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
at the various statements that the president or his associates have made on his behalf regarding these payments, and it is clear from the very beginning that he knew about the payments, he was involved in discussions about the payments, and yet, you know, told the american people repeatedly he didn t know about it. so, it left us no choice but to actually use that word lie. how about the dysfunctional brain defense. he s just a flighty guy. if you re going into intent and use that l word which should be used thousands of times, how about, to use mika s analogy this flipping fish on the dock and his reality on any given moment for him is not a lie. well, that s a very good point. i think the president is very situational. he may well believe what he says at the moment when he is saying