As well it should be, my friend. Enjoy the show, i will be watching. The stock market closed at a new record high today. Yet another stock market time during the biden presidency, which has been full of stockmarket highs. The stock market is happy in the afterglow of Kamala Harris is Democratic Convention and her rising in the polls indicating donald trump will not be allowed to ruin the economy with the stupidest terrorist proposals in history. Instead of being president trumps next year, the stock market seems to believe he will just be Defendant Trump Next year. Donald trump spent the day ranting on social medium about a new Superseding Indictment voted on by a new grand jury in washington, d. C. The new indictment in the case of the United States of america versus donald j trump, defendant, replaces a previous indictment with the same title and the same list of four crimes, Conspiracy To Defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and co
Filing a revised indictment against the former president. Well have expert legal analysis on this new development in just a moment. Meanwhile, donald trump says he will debate Vice President Kamala Harris in two weeks, but the Harris Campaign now says one major issue still needs to be resolved. And we have more details unt the operation that rescued an israeli man who was held hostage by hamas for more than 300 days. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, august 28th. Im ali vitali, in for jhonattan lemere. Former President Donald Trump is blasting an indictment against him as a shocking and direct assault on democracy, in his words. Trump fired off that response on social media late yesterday just hours after he was indicted once again over his efforts to overturn his 2020 president ial election. That, of course, being the election he lost. The effort culminated in the january 6th, 2021 attack on it u. S. Capitol. Yesterday Special Counsel jack smith filed a supe
11 00 a. M. Eastern. We begin way Major Development and former president Donald Trumps legal battles. Special counsel jack smith filing a superseing indictment over its efforts to overturn the 2020 election. This comes nearly two months after the original case was derailed over a Landmark Supreme Court decision president s have broad immunity for official acts. The updated indictment, contains the original four charges trump pleaded not guilty to but some charges revised. Special counsel saying, the Superseding Indictment reflects the governments efforts to respect and implement the Supreme Courts holdings and remand instructions. Joining us now katie phang, msnbc legal contributor and paul butler former Federal Proecutor and msnbc legal analyst and msnbcs garrett haake. Walk us try the new versus the old one . Yes. Jose, start with the stuff that hasnt changed. Its the same four charges that were in the original indictment from last year. Its the same defendant. Donald trump. Theres n
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
We are going to walk down to the capital. Donald trump indicted all over again. This time for the same crime, using the same charges. Conspiring to defraud the united states. Conspiring to disenfranchise voters. And conspiring and attempting to obstruct an official proceeding. Tonight, what special counsel jack smith presented to a new grand jury and what it means for the prosecution of donald trump. I did everything right and they indicted me. Plus, with a fresh indictment for the republican nominee, the harrison the harris campaign has figured out how to run against trump. We will wait. And in georgia and beyond, what we are learning about attempts to subvert the election this time around, when all in starts now. Good evening. From miami i am katie phang, in for chris hayes. We are now just 70 days out from election day. 10 days away from mailin ballots being sent out in some states and the republican nominee for president was just indicted all over again for trying to steal the last