Thets big barr laying out a flaw in the main defense that Donald Trumps lawyers using in the federal election case. Well have much more from the former Attorney General on trumps many, many legal issues in just a moment. Meanwhile a key conspirator in the riot at the capitol could receive the longest sentence yet for the january 6th attack. And a very significant summit at camp david for President Biden. Well explain the stakes at todays meeting. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, august 18th. We made it to friday, folks. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin this morning with the trial date proposed by Donald Trumps legal team that is way, way, way in the future. In a court filing late yesterday the attorneys representing the former president in the federal election interference case against him thats the one out of washington requested that that trial begin in april of 2026. That is 2 1 2 years later than the january 2024 star
Underway right now. Good evening once again, im stephanie ruhle. Tonight, in his First Oval Office address, President Biden made the case for the bipartisan debt ceiling bill. He spoke of an economic crisis averted, and reminded the nation that, without the bill, the u. S. Was in fact headed for a disastrous u. S. Default. Passing this Budget Agreement was critical. The stakes could not have been higher. They were extreme voices threatening to take america, for the first time in our 247 year history, to default on our national debt. Nothing nothing would have been more irresponsible. Nothing would have been more catastrophic. No one got everything they wanted. But the American People got what they needed. We have heard of an economic crisis, an economic collapse. I want to commend speaker mccarthy. You know, he and i, we and our teams, we were able to get along and get things done. The final vote in both chambers was overwhelming. Far more of our bipartisan than thought was possible. T
World. Ahead on cnn newsroom, crisis averted. Biden set to sign off on a deal to raise the federal borrowing limit. Heartbreak in india. Search efforts now underway after one of the deadliest Train Crashes in the countrys history. Plus, new video shows the moments before an iowa Apartment Building came crashing down. Live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. The Debt Limit Crisis in washington is over for now, and perhaps no one is more relieved than u. S. President joe biden. In his words, crisis averted. The stakes were enormous, the threat of failure hung over the country for weeks as the white house and Republican Leaders seemed locked in stalemate. But the hard work finally paid off late thursday when the u. S. Senate voted to suspend the debt ceiling and avoid catastrophic default. In his First Oval Office address on friday night, the president summed up his view of the make or break moment in u. S. History. Passing this Budget Agreement was critical. The stakes could not have
Donald trump agreeing to that or sticking to that, not to mention that promise will be a problem for current candidates who have already said they would never support trump if he gets the nomination. And then there are other republicans about to jump in, including chris christie, trumps number to bike and north dakota governor doug joining me now on the road, nbc news correspondent Vaughn Hillyard in des moines. , this is the first time we have seen a lot of these gop hopefuls on the same stage, why are these events crucial for these candidates . Hey, right. This really was the Summer Campaign kickoff here. But you just laid out why it is extra important. It is because the debate is just two and a half months away. And in order to spread the message for so many of these candidates to a broader part of the electorate, being on the debate stage is going to be key. You just laid out, they are not 45,000 unique donors. Some of these candidates, they are going to have to work to get to that
Really sad. That is absolutely heartbreaking. Oh, brandi. You need to keep on keeping on. Thank you for the work you do, and thanks for coming to talk to us about it. In the meantime, there are a slew of new headlines in the Trump Classified documents case, along with reports of that new audiotape. The implications of all of this with the author of these stories, our new hour starts right now. A very good day from all of you to msnbc World Headquarters in new york, thank you to alex witt reports. We begin this hour with new reaction to the big debt ceiling deal, with President Biden having signed it today. His historic First Oval Office address dominating the front pages of newspapers across the country, highlighting his pronouncement of crisis averted, and his message of unity and bipartisanship i know bipartisanship is hard. And unity is hard. But we can never stop trying, no matter how tough our politics gets, we need to see each other not as adversaries, but as federal americans. T