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
session yesterday down 0.8% weaker. for the week as a whole all of these indices are down more than 2%, so it hasn t been a pretty one. but yesterday a lot of focus was on the health care sector. cbs health was down 8%. that offset some of the gains we saw in cisco. wal-mart as you talked about yesterday was also on focus at beating results. today, though, futures are mixed. it looks as though we are being setout for a risk off session, though. in terms of data not a lot to watch out for, but next week is going to be a big one. we ve got the jackson hall meeting coming up going to be a summer camp for central bankers. summer camp for central bankers. i ve never been invited. china s second largest property developer just filed for bankruptcy. tell us a little bit more about this one. well, this is going to be huge debt restrucker whiching