government officials were communicating with hunter biden s financial firm. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m gillian turner. good to be with you, john. john: i m john roberts. dana and bill both have the day off. we have the joystick in washington and not giving it back. gillian: not until 4:00 when we re both off the air. john: the lawsuit comes after the national archives responded admitted to having more than 5,000 emails potentially associated with joe biden s office. fox news cannot independently confirm hunter biden was copied on any of the emails. but there is a group suing to get the actual records. critics are asking why vice president biden would even use pseudonym email accounts in the first place. not only is that nefarious in its intent, it shows that they really truly want to hide something. we went from joe biden saying that he never had a discussion to now joe biden having full and complete access of the white house and the vice presi
expected land fall. we ll have the latest forecast for that storm which is projecting to be a big one. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, august 29th. i m willie geist. we have the host of way too early and bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. nbc s ken dilanian and former analyst lisa rubin. good morning to you all. let s dive right now as we begin with a start date now set for donald trump s federal election interference trial. district court judge tanya chutkan ordered jury selection to begin on march 4th of next year. that s just one day before super tuesday. prosecutors had asked for the trial to begin in early january of next year, while trump s lawyers proposed it begin in april of 2026. yesterday, judge chutkan said neither of those dates were acceptable, but, quote, this case is not going to trial in 2026. that decision was met with pushback inside the courtroom from trump attorney john lauro, who was cautioned twice by the judge to turn down the temp
alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. the twice impeached former president already hit with two other criminal indictments, pleading not guilty. when it comes to the second federal indictment, trump refuses to remain silent. in a social media post yesterday trump threatened, in all caps, if you go after me, i m coming after you. which got a response from the special counsel s office. overnight, attorneys asked the federal judge overseeing the case to issue a protective order on trump and his legal team to limit the information they can share publicly about the case. all of this comes as trump faces a trial on four felony counts laid out in special counsel jack, smith, damning 45-page indictment. those counts include conspiracy to defraud the united states government. conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. obstruction of an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding. conspiracy against the right to bow and to have one vote counted. that fourth cha
of the atlanta journal-constitution and charles flow of the new york times break their latest reporting. and hot world summer. july stands to be the earth hottest month on record, as heat domes bake tens of millions across the globe. spark wildfires from portugal to turkey, and set ocean temperatures above 100 degrees. count naming heat waves could lead to a better response to a growing crisis. i m jonathan capehart. this is the saturday show. we begin with the special counsel florida surprise. as the country braces for a third indictment of donald trump, for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, the former president is also facing new charges in the mar-a-lago classified documents case. on thursday, but apartment of justice released a bombshell superseding indictment. you may recall trump was already charged with 37 counts related to mishandling our national security secrets. now, he is up against an additional counts of willful retention of
declaration about the war in ukraine. we ll have that for you in just a moment. also ahead special counsel jack smith responds to a request by donald trump lawyers to delay his trial in the classified documents case. they want to do that after the 2024 election. plus hollywood officially goes dark for the first time in over six decades as writers and actors are now together on the picket lines. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this friday, july 14th. i m ali vitali in for jonathan lemire. president joe biden wrapped up his five-day european trip to finland yesterday with nato s newest memberch it ended decades of neutrality in april when it became the alliance s 31st member. the country shares 830 miles of border with russia. president biden yesterday celebrated finland s membership and nato s united front against russian president vladimir putin. mr. president, at this critical moment in history, this inflection point, the world is watching to see will w