Good morning, everyone. Its friday. Were glad youre with us. Its been quite a week for this country. Quite a week. Its framing what is going to be ab intense consequential months ahead. Lets get started with five things to know for this friday, august 4th. Sour, defiant, we have new reporting this morning about Donald Trumps State Of Mind after he was indicted for the third time in four months. The former president proclaiming his innocence and accusing the Special Counsel of leading a political persecution. Also new overnight, democratic lawmakers want to watch the trial. They want a judge to allow cameras in a federal courtroom. The July Jobs Report will come out. A key number for the fed. Also this morning a reenactment of the Parkland High School shooting. As part of a lawsuit against the officer who failed to enter the build whg a gunman killed 17 people. Two sailors under arrest and have been indicted for allegedly sending sensitive Military Information to chinese Intelligence Of
Weeks from now when a trial date will be set. lawyers indicate they will attempt to delay the trial, push it out so this sets the stage for a chaotic campaign season disrupted by court dates. we have on how trump is feeling and his plolitical positioning. sources tell kaitlan collins the former president was irked that the judge referred to him as mr. president trump rather than his presidential title and he s preparing to use the charges to revisit his election fight. we will relitigate every single issue in the 2020 election in the context of this litigation. new overnight, kevin mccarthy with a few in defense of trump equating this actions to those f al gore after their election losses. you are entitled to raise a question. you are sbielted to raise a question whether it was honest or not. that s the unique nness of the
Feel, what does the president really desire, those are all questions intended to trap him in some way contradicting what is a very, very solid explanation of what happened. he fired comey because comey would not, among other things, say he wasn t a target of the investigation. he s sbielted to that. hillary clinton got that. and he couldn t get that. he can t blame the president for feeling i m not being treated the same way they were. i don t expect we re going to have an interview. i have a will the of questions for you. i would like to get one not under oath. i wanted a video tape, audio tapes, that they don t misrepresent his answers. this is outrageous miscarriage