Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Really happy to have you here. One quick note before we get started tonight. Right now, it is monday night, which is when you are used to seeing me here on the tv machine. Your eyes are not deceiving you, here it is. But this week, i will also be here on friday. We re doing a special edition of the rachel maddow show at the end of this week on friday at 8:00 p. M. Eastern. And then at 9:00 p. M. Eastern, on friday, right after, right after the rachel maddow show, we re going to be showing my new movie. My new documentary which is called from russia with lev. It s utthe first trump impeachment and what was both so terrible and equally so stupid about that entire scandal. So in case you want to pop it in your calendar or set it in the dvr, i m here tonight as normal but you get a second show at 8:00 p. M. Eastern on friday, and right after that special rachel maddow show, you can see my new movie, from russia with lev. But we start tonight
Travelers, but look now good morning youre live in the Cnn Newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington tonight, perhaps the most important 90 minutes of this year as a polarized nation comes together for the only scheduled debate in this bitter race for the White House. This is the stage where Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will meet facetoface for the first time. With less than two months until election day. Both candidates are determined to find an edge heres why this New York Times Sienna College Poll i like some of the other polls out there showing no clear leader with both Harris And Trump locked in a statistical deadheat tonight. A chance to pull away he played with this really old and tired playbook, right . Where he, theres no floor for him in terms of how low he will go and we should be prepared for that. We should be prepared for the fact that he is not burdened by telling the truth and trumps Team Planning to treat Kamala Harris as the incumbent, tying her to the pr
The network at nbc news, thank you for staying up late with me. I will see you tomorrow. Thank you for joining us. Super happy to have you here. It is september nine today and you know what that means. Obviously, it means happy birthday, North Korea and i hoped you remember to get them something nice. It traces its founding to this date in 1948. Today was full of terrified North Korean citizens marching through the streets dressed Identically Doing Synchronized things with flags and banners all pledging loyalty till death to this third generation of totalitarian dictators who have ruled that country since its findings in 1948. The cult of personality that is the North Korean dictatorship involves essentially the worship of the Kim Family Is Gods on earth. And today on the occasion of North Koreas birthday, the chinese president and the president of russia Vladimir Putin send warm congratulations to North Korea and warm congratulations to kim jongun praising his dictatorship promising c
Birthday, North Korea. Hope you remember to get them something nice. North korea traces its founding to This date in 1948. And so today was full of palpably terrified North Korean citizens marching through the streets dressed identically, Doing Synchronized things with s flags and banners all pledging loyalty until death to the third generation of totalitarian dictators who have ruled that country since its founding in 1948. The cult of personality that undergirds the North Korean dictatorship involves the worship of the kim family as gods on earth. Today, on the occasion of North Koreas birthday, the chinese president , Xi Jinping and the president of russia, Vladimir Putin, sent warm congratulations to North Korea. Warm congratulations to kim jongun, praising his dictatorship, promising Closinga Relations and cooperation in the future. And at some level, maybe the Birthday Card from China And Russia for North Korea makes d sense. I mean, both China And Russia do border North Korea, a
Thanksgiving dinner there. You know plenty of people could fit it s true i gotta say, having been in the mix for so many debates and so many different ways that you have worked, are you actually looking forward to it tomorrow or are you bracing yourself? both. I think i can t stop thinking about the fact that they have never met in person. And there s so many dynamics to i also as a fellow prepper, i admire that about the vice president. But it also means you need to prepare and then be agile, so i just think that will be interesting to watch. Re and how does she deal with the trump s of it all? so both, bracing and also interested. How about you? i mean, i feel like coming out f of the most consequential presidential debate that has everal happened in u. S. History. Every. Playing the odds means this should be a normal one, right? boring maybe. Nothingor about this campaig isbo boring or normal. I don t know. I feel like we re all just sort of ready for everything. Ready for anything.