Hello, thanks for joining me. I m alex marquardt part in this weekend for fredricka whitfield, we begin with breaking news. President biden has been briefed on the raid which injured seven u. S. Troops and killed 15 members of the radical group isis. The raid happened thursday in iraq two of the seven u. S. Troops were evacuated from the area for further treatment, u. S. Central command manages operations in the middle east. They said that the operation targeted i. S. I. S. Leaders in order to disrupt the group s ability to plan further attacks from where we have cnn s chief international purity correspondent, nick paton walsh, joining us from london. Nick, what do we know about this american operation yeah, alex more details from the iraqi military he referred to the two months that was spent gathering intelligence ahead of this operation. And the four hideouts were targeted that appeared to be consumed camouflage of some description which would suggest yes a sort of camp of some desc
Hi, everybody. Its 4 00 in washington. Im jen psaki in today for nicolle wallace. You can ask someone to find 11,000 votes in georgia, we know someone who did, or you can go out and earn them. Thats how it should be done. Stump for them, shake hands, kiss a lot of babies for them. Show up places where people might be priced to see you because their community is very much in favor of your opponent. Youre wondering why youre there. Even in the course of an election both candidates insist is the most important of our lifetimes, theres nothing quite like a good oldfashioned barnstorming. With that plane door opening in savannah moments ago, right there, Vice President harris, back on the trail in a freshly painted bus. Maybe well get to see inside the bus. Well see over the next two hours. We should expect to see more of them well bring that to you as it comes as well. Their mission over the next day and a half in georgia is to boldly go where so few democrats, at least ones running for pr
Weekend and its the worst of all networks. When i look adat the hostility of that, i said lets do it with another network. I want to do it, so were thinking about it. They also want to change the rules. The deal is we keep the same rules and they want to change the rules because she cant answer questions. As donald trump casting doubt about whether hell participate in the president ial debate scheduled from two weeks from today, well have the latest on the rift over the rules from the two campaigns. Also ahead, an update on the classified documents case against former President Trump as jack smith works to reverse judge Aileen Cannons dismissal. And well go through the growing list of republicans who are now supporting Vice President Harris Campaign. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, august 27th. Im ali vitali in for jonathan lemire. We begin with the fight between the harris and Trump Campaigns over the rules for the president ial debate. The main issue is whe
Ticket because, quote, the alternative is simply untenable. And remember the american soldier who dashed over the dmz into north korea . What we are learning about a plea deal for travis king, and history will have to wait at least one more day. The setback for spacex ahead of a launch that would send astronauts on the farthest mission from earth in five decades. We are live on floridas space coast with an update. Msnbc reporters have the latest development. We start with the fight over georgias election rules. Msnbc correspondent lisa rubin is with me. Lisa, explain what this is all about and how it could complicate things in november. Chris, this is a lawsuit against the Georgia State Election Board. Its a fivemember board that makes rules essentially for the conduct and administration of elections in georgia. The suit is over two rules in particular that affect novembers elections, both of which allow for local county election Board Members to do a reasonable inquiry on one hand or
To sit down with the journalist to face tough questions. The latest from the Campaign Trail in just a moment. Plus jack smith files an appeal asking the 11th Circuit Court of appeals to reinstate the Trump Classified Documents Case. And the chair of the Georgia Democratic party joins me about their challenge about new rules to the Election Board and how those changes could impact vote this is november. Good to be with you. Im katy tur there for Andrea Mitchell. With the election just 70 days away, donald trump and j. D. Vance are picking up pace. Visiting michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania and as Kamala Harris heads to georgia with her running mate tim walz. Harris is out with two now ads on the economy, trying to eat into Donald Trumps polling lead. Where she admits the Cost Of Living is too high. And touts her plans to make things cheaper. Shes also trying to tackle another issue trump holds better on, that is immigration. But did texas just make that harder . As a judge there temp