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
the league and political battles over abortion. one of the nation s pose conservative courts weighing it as state legislatures in north and south carolina take new action to ban the procedure. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to cnn s exclusive reporting on new evidence in the trump classified documents investigation. cnn special correspondent jamie gangel broke the story for us, jamie, tell us what you re learning. reporter: wolf, cnn has obtained this letter from the national archives to president trump informing him that the archives is getting ready to hand over 16 new presidential records to special council. thises is far as we know we have not seen the records yet but the evidence . it suggests that trump had first-hand knowledge that you just do not declassify material with a wave of a hand. there is a rigorous process. as we have heard multiple times, trump an
now, people are using the clock to speed up other things. look at this interview from the president. is your age into your own calculation as to whether to run again? first of all, look, first of all, to look, they the no but yes. there you go. it worked. jimmy fallon having some fun with baseball s new rule. we have a lot to get to this morning. a major conservative conference is going to be missing some star power. we ll go through the big names in the gop who are skipping cpac. we ll tell you which event many of them are attending instead. meanwhile, ron desantis takes control of a key figure in his so-called war on woke. we ll explain what is happening in florida. and we ll have the latest bombshells to come out of court documents in a lawsuit against fox news, including rupert murdoch s testimony on false claims about election fraud. also ahead, we will be joined by education secretary miguel cardona, as president joe biden s plan to cancel student
if you re watching morning joe weekend. and if you can t get enough of us on monday through friday. which is kind of surprising we talk a lot. no surprise it was another really busy week with trump s legal woe deepening, and desantis making headlines for all the wron reasons. let s take a look at some of our top stories this week! michael cohen, the one tim attorney and fixer for donal trump, wrapped up his testimon before a grand jury convened before the math and district office in the investigation of trump. and hush money paid to adult film actress, story daniels. cohen spent about two hour yesterday, testifying before the grand jury, in the first appearance on monday when he testified for abou three hours. and the woman of the center of the hush money payments has no spoken with prosecutors in the case as well stormy daniels attorney said that he and daniels both met with prosecutors, via zoom yesterday. calling the conversation substantive, and a goo meeting. the att
it s big men good if it goes. fuhrman has won. one-possession game arizona needs three to send this thing to overtime. get a quick two if you can. 15 seconds left that s not it. air ball. that s not it. trying to keep it alive shot is no good. arizona with a shot that will not go the tigers of princeton growl their way into round two how many of you had number 15 princeton over second seeded arizona? number 13 fuhrman knocking off uva? jonathan lemire, unfortunately for me, i had the whole thing, the final four wrapping up with uca beating arizona. how am i doing how am i doing do i have a chance actually, i talked to some people that had uva and arizona in the final four. ouch, that hurts that bracket is officially busted, anyone who had that. president biden picked arizona to win the whole thing they were a popular choice this is why march madness is so great, joe you know, college basketball, maybe during the regular season matters less on the sporting