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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 who s 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. we re 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 one-time 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 in ....
Consent around extending that was just because there was so much fighting around this deal even happening. it needed to pass european authorities. it needed to pass through quite a few american authorities. of course the ftc had taken it to court and taken it to the appeals court as well, and they wanted to ensure that deal didn t happen, but now there s a huge tilt towards it. finally going ahead including microsoft having a pending deal with sony not so long ago to ensure the sony play station will continue to have games like call of duty and it won t be taken off. the agreement here is on the basis that everything now has finally been setoff. all right. we ll keep an eye on it. cnbc s arabile gumede, live from london, thank you as always. still ahead here on way too early, russia has pulled out of its black sea grain deal with ukraine. we ll take a look at the impact this is having on the war as well as food supplies across the ....
About donald trump and china. i broke the news that january, january of 2020, the reason why trump pulled his punches, didn t want to criticize xi jinping is the u.s. and china were on the brink of signing a trade deal, which trump thought would juice the economy and, in particular, the stock market, which would be that much more helpful for his re-election bid. so he didn t want to criticize beijing and endanger that deal. of course, events with the pandemic spun out of control from there. the deal didn t happen anyway. but that is why he was so rosy with xi jinping for weeks and months in the early stages of this virus. well, joining the conversation, we have former u.s. senator, now an nbc news and msnbc political analyst, claire mccaskill. claire, we are so glad you re back and everybody is okay. i know you had a scare in your family, a health issue, but we are just so blessed to have you back and happy for you. thank you. i just need to tell you that there is one thing that ma ....
Exchanged for whelan. that deal didn t happen. fred pleitgen has more on this brutal spy. reporter: a brutal assassination in the heart of berlin, the killer gunned his victims down by orders from moscow. translator: the court called this state terrorism because judges concluded responsible for this murder. reporter: the strij, a georgian national that fought for the army in the chechen war in the 1990s. the court found cross convalescent shot him from behind and fired rounds from behind. krasikov has a real russian passport but with a fake identity and was sent to russia specifically for the assassination plot. last year the court sentenced him to prison without the chance for parole and wrote, quote, the judges ruled their conviction this was a state ordered ....
Is it here? is it happening? what do you know? i think it is on life support. i think president biden thinks it s a political loser. all the republicans are against it. substantial number of democrats are against it. look even at the substance. if you wanted the move only on non-proliferation and ignore the state sponsor of terrorism and all the other terrible things they do the deal didn t improve. you didn t move back the timelines. iranians have only perfected or nearly perfected a pathway to weapons grade uranium. i m not sure you get any benefits whatsoever from moving forward at this point. bill: it won t make a lot of democrats happy. we ll see if you are right over time. you have this issue. apparently we re paying millions of dollars a month to protect people who serve today or in the past. senator cruz brought this up yesterday. watch here. is it true that the irgc is ....