out over hosting the publisher of a white nationalist website at his birthday celebration. the explanation he's offering over his guest. bill karins is back with a check on the forecast as hawaii braces for a rare and powerful hurricane. braces for a rare and powerful (vo) this is not a video game. but moving forward, it's time to move in a new direction. and i want you to know just how excited i am, to write uber's next chapter, with you. one of our core values as a company, is to 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writer was dismissed amid reports that he had spoken at a white nationalist conference in 2016. in a statement provided to cnbc where he had worked as a contributor for many years kudlow says he was disappointed and saddened to learn of imlow's views and if i had known any of that i wouldn't have invited him. i don't agree with any of that. let's get a check on your weather now. bill, hurricane lane now a category 5. >> what a storm. hawaii has never had a storm in our recorded history that we know of this strong near the hawaiian islands. you have to go back to 1992, a billion dollar disaster, 145 mile per hour winds at landfall, that was the last time hawaii has come close to anything like this before. they are rushing to make the last minute preparations as they get prepared for what could be one of the worst storms they have had in their recorded history. i mean, this is a category 5 and it's going to come within 100 miles of the big island. as it weakens it could come close to honolulu and oahu. you're worried about flooding, that's the biggest concern with this storm. right now it's monster, 160 mile per hour winds, 350 miles away now from the big island. the forecast path, this is a new update just out, does take the core of it just about 100 miles offshore, about maybe 70 miles from maui and maybe about 50 miles from oahu. the winds are not the concern with this, the biggest tlit is a slow moving storm with extreme rainfall. they are saying that the peak amounts could end up over two feet of rain in the hawaiian islands. this red is ten inches, that's the big island. as we go through maui and oahu, everyone could easily get up to a foot, highest totals could be up to two feet of rain, extreme flooding, mudslides, rock slides, things that are typically a trickle will turn into a raging river. we will keep monitoring that. could be a billion dollar weather disaster in hawaii. otherwise some showers racing through the northeast. those will exit for a decent afternoon in the mid-atlantic. el of the country no problems at all. all eyes will be on the hawaiian islands over the next 48 hours. still ahead, president trump not talking about the legal troubles of michael cohen and paul manafort during his rally last night. >> up next, we will go to nbc's cal perry in london on the president's decision to instead attack america's allies. and how yesterday's courtroom dam ma had with his associates are being received overseas. so you have, your headphones, chair, new laptop, 24/7 tech support. yep, thanks guys. i think he might need some support. yes. start them off right, with the school supplies they need at low prices all summer long. like these for only $2 or less at office depot officemax. like these for only this wi-fi is fast. i know! i know! i know! i know! when did brian move back in? brian's back? he doesn't get my room. he's only going to be here for like a week. like a month, tops. oh boy. wi-fi fast enough for the whole family is simple, easy, awesome. in many cultures, young men would stay with their families until their 40's. all the leaders of nato, and they weren't paying their bills, they were delinquent. i said to europe, i said, folks, nato is better for you than it is for us. i said, yes, i will leave you if you don't pay your bills. i mean, our allies treatise worse than our enemies. believe it. i have people coming to me, some people in congress, sir, can you get this deal done immediately? i said, it doesn't work that way. i don't want to go too fast. the deal is not going to be any good if we do that. we have to take time. it has to jest ate, right? the word gestate. it's like when you're cooking a chicken. turkey for thanksgiving. my mother would say, oh, eight hours. i said, eight hours? she made the greatest turkey i have ever had. takes time. takes time. with that being said we're moving so fast nobody can even believe it. >> you have to love the chain of thought that goes from talking about trade and tariffs to his mother's turkey and how you have to let it marinate and take time to cook. >> that was the president. that was the president once again attacking american allies and nato while making that connection with his mom's homemade cooking, a turkey like no other apparently. that was at his rally in west virginia, comparing his view of international diplomatic relations to how great his mom's cooking is. >> it comes as we are getting new reaction from overseas to the michael cohen guilty plea and the paul manafort verdict. for that we want to go live to london to somebody who knows a thing or two about cooking turkeys, nbc news international correspondent -- it was too easy, cal. it was too easy. let's talk about the reaction overseas to all of the legal woes that are unfolding here. has it been muted or how are you seeing it play out? >> it's a tsunami. so the bbc, right, the self declared last bastion of all things that protects foreign news led today donald trump the top two stories, the third story was a million people displaced by indian flooding. that i was go us an idea how donald trump is blocking out all foreign news. let's go through the british broadcasters. itn, quote, trump directed payment of hush money to influence election. the daily mail got everything into one headline, say it with me, trump's loyal to reveal how president con fired to interrupt investigation and new russia's involvement and hush ex-campaign chief -- >> take a breather. >> that's it, man. into one headline. all the british broadcasters and the people around the world are talking about. viewing this as a turning point in the trump administration. maybe a point at which trump cannot go back from. here at the foreign deck surrendering all foreign news from here. that's it. >> what else could the headlines be on any other day? >> india flooding, 1 million displaced. idlib in syria about to be bombed. iraq, syria, currency in india. reunifications. global warming. i have the baltimore orioles here. ayman, you wanted to talk about the red wings. >> and also didn't talk about the earthquake. 7.0 magnitude earthquake. absolutely right. something about the trump presidency sucking the oxygen from our ability to cover other important stories. >> the "daily telegraph" has an explainer an the sfro eation on. what happens if president trump is impeached and who will be the next president. what happens if this goes all the way. >> appreciate the insight. >> that, glad we got the headlines in there, too. and still to come a look at this morning's "one big thing" with axios. and michael cohen starts a plea deal with federal prosecutors. lanny davis will discuss the information he has cohen has that should be of interest to robert mueller. plus more on the conviction of trump's campaign manager paul manafort. former fbi special agent clint watts, former assistant attorney for the southern district of new york daniel goldman and law professor jonathan turley all help break down what's next following a very dark day for the trump presidency. 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"morning joe" starts right now. >> i did nong wrong. you have to understand. this stuff would have come out a long time ago. i did nothing wrong. >> is michael cohen still your friend? >> i like michael. i haven't spoke ton him in a long time. >> is he your lawyer? >> no, he's not my lawyer. i always liked michael. >> and are you going to cooperate? >> are you going to let me talk. >> i just want to know if you're going to cooperate with federal investigators. >> i did nothing wrong. >> oh, he flipped. in june president trump said he wasn't worried at all that michael cohen would flip. he should have been. the president's former attorney admitted in court yesterday that donald trump personally directed him to buy the silence of two women whose claims of sexual affairs with the presidential candidate threatened to derail his white house ambitions and it