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
of democratic deliberation. what are the effects of this constant, shall we say trafficking in the untruth or in this instance a lie? for pun departmedits to talke impact of democracy but i don t think it s necessarily working for the president. you look at the approval ratings he has despite a booming stock market and a pretty good economy, that the erosion of his credibility is something that is hurting him. and previous presidents, when they were caught in a lie, you think of nixon and the bombing of cambodia or dwight eisenhower and the lying about the u2 flights. those things undermine their credibility. bill clinton and monica lewinsky. it s not a add that on top of, you know, his repeated misstatements and falsehoods, i