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
every member of the committee, regardless of democrat or republican, were unanimous many that in that this position that we are left in limbo until somehow a special counsel designates thatst okay for us to get briefed is not going to stand. maria: coming up, texas senator ted cruz on his calls for a hearing on what exactly is in those documents amid new questions about the so-called biden records, that s 1,850 boxes of records that joe biden donated to the university of delaware can. why is the university withholding the so-called gift agreement of the mystery funder of maintaining those documents? and did the money come from china after the ccp sent $50 million plus to the university of pennsylvania and was able to get penn to lobby for the china initiative investigation to get shut down as oversight committee chairman james comer told me recently. we i now learn that the university of penn successfully lobbied the fbi to drop their china initiative which was an inves
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Im leaving this set and going to get a latte because i will be here tonight at 9 00 for my good friend rachel maddow. There will likely be no shortage of breaking news from now until then. For now, my thanks to jonathan, doug, matt and elise. That does it for now. Who do we blame for no cameras in federal courtrooms again . You can blame me. Boy do i wish we had a camera in a courtroom right now. Thank you, nicole. If its tuesday, Paul Manaforts trial is officially under way. Tonight, collusion confus n confusion. The wild evolution of the president s alternative explanations with yet another dimension of denial. Plus, midterm sabotage. Our democracy itself is in the cross hairs. Facebook you have . S snuffs out coordinated attempts of Election Interference but as the u. S. Government done you have no protect the integrity of the vote . Mark my words, america wont tolerate this meddling. And day one of trial number one for the special counsels office. How the Paul Manafort tax evasion
and made it much easier for people to vote with ballots that are sent out like shopping mailers. on our side what we have failed to do is really look at the fact that we re losing with that early voting, be it mail voting, absentee voting or voting early in person. and my top campaign plank was that in order for us to win, we must simply mechanically beat the democrats at hustling the ballots for our voters into the ballot boxes as early as possible. that doesn t mean you ignore election integrity. no. i mean, that s the bread and butter of what i do. you ve got to do both things and do them very well. and mechanically inside the party i ve asked that we set up a separate department of operations. the the party was under a consent decree for several years, for decades, in fact, that prevented us from doing that work, but that expired four years ago, so now we really need to ramp up and make sure that as we start voting in 2024, that we are able to beat the democrats