Fourth indictment of donald trump. The former president and 18 others are now facing Racketeering Charges in georgias 2020 election case. We will have indepth analysis on the sprawling indictment straight ahead. Meanwhile, donald trump is once again using his legal troubles to raise money from his supporters. Well have more on that and his response to the historic charges. Plus the reaction from both sides of the aisle here in washington. Not surprisingly the majority of the Republican Party is showing no signs of moving away from donald trump. Good morning, and welcome to Way Too Early on this tuesday, august 15th, a historic morning. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. We will get right to the extraordinary headline. For the fourth time in as many months donald j. Trump, the former president of the United States, is facing another criminal indictment. The latest charges came late last night from Fulton County, georgia, where trump is 18 others were named in a sw
Blitzer thanks for joining us. Cnn breaking, news and you are in the cnn newsroom. Im wolf blitzer in washington and we begin with the Breaking News this morning. The United States Supreme Court ruling that former President Donald Trump cannot be removed from any states ballot for his actions on january 6. The nine justices affirming that he can run in a General Election. And once again, serve as the United States Commander In Chief in the Majority Opinion, the court writes that only congress can enforce the 14th Amendments ban on insurrectionists holding federal Public Office trump is responding to the decision calling it, and im quoting him now, a big win for america. But the court did not directly speak to whether or not his actions on january 6 equate to insurrection. Lets get straight to cnn anchor and chief legal analyst, laura coats. Shes outside the Supreme Court for us. Laura, what more, first of all, can you tell us . About this very historic and consequential decision . It i
gaffe. the white house is slamming chief fake videos spread by right wring media which are edited to make president biden look confused. we will go against the fight of clips some edited and misleading. played a clip from fox news taking people to task for doing just that. yes. he did, he did. he had guests on that were completely misleading again but it was a good try. he did it, nonetheless. it s very important for people that are being fed a steady stream of lies to be cold by somebody that reviews of media, this is a lie. you re being you know, howie said what i ve always thought, which is, you know, the age issue for both of these candidates, that is a real issue. yeah. so talk about the issue. you want to talk about it? i think everybody thinks both of these candidates are older than they are comfortable with, both of them. that said, make those issues don t make up others. also, i think when those on the right try to make it will like biden is out of his
A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. So an engineer has stabilized the dam for now. You heard them state their plan. Claire stagers with us from the university of lynchburg. Good to take to you, claire. Good to talk to you. How are you doing today . Shepard good. Might have been frightening when they said 125 houses could be under 17 feet of water. Yes, sir. Im not part of that but im close to it. It would turn my tenminute commute to 30 minutes if i had to reroute. Shepard i guess three inches of rain in an hour, thats a lot for anybody, even your part of the world. Yes, sir, a lot of water. Came into our basement as well last night. Shepard thanks, claire. I know theyve been trying to shore it up. They have taken a 3 x 3 foot area, a spillway, to relieve the pressure. The problem is theres rain on the way. Lets get to Rick Reichmuth live
in the extreme weather center. How are they looking in lynchburg . We have one bad batch of storms but things g
the remainder of the week we still have wal-mart as well as target set to release their set of earnings and also breaking news quickly as well, fitch warning they might have to downgrade a few banks this morning on quite a few worries. it does follow on from moody s having done the same not too long ago. so it does seem the banking crisis from earlier this year is beginning to impact things quite a lot right now. that s a trend we ll definitely keep an eye on. here s a breaking news headline that caught my eye a couple hours back. russia s ruble is now less by one cent. give us a sense what s going on. this is story really about inflationary impacts and of course the war finally having taken its toll on russia, at some point reaching 102 rubles to the u.s. dollar, which as you