willis can stay, but at what cost the lead starts right now breaking news, nathan wade, the top prosecutor in donald trump s georgia election case. resides hours after district attorney fani willis was given an ultimatum. either he goes or she does so where does the case against donald trump go from here? plus huge tornado wow oh, my god utter devastation after a string of tornadoes hits the midwest, at least three people killed, dozens injured, and there s a chance for more severe weather tonight. with more than 25 million americans at risk from hail tornadoes, and flooding. and as if boeing needed any more problems today, major news alerts about pilot seats on some aircraft. after report says a cockpit mishap may have caused a passenger plane to plunge mid-flight welcome to the lead. i m abby phillip in for jake tapper and you start with a breaking news from georgia fulton county district attorney fani willis can keep her election case against donald trump because h
because they emit so much gas. apparently electric or solar. looking at potential biden vs. trump rematch. heat. one lawmaker admitting the threat is that trump could come back. elon musk revealing his upcoming fight with mark zuckerberg will be livestreamed on x. zuckerberg says is he consuming 4,000 calories per day to geek up. geek turning into zuckerberg 2.0. good morning, everybody. 6:01 on the east on this monday, august 7th, 2023. we start with this. donald trump s legal team facing a 5:00 p.m. eastern time deadline today to respond to federal prosecutors request for a protective order in his latest criminal case revolving around the election. ainsley: meanwhile, the former president has some requests of his own. judge recusal and a change of venue. brian: doesn t sound like too much to ask. alexandria hoff is here with the latest. let s get to the protective order first. not unusual in criminal cases. in fact, one was granted in the classified doc
donald trump has another court date on the calendar after pleading not guilty for the third time in four months. is he going to use this trial to relitigate the 2020 election again? and a russian naval ship towed away, the results of what appears to be a strike from an unmanned sea drone overnight. sara is off, i m kate bolduan with john berman and this is cnn news central. all right. these are the numbers hot off the presses, 187,000, 187 k jobs added in july, that s according to the bureau of labor statistics. the unemployment rate ticked down to 3.5%. so these are the numbers, what do they mean? standing with me here oh so naturally richard quest. you can answer the question. what does that mean? how big of a deal is that? it s important because if you are talking about a soft landing, according to one economist this morning, that is what a soft landing looks like. why? it is lower than expected, under 200,000. the revisions of the last two months, they are also
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here are some of the key conversations you might have missed. oklahoma is calling out republicans who are openly criticizing the bipartisan bill on the border without even reading it. not only the leaders, fellow republicans, but you have people on all of the networks that you would expect, all of the pro trump networks, lying through their teeth. you ve got these clowns that bounce around and do whatever trump tells them to do. this is the worst deal ever. this will ruin america. haven t even read the bill. again, republicans in the states, toughest security brought bill ever. when you have people like the senator who has been right wing as long as you can track him, saying that this is the toughest bill we can get, and then everyone flips because donald trump says, no, i want an issue. mind you, and issue to run against joe biden. forget about the issue. forget about what it s causing the country, i need this for political reasons, it shows you why this is confirmatio