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
Play out. this is such an important decision. i would argue the timeline is the big question. can we get this in. parties are going to go in front of the judge. yesterday they were in front of a magistrate judge. she will then set at least the beginning of a timeline, sometimes in that scenario, a judge will say i m going to go to the end and set a trial date and work backwards. let s set some intermediate dates and hold off and set a date at some time in the future. i think this judge is going to set a trial date. i think she s given the signals. she wants to get this in will ever the election. easier said than done. 2024 looking ahead, march and april are already occupied by the hush money case. may into june and july are alreadoccupyied by jack smith s other case. so i m not sure if she s going to be able to fit in she can t do iafr that. if you try to do it before that, that s really, really quick. that does not give trump s team much time at all to prepare.