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
republican, when he said i believe this was in july of 2020 that we really should consider using the national guard if mostly peaceful riots get out of control. he had this editorial in the new york times and then the editor, who won a pulitzer was shown the door because he had the audacity to allow specter out there. you are right. the same the washington post that called senator cotton. you can go look it up. a crazy conspiracy theorist having audacity covid-19 was created in a wuhan lab. turns out he is right on that one. ask john stuart from the left. any apologies or ajustments coming on that one? why is the headline still, will, quote, murders, undocumented immigrants grants behind up claims who is getting stimulus checks, question mark. along with a photo of cotton below it if you look at the headline in the photo and many do when scrolling through social media you would assume that cotton was lying about that and he is not. so misleading, such a lie. and, look, many fact ch
approaches, well funded social services, those are things that actually work. that shouldn t be a radical idea, especially, especially, if those funds come from bloated police budgets which continues to be an institution that is not actually giving a good return on that investment. they sell themselves as being able to prevent and solve crime, but over the years have simply not done a good job with that. there is no reason why we should keep trying the same things and expect a different result. james foreman the professor at yale law, a colleague, wrote this in 2017, won a pulitzer, one of the points he makes is that there were these calls from neighborhoods that were undergoing tremendously traumatic levels of violence, more police presence and community investment. and when it got to the
in a survey, 63% of american jews have experienced or witnessed anti-semitism. in tuesday, people were pelted with glass bottles, attacked by people waving palestinian flags. a conflict thousands of miles away triggering anti-semitic violence on u.s. streets. stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york. we turn to breaking news in washington. a new roadblock in the president s hopes reaching a deal on infrastructure with republicans. the white house now says the ball is in the gop s court. plus, the republican control machine, from voting rights to reproductive rights, even filtering what american s youth learns about its country s. what are republicans up to. a reporter who won a pulitzer for donald trump s financial claims. what to make of the latest investigations into the trump
you involve alcohol and the passage of time, there is no forensic evidence. there is nothing to the fbi will be able to do to find out the truth here. all they have is a smear laura: he said-she said, guys. i want to restate what the new york times said in the 16th paragraph of their piece today. that the accuser in this most recent case, herself, was calling around her friends. after six days, she was able to remember this. oh, she was being prodded, clearly by the democrats and activists. i don t blame her for this. 16 paragraphs you learn that she called people but they couldn t get anyone to corroborate her, and then one of them at least third, she couldn t even be sure if it was brett. the reason the new york times didn t go with this is because it was a ridiculous story. ronan farrow, who i think i ve done some great work, won a pulitzer, not for this type of