headquarters in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. developing this hour a major week ahead in the georgia election case. former president donald trump and his 18 codefendants are due to be arraigned. trump and 11 codefendants have waived the need to appear in person, but we ll be watching for the six others who have yet to do so, including mark meadows, since they could be televised life. we could also see the release of the fulton county special grand jury report by the end of this week which has been at the center of d.a. fani willis investigation. now, despite legal troubles, trump is dominating the gop primary, leading in a new poll by 46 points. earlier today, republican governor chris sununu said the former presidents rivals need to hit him harder. i think they have to be a little tougher on trump. chris christie goes nuclear on him, god bless christy, he does a great job with that. he exposes a lot of that, which i think is important. i think what we
pleading not guilty in the georgia election subversion case. why some of his co-defendants are turning to crowd funding to cover their defense. a manhunt underway after a convicted murderer escaped a pennsylvania prison. the district attorney says the killer s depravity knows no bounds and warns the public he is extremely dangerous with nothing to lose. and this hour the labor department is set to release the august jobs report. a snapshot of how the u.s. economy is faring. can the labor department stay in the sweet spot, not too hot, not too cold, a little goldilocks here, friday. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. former president trump has pled not guilty for the fourth time. this time he is saying he didn t conspire to overturn the results of the 2020 election in georgia in the case brought by fulton county d.a. against trump and 18 ledged co-conspirators. the former president opted not to enter the plea in person next wednesday, waiving his arraignme
a member of the far right group pays the price for violently trying to block the nation s democratic transfer of power and another sign of the legal fallout for other 2020 election deniers. we are following the walls of justice closing in. plus on trial and on your tv, a georgia judge ruled the former president s fight in court will be as public as it can get, but can donald trump turn the courtroom drama into campaign gold? and a trip to the titanic has turned into a major legal battle. an expedition says they have the right to salvage items from the site of the titanic ship wreck but the feds are saying not so fast. why the government wants to stop the mission in its tracks. we are following these developing stories and many more all coming in right here to c cn news central . a major development happening in federal and state torts, all tied to former president trump s attempts to overturn the 2020 election. soon one more member of the far right proud boys group will
also, a major sentencing today in washington. two members of the proud boys convicted of the seditious conspiracy roles, and we will find out if they spend decades in prison. and now, more than 70 people killed and others injured after a building goes up in flames in johannesburg. i m boris sanchez with rahel solomon in for john, kate and sara. you are watching cnn news central. this morning, two of donald trump s co-defendants in the georgia election subversion case want separate trials. sidney powell and kenneth chesebro are asking a fulton county judge to sever their cases. both have denied any wrongdoing, and they have invoked their rights to a speedy trial. for chesebro, the judge has set a trial date for october 23rd, and no date for powell. the trump team have opposing the time line, and they say that trump wants to sever his case as well, though no motion has been filed. we go to katelyn polantz with the details. why the argument for separate trials? well, bot
passengers. russian state media reporting that all ten of them are dead and on the passenger manifest for that flight was the name of yevgeny prigozhin. now, we don t at this point know for certain whether or not he was actually on that plane, just the fact that his name was on the list of the passengers expected to be on that flight, but certainly this is triggering a whole lot of concern and speculation about whether this might have been intentional. we know there obviously had been some major tensions between yevgeny prigozhin, the head of the wagner group and president putin, ever since that attempted insurrection by the wagner forces against the russian government, and since that time, there has been all kinds of bizarre, frankly, nations with a deal for prigozhin and his wagner fighters to go to belarus. then all of a sudden we discovered that prigozhin was in russia. he held an hours long meeting with president putin that seemed to suggest optically that they had made