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
Were complaining the lack of direct testimony that democrats were bringing, Rudy Giuliani would be the ultimate direct witness. He certainly would. Joy vance, thank you for joining us. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. Tonight the late warning of another Government Employee breaks the silence on the Impeachment Inquiry as we are hours away from a veteran former ambassador who says she felt threatened by her own government while working for the u. S. Overseas. What words were they talking about . Cameras capture the conversation between the president and his Attorney General despite waiting for the helicopter in the backyard. The speaker compares the president to nixon and spells out the crimes she believes hes
guilty of. All of it as The 11th Hour gets underway on a thursday night. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 1,029 of the trump administration. A day between this weeks public impeachmentme hearings. The president flew to louis
on the main ball, the main ball is ellsberg, we ve got to get the son of a bitch. reporter: ellsberg s case enended, upheleld the righght to publblish from m a landmarkrk mt for ththe free preress. depicted in the 2017 film the post. government secrets. reporter: ellsberg remained a fierce advocate of exposing government secrets. what i am working out is to try to alert people to the danger before the alarm sounds. reporter: had near kissinger, a top advisor to nixon, once called ellsberg the most dangerous man in america. that may have been an exaggeration, but his status as one of the nation s most important whistle-blowers was not. major garrett, cbs news, washington. norah: switching gears now to our weeklong series, the future of cars, many new vehicles rolling off the assembly line have eliminated the traditional dashboards and replaced them with high-tech touchscreens beard cbs s
whatnot. he became quite famous for it. in some ways, what s the word i m looking for, he s a harbinger of the modern culture. infamy and bad behavior make you famous. you are rewarded for it. he was a guy that wanted to be famous. there s no other way of putting. it he was desperate to be famous. he bounced around the fbi. he tried to run for office. when all of that didn t happen, he sort of swore allegiance to nixon. just felt like this man will take care of me. even when faced with the fact that nixon thought he was kind of an idiot, he held, he continued to believe. it s the true believer is and we see it all over politics right now. it s so dangerous. true believers from hitler to nixon. it tells you everything you need to know. i have to ask, david, does watergate still have the same shock value as a political
is the speaker of the house of representatives one of the mos important figures in our democracy saying, essentially, has used different language, but the effort against trump t hold him accountable for possible criminal defenses this is a witch hunt the house should withhol against money, they should investigate the da alvin bragg that, we have never seen befor in american history and it i frightening and i hope we neve see it again of, course alvin bragg, interestingly, i don t think you respond to, that we wrote letter back saying you have no jurisdiction this matter and he was absolutely right that said, do you think, at the end of this, whatever come of this thing, convictions o acquittals or all of the other seven cases. do you think that there is som opportunity in the next fe years for there to be reconciliation in this country i think so. you look at moments in america history when the country seeme on the brink, even durin