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
it s not over. juan: joe donnelly said he would vote against and he s leading in indiana. dana: if you look at the enthusiasm polls, you get people out there, you would think president trump would try to head to indiana, tried to close that all about more. it s going to be close but the republicans have a chance to pick up a seat or two in the senate. juan: jesse, you see the generic ballot right now according to real clear politics. democrats still up, i guess seven points. what do you make of this? jesse: it takes into account a large span of these polls. he looked the most generic matchups, leads have shrunk to 2%, 4%, 6%. it s good news for republicans. i think would happen here is the american people have a very good b.s. meter. they know one things are fishy and they can fill in their hearts when someone s being attacked unfairly. the media tried to pull a fast one on people and so did democrats.
if he says, i no longer support trump, the republican base turns on him. if he says i support trump, he sells his soul. his wife is in the cabinet. it s not good. mika, let me ask a stupid question since we re on the stupid line to john s point about let s do business as usual. the reality going into that fox poll is that basically and this is the signature work of the trump administration so far has been the tax plan. that is 11% less popular than the signature work of the obama administration, which is, of course, obama care. you take the enthusiasm polls and optimism which is down 11 points going in the right direction and you take the president on tand other than th core republicans nobody else thinks the economy is going in the right direction. hard for them to run on business as usual at this point. look, we ve got so much to cover and so much more to get
independents. so where are they going to get those people? they have to turn some obama 08 voters into romney voters. that ad is aimed straight at that. you ll notice the message on the screen during that ad was about jobs for women. bill: yeah. thank you, brit hume. bill: they are looking at voter enthusiasm polls too which show a favor towards republicans and we ll see whether or not that stands up in 30 days or so. we ll see you a bit later today, and we ll watch governor romney s speech 11:20am eastern time and get your reaction on that. we ll talk to a senior advice eupl for thadviser for the romney team. that is come up on fox. turkey returning fire on syria after another mortar rounds hits turkish territory. this is the 6th straight day
dollars to win a nomination. maybe this will be the first of its kind where maybe he pulls its off without having that huge groundswell support. one thing the republicans have on their side, in the enthusiasm polls the republicans are more enthusiastic about going to vote a year and a month or so, from receipt right now. that will help the republicans. that could be a reason why the president of the united states is out on what sure looks like a presidential re-election campaign but it is not. just a campaign, to push the jobs deal. yesterday he picked at the republicans for not passing it. what he doesn t mention is there were also democrats would voted against it. however, here is the president. maybe they just couldn t understand the whole thing all at once. so, we re going to break it up into bite-sized pieces so they can take a in theful approach to this legislation. you have to the wonder to