that the white house asked for ahead of the meeting. he didn t get details about that. but the administration clearly taking this preparation very seriously, even as the president clearly wants to put on that unpredictable face that he feels will ultimately be productive with the high-stakes talks. a lot of controversial questions in the summit. we ll talk to bob corker about that coming up now. and it may, in fact, be playing into the confirmation decisions over mike pompeo. meanwhile, on the homefront, kristen, we ll review where we stand. mueller and rosenstein still sort of hanging. the president refusing to give them any kind of definitive answer to jennifer jacobs asking about their futures at the news conference yesterday. and now, a lot of other questions about michael cohen dropping the whole case against buzzfeed against their publication of the so-called dossier. michael cohen very much in the middle of so many controversies.
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mcdougal. her case involving ami. how do we keep track of all the cases? this one is an interesting one. the interview with rachel maddow was fascinating last night. she was on mj as well. you can see both sides saying they have a victory. in one specific case, she still would be penalized $75,000 if she sold the rights to her story, even though now she s free to tell her story. i think the bigger picture here is that, essentially, it encourages other people who may have signed a nondisclosure agreement with the president or under similar legal constraints when talking about their dealings with the president, it may encourage them to go forward and make similar efforts to get out of the agreements. that could be profoundly consequential. if there were any such agreements. who knows. frank, your take on the whole mcdougal case and the inquirer? this all impacts the public
we ll have to wait and see. well, meanwhile, the attorney for michael cohen on the buzzfeed case, ruth, has dropped that case. this is a case over the publication over the dossier that conventional wisdom would be, you don t have to be deposed when facing a major criminal case. sure. i think any reasonable, responsible lawyer would have advised him that prosecuting, pursuing this case right now is not a good idea. because you expose yourself to questioning. questioning that can harm you, in general, but can particularly harm you when you ve got federal prosecutors breathing down your neck. so it s not surprising that he did that. it s particularly interesting that it happened to come after these reports about whether he was or was not in prague. and meanwhile, karen mcdoug
to bring her infant child on to the floor of the senate. stay tuned to all of that. follow us online on twitter @mitchellreports. craig melvin up next. hi there, andrea. we re keeping a close eye on the floor of the upper chamber. craig melvin here. loyalty test. new legal battles pushing limits for loyalty for president trump s personal lawyer michael cohen and now people who know both men are chiming in on to whether cohen could flip on the president. also, this afternoon, power struggle. right now, lights are coming back on in puerto rico after that islandwide blackout. but is this uncertainty? is it the new normal for people still recovering from hurricane maria. and criminal case, the governor of missouri trying to get a felony charge connected to a sex scandal dropped in court today. but when it comes to politics, to some, his defense seems to be coming out of the trump playbook. we ll look at all those stories