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win and sort of a good win is sometimes 10,000 votes. i want to put something up here. in 2006, 14 seats that democrats picked up were decided by 10,000 votes or less. in 2010, 16 seats that the republicans picked up were decided by 10,000 votes or less. so you only need a slice of those republican voters, suburban voters that they need to get chicken there when it comes to pelosi. nancy pelosi is an easy target and it s easy when you re campaigning as a nominee or candidate to say you would vote against nancy pelosi. when you get to d.c. and talk to nancy pelosi and talk to the people around the congress and realize that she s usually one of the only women in these high-level meetings, you realize that as the democratic party talks about wanting diversity, she is part of that diversity. of course she s in a tough place because there are so many democratic sources who say they re eager for fresh blood. you re l
unpresidential behavior that trump exhibits most in his rally and tweets that we excessively cov cover. bring on the coverage. the reaction like places of fox news, is this what everyone says leading up to the 2016 election. what a great idea, remember what happened the last time the media covered every tweet and rally and every word of donald trump and every wink and nudge became apart of the media s snark-nato, they elected donald trump, the bozos. is it a no win situation or if you are the president, no lose. i want to know what you think. smerconish.com, answer this question at this hour. does covering every one of president trump s speeches,
rallies and tweets and utter rans hurt or help the gop and trump s re-election. thank you for being late. tom, great to have you back. i would be remised if i did not say it in the out set. here you are of another summer of extreme weather. well, we can talk about that in a second, let s talk about this whole question of coverage of
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meaning in this other than you have to pay your taxes, and you can t lie on a loan application. time is going to tell who is to be trusted around here and who isn t. including everybody. we begin there with the president in crisis and the stunning fact, yes, fact, that the foundation of that crisis. the president of the united states is an unindicted co-conspirator in a felony campaign finance case. if that isn t enough, the special counsel won convictions on eight counts in his first major trial. that are the former campaign chairman paul manafort. the president s reaction today is beyond telling. he s attacking his longtime lawyer and fixer michael cohen who decided to cooperate with the feds and is praising paul manafort who the president says is refusing to break under pressure. both michael cohen and paul manafort face prison time. what now for the president is
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doesn t stop there. cohen s attorney tells msnbc he has information that bob mueller would want to know and is more than happy to start talking to the special counsel. meanwhile, paul manafort who two years ago literally ran donald trump s campaign is now a felon. he is facing serious prison time and like michael cohen sits atop this list of trump associates who are indicted or convicted criminals. that is a lot of witches. good morning, and welcome to morning joe on this wednesday, august 22nd. joe is off. he s tweeting. he ll be filing for the washington post. we ve put together an all-star lineup for this morning s incredible amount of news. a small law firm of legal experts, msnbc legal analyst danny savalas, john thnathan tu and barbara mcquade and two experts or the cohen stories
i do not think there s a parallel. we ll see what you come up with. a legal landslide like none other in the history of the presidency. what the conservative drudge report described as trump hell
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associate independent counsel for the watergate investigation and the clintons, and former ethics czar, belongs to a watchdog organization that filed multiple lawsuits against the trump administration, and also with us cnn legal and political commentator, former virginia attorney general. i ll start with you. the president in his own words admits to making the payment. your reaction? kim or ken? kim, go ahead. ken, we ll go to you next. all right. sorry, i misheard. go ahead, ken. who do you want to start? i think this is going to come down to whether or not this is deemed campaign efforts. the president long before his campaign had been in negotiation periodically with a couple of these women without keeping
as you talk about credibility though, you do bring up a good point. michael cohen has said a lot of different things about this payment. but i also want you to take what we just heard from the president