County georgia. A grand jury bused in as prosecutors lay out their evidence that donald trump tried to steal the states electoral votes. Witness testimony moved up from tomorrow to today, the trump attacks on a key witness, and Text Messages that directly link the former president s legal team to a Voting System breach. And hawaii wildfire aftermath with the death toll close to 100, were hearing about government failures, failed fire hydrants, Warning Sirens that didnt go off, plus a claim that live power lines were not cut off. The raid on a small kansas newspaper, the editor targeted in the raid joins me this hour. Welcome to the lead. Im jack tapper. We start with our Law And Justice lead. Right now a grand jury is deciding whether to indict donald trump. It was expected to take at least two days for Fulton County District Attorney fani willis to produce her evidence. A number of key witnesses who had been told to show up tomorrow and testify have now been called in to testify. Thos
oh, nancy, nancy, nancy. bring her out here. we re coming in if you don t bring her out. [ bleep ] you. you back up. hundreds of trump supporters radicalized by trump s lies in some of those cases specifically about what mike pence as vice president could and could not do. now, we also know that his grievances and lies sit at the fulcrum of a grave and growing current domestic violent extremism threat in the united states that law enforcement contends with every single hour of every day. and lo and behold, donald trump, once again, over the weekend, lit a match to the tinderbox that is american politics with the midterm elections just weeks away now. the response, notably, from republican leaders, was particularly limp and pathetic. a statement by donald trump posted on his ailing platform went after senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, and his wife, elaine chao, in particularly personal times. chao resigned in the wake of the january 6th insurrection. we ll read th
executive action and take a look at how it could impact the economy. plus, with the primary election calendar winding down, we look ahead to november, and the key races that could decide control of congress. also ahead, new reporting on the communication between the government and donald trump s team before the fbi search of mar-a-lago. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, august 25th, i m sam stein in for jonathan lemire. 43 million people are in line to have a chunk of their student loan debt erased. as many as 20 million could cancel all student debt and that is executive action yesterday by president biden, the president pushed back at criticism that debt cancellation will make inflation worse. 20 million people who can start getting on with their lives. all this many people can start finally crawling off from under that mountain of debt. again, to get on top of their rent or utilities. to finally think about buying a home or starting a
i m not sure if we have that sound bite. i d like to run it if we do. are there any objections to counting the certificate of vote of the state of alabama that the teller has verified appears to be regular in form and authentic? hearing none. this certificate from alaska, the parliamentarian has advised me is the only certificate of vote from that state that purports to be returned from the state and has annexed to it a certificate from the authority of the state to ap point and ascertain electors. the language he was using there was much more detailed and much more precise about what the parliamentarian was telling him. the parliamentarian provided our office with traditional scripts. our general counsel and head of legislative affairs worked with them to say can we alter it in
release donald trump s personal tax returns. our political and legal team is here standing by, so let s get right to it. i m lindsey reiser in for hallie jackson, and let s go into the hearing right now. 6103, given the confidential nature of the subject matter, i now move that pursuant to claus 2g1 of house rule 11, the committee proceed to executive session. mr. chairman if i may be recognized. mr. chairman i ask unanimous consent if any taxpayer information is public as a result of the mark of today, the entirety of today s executive transcript be made public as well. this transparency is precedent as we ve discussed in 2014 and 2019. i think we re in broad agreement with the gentleman s request. is there any objection? hearing none, the question is on the ranking member s request that the documents not the