Let s get some of the conversations you might have missed. Some new polling to begin this hour. Vice president, kamala harris, and former president, donald trump, are essentially tied in every sunbelt swing state. According to be a latest, fox news polling, harris leads trump by registered voters in arizona and two points in both georgia and nevada. Trump, meanwhile, leads by a single point in north carolina. All of those results, we should make clear, are within the margin of error. But there are some trendlines here. In previous fox polls conducted before president, joe biden, exited the race, trump led by five points in arizona and nevada and north carolina and by six in georgia. So, charlie, we apply all of the usual caveats, pools are just a snapshot in time, we are two months before the election, but the trendlines do matter. And the path to 270 electoral votes matter and this polling suggests that, with the sunbelt back and play, harris has got options? yeah. I mean, obviously t
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
Belong in the History Books is cnn Breaking News . Good morning you are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. We begin this hour with Breaking News out of the middle east israels military says it has rescued a hostage held in gaza since the hamas Terror Attacks on october 7 of last year, this man, a father of 11, had spent the last 326 days because as Prisoner Areas in the hospital, a short time ago, reuniting with his brother cnns Jeremy Diamond is following this Breaking News for us. Hes live in tel aviv. Jeremy what can you tell us whats the latest . Its a remarkable story and the details just coming in without a doubt, jim, and were only just starting to get some of the details, but they are indeed remarkable. The Israeli Military, its Special Forces carrying out an operation in southern gaza, rescuing this man caught eid farhan alqadri, a 52yearold father of 11, from a tunnel in some other gaza. This is the first time that the Israeli Military has successfully res
Smarter, which won by morning. Got it. Got abbas, daughter, youve got this is cnn Breaking News youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. We do begin this hour with Breaking News out of the middle east. Israels military says it has rescued a hostage from a hamas tunnel in southern gaza. He had been held captive since the Terror Attacks of october 7. The father of 11, and spent the last 320 six days as a prisoner there he is in the hospital right there a short time ago reuniting with his brother, cnns jim sciutto joins us now from tel aviv jim, the details of been trickling in whats the latest that youve learned . Well, first of all, certainly youre happy fomin moment for, for him and for his family after these painful days, weeks, and months captivity. But this has also been quite a rarity for the idf of the close to 250 hostages taken on october 7, only aides have been freed alive via Military Operations. And this is the first one based on the details provided to us
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