Good morning, good morning, to sunday september 1st. Im ali velshi. We Come On air with Breaking News out of the middle east. The bodies of six israeli hostages taken by hamas during the October 7th attacks have been recovered in gaza. There bodies were found late yesterday in an underground tunnel beneath the southern city of rafah. According to the israeli military, it appears the hostages were killed shortly before the idf was able to reach them. They have been identified by the idf as carmel gat, eden yerushalmi, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi, Master Sergeant Ori danino and american israeli, hersh goldbergpolin. Hersh goldbergpolin was attending the Music Vessel one hamas launched the attack took he was taken hostage along with many others and later became one of the most wellknown captives having been injured in multiple Hostage Videos that were purred out by hamas. In the wake of his capture, his parents were extremely outspoken in their efforts to bring home their son and the
our special breaking news coverage on msnbc as donald j trump is likely facing his most serious legal challenge yet. today, we learned much more about the very serious federal criminal charges in involving his handling of top secret u.s. documents. today, special counsel jack smith released an indictment laying out the evidence against trump. nbc s laura jarrett has the details. new details on the stubborn move up the speed of a former president, also the leading republican challenger to president biden. special counsel jack smith alleging mr. trump mishandled classified documents after leaving office, and obstruction efforts to retrieve them in the state of florida. we have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone. smith laying out 37 criminal counts against the former president, including charges under the espionage act accusing him of improperly retaining national defense information. the indictment says among the classified documents kept in box
the beat with ari melber starts right now. it is friday. i appreciate you sharing that story and i wish you a great weekend. thank you. and it is friday and one of the fridays with a lot of news. there is even more fallout from the scandal engulfing fox news and rupert murdoch. my colleague chris hayes is here with us his fellow author, one place and one show and stick with us, you ll hear from them by the end of the hour. we begin with the political heat emanating from the cpac gathering in the beltway and it upd scores a dilemma for republicans in realtime. after the midterms where they recoiled from the big lie and the trumpy obsession with the party, and this gathering is televising the out right domination, sometime even self-parity of once fringe figurers in charge. candidates who may run against trump decided to cut and run from even trying to make a cpac appearance leaving to to leaders doubling down on things that turned off many voters in november. the far
today. we talked about accountability. giuliani and santos back in court. different cases, both about lies. coming up. and an exclusive interview with a wall street billionaire who s making waves tonight on msnbc. this will air for the first time. we re going to show you a preview of how this semiconservative billionaire who s even met with trump at the white house is telling us on the beat and this is exclusive, this is what he thinks about trump and the possibility of a second term. trump is a disgusting human being, he belongs in jail in my opinion. strong words. more context on that. that s an exclusive. we gip begin with jack smith s breakthrough as he tries to take an assertive and proactive approach in prosecuting trump for the coup. this surrounding a mystery with trump s actions, the plotting, speech, insurrection, and those long, tense hours while trump stood by while his fans committed convicted sedition. part of the process is getting more evidence and a bet
hello new york. thank you for joining us live at a town hall in new york city for this very special edition of why is this happening? he is incisive, he is big hearted, he is very, very smart. and, admit it, he is taller than you expected. please give a warm welcome to my friend, a beloved colleague, msnbc s, chris hayes. [applause] thank you! oh, stop. stop it. [applause] how are you? good? thank you. thank you, thank you, thank you. sit down, sit down. thank you, that is extremely kind. i hate attention and positive feedback. it s a hard 20 seconds for me. thank you for cutting it short. it is amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city. i have family here. tonight, we will talk about democracy. that word, we have probably talked more about democracy in the last four or five years that i had in all of my time as a journalist. even that, as a topic, seems we are. we all know, america is a democracy. there is a certain history you are taug