Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and all around the world, i am rosemary church. We begin this hour here in the u. S. State of georgia where a grand jury has indicted donald trump for a historic fourth time for allegedly trying to overturn the States Election results in 2020. The grand jury approved every indictment presented by Fulton County district attorney, fani willis, on monday. The former u. S. President has been charged with 13 counts in the indictment, including a Racketeering Charge, 18 others have also been charged under the states racketeering laws for allegedly joining, quote, a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome in favor of donald trump. Now, those names include several highprofile individuals from trumps time in office including former white house Chief Of Staff mark meadows, Former Trump Attorneys Drew Giuliani and john eastman, and Top Justice Department official jeffrey clark, among others. Here is what Fulton Countys dist
good morning, everyone. it s d.c. it s friday. we made it to friday. poppy s off this week. pamela brown is here with me once again. let s get started. five things to know for this friday, july 14, 2023. new overnight, culture war fights take center stage in a house vote for normally a bipartisan policy bill. late into the night after republican hardliners attacked several controversial amendments, including some that would end diversiity rules at te pentagon. sources telling cnn, hicks and kushner were questioned before a grand jury. actors joining writers on the picket line today. it s the first joint strike since 1960. tens of millions of americans under heat alerts from coast to coast. some areas could see records this weekend. some areas reaching 120 degrees in some spots. and the world health organization warning that the widely used artificial sweetsweetener aspertane could cause cancer. cnn starts right now. good morning, everyone. i kind of froze when we
at every single stop now, reporters are looking, is he interacting with the crowd? is he take shaking hands, tae staying long enough? if you re advanced staff, you have to stay at least an extra 30 minutes to show, hey, he likes people. i saw tweets, what pizza is he having? is he talking to voters? do we have a timetable as to when other candidates will jump in? rumors about tim scott, mike pence and others. i think tim scott will come in. may 22nd is the date where they re circling. you ll see his super pac get bolstered. mike pence also in the next month. those are the two main candidates. national political correspondent for axios, alex thompson covering a lot of ground. thank you for being here. thank you for all of you for getting up way too early on this monday morning. morning joe starts right now. we must reject the culture of losing that has infected our party in recent year. the time for excuses is over. if we get distracted, focus the election on
ahead this st. patrick s day friday starting with desperate measures on wall street. nearly a dozen banks teaming up to prevent this week s financial turmoil from spreading their $30 billion life line to save another major bank from potential ruin as janet yellen works to sooth the markets and reassure americans that their money is safe. i can reassure the members of the committee that our banking system is sound and that americans can feel confident that their deposits will be there when they need them. plus major move in china s partnership with russia, announcing this morning that xi jinping will visit russia next week at the invitation of vladimir putin that comes as russia continues to search for the downed u.s. drone intercepted by a russian fire jets. why the pentagon says russia won t find anything useful even if they do track it down and rage on the streets of paris, thousands of protestors rise up over an unpopular move by macron raising the age of retirement
share 20 transcripts from his witnesses with justice department investigators. the committee also seems to be zeroing in on former trump cabinet officials. of particular interest, conversations among those officials about possibly invoking the 25th amendment to remove trump from office. joining us now is johnwood, a former senior investigator for the january 6th select committee. he is running as an independent in missouri for the senate there. john, thank you so much for being with us. so, it was cnn s exclusive reporting, the department of justice is preparing to make a case to get around executive privilege, to basically force the testimony, to be prepared to force the testimony of key trump advisers. what does this tell you about where they are? where this federal investigation is? yeah, this is a really big step. up until a few days ago, there were very few public signs that the justice department was really focused on people in trump s immediate inner circle, as opp