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
and the question of course raised of whether he made any of these misstatements in his newly submitted answers to bob mueller, donald trump said oh, well, cohen s lying about all this stuff because he s in trouble for stuff he did that has nothing to do with me. that s false. michael cohen has already confessed to cam ppaigncampaign crimes and payoffs he made explicitly on behalf of donald trump. those were not crimes of personal enrichment, those were things he did for trump as a person and as a candidate allegedly according to the confession, and that s where we got to here. i think what s really significant here and i m sure the other panelists will add a lot, is that bob mueller has russia information here. has high-level attempts by the trump organization over time with family members involved to enrich themselves, to make money in russia at a time that they were misleading about it, and that raises the question of what else there is because all of this is obviously coming out aft