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Good morning, everyone. Its wednesday, august 2nd. A historic morning in u. S. Former President Trump is due in Court Tomorrow after a federal grand jury indicted him on four counts. This morning, city and federal Law Enforcement agencies are gearing up for that appearance. Also new this morning, a sense of trumps defense. His attorney tells cnn his clint is protected fully by the First Amendment. He was acting on the advice of counsel. We just heard from rudy ju giuliani. New details about the judge who will preside over this case. The judge has been randomly assigned. Hes overseen january 6ths defendants. The form e President Trumps 2024 rivals are weighing in on the charges. Their reactions ranging from ....
washington, d.c. i m in for nicolle wallace. we begin with the one thing that has consistently haunted the disgraced, twice impeached, four times indicted vice president, something that has time and again kneecaped donald j. trump, in the way his adversaries, even the legal system has struggled to do. we re talking about donald trump s own words. today we re reminded that words do, in fact, matter, particularly when they are uttered during a deposition under oath. it s part of the $370 million civil fraud suit brought by new york attorney general letitia james. as viewers of this show know well, that trial has not been short on fireworks between trump grandstanding outside court or grandstanding inside the court. time and again, trump has turned this trial into a cross between a maga rally and a wwe wrestling match. whether he s sparring with the judge or delivering last week s blistering six-minute soliloquy in open court, or final day of proceedings. this is not the f ....
a quick update on a story we followed from the very beginning. the 2019 death of elijah mcclain after police forcibly restrained him, the paramedics gave him a lethal drozd dose of the drug ketamine. the two were convicted of criminally negligent homicide. a police officer was also convicted and subsequently fired. tonight, straight from the source, not so fast. special counsel jack smith denied as donald trump gets something he very much wanted from the supreme court. will his federal subversion trial be delayed? and, for how long. the private militias now taking upon themselves to control the border. as america pushes to bring hostages home from gaza, russia, iran and venezuela, i will talk to a woman who is pleading for her husband s safe return from afghanistan. this is the source. a win for president former trump, at least for now. the supreme court denying special counsel jack smith s request to put the issue of immunity on the fast track. a one sentence ....
thank you. thank you. that s all in for tonight. alex wagner is next. with ali velshi. high drama playing out right now. questions that he wasn t able to answer when he was running for president back then. some of the things that starbucks have done to people who have indicated they want to be unionized. that s a right we believe people should have the right to have. it s 2023. why can t i put a tip on my credit card because workers at the store decided to be unionized. the photo of the line getting into this hearing, an enormous line. highly consequential. thank you for joining us tonight. this is ukrainian city of bakhmut. prior to russia s invasion last year, bakhmut was a small city of about 75,000. now it s one of the most important cities in the war, for seven straight months ukrainian forces have held bakhmut by being attacked by russian forces. this is the longest continual battle of the war so far. thought to be europe s deadliest land battle since ....
ex-president it is explosive reporting from the washington post. there s this saying when it comes to donald trump and his slogan, remember the one on the hats, make america great again, that what maga said make attorneys get attorneys. the late breaking news from the washington post proves this case that now donald trump s attorneys appear to be in special counsel jack smith s cross hairs including some of the most notorious ones. federal prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election have asked witnesses extension sieve questions about the actions of rudy giuliani, including where he got his information about alleged fraud, what he did in the days around january 6th and what he knew about the actions coming that day. people who have appeared in front of the grand jury say. investigators looking into classified documents pertaining to mar-a-lago have sought testimony from another trump lawyer, ben cork ran saying there is evidence that the former presi ....