server room at trump s mar-a-lago, the same servers storing the security surveillance video from trump s resort. this as mr. trump s lawyers meet with justice department officials today. then, come on in, the water s fine. the 2024 race set to grow by three more candidates as governor nikki haley lands her sharpest blow yet on the republican front runners. plus military fighter jets going super sonic when a private plane doesn t respond while flying near the nation s capitol. investigators are trying to figure out what went so horribly wrong. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper, apologies for my voice. we start today with the law and justice lead and serious questions as to whether donald trump could face his first federal indictment ever. today, lawyers for the former president met with justice department officials here in washington for 90 minutes, a possible sign that special counsel jack smith s investigation into how trump handled classified documents and whet
our country is going to hell, and they come after donald trump. in all of my years of public life, i have never obstructed justice and i think too that i can say that in my years of public life, that i welcome this kind of examination. they re trying to destroy our reputation so they can win an election. that s just as bad as doing any of the other things that have been done over the last number of years and especially during the 2020 election. people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook, well, i m not a crook. i ve earned everything i ve got. so i just want to tell you i m an innocent man. i did nothing wrong. donald trump and richard nixon each proclaiming innocence 50 years apart. nixon was never federally indicted. donald trump was just indicted on seven charges. we ll go through what we know about the federal charges and what happens next in the case. plus, we ll explain why this indictment from a florida grand jury is significant when it
and raising concerns about his age and ability to endure a grueling election cycle. we will watch the news conference live and dig in. fog, the smell, the smog, it s it s like out of like a disaster movie or something. yeah, it s really surreal. this is unbearable, and seems like apocalyptic. definitely have a headache, it s pretty hazy out here and my eyes are burning a little bit. john: people living in the northeast reacting to surreal scenes of smoke-filled cities as smog from raging canadian wildfires drifts to the united states leaving more than 100 million americans under air quality alerts, and the hazy conditions could be sticking around into the weekend. john roberts in washington, and good smoky thursday afternoon to you as well. aishah: coughing here and there. this is america reports, thanks for watching. time lapse video showing how the new york city skyline changed over the span of a few hours yesterday, the skies turning the orange-tinted color
does it for me. thank you for watching. right now american voices with alicia menendez. thanks so much, reverend sharpton. hello everyone i m alicia menendez. this week seeing a president of the united states arraigned on federal criminal charges. today, a bombshell prediction from trump s former attorney general, saying that his former boss is quote, toast. we ll have that in just a second. trump s arraignment will go down on tuesday in miami, facing a judge and 37 counts of classified documents mishandling. today, trump announcing that he will deliver remarks about his arraignment in miami. and his on tuesday evening. the indictment, the united states versus donald j trump and trump s aid, an alleged coconspirator, laying out a damning case. 31 counts for violating the espionage act, as far as willful retention of national defense information. the lies of a which meant spewing from trump and the elected republicans who have anointed themselves his backup singers. one me
about the facts of his case. then, tough talk on the debt limit deal. fighting got an important win by signing the legislation. but the real question, what at what cost to the american people? a culture of losing, that is how one of the front runners for the gop presidential nomination described his party s electoral performance. but there s no sign republicans want to change their strategy. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. all right, this hour, we begin with a sad and at this point, quite honestly, an obvious reality. republicans will do almost anything to hurt president biden s reelection chances. no surprise there. no but there are desperate, mary alice or insane their actions might be, just this week, senator chuck grassley had this to say about and unconfirmed years old allegation that joe biden accepted a bribe as vice president. watch. we aren t interested in whether or not the accusations against vice president biden are accurate or not. so, grassley just