the escalation by the rush slan l russian leader today. what does the french president think? he will be here live with his response. your money and the cost to borrow. historic move by the federal reserve, raising interest rates yet again in an effort to get inflation under control. welcome to the lead. we start on the extraordinary legal trouble for donald trump. there s a sweeping lawsuit against trump, three of his adult children and the trump organization, alleging they were involved in a decade-long financial scheme that allowed trump to fraudulently inflate his net worth by billions of dollars, allowing him to leverage the system for his own personal gain at the expense of others. white collar financial crime is not victimless. when the well connected break the law, to take in more money than they are entitled to, it reduces resources to working people, to regular people, to small businesses and all taxpayers. attorney general james campaigned on a promise of
today as the calls for israel to pause its war on hamas grow louder. what s next and before we can go of the war, ahead. the shady bunch. donald trump jr. and eric trump take the stand in new york s 250 million dollar civil fraud trial. just days before the most indicted former president in u.s. history, and his daughter, ivanka, take the stand. the new gag order in the case. the tough questions the former first family is facing, and why it all means for the three criminal trials against donald trump. and a victorious revival. might one-on-one conversation with tony award winning director kenny leon about bringing ozzy davis is pearly victorious back to broadway for the first time in more than 60 years, and how this satire on race and segregation has incredible relevance today. i m jonathan capehart. this is the saturday show. we start this hour with the latest on the push for a pause in the israel-hamas war. new video in overnight show secretary of state anthony blinke
These are the slicers. They slice people up. They wanted me to walk up and go like this. Some of the president at his rally in Pennsylvania Last Night and much, much more of that. Good morning, everyone. Its friday, august 3rd. Welcome to morning joe. We have a number of important developments to get through this morning, including a stark warning from the intel community. Russia is at it again. Theyve got the publics attention, but what about the president s . Does he care . Whats going on . Plus, dan coats speaks truth to power, again. The director of National Intelligence admits he still does not know what the president told Vladimir Putin last month in helsinki. Think about it. The director of National Intelligence. And ivanka trump says that it was a low point for her when the separations of children from their family were happening
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county, georgia, investigation and was unsuccessful. does that set a precedent for the way mike pence s case might play out? yes and no. for one thing, pence s role is unique. he s the president of the senate. there s not a the lot of case law that looks at issues in that context. that might cause courts to believe that they have to engage in a briefing process ask fully consider the issues. but the precedent with senator graham is productive because what it tells us is that speech and debate clause doesn t protect everything that someone does just because they happen to be serving in the congress. there s a narrow limited scope, where the protection applies, but beyond that, they can be testified in front of a grand jury. ultimately, perhaps the best outcome if you re jack smith is that you might sit down with the former vice president s lawyers and negotiate the scope of his testimony. that certainly is one option here. but it s also likely that smith is playing heads up ball here.
government. bring them to exile and worried about that piece of this. really the refugee flows. and making sure this doesn t spill over. we ll talk about the potential on the refugee flows in a minute. thank you so much for bringing up that point and thank you, evelyn and courtney and andrea. i appreciate you being with us. we have news on capitol hill. house speaker nancy pelosi announcing a briefing from the biden administration briefing. i want to bring in senior correspondent garrett haake. the briefing process is not impossible but adds a layer of complexity to that. reporter: with lawmakers scattered it is difficult to get quality information to them, classified briefings.