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
Large interest most significant federal indictment of donald trump ever. This is in a way that well document more significantly than the legal headaches he already has. This will be tonight the first time any former president has been indicted by the Justice Department for trying to steal an election. Now, i mentioned, if you have been walking our breaking coverage, we have been going through what is a voluminous filing. Jack smith found six other coconspirators that are named in the filing. It alleges that trump spread lies, that there had been outcome determinant fraud, fraud that would have swung the election back to him, and these claims were false. And trump knew they were false. Ill put on the screen what were watching for. Want to share what were learning. S this a day we have been trying to hew closely to what we know and dont know. In the last several moments, the most heads up youll get from an agency that jack smith will approach the podium you see here. Some of the local Be
First of all, that a. I. Fueled boom, dell shares surging. Nasdaq coming off its First Closing high in more than two years. And ray dalio down plays talk of a tech bubble. Plus new York Community bank corp. Is warning of Material Weakness in its accounting, and its dragging down a number of other Regional Banks. That bank stock is also down sharply. Suboptimal situation. And in the land of lawsuits, elon musk, suing openai, accusing it of putting profit before humanity. Didnt you ask him about this . I did. I did. And well cover that. But first, lets get to the markets. Obviously, a new month. Happy march. Yes. February, obviously, we had a nice run of things. Jeff marks, my partner for the investing club, happy birthday. Happy birthday. Not mine this time. What do you want to talk about as we look ahead to the month of march . Whats in your mind . I want to obviously get to the dell earnings in a minute, but just give me your overall take on where we are and where were headed. Sure. I
Exposed in the depths of his political depraft at this and corrupt and criminal acts has been laid bare. Not by radical leftists, or any of us in the media but by his inner most circle and the really, really committed ones as that. The Trump Officials who stayed on until the bitter last days of a bitter presidency tell us the riveting story of not one, not two but three Criminal Conspiracies that trump stands accused of by the United States government, in essence against the United States government. By the numbers jack smith has charged three Criminal Conspiracies, four criminal counts, named six Unindicted Coconspirators and shined the light on one who was willing to overturn his election defeat. The indictment brought by jack smith against donald trump makes the coup plot he directed Crystal Clear for the world to see. Here is how the Justice Department explains the first criminal count as the conspiracy to defraud the u. S. Quote, the purpose of the conspiracy was to overturn the l
This time than what we might have otherwise been expecting. If the allegations in this indictment are proven Beyond A Reasonable Doubt and a jury convicts some of these crimes, history will not ask, wow, how did america get to the point where they indicted a former president . History instead is going to ask, how did america get to the point where such a person could be elected to the presidency of the United States. Were actions such as these could be carried out from the oval office directed by a person who was elected president by the American People, along with his advisers. This is a grave day and a serious one for our country. Thank you for being with us here tonight. We know you had every choice in the world. But we are happy to have you here on what will go down in u. S. History as a black letter, bold faced date, August 1st 2023 is the date on which a former president and the leading president ial candidate of the Republican Party was indicted in Federal Court, accused of lead