Good morning, everyone. We are so glad youre starting your morning with us. Good morning. Happy monday. Its good to be back. A lot of news. A lot of news to get to, so lets get started with five things to know this monday, august 14th. Breaking overnight, 96, that is the death count so far from the hawaii wildfires and only 3 of the Disaster Area has been searched. The governor calling it a Fire Hurricane. It spread faster than a mile a minute, and now a new lawsuit against the states main electric provide r. Hours from now the Fulton County District Attorney is expected to present her case to the grand jury in the Georgia Election subversion case. This means a potential fourth indictment looms over former President Trump. Cnn learns exclusively about key evidence obtained by prosecutors. And a home explodes outside of pittsburgh killing five. Gas systems were operating as designed, according to officials, who say it could take months to figure out what happened. A new serious concern
An unprecedented morning in washington. Theres no clear speaker of the house, no date to elect one. New details about who republicans might pick next the day after the Wall Street Journal says they cut off their own heads. A brandnew gag order is now in place as donald trump soon heads back to court in new york this morning. And in georgia, prosecutors there, theyre making moves. New reporting on the plea deal theyre floating to multiple people charged alongside donald trump. A historic strike happening right now that could affect millions of Americans Health care. 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers walking off the job, making this the largest u. S. Health care strike ever. Im sara sidner with kate bolduan and john berman. Cnn news central starts right now. This morning there is no speaker of the house of representatives, no clear sense who will be speaker, and no certainty when there will be a speaker. It is a veritable congressional abyss and an unprecedented one brought on by republic
good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. a deadlock in congress and a stalemate on the battlefield. the excruciating reality facing ukrainian president zelenskyy as he comes to capitol hill looking for help. could he wind up going home empty-handed? plus, a question the supreme court has never had to answer in the course of american history until now. can the former president face federal prosecution for alleged crimes committed while in office? the massive stakes involved, and the new implications that the court could be ruling to decide things once and for all. and a new nightmare emerging in gaza. word that fully half of the population there is starving. the latest on that and new calls from the heads of multiple global organizations for the u.s. to step up and put a stop to, quote, the humanitarian nightmare taking place. i ll talk to one of the women in charge coming up. but we start with the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelenskyy
this comes in a new court filing just days after prosecutors have plea deal talks with the president s son had fallen apart. this comes as merrick garland elevated david weiss to special counsel status. the big question coming out of this news over the weekend was, okay, trial now? right. so in this filing overnight, they argued that the gundy version, they are saying that s a valid and binding agreement between doj and us. doj in their filing on friday said that deal was done. this is obviously a wrinkle that is going to continue to fester here. we might see some more filings over that. but under that agreement, it meant that hunter biden would avoid this serious felony gun charge if he abide d by certain terms for 24 months. the judge had a big issue with this saying she wasn t sure if it was constitutional because they had a role for her. ironically, they put that in there thinking it would awe void
near the six month anniversary, tuesday. the fbi now arresting those who attacked journalists or, damage their equipment. like you see in this video here. plea deal talks have also begun for some high-profile defenders. nbc for washington investigation reporter scott mcfarland, who s been following the latest for us. scott, good morning. hi, lindsay good morning to you. we saw a real wave arrests. regarding court filings. at least a dozen arrests over the past few days. and in those court filings, we see a lot of these defendants are accused of targeting or destroying media equipment. burning it, breaking it, burying it in some cases. but also, we saw one particularly horrific account of a new york times photographer targeted amid the mob, according to prosecutors. they see that group surrounded the photographer, asked who she worked for. she wouldn t answer. and according to charging documents, they pulled her credential, saw it was the new