Hello everybody. I'm John Fawcett with this Great America show Midday Update for Friday, November 8th.

The FBI has thwarted Iranian murder for hire plan targeting President Donald Trump.

The Justice Department today unsealing criminal charges in a thwarted Iranian plot to kill President-elect Donald Trump just weeks before the presidential election.

Criminal complaint filed in Manhattan Federal Court alleges that an unnamed official

in Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard instructed a contact this past September to put

together a plan to surveil and ultimately kill President Donald J. Trump.

If this assassin, this would be assassin, was unable to create a plan

by election day, the complaint says, the official told him Iran would pause its plan until after

the presidential election because officials believed Trump would lose and it would be easier to

assassinate him then, this all according to the complaint. Along with an executive order on the

border wall and a few other things President Trump

has to get done on the first day, I think Iran has to be addressed because this has gone on

for far too long and I don't know who they think they are or what they think they're going

to get away with under President Trump.

Jackal Jack Smith looks like he's coming to an end.

The special counsel has asked a judge to quote

pause proceeding in all Trump's cases as he assesses quote unprecedented circumstances

interesting this is a move that reflects the unexpected end of all of Trump's cases

Smith said that vacating the schedule of remaining pretrial

motion deadlines, what Trump's lawyers did not object to, of course gives the prosecutors team

time to assess the unprecedented, we'll call it election win that Donald Trump resoundedly won

this past week. A better update on this case by December 2nd.

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