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
Lines of russia s war against the now they re president harris and tim waltz agree to their first formal interview as presidential ticket and it s happening here on cnn, the latest on how it came to be but it will look like and the stakes involved also tying jack smith s surprise, new indictment of the former president and how he slimmed down the election interference case to a standing supreme court scrutiny. And what it means for when the trial might happen and later, his brother says, god wrote him another life and israeli father of 11 rescued from a tunnel and we re reunited with his family after more than 300 days held captive in gaza. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin with vice president harris meeting a deadline. She said 2. 5 weeks ago i ve talked to my team, i want us to get an interview scheduled before the end of the month in the 19 days since she said that she s talked in formally and briefly with reporters, but not done a formal sit down interview despite calls
Interference case, special harris is actively behind it and he goes on to accuse her of weaponizing the system against our political opponent, which she is not so pam, a lot of what s in the new indictment is actually the same as what s in the first indictment. However, the new indictment we call it a superseding indictment make some crucial changes. So first of all, here s what s been removed from the first indictment. First of all, any allegation relating to donald trump s efforts to pressure the justice department is central theme of the first indictment was that trump leaned on doj try to get them to substantiate his false claims of voter fraud. That is out now, second of all, some other trump communications with white house advisors, the supreme court had said, those are probably immune. Jack smith has now removed many of them from the case. And third, i found this really interesting. The first indictment refers to donald trump is the 45th president of the united states the new in
Until election day. I have read it to you do not have to. It has plans for every aspect of the federal government, mostly shrinking it except where it allows the government to control the lives of the citizens. And then there s this other part about cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthiest. Today center for american progress released an analysis of what project 2025 tax plan would actually look like for america s bank accounts it trump enacted it. Top lines are amazing. According to them, the tax plan would cut taxes for households making more than $10 million a year. By an average of $2. 4 million a year. That s great news for the hyper wealthy. What about the rest of america? this is a visualization of the added tax burden for a middle class a married couple with two children under plan. Families by that description that make $35,000 a year and $170,000 a year would all see taxes go up. For example a married couple making $80,000 a year would see nearly $2000 more in federal
Starts all right. Tonight, check your mute or dont. What the rigamarole of the debate is revealing about both candidates. Also tonight, jack smith throws a punch in one trump case, might be pulling another in a different case. Ill explain in a moment and voter fraud, Election Rapes the group who says its happening to them in texas. Tonight on Laura Coates Live so if anyone tells you that baseballs americas favorite past time, dont believe him to paraphrase dead pool. Yeah, of course. Have the movie. Theyre not lying. There making an educated wish. Turns out arguing actually is the real favorite for americans, you know, who is in full uniform team harris and team trump. They are arguing about the specifics of how theyre going to argue. I mean, how are you going to debate that sounds much more professional and designate how theyre going to debate and get this. They are debating about a microphone. Tap, tap specifically, whether to mute them when theyre not speaking we agreed to the same