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
News source present debate for the state the u. S. Senate candidate perjury or moderators glory fountain and mike ross. Semacodes near point thank you for joining us for debate for the state. Recovering to you live from Alaska Public Media. Im gonsolin. And im Laurie Townsend and we will pose a series of questions to the two major candidates for u. S. Senate. Republican senator dan sullivan and democratic nominee independent doctors al gross who is in the studio and senator sullivan is joining us from away from washington d. C. Welcome to both of r you. As you might have noticed we are having some technical complications with this setup so if you hear a screech every once in a while gross has an earpiece so he can hear what mr. Sullivan has to say. You will notice we are all distanceez in the studio because of the pandemic. We are taking precautions and we feature video questions from rural alaska and one young alaskan. Tune in to Facebook Live immediately after this program for debate
Being treated earth kind was sent to san quentin back in 2004 for the murder of 2 boys alvarez was placed there in 1989 for murder vehicle theft Forcible Rape and robbery right now there are more than 700 people on californias death row. And napa county officials establish what theyre calling it Compliance Task force to respond to complaints about people who are not cooperating. But Public Health orders kron ons gayle ong explains. Napa county officials saw a jump in covid19 cases after memorial day and fathers day and they are not taking any chances over the july 4th weekend its people visiting from other cities and now that everything is opening up. We have more torres. He just never now while many napa county residents share the same concern about tourists and the spread of covid19 Public Health officer doctor karen drew says otherwise you know we havent seen cases that said i want a winery i went to a particular restaurant and this is how i got it in the zoo meeting thursday county
Vote the presiding officer on this vote, the yeas are 49, the nays are 44. Twothirds of the senators voting a quorum being present, not having voted in the affirmative, the joint resolution on reconsideration fails to pass over the veto of the president of the United States. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President. The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i move to executive session to consider calendar number 547. The presiding officer the question is on the motion. All in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes appear to have it. T ayes do have it. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the nomination. The clerk nomination, department of housing and urban development, brian d. Montgomery of texas to be deputy. Mr. Mcconnell i send a cloture motion to the desk. The presiding officer the clerk will report the motion. The clerk cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to
Ycontinue the path to recovery. For these reasons mr. President i object. Mr. President is we all know its been an extra ordinary extraordinarily challenging time for our great nation, time that its been painful for so many of our fellow americans but its also been a time where people across the country have given so much to their communities, to their states, to their neighbors and issue no mr. President we are great nation. We are a kind nation. We are a proud nation and we are a resilient nation. This pandemic has been testing the character of our country and i believe that we are passing the test as americans. I believe that because i see it everywhere. I certainly see it in my state, the great state of alaska with people passing out food and doing what they can for the elderly tending to those in need. We are seeing this all across our nation if we see millions of our fellow citizens, people that we all have the privilege of representing here in the United States senate stepping u