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
facility in atlanta. cnn chief law enforcement john miller is going to join us to break down the charges and the strategy police are using to prevent more violence. we begin with yet another terrifying incident on a flight. i m taking over this plane. uh-oh. they tried to open the door and with and it happened during the flight. cnn obtained this video of the attack. this is frightening and one of several very scary incidents in the sky recently. that s right, don. this is now under investigation by the department of justice. second high-profile incident of an unruly passenger abroad an american airliner. this has to be one of the most dramatic, in fact the department of justice said the flight crew first became alert when the alarm when the passenger tried to open the emergency exit. the flight from los angeles to boston, it was a smooth flight for the first five hours on sunday until so, where s the homeland security with the gun? i m waiting for them to point
hurricane ian. 76 people were killed, after the storm tore through the state, governor ron desantis says more than 1,600 rescues have been made since the storm struck. this left some communities unrecognizable. littered with wrecked homes as well as boats, as as you saw there. more than 628,000 customers are still without power and the destruction may just be coming to light. governor ron desantis is defending officials in lee county where half of the storm related deaths have been ann announced. they re facing criticism for issuing evacuation orders a day later than the neighboring county. here s what nadia romero was told. is that one of the things you ll be reviewing once we get out of the i can t aftermath. lee county should have had the evacuation order sooner from what we reviewed? the issue is they informed people and most people did not want to do it. that s the reality. you re in a situation, are you going to grab somebody out of their home that doesn t want to
sky scraper. instead tonight there s open partisan warfare that began with this ad narrated by bill clinton. it s not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person. he was referring to the hunt for osama bin ladin. what he did mean by that? given osama bin ladin s role in killing 3,000 americans on 9/11. he had to decide. and that s what you hire a president to do. you hire the president to make the calls when no one else can do it. that wolf blitzer tape was part of this ad. the ad provoked a sharp response from john mccain, turning 9/11 into a cheap political attack. he went on to say, this is the same president who once criticized hillary clinton for invoking bin ladin to score political points, it s the same president who said after bin ladin was dead, we shouldn t spike the ball after the touchdown. keeping them honest, senator mccain is factually correct on both those counts. you can decide whether for yourself the kill
with this ad narrated by bill clinton. it s not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person. he was referring to the hunt for osama bin ladin. what he did mean by that? given osama bin ladin s role in killing 3,000 americans on 9/11. he had to decide. and that s what you hire a president to do. you hire the president to make the calls when no one else can do it. that wolf blitzer tape was part of this ad. the ad provoked a sharp response from john mccain, turning 9/11 into a cheap political attack. he went on to say, this is the same president who once criticized hillary clinton for invoking bin ladin to score political points, it s the same president who said after bin ladin was dead, we shouldn t spike the ball after the touchdown. keeping them honest, senator mccain is factually correct on both those counts. you can decide whether for yourself the killing of bin ladin, a year after the event constitutes spiking the ball.