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Waste my time. thats not out of anger. thats just out of -- ive seen it a thousands times before. im just saying if im feeling that way, even trump supporters have got to start feeling that way. yeah, hes going to lie. hes going to go in all caps. its all nonsense. he is just speaking to himself. >> but you have to define what you just said. what does after a while mean? i mean, were 18, 19 months into his presidency and we continue to read these tweets on tv, giving them enormous exposure, enor...

♪ keep it comin love. if you keep on eating, well keep it comin. all you can eat riblets and tenders at applebees. now thats eatin good in the neighborhood. welcome back to "morning joe." youre looking at live shots of washington, d.c. its july, 23rd. with us we have msnbc contributor, mike barnacle, national affairs nationalist for nbc and msnbc, john heilemann, political writer for new york times and msnbc political analyst, nick confessorry and joining the discussion, professor at history...

You would nip that in the bud immediately. no. this is dangerous. >> instead theyre saying have another. >> theyre digging in and letting him continue to add to just the myriad of issues that donald trump faces. and even from the michael cohen comment saying, oh, well they might have discussed the russian investigation, throwing them into that, its making everything worse. >> the problem is there are legal consequences to this. nick, this is not just them bumbling around about some political iss...

2004. there was a feeling inside the green zone that you were chosen for your loyalty to the white house. it was a political operation above all. it was not about the kind of boring details about electricity generation or the recruitment of the iraqi police force. over time, there was a disconnect between what was going on inside and outside and i heard this from people like larry wilkerson who were colin powells chief of staff. he said at the time our government chose people on the basis of loy...

My generation can tell you, the only thing more dangerous than dishonest politicians who have no respect for the law is a chorus of enablers who defend their every lie. >> thats what you said in your piece. thats amazing. welcome back to "morning joe," its monday, may 14. still with us, we have the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass. political writer for the "new york times," nick confessore. co-founder and ceo of axios, jim vandehei. former aid to the george w. bush ...

With dewine as the nominee, you might look at that and say thats a ten-point trump state, that might be advantage to the republicans there. >> steve kornacki, thank you very much. great to have you on. still ahead this morning, senators jeff flake and tim kaine react to president trump pulling out of the iran nuclear deal. plus, nick confessorry sums this up, russians pay trump associate and trump associate pays off porn stars and corporation pay trump associate for advice all in one story. ...

He said, listen, what they did in the southern district of new york where they moved the case that didnt fit neatly in to your area, robert mueller, they moved it there. why didnt you do it in virginia? that may be a more relevant way to -- better way to do it than legally than the way that youve done it here. but yet nick confessorry -- thats basically what hes saying. i think maybe you should kick this back to the eastern district and have them do for manafort what the southern district of new...

Theres a second big wave to this story. >> nick confessorry, one of the things i dont understand about michael cohen, the finances and these payoffs and him having to take out a loan against his in-laws houses, you read in the times and "the washington post" this is a guy whose father-in-law was connected, i believe, to ukrainian mobsters, as far as at least they rented out his hall. he had an interest in that. he sells real estate, makes 25 million in profit. all these massive numbers out there...

Legal community would disagree. its hard for me to see anything in the mueller investigation that doesnt constitute standard investigative technique for him to push hard on the campaign manager for donald trump on these other issues and to attempt to induce his cooperation on the matters that are squarely within his mandate doesnt seem exceptional. but the i think the white house tugt be careful not to push that talking point too hard because they may be embarrassed by the outcome. >> nick. >> a...

Or on a twitter feed. its another thing to have them being said by a person who controls those institutions. although the justice department, the fbi are by tradition independent from the white house, they are still the people who work there, they are still under the control formerly of the white house. so when the president talks about jailing his political components, talks about mobilizing the law enforcement institutions at his disposal against those people in that way, its profoundly troubl...