Im max foster. Bianca is on assignment. Just ahead donald trump now faces federal criminal charges for trying to hold on to the presidency in 2020. This is politics. This indictment is pure politics. Mr. Smith and his team followed the facts and the law wherever they lead. Suspected gilgo beach serial killer Rex Heuermann facing a courtroom. We have a great deal of information, evidence, photographs, reports. Ukraine is using drones to strike russian targets inside russia. Probably would be a bad move. Live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. It is wednesday, august 2, 9 00 a. M. In london, 4 00 a. M. In washington where preparations are under way for an expected Court Appearance by donald trump on thursday after thrm Court Appearance by donald trump on thursday after the former president was indicted on criminal charges for efforts to overturn the 2020 election. This is the third time hes faced criminal charges. In this case prosecutors allege that he
president to be able to see this to a conclusion. i mean, you do one term and they reverse it when they come in [applause] youn t can t have it be reversed. you got to have humility. you can t be prideful, it can t be just about you. when he says eight years, every time i hear it i wince, because i say if it takes eight years to turn this around, then you don t want him as your president. paul: let s bring in wall street journal columnists and fox news contributor carl karl rove, he served as southeastern adviser the president george w. bush. karl, well co. the former president, president trump, was banging on ron desantis for months. now that the governor s in and fighting back, it s really fast and furious, a lot earlier than i can recall in previous campaigns. how is desantis doing so far? i think pretty well. you know, for example, you just showed that display and president trump dismissed desantis saying eight years by saying, you don t want that guy, because i c
it is an entire capitulation. kevin mccarthy is emasculating himself and the republican majority. emasculating. the republican chaos caucus is this mad about the debt deal,ia know president biden got a good result. also tonight, new reporting on the growing bad blood among trump s lawyers, including that one of them may have been misled about where trump was hiding classified documents. and presidential candidate and toy sized mussolini ron desantis unveils his authoritarian manifesto, vowing to destroy leftism and wokism. so, tell us how you re going to do that, ron. we begin tonight with a debt ceiling deal. and the wrath of the pro-default caucus. i m sure you have heard by now that after marathon talks over the weekend, president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy reached an agreement on a deal to suspend the debt ceiling. suspend, not raise. that s important, and i ll get back to that in a minute. the house is expected to vote on the bill tomorrow. the house rule
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with the most important sales pitch in washington this week selling the deal to avoid a catastrophic debt default. the call that was scheduled for two hours ago has not happened yet. a default could be disastrous to the u.s. and that threat still looms ominously. up on capitol hill there are lawmakers from both parties grumbling. passage is not guaranteed at this point. let s go to priscilla alvarez. what is there to make of this biden/mccarthy phone call. do we think that s going to happen any time now? any update on that? reporter: there s every expectation that this call will happen. it hasn t happened yet according to a source i spoke with half an hour ago. president biden when he arrived at the white house earlier this afternoon did say that the intent of this call was to, quote, dot the is and cross the ts. when asked weahether there were any sticking point, he said none. throughout the day, w
this is cnn breaking news. two prominent members of the oath keepers are being sentenced for their actions on the attack on the u.s. capitol on january 6th of 2021. the judge saying the actions of stewart rhodes, the founder and leader of the far right group oath keepers amounted to domestic terrorism, that he is going to be sentenced to 18 years in prison. kelly meggs also being sentenced. we have cnn crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz joining us. this just broke. tell us the very latest. reporter: right, so the judge has just delivered the sentence to stewart rhodes. he will be spending 18 years in federal prison for the crimes he committed up and until january 6th as he gathered oath keepers to washington, d.c. and they went inside the capitol, when he was leading the organization and wanting to essentially foment violence in the united states because of the transfer of power from donald trump to joe biden. the judge is just finishing his speech to rhodes and d