Democrats were promising a new direction for the war, and to make their case, they had just nominated a decorated war veteran to be there nominee, a man who had been awarded the silver star, the bronze star, and three Purple Hearts for valor in combat. Thank you. Im john kerry, and i am reporting for duty. [ cheers and applause ] senator john kerry made his Military Service in vietnam Essential Part of his campaign for president that year. In the weeks after he accepted the democratic nomination, kerry consistently led the incumbent, resident george w. Bush in the polls, but then in august, everything changed. That was when these campaign ads started airing. I served with john kerry. I served with john kerry. John kerry has not been honest about what happened in vietnam. He is lying about his record. Is a central image of john kerrys campaign, the candidate, literally, wrapping his arms around his vietnam friends, but now republicans are challenging his war record with other vietnam ve
To know that it was a doctored photo. Only leading to more speculation and conspiracies and a guaranteed spot in textbooks on how not to manage a crisis. That does it for me tonight. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Hi, rachel. Hi, rachel. I do want to know tomorrow, once youve had time to dig in what you think about the [ committees kate conspiracy. We all want to know. I hereby can tell you in advance that i will not have a thought about the princess kate. Ill continue to keep you updated. I promise. Thank you. I outsource this to you. You can do the thinking about t this. My brain cantou handle it. I will do it. Thank you, jen. And thanks to you at home for joining us this hours. Really, really happy to have yoy here. Do you remember when the right wing freaked out about bud light . They really freaked out about bud light. They were shooting bud light cans. They weresh hitting bud light cs with baseball bats. Rggg they were setting up towers of bud light cans to use as pract
The u. S. Media is covering israels assault on gaza. We will be joined by the acclaimed broadcaster mehdi hassan who left msnbc earlier this year after his shows were canceled. Then to tiktok. The u. S. House has passed a bill that could lead to the banning a bill that could lead to the banning of the social media app tiktok. It was potentially ban tiktok is a huge mistake because it does not do with the real issue which is social Media Companies of all types are actually targeting as for our data, exploiting our attention, threatening our democracy. Instead of that, this act is just targeting foreign actors and playing a nationalism and xenophobia. Amy we will speak to ucla professor Ramesh Srinivasan. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In gaza, at least five people were killed on wednesday when israel bombed an unrwa Aid Distribution Center in rafah, one of the u. N. Agencys last remaining aid sites in
Come to light. Democrats were promising a new direction for the war, and to make their case theyd just nominated a decorated war veteran to be their nominee, a man whod been awarded the silver star, the bronze star, and three Purple Hearts for valor in combat. Thank you im im john kerry, and im reporting for duty senator john kerry made his Military Service in vietnam a central part of his campaign for president that year. In the weeks after he accepted the democratic nomination, kerry consistently led the incumbent, president george w. Bush, in the but then in august everything changed. In that was when these campaign ads startedca airing. I served with john kerry. I served with john kerry. John kerry has not been honest about what happened in vietnam. He is lying about his record. Its a central image of john kerrysl campaign, the candida literally wrapping his arms around his vietnam teammates. Now republicans are challenging kerrys war effort with a tv ad featuring other Vietnam Vet
The issue its splitting parties. Joining strange allies are two big Republican Voters are on different sides. We will explain a political tug ofwar. First, lets get a check on the markets. A mixed dan wall street. The dow industrials up one third of a percent. You can see the s p has just now turned positive. It has been down today. The nasdaq composite is off by a third of a percent. Dollar tree falling following its results in the company says it will close nearly 1000 stores. Most of them Family Dollar locations. More on that, coming up or we start with tesla down 30 your today. Phil lebeau joins us now with more on teslas woes. Phil. Its a lot things that we have been talking about. The industry has been talking about for some time. People are now saying, maybe we should expect tesla to really face Slower Growth over the next couple of years. Or at least in 2024. Really, three things stand out. First of all, the hybrid ice vehicle demand. Ice vehicles, the sales are not growing the