Tuesday, August 29, 2023
The 7
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🗓️ 29 August 2023
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Tuesday briefing: Trump’s D.C. trial date; Mark Meadows; Hurricane Idalia; UNC-Chapel Hill shooting; Luis Rubiales; and more
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| 0:00.0 | The Kiss that caused a crisis in Spanish soccer, an end to the 9 to 5 work day, and Florida is |
| 0:09.2 | bracing for a major hurricane. That's some of what we'll get to on the 7th from the |
| 0:14.0 | Washington Post. I'm Jeff Pierre. It's Tuesday, August 29th. Let's get you caught |
| 0:19.3 | up with today seven stories. |
| 0:26.0 | Number one, a judge set a March 4 trial date in Donald Trump's federal election case. |
| 0:32.2 | The date was set yesterday by a federal judge in DC and |
| 0:35.1 | it's far sooner than April 2026 which is what Trump's lawyers had requested. |
| 0:40.4 | The former president faces charges applying to overturn the 2020 election |
| 0:44.8 | March 4th clashes with Trump's 2024 campaign schedule and key dates and other |
| 0:50.3 | criminal cases against him. It's one day before Super Tuesday |
| 0:54.2 | when more than a dozen states will hold primaries or caucuses |
| 0:57.6 | to pick the Republican presidential nominee. |
| 1:00.2 | In related news, |
| 1:01.2 | former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows testified in George yesterday. |
| 1:05.5 | He defended his actions in meetings and phone calls after the 2020 election, actions that prosecutors |
| 1:11.0 | are describing as part of the plot to overturn |
| 1:13.8 | Joe Biden's victory in the state. Number two, Florida is bracing for a |
| 1:21.8 | major hurricane. Hurricane Adalia is expected to hit Florida's Gulf Coast tomorrow. |
| 1:26.6 | It's being fuels by record warm temperatures over the Gulf of Mexico. |
| 1:30.6 | Hurricane and storm surge warnings have been issued for places including |
| 1:34.8 | Tampa, Clearwater, Cedar Key, and the coastal zone south of Tallahassee. |
| 1:40.0 | And 21 counties issued evacuation orders yesterday as the storm moved northward. |
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