Morning joe. It is thursday, august 23rd. Joe has the morning off. He will be back tomorrow. We have Donny Deutsch with us along with professor at Princeton University and column at New York Post and contributor editor of Weekly Standard john and sam stein and washington Anchor Katy Kay and benjamin. Good to have you all onboard with us on another very busy morning. We begin with the very latest in President Trumps former lawyer implicating him in his guilty plea yesterday. Trump appeared to acknowledge his attorneys Campaign Finance violation and then walked it back in an interview all while maintaining its not a crime and say he blamed Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his former lawyers prosecution. The president tweeted, michael
Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Didnt come out of the campaign and thats big. But they werent, its not even a campaign violation. If you look at Preside
Mcconnell. Todays media event was no doubt part of the pr offensive that began last week with john kellys unannounced appearance in the Briefing Room to beat back the narrative that the Trump White House has become an adult day care facility. So described by gop senator bob corker. Unsurprisingly, at 6 00 a. M. Today, a brandnew press account detailing the west wing as a place where aides spend a significant part of their day devising ways to rein in and control the impettuous president appeared in the Washington Post. Heres some of that press conference where the president hit every hotbutton issue in todays news cycle. I would like very much to see it be done this year. So we wont go a step further. If we get it done, thats a great achievement. It took years for the Reagan Administration to get taxes done. Ive been here for nine months. I can say the same thing for health care. If you look at obama, first of all, you look at clinton, they werent able to get it done. You look at other
Complaint. Im talking about a whistleblower and why are they refusing to pass that complaint on to congress. That is at the heart of the whig post. It could be the plot of a spy novel. As we speak they are briefing the house Intelligence Community. Were watching to see if any new information comes out of that. According to nbc news. The whistleblowers complaint stems from a phone call that the president made this our. The conversation was with a foreign leader. According to foreign officials include some sort of promise. We know the Inspector General deemed the complaint credible and troubling enough to be a matter of urgent concern and he passed that on to joseph mcguire. That is where things went off track. Democrats say the law iraqs the dni to forward that complaint to the congressional intelligence committees. That has not happened. Instead they are refusing to share the details with lawmakers prompting several days of harsh criticism. Schiff is suggesting the orders came straight
Zimbabwe's seventh-wicket pair Luke Jongwe and Clive Madande hit 24 runs in the last over to pull off a thrilling four-wicket win in the second Twenty20 match against Sri Lanka and level the three-match series on Tuesday.
Batting first, Sri Lanka made 173-6 in 20 overs and the tourists needed 20