Plus, were learning more about the failed Plea Agreement for hunter biden and the questions raised by the judge in that case. And also ahead well bring you new reporting on a private meeting between President Biden and former president obama over concerns over the 2024 election. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this thursday, august 3rd. Im jonathan lemire. Weve got a big day ahead. Thanks for starting it with us. Well begin in the nations capitol where just down the street from where he was inaugurated back in 2017, the former President Donald Trump will be criminally charged today for allegedly trying to disrupt the same government he once swore an oath to protect. Around 4 00 this afternoon, trump will be arraigned in d. C. Federal court on four Felony Charges stemming from his alleged efforts to block the peaceful transition of power following his loss in the 2020 election. The charges are conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proce
will still never understand why he chose a socially distanced rollout. but, to be fair, desantis tried something different. but it was a gamble and he ended up only getting a fraction of the live viewers he would have if he had done a more traditional rollout. media took the opportunity to dunk on the governor because of it. this would be like 162 game baseball season and your star pitcher getting the ball and accidently throwing it and hitting himself in the face. this is not a normal way to begin. you would ordinarily want to be with normal people. not a billionaire. regular voters. where are they in this whole thing. it was an abomination. and just so much all around from desantis. there was a lot of stumbling and bumbling. does paint a picture of someone who does not make good decisions. boy did he look like a lap dog to a billionaire. it wasn t all bad. desantis raised over a million dollars. he did his first interview with fox trey gowdy. went much smoothe
Special counsel Jack Smith denounced Donald Trump's request that the trial for his federal election subversion case be televised, accusing the former president on Monday of seeking a "carnival atmosphere" in the courtroom.
David Weiss asked officials at the Department of Justice headquarters to grant him the power to prosecute Hunter Biden outside his jurisdiction in February 2022, but the DOJ was not willing to provide him with the authority right away.
problems could come back to bite republicans if all we re talking about this election cycle especially in a general election are these indictments. but, jonathan, i think one thing that s really looming across all these republican candidates and the ones aren t as critical of president trump and his legal issues the base generally believes the justice department has wronged donald trump. they re kind of caught between a rock and a hard place because they don t want to tick off donald trump and his supporters, but at the same time they want to be able to leapfrog ahead of him in the polls. and we re seeing now trump s efforts paying dividends, years worth of trying to down-play of what happened on january 6th and make these accusations of doj bias, so many republican voters simply buy it. as you laid out nicely there the