Wednesday, August 28, 2024
The 7
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🗓️ 28 August 2024
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Wednesday briefing: New Trump indictment; presidential debate; Israeli attack; mosquito virus death; Paralympics schedule; and more
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump is facing a new indictment. |
| 0:06.0 | Israel launched a major military operation in the West Bank |
| 0:10.0 | and the Paralympic Games gets started today. |
| 0:13.0 | That's some of what we'll get to on the Seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Christina Quinn in for Hannah Jewel. |
| 0:19.0 | It's Wednesday, August 28th. |
| 0:21.0 | Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories. |
| 0:25.0 | Number one, Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a revised indictment against Donald Trump yesterday. |
| 0:34.7 | This is a new version of the original criminal case related to the January 6th 2021 attack |
| 0:39.9 | on the U.S. Capitol. |
| 0:41.7 | It involves an alleged conspiracy to obstruct the results of the 2020 presidential |
| 0:46.1 | election. Trump still faces the same four charges related to his alleged attempts to overturn |
| 0:52.0 | that election. |
| 0:53.0 | But a historic Supreme Court ruling last month |
| 0:56.0 | said that presidents and former presidents cannot be charged for official acts. |
| 1:01.0 | So Smith stripped out parts of the original January 6th indictment that could |
| 1:05.0 | conflict with that decision. It's an attempt to salvage and strengthen this |
| 1:09.1 | election obstruction case, which is likely to face more legal fights between Trump's team and the Special |
| 1:14.8 | Council. Trump's running mate Senator J.D. Vance reacted to the news of the |
| 1:19.2 | revised indictment yesterday. He echoed Trump's complaints accusing Smith of election interference. |
| 1:25.0 | So I don't think that it's changing anything legally. I think it's clearly an effort to try to do more election interference from Jack Smith. |
| 1:32.0 | He should be ashamed of himself and |
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