Good morning, everyone. Lets get things started with fife things to know for this wednesday, august 16th. There are new developments in Donald Trumps georgia indictment. Overnight we learned the form president is expected to be booked into jail at any point in the next nine i days. And were learning his dms on twitter were of great interest for the Special Counsel. New questions this morning about what caused wildfires on maui that are now blamed for 106 deaths. The Washington Post is report ing a downed power line likely caused that first fire on the island. Heres the video of that moment. The soldier that crossed into north korea, his mother is asking he be treated fairly. Oher attempted a 15 million shake dunn before he filed this petition. Cnn this morning starts right now. Heres where we start. New overnight, we know where donald trump will likely surrender in Fulton County, georgia, with just nine days left to turn himself in. The former president is expected to be arrested and b
one of those alleged co-conspirators says he will turn himself in sometime next week. he s ramping up his attacks on the district attorney and slamming her for using rico charges, the same kind that he used, really pioneered it in new york when he was the attorney back in the 1980s. she s a politician and not a lawyer. not an honest, honorable lawyer. this is a ridiculous application of the racketeering statute. there s probably no one this knows it better than i do. this is not meant for election disputes. this is ridiculous. i don t know if she realizes it because she seems like an inexcess tebt prosecutor. another codefendant mark meadows fighting to move the case from state court to federal
american public and apologized to the member personally but this is what the democrats try to continue to do. they need to hold their members accountable but why would eric swallwell who could not get a security clearance in the private sector, why would they give him the national secrets of it and be on intel committee s. that is amazing to me. to let it happen. don t think they should be controlling what republicans sits on what committees and none of you should be apologizing. at this point they are the ones sitting in the hot seat now and it should stay that way, thank you and white house chief of staff mark meadows fighting back against policy and the january 6th committee, he filed a civil suit against all mine committee members asking the court to block unduly burdensome subpoenas from the committee. without legal authority and in violation of the constitution. mark meadows, author of the
more judges to go and speed up this process. at least the parents and kids are back together in a safe praise. steve: new bill has got to be passed by congress. we saw mark meadows fighting with paul ryan in that video that griff just ran. apparently, according to capitol hill sources, apparently mark meadows thought there were things for the house freedom caucus things they wanted in the bill they weren t there and he was a little upset. one other thing that we have been talking about. this all started when the attorney general said we are going to go and have zero tolerance when it comes to breaking the law. zero tolerance aspect continues to this day. it s going to will prosecute adults who try to come into the country illegally. what it will do is they are going to try to keep the families together as a unit while it s being adjudicated. as we heard from the judge. they are trying to speed things up. trying to get more judges. and the president has reached out to the department o