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
but, you know, the adthat this is reverse racism against white farmers ignores basically a century of history. it s damaging for trump to weigh in on policy in this matter and i will note one thing. this is the first time that as president he s tweeted about africa or used the word africa in a tweet and for him to do it in this particular fashion is gross. predictions yesterday morning was that he would jump into the arms of fox hosts and tweet about a foreign country, trying to deflect. strangely the news headlines are so big and so serious and the facts are so strong that the deflections don t appear to be working. coming up investigators in new york subpoena michael cohen for information on its investigation into the trump fusion. we ll talk to the washington post reporter who won a pulitzer for his reporting on