forecasters say will increase before it gets better. air quality reaching hazardous levels in new jersey, washington, d.c. new yorkers were faced with the worst air quality in the city s history, yesterday. the smog, the smell. i feel i am getting a headache. feel it in my eyes. my must is more compromised than i am. asthma. when i got back from school my head was hurting. i was having bad headaches and my nose started bleeding. gillian: look at the time lapse that shows how bad things really got in the big apple yesterday. over the course of just a few hours, you can see the world trade center disappearing into an orange haze. winds are pushing that toxic cloud that was over new york further south where it will smother even more states. all that smoke is affecting major league sports. the yankees and phillies postponed their games last night. wnba scrapped the liberty s indoor game because of poor air quality. the new york post cover with the old joke today bla
what we know so far here. the former president told to appear in federal court in miami next tuesday to face the charges. tonight, our team talking with sources at bedminster, new jersey, where the former president is huddled with his advisors. he had recently been told by the special console that he was the target of a criminal investigation into his handling of classified documents. that was a signal that this could be coming in tonight it is now playing out. a former president indicted by the special counsel. pierre thomas, dan abrams and our investigative team and what they ve learned of this hour and what america will now witness play out next week. also tonight, 120 million americans now under alerts and warnings over hazardous smoke now stretching down through the northeast all the way down to washington, d.c., alabama. hundreds of wildfires in canada, more than half still out of control. the new york city skyline blanketed. in the nation s capital, the washington monu
welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing this important news day with us. target trump, the former president s legal team gets official notice he could face charges in the federal investigation over classified documents. this is an unprecedented legal and political moment as one piece of the special counsel investigation nears its end just as trump s 2024 comeback bid gears up. plus new cnn reporting on a critical building block of the case. a career government expert interviewed by prosecutors detailed exactly what trump knew and was told about the classification rules. and the political impact of trump being named a target, the former president rolls out a familiar playbook, where he s a victim and lies are plentiful. his 2024 rivals now must decide what to say. this as mike pence s cautious choice. if that is something that investigators see as possible, even enough potentially to indict the former president, do you think that
chinatown and dc, and even more boxes at the universitys f pennsylvania, and documents strewn all over his garage floo rkr where he parks his corvette and which is secured by only a garageor door that. is paper thin and open. most of the timeump also. trump also said he has been summoned to appear at the federal courthouse iurthousn miami, florida, next tuesday. another quot ie i never thought it was possible that such a thing could happen to a former unite president of the ud states. i am an innocent mann innoce, hd this is indeed a dark da sy forf the united states of america. matthew whitaker is the former acting attorney generaorney gelr former president trump. he joins me now with reaction. first first of all, just your in reaction to what the formet jur president just said. this is a dark day for this nation. yeahs, harris, good to be with you. it s a really sad day for our countrd da y. i mean, if you believe ine the rule of law and if you believe in equal justice
and raising concerns about his age and ability to endure a grueling election cycle. we will watch the news conference live and dig in. fog, the smell, the smog, it s it s like out of like a disaster movie or something. yeah, it s really surreal. this is unbearable, and seems like apocalyptic. definitely have a headache, it s pretty hazy out here and my eyes are burning a little bit. john: people living in the northeast reacting to surreal scenes of smoke-filled cities as smog from raging canadian wildfires drifts to the united states leaving more than 100 million americans under air quality alerts, and the hazy conditions could be sticking around into the weekend. john roberts in washington, and good smoky thursday afternoon to you as well. aishah: coughing here and there. this is america reports, thanks for watching. time lapse video showing how the new york city skyline changed over the span of a few hours yesterday, the skies turning the orange-tinted color