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
Powering smarter savings. Powering possibilities. Hi, everyone, its 4 00 in new york. Ten tuesdays, 70 days to a Flashing Red Crossroads in our shared North American future. Both president ial campaigns this afternoon on pace with whats going to be a dead sprint to election day. Vice president Kamala Harris and her running mate tim walz at this hour preparing for what will be their tickets First Campaign stop since they formally accepted their partys nomination. A Bus Tour Of Georgia starting tomorrow. Meanwhile with Donald Trumps running mate jd vance campaigning in michigan and indiana, that campaign is adding new voices. An interesting voice. Nbc news adviser confirming that both robert f. Kennedy jr. And gabby is moving with trump. Lets go to North Carolina voters in ten days. Four days after that, the first president ial debate between trump and harris, which now appears to be all systems go. At least right now, according to donald trump. Disgraced expresident a little more than a
Horrific thing that ive seen in my life. The wheel thing came down. It looks like a bomb went off but were sure a bomb didnt go off. A brief moment of hope that youre looking at from earlier this morning before the sun came up, that is rescuers pulling a young boy from the rubble alive. Hes one of two people that Authorities Say they have been able to rescue from the debris so far. Take a look at this. This is what the highrise ocean front looked like before the collapse this morning and here it is after the collapse in the aftermath, what is left of the building. Our Layla Santiago is on the scene in surfside, florida, with the latest. So youve been there since right after this happened. What are people telling you . Reporter we learned new numbers. We learned that 35 people were rescued. Two were pulled from the rubble. But when i asked the key question of how many are still missing, officials couldnt give me that answer. They are asking families and friends who have not been able to
s a member of the housermed Services Committee and the house judiciary committee. His work in congress foces on National Security Veterans Affairs and adherence to constitutional principles. Congressman gaetz discusses his look firebrand. Joining me with ideas images and stories. This is not my chronological diary can watch me on television for that. Wed like you to enjoy your Virtual Program with congressman matt gaetz and executive director john heubusch. Congressman matt gaetz welcome to the reagan library. I wish we were there and not socially distance like you are in the coast but what a terrific look. Congratulations. Thank you so much gritty was a joy writing it and particularly a joy to participate in our Politics Today whether on the political right are the political left. What we see is a lot of energy and passion and enthusiasm that i was glad to reflect to my perspective. You know congressman i think i read in the book that you love sports and you like this ball could when
Watch book tv on cspan2 this weekend. Washington journal continues. Host next we are joined by john fortier, studies director at the Bipartisan Policy Center. Here to talk to us about what to expect heading into election day, you wrote a book in 2006 promises and perils, while that is the story so far with states like texas and hawaii already surpassing their total of 2016. What you think that massive number of votes means . 2006, it maybe was not as interesting but we are talking a lot about it today. We are seeing a huge increase in voting by mail and early voting in person. 2016 we saw 41 of the population voting for election day. 17 by early in person voting. We are seeing another explosion beyond that in this election. We have already seen 92 Million People vote early this as of last night. We are going to see more before election day. Deservescdonald really credit for keeping these numbers which keep expanding. We will see on most 50 of americans voting by mail. The average for t