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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...

Thursday to meet with state and local leaders on his plan to combat violent crime. the presidents message delivered a blow to the controversial defunded the police movement. >> the answer is not to defunded the police, its to give you the tools of training, funding to be partners, to be protectors and the community needs you. [applause]. police need to treat everyone with respect and dignity and thats why i called on congress to pass a budget later this year provides a cities like new york and o...

Summer of 2020 and what they got. how many das went easy on them because they thought it was a righteous cause and therefore, because there was a peaceful protest somewhere else in the city, you are entitled to loot and entitled to burn and entitled to riot. no. and id like to see that compared to january 6th convictions brought there. the public should hear whether or not justice was fair. if you broke the law, the book should be thrown at you. especially when you break the law for violence, ri...

Frustrated by state legislatures, city councils and by local das. >> gillian: weve got to leave it there. thanks for your time this afternoon. >> mike: president biden taking questions of the democracy forum. democracy summit on inflation. lets listen in. >> president biden: i will look at what the supreme court said. i dont know what it said. i dont know what it said because the last three hours i have been involved with bob doles eulogy and funeral. >> the law remains intact. >> im not going t...

The box dangerously veered toward commenting on the defendants failure to speak with police when he was in custody early on. this gave the judge the opportunity to go bull boar on them. it likely created some bad impressions with the jury. their handling of the judge throughout was problematic. >> danny, it did obviously when youre the defense lawyer and you see the prosecution is in the judges cross hairs, you stay out of the way, i assume? >> yeah, but 90% of the time, i mean, maybe this is ju...

We dont have that situation here. >> i think one of the formative figures of this year once history looks back on it, it will be barr and what barr has done to shield president trump through the mueller report, through the release of the inspector generals report. there are all these ways in which barr has acted as the opposite of the intents of a federal agent -- >> i think where we are is we actually have to accept, were so used to the federal government coming in and saving that weve kept loo...

The question about federal versus state. i work a lot with federal and state law enforcement, so youve got attorney general sessions really pushing on crime, immigration, ms-13, thats what youll hear him say. you were talking a lot about public corruption and really white collar cases. how do you see yourself, if youre in new york, really working with the federal government in terms of investigations and law enforcement? >> well, clearly its going to be important to work with the mueller investi...

Investigate after the fact. we have a lot of resources to help those local law enforcement officials. we also, in this case it wouldnt necessarily be needed, but we also will step in and prosecute if were can asked by local d.a.s. many of these small counties will ask us. obviously, this gunmans dead, so its unlikely were going to have any prosecution, but those are two ways we typically assist local d. a.s. arthel: and, of course, this investigation is very much in the early stages as this horr...