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
of whether the president should have divested his interests. and we don t want a system where you get goodies if you cooperate behind the scenes, and that is really what is happening here. i wanted to make two micro points about the facts. one is that i think that what is missing here in the public sphere the president of the united states and the connections with the russians and how much did he know and when did he know it, but now we know from the agreement or the plea that the conversations regarding trump tower took place through the conversation main t trump tower in new york in june of 2016 where mr. cukushner was there, and trump jr. was there, and the president has been very clear, that i knew nothing about it. and if mr. cohen has information on that, that is really significant, and the second has to do with the steele dossier to say that he went to ukraine to try the brush under the rug the information about the potential collusion about the campaign, and that is mr. manafor