Special counsel jack smith announcing the third indictment of donald j. Trump after months of investigating the former president and his allies and their efforts to overturn the 2020 president ial election. This hour well have indepth coverage of the accusations against trump and the new information were learning about his attempt to stay in power from that sweeping federal investigation. And well also look at how this latest legal issue could impact the president ial campaign as he has used previous indictments to boost fundraising. Good morning, and welcome to Way Too Early on this wednesday, august 2nd, a historic day. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting it with us. And well begin this morning with history once again. Former President Donald Trump who took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the United States constitution has been indicted for allegedly trying to subvert that very same document. In washington, d. C. Yesterday a federal grand jury of trumps own peers convene
my memory s a lot better. it just works. prevagen. at stores everywhere without a prescription. welcome back. we ll have more in a moment on the indictment of donald trump. we re going to take a look now at business news, and for that let s bring in cnbc s arabile gumede who joins us live from london. good morning, arabile. stock futures are down as investors look ahead to economic data this morning. we re seeing a lot of red on the board. what are economists anticipating? yeah, it s a down day, right? and really as we head towards that economic data set to come out well on friday, that s the job numbers then that wail be quite crit wrl, around 200,000 on jobs anticipated to have been created in the u.s. economy. we also have adp or private employment numbers anticipated in our data tad. that is also a key focus point