Seven. And meantime, thanks so much for joining us. Ac360 begins right now president lying about disaster relief while the death toll climbs from hurricane helene and even some fellow republicans are speaking out, keeping them honest. Also tonight, the obama factor in the boost and could give him the harris campaign when he hits the trail next week the trump elon musk bromance, just how much money is must pumping into the campaign good evening. Thanks for joining us 32 days until election day. The candidates now making to swing state campaign stops a day. The former president just wrapped up a town hall in fayetteville, north carolina after visiting georgia at this afternoon, vice president harris speaking detroit and flint, michigan, heard campaign we're getting a boost from unexpectedly good job creation numbers and a dip in the jobs created last month unemployment fell in just a few weeks ago, the federal reserve cut down interest rates, which is going to be great for a lot of folks over the last threeandahalf years, we brought manufacturing back to america. We created 730,000 manufacturing jobs and announced the opening of more than 20 new auto plants in the united states and we did it by investing in american industry and american workers the former president's georgia visit showcase to reconciliation of sorts with the state's republican governor. Also a briefing, a hurricane recovery at what she repeated a false said that he's been spreading lately about fema and disaster relief money a lot of the money that was supposed to go to georgia and supposed to go to north carolina and all of the others is going and has gone already has been god for people that came into the country illegally and nobody's ever seen anything like that. That's a shame. Well, it would be a shame perhaps if it were true, but it is not keeping them honest while fema does manage grants for shelters, housing, and helping migrants that money comes from a separate and unrelated account, which is a former president. He probably knows whether he does. Actually, you're not. He repeated the lie later today. This is maybe the worst he's got no money and police say what happened to them and they were given billions to this he spent it on illegal migrants coming into the country so that was twice moments ago and his town hall, he did it again and then missing 1 billion that they gave to migrants coming into our country so this is not the first lies told about the relief effort here he is on monday suggesting falsely that president biden wasn't taking calls from georgia governor campus suggestion as you'll see, is debunked or more accurately prebooked? by kemp's own words, just hours before the governor's doing a very good job, he's having a hard time getting the president on the phone, i guess they're not responsive. The federal government is not paying the president just called me yesterday afternoon. I've missed him and called him right back. And he just said, hey, what do you you need. And i told him, we we got what we need we'll work through the federal process. He offered that if there's another things that we need just to call them directly, which i appreciate that so georgia republican governor, telling the truth, it seems the party's leader lying about it just hours later for political advantage and not for the first time too. Former trump ministration officials recently spoke to politico's environmental news unit, quoting from that story, mark harvey, who was trump's senior director for resilience policy on the national security council staff told any news on wednesday that trump initially refused to approve disaster aid for california after deadly wildfires in 2018 because that state's democratic leanings but harvey said trump changed his mind after harvey pulled voting results to show him that heavily damaged orange county, california had more trump supporters than the entire state of iowa. Olivia troye, a former trump homeland security adviser, backs up. Mark harvey's account and they both told the publication they believe that their old boss's approaching hurricane helene with a similar mindset even though he's not president now and therefore not making decisions about relief, money and disaster declarations. These falsehoods still have impact in the wake of the storm that's already killed more than 200 people without regard to politics politics, and politically driven rumors and lies are now so common that fema is spending some of its finite resources and limited time containing a webpage, this one dedicated specifically to debunking lies, spread most notably by donald trump, his running mate jd vance and their supporters. Again, these are lies well, the misinformation is damaging because it can hurt our relief efforts. It also demoralizes national guard soldiers who are out here for days and days and, people who are working in emergency management, who are working around the clock to help people. So that's north carolina's governor and he is a democrat. So some people will automatically doubt him, but it's not just democrats doing the debunking. Republicans are as well. Here's north carolina republican senator thom tillis no. Well, i'll be silent. And any areas where we could do better no. But right now, i'm out