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
holocaust survivor. when michael first got arrested, the amount of texts and tweets he got, you re the guy standing as they re putting jews in the oven. your dad is a holocaust survivor. you re standing by. and that shook him to his core. he s like, wait a minute, my dad is a holocaust survivor. obviously he s a bridge along the way, but when he started getting the texts i m sorry, this was after charlottesville where at this point still he hadn t turned yet and it was like you re standing by and allowing this to happen. he s like, i am not standing by. i am so offended. i am so shaken to my core. so these were all pieces of the puzzle and, you know, if that conversation did happen with his father, because i know as far as his family and his children and all of us, this gets to our core. it very well might have. but i have a problem with someone wrapping themselves in