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
Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers. Hugh laurie. Writer and actress, rachel bloom music from lp. Featuring the 8g band with Valerie Franco and now seth meyers. Seth good evening, im seth meyers. This is late night. How is everybody doing tonight thats great to hear lets get to the news. Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger said yesterday that republican senator Lindsey Graham pressured him to find a way to toss legally cast absentee ballots to reverse President Trumps loss in the state man, just when you think Lindsey Graham couldnt sink any lower. Why would you think that according to the new york times, President Trump last week asked his senior advisers about moving ahead with a military strike in iran. And i think its a bad sign that im just relieved he didnt ask about michigan maybe just the upper part the upper finger im pretty sure its called the finger. President elect joe biden has reportedly told advisers privately that he doesnt want to spend his entir
Back to normal until 2022. So hang on to your hydroxy if you still have the. [ laughter ] remember when we were kids and we all thought wed have flying cars by 2022 . Now its like, maybe in the future well be able to go to a movie without killing our grandma. [ laughter ] cases are going up and up about. I think they had the thirdhighest report of infections so far today. Much of that is attributed to what they call pandemic fatigue. People are sick of being careful, so they relax, they start doing risky things. Which i get it. But thats not the way it works. You cant just stop because its annoying. Its a virus, not glee. [ laughter ] you know . Heres a map that might be of interest to you if youre curious as to whether this masking and lockdown works. You see all the red . Thats the United States. Those of the covid outbreaks here. Up above that, that is canada. Doesnt look too bad up there, does it . Even adjusted for population, theyve had onefifth as many infections as we have, but
She is, the breakout star so far of week one of the Biden Administration. And its not unusual because the Press Secretary is the one whos out there in front of the camera more than anyone other than the president. So, she has instantly taken command of that room, and it has been, as you said, you know, a kind of shocking gear change for us and welcomed gear change for us to deal with. And i love the way you two talked about whats happening and whats going to happen. Well, i mean, shes setting the tone for the administration. We have actually heard a lot from the new president in the past eight days. He has spoken publicly a lot. But we are hearing even more from jen psaki in the briefing room, and shes setting this tone of normalcy, accountability, Expository Work that tells us what the administration thinks the problem is, what they are doing to work on it, who is in charge of that work. And that person will be answering questions about it, as will jen psaki on behalf of the entire ad
Us to deal with. And i love the way you two talked about whats happening and whats going to happen. Well, i mean, shes setting the tone for the administration. We have actually heard a lot from the new president in the past eight days. He has spoken publicly a lot. But we are hearing even more from jen psaki in the briefing room, and shes setting this tone of normalcy, accountability, Expository Work that tells us what the administration thinks the problem is, what they are doing to work on it, who is in charge of that work. And that person will be answering questions about it, as will jen psaki on behalf of the entire administration. Its just basic accountability, which is basic small deed democracy, which is just something we were used to before. We lost it for four years, and now it just feels so radical to get back to it. I hope it never i hope we never take it for granted again. I think we have, for this year, a series of rachel and jen conversations coming up at 9 00 p. M. Interm