Social media with posts that could defy the judges orders. Well get legal analysis on that new development. Also ahead, 9 latest warning from the pentagon about potential disruptions to Troop Readiness and military relations. Were learning about more provocative news from russia and chinas navys off the coast of alaska. Good morning. Welcome to Way Too Early on monday, august 8th. Im jonathan lemire. Thank you for starting your day and week with us. We begin with a flurry of action. Just days after being formally charged for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 Election Results, trump spent the weekend testing the limits of the judge assigned to that case. Now during thursdays arraignment the Magistrate Judge warned trump against interfering in the case telling him that his bond could be revoked if he tried to influence a juror, threaten or bribe a witness or if he retaliated. Despite telling the judge he understood her warning, just one day later the former president posted on his social media site, quote, if you go after me, im coming after you. That message set off alarm bells within the Justice Department where special counsel jack smith quickly asked a judge to impose a Protective Order in the case to block trump from Sharing Evidence turned over to his defense team on his social media site. The dojs request stated this, if the defendant were to begin issuing public posts using details or, for example, grand jury transcripts obtained in discovery here, it could have a harmful reaction. The judge gave them until 5 00 this afternoon to respond to the doj request. They asked for a threeday extension, something that the doj balked at. In a Response Filing Smith wrote this, rather than spend time complying with the courts order, the defendant drafted a filing as to why he did not have time to review and consider the fivepage pro posted Protective Order. The judge concurred with prosecutors and shot down trumps request to have todays deadline pushed back. Meanwhile, while this was going on, the former president continued to go after those involved in the case over the weekend despite being explicitly warned not to do so. His targets included former president mike pence and jack smith was a target both on social media and on this speech in alabama. Deranged jack smith. Doesnt he look deranged . Have you seen the picture . Hes a deranged human being. Were getting stronger by the day. Somebody said you should treat him nicer. Maybe he would be nice. Let me tell you, this guy is a lost soul. Bad guy. Purple robes. Meanwhile, Donald Trumps lawyer, john lauro says former Vice President , mike pence, would make an appearance in the defense for the 2020 election case. Pence, however, appears to be refuting that claim. Take a listen. Mike pence will be one of our best witnesses at trial. I read his book very carefully. And if he testifies consistent with his book, then President Trump will be acquitted for these reasons. Number one, mr. Pence recognizes that john eastman, who is giving legal advice, was a renowned legal scholar. Number two, mike pence there was an ask for it to be debated in different arenas. You may think somebody is acting inappropriately. Mr. Pence whos a lawyer never said to mr. Trump i think what youre doing is criminal. Thats very important. You can look at the tweets and public statements the president made all the way up to the night before and the morning of. Look, what the president was convinced, it seemed to me, in december was i had some right to object or overturn electoral results. No Vice President or any one person has the right too do that. He was talking about rejecting votes and then his lawyers suggested we return votes to the states. Frankly, the day before january 6th, if memory serves, they came back, his lawyers did, and said we want you to reject votes outright. They were asking me to overturn the election. I had no right to overturn the election. Lots to discuss and thankfully joining us now former assistant u. S. Attorney for the district of columbia, an nbc news and msnbc legal analyst. Glen kirshner. Where does President Trumps defense snand theyve floated a number of them, First Amendment and his attorney debuted on a number of shows yesterday. Is there any snert how might they Stand Up In Court . They wont Stand Up In Court. Lets be clear whats going on here, jonathan. John lauro is a mouth piece for donald trump. Hes not an honest broker of the law or the facts. Frankly, thats not his job, although i will say im really disappointed when he continues to try to i think mislead the public by saying everything is protected by the First Amendment. Everything my client said. Yes, the First Amendment protects words. Words can also constitute crimes. When people enter into a conspiracy, guess what, they ordinarily use words to do it. They get together and agree to do it. Once one coconspiritor takes one step, an overt act, the crime of conspiracy is complete. So i was so disappointed because john lauro knows better when i was in court in the Overflow Courtroom on thursday and i heard him say the following, and i was furiously take being verbatim notes and weve gotten a transcript. When he said he couldnt possibly propose a trial date as he was ordered by the court to do because there was going to be so much discovery provided by the prosecution, he said the following. He said, your honor, obviously in a case of this magnitude there might be a massive amount of discovery and information that we would have to look through in order to make that determination, that is propoing a trial date. Then he said something that infuriated me. We expect to vigorously address every bit on behalf of donald trump and often behalf of the American People. He doesnt represent the interests of the American People. He represents solely and exclusively the rights and interests of his client. What he was doing there, and it was playing to those of us in the room, is he was trying to bolster and mimic and parrot his clients claims that theyre not prosecuting me, theyre prosecuting you. I hope judge Tanya Chudkin will take him to task, not only his client, because he really does need to abide by the rules of ethics. So lets talk about these inflammatory posts and comments from trump over the weekend. His