Welcome to welcome to primetime weekend. I m rachel maddow. Let s get right to the week s 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 wi
Been the candidate, we have won the election every day. Nobody has any idea where Kamala Harris stands on anything. I read a story this morning that her advisors are considering just copying all of Donald Trumps policies. He really believes she is going to build a wall . Thats just [bleep]. She said for years to build a wall and she has done nothing. Sometimes i think it is getting so ridiculous, this lying from the Harris Campaign that they are just fooling us. John 2024 candidates hitting the Campaign Trail Today as Vice President harris takes flack for yet another policy Flip Flop. Critics zeroing in on her Change Of Heart when it comes to a Border Wall that she once called a Vanity Project for former President Trump Beer hello, im John Roberts in washington. Weve made it to the top of the mountain, the middle of the week, long slide into the weekend. Sandra halfway through. John, good to be with you. Sandor smith in New York. This is America Reports. The Harris Campaign reversing a
Trump will surrender at and atlanta, georgia, jail. Why the fbi is now investigating the threats for the grand jurors who voted for his fourth indictment. We have breaking down all of the latest legal development. Classroom culture war. A new school year means new confusion for teachers over what they can and cannot teach. States like florida restricting lessons on race and sexuality. I will talk to a teacher who was so fed up, she quit. The grim reality of the postroe world. A 13yearold rape survivor forced to give birth after her state effectively outlawed abortion. The heartbreaking story that has galvanized the reproductive rights movement. All of that and more is coming up. We start this hour with new details on Donald Trumps fourth indictment. Nbc news has learned that Law Enforcement officials are now expecting the former president to surrender to a Fulton County jail no earlier than thursday of next week. Fulton county d. A. Fani willis as given trump, along with his 18 codefen
We began the southwest where people are frantically preparing for Hurricane Hilary. Latest update from the National Hurricane center, hillary has been downgraded to category two storm. Its making its way north alongside mexico spa coastline. Heavy rain is expected to impact california in arizona starting sunday. The National Weather service is calling the storm rare and dangerous. And here is why. Parts of the California Desert are forecasted to get three years worth of rain in just 48 hours. Lets get an update from Priscilla Thompson in palm springs, california. Priscilla, how are people where you are preparing right now . Yeah, alicia menendez, folks here are frantically filling those sandbags, hoping to protect their homes and businesses as that rainfall is expected to move in here in the coming hours, really. And this operation has been going since about 6 am local time. Thats 9 am eastern time. And its expected to continue for about the next four hours. You can see there are folks
Rahm emanuel about whats the u. S. Trying to accomplish. We begin this morning with the Devastating Hawaiin Wildfire S that ravaged maui. Police have identified three more victims. Nbcs tom llamas spoke with the family a 79yearold who was identified yesterday. Reporter remembering the man who for decades was the rhythm of lahaina. Music was the love of his life. Buddy jantoc spent life as a musician, touring country before settling down in his forever home of lahaina. Theyre sharing memories like this of uncle buddy playing weekend gigs at lahainas cannery mall. He was always smiling, always laughing. This as nbc news has reviewed a lawsuit accusing Hawaiian Electric of years of inaction and negligence, arguing it should have been planning to shut down Power Systems before the damaging winds hit. The Hawaiian Electric company declined to comment on the pending lawsuit. Nbcs Steve Patterson joins us this morning from maui. What more do we know about that suit and the investigation into