off the books, i want you to send me more briefing, i want you to send me more materials and we ll get back in court to see if we can get past our legal hurdles. primarily the hurdle is a pre-trial diversion agreement, which under most circumstances, the judge never sees. it s something between the government and the defense, and signed off by probation and moves outside of the court system. because of the way the plea agreement was structured, on the tax charges in this case, it references that pretrial diversion agreement, and the pretrial diversion agreement apparently contains, we haven t seen it yet, it hasn t been docketed yet, a clause that invites the judge to determine, essentially act as a referee on fact-based questions should they say hunter biden had all of these things to live up to on this felony charge, he has violated x, y or z, and now we want to charge him. federal prosecutors could say why they thought hunter biden had broken that agreement, and the defens
has spoke within investigators. although he has yet to testify before the grand jury. richard donahue did speak with the grand jury probing january 6th and gave testimony about trump s plans to steal the election. according to donahue, trump wanted his doj to falsely tell legislators in battleground states that the election was corrupt. you also noted that mr. rosen said to mr. trump, quote, doj can t and won t snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election. how did the president respond to that, sir? very quickly and said, that s not what i m asking you to do. i m asking to you say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and congress. that was just one part of trump s plan. when the acting attorney general refused, trump hatched a new scheme. three days before the election, he floated the idea of installing a loyalist, jeffrey clark, as attorney general. it was a monumental showdown, evoking memory of nixon s saturday night massacre. donahue and others threate
counsel jack smith appears poised to indict the former president for a second time, and it s only a matter of when. we ll go through the possible time line in just a moment. plus, house speaker kevin mccarthy seems to bow to pressure from the far right by floating a possible impeachment inquiry for president joe biden. and also ahead, the latest fallout from israel following that nation s parliament s vote to strip the supreme court of a key power. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, july 25th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. the political world is once again on pins and needles this morning awaiting the likely third indictment of former president donald j. trump. the grand jury convened by special counsel jack smith will meet here in washington today to continue its work on the probe into trump s efforts to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 election. while it is possible the jury votes today on whether to indict
hospitals now filling up with patients with heat exhaustion. some with skin burns from the pavement. two women hikers dying in the heat. and overseas tonight, tourists racing to evacuate the fires in parts of greece. mola lenghi in phoenix. rob marciano on the storm threat in the northeast. also breaking tonight, the justice department just a short time ago now suing texas after governor abbott refused to remove a 1,000-foot long floating barrier across the rio grande. the barrier forcing migrants into deeper water and then through razor wire along the banks of the river. the disturbing images showing a police officer unleashing a k-9 on an unarmed suspect who had his hands in the air, despite another officer yelling, don t do it. the new york serial killer case tonight, and this evening, police on the scene of that home outside new york city. what they have found in the suspect s home, a vault, and what was inside. aaron katersky reporting again tonight. overseas,
remember him? the process of poo pooing the false claim by rudy giuliani that 10,000 dead people voted in georgia, meadows mentions his son was looking into it. my son found 12 obituaries and 6 other possibilities. eric hirschman responds, that s more like it. maybe he can help rudy find the other 10,000. meadows messages back. wait for it. lol. does that sound like a person who actually believes there s a serious claim that widespread fraud exists? that it s real? while it was lol in private, white house lawyers, meadows went about publicly spreading the lies about fraud and pressuring state officials all the same. days later he set up trump s infamous call with georgia s secretary of state. he spoke on the call. listen to him. yeah. so, let me recommend, ryan, if you and kurt get to together when we get off of this phone call, if you can get together and work out a plan to address some of what we ve got with your attorneys, where we can actually look at the data. for ex