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
president goes to that length to confiscate the notes? the government doesn t know what went on, which is something the government needs to know in order to act in careful and intelligent ways. the second is the gentleman may be hiding something he doesn t want anybody else to know. he puts himself in the hands of president putin and president putin s interpreter and that itself is the third egregious mistake here. have you thought what he might be hiding? one can only speculate at this stage. i d rather not speculate because it is not helpful to do that. one can see a series of events here. there was a story this morning about reviving the deep concern the president seems to have about nato and wanting to get out of nato, which would be surely a huge victory for mr. putin. the helsinki press conference.
cancellation pretty big, as our previous colleagues have been talking about. the helsinki press conference, and that meeting in july, was not considered a success and perhaps president trump certainly his aides simply didn t want him walking into another mine field in buenos aires given what s happened in the last couple of hours. bill, thank you. let s go back to buenos aires if we can, our chief white house correspondent hallie jackson is there ahead of the president s visit for the g20. and hallie, here s the thing, the facts as they relate to the russia/ukraine standoff, those facts have not changed materially within the past few hours. but one thing that has changed but here s what may go ahead, go ahead. reporter: you re probably going to say the same thing. i ll let you finish your sentence. the only thing that has changed is the michael cohen guilty plea. have we gotten any sort of explanation from the white house
and taking advice and trey gowdy was talking about actually taken the advice. you gone out of your way to document administration with the best people that are available to you so you have people that know what they re talking about in john bolton and mike pompeo. i have a very different worldview than them but i wouldn t to speak the fact that they know what they re talking about and the frustration for those republicans who are not cool with the approach to russia and certainly were upset by the helsinki press conference and much more that s gone on is that he doesn t even take the advice on board and makes a decision on his own. like i want vladimir putin to come before the midterm. trey gowdy s name is in on the ballot. it s very different, i don t know what he would be saying if he was running for reelection. a lot of people are speaking out and getting variable and other home to write a book. elizabeth: made an important point that he is saying that the russians are reporting b
advisors need to reevaluate whether or not they can serve in this administration but the disconnect cannot continue. melissa: meantime, a new washington post abc news poll says 50% disapprove of president trump s performance during the putin seven and 33% approve. this is a mess. how does it just continue on and on, put a button on it and move on. howard: the helsinki press conference did hurt trump, but not with republicans. you drill down and see he still has that rock-solid support so every media saying this is the controversy that s going to sink him often turns out not to be the case. when trey gowdy singh people should resign, part of that is fueled by an interview last week with dan coats the director of national intelligence we didn t even know he was told on the air the president and invited putin to washington this fall saying he s not even keeping them in the loop. they re all staff. there was one person whose name at the top of the ballot. if they truly feel like th