football players running. and also a racially-motivated shooting, and those are just two of the gun violence over the weekend. and we are following a major tropical storm that is churning towards the united states. idalia is getting stronger, and could set land in the united states. i m boris sanchez and rahel solomon in for john and kate, and this is cnn news central. happening now, a stunning split screen of two different courts where two separate judges will begin hearing arguments otwo of donald trump s criminal cases, and each of them involve his efforts to overturn the 2020 election loss. today, the fight to find out when and where trump s trials could be held. in atlanta, key evidence is going to be presented as trump s former chief of staff mark meadows is going to seek to move his charges out of state court and into federal court, and so, could this set a precedent and could trump be next. and in washington, d.c., four months away or a longer, years longer del
and forced to go to trial in less than two weeks without qualified counsel in a death penalty case. glenn kirschner last night on this show, pointing out the absurdity of the idea that donald trump is just like a persecuted black teenager in the 1930s. as the right pushes a laughably racist narrative that being an accused felon gives trump street cred with the blacks. also tonight, tennessee state representative justin jones is again silenced by republican house leaders for passionately fighting for gun reform, after a mass murder at a nashville school. representative jones joins me tonight. but we begin tonight with a weird trend that we have noticed coming out of maga republican world. this is a party, after all, whose base is overwhelmingly the same demographic that gets its news from fox, so let s say not super diverse. but since trump came along in 2016, they keep insisting that because of him, republicanism is booming among black people. despite there being no evi
florida governor ron desantis is giving an update on hurricane idalia. bill is off. good morning. bret: i m bret baier in washington. america s newsroom. the governor is beginning down there in florida and we can listen in to governor desantis. forecast to make landfall along florida s big bend tomorrow morning as a major hurricane. the national hurricane center issued a hurricane warning for the gulf coast from sarasota county through franklin county in the panhandle and storm surge watches are also in effect in those areas. national hurricane center advisory includes if this storm hits at high tide storm surge could reach 8 to 12 feet in some areas. that would be life threatening storm surge. i know all those areas are under evacuation notices in the low lying and coastal areas. you run from the water and you hide from the wind. if you are there in that storm surge you are putting your life in jeopardy when it gets to be that high. so if you re giving those orders ple
shannon: all 19 defendants now processed in a trial that, for at least one, could start as early as october. now republicans in the house are demanding answers and documents from the fulton county d.a.. we ll discuss what comes next with one of president trump s attorneys, alina has been a baa. habba. then, the odds of a 2020 repeat are very high, but a growing number of voters is open to backing a third-party candidate. people are sick and fed up with the two major parties. shannon: we ll discuss the prospects with no labels founding chair, former senator joe lieberman, as critics insist it would benefit president trump. and they will not be able to turn back the clock. shannon: civil rights leaders gatt e in the shadow of the lincoln memorial 60 years after martin luther king jr. gave his i have a dream speech. we ll ask our sunday panel what progress has been made and what still needs to be done as the biden campaign fields criticism from black voters. plus, as a
we ll have much more on the heartbreaking deadly attack in just a moment. also ahead, the mugshot that s worth millions of dollars. we ll have the latest from the trump fund-raising campaign. and the latest out of the suspected death of a meshsnary group leader who was once a close ally to vladimir putin. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, august 28th. i m jonathan lemire. nice to be back. thanks to you for starting your day and week with us. we begin this morning with a shooting in jacksonville, florida, where three people were killed and what police are calling a racially motivated attack. on saturday, a shoppers and an employee were shot at a dollar general store near a historically black college. all victims were black. authorities say the 21-year-old gunman who was white died of a self-inflicted gun schott wound there at the scene. they described him as a, quote, maniac who wanted to kill black people. they say they found more than 20 pages