one about his first one there about coming after you, his campaign explained away. It was vague enough that one wonders if that would have any merit. Some are explicit about the judge and pens and did he violate the magistrates warnings . What kind of consequences for a man who is not just a defendant but running for sflez. Yeah, great question. I think he came very close to violating the conditions of his release, though as i listen to the Magistrate Judge talk through the dos and donts of his pretrial lease, there will be some wiggle room. Thats okay. All of it will be cleared up soon by judge chud kin that arguably violated his rights, there may be a hearing to address the apparent violations. Glen kirshner, thank you. Im sure well speak with you again soon. Well be covering that hearing later today. Still ahead here on Way Too Early, israels Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu indicating how hell move forward with his governments judicial overhaul. What he says is the only thing left on the table. Plus, an historic first. Both the army and the marines are without leaders as republican senator Tommy Tuberville continues to block hundreds of nominations. The warning about the american readiness. Youre watching Way Too Early. Well be right back. Age is just a number, and mines unlisted. 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At this Point Netanyahu has not publicly said it. For the first time in history, the army and marines are operating without a chief. Its prompting warnings from the pentagon about potential disruptions to Troop Readiness as well as military relationships. Defense secretary lloyd austin said the absence of Senate Confirmed leaders could impact the effectiveness of the armed forces and strain international alliances. The holdup in confirming the next army chief and marine commandant are more than 300 nominations stalled by Tommy Tuberville who disagrees with the pentagons Policy Regarding Travel Reimbursements With Out Of State Abortion or reproductive care. Hes blamed democrats saying they should schedule individual votes. Individual votes on each nomination could be time consuming and diverse attention. Elsewhere, the parents of a 25yearold man are breathing easier after the u. S. Coast guard found their son in a partially submerged boat that was 12 miles off the florida coast. Nbc news correspondent Marissa Parra has more on the dramatic rescue of the man missing for nearly two days. In the moments of a Miraculous Rescue Grate did i tud hits this mother like a wave. We cannot thank everybody. We just want to say thank you so much. This was her son Charles Gregory just hours before. The 25yearold seen hugging his knees alone and lost at sea for almost two days after a fishing trip gone wrong. He lost his engine. When he got swept out to sea. His vessel got capsized. He lost everything. Reporter the clock was ticking. He had no food, no water. At any time marine life would be a concern. Rescuers desperate spotted a sight for sore eyes early saturday morning. There was the 25yearold waiving at them from a boat half full. We didnt want his legs to give out underneath him. Loaded on to a guernsey on land, charles gives his parents a frantic weak sign hes okay. Theres a god out there. I grave up hope. I should never give up hope. We are certainly glad hes okay. 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They end the tournament on a 238 minute scoring drought, the longest in womens world cup history. Remarkable run. There was some positive news for american women. Simone biles is a champion. She returned at the u. S. Classic outside of chicago. She won the all around balance beam and floor titles. She also had the highest score on vault. Biles return follows a twoyear hiatus after she bowed out of the Tokyo Olympic games due to Mental Health issues. To basketball now and the White Sox Tim anderson did not play yesterday for chicago in what the team claimed was a planned day off but the white sox are also preparing for an extended period without their shortstop who is facing a multigame fight against jose ramirez. The infielder squared off and started throwing legit punches in the sixth inning sparking a bench clearing brawl. Ramirez decked anderson. Teams expect to hear from the league about disciplinary action. We can expect very lengthy suspensions there. To cincinnati now and a rough welcome to the big leagues for reds rookie ryan richardson. The 23yearold righthander gave up two home runs on the first two pitches of his major league career. That is tough. We will say this, that richardson would rebound from that extraordinarily rocky start to add two hitless innings. He finished with four hits, four runs, three walks, two strikeouts. Nats beat the reds 63. I had the misfortune of being at fenway park as the red sox got crushed by the toronto bluejays 131. Great weather, great seats up on the monster. Embarrassing effort by the bo sox. Time for the weather. Lets go to meteorologist Michelle Grossman for the forecast. How is it looking out there . Hey there, jonathan. Great to see you. Off to a good start. Stormy start. Dangerous heat continuing. We have wet weather following this morning in parts of the northeast, ohio valley. Well get a little break and we have the chance of seeing storms later on this afternoon. You can see lightning in parts of the ohio valley. 87 Million People impacted by the risk of severe weather. Into the South Central states. We could see strong storms there as well. We can see winds gusting at 65 miles per hour. You can see a few tornadoes, heavy rainfall, too. Looking at the chance for flash flooding. Always concerned about that this time of year. Rainfall up to 2 inches. And the blue and four inches of rain in some spots. Thats a concern as we go throughout the afternoon and evening hours. Were concerned, too, about the dangerous heat continuing. Were looking at 70 Million People impacted from southern california. The South Central states into the southeast. Jonathan, some spots will feel like 115 today. Back to you. All right. Michelle grossman, thank you so very much. Still ahead here on Way Too Early, President Biden takes a trip out west this week. Well take a look at the key Battleground States hell be visiting and whats on his agen