Beautiful shot of Washington D.C. for you on this Thursday morning. It is six o'clock

on the East Coast. Good morning. And welcome to morning Joe. It's Thursday, August 17th.

And we have a lot to get to, including a trial date proposal from the Fulton County

D.A. Fawni Willis. Well, the latest on her ambitious timeline. Plus, a woman is now

facing charges for threatening the federal judge and Donald Trump's election case will

have the disturbing details on that. Meanwhile, a Trump ally who's been off the radar for a while

is making headlines this morning. We'll show you the video of Roger Stone that could do serious

damage to the claims from Trump's legal team. I saw I saw it on Ari Melville last night.

It's staggering. It's staggering. He's actually before the elections called. Yeah,

nothing at all. He's mapping out the entire, the entire conspiracy. The enterprise.

That they followed to undermine the election and to take votes away from the voters and have

Republican Trump friendly state legislators steal states for Donald Trump and they follow that

roadmap. What's fascinating is again, he did this before the election was called.

I'll have that there to take for you. Also, I had a significant show of solidarity from allies

in the Pacific. We'll explain the major meeting happening tomorrow at Camp David.

With us, we have the host of Way Too Early, White House beer chief at Politico and author of

The Big Lie, Jonathan Lamir, president of the National Action Network and host of MSNBC's

politics nation, Reverend Al Sharpton and founder of the conservative website The Bullwork.

Charlie Sykes is with us this morning. Let's start with new polling on how Americans view the

serious legal issues surrounding Donald Trump and their impact on the presidential race.

Despite strong support among Republican voters, new numbers show Trump's criminal charges could

spell trouble for him in a general election. That's an understatement. We have a lot of legal

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