Courtroom on bull [ bleep ] because his Attorney General charged me with something. [ bleep ]. Also a former obama Cabinet Secretary and leading conservative federal judge teaming up to defend democracy from what they see as new threats. The president cracking down on investments in semiconductors and other Sensitive Technology to china. How will beijing respond . Massive wildfires in maui burning through buildings and forcing evacuations. Good day everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in new york. Voters in ohio turned out in the august heat in recordbreaking numbers, an overwhelming reminder that Abortion Access is still a major motivator to draw supporters to the polls. Unofficial results showing ohioans voted to amend the constitution that passed. Organizers calling the vote a huge victory. The majority still rules in ohio. [ cheers and applause ] and the peoples power has been preserved because ohio voters like you showed up and overwhelmingly voted down issue 1. President biden declaring
Fascist dictatorship, and so bill barr, after, ive got to say, humiliating himself for several years, bill barr decides, this is where i get off. This is enough. This is my line. I believe in an imperial presidency, but i dont believe in a fascist presidency. Thats what donald trump was asking him to do. Asking him to steal an election. Asking him to arrest his political opponents. Asking him to do the sort of things, again, that fascist dictators do. He wouldnt do it. Now, trump has turned on him. As far as fani willis goes and jack smith and everything else, again, we can point you back to it and play it for you again, what we were saying in 2019. If donald trump lost in 2020, he would run again, and hed run again simply to avoid all the crimes he was committing. Im not good at math, but that was four years ago. Four years ago, we were saying he will run again so he can try to avoid jail. Going to jail. Here we are. I must say, a lot of people were saying that, so its hard to believe
Hurricane dora passing south of the hawaiian islands. let s bring in meteorologist angie lassman for the latest on what the conditions are for firefighters. angie, what s the latest? good morning, guys. yeah, so we re going to see some improvements. that s the short term of it. but we really have a recipe for these winds to remain elevated. critical fire weather will be with us a while longer. we have hurricane dora just to the south of the island, and that is a low pressure system. just to the north of the island, we have a high pressure system. when you have differences in pressure, that creates wind. we had strong trade winds blowing through parts of that region and gusting up to 50, 55 miles per hour. we know when we have all the recipes for fire, we re going to teal with it spreading quite quickly when we have the strong winds. over the next 24 hours, this is the good news, both of those systems will move away. they ll move west, but the winds don t immediately subside. 30, 35,
Peter alexander, of course. later we ll talk to republican governor john kasich about all of this. that s coming up. in hawaii wildfires are forcing evacuations, closing schools and causing power outages. the 911 system down in west maui. officials say the fire has burned one of the most popular tourist destinations in the state. the national weather service says hurricane dora passing south of the island is partly to blame for the wind gusts of more than 60 miles an hour. donald trump defiant on the campaign trail as he suggests he will ignore any court order reigning in what he can say about his latest indictment or more specifically about the secret grand jury testimony and what that means for the case and the 2024 campaign. that s next when andrea mitchell reports is back in just 60 seconds. stay with us.
Completely different picture, feeling a touch warmer for some of you after the cloud and rain yesterday, a little bit more sunshine around western areas but a little rain to begin with here in central eastern england, one or two showers around the west, but in the north and west, some sometime fast thing. but the shower clouds will bring up through the day, heaviest of those in eastern scotland down to eastern counties of england, fewer showers to the western far south, some of you staying dry throughout. temperatures up a little, still lower than where we should be at this stage ofjuly, but a bit cool across north scotland where more cloud. make mention of the cricket, just the chance of a passing south through today, but much of the rain will much of the day will be dry. the rain through the weekend. tonight and tomorrow, a ratherfresh note compared to what we have been used to. a few showers to begin with across eastern parts, most becoming clear, temperatures down into single fi