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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 ....
In sync. finally, what a summit. the focus is going to be the meeting with the chinese president. there are now two foreign leaders who are land mines for him, not only vladimir putin who he s not going to see, but then you have mohammed bin salman, the crown prince of saudi arabia. michael, thank you. i want to turn back to tom winter here in the studio, of course, nbc investigative unit tom winter who was there at the courthouse this morning, legal analyst danny cevallos. we also have chuck rosenberg, an msnbc contributor, a former u.s. attorney, and kim way lee, a law professor at the university of baltimore. tom, i will start with you. you managed to sift through these documents you were there in the courtroom this morning. talk to me about the top lines here. it would seem to me that the biggest nugget of news is that michael cohen is clearly cooperating with the special counsel s office? that s exactly correct, craig. according to the court filings, we know that michael coh ....
Traveling with the president for the g20. michael youly joins me now, senior foreign affairs correspondent for politico. the timing of the special counsel s announcement a bit curious to some because if you ll recall, the special counsel several months ago did the same thing announcing an indictment right before the president of the united states was scheduled to meet with the president of russia. what, if anything, can we glean from the timing? reporter: i think we can only speculate. you re right that it was a major theme before that summit in helsinki this summer, there was a big indictment, and you know, that really that timing did feel extremely loaded. the president was going there for his first really major bilateral meeting with president putin. people weren t sure what kind of deals he might be willing to strike, and then mueller dropped an indictment that was just packed with really overwhelming ....
Precious cooperation agreement in which the prosecutors go hand in hand with someone who they acknowledge as a criminal in order to catch other criminals, and it is a significant development, because as a defense attorney, it is easy for me to say this, but the reality is that the pros ecutors don t want people the tell them what they want to hear. they want someone who will tell them the truth and a truth that can be verified, backed up and for which there is corroborating evidence. for example, michael has backed up data, and seized with southern district with the phone, and i don t know if it is apocryphal, but they took the phone right out of his hand when they searched the warrant, and so since then he has provided information through those ....