here to say that we're doing a good job and those who may have may not be on the ground who are making those assessments ought to get on the ground tell his republican center, recognizing what has always been with rare exceptions, the nonpartisan, nonpolitical reality about disaster relief, namely that it's a story of hardworking people of all stripes trying to do their best it may be imperfect, best, but under difficult conditions to help everyone they can. This morning, glenn jacobs, the republican mayor of knox county, tennessee, posted on social media. He's the retired wwe wrestler kane, by the way. The first part of his posts important if people to quit spreading false rumors about fema and its state counterpart confiscating supplies. The second part reads simply if everyone could maybe please put aside the hate for it and pitch in to help that would be great so a lot to talk about tonight with former harris communication director ashley etienne, also journalist gretchen carlson cofounder of the nonprofit lift our voices. And cnn senior political commentator, scott jennings, it is gretchen. I mean, it's i guess, not surprising. But again, in a storm like this with people who are dead, people still missing, people suffering to have falsehoods put into the mix is just, it's kind of icky and i was about to say that his advisers had a great day today because he actually was very reserved for trump, right? he didn't call liz cheney stupid. He didn't call kamala harris stupid he was on his best behavior, however these lies, i think are for one reason, only, and that is he is currently women winning on the immigration front and they saw that when they made up the lies about what was going on in springfield with the haitian immigrants that that probably got the base all ginned up, right. And maybe his points even went up on the immigration front and that in my mind is why he's doing this at a disaster site because he wants to blame it on something that he thinks will get bigger turnout for him in the election. Ashley, i mean, do you think trump would be bothering with these baseless claims if the storm didn't hit two key swing states what would donald trump has a pension for is really exploiting people's pains. Loss of lives, disasters like these for his own political purposes. I mean, you rattled off a couple of great examples. There are others where he denied democratic governor cooper we're after a hurricane matthew, 99% of what the state needed because his he was a democratic governor. You remember he mockingly, through paper towels in puerto ricans. And so this is what he typically does. He shows up into places like this and exploit people's pains. He did it after the train derailment and in east palestine in that's really his that's his mo. So rather than doing what's in the interest of the american people, it's always about scoring political points with donald trump and that's really unfortunate. And i'm glad both democratic and republican governors are calling him out on it. Scott, i mean, is this appropriate for the foreign president to be doing? i mean, look donald trump didn't cause this hurricane a b, he's not the current president's see, joe biden was at the beach and kamala harris was raising money with celebrities with this thing, hit. So i mean, i think there's legitimate, but he's he's definitely trolling the disaster relief and recovery i mean, he's not really like adding anything to it. He's basically just making stuff up for political reasons. No well, i mean, he his campaign as far as i know, did start a gofundme to raise money for victims of it. He's down there with brian kemp today and he was praising brian kemp's actions on the recovery in july georgia and kemp thanked him for bringing right. But he lied about earlier i mean, look if you guys want to call it, say that donald trump is messing up the hurricane while we have a current administration bidenharris that are in office, you go ahead it's donald trump. He has things to say about the things that happened in this world. And it's october of a presidential election. So i, you know, i don't know what you want. What do you want him to do? not comment on it, but just not be sleazy. Is basically giving us a different argument actually because it's something different from saying that democrats or republicans would handle this different and the relief effort i mean, have we ever had fema come out and have to say that the money is actually going to hurricane relief and not to where donald trump says it's going and they had to do that today. And i think that that is the classic difference here between how democrats might handle this or how republicans might handle this i mean, look, love to hear scott actually listen. There's been i just want to point out there's been plenty of criticism and reason to criticize fema during hurricane katrina in the wake of that, if he came under a lot of a lot of criticism and for very understandable reasons. So i'm not saying nobody should criticize this thing. I just think you don't need to make up stuff to criticize. I mean, if you wanted to talk about some things that are factually correct and that would help the recovery ever get better. I think that's good it's got i probably have a jaundice