Goes under alert this hour amid violence of a gun rally amongst hate groups and three neonazis have been arrested who were planning to attend. Im wolf blitzer and you are in the situation room. With this impeachment trial shifting into high gear next week, President Trump is adding legal fire power to the defense team adding a number of high profile attorneys and they americans come to include ken starr whose lendingtree. Com to compare and independent counsel investigation of president save on loans, credit cards and clinton led to his impeachment, more but with the new lending tree app you can see your full and Alan Dershowitz was part of financial health, monitor your credit score, see your cash flow o. J. Simpsons legal dream team, and find out how you can cut your monthly bills. Download it now to see how much you can and tonight, cnn is told that save. I signed up because i was curious. Several House Republicans who were seen as additions to the i learned about my grandfathers li
I know all about flipping. I spoke indirectly and directly with president poot. I know nothing about him. For 40 years watching flippers. Paul manafort has done an amazing job. Wheres paul . Paul manafort worked for me for a very short period of time. Ive seen it many times had many friends involved in this stuff. Its called flipping. Michael cohen, the man is an honest, honorable lawyer. The man is a pathological what a great show, and really applicable to 2018 and donald trump. May not be the same kind of flipping than Michael Cohens doing, but the president and Rudy Giuliani have been known to do quite a bit of flipping themselves, which thats why its so unbelievable that in a recent cbs poll 91 of hardcore Trump Supporters believe everything that he says. And they trust donald trump over members of their own family, what they say, or members of the news media. The flipflopping be damned. Well, anyway. Good morning. Happy friday morning. Welcome to morning joe. Its august the 24th.
Trump. I think partly because theyre frustrated they got all the serious allegations against the current occupant of the oval office and his voters dont seem to care. I think i did the right thing. I defended the constitution. Martha then it got heated. Through the lens of metoo now, do you think differently . To or feel more responsibility . No. I felt terrible then. Nobody believes that i got out of that for free. I left the white house 16 million in debt. You are giving one side and omitting facts. Mr. President , im not trying to present a side. You think president kennedy should have resigned . Do you think president johnson should resign . Someone should ask you the question because of way you formulate the question. Martha interesting questions on both side. Were joined by david bossi, former Campaign Manager and a Fox News Contributor who spent time as lead investigator on congressional probablies in the Clinton White house. Lanny davis, the former special counsel to president
Another slow news day. A news alert off the top. Happy to have you here. Great to be here. Love the podcast with dana perino. Its fantastic. Im carrying her. Shes okay. I feel for her. Yeah. The truth is out. Indeed. Great to see you. Abbey well be on the five together. President trump lashing out after doj inspector Michael Horowitz said james comeys actions and Hillary Clintons actions were extraordinary and insubordinate. The president slamming comey this morning. What he did was criminal. What he did is a terrible thing to the people. What he did is so bad in terms of our constitution, in terms of the wellbeing of our country. What he did is horrible. Should he be locked up . Let somebody else make the determination. Look at the dishonest things that crooked hillary did. Look whats gone on. The commanderinchief criticized the reports conclusion that bias within the fbi ultimately did not impact the bureaus investigations. The end result is wrong. I mean, there was total bias. When
Campaign. But tonight new reporting on what an fbi informant was actually investigating inside the trump camp. Plus Rudy Giuliani claims Robert Mueller has narrowed the scope of potential questions for donald trump, which would officially qualify as an interesting development. And were live in santa fe, texas, tonight where ten people are dead, ten wounded in a School Shooting outside houston as the 11th hour begins on a friday night. And good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Tonight the death toll is ten in santa fe, texas, following this nations latest mass School Shooting. The accused gunman is in custody. He is 17. Well have a live report from texas ahead in this broadcast, but first we begin with what was day 484 of the Trump Administration and the president s new attacks on the fbi. Stepping up the pressure on the bureau and the Justice Department as part of his latest moves to cast doubt on the entire russia investigation as led by Robert Muell