Welcome to The Weekend. I am Alicia Menendez with symone sanderstownsend. Michael steele is off at we began with news is from the Middle East. Hezbollah, the iranian backed militant group based in lebanon confirmed its leader has been killed. The news broke from the Israeli Military who said it targeted Hassan Nasrallah in a series of airstrikes in southern beirut friday. Overnight, hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets across the border towards israel. The Israeli Military continued intensive strikes across lebanon. Smack joining us now from beirut is Msnbc Correspondent Matt Bradley. A lot of new information to cover this morning. Give us the latest. Reporter yeah, guys, first of all, the reason i am wearing all this Body Armor is in an abundance of caution. Ever since immediately after the announcement by hezbollah they confirmed the death of Hassan Nasrallah have been killed, we have experienced a burst of gunfire from right behind me from the neighborhood and possibly on the bea
A warm welcome to the programme. The White House says negotiations with israel over a ceasefire in Southern Lebanon are continuing despite the israeli Governments Rejection of international calls to end hostilities. The us, France And Other Allies have proposed a three week ceasefire. The israeli Prime Minister said the army would keep hitting hezbollah with Full Force until residents of Northern Israel could return to their homes. The french president whos also been heavily involved in negotiations said he would not tolerate Southern Lebanon becoming another gaza. Meanwhile on the ground, strikes have been ongoing in lebanon, with israel saying in the last few hours that its fighterjets have hit around 220 hezbollah targets in the last day. Theyve mainly been in the south, in the eastern Bekaa Valley and in the capital beirut. Around eighty missiles were fired the other way from lebanon into israel. Our first report is from the bbc s Anna Foster in beirut, who witnessed an israeli air
Pennsylvania . Apparently a lot because the list is long. Thats the conclusion from a Senate Report just out this morning and senators from both sides, republicans and democrats, say the findings in this report are infuriating. Thats where we start today. Im bill hemmer, good morning. Dana im Dana Perino and this is americas newsroom. You picked up a rock and oh gosh. Its not good. Senate Homeland Security Committee releasing its initial report on Security Lapses in butler, pennsylvania. Lawmakers said this, quote, the officials declined to acknowledge individual areas of responsibility for Planning Or Security as having contributed to the failure to prevent the shooting that day. Bill meanwhile the Trump Campaign revealing intelligence officials have briefed the former president of iranian threats to assassinate him. The campaigns call the threats real and specific. Here is Senator Rand Paul earlier today on fox friends. You add that to the domestic terrorists trying to kill President
Lot to talk about. Let s do it. Now, if it was not clear, donald trump and j. D. Vance spent most of last week proving their bid to the white house is powered by white nationalism. This during a challenging time for the people of springfield, ohio. Some of whom happen to be haitian american thanked to gop lies and conspiracies. Lies that, in fact, been fat checked and corrected by the republican governor of ohio, the wall street journal and even the springfield woman who started the false peteating rumors in the first place. Despite all of the fallout, trump and vance have not backed down. They have doubled down on the lies. Here is vance with a new twist on these downfalls. They are here legally, they are here illegally so, okay, recap quickly. That is j. D. Vance acknowledging haitian americans do have legal immigration status but he is not think that they should. To him they are illegal deported just in a moment s notice when a second trump administration happens in it happens. Now,
Much for being being with us. Heres whats happening today. Former President Donald Trump takes his message to the critical Battleground State of North Carolina. The visit comes as a republican backed candidate for governor resist calls to drop out of the race after cnn exclusively on earth lewd comments made on a Porn Site while some members of the advanced team were very diligent there was complacency on the part of others that led to a breach of Security Protocols also, the Acting Head of the Secret Service is vowing to hold agents accountable left but he called a breach of protocol before trump was shot at a rally in pennsylvania back in july. The quote, failures, he says made it difficult for officers to respond and the aftermath that shooting i wasnt particularly impressed by what i saw and i told them in their were very nice people he wellintentioned. I just said it looked to me like a lot of this stuff was not quite ready for Prime Time damaging testimony in the search for answe