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
To president elect biden Energy Continues a monster move higher the oil and gas etf up 13 in the last two days. Despite the steady increase in covid cases vaccine developments are continuing to help the likes of the airlines, cruise stocks, retail all surging higher today as we cross that 30,000 level once again, to check it we are still above it will we say that 59 minutes left to trade. 29 points above it. On todays show, two voices to help explain the dows record rise in just a few minutes Jeremy Siegel will join us and later Liz Ann Saunders plus former testry secretary jack lew will discuss president elect biden pick of janet yellen to lead his treasury administration. Lets get the latest from wall street mike santoli is tracking the action to led us to dow 30k. Certainly the story today because of that big round number i am going to keep it consistent, though, and take a fwlims at the s p 500. Similar look in every respect in terms of getting back up pretty much to an alltime hig
Fall on year and below analyst expectations. They confirmed plans to exit thermal. U. S. China relations sour even further. Jing says the tax lets take a look at how we are shaping up for this asian trading day. U. S. Futures within shouting distance when it comes to the regular session of that february record but then retreating by the close. We are seeing not much happening when it comes to active futures contracts. The nikkei 225 looking weaker going into the open. Chicago futures trading there. The topix in the meantime remains the bestperforming market in august. We will see if it continues those gains today. Ftse futures looking like we will open up higher by. 4 . The data calendar for the day, we get the rba august meeting minutes, looking into the details of their bond buying as well as the renewed assessment of how that new victorian lockdown will barter economy in those Monetary Policy settings. Also watching crude, we are seeing weakness, just holding over 42 a barrel althou
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Palestinian territories in the west bank. We begin in brazil where theres a political backlash to president jaya both scenarios handling of the Coronavirus Crisis the Health Minister has handed in his resignation of the less than a month in the job nelson teach follows his predecessor who had publicly criticized both the narrow decision to allow the reopening of gyms and beauty parlors brazil is a center of latin americas corona Virus Outbreak with close 215000 deaths it registered a record 15305 new cases on friday thats the highest in a day a lot took the total number of infections to over 218000 but the president is pushing state governors to ease lock downs and reopen the economy where john holdren is monitoring developments across latin america and joins us live now from mexico city john so this is the 2nd Health Minister to resign during the pandemic what more do we know about his reasons for stepping down. When say public why he had stepped down but its believed that he was agai