Voting later this month. It means a good portion of you have made up your mind, but there are some still left deciding out there and we know that because the polling is changing. Harris is inching ahead nationally and in key battlegrounds including Sun Belt states so who are those folks and how much change is still possible in these next furious few weeks . Joining us now at the big board, Nbc News national political correspondent, the one and only, steve kornacki. So where are we today, steve . Look at it from two vantage points. Nationally, this is the average of the national polls coming out of that Labor Day weekend. Harris, 48, trump, 45. Threepoint advantage for the democrats. Theyre happy to be ahead and in a different position than they were when Joe Biden was their candidate. He was basically trailing Donald Trump all year. But for republicans, theres solace in these numbers, too, because Donald Trump is no stranger to this kind of a set up. Labor day. Being a little behind. T
Will go further. I will commit as Prime Minister to spend 3 of gdp on defence. Because you cannot penny pinch your way to peace. Security is delivered through strength, by planning for the worst, not hoping for the best. We will send a signal to our enemies and our allies alike that The Uk is prepared, that we will not leave the field. Just to put that commitment in perspective, we currently spend less than 2. 5 of our gdp on defence, but ten times that much on our health system, Welfare System and on pensions. Keir starmer says that we cannot afford to spend more on defence. I say we cannot afford not to. The second major challenge that faces us is global migration. We must restore our credibility on this issue, to win back the voters that switch to reform, the lib dems, Labour And those that stayed at home. As Home Secretary i delivered the reforms that are currently cutting net migration by half. I didnt talk tough, i took action. I negotiated with the chancellor, with the health se
Lets look at the wider situation. With me is Mohamed Taha from bbc arabic. Thank you forjoining us on The Programme. The Breaking News in the last few minutes. We knew that the israelis had discovered some bodies in rafah. Now we know that one of them is an American Citizen. What more do we know about whats happening there at the moment . 50 whats happening there at the moment . ~ whats happening there at the moment . ~. ,. , moment . So we knew about recovering moment . So we knew about recovering the moment . So we knew about recovering the Bodies Moment . So we knew about recovering the bodies of moment . So we knew about recovering the bodies of the | recovering the bodies of the hostages a few hours ago. And the announcement from the White House came just a few minutes ago that one of these bodies is american. The American Citizen is hersh Goldberg Polin, and his parents were really vocal about him. They had interviews in the us and in israel, and i gets you did an interview with
Good morning, good morning, to sunday september 1st. Im ali velshi. We Come On air with Breaking News out of the middle east. The bodies of six israeli hostages taken by hamas during the October 7th attacks have been recovered in gaza. There bodies were found late yesterday in an underground tunnel beneath the southern city of rafah. According to the israeli military, it appears the hostages were killed shortly before the idf was able to reach them. They have been identified by the idf as carmel gat, eden yerushalmi, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi, Master Sergeant Ori danino and american israeli, hersh goldbergpolin. Hersh goldbergpolin was attending the Music Vessel one hamas launched the attack took he was taken hostage along with many others and later became one of the most wellknown captives having been injured in multiple Hostage Videos that were purred out by hamas. In the wake of his capture, his parents were extremely outspoken in their efforts to bring home their son and the
Hour of our supersize show on this labor day eve as we head into the holiday weekend on this last week of summer. The polls have continued to look promising across the board for vice president kamala harris. A fox news poll of key sun belt swing states that harris leading donald trump by one point in arizona, two points in georgia and nevada. She is behind i one in north carolina, within margin of error. A much better standing than joe biden s position two months ago. The jawdropping thing is the enormous gap we are seeing between the top of the ticket and the down ballot statewide races. This was true when president joe biden was the democratic nominee and a lot of people pointed to it as a reason not right enjoyed, right? but, it has remained the case even as kamala harris has improved the democrats position in the presidential race. The same fox news poll shows the democratic candidate for senate congressman ruben gallego, is running 15 points ahead of republican kari lake. A one po