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
vladimir putin in buenos aires? yeah, i think it was a very strategic move and obviously something that was very recently decided because as you said, about 45 minutes ago the president was saying that he was still open to meeting with putin in buenos aires. so i think that there s an awareness, perhaps, among the president s staff at least, that they don t want this to end up like the president s meeting with putin in helsinki when they gave that joint press conference, and it turned out to be completely disastrous, especially now with all of russia s aggression in ukraine and of course the news that trump was pursuing a business deal with moscow in 2016. it just would be terrible optics. i don t know how putin himself is going to react to this. i expect that he ll say that it s all because of pressure by the u.s. intelligence committee on trump to worsen relations with russia, but this is all around a very good move. i think the united states has to show russia they re not going to