Filing a revised indictment against the former president. Well have expert legal analysis on this new development in just a moment. Meanwhile, donald trump says he will debate Vice President Kamala Harris in two weeks, but the Harris Campaign now says one major issue still needs to be resolved. And we have more details unt the operation that rescued an israeli man who was held hostage by hamas for more than 300 days. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, august 28th. Im ali vitali, in for jhonattan lemere. Former President Donald Trump is blasting an indictment against him as a shocking and direct assault on democracy, in his words. Trump fired off that response on social media late yesterday just hours after he was indicted once again over his efforts to overturn his 2020 president ial election. That, of course, being the election he lost. The effort culminated in the january 6th, 2021 attack on it u. S. Capitol. Yesterday Special Counsel jack smith filed a supe
Forward to that coverage tonight. Weve got a big show. But where we start tonight is a story in todays news that just starts one way and then at the very end it veers off in an unexpected direction. This is like youre going along a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h i, j, k, 47. 47 . 47 comes next . Not the letter l . See if you can see where the unexpected veer, the unexpected plot twist comes. Heres how the story is headlined in the detroit free press. Michigan republicans michigan republicanled investigation rejects trumps claim that November 3rd Election was stolen. Heres the Associated Press headline, Senate Republican probe, no systemic fraud in michigan e ex will. Heres the New York Times headline, michigan republicans debunk voter fraud claims in unsparing report. And unsparing is right. And the lead in the times piece sums up why thats the right word here. A Committee Led by michigan republicans on wednesday published an extraordinary debunking of voter fraud claims in the state delivering
Why President Biden is in a unique position to do something about it. Were not going to change the constitution. Were enforcing it. And former dnc chair tom perez on the state of the dems and his big announcement on running for office. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Ever since human beings started congregating in institutions of what we call higher learning, colleges, universities, eve monasteries, conservatives traditionalists have been freaked out by just what dangerous ideas are being shared there. I mean, really, the whole dangerous ideas are coming out of universities is literally as old as universities themselves. It has been a core reactionary concern for millennia. Just like everything else, this old thing is new again. Which brings us to the most recent republican freakout in florida, which as you may have heard, has a governor there, ron desantis, calling the creepy Thought Police to campus. He just signed a bill that will, and ill quote
Why President Biden is in a unique position to do something about it. Were not going to change the constitution. Were enforcing it. And former dnc chair tom perez on the state of the dems and his big announcement on running for office. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Ever since human beings started congregating in institutions of what we call higher learning, colleges, universities, eve monasteries, conservatives traditionalists have been freaked out by just what dangerous ideas are being shared there. I mean, really, the whole dangerous ideas are coming out of universities is literally as old as universities themselves. It has been a core reactionary concern for millennia. Just like everything else, this old thing is new again. Which brings us to the most recent republican freakout in florida, which as you may have heard, has a governor there, ron desantis, calling the creepy Thought Police to campus. He just signed a bill that will, and ill quote
Why President Biden is in a unique position to do something about it. Were not going to change the constitution. Were enforcing it. And former dnc chair tom perez on the state of the dems and his big announcement on running for office. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Ever since human beings started congregating in institutions of what we call higher learning, colleges, universities, eve monasteries, conservatives traditionalists have been freaked out by just what dangerous ideas are being shared there. I mean, really, the whole dangerous ideas are coming out of universities is literally as old as universities themselves. It has been a core reactionary concern for millennia. Just like everything else, this old thing is new again. Which brings us to the most recent republican freakout in florida, which as you may have heard, has a governor there, ron desantis, calling the creepy Thought Police to campus. He just signed a bill that will, and ill quote