The countrys president. The organisation earlier set a deadline of sunday to reinstate deposed president , mohamed bazoum. A delegation from the bloc visited niger thursday but failed to meet coup leaders, or mr bazoum. Video has emerged purporting to show a Sea Drone Driving into the side of a Russian Naval vessel in the black sea. The bbc has not yet verified this video, but the footage appears to show a drone hitting the side of the large ship. The video was released by the Ukrainian Security services. But Russias Defense Ministry says it repelled an attack, not admitting to any damage. Heres our correspondent in kyiv james waterhouse. Unlike these drone attacks weve seen deep inside russia, around moscow, for example, kyiv seems more willing to admit to being behind these strikes using sea drones on the black sea, or sea of azov. And sources at the Security Service have told us that they successfully damaged a major landing ship at the port of novorossiysk, which is on the russian
The big surprising Legal Development of the day is that defendant donald trump has decided that the trial in the case of Georgia Versus donald trump should take place in a georgia courtroom instead a Federal Court. That news came after a new York State Appeals Court rejected Donald Trumps lastminute attempt to delay the picketing of His Civil Fraud Trial scheduled to begin on monday, after the judge in that case has already ruled that there is overwhelming evidence of Business Fraud committed by donald trump in lying about the value of real estate, including the value of his New York City apartment. His home. Which he claimed is 30, 000 square feet when it is actually one third that size, 10,000 square feet. Which is big. People with 10,000 square foot apartments in new york dont need to project they have a bigger apartment than that. But thats donald trump for you. The most surprising legal news of the day, occurred at 3 45 pm in georgia, when Donald Trumps Criminal Defense Lawyer not
Good evening, alex. Congressman Maxwell Frost joining us tonight. It was hard to pick a best moment in the crazy house hearing today. But my favorite was the youngest member of the House Of Representatives teaching, in effect, the Speaker Of The House how he supposed to do his job. That was one of the great highlights for me. Well, i am eager to hear what Maxwell Frost has to say about the debacle that unfolded on capitol hill. And, alex, i can only say i was sorry not to be able to do Debate Analysis last night on this network, because i was working here at ten pm, with a faithful audience, who did not watch the debate and waited until 11 for rachel analysis of it. But i saw enough of it to know that nikki haley stole her a big line from a dear friend of mine, jim downie. Were going to see it later, in this hour, who delivered that line better. Jim doughty in the original, or nikki haley last night and the steel. We will show you. Both who wore it better . The republican president ial
friend. i wanted to come hang out with you, on friday night. you need to take a train to do that, but we welcome you on amtrak, and we re here for you. i m always here for. you have a wonderful weekend. thank you. you too, alex. have a great. so thank you, and thank you to you at home for joining me this hour. today fulton county district attorney fani willis asked a judge to set the trial date for former president trump and his 14 remaining codefendants in the georgia election interference case. that date, august 5th, 2024. now that date would be stunning on its own or. it s just three months before election day. but d.a. willis asking for an august 4th trial date today is even more of a big deal when you consider that she just said this on tuesday. i believe in that case there will be a trial. i believe the trial will take many months. i don t expect that we will conclude until the winter or the very early part of 2025. trump s legal team promptly filed its own
interference case. that date, august 5th, 2024. now that date would be stunning on its own or. it s just three months before election day. but d. a. willis asking for an august 4th trial date today is even more of a big deal when you consider that she just said this on tuesday. i believe in that case there will be a trial. i believe the trial will take many months. i don t expect that we will conclude until the winter or the very early part of 2025. trump s legal team promptly filed its own motion opposing that august 5th trial date. we have no idea how the judge will rule here. but there is a very real chance that former prior president trump could be on trial during the closing weeks of the 2024 election, elected, itself through january six in the election certification process, and maybe even through inauguration. and we remember how that all went down last time, don t we, in 2020? well, this would add a new level of complexity to all of that. this is not the only key