This is real life. This is stranger than fiction. Im going to hand it off to my friend chris jansing. Wow its a deluge of news. I am chris jansing. We have more on that bombshell news in the Mueller Investigation. Right now in manhattan federal court, President Trumps former personal attorney and self proclaimed fixer, Michael Cohen, entering a new plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller. He is Pleading Guilty to lying to congress in closed door testimony about his contacts with the russians during the president ial campaign. Remember, this is a man who was once who once said he would take a bullet for donald trump. And now hes given more than 70 hours of testimony to the mueller team. It would be tough to overstate the significance of cohens cooperation because for more
than a decade, there was, perhaps, no man closer to donald trump and his businesses outside the family. This Breaking News after another dizzying day of developments in the Robert Mueller investigation and as Pre
To mount juliet, tennessee. Christy walked in for a get together and got the surprise of her life. Not a dry eye in that house. Thanks for joining us. Busy day. Im dana perino. Heres shep. Shepard a live look, the Eisenhower Executive Office building next to the west wing where were about to hear live from the president in the wake of an extraordinary morning. The pressure on President Trump accelerating and in moments hes scheduled to speak. Two big issues, first, the president s decision to withdraw troops from syria. Widely criticized by members of his own party, his own advisers and generals and cabinet. Our own reporting that he stopped listening to top leadership, didnt inform our allies or the pentagon. Hes getting praise from putin and condemnation from conservatives. At the same time, in the face of pressure to build that wall, the newly announced president ial decision not to sign the
shortterm budget deal that easily passed the u. S. Senate. His base was rebelling. The Freed
was the party of a lifetime. the road to his virginia school paved with yellow sports cars, fire trucks and school buses inspired by whitaker s favorite transformer bumblebee. a celebration years in the making. he s never had people be around for his birthday. this is the first time it s really special for him. reporter: whitaker was just 13 months old when he was diagnosed with neuroblastoma chemo, surgery and blood transfusions followed. birthdays marked with cupcakes and love, but no party. and do you want a party yeah. uh-huh. reporter: until now with help from a community he didn t even know. crying my whole way here because i couldn t believe so many people came out for this. reporter: a simple idea to have a yellow car parked outside the weinberger home set the whole neighborhood above. there are no mundane moments
in life anymore. everything is a celebration. reporter: today a birthday wish fulfilled and a walk to school everyone will remember. rehema ellis, nbc news. a very happy birthday from us to whitaker. [cheers and applause] kelly: caught in a bad
what is your take? the president of the united states nominates the u.s. attorneys across the country. that doesn t make him his boy. he has an obligation to this country and he s fulfilling that obligation. he also has ethical obligations as a lawyer which he fulfilled and he has ethical responsibilities as the u.s. attorney which he fulfilled. even if the president of the united states had made that ask. even if he had made that request to whitaker, i wouldn t have made a hill of beans difference. it depends. what the president wanted to happen and what did happen are two very different things and let s be thankful for that. the president denies it. i know the president denies it. the idea that i m not going to believe anonymous sources but i m going to believe the president of the united states