doing. face a hearing this week with donald trump s former chief of staff, mark meadows, or evolves along sideshow legal issue. compared to the larger problems facing the former president. he wants to move his case from state to federal court. we ll learn from his nearly four hours of questioning has locations of a change for venue for the. trial in addition to giving us the first sense of what the argument may be from a number of trump s legal coconspirators. of which there are many. the testimony was another flashing warning sign of what a second trump term could look like. let s keep defense for mark meadows. he argued that the allegations outlined in the indictment, you know, the unrelenting pursuit of baseless claims of election fraud. the pressure campaign on georgia officials to find votes. the conspiracy trump in power. he says all of that was quote, part of my role. and he doesn t think anything he did including overtly political campaign activities was o
is freedom to steal bill. not may soon be headed to governor gavin newsom s desk. that s coming up. we begin with the new jobs report that unexpectedly showed the jobs market might be cooling just as the president touts his mind and nomex. national correspondent kevin cork has a closer look at how americans view the state of the economy. good evening kevin. good evening jonathan. we will take it back to 1992, it s the economy stupid. over 30 years later it remains the top issue motivating voters. i could barely get a grocery or basket full of groceries. definitely gas prices. gas prices suck. on public most concerned about inflation. a lot of concerns folks. however, despite many american saying they continue to struggle to make ends meet. reports that more americans than ever are working multiple jobs just to be able to pay for everyday items. the message from the biden white house is that things are great. unemployment is low and wages are up. to that end the augu
lack thereof warrant action by the prosecuting attorney oversight commission. tonight, new developments in georgia, where trump has now entered a plea. then american citizens are storming the capitol this is such history. a dramatic sentence in game four to trump footsoldiers convicted of seditious conspiracy. plus what was jared kushner doing in the middle east? i ve been vocal, i think, that what kushner did crossed the line of ethics. jamie raskin on his renewed push to investigate the grifting trump family. and why new financial disclosures from supreme justice clarence thomas will make the controversy over his billionaire patrons go away. dude, i like to keep that friendship. we [laughter] when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. the front runner for the republican presidential nomination is facing an existential threat to his personal freedom and his explicit goal and the goal of the party he commands people met of
across large sections. right now idalia is a tropical storm after making landfall as a hurricane. the rain is covering four straits, stretching 600 miles from florida all the way up to north carolina, and that wind is now impacting half of that area. now, the danger remain as idalia continues to move north into the carolinas this hour. and the record storm surge threatens communities in those areas. now, homes are still under water, and some of the damage is catastrophic. cnn is live across the southeast, including in charleston where there are reports tonight of flooding right in the city center. we ll go right there in a moment. but i want to start first with our meteorologist chad myers in the cnn weather center. chad, what is the condition right now of this storm, and where is it headed? reporter: well, we re losing some wind speed, and that s the good news, and it s headed to the northeast. that s the second answer toward the north carolina coast. what i don t like on
hurricane idalia, which is a category 2 hurricane which has just strengthened. the wind speeds are now at 105 miles per hour, and they are gaining. but it is not the wind that has people the most worried about this hurricane. it s the water. it is the storm surge, predicted to be 10 to 15 feet right where i m standing in steinhatchee. the steinhatchee river right now sat low tide. at high tide, it s another 5, 6 feet higher than where it is. add 10 to 15 feet on top of that, and the area where i am standing right now is feared to be just completely covered in water about eight hours from now. that is the concern along the florida gulf coast. about 45 minutes south of where i am in the town of cedar key, the mayor there issued his town and his people a stern warning. we re here to beg our citizens to heed this warning. this storm is worse than we ve ever seen. it is worse than we have ever seen, he said. a storm like this has not passed in this direction in over 100 years.