view of this anderson because because i you know, i literally lived through hurricane katrina in the bush white house. And as i know, you lived through it, anderson covering it and i don't i don't recall any restraint by democrats or the national media coming after george w bush and fema. And every other thing it was immediately politicized. And i mean, i well remember it, it's steered into my brain. And so now all these people are out here saying, we can't politicize this. We can't criticize this. We, you know, nothing can be said about biden and harris there are fame or anything else and i just think we have a republican were in the white house and the republican president were at the beach. And the vice president were raising money with celebrities. I guarantee you somebody would be mad about it gretchen general play some more from frozen had to say about the response we are poisoning our country. I can is being poisoned. Country is being ruined, is being ruined by these people and they took billions of dollars and used it for settlements of people that came in, many of which are criminals and the people in north carolina and south carolina and georgia and florida, virginia, tennessee there's no money for them and that's proven not to be true today i mean, i guess that would be my question to scott jennings. Is we're not talking about how different parties politicized different things. We all know that happens the question is, why does trump have to talk about a false lie today that this money is going to immigrants illegal phil immigrants. That's not happening. Ashley, i mean, the former president and kemp appeared together for the first time today since 2020 when camp rebuffed the foreign president's request to overturn the election results. Do you think the harris campaign should be worried about a popular republican governor campaigning with the former president, a battleground state it's very concerning, but, the reality is this governor's take, he's taking objection to donald trump and how he, you know, his antics, his lies his dismiss misinformation. I mean, you know, that campaign has an opportunity to really continue to utilize kim to point out the fact that it's not just democrats, it's also these republicans that are, that have had enough with donald trump. I think you pointed it out accurately here. It's it's not that people have any objections. It's not that he has any objection with how the current administration's handling the recovery, but it's more about these lies. They've east creating and it's not just him, it's his vice president. I mean, they're just making up stuff and it's not an i love scott to dead, but like it's no excuse to say that it's october and this is what we should come to expect from not just donald trump, but from any of our leaders. I mean, i don't want to know a liar, let alone let one run my nation my country. I mean, what are you to trust with donald trump's? so i think the fact that the two of them are campaigning together allows the campaign, the harris campaign has continued to point out the fact that there are republicans that still find donald trump objectionable and really open up the permission structure for more republicans to come in and support the ticket. 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That meeting blossomed into now 20 year friendship. When obama first ran for president in 2008 harris was district attorney in san francisco. She took a political risk and endorsed him in the primary over hillary clinton obama won the iowa caucuses and went on to become president harris had campaigned for him in iowa and later in california obama returned the favor in 2010, loaning his star power to boost harris's campaign for attorney general of california dear friend of mine. So i want everybody to do right by her harris won. Two years later in 2012, she found herself on stage at the democratic national convention. Where obama gave her a coveted speaking role president obama will fight for working families. He will fight to level the economic playing field and fight to give every american the same fair shot. My family had in 2013, an awkward moment during a closed door california fundraiser where obama described harris says quote, by far, the best looking attorney general, sparking criticism. He called her to apologize for the distraction created by his comments and they are old friends and good friends. And i would note that he called her in those same comments, brilliant, dedicated, and talk at the white house correspondents dinner that year, obama poked fund at the issue i happen to mention the kamala harris is the best looking attorney general in the country as you might imagine, i got trouble when i got back home sensitive as obama was wrapping up his second term another endorsement for harris, this time for us senate. As your senator, donald harris would be fearless fighter for the people of california in 2019 when harris launched a bid for prep president xi met twice with obama aide, say, and occasionally talked by phone. Obama counseled harris on her message and strategy as he did the other democratic candidates when joe biden selected harris as his running mate obama posted that he's known harris a long time and she is