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
And the concerns that he could still play spoiler. And breaking news, the fbi holds a briefing on the gunman who shot donald trump, revealing images of the weapons discovered and new details about what he was searching for online. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. Lets start in battleground georgia, the big kickoff for Kamala Harriss statewide swing, just a couple of hours away now. Nbcs mike memoli is in savannah. What are we expecting, mike . Reporter well, chris, the Vice President now on her way here to georgia, and the goal for the harris walz ticket is to take the energy, the Excitement We Saw in the arena in chicago and bring it to the battlegrounds into southeast georgia, part of a Battleground State where we havent seen much president ial activity. The stat of the day, chris, is this, there has not been a general election president ial Campaign Event for a democratic candidate in this part of the state since the mid90s. That just tells you th
Implications for russia and the world. Thanks so much. I appreciate your time and asia and thanks for joining us. The source starts now straight from the source and we have some new reporting coming in, all the debates over the debate as harris and Trump Campaigns theyre trading to me and over mics and new buttons. Trump threatens to pull the plug. Scheduled clash could be on the brink of collapse tonight jack smith versus judge aileen kiana and the Special Counsels major move tonight against the Trump Appointee who threw out the classified documents case. What they are staring down tonight at maralago. Ill speak to trump trumps former attorney and its never been done before for private citizens getting ready to blast off into space. A History Making Mission this week, while two nasa astronauts stuck in space, you imagine the morning, they wont hitch a ride home until next year. Im pamela brown in for Kaitlan Collins and this is the source did i do more drama over the upcoming debate .
Nearly one year ago. We are just learning he has been rescued by the Israeli Military new this morning, donald trump using the word if about this debate, which is supposed to happen in just two weeks, will this debate actually happened in a 24 hour delay of what was supposed to be the first spacewalk carried out by a Civilian Crew . Kate is out today on john berman with sara sidner and this is cnn new central we are following the Breaking News for you this morning, Israeli Forces announcing they have rescued a horse hostage from gaza, who had been abducted when hamas attacked israel on october 7. Lets get right to cnns jim sciutto. It is almost been a year since this Hostage Situation has happened. What are you learning this morning . Sara . Some rare good news in this conflict, some rare good news for those Hostage Families that have suffered so much as we approach the oneyear anniversary of the Tobar Seventh terror attacks, this is what we know that a hostage was rescued in a operati
Along with the judge jeanine pirro, harold ford harold fordo, junior and greg gutfeld pick it is 5 00 in New York City and this is the five. [ ] the debate over the debate isme somehow it is a back, the trump and Harris Campaigns clashing over their showdown on abc including whether the microphones will be muted. Kamala harris wants them hot, with trump hopefully losing his cool on the microphone. Trump steam wants to keep them muted as it was for biden. Kamala harris Attacking Trump for wanting to stick to the rules after her campaign bashed him as a coward but wanting those same rules to change it back when trump ordered a new Debate Schedule after bidenfo dropped out. Earlier the former president sayingrmnt thats fine, watch this. Mr. Trump you want to change the rules because she cant answer questions. S we agreed to the same rules, i dont know, would rather have ie on probably blood agreed it would be the same as it was last time. T in thahat case it was muted. I did not like at t