Right now, at 11 00, driverless cars. The dmv says that it has asking crews to reduce its fleet by 50 until it completes an investigation about an incident in San Francisco. No more than 15 cars operating through the day and 150 cars at night. A comes week after they expended robo taxi service. Our Investigative Unit follows this closely. Self driving cars had been involved in at least 280 crashes over the past five years, across the state. This one, just last night in the city, a cruise car, they say that that the robo taxi had a green light and was making a turn, the fire truck had its lights and sirens on. In a statement, the dmv says, it reserves the right following investigations of the facts to suspend or revoke testing or deployment permits if there is determined to be an unreasonable risk to public safety. Crews also said that they would believe its clear that they positively impact overall road safety. Strum at our other top story tonight, history in the making. But danger for
Not please the white house. The ag named david weiss the trump appointed u. S. Attorney in delaware who has been investigating hunter biden four years has a Special Counsel giving them greater powers and more independence. David weiss requested the move. Suddenly, constant coverage of hunter biden despite the Media Obsession with donald trump. Hunter bidens pleabargain on tax and gun charges spirit in him jail time fell apart. Now weiss will probably take it to trial. Even my devon archer testified next week that Vice President joe biden joined 20 Speaker Phone Calls with hunter and his associates and said the vp dying twice at a Fancy Georgetown Restaurant For The First Time the Hunter Scandal is getting too big for the media to ignore. I am howard kurtz, this is the mediabuzz. Howard the media has been a prime target as the pundits are debating whether Hunter Biden Story deserves more attention and now that question reverberates even more loudly. This is an investigation, it is a cov
Atlanta, and its sparking speculation that another indictment could be coming very soon for the former president. And also ahead well look at a special election today in the state of ohio that could change the rules for amending that states constitution and how it could impact Abortion Rights there. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, august 8th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. Well get right to the news, and it was another fast moving night on the legal front yesterday in the newest federal case against donald trump. Judge Tanya Chutkan has summoned both sides to appear for a hearing no later than this friday, after they were unable to reach an agreement on the terms of a protective order requested by special counsel jack smith. Just before 5 00 p. M. Yesterday trumps lawyers filed a response pushing back at smiths motion to bar trump from sharing sensitive evidence on social media. They argued this and ill quote, in a trial amount Firs
More downgrades. This time not on the sovereign but u. S. Banks, 10 downgrades overnight. Tom there is a bank story in italy as well. That is the economic thing to look at. Overwhelming everything here this morning led by the news out of china is it is deflation tuesday. Im looking at the screen and i have not seen that screen in 4, 5, six years. Jonathan dreadful. Tom we were out in front of the story, there is deflation in the air. I can bore you with eight ways, all you have to do is say even oil breaks down. Jonathan every time i get data out of china, it is downside surprise. Lisa one interesting area, the divergence between the u. S. And china has been accelerating. What you have seen with respect to the u. S. Dependence on china is it is decreasing even though in europe it is not. I wonder how much those stories are linked. The underperformance of germany and the outperformance of the United States. Tom the banks have to deal with this disinflationary, deflation tendency. You go
This morns wing, we are see for the first time new evidence that may be used against donald trump in the Special Counsels 2020 case. The New York Times has obtained this memo that has previously been secret. It was written by lawyer kenneth chesebro. He was named by prosecutors, youll remember, as coconspirator number five in the indictment, not in the indictment against donald trump, all of the coconspirators so far, unindicted. The internal memo spells out in detail the plot to overturn the 2020 election with socalled Fake Electors and it also gives new insight into how the plot would unfold and what they really wanted to do as it was unfolding. Cnns Jessica Schneider is here with much more on this. Jess, lay out what new is learned in this memo. Yeah, kate. This memo dated december 6th. Its known to prosecutors. It will likely be a key part of this case and it really lays out that even the man outlining this Fake Electors plot, kenneth chesebro, he knew it was far fetched and knew i