Releases new details and new evidence about the Assassination Attempt on donald trump. The motive still a mystery after investigators conducted nearly 1,000 interviews. So why did they gun manchus that rally in pennsylvania . And was he acting alone . We have not uncovered any credible evidence indicating the subject conspired with anyone else. Norah the Cbs Evening News starts now. Good evening. Im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. Tonight, the fbi is releasing new images and information from that attempted assassination of donald trump. Its been more than a month and a half since that shooting, and there are still lingering questions. Did the shooter act alone . What was the motive . What did the search of his online activities reveal . Well, federal investigators were able to debunk several Conspiracy Theory to baserunning the Butler Shooting after conducting interviews, Reviewing Hundreds of hours of video, and diving deep into the gunmen social and media encrypted a
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
Now, ahead. Vice president harris heads to the sun belt ready to fire up voters in Battleground Georgia as a state gop official says the race is tighter because of her. And israel sends tanks and troops into the west bank adding even more anger and instability in the region. Good to be with you. Im katy tur in for andrea mitchell. Jack smith has filed a new Superseding Indictment against donald trump for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election. While he doesnt add new charges, jack smith recasts his case as a prosecution of a Candidate Running for office, trying to work around the Supreme Court decision that gives president s broad immunity for, quote, official acts while in office. Gone are the conversations donald trump had with the doj. Gone is the primary reference to him as the 45th president. Instead, hes mainly described as a candidate and changed is coconspirators like Rudy Giuliani are described, they are, quote, private attorneys. Will that be enough . We have analysis
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
Interference case, special harris is actively behind it and he goes on to accuse her of weaponizing the system against our political opponent, which she is not so pam, a lot of what s in the new indictment is actually the same as what s in the first indictment. However, the new indictment we call it a superseding indictment make some crucial changes. So first of all, here s what s been removed from the first indictment. First of all, any allegation relating to donald trump s efforts to pressure the justice department is central theme of the first indictment was that trump leaned on doj try to get them to substantiate his false claims of voter fraud. That is out now, second of all, some other trump communications with white house advisors, the supreme court had said, those are probably immune. Jack smith has now removed many of them from the case. And third, i found this really interesting. The first indictment refers to donald trump is the 45th president of the united states the new in