Wavering on him ahead of next years elections. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this tuesday, august 1st. We are in august already. I am jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin this new month with a possible new indictment against former President Donald Trump for his alleged efforts to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 election. The grand jury Hearing Testimony in special counsel jack smiths investigation is expected to be back in session in washington today. Now its been two weeks since trump announced on social media that he received a Target Letter, which is an indication that charges could be brought in the very near future. That letter suggested that the former president could face charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, Depriving Voters of their rights, and witness tampering. Trump seems prepared to be preparing for another federal indictment against him, posting yesterday on truth social that he assumes one will be
Thank you, mr. Speaker. [applause] thank you all very much. Thank you all very much. Thank you, mr. Speaker, for those kind words. I appreciate the recognition and its an honor to be here. Lieutenant governor groans, speaker burns, president pro tem kennedy, speaker jones, members of the General Assembly, constitutional officers, members of the Public Service commission, members of the judiciary, members of the core and my fellows. Later this year the people of the to occupy these seeds of service and they will determine what course america takes in the years to come. As they have in years past when they go to the ballot box they will see a stark difference between georgia and the nations capital. They will see what we have achieved together at the state level to make georgia an even greater place to live, work and raise a family and they will see the hardships washington, d. C. Has brought into every home and placed on every Kitchen Table across the state. Congress has become synonymo
engaging in insurrection. plus explosions across ukraine after what kyiv calls the biggest wave of russian air attacks since the start of the invasion. and the moment people ran for their lives as a rogue wave slammed into the california coast. good morning. i m kasie hunt. it is friday, december 29. happy friday. 5:00 a.m. in washington and in maine, 2:00 a.m. out in california. those two states have differing decisions on whether to remove trump from the primary ballot over the 14th amendment insurrectionist ban. in california the secretary of state opted to keep trump on the ballot despite pressure from the lieutenant governor to remove the former president. contrast that with maine where yesterday democratic secretary of state 1450sheena bellows disqualified trump writing that it was an insurrection at the behest of then president trump. it became clear that it was an attack on the rule of law, that it was an insurrection and that the u.s. constitution does not tolera
Have more to share later on. I want to bring in our senior crime and justice correspondent Shimon Prokupecz shimon, what more are you hearing there . We know that this happened before the bank was open around 8 30, which gives us a little bit of a clue of what may have been going on and who the suspect who is now dead is right. And by all accounts at this point based on what were hearing from witnesses and Law Enforcement, this is quite a chaotic scene. Police officers arriving and then within minutes that they were there they had encountered. According to police. They were fired upon. There were gunshots , and then we have seen indications where glass has been broken at the front. What appears to be the front of this bank has happened. As you said around 8 30 this morning before the bank was open for business. Were hearing from people inside the bank having to hide inside the vault the banks vault to try and protect themselves and police. We believe this point encountered the gunman a
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