Good morning, everyone. Its friday. Were glad youre with us. Its been quite a week for this country. Quite a week. Its framing what is going to be ab intense consequential months ahead. Lets get started with five things to know for this friday, august 4th. Sour, defiant, we have new reporting this morning about Donald Trumps State Of Mind after he was indicted for the third time in four months. The former president proclaiming his innocence and accusing the Special Counsel of leading a political persecution. Also new overnight, democratic lawmakers want to watch the trial. They want a judge to allow cameras in a federal courtroom. The July Jobs Report will come out. A key number for the fed. Also this morning a reenactment of the Parkland High School shooting. As part of a lawsuit against the officer who failed to enter the build whg a gunman killed 17 people. Two sailors under arrest and have been indicted for allegedly sending sensitive Military Information to chinese Intelligence Of
Investigation. Also tonight, dramatic video captures a Brazen Ukraine drone attack on a major Russian Naval base leaving a kremlin warship badly damaged as it was towed from the black sea. And olympic gold medallist simone biles returns to the spotlight. The gymnastics star attempting to make a comeback this weekend, two years after taking a Mental Health break. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer and youre in the situation room. We begin with donald trump entering two not guilty pleas within 24 hours. The former president of the United States just filed his response to additional charges in the classified Documents Case aday after historic spectacle of his january 6 arraignment here in washington. Cnns senior crime and justice reporter Katelyn Polantz is following this for us. Remind us what the additional maralago charges are all about. Well, those are charges we do know about because donald trump was hit with them about a week ago.
the way she did, to look amazing and know she s expecting baby number two, fantastic. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. the white house insists that there is no indication extraterrestrials are affiliated with these flying objects. for now. t the lead starts right now. four times in eight days flying objects shot down over north american skies by the u.s. military. were they a security threat? what did they carry? and why different protocols now for shooting them down then for the chinese spy balloon? plus, a father s pain. after his 14-year-old daughter is bullied and beaten at school and later died by suicide. why he says her school did not do nearly enough. and the thrill of victory in the face of my beloved eagles agony of defeat. two-time super bowl mvp patrick mahomes will join us live, fresh off his incredible come from behind super bowl victory. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we start with our world lead. so many questions and so few
lae last word tonight. we have our great, great, great american panel that is back, will cain, jimmy failla c and sportscasting legend michele tafoya will be with us. also, former un ambassador nikki haley is in studio and she ll join us and is she really exploring a twenty twenty four run for president , as some suggest? we will ask her live in about five minutes. but first tonight, it does doe appear that the apple doesn t really fall far from the tree. now, for the first time in have presidential history, we have ad both the president and his hero experience son facing criminal investigations. th surprise there. the father son duoer. everythi they seem to do everything together, finances their comingle d. t togethere trips together. they shared vehicles together, credit cards together. hunter even lived with pops well into his forties. it i and it is an undeniable fact that the pair did businessher. together. now, this, of course, all despite joe biden many denials and bre
soldiers are deploying to help and officials in erie county are sharing this sad update moments ago. i have the very sad news to report that in addition to the 13 confirmed deaths yesterday, the erie county department of health medical examiner has confirmed an additional 12 deaths. bringing the total for the blizzard to 25 deaths countywide. heartbreaking new news out of buffalo. nationwide, more than 1600 flights have been cancelled this morning. more than 2,000 delayed. that is only adding to the backlog from the holiday weekend. but there is progress in terms of power. about 60,000 homes remain in the dark this morning. that is down from more than a million on friday. more than 12,000 of those power outages are in erie county, new york, where officials say the historic storm is responsible as you just heard for at least 25 deaths. most of those killed were in the buffalo area and were found outside or in their cars. and with another 14 inches in snow, a driving ban re