Zuckerberg and elon musk. Bret we begin with a weather alert. Tonight, Severe Weather over much of the eastern part of the country. More than 130 million americans are at risk of seeing the Severe Weather outbreak either late this afternoon, into this evening. Here in washington, d. C. , Federal Government offices closed early today, sending employees home ahead of these anticipated storms. Plane travel up and down the east coast, largely grounded at this hour. No sense of when that stops. This is the most serious threat of the storm that the nations capitol has faced in years. Fox weather correspondent katie berne is in d. C. Tonight on the streets. Good evening, katie. Good evening, bret. Yeah, rain is moving into d. C. Now and we could feel hurricanestrength winds gusting as fast as 75 miles per hour. In fact, in a suburb of d. C. , centerville, virginia people already have reports of 80 mileperhour wind gusts there just in the last hour or. So the storm system is impacting heavily
Coconspirators. Well, today, everyone can see every moment in this courtroom. You can see it with your own eyes. This is the very first Pretrial Hearing for the Georgia Rico Case against defendant trump and others. As a matter of history, what you see unfold here, what unfolds minute by minute is the first time trump is seeing inside a courtroom where trump and his defendants will stand inside a trial to overthrow an election, to abuse power to hold on to power, illegally say the prosecutors. Well put this back up here. When you look at this judge, when you look inside the courtroom, this is where these defendants will be judged. At times what you might see might remind you of any other courtroom in america. People standing and sitting for the judge, the Bailiff Keeping Order in the corner of the room. The judge going through papers. Sometimes what we might see will be at times repetitive or dry. Yet what you are looking at is where these individuals will be judged for their roles in t
Case and may not be in others, right . Yes, your honor. So i guess some of the things i think we need to think through, to me also, its more this position that we still need to have all 19 people at the table 47 days from now. And maybe this is something if you need to tag team with somebody else on the counsel. I want to talk about how removal affects this. So i know youre a state your state is currently litigating this issue with multiple codefendants in Federal Court. And while thats happening, until its a decision a decision is made, we cant issue a judgment of conviction here, right . Yes, judge. Now, no matter how judge jones rules, isnt either party going to have the right to appeal that ruling . That is correct, judge. Our positions would be both sides have the right to appeal. The 11th circuit could take any idea of how long to weigh . As long as they need to. Right. Could potentially even optimistically be a sixmonth turnaround for the 11th circuit to come up with a decision.
With this deal, the two candidates have shunned the commission on president ial debate, proposing three gatherings in the fall. This morning, we would like to get your reaction to the development in campaign 2024, democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7488002. You can also join us with a text with your first name, city and state at 202 7488003. Or on facebook. Com cspan and also in a post on x with the handle cspanwj and welcome to the washington journal this morning. We start with the New York Times reporting, they say the public back and forth began over the debate started wednesday morning after bidens Campaign Chair sent a letter to the commission on president ial debates notifying the group that mr. Biden would not be participating in a free general election debate, scheduled for september 16, october 1 and october 9. Then President Biden later posted this video with his offer to debate the former president and what he would like to see the format loo
Neil yeah, the heat is on right now, and we are not just talking wall street, more on that and a second because it is looking like President Joe Biden former President Donald Trump will indeed be facing off, both in jute know my agreeing to two debates, the first or 27th, and while there is still a ton of details to be hammered out, this much we do know, robert f. Kennedy jr. Is upset he has bee. How will the shakeout . Welcome from Everybody Peek im neil cavuto. Lets find out from the white house how they are reacting because they initiated all of this. Peter doocy is there. Hey, peter. A big couple of hours here, neil. President biden laid out terms for these debates that were favorable to his side and President Trump accepted, so for now there is not going to be any audiences for the two agreedupon debates, but trump had some requests of his own. He did hugh hewitts radio show and he said, i think we should go to ours, yeah, i think we should go two, and a standup podium is importan