i m bianca nobilo live from london. max foster has the day off but he ll be back monday. just ahead former president trump reacting to his georgia indictment for the first time on camera and calling for his party to come to his defense. president biden prepares to host the leaders of japan and south korea on friday at camp david. china and north korea high on the agenda. emergency alert. to you regret not sounding the sirens? i do not. that is what he said before suddenly resigning a day later. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, august 18, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington, d.c. where donald trump s legal team is proposing a new date for the trial in his federal election sub version case. the date? april 2026. which is years away. of course special counsel jack smith is pushing for the trial to start in the january of 1202. this comes on the heels of trump calling off the news conference
Judge tanya chutkan who is overseeing the federal election interference case against trump received a threatening voice mail earlier this month. according to court documents, a texas woman called chutkan s chambers on august 5 and left a message threatening to kill anyone who went after former president trump. she also allegedly threatened to kill congresswoman sheila jackson lee and as well as people in the lgbtq community. she is now in custody. thank you very much. reporter: over the last week, trump hasedly posted to social media speaking directly to the fulton county grand jurors and judge chutkan saying will someone please tell the fulton county grand jury that i did not tamper with the election? and saying that chutkan obviously wants me behind bars. very biased and unfair. trump was scheduled to hold a press conference monday to amplify his baseless claims of
In washington, d.c. where donald trump s legal team is proposing a new date for the trial in his federal election sub version case. the date? april 2026. which is years away. of course special counsel jack smith is pushing for the trial to start in the january of 1202. this comes on the heels of trump calling off the news conference where he was going to provide his proof that the 2020 election was stolen. in a post so his social media site, trump said his lawyers would prefer putting that evidence in formal legal filings to fight his latest indictment in georgia. meanwhile the purported name, photos and home addresses of the grand jurors who voted for in a indictment are being circumstcirculated online. and paula reid looks at the security risks facing that georgia jury as well as the
Judge in a separate case. i have four of them if you look. reporter: former president trump reacting to his georgia indictment for the first time on camera and calling for his party to come to his defense. they have no idea the anger they caused. republicans have to be tough. republicans are great in many way, but they don t fight as hard for this. they have to get a lot tougher. reporter: this call to action comes as the georgia residents who served on the grand jury that indicted trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election are facing threats and even getting dojjed online. they were called to serve and now they have been basically put on the x by these disclosures. reporter: names, pictures, profiles and even home addresses purporting to belong to the grand jurors are now circulating on far right websites, their names were published on the
I m bianca nobilo live from london. max foster has the day off but he ll be back monday. just ahead former president trump reacting to his georgia indictment for the first time on camera and calling for his party to come to his defense. president biden prepares to host the leaders of japan and south korea on friday at camp david. china and north korea high on the agenda. emergency alert. to you regret not sounding the sirens? i do not. that is what he said before suddenly resigning a day later. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, august 18, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m.