Thousands are protesting across israel to express outrage over six hamas hostages killed in gaza overnight. Israelis, including hostage families, accusing prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Torpedoing A Ceasefire Deal that might have saved them. We are getting new details by the minute. Hamas says they couple six in a tunnel shortly before israeli forces were able to reach them. Their bodies were recovered and brought back to israeli territory. Among the dead are Israeli American Hersh Goldbergpolin. The other five hostages. President biden has issued a statement vowed to make them pay. First we go to Matt Bradley joining us from Tel Aviv. I know youre at the big protest. What is happening . Reporter i hope you can hear me. It is definitely loud here. It looks like There Hundreds Of Thousands of protesters stretching as far as the eye can see. On the other side of this Pedestrian Bridge is the same deal. Everyone out here, outraged this happens every week right here in front of what
This weekend marks our celebration of labor day, and the unofficial end to what has been a historic and sometimes unbelievable summer. And now, comes the race to november with both kamala harris and donald trump each making their sprint toward election day. The 66 days to go, vice president harris has been busy on social media challenging trump on a host of issues as she looks to capitalize on a successful week including her bus tour through south georgia. On thursday around 7500 supporters packed and arena in savannah to hear vice president harris speak. It was the maxim capacity of the venue according to her campaign. And that momentum seems to be translating to the polls. A new fox news poll shows harris has put four sunbelt states back in place and she entered the race. Now she merrily leads trump within the margin of error in georgia, arizona and nevada, while trump is barely clinging to a one point lead in north carolina. The poll also shows the vice president has improved on bid
The sun coming up 6 00 a. M. Its wednesday, august 28th. And we have a lot to get to this morning. Including special counsel jack smith trying to salvage the federal Election Interference case against donald trump. Filing a formal indictment against the former president. Were going to bring you excellent analysis in just a moment. Meanwhile, donald trump now says that he will debate Vice President Kamala Harris in two weeks, but the Harris Campaign still needs to be resolved. And well have more details about that the operation that rescued an israeli man who was held hostage by hamas for more than 300 days. That comes as israel launches a broad operation in the west bank with raids and air strikes in that territory. Im Jonathan Lemire along with u. S. Special correspondent for bbc news katty kay in this morning for joe, mika and willie. Well be joined by Symone Sanderstownsend, and mike barnicle, and nbc news capitol hill correspondent, you just saw her on way too early, ali vitali. Lo
And the concerns that he could still play spoiler. And breaking news, the fbi holds a briefing on the gunman who shot donald trump, revealing images of the weapons discovered and new details about what he was searching for online. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. Lets start in battleground georgia, the big kickoff for Kamala Harriss statewide swing, just a couple of hours away now. Nbcs mike memoli is in savannah. What are we expecting, mike . Reporter well, chris, the Vice President now on her way here to georgia, and the goal for the harris walz ticket is to take the energy, the Excitement We Saw in the arena in chicago and bring it to the battlegrounds into southeast georgia, part of a Battleground State where we havent seen much president ial activity. The stat of the day, chris, is this, there has not been a general election president ial Campaign Event for a democratic candidate in this part of the state since the mid90s. That just tells you th
[cheering and applause] greg: very good. I can see for review that would be perfect in my van. Happy tuesday everyone. According to a new report the harris campaign is asking reporters who they think kamala should talk to. And already they have suggested this hardhitting journalist. [laughter] greg: meta ceo amidst government pressure facebook to suppress covid19 content. If only they had suppressed this instead. [laughter] greg: the parents of the dead trump shooter have hired a top pittsburgh law firm apparently they answered an ad asking have you ever been injured on a slanted roof, does not sound like that? since returning to to many schools are facing bans on scent cell phone use during the day making it even harder to arrange a time with teachers for. [laughter] the concern comes after a study found that the average teenager it receives 273 cell phone notifications per day. And those are all just from this guy. [laughter] greg: james carville says a more humane country where of i