Announcer coming up on washington journal, the state of the progressive legal movement. The cofounder and executive director demand for justice will join us. Also the president of the national right to work Legal Defense foundation, mark mix, on workforce issues and recent labor unrest. Washington journal starts now. This is a very sad day for america and was also very sad driving through washington, d. C. And seeing the filth and decay and all of the broken buildings and walls with the graffiti. This is not the place i left, it is a sad thing to see it. When you look at what is happening, this is a persecution of a political opponent. This was never supposed to happen in america. This is the persecution of the person that is leading by very very substantial numbers in the republican primary and leading bided biden by a lot. If you cannot beat him, you persecute him or prosecute him. We cannot let this happen in america. Host good morning. It is friday, august 4. Former President Trump
Spdi bills funding the government through next year to prevt shutdown. Current government funding expires september 30 lawmakers are also facing end of the month deadlines to reauthorize the faa and pandemic priorities. Tch live coverage of the house cspan, the senate on cspan 2, and you can watch all of our congressional coveragwi the free video app, cspan now, or online at cspan. Org. Continues. Host welcome back, my guest is brian fallon, the cofounder and outgoing executive director of demand justice, talking about Supreme Court reform. Welcome to the program. Guest thanks for having me back. Host yes i should say welcome back but before we get to our topic in my wanted to get your reaction to the third indictment of former President Trump. Guest i think the special prosecutor thats been handling this case, jack smith, former head of the Public Integrity section at the Public Integrity section at the Justice Department is very well respected, nonpartisan prosecutor and i think he h
Continues. Host welcome back, my guest is brian fallon, the cofounder and outgoing executive director of demand justice, talking about Supreme Court reform. Welcome to the program. Guest thanks for having me back. Host yes i should say welcome back but before we get to our topic in my wanted to get your reaction to the third indictment of former President Trump. Guest i think the special prosecutor thats been handling this case, jack smith, former head of the Public Integrity section at the Public Integrity section at the Justice Department is very well respected, nonpartisan prosecutor and i think he has done a very methodical job here. The case is pretty watertight. I think this country will get a little bit of an education into our legal system here through the course of this case. I know some people will try to argue that the president will emerge from this indictment politically stronger somehow and that this whole rally will mobilize his supporters but this is now the third indic
Looking good Brookdale Bayshore with only a few clouds this morning and very light winds and hence that soupy foam. In lakeland if you joined us at this time yesterday, a lot of low cloud cover and no visibility iesh us for you and pockets of low clouds in eastern portions of pasco and Wesley Chapel seeing that where you live. Crystal river at 73 and st. Petersburg is the warm spot at 80. Were all dry, and what will happen today is with light by late day where our sea breezes meet up east of i75 is the best rain chance. However, with that sea breeze on the west coast by early afternoon, well at least see a few showers develop and shift east. Whats to our east is tropical depression julia kind of springing back to life. Look at that moisture building. Well have the latest track on that coming up. Rain chances today by the way about 40 in tampa and 90 for the high. A little more moisture with storms still shifting inland 50 rain chance. Alcides an all too familiar site. An explosion rock
For months, president obama has promised to go it alone on immigration rornl. Romp. In a prime time speech tomorrow night, millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation. It is a step almost certain to set up a confrontation with republicans. Mike viqueria has more. Mike. Reporter good evening john. At this hour the president is inside the white house, hosing a dinner for congressional democrats, laying out a plan that is sure to ignite a political fire storm. After months of promises, president obama took to facebook to set the stage for action on immigration. What im going to be laying out is the things i can do with my Lawful Authority as president to make the system work better even as i continue to work with congress and encourage them to get a bipartisan comprehensive bill that can solve the entire problem. Reporter but with republicans in congress unwilling to move on reforming immigration mr. Obama will effectively cut them out, going it alone through executive action wit