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
Pandemic rch record highs with no signs of slowing down. Researchers are now warning the u. S. Death toll may near 540,000 by april. Today we will speak to one of the worlds leading Infectious Disease doctors, paul farmer, the cofound of partne in health. All of these epidemics find their way to exploit social disparities and inequalities and take their greatest harvest among the pr anvulnerab. E qstion ware aski is does that need to be the case . And of course, the answer is, no, it does not. Amy dr. Paul farmer will talk about the pandemic, health care inequality, and his new book fevers, feuds and diamonds ebola and the ravages of history. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The United States has set yet another world record for daily coronavirus cases and hospitalizations and deaths with over 216,000 infections confirmed thursday and more than 2800 deaths. Nearly 101,000 people are hospitalized with covi
Good afternoon, and thank you very much for coming. This is a representative of our legal team. Were representing President Trump and the Trump Campaign. When i finish, Sidney Powell and jenna ellis will follow me, and we will present in brief the evidence weve collected over the last two weeks. Also joseph, jennifer, victoria is here with me. There are a lot more lawyers working on this, but were i guess were the senior lawyers and boris epstein. I guess the best way to describe this is when we began our representation of the president , we certainly were confronted with an anomalous set of results, the president way ahead on election night, 7 or 800,000 in pennsylvania. Somehow he lost pennsylvania. We have statisticians willing to testify thats almost statistically impossible to happen in the period of time it happened. But of course, thats your speculation. As we started investigating, both our investigations and the very patriotic and brave american citizens that have come forward
Lockdowns as coronavirus cases spike. Home sales hit a 15year high but weekly jobless claims unexpectedly rise. I have a question for you guys. Is chicago the nations canary in a coal mine, as new york citys mayor warns indoor restaurant dining is on the verge of shutting down again, and the center for Disease Control today recommending against thanksgiving travel. We are live in the windy city, where it already begins to lock down again. Refi rush as urban dwellers flee covid and the big cities. Mortgage rates are nearing alltime lows. At the start of the pandemic, mortgage guru barry habib told you right here on the claman countdown wait to refinance because rates were going to drop more. He was right. Hes about to tell you where rates will go next. Its his big 2021 prediction. The woman with goop on her hands. The Venture Capitalist who backed the superhot retail site is here on whether the Hollywood Alister is ready to go public. First, we have a fox business alert as covid cases r
Highly effective vaccines, president is doing good to eradicate the china virus and ahead of the operation warp speed saying the First Americans to receive the vaccine may come before the years end. Our plan is to be able to shift vaccines to the immunization side so within 24 hours, i would expect maybe on day two after approval on the 11th or the 12th of december hopefully the first people will be immunized across United States across all states and all the areas where the state department will have told us where to deliver the vaccines. Lou you can see how happy everyone is over cnn, msnbc, the broadcast networks, the new york times, the Washington Post, all the president s heroics and extraordinary achievement, to americans who desperately need them. Despite the unprecedented efforts in fighting the global pandemic, he remains embroiled in a battle for the white house. President trump faces an obstinate resistance within its own polit party, a leftwing politically corrupt left led