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
Good evening. Big asks are going to be made of the public in octobers budget, the Prime Minister said today, in a major speech in the number 10 garden. Sir keir starmer warned that his government had inherited a black hole in the public finances of £22 billion. He said those with the broadest shoulders should bear the heavier burden. The conservatives responded by saying his speech was an indication that labour had been planning tax rises all along. In a moment, well look ahead to what may be in the budget with our Business Editor simonjack, but first, our deputy Political Editor Vicki Young Reports on the Prime Ministers speech. Blue skies and sunshine, but the Prime Minister didnt come here to paint a rosy picture. He has accused the conservatives of wrecking the economy, leaving him to put it right. There is a budget coming in october. And it is going to be painful. We have no other choice, given the situation that we are in. Those with the broadest shoulders should bear the heavie
White house pressured the platform to Censor Americans and he says he regrets caving to those demands. Good morning im dana perino. Bill is off today. Good morning, bret. Good to see you. Bret im bret baier and this is americas newsroom. Zuckerberg making that admission in a letter to chairman jim jordan saying the white house pushed facebook to take down posts that included Covid Misinformation even ones defined as humor or satire. Dana when meta denied one of those requests the administration grew frustrated. Back in 2020 when jen psaki was the Press Secretary and said facebook needed to be stronger on policing content. Has facebook been as proactive as the white house would like in terms of its response . I think as i noted yesterday, phil, there is more there are more steps that everyone can take. Facebook responded yesterday after the Press Briefing saying that they removed 18 million pieces of Covid Misinformation. So does the white house find that sufficient . Clearly not becaus
The question is how and why did the 40yearold building suddenly give way . And Rudy Giuliani gets his law license suspended following the election. Is the former attorney getting disbarred . Its Way Too Early for this. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early, the show that kind of feels like summer is really flying by. Im kasie hunt on this friday, june 25th. Well start with the news. Politics and the Infrastructure Deal that was introduced by the white house and a group of bipartisan senators yesterday. The president celebrated the deal but said its just a start. The framework that was released by the white house allocates 6 trillion. To get the deal, dell carats had to concede in investment and climate and other measures like child care, education, and paid family leave. Theyre planning to put those measures in a separate budget reconciliation bill, hoping to ease concerns to progressives about this, he said hell only sign the deal if there are other guarantees that come right alon