katty kay do you think anyone _ nomination. katty kay do you think anyone managed - nomination.g about, get those viral moments that will help them with attention and fundraising from tomorrow? this was a normal _ fundraising from tomorrow? try 3 was a normal debate in normal times is a for several days afterwards you get the post debate tail which is what all of these candidates want, they want to be the person being talked about tomorrow, they want the spiral moments to go around if they are in their favour. you had to remember tomorrow there will be another huge american political news story when donald trump hands himself to a jail in georgia on charges that he tried to subvert the 2020 election and that will then be a big news story and there will be the motorcade and following the motorcade and following the motorcade as we have done on previous occasions when he has been arraigned in court, then he will have some kind of rally afterwards. i'm not sure there will be that much of a tale to this, midnight on the east coast of the east coast are not many people who will have

the bbc�*s katty kay discussed all this with dr anthony fauci, who served as the us chief medical advisor spokesman during the height of the covid pandemic. front page of the new york times today, not over yet. late summer covid _ times today, not over yet. late summer covid wave _ times today, not over yet. late summer covid wave brings warning of more to come. right. because right — warning of more to come. right. because right now— warning of more to come. right. because right now we _ warning of more to come. right. because right now we are - because right now we are having, it is defying seasonality. early on people would say well, it is like the flu, it pegs in winter and goes away. that is what everyone thought. naively and dramatically, incorrectly, that when covid came at the end of december, the beginning of january that it would peak in march and then drop as you come into the summer months. it did not do anything like that. this virus does not know whether it is spring summer winter or fall and it shows us right now, we are in august a new start to see an acceleration of cases

i'm katty kay on august 21st in for jonathan lemire. >>> we begin with the tropical storm pummeling southernifornia. hilary is already smashing records for rainfall across california with some parts of the state reporting nearly 3 inches of rain yesterday. in addition to the tropical storm, southern california residents also experienced a 5.1 magnitude earthquake yesterday. officials are reporting it did not cause serious damage, but it did produce several aftershocks. >>> in response to hilary, governor gavin newsom declared a state of emergency. hilary is the first tropical storm to hit southern california in 84 years, almost a century. >>> turning to politics and new polling shows donald trump's hold on the republican base is as strong as ever. in a yougov survey, trump leads ron desantis, 62% to 16%. in third place is entrepreneur vivek ramaswamy. he's at 7%. all the other candidates at 5% or less. among them, the poll shows they trust the former president even more than their own loved ones, yep, more than their own family members. 71% feels like what trump tells them is the truth. ahea

special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay.going to think i'm making this up, but mike barnicle walks into the studio, spontaneous slow clap of applause. respect for the legend, mike barnicle. >> yeah. it started at the table, but the entire crew joined in. it was a remarkable moment on the last day of august. >> we were actually booing, but then the crew broke into applause. >> yeah. >> drowned out. >> i think the applause was for the fact i was actually walking. >> you can still get to the chair? >> yeah. >> well, we're happy you're here, mike. >>> let's turn back to washington now. new concern again this morning about the health of senate minority leader mitch mcconnell after the kentucky republican appeared to suffer a medical episode during a news conference yesterday. this is the second time just over a month this has happened. the longest serving leader in senate history froze while fielding questions from reporters in his home state. >> what are your thoughts on running for re-election in 2026? >> for what? >> running f

special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay is back with us. >> katty is back. >> yay. and editor for "politico," sam stein is back. sam is back. >> always back. >> and former cia official chuck rosenberg. good to have you all with us. >>> we start with a flurry of legal action in the latest indictment of donald trump, just days after being formally charged for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. the former president spent the weekend testing the limits of the judge assigned to the case. during thursday's arraignment, the magistrate judge warned trump against interfering in the case, telling him that his bond could be revoked if he tried to influence a juror, threaten or bribe a witness, or retaliate against anyone giving information to prosecutors. despite telling the judge he understood her warning, just one day later, the former president posted on his social media site, quote, "if you go after me, i'm coming after you." that message set off alarm bells within the justice department, where special counsel jack smith quickly asked a judge to imp

katty kay, jonathan lemire and john heilemann are back with us. 2020 election in that state. among the 19 charged alongside the former president, his personal attorney rudy giuliani, his former chief of staff mark meadows. nbc news correspondent blaine alexander has details. >> reporter: the former president of the united states is charged with being part of a criminal enterprise. >> the indictment brings felony charges against donald john trump. >> reporter: fani willis announced she is charging 19 people with trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election in georgia, an effort she says was led by mr. trump. the former president is facing 13 felony counts, including multiple conspiracy charges. >> the defendants engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise. >> reporter: willis has charged all of the defendants with violating georgia's rico act, a statute first used to prosecute organized crime. it includes a fake electors scheme, breach of voting machines, and the phone call from trump to brad raffensperger. >> i just want to find, uh, 11,780

