It is monday, february 25th. We have nick confessore, we have kasie hunt up erecall on monday morning for us, eddie glaude jr. , susan page eddie glaude is also an oscar correspondent. Eddie, what did you think of the winners last night . It was obviously a wonderful evening for the diversity in the country. For sure. We saw an oscar celebration, in some ways, of the beauty and majesty across a number of different areas. The green book won and theres some controversy about green book book, especially on black twitter but tit was a good evening. I must admit, as a correspondent for morning joe, i did go to sleep. I think a lot of us did. Did anybody else stay up . Im just curious. Did anybody else stay up for the Academy Awards and have any favorites that did or didnt win . I managed to catch, joe, the gaga Bradley Cooper performance, which i think may have been the height of the evening. I dont know if you happened top see it but that was the talk of my twit ater feed. And i thought spike lee was quite something as well. I was also in bed at 10 45 but i watched some of the commentary and including the performance from a star is born. There was so much about oscars being so white in the past and the women not being recognized. I was personally excited for rom roma. I would just say that possibly some alarming news for joe and mika in that you can have a show without a host and it goes okay. I dont know if youre worried about that. I love it uhoh. You think thats bad news . Thats pretty great news to us. Oh, come on. Every once in a while it works. Come on, we love every second here. We love every second here. Got to get up early everybody morning, we love it. Nick confessores review on roma is a i would recommend it to. I thought it was beautifully done and it lifted up people we dont often see at the center of film. Take that, john. Let me get to the news. As President Trump head to vietnam for his second summit with kim jong un, his former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, will be starting a busy week on capitol hill. Tomorrow cohen will appear before the Senate Intelligence committee in a closed session. On wednesday cohen testifies before the House Oversight committee in public. And nurse its another closed session, this time with the house intelligence committee. Ken dilanian, you have new reporting on what kind of testimony we can expect from cohen and also what else prosecutors have learned from him in recent weeks. Tem us about it. Well, mika, so before the house and Senate Intelligence committees, hes expected to address, first of all, his lies to those committees on the timing of the trump tower and moscow deal, the fact in a it was going on much longer than he admitted in public and much longer than donald trump ak naj knowledged. Michael cohen in the plea documents exposed the fact that donald trump had lied during the campaign when he said he had no contacts, no dealings with russia. There was a meeting Michael Cohen had with donald trump about the moscow deal. But in public on wednesday we could have an absolutely dramatic and riveting performance by Michael Cohen. While hes not allowed to talk about the russia investigation when he appears before the house jove Sight Committee on wednesday, he going to talk about those hush money payments to women. The przs compliant with financials did closure the president s business practices, trump unt National Hotel in dncht c. Im told cohen has been prepping with this for a long time and he knows hes got credibility issueses so hes coming with documents and he has chilling stories of what goes on behind closed doors. A trump insider who has been with donald trump for more than ten years telling these stories under the glare. The elvis lights. And of course last week he talked about the Family Business, information about the Family Business. What are the biggest concerns there and whos in his who who possibly by what he says about the Family Business. We reported last week that he has provided new information to those prosecutors in manhattan about the trump Family Business and the trump inaugural committee, two subjects they are vetting. It seems likely some of those areas will be off limits in his public testimony on wednesday but nonetheless, that is a very dangerous investigation for donald trump. Unlike the Robert Mueller investigation, Southern District prosecutors have no restrictions. They go going back as long as the stoot statute of limitations goes. The idea they are poking around in President Trumps personal meetings go back 20 years is is guess etting. We heard the Mueller Investigation was going to wraup up, then we got the news, in, it no, sir going to wrap up, stay tuned. Is this going to wrap up very soon or is more of the same . Reporter its not more of the same. All signs are approach. It seems lickly they announced mueller has reduced the number of attorneys in his office. He has brought in u. S. Attorneys from washington, d. C. On the stone case from the beginning, which is the first time that has happened in a Robert Mueller case. Weve our reporting is that he began writing his report back in august. So we believe that the report will be delivered. In a doesnt mean that the investigation stops. Obviously there are other cases that are pending that he will hand off to u. S. Torchs. There but in terms of this main question kwrd and you bring up a great point. The investigations go on. A lot of people are expecting Robert Mueller to deliver this death blow that will send donald trump tum hes conservative with a small c. Hool pass it along to could and then well got to the rest our guests. But really quickly, the Southern District of new york poses the greatest threat. There are also other u. S. Attorneys that he may pass other information along to. Hes done a lot of leg work. Now this goes it prosecutors possibly on the federal level. Some state prosecutors can pick these up. These investigations do not stop. They actually move to places where actually u. S. Attorneys can go after illegal wrong doing, actually even more aggressively without being under the glare of the political spotlight. Is that fair to say . Youre making two important points here, joe. On russia, even if Robert Mueller doesnt deliver a massive conspiracy indictment that, doesnt mean there isnt wrong doing, that there isnt a scandal. He may differ a there are theser investigations into the inaugural committee, into the trump businesses. Michael cohen has already i pli kated the president in a Campaign Finance felony, which for some reason were not talking about. Thank you for being with us. We really appreciate it. I saw this incredible twitter feed last night, kasie, that actually picked out all of the and had they eric who is it from . It dirk graphs. He went step by step of what would have happened if all of these Hillary Clinton people had been arrested, convicted or accus accused, et cetera,eth, if john podesta were about to serve life in prison, could go down the list instead of paul manafort. Temperature would have been even if it end tomorrow, ridiculous. But in the got go. Ken did a really good job of outlooning what this can and cant talk to cohen about. I think its better to look at this through the broader lens of President Trumps life before he even landed himself in the white house and all of the questions that swirl around his conduct in that way. And then of course how that all connects