Washington, d. C. Today and covering the news wherever it happens. Right now its happening on the East Coast as well. Breaking news, democratic mayor Eric Adams is expected to speak at any moment after federal officials have just unsealed indictment charges against him. He is now charged with those federal counts, five of them, including wire fraud, bribery, solicitation of contributions from a foreign source. We are told a federal prosecutor will give an Update And News conference. Dont know if theyll take any questions but certainly have a statement to read, were told. That will also happen in the next few minutes. Were on it. All over this. Eric adams is already making history at this moment as the first new York Mayor to ever be charged with a federal crime while in office. Phil holloway, former Assistant District Attorney and legal Advisor And Marc thiessen, Fox News contributor. Im harris faulkner. This is the Faulkner Focus live from d. C. And are you there focus with me. Lets s
That this indictment was coming and would be Unsealed Today. We expect him to take that podium any moment now, but im going to hand off to jose diazbalart, who picks up our breaking News Coverage right now. Good morning, 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. All eyes are on new York City where mayor Eric Adams could speak at any moment. Just after Federal Prosecutors unsealed an indictment charging him with bribery, Wire Fraud, and many other charges. Federal prosecutors are scheduled to hold a News Conference later this hour as well. Were going to, of course, bring you all these remarks when they occur, but youre seeing there that dais has been set up right outside where were going to be hearing from the mayor of new York City any moment now. Adams is the first mayor in modern new York City history to be charged while in office. The indictment was unsealed hours after the Mayors Attorney said Fbi Agents went to the mayors residence, Gracy Mansion, to take the mayors phone. With us
808 to 14000 welcome to the lead. Im Jake Tapper this hour, a new interview with a republican who says hes worried that hell be on the public end and these lists, if Donald Trump gets reelected and even musing about whether or not he might need to flee the country, blossom. Stunning failures by the us Secret Service detailed in a new report from the lawmakers investigating the first now to assassinate Donald Trump, an allegations that so many of those failures were not only called preventable, but The Agency has not done anything to address them in leading this hour, a brand new update just in to cnn as Hurricane Helene Gains Strength in barrels toward the united states with landfall expected tomorrow. Its a massive update lets get straight to Meteorologist Chad myers and Cnns Hurricane Headquarters and chad, you tell you tell us this is pretty serious it is. Now were up to cat four. We are category four Hurricane Making Landfall in that big Bend Area of florida. And i know theres not
trump caches in asking supporters to chip in after the colorado supreme court disqualified him from the ballot there. his appeal to the supreme court is expected at any moment as he also tries to use the supreme court to stall his january 6th federal case. all eyes on the highest court in the land tonight. plus screams for help, new evidence showing gopro footage of the three hostages that the military shot and killed. at least one of the hostages could be heard crying for help. how did things go so terribly wrong? rfk junior, keeping up his momentum in the polls in these weeks leading into the primary season, his media strategy, a podcast circuit. and many of his supporters say that is what sucks them in. a special report, let s go out front. and good evening, and out front tonight, chip in. donald trump, those are the words being sent out to his supporters, doing everything he can to take advantage of colorado s historic ruling, barring him from running in the states.
president biden s focus today on the fight to raise the debt limit and the dress of consequences that could be in store for the country have no actions taken. not a single solitary has this data is not that i accumulated. but that is not that occurred of the last several years. it is 200 years of debt. 200 years. the idea that we wouldn t pay our debt is bizarre. it s estimated that we didn t pay the debt, we lose 750,000 jobs, we have a recession, would be a disaster. the idea is for the first time saying, unless you can approve this ridiculous budget what the republican mega budget is, if you pass this budget, we re not going to increase the debt limit. then we re going to go bankrupt. the white house has also warning that if the white house default, it would result in severe damage. a default according to the white house would result in hud to thousands of job losses, which could increase to millions the longer it goes on. joining me now is nbc s correspondent, a