Social media with posts that could defy the judges orders. Well get legal analysis on that new development. Also ahead, 9 latest warning from the pentagon about potential disruptions to Troop Readiness and military relations. Were learning about more provocative news from russia and chinas navys off the coast of alaska. Good morning. Welcome to Way Too Early on monday, august 8th. Im jonathan lemire. Thank you for starting your day and week with us. We begin with a flurry of action. Just days after being formally charged for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 Election Results, trump spent the weekend testing the limits of the judge assigned to that case. Now during thursdays arraignment the Magistrate Judge warned trump against interfering in the case telling him that his bond could be revoked if he tried to influence a juror, threaten or bribe a witness or if he retaliated. Despite telling the judge he understood her warning, just one day later the former president posted on his
Facing 78 Felony Counts across three separate Criminal Cases with a four potential indictment from Fulton County, georgia coming any day now. This d. C. Case and the charges now facing the former president are as serious as it gets. Here is trumps own former Attorney General bill barr. I think this case is the most serious of the cases because the conduct here involved trying to subvert and prevent the progress, the execution, probably the most important process and proceeding we have in our country, which is the peaceful transfer of power after an election. Putting aside whether its criminal or not, you know, it i dont see how the Republican Party can nominate someone who is capable of doing Something Like that. So were going to have more of that interview in just a moment with the man who was asking those questions. We also have the latest on what lawyers who practice frequently in washington, d. C. Are calling an unusual warning the former president received from the judge yesterday
expelled him from the legislature, representative justin jones sworn in for a second time after nashville city councilors voted unanimously to reappoint him to the statehouse. we re following these major stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn. new central. soon we re going to get an update from officials in louisville on the investigation into the mass shooting that happened yesterday. we re going to be bringing that to live when it happens, and also first on cnn investigators now say new video shows the attack inside the louisville bank lasted only about one minute. this is according to a review of the instagram video that the gunman livestream does he carried out the shooting. officials also say you can hear on the video, a woman greeting the gunman. and he telling her quote, you need to get out of here and then he shoots her. we have more details coming in. let s get over to cnn s omar jimenez in louisville for that, omar, what more are you picking up? okay,
crisis from hurting themselves or others, let s come together and make sure that not another family experiences that this loss that not another community is ripped apart and it s very fabric by this type of savage and senseless violence. you mentioned universal background checks. we know most action on gun reform is likely to happen at the state level more likely to happen at state level than it does at the federal level. just give us a sense since being there in washington, and i know you ve reached out to your constituents and we re calling them as recently as last week. asked about their concerns, gun violence was right up there. since you ve been in washington . are you more or less hopeful that this country can and will in fact address gun violence? uh i m always going to be helpful. hopeful i spent 10 years in the state senate in the minority is a democrat and kentucky and worked every day with my colleagues from all over the state and across the aisle to try to make th
money payments to stormy daniels. remember that? now, that could come back to haunt him. his former attorney and fixer, michael cohen, says trump can t hide from the paper trail. calling the new grand jury convened by the manhattan d.a. his biggest legal threat yet. and there are many. meanwhile, the former president is suing journalist bob woodward for $50 million. we ll explain what that is all about. plus, more fallout and firings in the aftermath of tyre nichols death. we ll go live to memphis for the latest in that case. for the second time in three years, lawmakers on capitol hill are talking about police reform following a high-profile murder case involving officers. we ll look at whether these discussions have a real chance at being successful. and president joe biden announces a major policy shift on covid in response to strong opposition from house republicans. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 31st. joe will be back tomorrow.