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Underway on this wednesday night. Good evening once, again im stephanie ruhle. Fulton county d a fani willis has wasting absolutely no time in moving ahead with the Georgia Election interference case. Today, she proposed a Trial Date Of March 4th of 2024, or donald, trump and 18 others. That is one day before super tuesday, which of course is in the heat of the president ial primary season. The eight witnesses also focusing on another big court, date when trump and his codefendants will be arrai...

Week of september, fifth right after labor day. Meanwhile, a judge will hear mark meadows request to moves child out of georgia tsais or sue federal court. That core data is now set for august 28th. Also this, evening we are learning more from a new legal filing about what special counsel jack smith was looking for in Donald Trumps twitter account. Earlier this, year smith got a Search Warrant to access a whole range of information from trumps account, including direct messages, draft, with and ...

workers who worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic. the unions representing more than 50,000 engineers and connecters, they were threatening the first rail strike in 30 years. the hang up was over a system that the union said penalizes workers for sick leave and doctors visits. >> amtrak had already cancelled routes in anticipation of the strike. with the midterms looming there was pressure to get a deal done here. the disruption would have been had catastrophic impacts on industrie...

degree on property that ought to be returned would result in reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magnitude. "new york times" points this out, quote, her ruling seemed to carve out a special exception to the normal legal process for the former president and reject the justice departments implicit argument that trump be treated like any other investigative subject. there are significant questions on how her new ruling will work, especially since the special master is perm...

in the capitol and being targeted by the mob. during all those hours refusing to call the pentagon or any law enforcement for reinforcements. in fact according to aides even refusing to take a call from pentagon officials offering their help. >> are you aware of any phone call by the president of the united states to the secretary of defense that day? >> not that im aware of, no. >> are you aware of any phone call by the president of the united states to the attorney general of the uni...

of can a special master get in there, were gonna take a look at those talking, those were gonna have our legal team go over it. >> i love it, and i cant wait to see, it have a great show lawrence. >> thank you alex. well, a federal judge who in moscow joined the federalist society, an organization created to deliver right-wing judges to the federal judiciary. and, who is appointed as a federal judge in the final months of donald trumps presidency, today heard arguments in the case of d...

and, who was appointed as a federal judge in the final months of donald trumps presidency, today heard arguments in the case of donald j trump versus the united states of america. yes, that is never the case. donald j trump versus the united states of america. and that is the truth of the case. the federalist society, trump appointed judge in a two hour hearing, asked in a two-hour meeting repeatedly asked justice department prosecutors what harm could there be in agreeing with donald ...

dominated his final moments in madrid as he and other nato leaders wrapped up a historic and consequential summit. the president blamed high gas prices on russias war in ukraine. and he blasted the u.s. supreme court for, quote, outrageous behavior as we give you live images outside the courthouse right now. there are still demonstrators there protesting. perhaps the biggest headline today, president biden says he now supports bypassing the fill bser rule and the 60 vote threshold in t...

so this is just into cnn, a source confirmed to cnn a federal grand jury investigating january 6th has subpoenaed former white house counsel pat cipollone. abc newss first report that. cnn has now confirmed that as well. abby philip, david chalian, mark philip, david axelrod are all back with me here. thanks so much for joining. this is big news. whats say you, david chalian? >> i think weve seen over the last couple of weeks this escalation in this grandeur process, that is separate a...

closed captioning, brought to you by mesobook.com. this is just in to cnn. the source come from the federal grand jury investigating january 6th has subpoenaed the former white house counsel, pallone. abc news was first to report that. cnn has now confirmed that, as well. abby phillip, david axelrod, all back with me here. thanks so much for joining. this is big news. what say you, david? >> i think we have seen, over the last couple of weeks, this escalation in this grand jury process...