Fake electors plot before the 2020 election was even decided. Well have more on that video which appears to undermine some claims from the former president s legal team also ahead, the latest developments in the Georgia Election case including the proposed trial date from Fulton County District Attorney fani willis. Plus an update on the Recovery Efforts in maui amid increasing scrutiny for hawaiis electricity provider. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this thursday, august 17th. Im johnnen lemere. Thanks for starting your day with us. Well begin this morning with a disturbing situation out of texas where a woman was arrested and charged with threatening the federal judge who is presiding over former president Donald Trumps federal election interference case here in washington, d. C. The 43yearold who was denied bail allegedly threatened to kill judge tanya chutkan. We want to warn you some of these details are down right disturbing. According to an affidavit filed last wee
You havent known the Inflation Reduction Act for you know what it is 25 yoyears, and you have known me. So ill take it. L im just thrilled to have this handoff with you every four days a week, chris. It is the thing that brings me joy, my friend. Happy anniversary. Thanks, buddy. Ha thanks for a great show as always. And thanks to you at home for joining me this hour once again. We now haveur a date. March 4, 2024. That is the day Fulton County district Attorneyon Fani Willis proposed her case against trump and his 18 codefendants match that is the date shed like it to go to trial. That would put this trial in georgia two months after the date Special Counsel jack smith proposed for the attempts to overturn the 2020 election and three weeks before the Hush Money Case set to start in new york and two months before the maralago classified documents cased which is may 20th and it would be just one day before super tuesday. That means just 200 days from tomorrow trump and his codefendants
The Election Year . And hawaiis governor says more than 1,000 people are still potentially missing as fema is acknowledging challenges with the Relief Efforts there, well get an update from a top official and a new look at the harrowing scenes on the ground. Im kaitlan collins. This is the source. We begin with exclusive new reporting on the hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees that Rudy Giuliani is now staring down and the desperate attempts he has made to get former President Trump to cover them. With his attorney in tow, im told that Rudy Giuliani traveled to maralago in late april on a mission to make a personal appeal to trump to pay his legal bills. By going in person, giuliani and that lawyer, Robert Costello believed they could help explain face to it is if a why trump needled to assist his attorney with those ballooning legal bills. They argued that really, it was in trumps best interests to do so. But apparently, it fell on deaf ears. Trump is notoriously strict abo
Well see what happens. Kelly and i will speak with some voters that tell us what they would like to see and hear from the candidates on the stage and the message that they have ahead of the debate for former President Donald Trump as well. First, President Biden is about to make some remarks on the u. S. Economy. Theyve been pushing bidenomics very hard over the past couple days. Clearly this is central to the president s reelection push. Yesterdays speech though after it kind of got fact checked by many, it ran into some serious headwinds. Its a Head Scratcher as to why he brings up some of these things that are so easily unwound on the truth meter. There were about seven or eight of them in this speech that got picked apart one by one. Were not going to go through them all. The question is why he keeps raising the same things over that get debunked. Heres one random one. The president said i saw this Bridge Collapse in pittsburgh when i was on the scene last year. Watch this. I watch
hu. if you know you know. thank you for jojoining me t to. i i ll see youou next satuturda 8:00 a.m. smerconish is up next. there s an election coming, but you ll never hear jack smith say so. the supreme court is about to have more influence on the outcome of a presidential election than at any time since is the 2000 decision in bush verv. gore. jack smith asked the court to bypass the appellate level and make a decision about whether donald trump is entitled to immunity. and separately, this week they agreed to hear a challenge to a law used to prosecute hundreds of january 6th defendants for obstructing or impeding an official proceedingsing, which could impact smith s prosecution against trump on those charges. here s what s interesting to me. nowhere in the government s petition is there any specific reference to the 2024 presidential election, but that s clear ly what is driving smith s request. in making his case, here s what he told the court. quote, this case prese