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
I lieu this one in particular groups like syrian kurds so we know now President Trump alongside ayman mohyeldin. Morning joe starts right now. Where bill barr was saying that said very clearly yesterday that because, quite honestly, they left center field. Their position had evolved when u. S. Troops would have this new back at the wall. Dont trust us. One days episode or cooperation and thats gone. It came to cooperating with a mission of securing oil in syria grand jury excuse me, between this white house and the and he talked about the importance of that mission. Cooperating with impeachment American Intelligence Community we now, weve seen the first of investigation to material over those deployments actually move materials to a grand jury. Doth not a relationship make. The judge wouldnt have any of what worries me Going Forward is he goes deep. The enemy is still going to be from here into syria, driving there. The question is, will we . Towards the region. Thats where many of the
in many ways, many french had believed aukus to be a form of betrayal from the americans, forgetting that france is on the side of america, has been a very reliable and capable ally engaged in counterterrorist operations but also, you know, a guardian of multilateral organisations and institutions at a time when the us was led by donald trump so in this joint statement, us reaffirms its proximity with france, it brings a lot of support to french initiatives, in particular moving assets to effectively do a sort of a surge in the french and european operations in this hell but also providing a lot of support for some crucial transatlantic initiatives the sahel. in particular the strategic security and defence
explain why, in fact, we need to have a presence on the ground in afghanistan. so when you ve got three president in a row having said we have to get out even president bush was trying to find a way out. i think there s no question we have to maintain, need to maintain a presence on the ground. 3,500 forces, counterterrorist operations, counterintelligence operations. that allowed us to have the kind of assurance that the taliban would not, in fact, take over as they have done and create now a brand-new safe haven. again, it s not just the taliban. it s the haqqani network. it s al qaeda. you ve got isis. the very groups, particularly al qaeda, that attacked us 20 years ago from bases in afghanistan, now back into a position where they can do the same again. it does seem as if president biden is going to pursue a strategy counterterrorism strategy that s similar to what both the obama and the trump administration started to do late there in how we go after enclaves in syria a
they want to take the region s shouldn t have done it. craft, step back from all of his counterterrorist operations. oil. in fact, you know, they learned, the same argument applies to and yes, of course, donald they have learned from donald un-american strongman instincts afghanistan. there s still a lot of people trump. that s what you do, to political and let s just look at the who want to kill americans and trump once again reconfirming geopolitical implications of all of our enemies worst westerners in afghanistan. opponents. there s got to be some i hope that donald trump, after suspicions about the united states. nbc s courtney kube, thank you seeing that he could be facing what happened yesterday. what are your thoughts, how does capability to deal with them. this throughout his entire so much. thank you, courtney. campaign will cut it out. final point that strikes me, coming up on morning joe, will cut it out. joe, is the president on this because this is, i remember w