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dose know in the forecast today but we have sunshine and showers. tomorrow we will see rain and it will clear and high pressure will settle things down for the weekend. all the details later. it s wednesday, 30th august. the head of the uk s national air traffic control service has blamed a single piece of flight data for the disruption that has left thousands of passengers stranded. martin rolfe says the issue was incredibly rare and he is confident it can be prevented from happening again. nats has faced heavy criticism from airlines for what happened. jon donnison reports. the waiting goes on. for a third day, air passengers are facing misery, delays and uncertainty, with many still scrambling to get home. ian smales from wakefield is stuck in france with his wife and son after his flight was cancelled on monday and no more available till friday. there were people in distress, you could hear people on the phone to other family members asking if they could transfer some mon ....
me. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow it is official along trump s legal battles in the party primary on a collision course. take a look at the calendar. the first nominating contest, the iowa caucus, is currently scheduled to take place on january the 15th. the same day donald trump is scheduled to be in court for his second civil defamation trial. versus author, e. jean carroll. the first one didn t go so well, if you recall. on march 4th, trump is due back in court for the start of his criminal trial over alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election. the very next day, march, fifth super tuesday, 15 states are gonna hold their primaries and caucuses for the republican nomination, which means, the majority of the delegates in that republican primary will have already been awarded one day after trump s very first criminal trial gets underway. assuming that holds. less than three weeks later, march 25th, trump s second criminal trial, the one in manhatta ....
election interference trial. we ll have legal analysis on both of these big developments in just a moment. plus new polling on president joe biden s re-election bid and the major concern that most americans have about a possible second term. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, august 29th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning with a decision that sent waves through the nation s capitol yesterday, a start date for donald trump s federal election interference trial. in washington, d.c. district court judge tanya chutkan ordered jury selection to begin on march 4th of next year, just one day before super tuesday. now, prosecutors when asked for the trial to begin in early january of next year while trump s lawyers had proposed that it not start until april of 2026. yesterday judge chutkan said that neither of those dates were acceptable but that, quote, this case is not going to trial in 2026. the ....
the events leading up to january 6th are complex and require years of preparation, and they were saying that about one federal coup case . trump faces two related coup cases in these jurisdictions of course, and two other additional cases. two other trials. now, this is a fact that also came up in court. so many pending criminal trials that these judges are not independently discussing scheduling a cascade of trials. so, this was in that federal courtroom as special counsel smith looked on, the federal judge said she already had conferred with the new york judge saying, quote, i realize that mr. trump s criminal case in new york is scheduled for trial on march 25th. i did speak briefly with judge merchan, the new york judge that is, to let him know i was considering a date that would overlap with his trial. the judge said march 4th, before the new york trial. you can see what s coming down with the trials, the primary calendar. there are many, many things facing this c ....
be crisscrossing the country and when voters when i go rallies. instead, he will be sitting in a federal courthouse on trial for federal charges, while republican voters decide if this is the man they want to nominate. we ll have more on the federal case in just a little bit including all the politics and what it means. but, there was another major legal development involving the ex president today as well. big legal day. we ve got some big news out of georgia, this afternoon involving trump s white house chief of staff mark meadows. now, we all know meadows in his position as trump s right-hand man was this telling the attempted coup. his own top aide told the january six committee as much, including meadows apparent role in the plan for trump to lead his followers to the capitol for the insurrection itself. on january 3rd, mr. had approach me knowing that mark had raised the process of going up to the capitol on january 6th. mr. cipollone and me had a brief priv ....