Thets big barr laying out a flaw in the main defense that Donald Trumps lawyers using in the federal election case. Well have much more from the former Attorney General on trumps many, many legal issues in just a moment. Meanwhile a key conspirator in the riot at the capitol could receive the longest sentence yet for the january 6th attack. And a very significant summit at camp david for President Biden. Well explain the stakes at todays meeting. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, august 18th. We made it to friday, folks. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin this morning with the trial date proposed by Donald Trumps legal team that is way, way, way in the future. In a court filing late yesterday the attorneys representing the former president in the federal election interference case against him thats the one out of washington requested that that trial begin in april of 2026. That is 2 1 2 years later than the january 2024 star
news on special counsel jack smith s criminal investigation into donald trump s alleged mishandling of hundreds of classified documents after he left office. you think of that investigation i want to bet your mind goes straight to the events of august 8th last year. you ll likely think of the fbi s court authorized search of mar-a-lago and of the 100-plus classified documents the fbi found on the premises that day. tonight s news centers on a time about two months before that, june 2nd and why the events of that day may be key to john smith s case. tonight the washington post describes the events that took place on that day as being of importance to investigators in the classified documents case. we ve previously known may 11th of last year trump s attorneys received a subpoena. then we know june 3rd an attorney from the department of justice and three fbi agents met with trump s lawyers at mar-a-lago to collect those documents from trump s team. now, we also already knew a
out front. plus, she is bucking the president again, this time on immigration. but have voters had enough of democrat turned indeputy kyrsten sinema? we are out front in arizona. and new reporting just coming in from cnn s k-file, an up and coming star in the republican party calling survivors of a deadly school shooting spoiled, angry, and stupid. and there is more. let s go outfront. good evening, i m pamela brown in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, bracing for revenge, the sound of air raid sirens heard across ukraine s capital as the city prepares for russia to retaliate after the kremlin says it prevented an assassination attempt on vladimir putin. on russian state tv, this right here is the message. translator: everyday control centers, the presidential office in kyiv, and the government building should be turned into dust. those sorts of threats creating chaos in the streets of kyiv after a low-flying drone was spotted in the capital. you can see it be
good evening, matt. hi, bret. within the past two hours police say they arrested 21-year-old carlos domingo two counts of homicide and one count of attempted murder. dough ming gas had ban student until last week. now they are classifying him as a serial killer investigators are searching that suspect s home right now. we have fresh individual grow show you. the davis police chief credits this arrest to 15 callers who phoned in police yesterday when they saw a person matching the suspect s description. police say dough ming goes was taken into custody at the same park where one of these murders happened. detectives found he had a hunting style knife in his backpack. the suspect s criminal background is not clearly known and not clear whether he knew any of the victims. police say there were three separate stabbings over the past week that they described as notably virches and brutal. first victim one week ago 50-year-old david bro stabbed in a park with no eyewitnesses. two
president biden holds his first aevent since announcing he s all in for 2024. he says he s ready to finish the job and take republicans head on, but how are those in his own party feeling ability his bid? a key hearing set to take place in russia interest key opposition leader alexei navalny as we learn more about his deteriorating health inside what he calls a hellish prison. his daughter will join us live. plus five members of the proud boys on trial accused of assembling and leading the mob on january 6th. closing arguments are happening right now, so what will the jury decide? we re following these major development stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. moments ago president biden gave his first public remarks since he announced that he is running for re-election and the crowd of union workers made it clear they heard him. president biden made his 2024 bid official in a three-minute video this morning. it started with images of the januar