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that seeks to deny the real fears in the communities. as a result of historic racism exacerbated by a former president and media allies who describe the coronavirus pandemic as the china virus or kung flu for more than a year up to and as recently as this week. the right is doubling down on the violence trutherism with this comment from congresswoman chip roy. we believe in justice. there is an old saying in texas find the rope and get a tall oak tree. you know, we take justice very seriously. we ought to do that. round up the bad guys. my concern about this hearinging is that it seems to want to venture into the policing of rhetoric in a free society. now we are talking about whether talking about china, the chi coms, whatever phrasing we want to use, if some people say we think those people are the bad guys. i think the chinese communist party are the bad guys. and i think that they re harming people. those remarks prompted an immediate outcry, among these colleag ....
to tap into an authority that former president donald trump tried to use when he was president at something democrats decried and eventually it was struck down in the courts. but certainly this comes as biden in this trial trying to show he is doing more when it comes to border security at a time when republicans have tried to paint him as weak on the issue. okay. arlette saenz. thank you for the reporting from the white house thank you all for joining us this morning. i m alison camera radha, our next our of newsroom with wolf blitzer starts now you are in the cnn newsroom. i, wolf blitzer in washington. we re following the breaking news up on capitol hill right now, house republicans have been grilling the attorney general of the united states merrick garland. that s about to continue. merrick garland is being asked about supposedly spreading baseless let s conspiracy theories that have been going on. and the justice department is using alleged lawfare. this is what ....
the president right when he says witch hunt? yeah, sure. you can t explain this any other way. a gog. it s a word you don t see in newspapers often, in fact, i don t think i ve seen it before. it was in their report today of how people in the white house reacted toll rudy giuliani s performance. quote, the white house council had no idea, neither did the white house chief of staff nor the white house press secretary nor the new white house lawyer, they watched agog as he freestyled on live television wednesday night about the president s legal troubles and unveiled an explosive new fact that trump reimbursed his long time personal attorney michael cohen for the $130,000 paid to stormy daniels. rudy giuliani went on fox & friends to try to smooth over the mountain of lies and inconsistent statements now that have been told by donald trump and michael cohen about the stormy daniels payment. michael cohen s first statement about the stormy daniels payment was on february ....
doesn t stop there. cohen s 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 trump s 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. he s tweeting. he ll be filing for the washington post. we ve put together an all-star lineup for this morning s 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 there s a parallel. we ll 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 ....
The day s top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. that conversation obviously referencing david pecker, as well. we reached out for comment and we haven t heard back just yet. thanks so much. let s chat about this with our experts. another ally of the president s talking to authorities, the walls seem to be closing in a bit. it gives an indication of why the document was so thorough. they had the cooperation of david pecker. we don t know what more that means, how much and what other information pecker has that cohen wasn t aware of. a trump friend reportedly told vanity fair quote holy s, i thought pecker would be the last one to turn. i have to say this is a powerful guy and the fact that he is cooperating with authorities i find it is hard to believe he is doing it out of the goodness of his heart. it almost makes you think they put their pressure on david pecker. he is a powerful guy. he is covered as a media o ....