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
we are following breaking news this hour. a verdict has been reached in the seditious conspiracy trial against five members of the proud boys. this trial really considered the center piece, the marquee of the prosecutions brought by the justice department surrounding the actions leading up to and on january 6th. cnn s katelyn polantz is outside the courthouse. she s joining me once again. katelyn, what s the latest you re hearing from inside the room? reporter: kate, we really are moments away from knowing what the result of this long, long trial, this long prosecution by the justice department is at this moment in time the jury is reading the verdicts that they have reached in the courtroom. we have a team watching this right now. and what is happening here, what is at stake here is that this is the case against the five leaders of the proud boys, people that the justice department have accused of not just wanting to have a war against the u.s. government after the 2020 el
department is considering four separate charges against the president s son, two sn misdemeanors for failing to file taxes, one count of lying on a gun application. we re also reporting that the fbi and irs have been finished with their investigation for more than a year and there s growing frustration within the fbi, for example, as to why nothing is moving on this case, and now there s a whistleblower who has come forward, raising questions as to whether there s been political interference at levels of the biden administration ken dilanian, thank you for that i want to go to capitol hill where kevin mccarthy is scrambling to get skeptical republicans behind his plan to raise the debt limit garrett haake is on capitol hill at this point, how confident or not is mccarthy that he can get to 218 mccarthy and his team have been projecting confidence all week they just rolled out this debt limit plan the other day they re hoping to get it on the floor early next week. that wi
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we start with the growing fallout facing the white house this morning after a second batch of classified documents have been discovered in a separate location linking back to president biden dating back to his time at vice president this is after the initial discovery of classified materials in his former office at a washington think tank. republicans are using this, they have a new majority on capitol hill, now they are calling for a special counsel to oversee this matter similar to the one doing that for former president donald trump and the documents he took from office. there are a lot of questions so far not a ton of answers. so i m going to leave it there. want to be prudent here. this is under review by the department of justice i m not going beyond what the president shared yet, what my colleagues at the white house counsel shared with all of you as well. the president saying he was surprised to learn about these documents, is he saying he did not bring those docu