We begin our second hour with several major developments in the Georgia Election interference case. Donald trump pleaded not guilty to 13 criminal counts on thursday, waving his arraignment. Trumps lawyers submitted the plea in writing and notified the court he will not appear in person this coming wednesday. Rudy giuliani became the latest codefendant to waive arraignment, entering a not guilty plea on friday. In total, 12 defendants have done this so far. The ex president and some of those charged along with him are also pushing to break up the broad 19 defendant rico case, in a separate filing, trumps lawyers act judge scott mcafee to sever his case from his codefendants who have asked for a speedy trial. At least two defendants have done that, former trump loyal Sidney Powell and kenneth chesebro. Chesebro has been scheduled for october 23rd. Like trump, theyve asked to have their cases tried separately from others. As trump and his codefendants push for their preferences, Fulton C
Right now, though, we start with this another trump lawyer confessing to election crimes today. Jenna ellis sloan in her mug shot. Third lawyer to confess within one week. Last weekended with two lawyers who used to represent donald trump going into court, confessing and pleading guilty. Ellis joins them. I want to show you briefly all three of these pleas together. How do you plead . Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. There it is. In all this is the fourth total conviction in the rico cases. D. A. Willis is 40, the key trump lawyer convicts are, of course, the higher up in the food chain of this chart. The other two Trump Lawyers, they pled out on the eve of a trial that was expected to begin this week. If they hadnt pled guilty wed be covering this right now. Ms. Ellis was not about to start a trial. She rushed back to court, her choice, trying to get a deal while she can. What you see here, this new footage is from that Atlanta Program today. Ellis plea is different from some of the other thin
Demands despite getting the inquiry many of them pushed for. Also ahead what many are learning this morning about russian president Vladimir Putins meeting with north korean dictator kim jongun. All right, good morning. Welcome to Way Too Early on this thursday, september 14th. Im sam stein in for jonathan lemire. We begin this morning with the president s comments on House Republicans Impeachment Inquiry. On tuesday speaker Kevin Mccarthy announced hes directing three committees to conduct the inquiry and claims joe biden used his position as Vice President to further his son hunters foreign Business Dealings. Mccarthy made the move without holding a floor vote. Yesterday the president addressed the inquiry for the first time at a democratic fundraiser in virginia. Biden brushed the republican move off saying, quote, not a joke, not focused on impeachment, ive got a job to do. Ive got to deal with the issues that affect the American People every single solitary day. The president also
Which means while they are finding more bodies, they could also find more survivors. Thats right. When i was here in turkey back in february, there was a devastating twin earthquake here that killed Tens Of Thousands of people. And we thought, wow, we hope the novels dont go up to that level. There are people being dragged out of wreckage, five, six days afterwards. Thats something were hoping we can see in morocco, outside of marrakech. As you mentioned, this was a 6. 8 earthquake on the richter scale. As you said, this is the strongest they fell in 123 years. So what were seeing now, a coordinated Rescue Effort between local authorities and the moroccan military, trying to get, out as you mentioned, to some of these more remote areas. This is going to be a struggle. Because you know, they havent actually officially, the government of morocco, asked for any foreign assistance. Weve heard the United States and france have offered assistance, if accepted by the moroccan government. And
Have been hit the hardest. This is the first earthquake of such magnitude to hit the area in more than 100 years. Lets go right to nbc news Foreign Correspondent matt bradley. What do we know about the efforts that are underway . Yes so far we are seeing local authorities and the military trying to bring people out of the wreckage. As you, said the death toll is now at 8000. It was only a couple hours ago the death toll is at 800. A couple hours before it was at 600. As you know from the earthquake that happened in turkey back in february, they have a way of climbing very high after Rescue Workers are able to get in and extracting dead bodies. Thats when we start to see these numbers going up and up. As you mentioned this is a 6. 8 magnitude earthquake according to the geological survey. That is the strongest earthquake to strike this country and 123 years. As you mentioned, this was in the high atlas mountains. About 50 miles away from the historic city america. There was some damage