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Special counsel jack smith announcing the third indictment of donald j. Trump after months of investigating the former president and his allies and their efforts to overturn the 2020 president ial election. This hour well have indepth coverage of the accusations against trump and the new information were learning about his attempt to stay in power from that sweeping federal investigation. And well also look at how this latest legal issue could impact the president ial campaign as he has used previous indictments to boost fundraising. Good morning, and welcome to Way Too Early on this wednesday, august 2nd, a historic day. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting it with us. And well begin this morning with history once again. Former President Donald Trump who took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the United Stat ....
Executive office couldn t get too powerful. we have legislative and judicial branches that could serve as waysch to put a check and balan, right, thean separation of powe, talk about the federalist papers and federalist 51 and why it s so important to dust off our middle school and high schoolbooks to make sure we understand the intent of the law and the framers. donald trump supporters don t seem to care. we care about the will of law. we care there s a strain on our over arching democracy, this oc country has always been a work in progress since its inception, slavery, mass genocide, actually not having equal rights for the vast majority of individuals and not even citizens. we ve come a long way. he has shown he doesn t care about the fundamentals of democracyfu and neither does hi supporters. he s doing incredibly well ....
After reporters in leak investigations. the associated press and other outlets. donald trump did the same thing, and now donald trump going after, again, a separate but equal branch. i understand the importance of leak investigations, but so many lines continue to be crossed. and we can either talk about checks and balances or we can talk about the first amendment possibly being violated by these investigations. what s our way forward, to make sure that this administration and the next don t feel like they have carte blanche to do this. right, well, joe, you know, you keep saying that you re hoping these members read the constitution, but you have to remember, we had a president for four years who bragged about the fact that he did not read. and sadly, far too many republicans followed that lead and they refused to read about history, they refused to read the federalist papers, federalist 51 that walks us through separations of power and checks and balances, there was a disdain and l ....