Hello from CNN, I'm Joe Beck with the five things you need to know for Wednesday

August 28th. Former President Donald Trump is facing a new reworked indictment

over January 6th and alleged election interference.

The Justice Department has rewritten the charges against Trump to focus on his role as a candidate

when he tried to spread lies of election fraud.

After the Supreme Court ruled that he couldn't be prosecuted over things he did in his

capacity as president.

CNN's Caitlin Polance has more.

So the Justice Department has now responded

by going to the federal grand jury in Washington

and cutting down the charges against him.

They've cut out things like what Donald Trump was saying to the Justice Department and officials

there about spreading allegations of election fraud across the country and instead they are making

the focus be about Donald Trump and what he was told by his campaign

and what he was telling private advisors of his to do to try and spread this idea of election fraud, especially in battleground states and to block

Congress from certifying his loss of the election.

Trump blasted the charges as a quote, effort to resurrect a dead witch hunt in Washington, D.C. and described the move as an act of desperation.

Meanwhile, Vice President Carmelah Harris and her running mate Governor Tim Woles will sit with

CNN's Dana Bash for their first joint interview.

It'll air tomorrow at 9 PM Eastern and will likely give Harris a chance to make her

positions clear on various domestic and foreign issues. Her week's old campaign

has faced criticism for being heavy on vibes but light on concrete policy, with her team expecting the Democratic

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