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
letting their voices be heard. chief patrol agents in charge of the rio grande valley and tucson sectors in extensive detail why millions have been able to cross the southern border since president biden took office and putting the blame squarely on the policies coming from the white house. sandra: will their testimony put more pressure on president biden to secure the border. that is a huge question. brandon judd is here to weigh in. that s coming up. china is the most challenging national security threat america has faced in 30 years. the prc is a learning machine. xi jinping is watching and learning. hopes for a beneficial relationship is misplaced, culminating with the spy balloon over my community. john: sounding the alarm over the growing national security threat from the chinese communist party and whether the u.s. is truly prepared for conflict with our number one foreign adversary. hello, john roberts in washington on this state of the union day. sandra, we
Sending an official instead. Sandra as relations between the u. S. And the communist nation has been rocky despite a series of visits from the Biden Administration this summer. John chinas Spying Campaign is reportedly ramping up in the United States. A new Wall Street Journal reveals more than 100 instances of chinese nationals posing as tourists to breach u. S. Military sites. The alarming report. Sandra First White House correspondent peter doocy, live in the briefing room. So, xi jinping is opting out. We are about to hear from Jake Sullivan. Set to preview the president s trip, peter . Yeah, and sandra, President Biden said over the long weekend hes disappointed xi is not going to show up at the g20. The folks you talk to around here say the president means he is disappointed. They had a nice meeting in indonesia on the sidelines of the summit there, and a couple months later there are spy craft over the u. S. And things have not been so good. And the president will see him, altho
today. we saw chief modlin touch on many different aspects of border security in the tucson sector that affects us every single day and damaging to the administration. the truth of the matter is, they don t care. they say do your darnest. they don t get to know what s going on unless watching fox news, and that s what they are betting on. sandra: we are covering it and chief chavez on the agents from the rio grande sector that, is, on the agents having to rescue so many migrants that they have to leave their posts, listen to this. many times especially during the summer months there is a lot of migrants out there out there requiring rescue. so a lot of times our agents are out there rescuing people being saturated on rescues, abandoning front line operations. cartels have taken advantage of the area. sandra: this is a serious wake-up call.
american people have decided. and we know there are sitting senators who are very much willing to do it if they can find anything they call evidence. dean ogeidallah i like to brag is also a lawyer. i love to give you your honor there. thank you. and paul butler, prosecutor, thank you both. have a great, great, wonderful weekend. up next on the reidout after suffering embarrassing military loses, russia warns of unpredictable consequences and beto o rourke joins me. my political panel joins me to end a wild week including elon musk trying his darnest to bring back trump and theest of his troll army to twitter. the reidout continues after this. twitter. the reidout continues after this do your eyes bother you? because after all these emails, my eyes feel like a combo of