These two men were both a heartbeat away from being interesting this evening. It was a Vice President ial debate. One of these men will lose and we will never from him again. The other one will become vp again and we will never hear from him again. 4144. All right. A look at the late night takes of Vice President ial nominees tim Walz And J. D. Vance. The Ohio Senator largely kept things cordial in last Nights Debate focusing most of their attacks at their Running Mates at the top of the ticket. We are going to go through the big moments from what could be the final faceoff between the campaigns before election day. We will bring you a live report from The Middle East following a major escalation by iran launching a massive ballistic Missile Attack on israeli. We will have the very latest developments just ahead. Two major stories this morning. Good morning. Welcome to Morning Joe. Its wednesday, october 2nd. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of Way Too Early white House
Your people back into their homes, you dont escalate to deescalate. And obviously now, with the iranian retaliation, israelis are in their shelters as they go into the new years holiday weekend. Ben . Yeah. I think, you know, since October 7th, the Biden Administration has had a number of goals, one was to provide support to israel as it aims to go after hamas, but then also one of the principle goals of u. S. Diplomacy since October 7th had been avoiding deescalation into lebanon, precisely because i think there was an understanding that lebanon could be kind of the Trip Wire to this broader regional war that essentially, you know, it is one thing if there is a conflict In Gaza, that alone is destabilizing enough and is obviously brought a tremendous Human Toll and has grinded on for a full year. But the concern has always been that if israel launched a Ground Operation and significantly escalated things in lebanon that could draw iran into a conflict in a direct way as were seeing to
Good day. I am jose diazbalart, in for chris jansing. Foreseeable and preventable mistakes. A brand new bipartisan report lays out Secret Service failures ahead of the attempt on Donald Trumps life in july. The errors at the heart of the report and what it means for The Agency moving forward. Plus, an unprecedented attack appears to be sparking a new phase of war. Israel launching a wave of strikes in lebanon after intercepting a missile fired at Tel Aviv in hezbollahs deepest strike yet. What the idf just said that could signal a Ground Invasion could be coming. And florida bracing for impact as helene intensifies into a hurricane. Millions of people are now under a State Of Emergency as they prepare to grapple with Lifethreatening Storm Surge, damaging winds and heavy rain. Well talk to the head of fema about how they are preparing. And we begin with new details emerging from a bipartisan report on the Security Failures that led to the first Assassination Attempt on former president
Pacific, israeli forces say its military forces are carrying out new strikes against targets in Southern Lebanon. It follows two straight days of Surprise Explosions of pagers and Walkty Talkies Targeting Members of the iranbacked militia hezbollah. Lebanese Health Officials say 37 people were killed and nearly 3,000 were injured. Just the last hour, the head of hezbollah accused israel of violating a Red Line and explosive devices could be a declaration of war. Joining us, Raf Sanchez and Fourstar Jienl and Marc Polymeropoulos for the Cia And Security intelligence analyst, raf, what can you tell us whats going on right now . Jose, the Israeli Military has announced thousands of strikes in Southern Lebanon since this war broke out, but the strike they announced earlier this morning is different. Rather than saying they are targeting a specific Hezbollah Operative or responding to a specific rocket they announced what sounds like a broad effort to, in their words, degrade Hezbollahs Cap
Thats to be expected. The alternative, however, is simply untenable. At home, another four years of Donald Trumps chaotic leadership, this time focused on advancing the dangerous goals of project 2025 will hurt real, everyday people and waken our sacred institutions. Richard, which are the reasons who have not stood up yet, who served in the Trump Administration, who could actually make a difference in terms of persuading those very few, unpersuadable voters who are left . And do you expect any more of them to stand up between now and november . I mean, theres the former Vice President who has, shall we say, a certain physical and political incentive to stand up, given how he was do you think hes going to do it . No. Look, i think if people were going to stand up, theyve had now, shall we say, several years to do it. Several people simply have not. Disagree with me or not, but how much of a difference will it make . Its certainly not going to shake trumps base. Im not sure many of thes