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Atlanta, and its sparking speculation that another indictment could be coming very soon for the former president. And also ahead well look at a special election today in the state of ohio that could change the rules for amending that states constitution and how it could impact Abortion Rights there. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, august 8th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. Well get right to the news, and it was another fast moving night on the legal front yesterday in the newest federal case against donald trump. Judge Tanya Chutkan has summoned both sides to appear for a hearing no later than this friday, after they were unable to reach an agreement on the terms of a protective order requested by special counsel jack smith. Just before 5 00 p. M. Yesterday trumps lawyers filed a response pushing back at smiths motion to b ....
This morning. state attorney for palm beach county, dave aaronbering, thank you. i m sure we ll speak to you before long. meanwhile, we re now in the second week of the fulton county district attorney fani willis indictment decision window. security around the courthouse has increased and so has the number of people who have received subpoenas to testify before a grand jury as part of the d.a. s presentation to seek indictment. nbc news can now confirm at least four more people received subpoenas. among them former lieutenant governor jeff duncan. as we await final indictment decisions the wall street journal is reporting it is likely we will see racketeering charges against the former president of the united states. this is a reminder here the d.a. has suggested this indictment window would be some time within the month of august. still here on way too ....
Judge chutkan issued her response, ordering both sides to submit their availability today for when they can attend a hearing on the matter later this week. joining us now state attorney for palm beach county, florida, our friend. dave, great to see you. let s talk about what we ve seen here, about this protective order battle playing out. we re going to know in a few days where the judge lands. what are your thoughts? good to be with you, jonathan. judge chutkan seems to be responding to delays in the southern district of florida in judge cannon s case by accelerating in washington, d.c. at 9:00 p.m. that night she issued that order on the protect order request and saying we re going to have a hearing by the end of this week, so she seems determined to have this trial completed before this november 2024 electionch and there s some ....
In the position of cross examining past or even current filings. so, dave, plenty to weigh through here. let s get your reaction, though, simply to what went on in judge cannon s court yesterday on both of these matters, and do we think this is an assist to donald trump in this case? yeah, jonathan, i thought we would see cannon 2.0 this year, and this resembled cannon 2022. here she rejected a pretty reasonable motion to keep matters sealed by the special prosecutor, and then she went above and beyond to turn a routine matter into a bizarre insinuation jack smith is somehow engaged in wrongdoing by something this additional grand jury in washington, d.c. well, first off she released that information to the public when really you re not supposed to, but i guess she s a federal judge so i guess she can. ....