Overall, stocks are moving slightly higher ahead of the opening bell. Remember, this is a shortened day of trading because of the july 4th holiday. The market closes at 1 00 p. M. Eastern for the fourth of july. We are remembering an icon in the Business World. The ultimate salesman of all time, lee iacocca, has died at the age of 94. Hes best known as the father of the mustang and for saving the company chrysler. Well have much more on his impact throughout the morning. Varney company starts right now. David President Trump is changing the annual fourth of July Celebration in the Washington Mall thursday. It will include a flyover by military aircraft, more fireworks and the president will even give a speech of his own. The president is already tweeting about it. Quote, our july 4th salute to america at the Lincoln Memorial is looking to be really big. It will be the show of a lifetime. You can bet on that. Joining us is brad blakeman, former Deputy Assistant to george w. Bush, and so
Really that allows us to nail down who this individual coconspirator number 3 was. An attorney for one of the coconspirators also apparently confirmed their identity to cnn . Thats right, jake. Former nypd commissioner bernie kerik, his attorney confirming to us that he is coconspirator number 5 in this indictment. And there are similarly details that also help us identify kerik as the individual listed as number 5. We know that bernie kerik was deeply involved with Rudy Giulianis legal team trying to help find evidence of widespread voter fraud. And we know that bernie kerik was specifically at a white house meeting in November 2020 where trump was president and they were talking to a bunch of State Legislators from pennsylvania trying to pressure them to hold a special session in their bid to overturn the election. His presence at that meeting in addition to the confirmation from his lawyer made clear. We also know that another individual, coconspirator number 6, is also at that meet
Hes now proposing his own date that just happens to be three years away. Plus the fbi involved the in a new investigation. The grand jurors who indicted the former president in georgia are being threatened and having their personal information exposed. And new warnings tonight for hawaii for victims of the wildfires, beware of scams. As if they werent dealing with enough, this new warning after so many have lost everything already. Im Kaitlan Collins and this is the source. Tonight. Donald trumps Delay Tactics seem to have gone into overdrive. His new ask, for an extraordinary delay. They now want the judge to set a trial date for the special counsels Election Interference case nearly three years from when he was indicted just a few weeks ago. They are looking for april 2026. That is nearly a year and a half after the 2024 election. It is obviously long past january 2024, which is when jack smiths team wants that trial to start. And papers that were filed just a few moments ago, trumps
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The defense, in one way or another in this federal case, and the other today, saying not so fast. Today, the special counsel, asked for a january 2nd trial date in the election subversion case, which had said partake as little as four weeks. The former president , who is expected to challenge that, took the first step tonight in his social network. Quoting now, but leaving out some of the personal tax on smith and president biden. Quote, only an Out Of Touch Lunatic would ask for such a date. One day, into the new year, and maximum election interference with iowa. Now whatever you make of that, in particular the, the proposed date is yet another entry on what is already a very crowded calendar. Take a look. Surrounding that date are the trump organizations Civil Fraud Trial this october, the e. Jean carroll defamation trial january 15th. That is the same day of the iowa caucuses. Super tuesday, march 5th, is just ten days before march 15th, manhattan hush money trial. In the maralago d