Welcome to prime time weekend. I am nicolle wallace. Lets get right to top stories. In a Perfect World we would not actually start the show where we are going to start it today, opening our broadcast with the results of what amounts to a legal circus, a spectacle and diversion. The ruling from Fulton County Superior Court judge scott macv was actually a victory for rule of law in the matter of the d. A. S relationship with special prosecutor nathan wade the judges ultimatum amounted to this. Either leave wade behind her help the prosecution of this case altogether. Turned out to be an easy choice for d. A. Willis to make. Remember what she said when she announced the indictment. The states role in this process is essential to the functioning of our democracy. Georgia, like every state, has laws that allow those who believe that results of an election are wrong, whether because of intentional wrongdoing or unintentional error, to challenge those results in our state courts. The indictme
Second, but he was in a thing called the civil war. You can understand that. Andrew jackson was really, really treated badly. In fact, his wife died during the process. A lot of people said she died because of the way they were treated. I mean, she was heartbroken and broken in so many other ways. I heard that for years. And i look now, even last night i was saying it. I said, Andrew Jackson or anybody else, when you think of the fake things, nobody has been treated like trump in terms of badly. No, thats true. Thats true. Thats definitely true. There is some truth to that, willie geist. Its hard for me not to also look at the person asking the questions. I mean, are you kidding me . These networks floating trumps lies. Im not going to make fun of it or anything, but it is creating a whole level of lies that people are swallowing whole because they think thats news. They think those are facts. Thats the part thats sad. I mean, its pathetic that donald trump parallels himself to Abraham
Thets big barr laying out a flaw in the main defense that Donald Trumps lawyers using in the federal election case. Well have much more from the former Attorney General on trumps many, many legal issues in just a moment. Meanwhile a key conspirator in the riot at the capitol could receive the longest sentence yet for the january 6th attack. And a very significant summit at camp david for President Biden. Well explain the stakes at todays meeting. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, august 18th. We made it to friday, folks. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin this morning with the trial date proposed by Donald Trumps legal team that is way, way, way in the future. In a court filing late yesterday the attorneys representing the former president in the federal election interference case against him thats the one out of washington requested that that trial begin in april of 2026. That is 2 1 2 years later than the january 2024 star
About these elections would russians go to the polls knowing there was almost no doubt president Vladimir Putin would be reelected well, history is set to repeat itself as russians are voting right now. And putin is running against no real opposition. Thank you so much for watching news night. Laura coates live starts right now. Hush. Money, classified documents in a ruling that could change everything. And Donald Trumps criminal cases tonight, and Laura Coates Live well ill, if you add march 25th on your bingo card, looks like you are out of luck. My friends, because thats when Donald Trumps first criminal trial was supposed to start. Now i say supposed to start because its so often happens in the universe of trump legal cases, its delay, delay, delay in this case, delayed all over again. He should actually put on some tshirts just a thought there, like he did when he was with his Fulton County mug shot. See, you thought i was kidding for a second. That was a real thing. Now, manhatta
Hi, ari. Always good to see you. Thats right. Have a good show. Vicki so much. Great to see nicole and great to be back with you to start the week. We are covering quite a few stories. A lot of eyes are on georgia. We have live pictures from the courthouse. The grand jury is going over evidence about this long running 2020 investigation, including allegations that involve donald trump. Now we are going to follow the evidence of the facts and not get ahead of anything. Theres no reason to get ahead of it. It is the news, not prediction. What i can tell you is, there are good reasons why everybody is following death in the days ahead. That doesnt mean that anybody knows the timeline or how things are going to happen. Heres what we know. Some very crucial witnesses did enter the courthouse today and the judge did well today that part of the proceeding of any future indicted party could be televised. We are also watching to see if anything happens anyway that we can learn from and you know