negotiators their due. he is meeting with them in the oval office. this case down to the wire with a source familiar with the negotiations telling nbc news the deal was reached early this morning after 20 hours of talks. there was, quote, a basic handshake at 2:30 a.m. and approval by the teamsters board at 4:30 a.m. it couldn t come at a more critical juncture as the biden administration tries to tame red hot 40 year high inflation with the midterms now just 53 days away. for some context about what a strike would mean for our economy, our web of railways are responsible for shipping about 40% of goods from grain to cars long distance across the u.s. a strike would cost our economy $2 billion every single day leading to empty shelves and higher prices for a public already feeling a price pinch. and just the last 45 minutes, transportation secretary pete buttigieg addressed the news while speaking in detroit. my appreciation to all of the parties that stayed at the table an
good job of without having any sort of outcome that they are looking for, simply pursuing the facts and presenting those facts as they learn of them. and so one suspects here that they will review the documents to see if the secret service messaging traffic either corroborates or tends to disprove any of the testimony that we ve heard to date. i think that it will be most interesting to hear whether some of the testimony regarding the former president s movements on january 6 is corroborated. if he in fact took an aggressive posture towards the secret service, that is likely reflected in these documents. joyce advance, ken dilanian, great to have you both on the program. right now, the line to pay respects to the queen is stretching for miles. but the fascination with the royal family goes way beyond london. why people all over the world are streaming, listening or reading stories inspired by the queen. ading stories inspired by queen. [school bells]
crowd strike conspiracy theory as part of his defense and has been charged with witness tampering. it didn t work. the judge threw it out. what does it mean that you now have this same conspiracy theory being used as a defense, failingly so, by roger stone, does he get sucked into this whole ukraine madness too? i think one thing to keep your eye on is his trial coming up in november. i think we re going to learn an awful lot of information. remember there are large chunks of the mueller report that were redacted because of a pending criminal case. that pending criminal case is the roger stone case and the idea is we didn t want to release this information before the trial. we didn t want to, in any way, taint the fair trial rights of roger stone or compromise witness statements that might be used by the government in that trial. once that trial is over, then all of that stuff is going to come out so keep your eye on that date as well as january 19, 2021, the last day that president
this week has seen associates of president trump mired in block buster legal developments. special counsel robert mueller s team refusing to rule out new charges against paul manafort, this after he allegedly broke his plea deal with mueller. and president trump s former personal attorney michael cohen pleaded guilty thursday to lying to congress and falsely down playing trump s effort to build a trump tower in moscow. joining me now is anna, seth atenna, joyce advance, former u.s. attorney professor of alabama school of law and an nbc news contributor. anna, you have just had a conversation. you just sat down, and we re going to get to the pieces of news i just brought up, but you have some news yourself because you just met with the lawyer of donald trump jr., and that s important because of the developments of what happened with michael cohen on thursday.
to the referral. and one of the things that clearly bob mueller would be looking at in the context of a collusion investigation is this assertion in the steele dossier that michael cohen was at the center of that. he s the president s fixer. was he in eastern europe or not? again, the mcclatchy report says that mueller has evidence of that. i m not saying that s true. but i m saying that this is where you can see the connection between these two things. and it s possible that in making that investigation that was well within mueller s purview, that he stumbled upon other criminal activity skbrand just made the referral to the southern district. joyce advance, michael sherman, thank you all. eugene robinson, you as well. we ll be reading your column in today s washington post. still ahead on morning joe, the attorney representing stormy daniels in all of this, michael avenatti is standing by. he joins us in a few minutes. plus, republican senator thom tillis wants legislation to