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
president trump son-in-law jared kushner has been enlisted to help manage this pandemic response. kushner who has no background in medicine has the full confidence of president trump which whom he confers multiple times a day. trump expressing frustration with other leaders of agencies who have experience in these issues. cu kushner facing criticism for this statement yesterday about the strategic stockpile. it s supposed to be our stockpile. it s not suppose tods be state stockpiles they use. we are encouraging the states to make sure they are assessing the needs and getting data from their local situations and trying to fill it with the supplies we have given them. that is false. he didn t know what he was talking about. you can go to the public health emergency page that is part of
immigration for merritt based immigration. it doesn t address the future of the daca program which helps protect 700,000 immigrants brought to the u.s. as children. and this congressman has this message. what mr. cukushner and his tm laid out is only two planks of the immigration system. there was nothing in there about daca or asylum fixes or about guest worker programs or seasonal worker programs. we need to be addressing the humanitarian crisis that we re dealing with at the border right now. this plan doesn t do that. also today in reaction to that. let s go to our white house correspondent. what all is the president saying about this? there s a lot of things
the lawyer says cukushner is in compliance with all laws and rules. and for bloomberg news and cnn political analyst is with us. as we look at this, part of what the pushback was, saying that, yes, he s in compliance because in some cases from what we understand he would screen shot those message exchanges and then forward the screen shot of that messaging to his white house e-mail account, which seems like a somewhat unnecessary extra step on one hand and also is questionable, perhaps, in terms of recordkeeping. sure. erica, there s a trust me aspect to that, but also when you re using something that s encrypted but not the government s version of encrypted it raises concerns from the intelligence community and kind of from u.s. officials, trying to understand what was happening. so i think what we have here is a combination of the obvious politics for democrats, which is that during the campaign season
today the white house refused to hand over any documents to congress about how donald trump s son-in-law jared cu kushner received his security clearance and ordered a top secret clearance for jared kushner and white house chief of staff john kelly. tonight s cnn is reporting the president s daughter ivanka was denied a security clearance through the normal process. according to that report, trump pushed kelly and mcgahn to make the decision on his daughter and son-in-law s clearances so it did not appear as if he was tainting the process to favor his family. sources told cnn after both refused trump granted them their security clearances. here is what ivanka trump said