in case i rudely interrupt any of the great minds assembled to talk with us, in a matter of minutes, alvin bragg is expected to address this newly unveiled indictment, indicting donald j. trump. this is thfirst time we ve heard from him since trump turned himself in this afternoon. while we wait, a lot is happening at this moment, including developments in the last few minutes we now have our hands on the actual indictment. it s a doozy it s just been unsealed. people are still going through it, processing it, and it s been made public. you can read along with us if you want to. importantly it includes 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election we understand, thank to our nbc news colleagues, there s a courtroom with trump himself, in his own voice, pleaded not guilty today the former president is on his way to laguardia airport, he s going to fly for mar-a-lago, blah, blah, blah purchasers shared a number of examples of o
independents do not want biden to run again. that is a remarkable figure for an incumbent president come onto gearing up for a second term at odds with the journalistic perception abiding that cannot be ignored along with the second finding of what biden has achieved an office. he will beast until speaking to a skeptical public, two thirds are very uncomfortable with the idea biden running for a second term. according to a new washington post abc poll 262% thanks biden has accomplished not very much or little or nothing and this reality is shocking to the thunderheads in the media. make no mistake a lot of democrats, powerful democrats don t want him to run again in 2024 it seems most americans want nothing to do with the trump biden rematch. it seems like the voters to get the memo ap should only 20% of americans want this man to run for a second term and it looks like he s going to. some of the doubts fueled by biden s age and the media is out of touch with how th
mainstream media has mounted a campaign against donald trump warning that he s just too dangerous to be allowed to win a second term. this isn t just reporting or commenting on the sometimes over the top things trump says talking about getting even with opponents or saying he ll go after what he calls the enemy of the people. i ve criticized plenty the of things trump has said over the years and as a leading presidential candidate, he should be aggressively scrutinized. yet after nine years of a hostile relationship with the media, suddenly there s not even a pretension of fairness. the atlantic has just publish pd an entire issue on how the former president is teenager to democracy. new york is that a danger to democracy. the washington post filled several inside pages with an anti-trump opinion piece, and all that reverberates across television. i think what people have normalized the possibility of trump coming back to office, we get used to anything. this time he is
at least 99 people lost their lives. using first hand accounts corroborated by video on the ground, we ve built up a picture of what happened and how a desperate situation was made worse still by mistakes from authorities. and we ve obtained new recordings that indicate a breakdown in communication around where the fallen power lines were live or turned off that led to roadblocks that may have been unnecessary. it s the morning of august 8th, and winds in lahaina are already high. and i started seeing all the cyclones and stuff like that out over the water and i ve never seen that in person. so i thought it was kind of cool, and i started videoing to show her, and the windsjust. itjust started getting worse and worse and worse. by this point i started noticing debris down in the roads. parts of roofs had started blowing off, all kinds of stuff. you could hear it hitting the side of your car. clunk ok, that one hit the top of the car. - every exitjonathan tries is blocked. som
roadblocks and debris created a burning maze of trafficjams. traffic is completely stuck and people are going to die here and there s no reason why. trapped in lahaina as it burned to the ground. it s criminal, what happened. people lost their lives that wouldn t have lost their lives. and then why they did close the road, i think that s something a lot of people want to know. you know, better preparation, right? i mean, that s what everybody is pointing to. and who should take responsibility for that? lahaina is the gem of the hawaiian island of maui, a tourist hot spot with huge cultural importance. this is the first kingdom of hawaii. this is the gathering place. it s unfathomable. you can t even imagine a reality of lahaina burning. we could have focused on any number of things that went wrong on the day of the fire. but we ve chosen to look at how people did and didn t escape from lahaina as it burnt. at least 99 people lost their lives. using first hand accounts corrobo