Theres lot of news to get to. Good morning. Very big day in washington and aross the country. Yes, very big day for washington. Former President Donald Trump set to appear in a washington, d. C. , courtroom on charges he tried to overturn the 2020 election and hang on to power, this is his third arraignment in four months. New overnight, barricades going up outside the Federal Courthouse, the Secret Service has done a walk through and Law Enforcement is monitoring potential threats. Trumps former Attorney General tells cnn that he believes his odd boss, quote, knew well that he lost the election. 2024 candidate mike pence, former Vice President mike pence said his former boss was, quote, surrounded by a group of crackpot lawyers kept telling him what he wanted to hear. You hear this is a lot. Todays a monumental day, the third time President Trump is going to be arraigned in formouse. And in washington, d. C. The same courthouse where dozens upon dozens of rioters of the January 6th In
To book your free consultation. All right. Good morning, everyone. It is the top of the hour. Were so glad youre with us on this monday and a busy one already. New polling, new arraignment. Polls, polls, polls, and they all the same thing. Thats the most important. Theyre not focused on one poll. Ill die on this hill. Its a good hill to die on. To the law this morning, a second trump employee scheduled to be arraigned in the classified documents probe, as the former president says he did not direct anyone to delete Security Footage at maralago. And will thousands of smalldollar donors to trumps Political Action committee care all the that their donations are being spent on legal fees. Theyve already spent 40 million this year and thats double what they spent last year and its only july. And theres a giant x at twitters headquarters. San francisco are investigating whether the sign is a permit violation. This hour of cnn this morning starts now. This morning, the Property Manager who al
Trying to put the d. A. And her defense team on defense. The accusation is that fani willis had an improper relationship with one of her prosecutors and stood to benefit financially from employing him. The subsequent testimony has been salacious at times, heated at others, especially when willis herself took the stand a couple of weeks ago to call the whole investigation bs. And while the alleged conduct is dominating the headlines, it doesnt change the underlying allegations in the original case, which is that more than a dozen people including the former president , have been accused of coordinating to try and illegally overturn the results of the 2020 elections in georgia. Joining us now, host of the Katie Phang Show right here on msnbc, katie phang. We are watching the courtroom. Judge mcafee is sitting down. Katie, give us the initial state of play. Reporter so today are going to be the arguments, you can call them the closing arguments if you want, katie, because this has become
Personnel at the border. It was clear we want to fix the border. Its also clear the speaker didnt give a reason why you had to do one before you did the other. Thank you. Reporter congress, Pope Francis On Sunday called for sir so you see the two Democratic Leaders, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries coming out of what sounds like an extraordinary and incredibly intense meeting that they had with President Biden, Vice President harris and Republican Leadership. You heard Hakeem Jeffries saying its an existential moment for the free world, talking about whats going to happen with aid to ukraine and Chuck Schumer saying, its one of the most intense meetings hes ever had. The stakes for these meetings are high. Based on what we just heard from those two Democratic Leaders they escalated the intensity. I want to bring New York Times correspondent peter baker and sarah sutt mayer. Peter, tell me what you thought about what you heard there. The messaging was very intense right now. It was int
senator lindsey graham relates to something much deeper and more important. tells us about where not only the republican party is but why we have so many problems defending our democracy these days. you may know him. really one of the people who has had kind of a self-defeating obsession of winning over trump even though he initially warned more than many about how bad trump is and that made graham a politically troubled character because the public record shows he knows exactly what he s doing. that may be different from someone who gets caught up in the emotion of it or is a true believer. he was humiliated even though he has tried so hard to win trump back over after warning about him. this was in graham s home state of california. politics matter to him there. even though he has gone on a long, long road trying to win over trump and we ll get into some of that, just watch as this crowd unleashes before he even speaks. thank y all. welcome to pickens. thank y all for com