Good morning, everyone. Glad youre with is pup five things to know for this thursday august 17th. Devastating news again this morning out of hawaii. We have learned children are among the 111 victims killed in the wildfires and the police chief on maui said that number will go up. Only 38 of the area has been searched ed so far and more tha 1,000 people are missing this morning. And a Fulton County circled one day before primary voters head to the polls in more than a dozen states. New overnight a woman in texas has been charged for threatening the judge overseeing jack smiths federal election subversion case. Also this morning, more Young Americans are diagnosed with cancer. A new study says the rate is driven by women and 30 to 39yearolds. The coach for the womens soccer team is out after the devastating world cup. And you see balancing on the stones. Stunned onlookers watched. Eventually escorted away by a guard. Cnn this morning starts right now. You wouldnt you wouldnt do that . I
Kind of a preview of how shell run her court and this case. And in deciding whether to grant Special Counsel jack smiths request for protective order limiting what the disgraced expresident can and cannot say publicly about the case, judge chutkan cuts through Talking Points like a hot knife through butter. On the First Amendment protections, they are so fond of citing, mr. Trump, like every american, has a First Amendment right to free speech. But that right is not absolute. Adding that without a protective order, the disclosure of discovery materials could lead to witnesses being harassed or otherwise interfering with a fair trial. What about the fact that trump is running for president. And chutkan did not mince words on that eithe saying, this is a criminal trial and i will not take into consideration the impact will have for have for a political came on either side. He will have all of the rights hesen tieptled to. The existence is not going to have any bearing on my decision. I i
washington where things stand with our chad pergram. hi, chad. neil, good afternoon. the house freedom caucus just took a formal position in the debt ceiling debate. it endorses the bill passed by the house in april. the caucus says there should be no further discussion until the senate passes the legislation. the house bill, we passed it. that is the mechanism right now sitting there that there s 11 democrats in the senate and the democratic president of the united states that stand between that bill and it becoming law. it was thought that house speaker kevin mccarthy would lose a good chunk of republicans who could not accept anything less than the house passed bill. the question is can mccarthy get just enough gop members on board and can democrats provide the rest. speaker mccarthy has limited capacity to really negotiate. he s handcuffed and in leg irons from that 15 votes that it took to get them elected. if he is able to negotiate something, once he tries to
every time. yes. all right. well, thank you , hannity. and good seeing everybody. i have a great show. thank you for stopping by . all right. always great to see you . thanks so much. all right, everybody, i m laura ingram . this is the ingraham angle from new york city tonight. taken for granted. that s the focus of tonight s angle when addressing black voters on the campaign trail. president trump regularly raised a provocative question. we can never fix our problems by relying on the same politicians who created our problems in the first place. look how much africa american communities have suffered under democratic control. to those i say the following, what do you have to lose? well, it turns out minorities are losing a lot. and joe biden is america. they ve gotten poorer as their streets have gotten more dangerous, especially in urban areas. and it s tragic. regular everyday people need to be safe if they re harassing people who are vulnerable and nobody gets
that. bret baier joins us as governor ron desantis lands on the cover of time magazine and reportedly tells his donors that he believes trump cannot win. first, general jack keane is standing by on breaking news that is developing at this hour that the united states will participate in the training of ukrainian pilots on f-16s. so where is all of this headed? there s been a longstanding request for f-16s from the united states. so there are reports that there s been significant advances in this. president zelensky is coming to the g-7 in japan to talk one-on-one with the allies and president biden about all of this. that s where we find our correspondent from the white house, peter doocy. he s live in heiroshima. that was january. now in man, a senior administration official tells us as the training takes place, zelensky on his way to japan for in-person meeting. he says this will greatly enhance our army in the sky. i count on discussing the practical implementation of t