to how he and the people around him have continued to do business in the white house and all of those associated conflicts of interest. I mean, this russia collusion question is obviously thing about one for Robert Mueller to answer. However, that does not mean in a today will credible, theres conflicting report how much about how much he knew and how much he was involved in and the kind of things hes going to be able to put forward. He really has shown he has turned on the president of the United States. So i do think its going to be incredibly dramatic on the hill this week. So, joe, in the past weve heard from people like andy mccabe and james comey talking about fl interactions with the president , people hes been apartment bagman and filter and hell be be speaking about a variety of topics. I think that is going to be a huge moment in the politics of this whole affair for months and months. This is the first time were going to really see somebody talking about their interaction, with the president , who is this is about faux far woof come on this whole Mueller Investigation, lets put aside the question of a conspiracy with the russians, an email in which the president is colluding with putin. His family and the president were lying about a hush deal with russia. There was a violation of Campaign Finance laws, a potential felony. Theres a huge amount weve learned so far and it speaks to the way the president has successfully framed the i think there as already a lot evidence on the ground already. No matter what you think i president donald trump, if theres any possibility if one os or dirty business with paying off women or with women in any way or business dealings that were not exactly according to law, wouldnt it be, joe, Michael Cohen who did the dirty work for him . Well, yeah. He did time and time again. And so this is going to be a very interesting week on the hill for not only concerning for the president of the United States but also very concerning for members of the family. And to follow up on what nick just said, susan page, in is what part of garrett graphs feed last night. He said just imagine following hillarys Successful Campaign in 2016 she fires fbi director james comey for refusing to drop an investigation of National Security adviser jake vul van and then sally waits point john pod poddest and then reindicted for witness tampering. Imagine in a nick merrill papadopoulos plead guilty to lying to federal agents about his contacts and cheryl mills, equal flynn, plead guilty for eye poon on then who pleads guilty again for lying to congress. It goes on and on and on. Hillary clinton would have been impeopled about halfway and there are still republicans that actually have the nerve to say that Robert Mueller has done nothing and this is nothing but a witch hunt. Oh, by the way, did woo mention at that. Secretary of the dhs says thats exactly whats happening. It quite the extraordinary imagery scenario there. I think that does underscore one nng to look for with the Michael Cohen hearing, the public hearing on wednesday and that is reporters are going to be listening for whats new, what does he say that we didnt know before. But americans may be watching this to try to figure out what went on, what matters, who do you believe. I think back, the watergate hearings, which i didnt cover but also the iran hearings that i did cover, for americans to sort out in their own mind, some of it confusing and conflicting and some of it quite explosive, to figure out what it means to them. Of course he has a history. Hes been convicted of lying to congress. That hurts his credibility. Do they look at him and do they believe what hes telling them . I think thats one of the things we should does this make a complicated story more understandable for americans and who are they going to trust to tell them the truth. And the big lie over the past weers have been witch hunt. That witch hunt has nailed 25, 30 people on indictments, have taken tun they have been caught lying and caught committing fell anies and some, his campaign manager, is going to jail for life most likely. We keep learning things about his National Security adviser and thob. It a witch hunt. Russia interforward with our democracy in 2016. Dan croats, the director of National Intelligence says thats a lie. You keep going right down the list. The cia director gina haspel, thats a lie. The russians interfered. Again, his on director of Homeland Security said thats a lie, russian has interfering with our crass is, you can go done the list. And what been revealed is shocking. Apparently some care far more about their own Political Party and their own political clan than they do the United States of america. If they dont care the entire Intel Community has said russia has interfered with our democracy and are trying to continue to interfere with our democracy. Thats a devastating listing of what we already know and you combine it with the hush money, you combine it with the Trump Foundation and we are justified in being deeply suspicious. Whats interesting about the cohen hearing for me, the optics. Its going to be dramatic. Im really interested in how donald trump respond, what cohen will say, what he will reveal. Independent not sure it will be anything new but the fact in a he is on television that, he will be on television talking about sundry affairs, revealing insider knowledge, i am really interested in. And actually kind of unsettled and unnerved by the possibility of President Trump behaving and responding in a really unhinged way. So its not just whats going on in congress that day, its really what donald trump will do with his twit are feed and what he will do wherever he happens to be as hes watching that drama unfold. All right. Weve got so much more to get to this morning. The latest on the vietnam summit did the president say that he loved Martin Luther king together again this weekend . Its so disturbing and dangerous. Did they send each other a valentines card, talking about a guys that one of the most brutal dictators on the face of the earth, killed an hai open colle Ohio College Student . In is who donald trump adores while he mocks our allies in english, Great Britain and france and germany. And stand silent here. We have nbcs now reporting. Thats right. When there as actually a plot the president still has not condemned it. I havent really heard republicans condemn it. I wonder what these republicans would say if you actually had democrats remain silent while there was a plot to kill half of the republicans that were running against a democrat being incumbent. I wonder if that you had be silent. Of course not. In terms of vietnam, the reporting is that the administration is willing to put a whole lot on the table, even as north korea keeps a form grass on its Nuclear Weapons. Plus fascinating new polling. Sizing up prums job approval. It its. And we want to mention just band is, it starts at 7 p. M. Stop by if europe in the area. Wed love to see you. I saw joe tweeting over the weekend about that map. Stay tuned for that. Nafs happening. We had some really crazy weather between the wind and the blizzard, we had a little bit of everything. The damage to columbus, mississippi was extensive there. One fatality as a who is collapse odd on come. This is into frm that is ice being blown by the wind and piling up on the shore. 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