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
And to, you know, describe the theatre and the Home Front and all the elements of war, but i was very worried whether i would come across as some kind of creepy tourist who was just kind of feasting on the unusual sight and ticking it off on a weird bucket list. That wasnt my intention, i was invited there, but im aware that its a sensitive area, isnt it . Oh, but you can see. I mean, vitaly, im sure, agrees with me that the reaction of ukrainians that you were there, they were very honoured, they were so pleased, because they know you, and also because you have become a well known advocate of what is a growing issue for ukraine, and that is how for ukraine, and that is how to deal with Mental Health. To deal with Mental Health. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And thats why i went there. And thats why i went there. The elements, the way we cover olena zelenska, the first lady, olena zelenska, the first lady, she has, for a few years now, had these special conferences she has, for a few years n
Killed by israeli fire. The israeli Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, blamed hamas leaders, saying the killings showed they did not want a deal. The Opposition Leader Yair Lapid accused Mr Netanyahu of deciding not to save the hostages. Jon donnison reports from jerusalem. Six more dead israeli hostages in gaza. Carmel gat, who was a0. Alexander lobanov, 32. Almog sarusi, aged 27. Eden yerushalmi, 24. Ori danino, who was 25. And the youngest, hersh Goldberg Polin, just 23, who was also an american citizen. With broken hearts, the Goldberg Polin family is devastated to announce the death of their son and brother, hersh. They thank you all for your Love And Support and ask for privacy at this time. Just a few days ago, his mother, rachel, had called for his release. Hersh, we are working Day And Night and we will never stop. But she will never see her only son alive again. Israels military says the six bodies were found in a Tunnel Under Rafah in the south of gaza. Its chief spokespers
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
Its a great pleasure to be in your presence, stephen. People in ukraine know who you are, they follow you, and they appreciate what you do. No, im thrilled to be here. It was extraordinary to visit ukraine almost a year ago, and i still think about it almost every day and follow whats going on in the news with puzzlement, hope, sometimes despair, and often bafflement. Wars are such complex machines, beasts, whatever we want to call them, arent they . And its very hard to understand them. And, you know, youre a journalist, you both have every right to visit and to be embedded amongst military and to, you know, describe the theatre and the Home Front and all the elements of war, but i was very worried whether i would come across as some kind of creepy tourist who was just kind of feasting on the unusual sight and ticking it off on a weird bucket list. That wasnt my intention, i was invited there, but im aware that its a sensitive area, isnt it . Oh, but you can see. I mean, vitaly, im su