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
special counsel collapse because mueller accused manafort of lying to investigators. those are allegations that manafort has denied, but that has raised the spector and the speculation about whether president trump may be considering a pardon for paul manafort. yesterday he told the new york post that that s not off the table, and i pressed him on that today on the south lawn, and the president reiterated that it is something that would be on the table. you heard the difference in tone when he talked about paul manafort. he said no one s been treated worse, and then compare that against what he said about michael cohen who has clearly flipped on the president calling him a very weak person. that s the backdrop as he heads to argentina for this critical g20 summit. high stakes he s going to be meeting he says probably with russian president vladimir putin. it seems as though that pull aside will happen, and of course all of eyes will be on that not only because of russia s recent aggr
said that countries that do significantly trade or break u.n. sanctions against north korea will be in the diplomatic firing line of the u.s. so you have this difficult two-step that the trump administration will have to try to play with china to get them on board to tacki itightening t screws on north korea. but they don t seem to be putting tougher sanctions on the environment. we ll have to see what happens. now they re heading to the critical g20 summit. we ll take you there live. stand by.