Threatening federal prosecutors. Today, the judge in that case could decide exactly how much he can talk about it. It comes as federal prosecutors are now pushing for a trial right after new years day. Cue up u2. Well have much more on trumps legal issues ahead. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is i mean, come on, man, its august. Its august. This is moving. This year is moving too fast. Its midaugust. You know, you get old like me, and it just flies, right . Its august 11th. With us, we have the host of way too early, White House Bureau chief at politico, Jonathan Lemire. Host of politics nations, wearing tan today, the reverend al sharpton. Looks good. Come on, man. President obama wore tan, and look what happened. It was a big news story. With me, its just another day. Can you believe that . That was a big news story. The president of the United States wearing tan in the white house. We have a the same people that were upset by that are now, like, hey, its really cool. We su
started. i am not resigning, i ve got a lot more work to do. you are not resigning? no, i m not resigning. so you ll stay and. i m staying. so don t worry, i ve got a lot more work. do you think you ll run for reelection? yes. yes you will? yeah, we re gonna keep the majority, i m going to help the people that are here, we re gonna expand it further. all right, so some not-so - from the first ever speaker to be ousted from his job. kevin mccarthy,k went from that that you just heard, to announcing that he will actually be resigning from the house of representatives at the end of the year. what a stunning turnaround. and yet, entirely predictable, given the radicalization of house republicans over the last several years. mccarthy follows two other leaders, erik kanter and paul ryan, the trio believe it or not, this is a real book, or once called the young guns of the gop. and now, as you can see, they are all out of congress. and yet, there is somethi
majority. plus, who is on the list? we are take you through some of the top names in trump s orbit that could testify against him in georgia s election interference case. and, another development in the fast moving abortion case coming out of texas. the state supreme court has now temporarily blocked an emergency abortion . i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. i am not resigning, i ve got a lot more work to do. you are not resigning? no, i m not resigning. so you ll stay and. i m staying. so don t worry, i ve got a lot more work. do you think you ll run for reelection? yes. yes you will? yeah, we re gonna keep the majority, i m going to help the people that are here, we re gonna expand it further. all right, so some not-so - from the first ever speaker to be ousted from his job. kevin mccarthy, who this week went from that that you just heard, to announcing that he will actually be resigning from the house of representatives at the end of the ye
Plus the president s latest hard right turn to try and sell trumpcare 2. 0. Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated. And from selling your Internet Browser history what the heck are you thinking . To rolling back protections for women. How trumps america is taking shape faster than you know. Would you like to make a change, folks . When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Amid a steady drip of news about trump worlds connections to russia and under the shadow of an unprecedented federal probe into possible collusion between a foreign adversary and the sitting president s campaign, the white house and the gop is in full change the subject mode. The scandal is not what we know, its how we know it. In a throw back to the benghazi days, theyve got a familiar scapegoat. Former National Security adviser
susan rice. I believe susan rice abused the system, and she did it for political purposes. She needs to be brought in and questioned under oath.
Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Job Approval Rating probably has seven or eight points, maybe even a little more of what i think of as 401 k trumpers right now. I think there are people who are looking at their statements, people who are on the right side of the economic equation any way. They see their numbers going up for all sorts of reasons. And so theyre willing to not really dive in to this russian novel story that no one can quite figure out. And theyre willing to suspend their bizarrely in my view, but they are willing to suspend their ordinary moral judgments about how this president conducts himself and is now representing us on the world stage. But i would not, if i were in the white house, count on that lasting until 2020. Well see. Joe, your latest column in the Washington Post really speaks to this entitled trump finally
feels gravitys unforgiving poll and reads in part