here are tonight s headlines. the concern tonight from a federal judge, why she gave hunter biden and federal prosecutors 30 days to come up with a new agreement. a trial clock is ticking. a crane collapsed here in manhattan. what caught fire at a construction site on the west side of the city this morning. at least two firefighters are injured. it is building, another building going up every week it seems like around here. in a string of. an alarming moment on capitol hill. republican senate leader mitch mcconnell freezes midsentence during a press conference. james: we are tracking severe thunderstorms as two-thirds of the country are now in the heat dome. it didn t take long to start sweating out here in this heat. and there is no relief at the beach. we ll be water temperature at flora s manatee bay was measured at 101.1 degrees. if you want to lower your
by ShipWreckedCrew: This story is almost comical to me, and I suspect it’s comical to many other experienced federal criminal trial practitioners. The media and left-wing legal pundits playing for more social media attention seem to think the issue of when a trial date will be set is an early test o
and law. it s going to be about is there a political solution to this case because i m not going to win on the facts and the law. we re seeing it play out. we already know that. his criminal defense strategy is to win the republican try to wi house again. heaven help us. nicole, could i interrupt for a second? i think that relates to what has been filed in the florida case. the government put its brief in opposing the defense request to have no trial date set. that goes to the conversation we are having right now about this idea of that there s a political solution, because the legal solution is not going to go well for the president. so the government has come back and said, no, you have to set a trial date. that is required by the speedy trial clock. the reasons that have been given by donald trump and by walt
so, whether they did or they didn t, i m not going to opine, i did not see anything either way. judge cannon set a trial date for mid august, that was a surprise to a lot of people. do you expect the pretrial motions will inevitably push that back? absolutely. that s a standard thing. some judges, they do like to set trial dates, some don t bother, they know that it s a fake date anyway. to use an overused term, a fake. what they do, they ll set a trial date, judge cannon set a trial date, based on the speedy trial clock. that clock stops for any number of reasons. so, as soon as they filed motions, the clocks gonna stop. given how complicated this case could be, the government, you know, a lot of times these national security cases, they don t have an interest in wanting it to be dragged out in public. in this case, you have a candidate, a defender, who is a candidate. who may also not want to have that happen. is it in trump s best interest right now to consider a plea?
looks that way, and he is being held on an unrelated charge of interfering with the police. how long can they hold him? can they keep him indefinitely? well, on that case, they have him on a half a million dollar bond. he could get out if theoretically he could post that enormous bond. but i assure you, if there is any indication he is going to post that bond, it will speed up the timeline on their murder case, which they are taking their time on because he is in, and the minute they filed charges against him for murder, which i suspect as short as i am sitting here, that is when the speedy trial clock will start to take for prosecutors to take him to tile. they do not have to rush the murder case while he is still in custody and that other case. martha: injuries on her face that she posted on instagram. so much of this, mark, looks to be in it, she says mild concussion, bruised hip, cut, she says she took a fall, i believe, was the reason for