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
I will see you tomorrow at 11 00 a. M. Eastern. We will be back next saturday and sunday at 1 00 p. M. Eastern. Prime weekend is next. Welcome to primetime weekend. I am rachel maddow. Lets get right to the weeks top stories. The past 24 hours have been kind of microcosm. Kamala harris and Tim Walz are doing the Stander Campaign Work for any major candidate, and even keel with a major interview Last Night that went through a lot of the republican charges against them. While they are doing that, trump is out there stumbling to put together english sentences. His campaign keeps stepping in misses of its own making, including an enormous one tonight which we will get to. Both the candidate and his aides are, as usual, posting from it. The fallout continues from trumps political fallout in Campaign Commercial on tiktok at the in Arlington National Cemetery earlier this week where he gave a thumbs up at the graves of veterans, including many who did not consent to any of these, blaming the
Front door. Some had riot shields and guns in their holsters. The officers presented a search warrant and questioned her for three hours. At one point they had the great grandmother stand outside in her nightgown. According to their warrant, officers were looking for records including applications for ballot by mail, a list of voter banks and documents about elected officials and candidates. Martina said the officers told her they were there because she filled out a report saying older residents were not getting mail ballots. That is quite an aggressive response to that report, which she confirms she did file. Martinez is a retired educator in san antonio who spent 35 years as a member and volunteer with lulac, the civil rights group in america. Part of her work with the organization includes helping older residents and veterans registered to vote and that is what made her suspicious to republican texas attorney general ken paxton. Martinez and other leaders heldn a news conference out
joey: it s the 9 a. M. Hour of fox & friends weekend start thing with this, we told you about the reported venezuelan gang takeover at a colorado apartment complex, and now local officials are seeking an emergency order. Pete: and president trump pushing for parental rights and saying one thing he ll do kamala couldn t name what she d do her first day in office. He named a few. Give the rights back to parents. They called us domestic parents. Can you believe it? well, we ll change that on the first day. [cheers and applause] rachel: plus, i broke out my bowling shoes just for this. Look at that, you guys. Yeah. Pete: what d you break em out for? rachel: we re going to go welling. You know what? why don t we let them decide. [laughter] pete: that s a great one. Rachel: that is a good movie, actually. Love that one. I like anything the that vince vaughn is in. You ll decide how good we are. We re competing live on fox square. The final hour of fox & friends weekend starts right now.
Military families in america. Should we be shocked? yes, political boomerang. Why republicans should do research before going ahead with their attack on kamala harris. And katie harris said the zoo has come to town. It turns out the real circus just showed up on trump s transition team. I am ayman mohyeldin. Let s do it. Five time draft dodger donald trump loves to paint himself as a champion for veterans. Nobody has ever defended the veterans like i have defended the veterans. I took good care of our vets. We will take care of our veterans better than anybody. Trump s performative support for the military hit a new low this week when he went arlington national cemetery 213 fallen soldiers who died during the 2021 afghanistan withdrawal. As we now know, trump used his visit to get political, filming an ad in which he jabbed president biden with the headstones of fallen troops in the backdrop. We can never assume why trump does what he does, but we do know that it leads to disgraceful m