that s different than his, perhaps, more gran yu that s different than his, perhaps, more gran ylar daily gripes on twitter where he s talking about former fbi employees, lisa page and peter strzok or bruce ohr, someone who s currently at the justice department who he s threatened w withdraw his security clearance. those are individual cases. the justice department doesn t comment on those. today it was digit becaufferent it was about the attorney general s control over the justice department and felt like it was time to push back and this, oching of courf course, i. he rarely does this. he always, as every single event, sessions goes out of his way to praise the president. to talk about furtherering his agenda. but the one time that he did push back was back in february where, again, the president questioned his integrity. he said what the attorney general had been doing at the justice department surrounding carter page, and surveillance and fisa, those issues that have become also
essentially an unindicted co-conspirator. yesterday we saw how the judicial system is supposed to work. now, in a functioning congress, all of the lights would be blinking red today. in a functioning congress, the outgoing house speaker would be directing the outgoing house judiciary chair to be beginning the very similar process of investigating cohen s investigations. i wouldn t say you start an impeachment hearing, but you start the process. the president was accused of committing a crime in a federal courtroom. and if enough evidence is found in a functioning congress the committee would begin to draw up articles of impeachment. of course this isn t a functioning congress. right now it is sort of not around, controlled by republicans w.h.ho have been unwilling to hold its party leader accountable. is there a point riepublicans will decide enough is enough and abandon ship? the house isn t in washington
but here s what some senate republicans said today. these are serious charg
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has gone through. you know, he worked for ronald reagan for years. he worked for bob dole. his firm worked for mccain. he worked for many, many people, many, many years. and i would say what he did, some of the charges they threw against him, every consultant, every lobbyist in washington probably does. we are a long way from drain the swamp, unless you are paul manafort and you do what everybody else also does. the president was asked about michael cohen, his longtime attorney, somebody who worked for him for more than a decade. he is trying to distance himself now from michael cohen, who has pleaded guilty to eight felony charges and implicated the president in the campaign finance violations to which he pled guilty. this comes, of course, as the specter of michael cohen and what he could possibly say to prosecutors furthe
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 trump s former lawyer implicating him in his guilty plea yesterday. trump appeared to acknowledge his attorney s campaign finance violation and then walked it back in an interview all while maintaining it s not a crime and say he blamed attorney general jeff sessions for his former lawyer s prosecution. the president tweeted, michael
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didn t come out of the campaign and that s big. but they weren t, it s not even a campaign violation. if y
relishing that, as well. boris sanchez at the white house, thank you. let s dig into the poll numbers with our guests, former u.s. attorney and former deputy attorney general harry litman and kelly jane torrance. guys, the polls for neil gorsuch showed he had 29%. why do you think kavanagh s support at just 37% is so low? i think it actually reflects the overall support for the president which is low and falling. of course, they haven t heard from kavanagh yet. it is, of course, exquisitely close in the senate, as well, but if 51 republicans who overall, by the way, represent only about 40% of the population wind up voting for him as seems to be the indication for now,
before any of that comes to the floor you just mentioned two really important memos he wrote in the 90s. you are going to see a major storm starting on tuesday, democrats complaining that to date they have gotten less than ten percent of the memos that he produced during that time and zero from when he was staf