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
closer to deciding whether to prosecute him on tax and gun charges. i will be joined by a growing number of new york lawmakers calling for congressman george santos to resign. what the embattled congressman is saying today. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. republican lawmakers are calling for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate additional documents found by aides to president biden. they were discovered in the garage of his home in wilmington, delaware, after the first batch of ten classified materials were found at the penn biden center in washington. classified material next to your corvette? what were you thinking? let me i m going to get a chance to speak on all of this, god willing, soon. as i said earlier this week by the way, my corvette is in a locked garage. it s not like it s out on the street. it s in a locked garage? yes, as well as my corvette. merrick garland will make a statement in the next hour. we don t
The man accused of murdering 11 people at the tree of life synagogue about five years a ago. it was the deadliest anti-semitic attack in u.s. history. danny freeman reports. reporter: catharsis in the courtroom as one by one family members and loved ones, survivors of the pittsburgh synagogue shooting finally got the chance to freely address the shooter in open court. your sick, vile actions have totally erased you from humanity and society forever, said mark simon. i am in principle oppose d to te death penalty, said arab buy who survived the attack, but this shooter has challenged my ability to maintain that view. in my opinion, he s forfeited the privilege of living. with witness after witness, defendant bowers sat motionless taking notes, no longer in his
Texas last year. arab buy was taken hostage by an isis-inspired person. this reminds us that attitudes and rhetoric create real world consequences. jonathan greenblat, we ll keep reporting on this. thank you. president biden honored the late u.s. defense secretary ash carter during a he moirl service. he said he never let politics impact his work and thanked the carter family. the grief makes it inescapable. on behalf of our nation, just want to say thank you. thank you for sharing ash with us and for your oechb service to our country. we re truly grateful. ash carter died so suddenly
Murder and burglarly after stabbing five orthodoxed yous in new york pled not guilty. it happened at arab buy s home in suburban new york on the 7th night of hanukkah. the suspect entered wearing a scarf on his face. the 37-year-old man was stopped after victims fought back using pieces of furniture in the home and the suspect fled the scene and tried to enter a nearby synagogue but was blocked by those inside. the suspect was arrested two hours later covered in blood. four of the five victims were treated and released from the hospital. new york governor andrew cuomo has called the latest attack an act of domestic terrorism. the lawyer said he had a long history of mental illness and hospitalizations. the man remains in jail on $5 million bail. and president trump called the attack horrific adding that we