more than prepared for the job they followed up with this video tell me about jail and your relationship with joe and what do i need to know? like what's the thing about the ice cream? he loves his craig. Tell me about that i cream is big pasta with red sauce he can keep him go deep on that and this year when harris suddenly found herself at the top of the ticket, both the obamas endorsed her. When you call to say michelle and i couldn't be prouder to endorse your to do everything we can to get you through this election and into the oval office or my goodness michelle brock, this means so much to me. Randi kaye, cnn, palm beach county, florida it's amazing cameras were there actually can back with ashley etienne, gretchen carlson joining us, cnn senior data reporter harry enten. So what voting blocs could form a prison, obama potentially be most helpful. I also noticed her a ton of cameras in the room here to capture this moment. Yes look, first of all, let's talk about black voters, right? you go back to 20 12 barak obama won among black voters by 90 points. You'll look at kamala harris is march in the polls right now, what you see is, look, she's ahead, but that margin is significantly lower than that. It's 25 points lower than that, of course, black voters are so important in states like georgia, north carolina, michigan, of course, where the campaigns have been fighting for russia just the including today, what kamala harris being up there, but it's not just black voters, right? let's talk about white working class voters. White voters without a college degree, who of course are so important in those great lake battleground states where they make up the plurality of voters, talking pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, what do we see? what we see is that although barack obama isn't that popular among white voters without college i'll should be she's he is significantly more. Yeah, significantly more popular than kamala harris's. And of course key did very well in those great lake battleground states back in 2012 and 2008. So i think that these are two groups that obama appeals among and hoping that perhaps he can bring a few of them along to the harris bandwagon. And that's really important because trump card currently is doing 21 points better with trade school grads thing. Kamala harris is. So if obama can penetrate that group at all, but i would also say that president bomber is an organizer, right? he knows how to get the ground game going. And i think that that is especially important in these swings it's and i hope that he brings out michelle obama because i actually think she's more of a secret weapon and he might be yes. Ashley, i want to play something or some of what michelle obama said at the democratic convention? everything in his power to try to make people fear us see his, his limited narrow view of the world world made him feel threatened by the existence of two horgan highly educated, successful people have to be black who's going to tell him that the job he's correct? currently seeking might just be one of those black jobs think. I mean, do you think the obamas really never gets old by the way there say, do you, do you think perform first obama i mean, can really make inroads with some of those groups that harry was showing the polls. I mean, those numbers are from you know, what, ten more than ten years ago politics has changed a lot and a lot of those people in those groups have gone to donald trump absolutely. I mean he's going to be essential. I mean, he's democratic royalty, both, both of them are there are top surrogates that we put on the trail quite a bit. I was meeting with the harris campaign recently and there's two things i wanted to point out. One is where i think obama will be essential one is this problem i've been with black male voters are still seeing a motive, sort of a lack of enthusiasm around black male voters between the ages of 25 and 45. So for me, i'm going to be it's gonna be curious to see how he tries to engage those voters beyond just doing the big rallies. Does he do podcasts that are specifically targeted to black men? to go into barbershops. Like, how does he try to galvanize that that particular group? and the second thing is they feel like they've got to have obama level turnout to in order to win. I mean, that's just what harry's would have pointed out a little bit that she's lagging in the polls compared to him. They've got to exceed his turnout in order to offset potentially so what we might see with white women voters, where donald trump is making some grounds with less, less than educated voters. So, yeah, i mean, he's, he's essential to her win, but there's also one other thing, anderson, i've noticed having done some campaigns after president obama, i used to work in the white house forum. So i think they're exceptional but after that, at some of the admiration and love that voters feel, democratic, voters feel for the obamas doesn't always transfer over two candidates. So the candidates still has to do the work. So the onus is still on here as to go in and persuade these voters. One of the things that the foreign president has done well is trying to reach out to voters who potential voters who don't, maybe don't