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
Investigation is continuing just now, that has been difficult for the snp, hard for people to move past that. There was a lack of progress, of course, on independence. A number of people who have criticised a strategy that Nicola Sturgeon pursued, that Hamza Yusuf pursued as well, her successor, and of course Nicola Sturgeon was such a successful politician. She resigned quite suddenly and was replaced by Hamza Yusuf as her predecessor, who had a short time as First Minister and of course, he did not have the support at holyrood in the chamber i do not have enough mps to get things through. So there were a minority government, they had lost their Partnership Support so he had to go. John swinney is now coming in, trying to address a lot of those problems, a lot of those problems beyond their control, such as the police investigation. 0ther control, such as the police investigation. Other problems, when it comes to delivering, for example, Government Advisers here quite candid, say, yes
Traveling with the trump campaign. And this is cnn this is cnn Breaking News and more now on the Breaking News from gaza, the israelI Military says it has recovered the bodies of six hostages from an underground tunnel in the Rafah Area On Saturday, the idf its now formally identified and named all six and their families have been notivated, notified you can see there arE Photographs there. They are Hersh Goldberg, polin eden, yerushalmi, Carmel Gat almog. So rusi alex lobanov, and Ore Dana obviously, their families having to deal with this terrible news now the White House put out a statement. I just want to read part of it to you, quote, 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 now, the news had led to renewed protests in israel calling for the israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to a Ceasefire And Hostage deal. T
Learned on Saturday Evening that the idf are discovered six bodies in the Gaza Strip and we were waiting identification of those. One of those has now been identified as hersch Goldberg Polin, the Israeli American who viewers may recall seeing in the wake of the hamas led Terrorist Attacks of october the seventh with half of his left arm blown off. He subsequently appeared in Hamas Hostage Video several months ago, his parents have been incredibly vocal. They appeared at the Democratic National Convention. Theyve met with President Biden and theyve been tireless in their campaign to get not just hersh released but also all of the hostages still remaining in the Gaza Strip released as well. The family of hersh put out a Statement Saying with broken hearts, the goldberg family, and the goldbergpolin family, excuse me, as devastated to announce the death if their beloved Son And Brother hersh, the family. Thanks you all for your Love And Support and asked for privacy at this time Presiden
Obvious line of attack. To answer more than a couple of questions into a single interview . As she rose in the polls until the starstudded connection most of the nation media didnt care but as the pressure built harris agreed agreed to sit down and not with Opera Or Gayle King But Cnn anchor and a dash of interviewed her several times. Much of the Bans Criticism focused on her decision to include her Running Mate, Tim Walz. She hasnt answered a single hard question they finally signed up for some and she asked to bring along an emotional support animal. She should disabuse every notion that Mainstream Media gets to dictate when you get to interview and how you get to interview. Others assess the interview in advance. This Interview Isnt going to reveal anything we dont all ready know about her. Expect this to be purely aboutface. Dont compass out there almost every Day And President ial candidates to tell voters find out what you are made up of the Vice President should do more of thes