Thats what we have all these prosecutions happening across the country. Jenna griswold, always great to see you. Thanks for being with, us thanks for the things you do to keep our elections actually safe. She is the Secretary Of State, for colorado. Coming up in our next hour, were gonna call to order a Special Edition of the Velshi Banned Book Club. Ominous discuss with two call scholars, one of americas most important most divisive documents, the constitution of the United States of america. Were gonna dig deeper into the section of that same constitution that legal experts say disqualifies donald trump from holding the office of the president ever again. Another hour of velshi begins right now. Right now. Good morning, its saturday, august 19th. Im ali velshi. In the span of just 12 months, the twice impeached President Donald Trump has been charged with a total of 91 felony count. Stemming from criminal cases against. Tim he remains firmly at the top of the field of the republican
Gillian 4 00 a. M. Thanks for having me. Im Gillian Turner and this is americas newsroom. The threat a repeating third grade now is being designed to motivate students to work harder in school as some schools are struggling to overcome major setbacks lingering from the pandemic. Bill third grade is a critical benchmark. Those who cant read are four times more likely to drop out of school. Gillian memphis, tennessee, 76 of third graders there right now not proficient in reading. Only 1 of those students were held back a year. Bill at problem chronic absenteeism. More than a quarter of students are missing at least 10 of the school year. It puts them of greater risk of dropping out. The governor from arkansas Sarah Huckabee sanders with us yesterday. We have to get back to the basics of teaching math, reading, writing and american history. We cannot perpetuate a lie to our students and push this Propaganda Leftist Agenda Teaching our kids to hate america and hate one another. Its one of
During his arraignment not to influence a jury or try to intimidate witnesses or anyone else involved in the case in any way. With this third indictment, donald trump now stands accused of numerous Crimes Involving his conduct from before, during, and after his presidency. Theres been a lot of legal activity surrounding the former president over the past few months. But, the historic nature of this moment should not be lost in any of us. We are seeing the rails of justice turning as they should to address the attempted coup that many of us watched unfold in realtime back on january 6th. The former president s coconspirators to move the sticks to this to the port. Hard to deceive and convince many people for many different walks of life to go along with their plan. The fake electors had to convince fake documents. Members of congress had to persuade to stand up and object to the certification of certain states votes. The supporters they called to gathering, washington d. C. , on january
Discovery, the documentation that the governments cause to provide to the defendant. This happens in every case. Theyve got to provide evidence. But the Special Counsel is asking for protective order. Because a few hours ago donald trump posted something on truth social. He has been posting a lot in the last few days. But this one stood out. It was all caps. It said, if you go after me, i am coming after you. If you go after me, i am coming after you. So, what the government has said is that, at this point, this becomes dangerous for them. They have got to give over evidence, and its for 16 pm 4 16 pm if donald trump uses his comments to the press what is go after you mean . Who is he coming after . Witnesses . People who are named . The government has says said, if the government were to im quoting now from the document that we are looking to just get we will have it in a few minutes. But this is what kyle cheney has posted. If the defendant were to begin issuing public posts using de
of extreme weather, heat alerts are stretching from california to texas and parts of south florida as well. while in the northeast, a state of emergency. in vermont, the capitol city devastated by flooding there with some people still stranded in their homes. and then new this morning, what we know about the fourth migrant child to die while in u.s. custody. we begin this hour, though, with a war in ukraine taking center stage at the nato summit in lithuania. later today, the president will give a major speech on the u.s. support of ukraine and the actions that world leaders are taking to address global challenges. just last hour, the president sat down with ukraine s president zelenskyy for their third face to face meeting this year. while ukraine will not become a nato member right now, ukrainian leader is coming away with a series of security guarantees announced by nato and g-7 leaders and this assurance from the u.s. president. we re going to make sure you get what y