normally come through kind of a joe rogan style podcast or mma fights, things like that. Vice president harris, we learned today, has apparently recorded an episode with the call her daddy podcast, which is hugely popular. That's going to apparently come out next week. Yeah, it looks she has been doing more unusual types of media. There's obviously a strategy here. Instead of doing coming on this show, for example, right? i mean, she's doing things that are not necessarily what presidential candidates have done in the past, although should be on 60 minutes this weekend. I do think that that is smart because she he's reaching out to audiences that may not know her very well. I also think it's smart because it's a younger demographic. And right now, study has come out that only half of 18 yearolds who are eligible to vote have actually registered in swing states. So she needs to get to these younger voters and color daddy harry saw is like the most popular but in podcasts among women absolutely younger women look at the chasm, the gender gap chasm among younger men and younger women in those key battleground states, look at that margin that harris has among young women, it's 38 points among men voters. It's trump by ten and the bottom line is this harris is doing significantly well among younger women. The gender gap as huge their podcast appearances like this can only help widen that and help wind her advantage among younger women right? everybody thanks so much. Appreciate it up next, elon musk once said that donald trump should hanging up his hat and sail into the sunset. Now, musk is trolling to the right and joining trump at a rally tomorrow in pennsylvania, there was turbulent relationship will take a look at that next stake, owns coming out episodes says to the world, it's okay to be gay. I don't think i realized how much it meant till i saw the reactions tv he on the edge, moments that shaped our culture sunday at nine on cnn i'm the one that really needs the break, not the people that are already rich and have the money. The 1% don't serve anybody but themselves. So for them to get a tax break, no, that's not cool. Kamala harris will make billionaires pay their fair share and she's gonna cut taxes for working people like me. I'm buddy and i'm not rich tell and i'm voting for kamalaharris ff pac is responsible for the content of this add aren't they we're at a food. We're still in this thing things are changing i think that'd be through as possible the engine finally roars. 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The 3,000 applications, that sba is getting from homeowners and business owners affected by hurricane helene biden says that both fema and the pentagon are fully funded for now, but that a comprehensive disaster relief package will be needed as soon as congress returns november 12 more now in the presidential race, the foreign president's rally in butler, pennsylvania tomorrow, notable for two reasons, it's obviously returned to the site of the first assassination attempt against him back in july. And one of his major super pac donors, elon musk, will be there now things have definitely changed from just over two years ago when trump called him a bs artist or rally and musk responded online saying in part, i don't hate the man, but it's time for trump to hang up his hat and sail into the sunset. The next day, trump responded online as he's want to do criticizing must quote, electric cars that don't drive long enough driverless cars that crash, or a rocket ship hips to nowhere. He also said that when musk visited him in the white house, quote, i could have said dropped to your knees and begged and he would have done it i'm joined now by the new york times is ryan mac, author of character limit, how elon musk destroyed twitter and philip bump, national columnist for the washington post philip what do you make of this alliance between trump and musk? yeah. I mean, it's striking. I mean, i think it's pretty obvious from trump's side if you'd like trump, he likes you, right? that's always been the calculus for him, for musk side musk obviously finds trump's authoritarian leanings appealing, right? he, he, he's certainly agrees with him on immigration. He's taken to a very constant suddenly we just putting out fake information about immigration that comports with what donald trump has been saying on the campaign trail. But i'll also is obviously the case the elon musk responds to donald trump's a strong man tendencies. And then in this butler site, that's this quasi religious site for him being the place that really made donald trump the target that he always presented himself as it makes perfect sense that was at that moment, musk signed on to donald trump's campaign. He's going to be there with him. And i think it reflects the importance of this site in the trump mythology. Ryan, you've written at length about the trump moscow lions i know you said tomorrow's rallies a full circle moment. What do you mean by that? well, you know, in the, in the moments after the assassination attempt, that's when elon musk, who had been kind of already thinking about endorsing trump. That's when he tweeted out. I'm fully going to back president trump in this election. This is the moment