Was a direct fact check to j. D. Vance he did complain that cbs was violating its own rule. It is the top of the hour. Super grateful to have you watching our coverage of the Vice President ial debate. It started as a Slow Burn. Not sure what is happening on the substance, the pace was slower at the beginning and then about midpoint it really took off. And then we had what i think was a almost knock out. He wobbled on guns and then when we got to January 6 He Was out cold. There was stonns, too. I remember that lieberman debate, they were sitting next to each other, it was, we agree on stuff. Some of that vibe. You saw a little bit of this is j. D. Vance that made a lot of friends at yale this is tim walz that won a republican district in difficult times including 2010 when every other democrat got kicked out. You saw an heability i can talk to people who dont agree with me, right . But the thing that really Sort Of like cut it was the democracy question. Walz apologize for it. This is
Good evening. Im Alicia Menendez here with symone Sanders Townsend and michael steele. As of this minute, we are 34 days from Election Day 2024. A short time ago, democratic governor Tim Walz of minnesota and republican senator j. D. Vance of ohio faced over the first and only Vice President ial debate this cycle. Folks, lets be clear. The debate might have seemed normal but must nothing was normal on what happened on that stage. J. D. Vance tried to rewrite swaths of Terms Policy positions. Flat out lied about issues like abortion, Health Care, and immigration. Arguably the biggest moment of the night was the final moment. J. D. Vance was on the Debate Stage tonight. Mike pence, Donald Trumps former Vice President had the audacity to certify the 2020 election results. Here is what j. D. Vance said when he was pressed tonight and trumps long running election lies. Would you seek to challenge this Years Election results even if every governor certifies the results . First of all, were f
Its going . In the last one within the first ten minutes people had their ideas. Whats your Mark Tonight . I think well have a sense of whether what the moderators have planned tonight. One of the things was Fact Checking was going to be the purview of the participants not the moderators, and i think well get a sense of what role the moderators are going to play in the first few minutes. I think if you look back at harris and her sort of arc in the senate on the Judiciary Committee, it took her about three quarters to make bill barr, Jeff Sessions and Brett Kavanaugh squirm. I would give her about five minutes to see what approach shes taking and what strategy she plans to deploy. Trump wont be the story. I know he likes to always be the story, but trump will be trump. I think ill be interested to see what abc and the Moderators Approach is tonight and what Vice President harris approach is tonight. You make a great point in reminding everyone even though news viewers may have been wat
a stolen election. more on how that has changen up these races in a minute. but let s start in my home state of texas, where the issue of abortion has become a key focus in a closely watched democratic runoff. back in march, neither incumbent nor bernie sanders-backed candidate could cross the threshold. in a race that featured an fbi raid and questions on electability and border poicy. they have tried to seize on the intention in the draft opinion overturning roe. putting the issue front and center against the pro-life candidate. this is how she made her pitch to chuck earlier this month. in this moment, we re watching the fall of rome. and the erosion of our fundamental rights. this moment we truly it necessitates a champion that s going to fight fur people s rights. there s so many key issue where is he s siding with republican asks he can become the joe manchin of the house. we don t want it to be the deciding vote on the future of our fundamental freedoms and rights in
Right . You would have a pretty good sense of what he was going to be asked and a pretty good sense of how he was going to answer it. None of this goes perfectly from a prosecutors perspective. Danny will tell you, none of this goes perfectly from the Defense Attorneys perspective. This is why you have redirect. This is why you have final arguments, this is why as danny said earlier, you keep a list of defenses and some fall out along the way and some get better. As much as you plan, you have to be flexible. Is the prosecution happy with the cross . If i were the prosecutor here and they wanted to spent 3 1 2 days saying the same thing, my view would be let him have it. Keep doing it. I think at some point, jose, youre losing your jury. I take anas point, sometimes you lose your jury, but you never try to. My goal is to never lose my jury. And if youre saying the same thing over and over for days on end, i think youre losing your jury. There is an agony in a crossexamining of a witness