Thets big barr laying out a flaw in the main defense that Donald Trumps lawyers using in the federal election case. Well have much more from the former Attorney General on trumps many, many legal issues in just a moment. Meanwhile a key conspirator in the riot at the capitol could receive the longest sentence yet for the january 6th attack. And a very significant summit at camp david for President Biden. Well explain the stakes at todays meeting. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, august 18th. We made it to friday, folks. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin this morning with the trial date proposed by Donald Trumps legal team that is way, way, way in the future. In a court filing late yesterday the attorneys representing the former president in the federal election interference case against him thats the one out of washington requested that that trial begin in april of 2026. That is 2 1 2 years later than the january 2024 star
or the man president biden picked to protect the homeland is now forced to hear from the victims of the biden border crisis. they are on the hill today. we re in the final day of impeachment hearings against department of homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. house republicans still trying to sit with mayorkas. it won t be today. his team says there was a scheduling conflict. the house gop says mayorkas is playing games with when he will appear. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. the storm of humanity at our nation s southern border has been the most disastrous onslaught of illegal immigrants ever. and costs to american lives is what s in focus this hour. republicans called on two moms who lost their children from the biden border crisis. they wanted them to come to capitol hill. watch their powerful testimonies. let s take a moment and think about how kala felt that day, how scared she must have been that day knowing that she was dying. ka
meanwhile, hunter s childpport support payments. remember the little girl in arkansas? innocentpa, e little four year e girl that he and joe and jill biden have completely abandoned? well, anyway , the childcare payments were reduced. e payma reported 75%, and the gl does not get to take her dad s name, which might be a blessingg in disguise. so congratuise s to, the bidens.babl we know that they re probably overjoyed today, but one day joe and joe biden s granddaughter will know that her grandfathegranddr, the presf of the united states, and completely abandoned and disowned her. we ll get to that. and coming up, we re going to hear from the attornemingheay representing rapper kodak black, who was sentenced to more than was sent years in prison. he was charged with the same federal weapons crimer bid. as zero experience. hunter biden, 46 months in jail. he also, by the way, we ll hear from john solomoom john. e he has exclusive new details from the irs whistleblowerxc who
shelter in place, students on the campus of california s uc davis are told to stay indoors until further notice following a third stabbing incident near campus. the latest on the search for a suspect. on strike. more than 11,000 hollywood writers are taking to the picket line today. how long this could last and what it all means for the shows that you watch. debt limit showdown. house speaker kevin mccarthy will meet with president biden next week as the treasury secretary warns the u.s. could default on its debt as soon as june 1st. these stories right here on cnn news central. this morning students and staff at the uc davis community are being asked to shelter in place because of a string of stabbings near campus. the latest one happened overnight just days after two other deadly stabbings. on thursday a 50-year-old man you see where that happened, the stabbing of david brow was found, he was found dead in central park about a half mile from campus. two days l