Im Ana Cabrera reporting from New York. Jose diazbalart picks up our coverage right now. And good morning. It is 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Jose Diazbalart. We begin with a scandal in battleground, North Carolina, that could have national implications. Mark robinson is facing pressure to leave the race after allegations he made racist and lewd comments on a pornography site, including declaring in one post that he was a black nazi. Robinson who is North Carolinas lieutenant governor, is denying the allegations and vowing to stay in the race. This is not us. These are not our words. This is not anything that is characteristic of me, nor has it ever been. Folks here also know my character. They know who i am. They know my voice, so to speak. This is not my voice. This is not things we would ever say or even think. Cnn published the string of incendiary comments it says it found on the Message Board dating back to 2008, well before robinson began his political career. Nbc
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
States that could decide the outcome feel about both candidates. Post Debate Polling from the New York times and Sienna College has this race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump deadlocked nationally. But its a different story when you zoom in to battleground pennsylvania. Vice president harris is up 4 points among likely voters there, albeit within the margin of error. Well dig deeper into the numbers, including why the share of voters who wanted to learn more about harris before last Weeks Debate have largely remained unconvinced. New Quinnipiac Polling also has the Vice President leading trump in pennsylvania as well as in michigan and wisconsin. Though all three of those key State Results are also within the margin of error. In other words, a dead heat. So what are both candidates doing today to connect with voters . Harris is continuing her battleground sweep, shell be in Michigan Today alongside Oprah Winfrey for a live Stream Event aimed at urging americans to register to vot
President has laid out. And therefor, we should use all the tools tools that are at our disposal. So i m going to look at it. That is all in on this wednesday night. Good evening alex. Thank you my friend as always. Great show. Today started with what should have been bomb shell news. From the wall street journal. Last monday, jd vance s team contacted officials in springfield, ohio to fact check claims about haitian immigrants eating pets. The springfield city manager told vance s people pointblank there was no verifiable evidence or reports about immigrants eating pets. The city manager told vance s team that the claims were baseless. But still, j. D. Vance repeated them online. And the next day, trump used one of the biggest platforms in the world an american presidential debate to push those claims again. Claims his campaign knew were lies. This new reporting from the wall street journal should be devastating to the trump campaign. But the stunning thing is they probably won t care
tonight on the reidout we have bagram in alaska. They say it might be as big, might be bigger, than all of saudi arabia. So my kids keep me humble. Unfortunately kamala harris doesn t have anything keeping her humble. Can someone track down the women kamala harris says are bleeding out in parking lots because roe v. Wade was overturned? does that look like a party? that seriously trying to win the election. But diminished donald trump confusing alaska and afghanistan, maga hack sarah huckabee sanders and john mctee smearing and ridiculing women. Perhaps they don t think they need votes because they have a different plan to seize power in january. And my friend and colleague, rachel maddow will be here to talk about that. And also to tell us about her highlyanticipated new documentary from russia with lev, which premieres this week. but we begin tonight with the american twilight zone, one of the the best episodes of the original old timey version of that show was called the mo