Night, the special counsel jack smith asked judge Tanya Chutkan to issue a gag order against donald trump prohibiting him from attacking prosecutors. Including the judge, herself, or potential witnesses who may testify on in a federal criminal trials, stemming from his effort to subvert the 2020 election. Now, prosecutors said, quote, the defendants past conduct, including conduct that has taken place after and as a direct result of the indictment in this case, actually demonstrates the need for this order. Adding that trumps past salvos had already resulted in harassment of potential witnesses. Of course, to no ones surprise, yeah, donald trump responded by doing what he always does. Lashing out. This, time on social media, claiming that President Biden had weaponize the doj and the fbi. Of course, there is no evidence to support that whatsoever. And its requests, the special counsels office contends that trump hosts amount to more than a mere breach of decorum, because his public vit
Treat turns into another political football. Is it twilight for the twinkie . Good morning. George stephanopoulos has the weekend off. We begin with breaking news from the middle east where despite talks of a possible ceasefire, the air war between hamas and israel is continuing. So lets get right to it. We have Alex Marquardt in gaza city and Christiane Amanpour in jerusalem, and, alex, let me begin with you. Give us a sense of whats been going there on in gaza. Reporter good morning, martha. Its been very consistent pummeling of gaza by the Israeli Air Force and a consistent launching of rockets by these palestinian militant groups. We are hearing the bombings going off rather incessantly. Just a short while ago, a Palestinian Group launched a rocket from just a short distance away. This goes on throughout the day, into the night. Around 2 00 a. M. We were woken up by this barrage of artillery fire coming from the navy ship just offshore, the israeli ship. The big question today, whe
George will, donna brazile, jonathan karl, Newt Gingrich and congressman xavier becerra. Plus sugar sugar americas favorite tasty treat turns into another political football. Is it twilight for the twinkie . Good morning. George stephanopoulos has the weekend off. We begin with breaking news from the middle east where despite talks of a possible ceasefire, the air war between hamas and israel is continuing. So lets get right to it. We have Alex Marquardt in gaza city and Christiane Amanpour in jerusalem, and, alex, let me begin with you. Give us a sense of whats been going there on in gaza. Reporter good morning, martha. Its been very consistent pummeling of gaza by the Israeli Air Force and a consistent launching of rockets by these palestinian militant groups. We are hearing the bombings going off rather incessantly. Just a short while ago, a Palestinian Group launched a rocket from just a short distance away. This goes on throughout the day, into the night. Around 2 00 a. M. We were
Despite the fact the president made a very rare appearance yesterday at a meeting of his coronavirus experts, and we heard the president again sow doubt about the ability to hold an election in the middle of a pandemic suggesting we might not know the president ial winner for a very, very long time. Youre not going to know the november election results. Talking for the country. It could be for months and months. I mean, actually, could be for years. Now, the president supporters call such remarks harmless hyperbole. Critics hear things like that and worry he is laying the groundwork to ignore the results if he loses. Casting in county votes much easier, of course, if the coronavirus is under control. The experts on the White House Task force concede it is not at this moment. Listen to the president. He disagrees. Its coming down. Some states are going up a little bit, but they will very shortly, theyre under control. Theyll be coming down. My view is theal skew aschools open. This thin
Good morning, everybody. It is wednesday, august 12th. Im yasmin vossoughian. We have a lot to cover this morning, after many weeks and months, franklies of speculation, joe biden has announced senator Kamala Harris as his running mate in the 2020 election. In Text Messages and emails biden broke the news writing in part this, i have decided that Kamala Harris is the best person to help me take this fight to donald trump and mike pence and then to lead this nation starting in january 2021. Shortly after that, he posted the announcement on twitter called harris a, quote, fearless fighter of the little guy and one of the countrys finest servants. Joe biden said the news of the pick highlighted his biggest fundraising hour of his campaign. Reporting more than 10. 8 million in donations before 4 00 and 8 00 p. M. Yesterday. Bidens announcement comes more than a year after he and harris, a former president ial candidate, clashed on harris record on race during the first democrat eck debate.