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to carry a gun. the justices this morning throwing out a new york law that required residents to prove they had a reason to carry a gun outside the home. the ruling was 6-3 with justice clarence thomas writing for the conservative majority. he said the special cause to carry a concealed handgun was a violation of the second amendment right to bear arms. we have more details on this dramatic decision. >> reporter: the immediate affect is to strike down this gun law in new york. it requi...

Doesnt stop there. Cohens 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 Trumps 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. Jo...

Answer a lot of questions. the history and tradition will do a lot of work in the future. thats why this is a block buster case. the court says you dont need an exact duplicate in 1791 of a regulation that is -- they need analog, but at what level of generality. there are regulations in 1791 about taking guns to fairs and markets. is modern superdome like that? is it because taking guns into crowded places was dangerous. hence the regulations that taking a gun onto an airport could be prohibited...

>> yeah. i think that this should be viewed at nothing short of a full victory for the special counsel. you know, hes guilty on eight felony counts. so the fact that the jury found, was unable to reach a verdict on the other counts really is, i think, not significant. if i were special counsel i would not continue with another trial. youve got the washington, d.c. case, and the exposure of the sentencing here is going to be just as high as it would be if convicted of those counts. the judge is p...

York state plays a special role because donald trumps foundation is here, his organization is here and if you look at what happened yesterday, you can see that the lines between the foundation and the organization and the campaign just from news reports are very blurred. barbara underwood brought this really critical, civil action in june. its a block buster case about the donald trump foundation, but we already know enough to know that we need investigations into the organization as well. this ...

Committed crimes either with him or that he knows about. and that is very unusual given the fact that as lanny davis just says, michael cohen is willing to speak to mueller, he is willing to speak to the southern district. im a little perplexed. i know my colleagues have their reasons for doing what they do. but it does seem like this criminal information that was filed yesterday was written as an indictment, ready to go to a grand jury, ready to get an arrest warrant and to arrest michael cohen...

I do think that already, obviously, this is breaking along political lines. so democrats are predictably arguing that would, in fact, be the wrong thing to do and there are republicans who are also trying to send megs to president trump, which we know they often do, through the tv cameras. look at some reaction from yesterday. >> we do have a problem if the president were to pardon manafort. >> if he was, what? >> were to pardon manafort. >> thats above my pay grade. thats the presidents choice,...

Emily jane fox and joining the conversation, joyce vance. former assistant united states attorney in the criminal division of the u.s. attorneys office for the southern district of new york, daniel goldman and former fbi special agent and msnbc contributor clint watts joins us as well. also with us, pulitzer prize winning columnist eugene robinson. great to have everybody on board on this huge news day. president trump spoke yesterday about the guilty verdict in the manafort trial. well get to t...

>> yeah. i dont know what the other options would be, but lets talk about that d.c. trial he faces next month. danny cevallosa va cevallos -- where does that take us? >> originally the mueller team reached out to manaforts team and said will you waive venue and let us charge you completely in d.c.? manaforts team may have simply followed the old rule in the defense bar of just, dont agree to anything the prosecution is asking you to do, or perhaps they want add more favorable venue in the easter...

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