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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 ...

In sync. finally, what a summit. the focus is going to be the meeting with the chinese president. there are now two foreign leaders who are land mines for him, not only vladimir putin who hes not going to see, but then you have mohammed bin salman, the crown prince of saudi arabia. >> michael, thank you. i want to turn back to tom winter here in the studio, of course, nbc investigative unit tom winter who was there at the courthouse this morning, legal analyst danny cevallos. we also have chuc...

South lawn was the way he talked about paul manafort and the way that he talked about michael cohen. the president lamenting how poorpoo poorly paul manafort, his former campaign chairman has been treated by the special counsels office, and of course reportedly earlier this week manafort, his plea deal was snatched back by the special counsels office because he allegedly has been lying to them after the deal was reached. natasha, what do you read into the contrast between michael cone and paul m...

Pled guilty to charges brought by the special counsels office. in august youll remember that cohen pled guilty to federal prosecutors who oversee the southern district of new york. those charges involved tax evasion, bank fraud and campaign finance violations. today the special counsel landed a guilty plea for lying to congress. the president lashing out at the special counsels investigation just hours before that new plea deal was announced. one read in part, quote, did you ever see an investig...

Back and forth and i have to get clarity from the special counsels office, and craig, what it means is that at least seven occasions, michael cohen definitively said to prosecutors, hey, this is some of the information that i can provide or at least this is some of the information that i will admit to. and that has been over the past several months, and so this is something ongoing as we have reported before, but today, we r are getting more clarity on exactly what this type of cooperation has b...

Prosecutors in fonew york, we kw that before. thats 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 hes cooperating with special counsel robert muellers 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 ...

The emerging defense we heard from the president on the lawn. what were talking about is the first deep written evidence with a confession from someone inside the trump organization that they had actively, ongoingly done outreach to the kremlin to try to enrich themselves and make money and they lied about it, and one of them lied about it to congress in a felonious manner. as we say in the law, craig, that is a biggie. >> you know what, you say that, though, but the reality is as you know lying...

Cohen continues to respond and provide truthful information regarding any and all manners as to which this office deems relevant. what does that mean, ken? >> it means, craig, and im grateful to tom for buttoning that up for us. it means that michael cohen is now working for robert mueller. we said this about paul manafort, right, and that turned out not to be the case in the end, but tom reports that inside the courtroom michael cohen seemed absolutely serene, at peace, understanding what was h...

Putin and has been ever since then is because he has been pursuing this deal, something that he has been pursuing since the 80s. another point i wanted to make was that the russians never seemed to take donald trumps overtures very seriously. he has been pursuing deals in russia for decades, but it never actually panned out. i wonder if the russians were dangling a real estate deal before the president in order to invent vise him to undermine the hillary clinton candidacy. >> we just got this no...