Us into your homes. Were grateful. The beat with Ari Melber starts right now. Hi, ari. Thanks, nicolle. Welcome to The Beat. Let me tell you what we are tracking and multiple stories including this deadly horrific School Shooting in georgia. In have an update on that during tonights newscast. Theres also very serious revelations about the ongoing scandal surrounding the supreme Court And Clarence thomas and his wife. We have that. And in the middle of the program im going to share with you my report on the Maga Play Book and accountability in the age of trump. Why they want you to be retired, and you might want to resist. So all of that is coming up. I want you to know what were doing on a very serious news day. Well begin with our top story, the general election under way. Donald trump has a light schedule this week. Kamala harris has a busy one. Shes an Offense Campaigning in New Hampshire on abortion rights. You know how hard people fought for these freedoms and that they are founda
Weave. You know what the weave is? i ll talk about like nine different things and they all come back brilliantly together, and it s like, and friends of mine that are like english professors, they say, the most brilliant thing i have ever seen. But the fake news, you know what they say? he rambled inthat s not rambling. It s the weave. It s the weave. Trump rambling about how he doesn t ramble, it s the weave. Despite the clear problems with his campaign, america s oldest ever presidential candidate took labor day off to golf and chill while vice president kamala harris and her running mate had a very busy long weekend with momentum on their side. Also tonight, j. D. Vance s close ties to the manosphere and his absolute obsession with getting women out of the workplace and back into the kitchen raising the many, many babies he and trump and their project 2025 pals would force them to have. Plus, his name was wally howard jr. a murdered syracuse police officer. Strangely, one of howard
Is cnn Breaking News good morning. You are live in the cnN Newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington this morning at the white House House President Biden And Vice president Kamala Harris will hold a critical meeting with the us hostage negotiating team. And hopes of crafting a Ceasefire Deal to free the people. Hamas took captive during October 7 Terror Attack on israel, 97 hostages are still being held including seven americans of those americans four are believed to its still be alive this Weekends Discovery of six hostages killed in a Hamas Tunnel underscores the sense of Urgency Israel calls it quote Cold Blooded murder. Minutes ago, a funeral began for the young man on your far left is israeli american hersh goldberg, polin Israels President , apologized to the family in his eulogy the Human Being as a father and as a president of the state of israel, i want to say how sorry, i am sorry, i am that we didnt protect her on that dark day how sorry, i am that we failed to bring him home.
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
Is the appropriate sentence. Today former mams Police Officer zerk Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 1 2 years in prison for the Nurd R Murder Last May of george floyd. Hes been the prison since april when a jury found him guilty of several charges all for him holding his knee on George Floyds neck until mr. Floyd was deemed up conscious and he died on a minneapolis Street Corner. He was going to receive a theoretical maximum sentence but the theoretical maximum associated with any particularly crime is put up against statebased snepsing guidelines. Considering the fact that mr. Chauvin had no criminal history, the Minnesota State guidelines for a sneps in this case actually recommended a sort of presumptive sentence of about 12 1 2 years. Judges can depart from those Sentencing Guidelines and in particularly they can depart upward if there are aggravating faeblgts that make the crime worse than that source of base level offense. The judge in this case had ruled that there were four di