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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 ack...

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Voters who will flip because trump voters dont flip, its almost a religion at this point, but about democratic voters who for whatever reason wurp erent motivated in 2016. all of the clips they saw, the things they heard, it didnt frighten them enough to stand in line necessarily. hics turn out rate actually went down, and what shes seen in the numbers from 2018 is those voters are no longer complacent and its the lack of complacency thats going to be the difference. >> first building off what n...

Fbi and the department of justice was copping after him, and the president and his people were certainly concerned where michael cohen stood. and when you look at all of this, the fact that theyre doing this backchild communication to rudy giuliani, that somehow getting to the president you have to wonder what else could this possibly be. and, you know, a lot of focus has always been on whether robert mueller is looking at obstruction, but it very well could be that this issue is well before the...

Frankie five angels is going to testify against the family and they go and get his brother from sicily to sit in the courtroom to shame him into not testifying because that would be dishonorable. this is trump saying to manafort, dont break. dont break. dont flip. i respect you. youre wonderful. what a great guy. dont break. and i guess in there is the hint that he might pardon him. >> by the way, i thought that godfather analogy, i thought they were going to kill the brother. but what i find am...

Trial is very sad when you look at whats going on there. i think its a very sad day for our country. he worked for me for a very short period of time, but you know what, it happens to be a very good person. and i think its very sad what theyve done to paul manafort. >> okay, he was his campaign chairman for many months. april, the point is he dangling out again a pardon to paul manafort. hey, buddy, if you get sentenced to 100 years, 150 years, whatever it is, dont flip. im telling you. is he se...

>> that makes it interesting. if this is a trial balloon, michael cohen getting the message out there that i have got problems and this could go the wrong way, tell me how you see this playing out. because it has to be the worst news possible after donald trump crowin about his north korea summit that maybe michael cohens considering flipping. l >> well, lets go to a number of different points here. one is trump sent out a signal a lot earlier when he said i dont see it that michael cohen is goi...

True legal advice. there is a distinction. i think cohen is learning that the hard way. >> what liz holtzman is the best route for the president right now? we have to keep in context there is a lot going on for paul manafort. every time paul manafort reaches outside of the realm in which he is supposed to stay becau he is charged with federal crimes he g in trouble for it. he gets smacked. may have his bail revoked. the president h people who i think its important to realize, paul manafort was i...

You have potential on michael cohens part you have potential professional ethics violations as well. we dont know the whole story here. >> right. >> so in could be other things going on. >> but ultimately until now, michael cohen has been denying he was reimbursed for this, denying all sorts of things. is this trump sending him a message through rudy giuliani that it wasnt your fault, this wasnt your transaction, dont flip on us. >> well, i think its quite clear that trump doesnt want him to thf...

President trump to pardoning his personal attorney, michael cohen. do you see any indications that the president would not pardon cohen? >> well, its very hard to say, i mean, i -- you know, he is obviously dangling a pardon before michael cohen, in all but explicit tirms, but michael cohen hasnt been indicted yet and he may never be, so, there may be no reason to pardon him. but, you know, it is worth pausing to consider, you know, again, what it would be like if hillary clinton were president ...