Welcome to welcome to primetime weekend. Im rachel maddow. Lets get right to the weeks top stories. The past 24 hours have been a microcosm of the race. Kamala harris and Tim Walz doing the standard Campaign Work for a major party candidate. They kept an even keel at the Sitdown Interview last night that went through a lot of the republican charges against them. While they are doing that, trump is out there, honestly stumbling to put together english sentences. His campaign keeps stepping in masses of its own making including an enormous one tonight which we will get to. Both the candidate and his aides are, as usual, posting through it. The fallout continues from trumps a political Photo Op and Campaign Commercial on tiktok at Arlington National Cemetery at the beginning of the week where he gave the thumbs up over the graves of veterans, including many who did not consent to any of this. He cut a video blaming their deaths on democrats. Now, his campaign is openly doing battle with t
Alecia is off today. Ahead, on Labor Day, tim harris is launching a massive Campaign Blitz this holiday weekend. Will be joined by Keisha Lance bottoms and congresswoman, madeley d, then, Donald Trump embraces the group behind project 2025, while he is still trying to run from projects 2025, and a road trip. Will Harriswalz Campaign is about to kick up a Bus Tour to defend reproductive rights. All of that, plus major Breaking News out of israel, so, grab your copy, folks. Gr settling, welcome to the weekend. Weekend. We begin we begin with the Breaking News from overnight. Israeli forces have recovered the bodies of six hostages from gaza, including israeli american, late last Night President biden said quote, it is a tragic it is as tragic as it is reprehensible, make no mistake, hamas leaders will pay for these crimes and we will keep working around the clock for a deal to secure the release of the remaining hostages. Msnbc foreign correspondent, Matt Bradley joins us now, from Tel A
Thousands are protesting across israel to express outrage over six hamas hostages killed in gaza overnight. Israelis, including hostage families, accusing prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Torpedoing A Ceasefire Deal that might have saved them. We are getting new details by the minute. Hamas says they couple six in a tunnel shortly before israeli forces were able to reach them. Their bodies were recovered and brought back to israeli territory. Among the dead are Israeli American Hersh Goldbergpolin. The other five hostages. President biden has issued a statement vowed to make them pay. First we go to Matt Bradley joining us from Tel Aviv. I know youre at the big protest. What is happening . Reporter i hope you can hear me. It is definitely loud here. It looks like There Hundreds Of Thousands of protesters stretching as far as the eye can see. On the other side of this Pedestrian Bridge is the same deal. Everyone out here, outraged this happens every week right here in front of what
I will see you tomorrow at 11 00 a. M. Eastern. We will be back next saturday and sunday at 1 00 p. M. Eastern. Prime weekend is next. Welcome to primetime weekend. I am rachel maddow. Lets get right to the weeks top stories. The past 24 hours have been kind of microcosm. Kamala harris and Tim Walz are doing the Stander Campaign Work for any major candidate, and even keel with a major interview Last Night that went through a lot of the republican charges against them. While they are doing that, trump is out there stumbling to put together english sentences. His campaign keeps stepping in misses of its own making, including an enormous one tonight which we will get to. Both the candidate and his aides are, as usual, posting from it. The fallout continues from trumps political fallout in Campaign Commercial on tiktok at the in Arlington National Cemetery earlier this week where he gave a thumbs up at the graves of veterans, including many who did not consent to any of these, blaming the
Polling that come out, both the national polls and the swing state polls. Are generally telling the same story right now, they re telling a story that vice president kamala harris is doing significantly better against donald trump than president biden had been doing in his campaign. That is comparatively good news for the democrats. They are, apparently, better off now with harris as their candidate than they were before the switch from biden to harris. That said, in absolute terms, the polls, national polls, and the swing state polls, broadly speaking, don t really give either party a reason to celebrate right now. Vice president harris may be doing better than biden was against trump, but it doesn t mean that she is clearly winning against trump. It s basically a tie between the two candidates right now. And that produces all sorts of interesting dynamics to watch for, when it is this close, little differences between the candidates and their campaigns can make a very interesting not