Going to make a return. Is it certain shes going to compete . Yes. She is slated to compete. A lot of people will be watching. Andy, thank you. The next hour of cnn this morning starts right now. 7 a. M. It went by quickly. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to cnn this morning. Im amarer walker. Im victor blackwell. The fight between the Special Prosecutor and donald trump heating up now after the former president posted this threat jerng, they say, message on his social media. Now the special counsel is calling on the judge in the january 6th case to take action. Authorities have identified another victim in the gilgo beach murders. It comes just a week after Rex Heuermann was identified. Could the killing be tied to the same suspect. Chaos in new york city. Thousands of people flood the streets after a social Media Influencer posts online about a give away. Shes back. Gymnast simone biles makes the return for the First Time Since the Tokyo Olympics. Well have the latest on tonights com
The fight between donald trump and the Special Prosecutors heating up. Hes asking the judge to limit Sharing Evidence in the case. Chaos in New York City after thousands of people flood into union square over a video game give away. The high Profile Influencer who organized the event or didnt organize it is facing charges. Plus, she is the greatest of all times. Simone biles returns to gymnastics for the First Time Since taking a Mental Health break. This could easily become the largest jackpot in Mega Millions history. Another night, no winning ticket. Well tell you how much is up for grabs in the next drawing. Well, this morning special counsel jack smith is taking aim at former President Donald Trump after he appeared to make threats against his opponents. Last night prosecutors made a filing citing this social media post from trump that reads, if you go after me, im coming after you. Trumps campaign defended the post as the definition of free speech and said it had nothing to do wi
Says it s down the middle of the fairway, couldn t have been much better. there s one catch here, there always is. wages. wages remain a bit high. of course, that s great news for workers and more evidence that workers with have considerable leverage. in fact, paychecks now growing faster than prices. that is huge. strong wage growth is not really what jerome powell and the fed wants. they want wages to cool even further to help drive inflation down. still, big picture, there s a lot to like about this jobs report. it s just one more indicator that supports a growing sense that the soft landing many thought was basically impossible might just be happening. victor and amarer. all right. not bad news at all, matt egan. thank you. inflation is slowing. wages are rising and recession fears are easing.
On that. victor and amarer, things are already moving very quickly in the latest criminal case with the former president. the special counsel s team, they have to submit their recommendations for a trial start date next week on august 10th. after that, trump s legal team will have seven days to respond. they ve already said they will definitely be pushing back against any rush to trial. the speedy trial act does say a trial should happen 70 days after a defendant appears in court. 70 days from thursday. but trump s team really can move to have that date pushed back, which is very likely. trump s attorney did tell the judge on thursday that in his view there is just way too much evidence to sift through in this 2020 election case to move fast toward a trial date. of course, part of the trump legal playbook has been delay, delay, delay so we can expect that to likely continue. as for trump, he did rail against the prosecution on the tarmac at the dc airport after his arraignment saying
Middle of the election and they waited until i became the dominant force in the pole. they want to interfere in my campaign. they want to interfere in the elections. they commonly use tactic in third world countries. trump s legal troubles have not eroded his support within the republican party. in fact, something he can turn each indictment into his advantage. cnn s kristin holmes has more. reporter: good morning, amarer and victor. former president trump airing his grievances talking to the alabama republican party. he says if he were elected president again, first day in office he would appoint a special prosecutor to continue the work congress is doing looking into investigating the biden family. he also claimed that the left, because he was doing well, was sicking rabid democratic left wing lawyers on him and also claimed that these charges were only brought because he was leading in the polls. one thing to keep in mind is