Prepare for the trial. Oh my goodness all the networks wow then, why a federal judge suggested elon musk was protecting donald trump from the production of his twitter plus, real evidence that many criminal charges across for indictments is having an effect on trump voters. And, one year after it was signed, the simple math and wild success of the Inflation Reduction Act, when all in starts, right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. A donald trump and his 18 codefendants in that rico indictment must turn themselves in at the Fulton County jail in Atlanta Georgia within nine days. There they will be booked, processed, and mugshot taken ahead of the arraignments which District Attorney fani willis wants to take place the first week of september. Today willis also proposed a trial date for this case in the efforts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia and elsewhere. She requested Begin On March 4th Of Next year. That is the day before super tuesday. Now of course there is
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 arraigned and enter the specific police. She wants that to happen the 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
All eyes are on the courthouse. The grand jury investigating donald trump for events surrounding january 6th is meeting there at this moment. Could an indictment be minutes away . Ukrainian forces launched another drone attack on moscow one day after a Russian Missile strike killed at least six people in ukraine. The Colorado River is draining fast and losing some 10 trillion gallons of water from 2000 to 2021 and that is a lot. Kate is off today and im john berman with sara sidner, and this is cnn news central. Happening now, the grand jury is meeting, and could they hand up a new indictment for donald trump with actions around january 6th. We know he got a Target Letter, and we know that the legal team was told that an indictment is pending, but it seems that the grand jury does not have much work left to do, and the cnn did spot the grand jurors entering court this morning, so what is happening this morning. Our Crime Reporter Katelyn Polantz is outside of the court trying to discer
York city. Where we are just hours away from former president donald j trumps third criminal arraignment in just four months. Tomorrow afternoon, at four pm eastern he is expected to appear in person at a federal court in washington d. C. , where he will enter a plea to charges that he conspired to overturn the 2020 president ial election. Tonight dawn forsman is preparing, setting up barricades outside the courthouse. Of course, on tuesday a grand jury indicted trump on four separate felony counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States of america. Today trumps lawyer gave another preview of what could be a possible defense that the Indictment Strikes at the former president right for free speech. This is the first time that the First Amendment has been criminalized. This indictment is criminalizing conduct not speech . Its criminalizing speech for this reason, what the president saw in the 2020 election was all these irregularities going on, he had the right to comment on
live. in a moment we re going to play a short portion of it, one that gives you a look into his state of mind and how he is trying to frame his defense to his supporters. i m joined now by new york democratic congresswoman and house oversight committee member alexandria ocasio-cortez. thanks so much for being here. first of all, i just want to the little havana stop, that cafe, versailles cafe, one of the reasons we re told by his folks he was there is because the cuban american people know from political persecution. and i wondered how you might interpret that and what you think of that. well, you know, i think it s it makes it s not a surprise. during trump s remarks he was trying to somehow pin this as some great marxist conspiracy. but the fact of the matter remains that tn individual who r. tand u.s. national security secrets, nuclear weapons locations or, you know, nuclear site locations, sensitive materials, and put our nation at risk. and frankly this is beyon