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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 ....
Deal natasha. what does that tell us? yeah, so this tells us that they were intimately involved with all aspects of the trump organization and trying to make this deal happen. of course donald trump s family members are very much a part of the trump organization. donald trump junior was asked about this by the senate judiciary committee when he testified last year, and he said that he wasn t really involved, and he didn t really know that much about it. so if it turns out that donald trump junior was also not being totally forthcoming with the senate judiciary committee, then that could pose problems for him moving forward. there s just so much to unpack here. i think that the biggest takeaway from all of this is that it could contextualize all of donald trump s bizarre overtures to russian president vladimir putin during the 2016 election, all of his praise of vladimir putin that no one could really make sense of. it now seems like it was motivated or could have been motivated by so ....