that i'm choosing and he went full bore into it. He started tweeting photos that iconic photo of president trump holding up his fist, bloodied from the ear and he, he bought into those emotions and so now he's going back to butler. He's kinda closing that that loop. He is he is going to lend his support. What do you think musk gets out of it? there's there's plenty and there's plenty of potential conflicts of interests. We're talking about a guy who runs multiple companies that are under investigation by government regulators. I think of something like nhtsa, which is investigating tesla for its selfdriving or the faa, which has investigating marriage or an alliance here that could end up being very beneficial to him when it comes to those investigations. Do you think it's also i ideological? yeah. I mean, it's it's hard to see that it wouldn't be i mean, musk is just so ferociously pro trump online, right? i mean, obviously he bought twitter, turned it into x and made it into this echo chamber that now is extremely useful to the right broadly and trump specifically. But the fact that he just puts out this propaganda and these false claims that aligned so completely with donald trump, and that he signs onto this this, this picture of trump as this strong leader who's going to save america, which is exactly how trump likes to present himself i think indicates that musk is bought into it and that brian, of course, is absolutely right, that there's benefits to musk from having done from the president and including that trump has said he'll give musk some job in the government or you don't viser, a role. But be even beyond that, it's clear that his politics, one right? i mean, it seems like for elon musk, for somebody who is running so many companies. And i imagine under tremendous amounts of pressure, he seems to have a lot of time to just be putting out false information and retweeting stuff for are posting stuff that's just not true he does have a lot of time. I was just on twitter on x looking ahead his feed and sometimes he tweeting more than 75 times a day i mean, i don't understand how you get anything done. I mean, we're all journalists. We think we spent a lot of time on that platform. We have spent a lot of time i'm not platform, but to do that much on there and run to other companies or multiple other companies is a lot. And now we're talking about him potentially joining the trump administration. He's talked about this government efficiency commission where he's going to have oversight over spending and jobs. You i don't understand how he does it ryan mac, philip bump. Thank you so much. Appreciate it coming up. Iran, supreme leader led a rare friday prayer service, say to commemorate the death of hezbollah as former leaders the world and the white house weighs israel's response for this week's missile attack. And former secretary defense joins me next because you loved the ocean, not spreadsheets he need to hire. 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He also said that israel shouldn't strike iran's oil fields either. In three days, israel in the world will mark one year since the october 7 terror attack. The same state department source says it is, quote, really hard to tell if israel were used that day to retaliate for the missile attack. Joined now by former defense secretary mark esper. It's great esper. What form do you think israel's retaliation against iran will take? i mean, that is sort of symbolic i'll alec, strike the last time in april to respond to the iranian attack. Then what do you expect now know first of all, good evening, anderson. Look, it'll be a significant strike and the first question would be is what did they want to achieve? if they want to graph to regime change. And i think they'll go after, they'll go into tehran and they'll go after the ayatollah common. They'll go after president pezeshkian and they'll go after the irgc and then on top of that, they'd want to knock out all the command and control communications that whatever survives that would be able to communicate with the rest of the the regime if they want to go after military capabilities and you can look at strategic assets like the nuclear sites that are just south of tehran and places like fordow and iraq and stuff like that. But danger of course, is that is that you have to go deep into the territory and you may lose a pilot. Same thing as if you go up north to ron the other challenge, by the way, with going after regime change, the downside is you risks civilian casualties. And what you don't want to do is to have the iranian people rally around that regime, particularly since it's so fragile right now and they are really not happy with the iranian regime the other set of military targets would be of course, ballistic missile production chin sites, storage sites, drone production sites, things like that. I think they will take out air defense regardless. That'll be the way, but which they clear the path. But i think the other, the third big group of targeting anderson, our economic targets we've talked about the 12 to 14 facilities involved in oil refining and manufacturing and distribution some are right there on the gulf coast. So those are easier targets with much less