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
Sara fischer. Thank you. So much and any thank you all for watching Anderson Cooper 360 starts right now tonight on 360, his Campaign Calls it trump on steroids and says its all Hands On Deck as the former president kicks off a new blitz through battleground states starting today in michigan also tonight, my conversation with former Trump National security adviser, hr mcmaster about his new book, the complex portrait he paints of his old boss and whether he would ever work. In a Trump White House. Again for a special counsel jack smith points a finger at the judge who dismiss the classified documents case. As he asd, a higher court to revive it. Gd evening. Thanks for joining us. Again tonight with what might be described as the first day of the rest of don trumps campaign. It follows a week largely dominated by the Democratic Convention in several weeks, abuzz surrounding his new opponents. Now, were told to expect him to hold multiple events a week and visit two states a day today be
Belong in the History Books is cnn Breaking News . Good morning you are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. We begin this hour with Breaking News out of the middle east israels military says it has rescued a hostage held in gaza since the hamas Terror Attacks on october 7 of last year, this man, a father of 11, had spent the last 326 days because as Prisoner Areas in the hospital, a short time ago, reuniting with his brother cnns Jeremy Diamond is following this Breaking News for us. Hes live in tel aviv. Jeremy what can you tell us whats the latest . Its a remarkable story and the details just coming in without a doubt, jim, and were only just starting to get some of the details, but they are indeed remarkable. The Israeli Military, its Special Forces carrying out an operation in southern gaza, rescuing this man caught eid farhan alqadri, a 52yearold father of 11, from a tunnel in some other gaza. This is the first time that the Israeli Military has successfully res
Dana it doesnt. Jim desmond, County Supervisor in san diego. Thank you. Elite Israeli Forces rescued a hostage in Southern Gaza as we bring you that good news this morning. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom im dana perino. Bill is off today. Good morning to you, bret. Bret im bret baier in washington. Todays rescue is the first time in months that a hostage has been rescued alive. He was inside a gaza tunnel. More than 100 hostages are believe to remain captive. Some of them likely dead. The Daring Rescue really is something today. Dana it coincides with a new warning that irans aggression has reached an alltime high. Both sides appear to be stepping back from the brink of war for now. Reality is, bret, neither one of them really wants to fight a war against israel. They are aware israel is strong and the u. S. Is backing israel. It looked to us watching here like israel scored a significant victory over when hezbollah recently. It tells you a lot about the motivations of hezb
Vice president on not he will take to the podium in grand rapids, michigan, and what marks his third visit to the Battle Ground state in a month. We are told he will be centering his speech around the economy and inflation, as it remains a top issue in the state. Sandra also take aim at the administrations energy policy, plans of a multibillion dollar ev battery plants. So far Vice President harris has been vague on her energy policies, so what could we expect . We will get the read from fox business Charles Payne live just ahead. Really an extraordinary abuse of power by both the fbi, the cia on covid and other issues by department of homeland security, so i think we are still at the beginning of a reckoning here of really a panic that resulted from peoples ability to get information. We see people having a kind of panic around the inability to control information thanks to the internet and social media platforms. The fact that you have government putting its thumb on the scale and in