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
prosecutors in fonew york, we kw that before. that s how we got to a guilty plea back in august in his case brought by prosecutors in new york, now we know from today that he s cooperating with special counsel robert mueller s office. his plea agreement explicitly p says so, and they will be notifying the judge not only in the case that is brought today in new york with are respect to the senate select committee and also in the case of the campaign donations tied to payments made to women tie ed d to the presids office, and so mueller is saying, hey, we will let the judge know, and probably we will get a 5k announcement which is some sort of a notice to the court saying that this person has provided a lot of information and we would like it if you could take it leniently on him, and at sentencing time, and there are seven proffered sessions or proffered documents
the pemidterms in 2010 and we kw that did not go well with his party, so do you agree it s the fabrications and the fear mongering that has allowed president trump to have this surge? no, i don t agree with paul. i appreciate the fact that that s what democrats are pushing right now but the reality is reflected in the nbc wall street journal poll, people like the economy, trump s economy is great, and people approve of the supreme court confirmations and free trade, and you can look at the issues and see why president trump s numbers are going up because they like the state of the country right now. that doesn t mean republicans are polling back to favored or even as it relates to the house, but it means the democratic dreams are crashing into the reality that they think
getting to the bottom of it. if it has russia in it lock at all of it. the clintons, all of the it we respondent minullions what we kw is not evidence with the trump team and russia. but evidence for perhaps of meddling in our election, look at it all. see what was happening with the clintons. you get to the bottom without a special council real is a bureau of investigation. if it is pliicized. exactly. moving afternooning. nunumbers revealing how much congress paid in sexual harassment suits. we will look at dollars and cents and weather they spark real reform. nick is a logistical mastermind. when it comes to moving packages on a global scale, nobody does it better. he s also an avid cookie connoisseur. dig in, big guy. but when it comes to mortgages, he s less confident. fortunately for nick, theres rocket mortgage by quicken loans.
then what do you do? because what he wants to do is force the united states into a position where it has to confnt the posbili of going in on the ground. we kw that trump and nobody else wants to do that. chris, let me read you just a few reactions that we re getting from the middle east. this is not a surprise, but i want to read you a statement from the saudi press agency, the official state-controlled media there. saudi arabia says it fully supports the strikes, and here s what the statement says. a responsible source at the foreign ministry expressed the kingdom of saudi arabia s full support for the american military operations on military targets in syria, which came as a response to the syrian regime s use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians. and by the very same notion, i want to read you a statement, and this is not a surprise from the iranian government according to the iranian state news agency, saying iran strongly condemns any such unilateral strikes. such mea