As this week. Our Latest Reporting is ahead. New polls show a changed president ial race, especially on some critical issues as Vice President Kamala Harris campaigns with President Biden in pennsylvania. Donald trump is facing new scrutiny for his comments to Fox News that he had, quote, every right to interfere with the 2020 election. Today, a new russian Missile Strike in ukraine hits a Military Academy near a hospital. Dozens are dead. Nbc news speaks with President Zelenskyy about what comes next. Good day. Im Peter Alexander in washington in for my colleague Andrea Mitchell. We hope you had a good Labor Day weekend. Today Benjamin Netanyahu is defiant, vowing revenge after six hostages executed by hamas days ago were found in Southern Gaza over the weekend by israeli forces. The discovery and the heartbreak sparked some of the biggest protests since the start of the war. The largest union joining the protests along with demands for a Ceasefire And Hostage deal. Among the six murd
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
Weekend and its the worst of all networks. When i look adat the hostility of that, i said lets do it with another network. I want to do it, so were thinking about it. They also want to change the rules. The deal is we keep the same rules and they want to change the rules because she cant answer questions. As donald trump casting doubt about whether hell participate in the president ial debate scheduled from two weeks from today, well have the latest on the rift over the rules from the two campaigns. Also ahead, an update on the classified documents case against former President Trump as jack smith works to reverse judge Aileen Cannons dismissal. And well go through the growing list of republicans who are now supporting Vice President Harris Campaign. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, august 27th. Im ali vitali in for jonathan lemire. We begin with the fight between the harris and Trump Campaigns over the rules for the president ial debate. The main issue is whe
Thats to be expected. The alternative, however, is simply untenable. At home, another four years of Donald Trumps chaotic leadership, this time focused on advancing the dangerous goals of project 2025 will hurt real, everyday people and waken our sacred institutions. Richard, which are the reasons who have not stood up yet, who served in the Trump Administration, who could actually make a difference in terms of persuading those very few, unpersuadable voters who are left . And do you expect any more of them to stand up between now and november . I mean, theres the former Vice President who has, shall we say, a certain physical and political incentive to stand up, given how he was do you think hes going to do it . No. Look, i think if people were going to stand up, theyve had now, shall we say, several years to do it. Several people simply have not. Disagree with me or not, but how much of a difference will it make . Its certainly not going to shake trumps base. Im not sure many of thes
Second, but he was in a thing called the civil war. You can understand that. Andrew jackson was really, really treated badly. In fact, his wife died during the process. A lot of people said she died because of the way they were treated. I mean, she was heartbroken and broken in so many other ways. I heard that for years. And i look now, even last night i was saying it. I said, Andrew Jackson or anybody else, when you think of the fake things, nobody has been treated like trump in terms of badly. No, thats true. Thats true. Thats definitely true. There is some truth to that, willie geist. Its hard for me not to also look at the person asking the questions. I mean, are you kidding me . These networks floating trumps lies. Im not going to make fun of it or anything, but it is creating a whole level of lies that people are swallowing whole because they think thats news. They think those are facts. Thats the part thats sad. I mean, its pathetic that donald trump parallels himself to Abraham