. >>> along with joe, willie and me, as you can see, we have special correspondent bbc's katty kay, doing "way too early." and "the washington post"'s eugene robinson. >> don't want to talk about nationals. >> we don't. >> and we'll get too barbara mcquaid. >> i have to say, katty did a terrific job on the sports this morning. >> yes! >> it was absolutely spot on. it was perfect. baseball, she did baseball. >> katty is perfect. >> it was great. >> okay. when we were off camera yesterday, gene, i confessed to joe that when i'm reading the baseball, it may as well be german. i do not speak german. i mean, i really try and -- i have to focus so hard. it's the hardest segment of the whole show. because, honestly, if you don't know those words, you have no idea. what does that mean? i don't know what that means. anyway -- >> i get it. >> -- i apologize to the viewers. >> no, you did good. you did so good. we love having you. >> katty, feel my pain. >> katty is perfection. >> that is how i feel for four hours a day. >> no. >> what does this mean? >> it'll be better than the midnight express ref

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katty kay has the first question. katty?that was true even five to ten years ago. so president biden says this is not about china. but it is about china to some extent, isn't? >> it is entirely about china. in a geopolitical sense. there is certainly enormous economic angles to putting this together. you're looking at the leaders of the third largest economy in the world after ours, the first that would be japan and roughly the ninth or tenth largest economy in the world. so this is an economic play alongside that military geopolitical one. you're right. it very much has to do with china. look, i operated for decades in the pacific. i would see japanese and south korean warships try and try to do exercises together under a u.s. umbrella. never worked. never be the apple of each other's eyes. however, they can come together and work can come together and work productively. kudos to the biden administration. it's smart economics. >> you have the south koreans and the japanese worried about china's saber rattling vis-a-vis taiw

special correspondent for bbc news katty kay. of the march on washington. and reverend, dr. martin luther king jr.'s "i have a dream" speech. as many of a quarter of a million people gathered on the national mall on this day in 1963. in honor of that moment, thousands gathered on the national mall on saturday including dr. king's family and a number of civil rights leaders including yourself. you were there, this is something that you've been telling us about for many months, anticipating connecting dr. king's dream and that speech 60 years ago to where we are today. tell us about the weekend. >> well, the weekend was very invigorating. we were able to see a cross section of people of all races. it was inter-generational. we had expected 75,000 people. we did a lot more than that. when you looked out at the audience, it was under bushes because of the heat, but when we got ready to march, you could see throngs of people interracial, inter-generational, led by the kings. and it was the anti-defamation league and it was the prime n

special correspondent for bbc studios katty kay. welcome to both of you. he world and how people think about this. it's not cut and dry. there are some place that's worry very deeply about donald trump and the effects of another presidency and there are some people that are pretty hopeful that donald trump is the president of the united states again. >> yeah, i think that's worth pointing out, ali, because it's not as if the whole of the rest of the world is sitting there in fear at the prospect of another trump term. i spent over a month in europe over the course of the surnl and it's true that many of america's traditional allies in europe are anxious. they're kind of just waking up, which is why the "wall street journal" article is just the latest. you've had one in the "washington post," you've had one in the "new york times" over the course of the summer saying pretty much the same thing, that allies in europe are waking up to the prospect that donald trump could be the republican nominee, could well be the republican nominee, and that gives him, what,

katty kay is still with us.er extraordinary summit. tell us about it. >> reporter: it is extraordinary because this is a chance to build a relationship between countries that individually have been very close to the united states, but, as you mention, there has been tension between japan and south korea. coming together in a new kind of partnership that they believe will be helpful on economic issues that are shared, things like trying to have early warning systems on supply chain problems, we all lived through that during covid. notably on the potential aggression that has been seen from china as well as north korea with all of its provocations and so one of the things they're trying to do is have a relationship that is something less than the nato every member nation agreeing to come to the defense when one is threatened, but something that's moving in that direction. so if there are security threats between any of the country involved here, the u.s., south korea, japan, they will consult each other swiftly, t

special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor for "the washington post," eugene robinson. and senior columnist for the daily beast, matt lewis joins us this morning. >>> we begin with a new court ruling that has revealed months before charging donald trump in two separate cases, special counsel jack smith's office executed a search warrant of the former president's twitter account. according to the redacted ruling made public yesterday, the justice department executed the warrant back in january, despite being challenged by the elon musk owned company. musk refused to turn over trump's account at first because of his objection to a part of the warrant that barred twitter from informing the former president that his account was being searched. >> it was a criminal investigation. >> wow. the billionaire claimed the order, quote, violated the company's first amendment right. >> that's a little flexible these days, by the way, with twitter. >> they were sanctioned $350,000 and ult

special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay, always elegant. and white house editor for politico, sam stein. sam's here. >> also sharp. >> all right. >> i tell you, this is -- this issue, this abortion issue is turning into a remarkably politically potent issue for people who want a return to, well, where the united states was for about 50 years, where women had a right to make health care decisions and make choices about their own bodies. we've seen in kansas, we've seen in kentucky, we've seen in one red state after another. we saw in a supreme court race in wisconsin landslide victories, all because republicans are taking extremist views. and we saw it last night in a state that has gone deep red, ohio. >> red, red, red. voters overwhelmingly rejected a republican-backed measure that would have made it more difficult to change the state's constitution. more than 3 million people went to the polls in ohio's special election, voting to defeat issue one, which keeps the threshold for passing future constitutional amendments at a simple majority