Thank you. That is all in on this wednesday night. Alex wagner starts with Ayman Mohyeldin in for alex. Thanks so much for watching. Im Ayman Mohyeldin in for Alex Wagner and this is what it looks like when a candidate for president makes the most of a rainy day. Watch. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, im sorry its raining but weve had 12 years of trickle down. If you give me 12 minutes we can change this country. I am tired of seeing the american people kill themselves every day in the factory and the business, on the farm, and be punished for it, and if you will give us a chance, we will turn this country around. That was a soaking wet Bill Clinton during a drizzly Campaign Stop in 1992. Clinton of course was campaigning that day in the small town of albany, georgia. It was part of a multiday Bus Tour through Southern Georgia which the Campaign Called Bubbas for bill. It was notable at the time because Southern Georgia was known to be more rural and conservative
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
here is a question that you don t normally hear a candidate get asked that one of his final campaign stops before a presidential debate. are you worried about going to jail? no. are you worried about going to jail? that s a fair question. after all, the debate is on thursday and trump sentencing is exactly two weeks after that. let s hear the answer. no i m not worried at all we have a corrupt group of people. it is really working out. we just got the highest poll numbers we ever had. they cheat so much 10 points is not enough. we need to get more. if we don t win the country is finished. allow me to translate. if we don t win then i m worried about going to prison. he should be worried. as serious as the trump convictions are the more serious are still hanging out there. for all of this talk about a corrupt system he s getting a lot of help for now. take a look at exhibit a. after judge aileen canon was assigned to the classified documents case, two of her more ex
unlike anything we have seen before in one week, president biden and donald trump will face off in the earliest general election debate in modern history. the biden campaign is a deliberate choice to challenge the saturday show a an early debate to force voters to reckon with the reality of the choice they have to make sooner rather than later. today, we got the details of how the debate will play out. independent candidate robert f kennedy junior officially failing to qualify for the debate, leaving trump and biden to share the stage alone next week. president biden won a coin toss allowing him to choose his referred position on stage, he will be changing at the podium on the right of the television screen while trump will have the podium on the left, the same configuration of the two debates held four years ago, donald trump got to choose the order of the closing statement, he chose to go last to give him the final word. we have new details on how the two candidates plan to
which presidential candidates kick their campaigns into full year. well, the start of this election year summer it s unlike anything wave seen before. in onewa week president biden a former president trump will face-off in the earliest election debate in modern history. the biden campaign made a deliberate choice to challenge trump to an early debate to force voters to reckon with the reality of the choice they re goingof have to make sooner ratr than later. today we got new details about how that debate is going to play out. independent candidate robert f. kennedy jr. officially failing to qualify. biden will be standing at the podium on the right of the television screen while trump will have the podium on the left, the same configuration as the two debates held four years ago. donald trump got to choose the order of thedo closing statemen. he chose to go last, giving him the final word. we also got new details how the two candidates plan to prepare for the debate. tonight