Tuesday, August 27, 2024
The 7
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🗓️ 27 August 2024
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Tuesday briefing: Republicans endorse Kamala Harris; Jack Smith; Israeli hostage rescue; Pavel Durov arrest; Oasis tour; and more
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| 0:00.0 | Hundreds of former Republican staffers endorsed Kamala Harris for President. |
| 0:08.0 | That's where we're starting the Seven from the Washington Post. I'm Hannah Jewel. |
| 0:12.0 | It's Tuesday August 27th. Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:20.0 | More than 200 Republicans signed an open letter warning against a second Trump presidency. |
| 0:27.0 | The letter was first published yesterday in USA Today. |
| 0:31.0 | The former staffers worked for President George W Bush, Senator Mitt Romney, and |
| 0:35.8 | Senator John McCain. They wrote that a Trump presidency will hurt real everyday people and |
| 0:41.8 | weaken our sacred institutions. The group issued a similar |
| 0:45.8 | letter supporting Joe Biden when he ran against Trump in 2020. The former staffers |
| 0:50.7 | weren't endorsing Harris's policies, but they said the alternative |
| 0:54.8 | to Harris would be simply untenable. |
| 0:57.9 | The letter highlights the continued divisions among Republicans over the party's embrace of |
| 1:02.4 | Trump. |
| 1:03.0 | At the Democratic National Convention last week, |
| 1:06.0 | several Republicans came out in support of Harris. |
| 1:09.0 | Number two, Special Counsel Jack Smith appealed a judge's decision to dismiss Trump's classified documents case. |
| 1:20.0 | To refresh your memory, this is the Trump case in Florida. |
| 1:24.0 | It's the one where he was accused of repeatedly breaking the law by allegedly stashing classified |
| 1:28.8 | documents at his Maralago home and obstructing government efforts to retrieve them. |
| 1:34.8 | Last month, Judge Eileen Cannon threw out the case. |
| 1:38.4 | She argued that Special Counsel Smith was wrongfully appointed and had too much power. It was a stunning decision. Many lawyers |
| 1:45.9 | considered this case to be the strongest of four criminal cases against the former president. |
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