Long have you been i dont know watchers dreaming August 30 exclusively on max good morning. You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im Jim Acosta washington. We begin this morning with a defiant Special Counsel in a furious former president , in a reworked January 6 indictment, federal prosecutors are making clear they are not backing down despite last month Supreme Court ruling giving for president s immunity from prosecution for official actions we will dig into the differences between this indictment and the original end moments, but the main points of the allegations remain that Donald Trump attempted to defraud the government by obstructing the certification of the 2020 election and tried to strip voters of their rights. All four of the Felony Charges remain and in true, trump fashion. He took to truth, social his social Video Network to rant calling the Indictment And Act of desperation and ridiculous and calling for the case to be immediately dismissed, joining me now, senior crime an
And the concerns that he could still play spoiler. And breaking news, the fbi holds a briefing on the gunman who shot donald trump, revealing images of the weapons discovered and new details about what he was searching for online. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. Lets start in battleground georgia, the big kickoff for Kamala Harriss statewide swing, just a couple of hours away now. Nbcs mike memoli is in savannah. What are we expecting, mike . Reporter well, chris, the Vice President now on her way here to georgia, and the goal for the harris walz ticket is to take the energy, the Excitement We Saw in the arena in chicago and bring it to the battlegrounds into southeast georgia, part of a Battleground State where we havent seen much president ial activity. The stat of the day, chris, is this, there has not been a general election president ial Campaign Event for a democratic candidate in this part of the state since the mid90s. That just tells you th
Home as covid19 cases increase across the nation. More than 13 million americans have been diagnosed at over 2,000 americans are dying every day from the virus. As states brace for an uptick in cases due to holiday gatherings the nations most populous county, los angeles county, is set to impose strict stay at home rules that will take effect tomorrow. Meanwhile, health way be on the way as the first doses of pfizers 1ir9 vaccines are headed to the u. S. From belgium, but keep in mind a vaccine isnt expected for wide distribution until later 2021. A cdc panel will meet on tuesday to decide how the initial supplies of the vaccine will be allocated. Joining me now Emergency Room Physician and california congressman and a good friend raul ruiz, cardiologist dr. Bernard ashby on the committee to protect medicare, dr. Mercedes carnethon from Northwestern University and dr. Corey hebert, former cochair of the louisiana governors covid19 Minority Task force. We should also note that dr. Heber
The violence at the capitol on january 6th, 2021 was just the most visible part of Donald Trumps attempt to hold on to power. Tonight, we talk to those who witnessed the whole plot unfurl and tried to stop it. The lines this election was stolen from you, from me, from the country. If you ask how Many Republican congressmen believe donald trump was reelected, i would say maybe a couple. But 60 of our base does. Conspiracy theories that could have been mickey mouse. This is the craziest thing ive ever seen. And people just bought it. Lawsuits. They tried to not have your votes count. They did not want your vote to count. Potentially illegal Pressure Campaigns. I just want to find 11,780 votes. What he was asking for wasnt supported by the facts. Wasnt supported by the constitution. Extraordinary scheming. Lets talk about this. Just Breath Taking that you would have laid out such a clear game plan that so clearly violated the constitution. And all too many in the Republican Party we belie
You know, tommy left us a note, and the note said, please forgive me, my illness won today. Look after each other, the animals and the global poor for me. All my love, tommy. So he didnt have anything in there about take some time off. And why usa usa . Usa why is america such an extraordinary country . We are not unified by virtue of being one ethnicity or one ideology or one religion. We are unified by one constitution and one rule of law and in the values under our constitution. [applause] it is an aspiration, its a challenge to us. The constitution shouldnt be some kind of fetish document. It should be the living commitment that we all have to make democracy work in the service of the common good. That is the constitution that comes out of the civil war and reconstruction. That is the constitution that we have been fighting for since then. And weve got to keep fighting for it. [crowd chanting] trump trump trump [applause] please raise your right hand and repeat after me, i donald j