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
cohen is flipping, turning state s evidence and that the chief executive of the nation s laws is coming out against turning state s evidence. this saline that has been crossed. again, we cannot go back. this should be examined thoroughly by historians the moment at which our nation turned a corner and unless republicans behave as if this is an abuse, a serious abuse, perhaps even an impeachable abuse we ll very much regret this moment and what we lost in it. there was an interesting strategic shift in the fox news clip before the previous one. a new defense. it started with well it s a witch-hunt. then you can t believe what people are saying. then it s not really a crime. his newest defense is well i m doing such a good job. he literally said the words out of his mouth were you would be poor without me. talk about a fascist line. john harwood, he literally said they can t impeach me because i m doing such a good job, the stock market would crash and