Doesnt stop there. Cohens attorney tells msnbc he has information that bob mueller would want to know and is more than happy to Start Talking to the Special Counsel. Meanwhile, Paul Manafort who two years ago literally ran Donald Trumps campaign is now a felon. He is facing serious prison time and like Michael Cohen sits atop this list of Trump Associates who are indicted or convicted criminals. That is a lot of witches. Good morning, and welcome to morning joe on this wednesday, august 22nd. Joe is off. Hes tweeting. Hell be filing for the Washington Post. Weve put together an allstar lineup for this mornings incredible amount of news. A Small Law Firm of legal experts, msnbc legal analyst danny savalas, John Thnathan Tu and Barbara Mcquade and two experts or the cohen stories
i do not think theres a parallel. Well see what you come up with. A legal landslide like none other in the history of the presidency. What the Conservative Drudge Report described as trump hell hour. His 2016 Ca
we ve seen, this is how trump world works. we ve seen it time and again i ve seen it personally. they knew exactly what they were doing. but then on top of that, go one statement after another attacking the judge, his wife, attacking the children, attacking all the other prosecutors, attacking the d.a. saying things that would lead to, again, the possibility of violence, of threats i guarantee you, all those people are facing an increase of security problems this morning and they knew exactly what they were doing i would say the line has already been crossed and any judge. i just got to say we re all talking about no man is above the law. the trump people are saying oh, they re doing things to donald trump they d never do to anybody. that s such a lie. they ve given him a wide birth already. any judge if any defendant i took into any court in
criticize the reaction or talk about how we make soft targets hard again, but that s it. but here s the problem, the ratingsings and i disagree with you, anemd i loved your monologue. you re the mos u, at brilliant man if knowth, but you put too much fah inu people sometimes. they re not stupid.n they know exactly what they reac doing. they knotlw if they have at leat six different shows withst different angles on this killern people are going to watch. greg: right. and theoing other networks ae going to go, guess what? we re going to have seven., and then there ll be eight. and then here comes punk a, ss ass politicians with we need to get rid of guns, work on mental health. they don t give a cam because they re getting checks from the lobbyists, from the nra. so there s only one way to do it. you, me, we ve got to turn the [bleep] tv off. no go one s going to do a a documentary [applause] on the little girl, her life that came up and she pulled ther fire alarm. nobody. but t
we tell these stories all the time. we have to change this country and make this country safe again. steve: since we were just talking about arizona. go one state over to california, there is a big race to see who the new mayor is going to be there. and chris pratt, the famous movie star, is actually backing rick caruso. rick caruso was a republican. then he turned independent. and now he identifies as a democrat. he came out and threw his weight behind his celebrity. i lived in l.a. for over 20 years. it s been great to me. in that time i have seen what many residents here have seen. city s gradual decline into pain and utter disarray. if you live here, you know exactly what i m talking about. and you look at some of the big stars. who have endorsed him it includes the biggest guy on twitter who actually owns twitter chris pratt, have you elon musk, gwyneth paltrow and snoop dogg. they are all concerned about
sunak. it will become a sticking point in the next few days, whatever happens was we are currently assuming that if the vote does go to the membership and it is between those two men then borisjohnson will win. he has in the past been immensely popular with party leadership. that might be quite a big assumption. we haven t got any recent polling of conservative minister go one. we know that rishi sunak didn t do too badly at all, a lot better than people thought he would do. he does have a base, he is fresh in peoples minds. it is not impossible that he will win. the bbc s current impossible that he will win. the bbc s current figures have rishi bbc s current figures have rishi sunak on 102 numbers. you mentioned figures that were different. you