Good morning, everyone. Its thursday june 14th. We begin with the pressure on Michael Cohen. Nbc news has confirmed that hes expected to split with his current attorneys and many are now wondering what that means for the president. More from the white house. Reporter is Michael Cohen ready to cooperate with federal investigators . Thats the question looming over the white house. After abc news reported cohen, the president s long time fixer and personal attorney is likely to strike a deal with prosecutors. So far, cohen hasnt been charged and several sources familiar with the matter tell nbc news cohen has not even spoken with prosecutors. Still adding fuel, cohen is looking to shake up his legal team according to those close to the situation. Prosecutors are poring over documents they seized in a dramatic fbi raid. Federal investigators in new york are focusing on cohens business dealings including that payment to Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election. Michael cohen should be concerned about being charged. The fbi executed a search warrant on his residence and his office. They dont do that lightly and they dont do that without cause. Reporter the cohen case came out of Robert Muellers russia probe who referred it to investigators in new york. That april raid sparking fury from President Trump. Its a disgrace. Its an attack on our country in a true sense. Its an attack on what we all stand for. Reporter mr. Trump later tweeting most people will flip if the government lets them out of trouble. Sorry, i dont see michael doing that. Danger to the president is that mr. Cohen, if he cooperates hell have to dell everything he knows to anyone who asks. A. Reporter the president s attorney Rudy Giuliani tells nbc news hes not concerned about Michael Cohen flipping adding he has no information suggesting cohen is going to flip. Ayman . Thanks for that report. In an interview that aired on fox news last night President Trump shared his admiration or autocratic rulers again prizing chinese president for his iron grip on his government and dismissing kim jong uns brutal treatment, imprisonment and murder of those he suspects of opposing his regime. Take a listen. I have a very Good Relationship with president xi. Hes an incredible guy. They just, you know, essentially president for life. Pretty good. Chairman kim wants to resolve the problem. We have a very i really say for, you know, for a fairly short term relationship because it was unbelievably hostile. It was unbelievably hostile and i think we have a very Good Relationship. We understand each other. You know, you call people sometimes killers. You know, he is a killer. Hes clearly executing people. Hes a tough guy. Hey, when you take over a country, tough country, tough people and you take it over from your father i dont care who you are, what you are, how much of an advantage you are. If you can do that at 27 years old, i mean thats one in 10,000 that can do that. Hes a very smart guy. Hes a great negotiator but i think we understand each other. Reporter but hes done some really bad thing. Yeah, but so have a lot of other people done some really bad things. I can go through a lot of nations where a lot of bad things were done. So President Trumps words are similar to his view of the say assassination of vladimir pewters opponent comparing it to actions of the United States. Did you like Vladimir Putins comments about you . Sure, when people call you brilliant its always good. Especially when the person heads up russia. I mean, also a person who kills journalists and political opponents and invades countries, obviously that it would be a concern, would it not . Hes running his country and at least hes a leader unlike what we have in this country. But again, he kills journalists that dont agree with him. Well, i think our country does plenty of killing also, joe. Putins a killer. A lot of killers. Weve got a lot of killers. You think our country is so innocent . You think our country is so innocent . I dont know of any government leaders that are killers. Take a look at what weve done too. All right. So President Trump also discussed his desire to have russia readmitted to the g7 and his relationship with Vladimir Putin. Im not for russia. Im for the United States. But as an example, if Vladimir Putin were hitting next to me at a table instead of one of the others and we were having dinner i could say, would you get out of syria, would you get out of the ukraine, get out of ukraine, you shouldnt be there, just come on. Now, i think id probably have a Good Relationship with him. Or id be able to talk to him better than if you call somebody on a telephone and talk. I will tell you as an example, if he were at that meeting i could ask him to do things that are good for the world and are good for the country and good for him. A reporter asked me do you think wed be better off with russia . Absolutely. We spend 25 of our time talking about russia and i said to myself, wouldnt it be better if we were here . And a lot of people agree with me. You think hes going to im not sticking up for anybody. Im just saying this. He didnt respect our leadership previously. He walked all over them. Look what he did to obama with crimea . He took crimea. He took ukraine, he i mean, sections of ukraine. Which is why he got kicked out of the g 8. But he didnt respect our leadership. He didnt respect it and so but this wasnt me. So interesting is beyond the killings hes actually blaming president obama for russias invasion for crimea and not necessarily acknowledging until the reporter said thats why he got kicked out of the g7. And he thinks by simply having dinner saying hey, do me a favor, can you get out, Vladimir Putin is going to say ablu absolutely anything for you. Interesting. Guys one of the other major headlines was the president announcing he was ending the quote, war games exercises with south korea and in the ber view he went one step further. Take a listen. I would love to get the military out as soon as we can because it costs a lot of money. A lot of money for us. We dont get paid fully for that military which ill be talking to south korea about, but we have 32,000 soldiers in south korea. Id like to get them home. I would like to, but it is not on the table right now. At the appropriate time it will be. The u. S. Has on araverage ab 28,500 troops and seoul pays for about the cost which is 821 million back in 2016. One the main takeaways trump is touting as a success is kim jong uns promise to return remains of american troops killing the korean war. We have thousands of people that have asked for that. Thousands and thousands of people. So many people asked for it when i was on the campaign, i said, wait a minute. I dont have any relationship, but they said when you can wed love our son to be brought back home, you know t replains and i said, would you do me a favor . The remains of these great fallen heroes, could we do something . He agreed to it immediately. Pretty great. Now, per the va the average age of korean war veterans is an estimated 87 