Im skeptical as to whether any of these will take place before the election. It would almost make the election the real trial and the American People the real jurors. I think this is a messy sprawling case. I think the georgia prosecutor obviously has it in for donald trump. I think she has a lot of work cut out for her. Joe biden himself said, you know, we probably shouldnt have call it had the Inflation Reduction Act because its not reducing inflation. Thanks, joe. Welcome to the party. If you want nvidia, buy before the earnings. Its a long term hold. Lauren sugarland. All i want to do. Stuart sugarland. Okay. Lauren reading from the top left hand corner of the screen. Cheater. Stuart its 11 00 on the east castoffs america and its wednesday, august 16. To the markets. First off, the dow industrials now up 130 points. Minor loss for the nasdaq and minor gain for the s p and dow doing okay. Big tech, mixed picture and at the top of the list, microsoft and apple both up. Alphabet, amaz
That, in fact, donald trump did attempt to hold up a constitutional proceeding. Yeah. He admitted that last week. Yesterday, he admitted that he violated the constitution of the United States. Just a technical violation of the United States constitution. Pretty bizarre. He violated the constitution. I mean, the admissions keep rolling. Yeah. Keep him was this a full ginsberg . He was on a lot of the sunday shows trying to own the narrative. Meanwhile, the former president himself spent the weekend raging on social media, and this could get interesting, with posts that could defy the judges orders. Remember the directions the judge gave him at his arraignment . Well get legal analysis on that new development. Also ahead, one of trumps allies in the senate makes light of the humiliating nature of his relationship with the former president. Plus, republican senator Tommy Tuberville has held up crucial Military Promotions since february over the pentagons abortion policy. His Unprecedented
Host as we come on the air this morning, the media are gathering outside the ebert art freeman federal courthouse in washington, d. C. About midway between the white house and the capital where at 4 p. M. Today, former President Donald Trump will be arraigned on four criminal councils conspiracy and obstruction related to the 2020 president ial election and the january 6, 2021 insurrection at the u. S. Capitol. Washington journal, thursday, august 3 and our entire program is focused on the arraignment and the mounting legal challenges of former president donald j trump. Throughout the program as we do every morning, we will welcome your phone calls and your comments and tweets and your Text Messages as well. Lots of time to do that in the upcoming three hours. We begin this morning with their first guest, hugo lowell, the political investigation reporter with the guardian. Joining us this morning before the arraignment later today. Thanks for making time to come in this morning. You ha
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Four counts of conspiracy of obstruction related to the january 6 capitol hill riots, the 2020 president ial election. We continue our conversation here in washington journal and are joined by politics editor for the Washington Examiner james antle, thanks for coming by. What is the difference between this federal indictment difference between this indictment and the documents case. Its pretty clear you have access to documents you are not supposed to or do not. I am sure the trump Legal Defense team has theories about president ial powers regarding classified documents they will use in defense, they are possibly going to compare themselves to other people who have had classified documents and maybe were not given the same treatment. By and large, that seems to be a straightforward case. The january 6 case, clearly there is the subtext of some sort of incitement of the attack on the capital, but that is not exactly what hes been charged with doing. Sort of looking at the ways in which