Counter punch to the russian investigation, his long time friend and attorney Rudy Giuliani. Lets go to the white house. Our abby phillip is outside. Lets begin with the iran deal and the most consequential announcement from this president on Foreign Policy coming today. Reporter thats right, poppy. One that probably would not come as a huge surprise to a lot of people. The president teased yesterday that he would be announcing this at 2 00 this afternoon and hes widely expected to pull out of the deal thats despite weeks of frantic calls and meetings with the president from his european allies trying to urge him to stay in it, but President Trump has for quite a long time dating back all the way through the campaign denounce this had deal as being insufficient and badly negotiated by his predecessors and just take a listen to some of the ways that over the years the president has talked about this iran deal. The iran deal, which may be the single worst deal ive ever seen drawn by anybody one of the worst and most onesided transactions. Its a bad deal. Its a bad structure. Its falling down. Should have never, ever been made. What kind of a deal is it where youre loud to test missiles all over the place . Reporter so you hear there the president talking a little bit about some of the concerns he has, Ballistic Missiles being one of them but also this idea that the deal doesnt prevent iran from continuing to Fund Terrorism in the region. He has support on that point from Benjamin Netanyahu whos also been pressuring him, along with a lot of republicans to pull out of the deal. Well see what the actual details are when he announces it later this afternoon. Its important to find out exactly what thats going to mean for the specifics of the iran deal right now. Thats behind nuclear door number one, behind nuclear door number two, prospective talks with kim jongun. What do we know about the phone call with president xi this morning . Reporter this phone call is coming just after the china president and kim jongun met and they announce this had morning that they met facetoface, the president speaking with the chinese president by phone. He wrote on twitter that the talks would focus on trade where he says good things are happening and north korea, where relationships and trust are building. Now, the president is pushing toward expectant meeting with north korea in the next several weeks or so. Heres the key thing and maybe the tie here between iran and north korea, what is going to be the u. S. Credibility around negotiating a deal with north korea if he is, in fact, deciding to pull out of the iran deal. Only time will tell but the president seems pretty optimistic that he can do both of these things and be successful if them. Abby, before you go, multiple reports that the president is very quickly unhappy with his long time friend, his hand selected attorney, Rudy Giuliani. Do we know why . Reporter the media blitz around Rudy Giuliani has raised the Stormy Daniels issue back on to the front pages where President Trump, frankly, doesnt want it. Sources tell us that there are some concerns that giuliani is just simply flying too close to the sun here, that hes pulling Anthony Scaramucci and that he might need to pull back because his you know, his media blitz hasnt worked out in the president s favor. We have also heard the President Trump isnt he isnt ready to get rid of giuliani yet. Hes already told him that hes giving him the leeway to be out there on television, but giuliani hasnt coordinated with the White House Press shop on all of these appearances and has gone back and forth about what hes been saying about the Stormy Daniels case. A lot of concern within this white house that hes simply going way too far on this issue. Hes the president s attorney when it comes to the muellers investigation but hes been talking quite a bit about this other issue with Stormy Daniels. He has, indeed. Thank you for that reporting. So bombshell, the new York Attorney general resigns late last night after a stunning and incredibly disturbing report. Eric schneiderman is a man who brought legal action against Harvey Weinstein. Hes openly criticized President Trump over and over again and investigated him. Hes now accused of physically assaulting at least four women. The allegations include slapping, choking, threatening on so many different levels. The allegations are plentiful and horrific. Horrific because its he was a champion for women and during the me too movement. Poppy you mentioned about everything with the Harvey Weinstein, this is a tremendous fall from grace for a rising politician, again, someone who was really active in the me too movement. This is a man who filed an enormous lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein and the Weinstein Company and he reached a 25 million settlement for the students for the now defunct trump university. Two of the women spoke on the record to the new yorker, two other women wanted to remain anonymous. According to the the new yorker, three other women have romantic relations with the attorney general but none say they consent today physical abuse in those relationships. Manning barish describes the abuse like this, quote, all of a sudden he just slapped me, open handed and with great force across the face landing the blow directly on to my ear. He then used his body wait to hold me down and he began to choke me. The choking was very hard. It was really bad. I kicked in every fiber i felt i was being beaten by a fan,ened quote. She recalls going to the hospital after one of the incidents. Another one, dated schneiderman from the summer of 2016 to last fall and she said this to the the new yorker, sometimes hed tell me to call him master and hed slap me until i did. He started calling me his brown slave and demanded that i repeat that i was, quote, his property. The woman also claimed many times this abuse happened after schneiderman had been heavily drinking, sometimes on drugs and they say he would threaten to kill them if the women left the relationship. At the time the women did not go to authority. Schneiderman strongly contests all of these allegations but he is resigning today. He described the allegations as role playing, quote, in the privacy of intimate relationships, ive engaged in role playing and other consensual sexual activity. I have not assaulted anyone. I have never engaged in nonconsensual sex, which is a line i would not cross. Now after the article published, it just took three hours for schneiderman to resign. Ronan pharaoh had this to say about his comments on new day this morning. I just want to relate the message of one of these women and it was a shared sentiment amongst this group that this was not role playing, that this was not 50 shades of gray. It wasnt in a gray area at all. This was activity that happened in many cases fully clothed outside of a sexual context during arguments he continues to talk about how difficult it was for these women to even come forward. Were talking about the highest legal wise in the state of new york. We also know that manhattans District Attorney is looking into all this conduct. Thank you. Lets bring in our appreciate political analyst Rob Brownstein and alex byrnes. As john pointed out so aptly this morning, yeah for journalism, right. Horrific that this