years old. Which means the parents asking for their sons remains if still alive would be well over 100. Give us the key if youve got it to live that long. Were learning new details about the two immigration bills the house is expected to vote on next week. One of the bill is a compromised measure aimed at bridging the divide between moderates and conservatives. The compromised bill will include a provision that children will not be separated from their children at the border. The congressman also says it will protect dreamers in the United States now, eliminate the diversity lot rtery. Speaker paul ryan reportedly told House Republicans that he had spoken to President Trump and that he seemed quote, very supportive of the compromise measure. This has a chance of going into law because like i said before, last thing i want to do is bring a bill out of here that i know the president wont support. Weve been working hand and glove with the administration on this to make sure we bring a bill that represents the president s four pillars so we can come together and have a vote that everybody is looking for but more importantly this represents a consensus between our members. An inside look yesterday at an immigrant Detention Center in texas where more than 1,000 people are currently being held. The facility is a former walmart and the children get only two hours a day to be outside. Heres how he described what he saw last night. This place is called a shelter, but effectively these kids are incarcerated. There are over 1,400 of them that are spending not weeks, months inside this place. Theyre not actually literally in cages or in cells, but i kid you not, one of the first things an employee said to me is when we walked inside can you try to smile at these kids because its weird to see people from the outside. They feel like animals locked up in cages being looked at. It was an extraordinary thing to see. Absolutely incredible description there. Hes going to have a lot more on what he saw coming up in just a little bit on morning joe including a trump mural that he saw inside the facility when he walked in there. Joining us now, reporter for the Washington Post, jew neeugene s. The house passed two immigration bills. Could we see the senate move to act on immigration between november and the midterms . Theres certainly input from voters on both sides of the aisle. The optics of the situation has been alarming to republican and democrats alike and this is a issue thats not likely to go away before the midterms and congress would be in their best interest according to some voters to address it as quickly as possible. Lets talk to the new revelation regarding to Michael Cohen and his legal team here and the fact that hes possibly dropping his legal team. Do you think that could create more pressure for the president here to sit down sooner with bob mueller . Certainly. Especially considering that the president kind of already does want to sit down and has said that he does. What his legal team will advise is worth paying attention to, but i think one of the main takeaways from where we are at the Michael Cohen story is how unsupported and neglected cohen feel from the president himself and its it will be interesting to see if the president makes any changes to that considering what could come from that. Lets switch gears for a moment and talk about the kim summit. What do you think the appetite is going to be on capitol hill including members of the president s own party about the way the president has announced his desire to withdraw troops from south korea, the ending of the military exercises, even the praise for the north korea dictator . Weve seen republican lawmakers since trump got in the white house pretty much go with anything he has put forward and we even saw paul ryan mention in the previous clip that the main goal is suggest, do things that make trump happy or that trump will support legislatively. Whether or not Republican Voters will be as sensitive and understanding to the president s willingness to work with someone with such long list of Human Rights Violations remelanias to be seen, but democratic lawmakers are going to make sure they know that not much has changed from north korea. Well touch base with you in a little bit. 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Pompeo agreed the objective is for major disarmment before the end of President Trumps first term about two and a half years from now. But pompeo balked when asked for details about President Trumps claim there will be verifiable denuclearization. From the transcript the reporter said quote, the president said it will be verified. Pompeo said this. Of course it will. Asked, can you tell us a little bit more . Pompeo said of course it will. Pou pompeo replied i find that question insultdiing and ludicrous. President trump is declaring the press the biggest enemy but americans dont necessarily see it that way. A National Survey found that majorities trust news organizations over the president , asked in individual questions voters said they trust nbc, abc and cbs more than they trust donald trump by an average of 53 to 39 . Cnn is regarded more trustworthy than trump. While the New York Times and Washington Post also have the trust of half of the country as les than 4 in 10 americans side with the President Trump. Still trump tweeted yesterday, so funny to watch the fake news especially nbc and cnn. They are fighting hard to downplay the fight with north korea. 500 years ago they would have begged for this deal. Looked bike war would break out. Our countrys biggest enemy is fake news. Lets get a check on your weather with bill karins. And bill, you are tracking some Severe Weather that happened last night over pennsylvania, but you say today is going to be a Beautiful Day here in new york. And thats all that they care about. People got hit by a tornado last night. This was a mall around 10 00 p. M. Last night. There was a panera bread located there. Cars were flipped in the parking lot. For a while some people were trapped in the building. No fatalities and they said none of the injuries are too serious. Lets get into that forecast. That cold front that went through with those storms is gone. Just a few showers to the north and its going to be a very nice, summer like day through the ohio valley and still cool in new england. So today the area of concern takes us into dakotas. Enhanced risk of severe storms. Maybe an isolated tornado. Biggest threat is going to be large hail and wind damage and how about the heat . It doesnt stop. 109 in phoenix today. The little magenta you see here, thats 100 degree temperatures, so very hot through the middle of the nation. In the southeast our typical afternoon storms. The upcoming weekend is going to see this heat on the move and for fathers day it looks like the east coast is going to see some of the warmest temperatures that its seen so far this year. You doing something nice for your husband . Who . Oh. Okay. Moving right along. Of course. 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