But monday will be a working holiday for Vice President kamala hayes, who returns to the Campaign Trail with stops in michigan and pennsylvania, where she will appear alongside president Joe Biden. The polls show Vp Harris and former president Donald Trump headed into the fall locked in a tight race. The critical debate looms next week. While the first ballots of the 2024 campaign go out in just a matter of days. We have all the election latest ahead on Politics Nation. Plus, were following Breaking News out of the middle east. Vice president harris and President Biden have spoken with the family of Israeli American hirsh goldberg. One of the six hostages israeli forces found dead in gaza on saturday. Well have the latest on demonstrations breaking out throughout israel. We begin with nbcs Matt Bradley in tel aviv. Matt, what are you hearing from protesters there . Reporter yeah, reverend, i was out there for a couple of hours with my team and one of the things that came out loud and c
outspokenen to say the least about rod rosenstein needing to go here. your reaction to this and that change of tune? my reaction to that is the fact that i know that the president listens to sean hannity. i know he considers sean hannity a confident and a friend. the reason i was shaking my head when laura ingram was saying that, it was laura ingram giving her opinion. when sean hannity is saying that, it s a message to the president. they talk. odds are they probably had a conversation. i don t know if you guys agree or not, but i think sean hannity gave him good advice. do not touch anything. do not fire anyone and leave it alone. let s step back, like, the president is under criminal investigation. we shouldn t even be here. this is the united states of america, right? his lawyer, his campaign chairman, have pled out to a
washington, d.c. you just said something that i did not say and attributed it to me. what did you not say? i m not going to repeat the slander and the mis characterization. you re not going to say what you did say? no. this is your trick in the trade, to confuse and to incite based on fear and not to speak the true. this is a very serious issue and it washts trrants the truth and facts. just this week, the cook political report changed the rating on that race from leans republican to tossup. my panel with me once again to discuss. you re republican. i want to get your read on this race. looking at the most recent polling here, ted cruz is still in the lead by a few percentage points here, but this is a narrower race than many thought it would be. should not be a close race. this is red meat red texas. i think the reason it s happening is because of the ted cruz s personality and his likability factor and the fact
how much of a concern is that for you, rod rosenstein react to go this position? i think it s an unusual position to find yourself in. only on the job for two weeks when this happened and when comey was fired. blues he had been asked to do a memo about comey s ineptitude in coming out at that hillary clinton press conference and talking about the decision by the fbi not to pursue a prosecution there. and then all of a sudden, that memo which i could have written myself and i agree with 100% is used by donald trump as basically a protectional reason for cart blanch. right. for firing james comey. so he felt used. here he was coming in, taking on a very important job in the justice department, a career doj guy who rose through the ranks up to being a u.s. attorney and then deputy attorney general and all of a sudden he finds himself with this crazy president who has taken a memo that is a serious memo which is absolutely correct and then being used to