happened, but good that people are being held accountable. Three hours after these allegations came out, alex, he resigns. Its really staggering that this is its not just the breadth and severity and really disturbing nature of the allegations, its the reality that Eric Schneiderman was so prominent for so long and so powerful in exactly the area that is supposed to police these kinds of allegation thats he really put himself forward as a champion for women, as an opponent of a whole range of Trump Administration policies including policies that he described as hostile to women. From a political standpoint, this does leave democrats in new york as a really Decision Point in trying to figure out how are they going to find somebody who can step into that job and continue the work that schneiderman was doing while also sending the message somehow to the people of the state that even though theyve now seen over and over very prominent Office Holders here disgraced in the most lurid ways possible that theyll going to find somebody that wont embarrassed the state like that. Disgraced again and again. Eric schneiderman has a National Role because of the way he has chosen to go after President Trump on some things and there have been a lot of people on the left and progressive who have looked at him as possible save your of the mueller investigation. Schneiderman would take it up in new york and federal pardons dont work in state court. Is this a set back for people who are looking for a backup plan . We saw this begin under president obama with attorney generals repeatedly suing the administration over almost all of those policy decisions from immigration to health care. The idea of essentially a second front in the states, you battle the other party in congress horizontally now you have to fight vertically and weve seen democrats attorney general pick that up completely under trump. It is now a feature of our politics. On the one hand, this is a setback, on the on the other hand that whoever succeeds him will take on this role as well. In california, attorney general has 30 lawsuits against the Trump Administration at this point. I think well continue to see that in new york. This is a very high profile choice in new york and obviously there are whoever has this job will have a National Profile because of this new responsibility that were seeing transfer to the states attorney general. Hes the one who brought charges against Weinstein Company, we have never seen anything as despicable. This is someone who in his office put forward a know your rights pamphlet, the hypocrisy is rank. Now the manhattan District Attorney is going to be looking in to him as he was looking into the manhattan District Attorneys. Theres a lot going on here. Sounds like departed a little bit. S just a level of hypocrisy. In 2010 he passed antichoking legislation yet several of the women accused him of choking them. Never i will never not be shocked by the hubris of some politicians and how they can speak out of both sides of the mouth. Rudy giuliani brought on to get rid of the president s headaches, not create more . We have reports that the president is growing increasingly frustrated with his attorney . Republicans on edge as primary voters hit the polls today. Is it the party have a real problem if exconvict Don Blankenship wins today . Well take you there live. 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You have whats going on inside the beltway, poppy and you have whats going on the ground here in the state of West Virginia. Im outside of polling place in charleston. This is mt. Calvary baptist church. Talked to the secretary of States Office just a little while ago, theyre describing turnout as steady. They had enormous turnout, in fact, during early voting, in fact, almost 50 higher than four years ago during the last midterm election. What is going on inside the beltway is a lot of hand wringing among Establishment Republicans who are concerned that out of six republicans, in fact, on the ballot here in West Virginia, the one who may be chosen to run against the incumbent democrat now holding the seat, senator joe manchin, could be Don Blankenship, that former coal executive, also an exconvict who served a year in prison for conspiring to violate the coal mining laws and their concerned not just about the fact that he has that on his record, also concerned about the type of race hes run, the language he has used which could be construed as racist. A campaign that could also be described by some as grievance politics. The president has been persuaded by Establishment Republicans to go out on twitter opposing the candidacy of mr. Blankenship. Mr. Blankenship in turn has responded that the president is misinformed about his campaign and says he will win and beat joe manchin in november without the help of the establishment. Back to you. Joe johns for us in West Virginia. Lets bring back our panel. Alex, the argument youre getting from the president is West Virginia, you shouldnt vote for Don Blankenship because he cant win the general election. Jeff flake, senator from arizona has a different argue money. He says the problem isnt that Don Blankenship cant win, its that he shouldnt win a general election in West Virginia. Those are two different arguments there, so why are we primarily hearing the argument he cant win from the president and from Republican Leaders in the senate . Its very similar to what we saw in the roy moore case. Theyre largely not comfortable telling their base this candidate is unacceptable for reasons of values and ethics and character and policy. Imagine what a powerful moment this could have been for the president and in that race if the president has talked a lot about being a friend to miners, that hes in touch with that part of the country. If he had gone out and said, look, the argument that his republican opponents has made, he has blood on his hands. I cant allow this to happen. Hes not doing that. Hes making the least effective political argument imaginable. Its purely tactical. If blankenship is a reflection of the force that the president himself has set loose in the Republican Party in the posttrump world, why is he surging . Hes surging after he has made an overtly racist argument against Mitch Mcconnell in a state that remains virtually all white that has very few immigrants and is reflective of this National Dynamic where the opposition to immigration has been most intense to the states at least touched by it. Its very hard for the president to draw a line and say, rapists and murderers are okay but china person is not and, look, joe manchin is not a sitting duck. In 2010, Barack ObamasApproval Rating was under 47 . 15 of those democrats lost. Harry reid and joe manchin are the only ones who won. I look at this as more reflective of the forces that donald trump has set loose in the Republican Party and the difficulty that anybody is going to have containing these kinds of arguments in the months and years ahead. Lets turn to Rudy Giuliani and multiple reports that the president is frustrated at his sweep through the sunday talk shows, all of the news bombshells that hes been dropping. Hes frustrated, yes, but hes been frustrated with john kelly time and time again. John kellys still there. Hes been more than frustrated with jeff s