Coverage right now. Good morning, 11 00 a. M. Eastern. 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Jose Diazbalart. And we begin on the Breaking News on the legal drama surrounding former president Donald Trump. A judge is holding an election in trumps federal election hearing case. The first hearing in nearly a year. Trump is not at or attending Todays Hearing. His lawyers entered a not guilty plea on his behalf to a revised version of the indictment filed last week. Now Todays Hearing comes just over two months after the supreme Courts Landmark ruling that former president s have broad immunity for prosecution for official acts. Judge chutkan is expected to lay out a schedule for how the proceedings will take shape over the next couple of months. With us now, nbc News Justice and Intelligence Correspondent ken dilanian, Katie Fein, the Katie Fein show. And maya wiley, former assistant district attorney. Ken, what has been happening in that courtroom over to . Reporter well, jose, first, ill tell you abou
We begin with Breaking News. The biden administration taking a series of actions to target what they allege are attempts by russianbacked actors to manipulate Public Opinion here in the u. S. Ahead of the president ial election. According to two senior u. S. Joining officials. Joining us now is nbcs ken ken, dilanian. Ken, what more have we learned . Jose this is being described by our sources as a whole of Government Action designed to target russian Propaganda And Disinformation aimed at interfering in the 2024 it election. It is said to include sanctions by the treasury department, Law Enforcement Action by the Justice Department, and one of the focuses on rt, formerly known as russia today, that network of russian government funded English Language websites and Television Platforms that was flagged all The Way back in 2017 by the u. S. Intelligence community as a vehicle for russian Disinformation And Election interference. At that time, the Justice Department required rt to regist
Im Peter Alexander here in for Andrea Mitchell. We are following that Breaking News from georgia where we are monitoring an incident. Its 40 miles outside of atlanta. As you just heard, the Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is directing all available resources to that Schools Campus right now. You can see the pictures we are getting. The Chopper View from above. A lot of Police Presence and other Emergency Vehicles on scene right now. We want to get to nbc News Correspondent Anne Thompson joining us alongside Jim Kavanaugh and former Fbi Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi right now. Anne, acknowledging we are learning little bits of information, trying to get a better understanding, whats the best information you have been able to gather at this point . Reporter right now, we know that the High School has about 1,900 students. They are from grades 9 through 12. We have seen many of them come out of that building, the building is said to be on a hard lockdown. The governor put out this statem
Dissuade Vladimir Putin . I think this is a good sign, a Shot Across The Bow to remind americans of this kind of behavior. We talked a lot about it in 2016. We should have talked more about it in 2020, by the way. They did various activities then. I applaud what the biden administration is doing right now to remind everybody that this is happening. They obviously have very good technology to uncover what has happened. Thats a good reminder to the russians, and i think the very fact that theyre doing this is a gentle reminder to all americans to be careful about what theyre reading when the source comes from russia. And i want to remind everybody, you can go on x right now and find rt, the very people that are being indicted right now. They are freely tweeting. They are freely propagating their disinformation on the united states. That is good reminder, i think, to americans of who these actors actually are working for. Theyre working for Vladimir Putin. They are not independent news ag
President trump is just one week away. Apparently in her Debate Prep, harris is focusing on ways to rattle trump. Yep, she wants to rattle trump. Right now shes deciing whether to wear a jacket that says irs or fbi. Good Morning Welcome to Morning Joe its wednesday, september 4th, along with joe, willie, and me. Is It September already . What . It is. Its school time, its falls coming, summers over. Nothing to weep about. Just an election straight ahead. Yikes. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of Way Too Early, Jonathan Lemire. Chief white House Correspondent for the New York times, peter baker, and New York times Opinion Columnist, David French joins us this morning. Good to have you all with us. Great to have everybody with us. Jonathan lemire, Mike Barnicle and i will certainly tell you that summer is likely over and as barnacle would say, time to put the shutters on the windows, the seasons over. The Red Sox desperately i mean, the royals who keep losing and the twi