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
Dana it doesnt. Jim desmond, County Supervisor in san diego. Thank you. Elite Israeli Forces rescued a hostage in Southern Gaza as we bring you that good news this morning. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom im dana perino. Bill is off today. Good morning to you, bret. Bret im bret baier in washington. Todays rescue is the first time in months that a hostage has been rescued alive. He was inside a gaza tunnel. More than 100 hostages are believe to remain captive. Some of them likely dead. The Daring Rescue really is something today. Dana it coincides with a new warning that irans aggression has reached an alltime high. Both sides appear to be stepping back from the brink of war for now. Reality is, bret, neither one of them really wants to fight a war against israel. They are aware israel is strong and the u. S. Is backing israel. It looked to us watching here like israel scored a significant victory over when hezbollah recently. It tells you a lot about the motivations of hezb
Ladies and gentlemen, the Vice President of the United States, mike pence [applause] v. P. Pence hello, North Carolina [applause] v. P. Pence wow. What a beautiful day. Thank you for coming out. Lieutenant governor forrest, gop chairman michael whatley, all of you who have been with us every step of the way, it is great to be back in the tar heel state. [applause] v. P. Pence we are all here for one reason and one reason only and that is that North Carolina and america need four more years of President Donald Trump in the white house. [applause] v. P. Pence it is on, North Carolina and the road to victory goes right through the tar heel state [applause] v. P. Pence we need the people of this freedomloving state to do just what you did in 2016. On november 3, we need North Carolina to show america that this is trump country. [applause] v. P. Pence it really is great to be with you all. Thank you for coming out on such a beautiful day. Give yourselves a round of applause. [applause] v. P
All candidates from all parties appear together on the same ballot in november. Again, the same rules apply. Gets 50 plus on e, it goes to a runoff. There are three democrats. Matt lieberman and a former u. S. Attorney. With those five major candidates on the ballot, it is almost impossible any of them win outright. That race is heading to a runoff. The other race is extremely tight. Know for at least a few days who won that race be margine the final matters. One is ahead we know for a fact on november 3 that that is the case, it does not matter he is ahead, we need to know if he has hit the magic number of 50 plus one. Counting every one of those votes could take a day or two. I would not be surprised if we do not have concrete results on Election Night in georgia. If that race does go to a runoff, we will have two separate races in georgia with a 2021, twofebruary of days after the United States senate comes back into session. They come back into session on january 3. There is a poss