Argue it is a distraction to move our eyes from russia. The same speech they always give. I dont know what in particular provoked this response. Behindthescenes the Trump Administration has been working to erode support for irans leaders including launching a new media outlet to help uranium is get around internet censorship. Not only television but radio, digital and social media so ordinary iranians in iran and around the world can know that america stands with them. Reporter back to some of these potential agreements with north korea, one of the things to be watching for is the possibility that some of the remains of Fallen Service men and women in the korean war, a possibility their remains could be coming back to the United States as early as friday. The date is important because
this friday is the anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended the korean war. Thank you very much. The Associated Press Definable Trump doctrine as suffer no slights and counterpunch harder th
Takes the stand in the trial of former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. Will the jury hear what rick gates has already revealed to prosecutors . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Breaking news. The governments key witness is now testifying in the trial of the former trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. That comes as President Trump is urged to stop tweeting about that 2016 Trump Tower Meeting between his top advisers including manafort and several russians. A source tells cnn is president is told his tweets are only giving oxygen to the topic. That followed the president s stunning Weekend Admission via twitter that the meeting indeed was about getting dirt on Hillary Clinton which he insists was totally legal. Ill speak with congressman and
correspondents and specialists with full Coverage Lets First Go To Chief White House Correspondent jim acosta covering the president in new jersey. Hes letting his twitter fingers do the talking. Reporter absolutely, wolff of. The pre
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
Everything is on the up and up, if this was a peft call, you would want even to go and tell your story and the fact they havent done so to me is incredibly telling. Mark, garrett, who i hope is getting a chance to read through these 17 pages of the summary, the preface to the report. Ive asked you this before. Listen, if theres no wrong doing and perry or mulvaney wanted to fund the president , republicans, you got your shot to call some people. Over to katy tur. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. Were following Breaking News at this hour. The Intelligence Committee has just released its report on the impeachment inquiry. House democrats say in no Uncertain Terms the president personally solicit Election Interference from a foreign governmecountry, quote, the evi overwhelming and so, too, is the evidence of his obstruction of congress. Joining me now is garrett and
jake. Also with us, former intel staffer, mika. Everybody, welcome. Garrett, you were just talking with stephanie and al
And the controlling law. Use of an obstruction theory from the Mueller Report would be unsupported, unsupportable in the house and unsustainable in the senate. Do you remember writing that . Yes, i do. Why did you write that . Because i think its true. The fact is that this was reviewed by main justice. The special counsel did not reach a conclusion on obstruction. He should have. I think his justification quite frankly was a bit absurd on not reaching a conclusion. But the attorney general, Deputy Attorney general, did and they came to the right conclusion. I dont think this is a real case for obstruction. But then this body would be impeaching the president on the basis of the inverse conclusion. I dont believe it would be appropriate. The gentlemans time has expired. Ms. Dean. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Words matter. In my earlier life, professors, i was a professor of writing. I taught my students to be
careful and clear about what they put to paper. That is a lesson that the framers