Firing Manafort News Today

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...

And the logic, by the way, of firing manafort. he has to fire mueller at the same time. incredible injustice. mueller is prosecuting innocent people and not fair and pardon michael flynn but none of that will change whats going on in the southern district of new york, which is more jeopardizing him than mueller is. >> okay. so, benjamin and then katty, please follow up. benjamin, this is a massive investigation, ultimately, about the national security of the united states of america. and whether...

>> a lot of people assuming its a probability. the reality, we saw today, p papadopoulos, low-level staffer. pay no attention. paul manafort was chair of the campaign. what we know, seeing both sides, really its been methodical the way theyre going through this and shouldnt expect to see an ending in the next few weeks. >> a secret, one of the defendants brought in a public defender. being caught off guard. you wouldnt bring in a public defender if you knew an arrest was coming down the pike. >>...