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
Is expected to meet again. that would potentially be the fourth indictment for the former president. the timeline, there s an election. you cannot separate the political from the legal at this point. that s exactly right. everybody should be prepared for the reality that the most recent c cases in particular are probably not going to advance very far before most of the relevant votes have been cast. so if super tuesday is going to happen in early march of next year, there s almost no way any of these cases will be reinvolved. certainly not past conviction and possible appeal. so we re going to basically do the nominations, the republicans are, without knowing what the real outcome of these cases are. the average case takes about 18 months. and under the best case sc scenario, that s well past the election next year. so at a minimum, early voting will be happening in the general election before the best scenarios any one of these cases is resolved. kind of interesting because of how