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
lot of pressure from meeting with vladimir putin while russian forces are seen as making territorial advances against a u.s. ally. now today with this new revelation, he would have gotten even more questions about being cozy with the russian leader when his own former lawyer came out and said that the trump organization was pursuing during the campaign. so i think it is the two things came together for him to cancel this meeting, at least from an optics point of view probably a good idea from his perspective. chief foreign correspondent richard engel there in buenos aires. we ll be checking in with richard over the next few days as the g20 gets underway. natasha bertrand is still standing by, what do you make of this decision just announced by president on twitter, that he is canceling this meeting with
he brought together in the u.s. government about 17 different agencies and bureaus in a regular meeting. i remember talking to one of his senior you know, very big critics in the white house saying, i don t understand why holbrooke is just replicating the functions of government that already exist. and my response was, richard holbrooke is single handedly knocking down the bureaucratic barriers to moving forward. one of the things that s not known, i ve been trying i was actually negotiating with richard over the last couple of weeks of trying to attend a sura meeting. we have in the u.s. government a weekly sura meeting of heads of these different agencies that come together and meet with richard and talk about the area. it s going to be an interesting story to go into. not just delivering on the ground there, but getting government to operate differently, i think, was a key part of this. the afpak portfolio is the single most toxic portfolio one could be given. and richard took t