risky. Yeah. I'm sorry. Those are easier to hit. Much easier with less risk to israeli pilots the idea of a i mean, just in terms of israel's capabilities with the war in gaza the situation happening in lebanon, and iran, i mean, are they capable of maintaining a kinetic situation like that i suspect they are, and states help and because we would need to be there to support them in different ways. Of course, the production of munitions and other means would be be critical. And in some, depending on the operation are some things they need our assistance on but i believe they will. I suppose they've been preparing this for a long time and look, this is quite a change in the strategic situation. We haven't seen this ever really but the simple fact that hamas is now on its knees, it's nearly decimated 20 to 24 battalions have been knocked down and most of its leadership has blood on the ropes with all all of its leadership gone. And that was really always the counterpunch, the right hook that iran had its back pocket in case is are ever attacked iran. And now they're gone. So what is iran have left to respond with? israel hits back really hard. Another salvo of ballistic missiles is hezbollah really gone? i mean, obviously the i know, i think that is israel has said that they've knocked out about half of the missile capabilities of hezbollah. They've obviously decapitate the leadership, but in terms of fighters on the ground in the south, i mean, i went out in 2006 on an operation with the idf in southern lebanon and it was really tough. I mean, once exchanging rocket fire is one thing knocking rockets, but actually going on the ground in southern lebanon, that's a really, that's a very, very difficult theater yeah. No, you're right. Anderson, i don't want to overstate it. I said they're on the ropes at this point in time and we know that the command and control has been decimated. The leadership has been knocked out. I mean, they still haven't announced hassan nasrallah is replacement, let alone buried him and so that said they still have 22, 50,000 fighters out there. They have if israel's numbers are accurate, half of their missile and rocket inventory left, which could numbers 70 or 80,000 if that's accurate. So that said i don't think they're going to they're trying to do with hezbollah. What they've done and with hamas, my, my sense is what they want to do is get rid of the infrastructure along the border. That's the tunnels, the fighting positions from which they're shooting directly into israeli towns, villages, and communities. And then they also want to knock out as much of that missile capacity as possible. Then third, they want to push them back to the litani river up to the north, 18 miles and get them i mean compliance with un resolution 1701, which was passed in 2000 after the 2006 war, but was never followed through by hezbollah. And so i think if they can accomplish those three things, then i think that'll be successful for them so that's my sense. How much do you think the political situation that netanyahu was in the legal political situation he's in his need to maintain this coalition that he has with farright elements in israel is driving the, i mean, the military situation you know, it's interesting. We mustn't forget that there are still hostages being held by hamas somewhere upwards of 90 or so living in living and dead and they're still out there and the families are still grieving for them and a majority, well over a majority of israelis want those hostages back. But at the same time, well over a majority of israelis want to end hamas it's wanted end hezbollah by is very large numbers. I mean, as you know, 60 to 70,000 israelis are displaced from their homes in the north for nearly a year now, coming on monday. And so people want to see this problem go away and look as i've been saying, since october 7, last year at the end of the day, all roads lead back to iran we have to deal with iran. They have to do with ron on which is why i think it's going to be a very significant hit against tehran, against the regime. Mark esper. I appreciate your time. Thank you very much. Like sandringham next, microsoft cofounder bill gates on his latest project on what he calls the most profound technology of his lifetime we look at the news of the week and ask questions like, what are the comedy show doing on cnn? people have spoken i have something racist you go to hell that's too much i want donald. Now, can you splice that provide got news for you tomorrow at nine? on cnn and streaming next day on mac. I know a few things about a rivalry, but this one is cowboys office. I'll give him that what distillers deepest so powerful. You want to run home crying. Sunday night football nbc and peacock way. 