People have made to congress to buttress the russian side of the collusion investigation. Thank you for that. We thank you for watching this hour of msnbc live throughout, i mean, from the very beginning craig melvin whos about to pick up our coverage from the day that Robert Mueller was appointed thrappoin appointed, this story has never been far from the headlines. Among these many days, this is huge. This is an infection pointing deep. Were going to continue our coverage. Good morning, craig melvin, msnbc headquarters here in new york city. That Breaking News on the Mueller Investigation is where we start. Shortly before President Trump left for his meeting with World Leaders in argentina, last hour just a few moments ago he called his onetime attorney and fixer Michael Cohen a quote, weak person, who is lying. Cohen made a surprise appearance in a Federal Courtroom in manhattan this morning. He named the president. He named President Trump in a shocking new plea deal involving Trum
knew they weren t being honest with, that maybe they knew that the witnesses were lying to them? reporter: i mean, of course people speculate that they i want to say on this issue, republicans and democrats have pretty firm views, right? there isn t a lot of room for interpretation or a lot of room for imagination here. of course members of the house and senate have said, listen, i doubt the story s true. i just want to underscore here, it s very rare to lie under oath to congress. i mean, yes, it s rare to prosecute it, but people are not just coming up here and going under oath, especially with attorneys who are advising them and just lying in a blanket sense: i mean, that is extraordinarily rare and extraordinarily risky, especially when you re in these closed sessions when you can speak freely. not only is this a dangerous thing for michael cohen to have done, it s also very rare in the broad brush of people testifying to congress in an investigative setting. it s important to