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
journey. again, the reason they had him plead guilty to these facts and crime is that they want to use him further down the road against others on the transactions. danny cevallos is in the studio, and you have been poring over the documents, and what has been jumping out to you? with the charge of the section 10001 and most people don t real ize that you can be charged under oath if you tell lies to congress in the course of the investigation, and that is appears to be a what cohen was charged with here. it is the not under oath of the federal law that criminalizes lying to congress, but going forward, one of the things that jumps out is that it appears now that michael cohen has gone with guy of questionable value to robert mueller, because he didn t have cooperation before to now demonstrating that he does have information is valuable enough to robert mueller to give him that pr