There was also a lot of news, as there has been all week. Theres more today. Lets get started this friday, august 18. This breaking overnight, Hurricane Hillary Intensifying in the pacific. It is now a major category 4 hurricane thats expected to bring flooding and rain to california and the southwest over the weekend. More Breaking News, mauis Emergency Management administrator quit abruptly a day after he defended not sounding the islands sirens as Deadly Wildfires tore through la hadhaina citing health reasons. And also this just in, femas Disaster Fund is slipping into the red and Hurricane Season hasnt even peaked yet. Now pressure is on for congress to pass a spending bill. Former President Trump wants to push back the trial date in the federal election subversion case by a lot. The Special Counsel wants january, months from now. Trumps team wants april of 2026, about three years from now. And federal prosecutors are recommending the toughest january 6 sentence yet for two leader
sat in jail on january 6 charges, relatively simple cases about trespassing on the capitol grounds and those kinds of things, versus how quick they re trying to move this trial. mario, one thing interesting the growing chorus of republicans who aren t total trump cheerleaders like chris christie and bill barr who are questioning this georgia indictment because they re saying jack smith did this, and usually a federal indictment would supersede something on the state level, and it just seems like piling on. i m paraphrasing here. you have a good point about trump canceling his press conditions on monday to try to debunk and try to refute the georgia indictment. phil is making fun of me here. that s not true. because your point is it shows how seriously trump is taking it that he canceled it, right? no, no, we ve been expecting this georgia indictment to drop for a while now, ever since going back to shortly after the
think gives great credit to them and should make the nation proud. annie is a national political reporter for boston globe and david, senior correspondent for the washington examiner. watching president obama give his final press conditions, your thought. yeah, i was so it was amazing to watch that. you know, just having watched him for eight years to see his final good-bye. but i thought his demeanor was, you know, it was just classic obama. he s acting so calmly and really trying to calm down his base that is so upset about anxious about trump. it s the thing that some of the activists and leaders in the democratic party have long been frustrated by with him which is he s not sort of energizing them or putting his cause with all of these mopeople who are going toe boycotting. he s tries to be that calming voice. this time he s really turning it toward his own party and his own base instead of trying to rile them up. david, imagine what it s