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I've even had friends cut me off because of these vaccine rumors, but i'm a public health student at stanford and i think that there is just so much nuance on how do you communicate like accurate public health information or scientific data i don't know. I need to learn for more because i know he believes still believe that digital communication can be forced to bring us together to have read from the bait. But the thing about i make lots of money from vaccines. It's even hard for me to from. It's not like a political organization, it's just madness who promotes that? i think it's fair. I mean, everyone was stuck at home during a pandemic. We're all scared for our lives. No one really knows what to try us or what to believe so that's what our society does i spoke with bill gates earlier i want to start with ai what frightens you about it would excite you about it but smoke profound technology in my lifetime, and that's saying something because you, the most profound technology the pc, the internet, the magic of software. Here we are creating another form of intelligence other, other than humans and there's two things unique about it there's no limit to how good it can get and it's happening pretty quickly, right? sam altman, a couple of days ago said in a few thousand days, didn't specify more than that. It's going to be smarter than any human on earth yeah. So you'd get estimates from maybe two years to ten years so the fact that the outside view is half a lifetime, most profound things are generational electricity, even computers were like a 2030 year period. So the opportunities to do good with this stuff are well beyond what most people realize. But then the speed of change will be disconcerting. You addressed this is part of this netflix series, but i mean, what happens to a society when? the machines are smarter than anybody on earth and take care of a lot of basic things that we used to spend a lot of time doing and do jobs better than we can do them like what happens to human ambition and how passionate about what do people do well it once you get to the extreme there's a deep philosophical question was that the most profound thing to have to work, make sandwiches, whatever but filling in, we've organized society around a shortage and a sense of purpose. Unity learned to be a doctor. Wow, that's very valuable. It was hard. We encourage people to do that. So the workweek will shrink and the idea of okay, what do you do with all that extra leisure time? but it is very hard to predict how technology ends up being used. You can go into the smartest people thinking it's gonna be one way in this show, i learned that you didn't think of all if you put into personal computing and that that it would be used in the way that a currently is generating misinformation and disinformation and polarizing people in some ways like that. That was not on your radar for you thought it would be correct me if i'm wrong you know, people suddenly have access to the truth and the smartest and all the information in the world. And they're going to become better educated because of it. And it's gonna be better. And that turned out to be naive i was wrong about that. The idea that you know, in the case of the pandemic, they'd look for misinformation about vaccines and that would sort of confirm their view that may be ai and fauci had some malign motivation that i never would have expected. Does it mean because you talked to your daughter about this in the series and we played a clip in the intro to this but which is, you know, she obviously is very far more aware, i think then you are of the misinformation out there about you does it? i mean it doesn't seem to faze you, but i look, there's a lot of qanon people think i'm a lizard person like tom hanks or on the jeffrey epstein airplane or crazy conspiracy theories, none of which are true, but but, but does it bother you? does it concern you? now, i get to do very exciting work. I get to work with very smart people. So even though this misinformation thing is, is it sad that for example, some elderly people who should have had a covid vaccine, it made them hesitate and hence, you had hundreds of thousands of depth. You shouldn't and i worry about my kids having to run into this overall, my life is not one that i would say, hey, you feel sorry for me for any aspect. It's just another thing for me to deal with and hopefully take some of it and the humorous vein. So i mean, you do a lot of work in africa. It doesn't get much attention and so let's just give it some attention right here. What are you working on that you know, what have you what has worked and what are you working at? what needs more? i mean polio is virtually eliminated in the world, correct? yeah, we still have we still have a little bit in africa, a little bit in pakistan, afghanistan, but with luck over the next year for years, we'll get that to zero in sheldon from mortality cut and cut in half because the turned the central, because a lot of the work you have been doing, that's right. Our foundation and lots of the rich governments, including the u. S. Funded vaccines for all the world's children. And that was for diarrhea pneumonia. Now for hpv. And you believe that that infant mortality rate around the world can actually even be reduced by other half. Exactly. So the un in 2015 actually set that as a goal to do that by 2030, we are way off track because the progress of the first 15 years we hit the pandemic. These african countries are indebted. The strains on rich country budgets are huge with ukraine agents, society and now that aid has gone down. Okay, thank you so much thank you. I'll that's it for us. The news continues to have agreement