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Us on this tuesday morning. Morning joe starts right now. Then we got to the Porn Starriness. Trumps defense, i never slept to Stormy Daniels and didnt pay her to be quiet. Michael cohen paid her to be quiet. Hes such a great guy who i hope is torn apart by wild dogs. And i only paid him what i thought were legal fees. If i did anything at all, i did everything, which i didnt do, to protect my wife from finding out about the things i never did. Stephen colbert. Well go through the consequential ...

thursday night. he could break that trend, show up more disciplined in our message thanks for joining us. the source starts now strike from the source. >> tonights substance and stamp it out. we have no reporting on the final phase of president bidens preparations as trump world is doubling down on a ridiculous accusation, 48 hours away from the historic debate right here on cnn, house speaker mike johnson well, join me live plus the polls have just closed in the most expensive house p...

source tonights substance and stammered out. >> we have no reporting on the final phase of president bidens preparations as trump world is doubling down on a ridiculous accusation 48, hours away from the historic debate right here on cnn, house speaker mike johnson will join me live. >> plus the polls have just close in the most expensive house primary ever. >> a member of the so-called squad is fighting for his political life. and its also judgment time for republican lauren boebert, ...

Please? >> really remarkable there, the casual nature of that conversation where he is clearly claiming to be discussing some of the nations most sensitive secrets. now in a statement tonight the former president spokesman said that this in part clarifies that the former president did nothing wrong. >> okay, laura, i want to get your take on that. you hear the former president say, quote, these are the papers, he calls them, quote, highly confidential secret information. so here is a question fo...

The transcript. >> you make an excellent point. >> that is such an important point. >> well talk more about lindsey graham in a second. also, one year after being fired by president trump, former attorney general jeff sessions is going to announce hes running for his old senate seat. so how will the president respond to that? dana-farber cancer institute discovered the pd-l1 pathway. pd-l1. they changed how the world fights cancer. blocking the pd-l1 protein, lets the immune system attack, att...

Basically there was no thing of value, therefore the president broke no laws. the doj had that with regard to the whistle-blowers report. it would seem theres a limit to how far bill barr is willin to go to sully his reputation. >> it raises questions about that. it raises questions if theres a line between barr and giuliani. maybe barr wont lift a finger. i want to talk about these public impeachment hearings. the first witness will be ambassador bill taylor. the top diplomat in ukraine. and th...

Political correspondent abby phillip. >> the knowing look you just gave me is you think something is going on there. that he declined to do so. what did that mean? >> heres why i have that knowing look. hes done it in the past. of course president trump would think bill barr would defend him. he was the first to misleading summary. why wouldnt president trump think that bill barr was going to do it again? why didnt bill barr want to come out and do that? >> thats the real question. why didnt he ...

Facing part of this. just convincing the american public its not just that this was inappropriate. it was also dangerous. >> right. and one of the things we learned from testimony is hes saying, look. russia is happy about this. the president may think he benefits politically from this, but vladimir putin is benefitting geopolitically. those are the stakes whenever dealing with ukraine. with regard to the televised hearings, when the american people see something as well as read about it, it wil...

Put out a statement saying we dont know anything about this. we are not involved in this in any way. bill barr has never investigated joe biden or has never been asked to. and when mick mulvaney claimed this effort was part of some legitimate justice investigation, the department put out a blind statement saying we dont know what hes talking about. there seems to be a line here they dont want to cross. and it goes to show just how inappropriate some people think this whole saga is. it is clearly...

Quo with ukraine. with trump freezing military aid in exchange for ukraine announcing investigations against the presidents rivals for political gain. trumps republican allies continue to change their defenses. including highlighting this part of curt volkers testimony telling lawmakers, i didnt know there was a quid pro quo. >> his account is consistent with the fundamental facts. there was nothing wrong on the call transcript. >>. >> reporter: other republicans taking it a step further. >> wha...