Thets big barr laying out a flaw in the main defense that Donald Trumps lawyers using in the federal election case. Well have much more from the former Attorney General on trumps many, many legal issues in just a moment. Meanwhile a key conspirator in the riot at the capitol could receive the longest sentence yet for the january 6th attack. And a very significant summit at camp david for President Biden. Well explain the stakes at todays meeting. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, august 18th. We made it to friday, folks. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin this morning with the trial date proposed by Donald Trumps legal team that is way, way, way in the future. In a court filing late yesterday the attorneys representing the former president in the federal election interference case against him thats the one out of washington requested that that trial begin in april of 2026. That is 2 1 2 years later than the january 2024 star
want answers. i was misled. i am livid about what happened. reporter: texas governor greg abbott aiming his ire at law enforcement. my expectation is that the law enforcement leaders that are leading the investigations, which includes the texas rangers and the fbi, they get to the bottom of every fact with absolute certainty. reporter: after damning new admissions from texas authorities. it was the wrong decision. period. reporter: the incident commander making the decision not to immediately enter the classroom the gunman was in. a decision was made that this was a barricaded subject situation, there was time to retrieve the keys and wait for a tactical team with the equipment to go ahead and breach the door and take on the subject at that point. reporter: officials explained how the shooter got into the school. where we knew the shooter entered, ramos, was propped open by a teacher. reporter: investigators clarifying the timeline as police arrived. the
heart wrenching details, specific momentus in the time line of this massacre, decisions by law enforcement that officials now acknowledge were mistakes including 80 minutes. that s how much time passed between the gunman entering the school and the time a tactical unit entered the class room where he was holed up. for an hour and 20 minutes, as many as 19 officers were in a hallway outside the classroom as terrified students called 911 pleading for police to come inside, and yet, officers waited to breach the room. officials admit that delayed response was a mistake as cnn s shimon prokupecz pushed for answers. listen to this. why was this decision made not to go in and rescue these children? again, you know, the on scene commander considered a barricaded subject and that there was time and no more children at risk. of course it was not the right decision, it was the wrong decision, period. reporter: that wrong decision is adding to the anguish of grief stricken parents
welcome back. as part of the house oversight committee s investigation into hunter biden, chairman james comer is asking the national archives for unredacted e-mails from president biden s time as vice president. comber argues four e-mails may have involvement about his son s business dealings in ukraine. he requested an e-mail from may 27th, 2016, the same day biden was set to speak with the then ukrainian president. hunter had been copied on the e-mail which included an attached document of vice president biden s daily schedule. as the independent points out, that e-mail was sent during planning for a biden family gathering to mark the one-year anniversary of beau biden s death. after the call, then vice president biden returned home to
reporter: friday was all about closing arguments in the civil defamation case of johnny depp versus amber heard. depp had testified during the trial that he never abused his now ex-wife amber heard but the motion picture studios won t touch him because of her allegations of domestic violence and domestic abuse. the attorney for depp, camille vasquez argued during closings about the alleged inconsistencies of amber heard, and she took that testimony and she compared it to the testimony of other witnesses saying that there were just many, many co contra contradictions. now, this case was born because of a 2018 op-ed published by the washington post at the hand and direction of amber heard saying that she represented as a public figure someone who had been abused, domestic abuse. on may 27th, 2016, ms. heard