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
he has switched sides, essentially in the classic sense, and that s got to be deeply concerning to donald trump. this is a man who was a fixer for trump for years and knows a lot of his secrets and we re seeing in this court document, we re learning secrets and things we had no idea about that happened during the campaign. donald trump says michael cohen is lying, but many of the facts are backed up by e-mails and other evidence. ari, how unusual is it to craft a new deal like this after a previous deal? it s somewhat unusual, though prosecutors are free to update things for their own goals, but special counsel probes themselves are unusual because usually everything is by geography, by the map. you deal with the new york prosecutors in new york, done. here you have them carrying out certain things that relate to that local jurisdiction, crimes that michael cohen s confessed to on behalf of donald trump committed in new york as well as the broader jurisdiction of this probe. the ot