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and the president needs something to energize his base. nothing would energize republicans more than let s save the president. good to see you and welcome back. a morgan, let me just try and start with you. because giuliani is now saying maybe this whole investigation will help republicans come november. well, yeah, i think the president has actually said that himself at amou lot of these rallies, of they re going to try to impeach me, to motivate his base. they re looking for things to galvanize their base, and the president tends to turn things on their heads. he wants to energize the base, will it work? i think one thing law enforcement tends to be bad at and that eegsz mo s politics. The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. the president s team doesn ting want doesn t want to do that especially this close to the election. but their jobs are to protect him. rudy giuliani is not a trial attorney, so he s not representing the president in a ....
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 trump s former lawyer implicating him in his guilty plea yesterday. trump appeared to acknowledge his attorney s campaign finance violation and then walked it back in an interview all while maintaining it s not a crime and say he blamed attorney general jeff sessions for his former lawyer s prosecution. the president tweeted, michael Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. didn t come out of the campaign and that s big. but they weren t, it s not even a campaign violat ....
which was, oddly, congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz s office in sunrise, florida. of course she didn t send that package. the exact same return address, we should note, was used for clinton s and obamas packages. devices were also sent to democratic congresswoman maxine waters on capitol hill. they re still trying to figure out if it s tied to these other incidents, as well as one sent to liberal billionaire and philanthropist george soros and to cnn s headquarters where it was addressed to john brennan, former cia director. this is the device that was sent to the time warner center. as i said, it was addressed to president obama s cia director, john brennan, a vocal critic of president trump. now the packages are being described as rudimentary but operative explosive devices, leading investigators to fear the intent was to kill and to kill a lot of people. no, thankfully, none of the devices went off and while we don t know the suspect or his or her or their motive, law enf ....
the shutdown meeting when he walked out. exactly, that s according to two democratic sources with knowledge of that meeting. we ll hear from senator schumer and speaker pelosi any moment now. but that s it for me. andrea mitchell picking things up right now. i ll see you tomorrow morning. what a day. craig melvin, thank you. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we are awaiting comments at any moment from house speaker nancy pelosi and senate democratic leader chuck schumer. moments after president trump suddenly appeared in the rose garden to lash out at them, pouncing on comments pelosi had made this morning, that the president had engaged in a cover-up, comments she made in part to slow her own caucus march to impeachment. the president walking out of that pre-arranged meeting over infrastructure and trade with pelosi and schumer, and leading democrats on capitol hill. here s part of it. instead of walking in happily into a meefg, i walk into look at people that had ....
correct. you found in your investigation july 27th, candidate trump called on russia to hack hillary clinton s e-mail for the first time they did about five hours later, correct? that s correct. you found august 2 that mr. manafort met with a person tied to russian intelligence, mr. kilimnik, gave him internal campaign strategy where russia was intending to do a misinformation campaign. i m not certain of the tie. the fact of the meeting yes, that is accurate. your investigation as i understand it also found that in late summer of 2016, the trump campaign in fact devised its strategy and messaging around wikileaks releases of materials that were stolen from the democratic national committee, correct? is that from the report? yes. according to mr. gates. yes. thank you. you also talked earlier about the finding in your investigation in september and october of 2016, donald trump jr. had e-mail communications with wikileaks now indicted about releasin ....