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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
It s 5:00 o clock in new yor k city, this is the five. nearly 40 days of silence leading up to 26 total minutesds of air time in an interview lass night for vice president harrisn and her running mate tim wales, they sat down with cnn for their first big media interview since replacing biden on the democratic ticket. Fisi harris claimednc her values have not changed when she was pressed on why she s done about face on some major voter issues likesome fracking, take a listen. M do you still want to banac frackingki? no, as vice president i did not ban fracking and as w president ili will not ban fracking. Ch i keptan my word and i will kee. My word. Nd what made you change the position at the time? well, let s be clear, my values have not changed. Gillian: harris fracking 180. Watch what she actually said during the 2020 campaign. Th there s no question i m in favor of banning fracking. Joe biden will not end fracking, she s been very clear about that. D the americanan people kn
With michael steele. Alicia is on. Today the harris campaign is in georgia. Donald trump defends his disastrous visit to arlington national cemetery. Elizabeth warren slams trump s proposal saying he thinks women are stupid. Marc elias is back as the fight to protect the 2024 election is already underway. Grab your coffee, settle in, folks. Welcome to the weekend. folks, there is just 66 days until election day. You heard me, 66. The first ballots will be mailed out in just six days. Vice president kamala harris is showing up in places that haven t seen a presidential nominee in quite some time. Harris took her bus tour with governor walz to southeast georgia this week, marking gains in the battleground state. According to her campaign, a presidential candidate hasn t stopped in savannah during a general election cycle since the 1990s. While in savannah, harris sat down for her first major interview is democratic nominee. Here is how she explained her shift on some policies. I thin
There, thanks for joining me. I m alex marquardt in this weekend for fredricka whitfield, and we begin with breaking news. We are learning that seven us troops were injured in a raid that killed 15 members of the islamic extremist group, i. S. I. S. That raid happening on thursday in iraq two of the seven were evacuated from the area for further medical treatment u. S. Central command says that the operation was targeting i. S. I. S. Leaders in order to disrupt the group s ability to plan for their attacks. Cnn s chief international security correspondent, nick paton walsh is joining me now. Live from london. So nick, what do we know about this operation? yeah alex, quite extraordinary development here. Essentially, because of the number of u. S troops injured in this instance, seven 75 of whom apparently during the operation to it seems from a fall separately related to that one of whom requiring followon care outside of theatre. Now we re getting a statement to iraqi military high co