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
volunteering information so we can understand what in the world happened down in that white house. so why do you think, nick, he s not? the idea he could have such access and give firsthand accounts of trump s efforts to seize the power of the doj as we heard from one hearing to corrupt it. the idea of the scheme to try to oust the acting attorney general but i suspect to the extent that cipollone is trying to carve out certain areas he doesn t have to talk about, i m assuming privilege will be a part of this and obviously, he can bend the ear of the president. will that be enough you think to overcome the obligation john is speaking about and is it valid? not at all. i mean, look, there is no attorney client privilege for starters. the white house counsel does not represent the president of the united states personally. he s not his personal lawyer. so there is no personal attorney client privilege. the only question is whether or not there is any valid executive privile
republican congresswoman liz cheney lost her house seat in a huge defeat. the three-term congresswoman and the gop s most forceful critic down more than 37% this morning to trump endorsed candidate herriot hagueman. cheney had been sidelined by her party is hinting at a presidential run. are you thinking about running for president? that s a decision that i m going to make in the coming months, savannah, i m not going to make any announcements here this morning but it s something i m thinking about and will make a decision in the coming months. cnn chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny is in jackson, wyoming. a large margin, wider than some expected losing to harriet hagueman, what are voters telling you there this morning? it s one more data point former president donald trump is in control of this republican party and republican voters respond to his endorsements. in a state like this, there is no doubt that liz cheney trying to turn the page, she has fou
gigot. joe biden and donald trump squared off thursday night in atlanta in a high stakes debate with both candidates hoping that the showdown would reshape the political narrative and per if suede undecided voters as polls show them in a tight race for the white house. president biden attacked donald trump s character in the wake of his felony conviction in new york and tried to link him to the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. but the 81-year-old s own performance exacerbated concerns about his age and ability to serve a second term as he stumbled through his responses and often appeared confused. making sure that we continue to strengthen our health care system, making sure that we re able to make every single solitary person eligible for what i ve been able to do with the, with the covid excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with look, if we finally beat medicare well, he s right, he did beat medicare. he beat it to death. paul: let s bring