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
Weve got a great speech for our second session this morning. Dr. Timothy smith is a veteran of the National Parks service and currently teaches history at the university of tennessee. In addition to numerous articles and essays, he is the coeditor of 18 books, including Champion Hill, decisive battle of vicksburg, which won the Nonfiction Book award from the mississippi arts and letters. You can buy a copy in our bookstore. I am pleased to introduce dr. Timothy smith. [applause] thank you. Appreciate that. Appreciate the opportunity to be here. This is my first time to be here. I am a believer now. You have got a great place here. We are going to talk about the western theater here. Vicksburg, Champion Hill. How many of you have been to vicksburg . I figured that. A good number of you. Champion hill is one of those great battlefields, if you have been watching the news, listening to the American Battlefield trust, they are doing a lot of work there. The state of mississippi has just tu
Books and letters. You can buy a copy in our bookstore. I am pleased to introduce dr. Timothy smith. [applause] thank you. Appreciate that. Appreciate the opportunity to be here. This is my first time to be here. I am a believer now. Ou have got a great place here we are going to talk about the western theater here. Vicksburg, Champion Hill. How many of you have been to vicksburg . I figured that. A good number of you. Champion hill is one of those great battlefields, if you have been watching the news, listening to the American Battlefield trust, they are doing a lot of work there. The state of mississippi has just turned over several Hundred Acres to the national park. Ervice a lot going on at Champion Hill. We are going to talk about that battle in particular. The larger Vicksburg Campaign just a little bit. I do not have powerpoint either. I am a little oldfashioned. We do have a map, which we will talk about a little bit. I tend to go overboard when i do powerpoint and completely
630 thursday. People from three vehicles ran into the store, grabbed everything they could, and then sped off. Police say they got away with about 30 luxury bags in the moments after the smash and grab, Police Chased one of the cars. Suspects took off and headed toward the bay bridge where one of the vehicles crashed in this tower cam video, you can see two people running causing the traffic to stop on the ramp to the lower deck. Police recovered the stolen bags from a white charger, a store employee told me the merchandise was worth about 275,000. Its unfortunate. Its large market for these stolen goods to go out and to be fenced and resold and its creating kind of an outsized incentive for people to commit crimes like this. People walking past the dior store were stunned when they saw the damage. Thats aggressive, thats professional. Its so sad. Its heartbreaking to and the expense is, you know, just that gate is going to cost thousands of dollars. A store employee told me the thieve
Vehicles crashed. In this towercam video, you can see two people running causing traffic to stop on the ramp to the lower deck. Police recovered the stolen bags from a white charger. A store employee told me the merchandise was worth about 275,000. Its unfortunate this large market for these stolen goods to go out and to be fenced and resold, and its creating kind of an outsized incentive for people to commit crimes like this. People walking past the dior store this morning were stunned when they saw the damage. Thats aggressive, thats professional. Its so sad. Its heartbreaking to and the expense, you know, just that gate is going to cost thousands of dollars a store employee told me the thieves actually tried to break into three other luxury stores. First, after having no luck at fendi, goyard and yves saint laurent, they moved on to dior. This all as the mayor announced an expansion of a plan to crack down on crime. We know theres still a need to get support on the streets immediate