That. It s right back to you ax yeah, just remarkable hitting it from so far out repeatedly, patrick snell, thanks very much. Hi there. Thanks so much for joining me. I m alex marquardt in this weekend for fredricka whitfield. We begin this hour with the legal showdown in former president trump s election subversion case, he new latenight filing last night, setting the stage for a potentially contentious hearing. Next week in d. C. s federal court, where a judge will decide how and when the case will move forward. The standoff comes as special counsel, jack smith resurrected the january 6 case against trump with a new superseding indictment this week, both trump s lawyers and the special counsel are at odds about how this this case should now proceed. Trump s team is pushing for his schedule that would carry the pretrial disputes through the beginning of next year long after the 2024 election, cnn s holmes lybrand is covering these legal developments and joins me now. So homes, where
also, as crowds hit the beach to try to find relief from the oppressive heat, california officials are warning about toxic algae that s apparently leaving marine animals sick and aggressive. . and fallout from the supreme court s controversial and consequential rulings on discrimination, student loans, and affirmative action. will the decisions energize voters in 2024? we will not go back. i will be dead in my grave before i ll be a slave again. we are going to keep on marching. okay, let s begin this hour with more on former president donald trump s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. the washington post reports trump spoke with then arizona governor doug ducey and tried to pressure that governor to overturn his narrow loss in that state according to three people familiar with the call. two of those people say trump repeatedly asked vice president mike pence to call governor ducey and prod him to find evidence to substantiate trump s fr
during the visit assuring that u.s. and china don t veer into conflict. lucas tomlinson is ticking things off for us, hey, lucas. ahead of the trip to china, proib president biden appearing to downplay the chinese balloon on the week long odyssey across the country. including flying over american nuclear missile bases. i don t think the leadership knew where it was and knew what was in it and knew what was going on. i think it was more embarrassing than it was intentional. and as aishah mentioned, antony blinken departing last night for beijing months after canceled abruptly after the spy balloon. the first visit by a secretary of state to china in more than five years. intense competition requires sustained diplomacy to assure that competition does not veer into confrontation or conflict and that s what the world expects of united states and china. blinken s trip to china comes after recent provocations in addition to the spy balloon. remember the air force jet tha
of opposing demonstrators. mr trump is now on his way to newjersey to address his supporters. our reporter helena humphrey has more from outside the courthouse in miami. well, monica, if you take a look behind me outside the federal courthouse in miami, you ll see a quieter scene than those that you probably see all day where we had trump supporters outnumbering those who oppose him at times some kind of tense moments between them. but now a much quieter scene, just a few straggling protesters. one man who had a make america great again flag over his shoulder, shouting to tell me, and of course, this is florida. it s a red state. it s a state that has voted in favour of president trump on two occasions. but thankfully, no violent scenes, really some chaos, but no violent scenes that some people have been concerned about based on some rhetoric and corners of the internetm and nothing like the 50,000 people either that authorities had been bracing for. but despite that, still