Weekend and its the worst of all networks. When i look adat the hostility of that, i said lets do it with another network. I want to do it, so were thinking about it. They also want to change the rules. The deal is we keep the same rules and they want to change the rules because she cant answer questions. As donald trump casting doubt about whether hell participate in the president ial debate scheduled from two weeks from today, well have the latest on the rift over the rules from the two campaigns. Also ahead, an update on the classified documents case against former President Trump as jack smith works to reverse judge Aileen Cannons dismissal. And well go through the growing list of republicans who are now supporting Vice President Harris Campaign. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, august 27th. Im ali vitali in for jonathan lemire. We begin with the fight between the harris and Trump Campaigns over the rules for the president ial debate. The main issue is whe
Thats to be expected. The alternative, however, is simply untenable. At home, another four years of Donald Trumps chaotic leadership, this time focused on advancing the dangerous goals of project 2025 will hurt real, everyday people and waken our sacred institutions. Richard, which are the reasons who have not stood up yet, who served in the Trump Administration, who could actually make a difference in terms of persuading those very few, unpersuadable voters who are left . And do you expect any more of them to stand up between now and november . I mean, theres the former Vice President who has, shall we say, a certain physical and political incentive to stand up, given how he was do you think hes going to do it . No. Look, i think if people were going to stand up, theyve had now, shall we say, several years to do it. Several people simply have not. Disagree with me or not, but how much of a difference will it make . Its certainly not going to shake trumps base. Im not sure many of thes
Devastating outbreak of wildfires. With us today fema administrator dee ann griswald. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Donald trump is out fundraising this hour in nashville as his legal bills have mounted and he faces a deadline to surrender to the Fulton County jail in georgia before noon next friday, but his unrelenting attacks over prosecutors over his cases are troubling. On wednesday a texas woman was charged with transmitting a threat to injure a person by an interstate commerce after leaving expletiveladen racist email for d. C. District drug Tanya Chutkan. We are coming to kill you and that chutkan will be targeted personally, your family, all of it. Were leaving all of the expletives out. Nbc news has learned that the reported names of the Georgia Grand Jury who handed out the latest indictment have been posted on a fringe website that often features violent rhetoric. Nbcs Garrett Haake in atlanta, grant kushner, robert james and New York Times White Hous
alejandro mayorkas committed high crimes and misdemeanors? and growing pressure on president biden to respond after a drone attack killed three american troops. and there are new questions about how that drone was able to evade u.s. defenses. also ahead, could donald trump get booted from another state s ballot? elections officials in illinois are meeting this hour just days ahead of a high stakes supreme court hearing. and later, is sci-fi becoming reality? elon musk now claiming the first neuralink implant into a human brain. thanks for being here. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. let s get to the breaking news on capitol hill, where this morning the house homeland security committee is trying to do something that hasn t been done in more than 150 years. impeach a sitting cabinet secretary. republicans alleging high crimes and misdemeanors by dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas, claiming he, quote, willfully and systematically refused to co
tight-lipped on the durham report. his secretary walked off when asked about troubling revelations, watch this. what is the white house reaction to special counsel report? i would leave to the department of justice. does he agree with special counsel durham? that is with the department of justice. we believe in independent department of justice. thank you, see you guys in japan. durham report foup the fbi had no evident of collusion between donald trump and russia before the 2016 presidential election. cia director john brennan briefed barack obama and joe biden about a hillary clinton plan to tie trump to russia in july 2016. now all eyes are on democratic congressman adam schiff, one of the most outspoken in congress when it comes to accusing trump of collusion. this clear evidence and this adds to ample evidence of collusion in plain sight and that is true. have democrats found evidence of collusion? yes, we have. you can see evidence in plan b sight, prett