New jersey, new york, all over. The Philadelphia Police officers were there out in force. They were there for if funeral of wilbert mora. It was officiated by cardinal dolan. Mayor adams, a former nypd officer he was and his Police Commissioners and said we have your backs to the Police Officers of this city. They pledged a partnership to make this city safe once again. This execution devastates a family, rocks the soul of a department, touches heart of a nation. Tests the faith of this city. The nypd stands tall. We always do. We are going to give you the resources to fight this senseless violence. Its New Yorkers Tag killers, and we will not lose. Martha a heart breaking jump in the number of officers killed in the line of duty. Last year, the defund the Police Movement and at that point you had many of these same officers that were out there today, back then they turned their backs on mayor Bill De Blasio in protest because they felt like they didnt have support from the mayor in th
Fourth indictment of donald trump. The former president and 18 others are now facing Racketeering Charges in georgias 2020 election case. We will have indepth analysis on the sprawling indictment straight ahead. Meanwhile, donald trump is once again using his legal troubles to raise money from his supporters. Well have more on that and his response to the historic charges. Plus the reaction from both sides of the aisle here in washington. Not surprisingly the majority of the Republican Party is showing no signs of moving away from donald trump. Good morning, and welcome to Way Too Early on this tuesday, august 15th, a historic morning. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. We will get right to the extraordinary headline. For the fourth time in as many months donald j. Trump, the former president of the United States, is facing another criminal indictment. The latest charges came late last night from Fulton County, georgia, where trump is 18 others were named in a sw
Racketeering indictment. The Clock Ticking before they turn themselves in to the Fulton County jail next friday, with Pressure Mounting for some or all of trumps 18 codefendants to cooperate, you might think trump would be bending over backwards to ingratiate himself with them, keeping them from freaking out and flipping. Doesnt look like it. Not so much. Take Rudy Giuliani, facing 13 charges in Fulton County. Cnn today reports that giuliani made a hail mary pilgrimage to maralago in april in what is described as a mission to make a personal and desperate appeal to former President Donald Trump to pay his legal bills. By going inperson a source familiar with the matter told cnn giuliani and his lawyer believed they could explain facetoface why trump needed to assist his former attorney with his ballooning legal bills. According to reporting trump verbally agreed to help with some of giulianis legal bills without committing to any specific amount or timeline. Nbc news has not independen
You arent going anywhere. We have another hour coming your way right now. Thank you. 10 00 in new york, martha. To the next hour we roll. Martha so a Bombshell Court Decision in georgias election case against former President Trump. The judge ruling this morning just about an hour ago that d. A. Fani willis can stay on this case but only if she cuts ties with her former romantic partner, nathan wade, the man she hired as a Special Prosecutor to lead the case against the former president , donald trump. With that we welcome you to a brandnew hour of americas newsroom. Im Martha Maccallum in today for dana perino. Bill im bill hemmer, good morning. We talked at 6 00 this morning saying it would be a rocknroll day and it will be. Awaiting a reaction from the d. A. The judges Decision Raising a lot of questions. He found the defendants failed to prove there was enough Conflict Of Interest to force the d. A. s removal. The appearance of impropriety meant either Willis Or Wade has to go. It
A hearing now over, now complete, for the day in florida. That is where former President Donald Trump has been all throughout the day. His attorneys have attempted to convince judge ilene cannon to toss the 32count Criminal Case against him involving classified documents found at maralargo. Andy mccarthy joins us in moments and also later we will speak with the new rnc cochair, lara trump, who is here with us on the story as well. A big sign of where democrats are putting their focus as november approaches. Moments ago, Vice President harris in an unprecedented move for president or Vice President. She has visited a planned parent hood in minnesota. As i said, this is not happened before for a sitting Vice President at an abortion clinic. Watch this. In this environment, these attacks against an individuals right to make decisions about their own body are outrageous and in many instances just plain old immoral. How dare these elected leaders believe they are in a better position to tel