To be back after a couple of weeks off, but i mean, what a time to be back election day, as i said, its just one month away israel could strike iran at any moment that could be a seismic event. And at a sensitive time in us president ial and in this moment, Vice President harris, shes stepping up outreach to Arab American and muslim voters last night she met with Community Leaders in michigan as shes trying to shore up support with Palestinian Americans reeling from the war in gaza. And now Lebanese Americans are distressed by the bombardment of beirut both groups are concerned about us support of israels government. And both groups make up a critical demographic, specifically in the Battleground State of michigan while i was iii is one of the Community Leaders who met with Vice President harris hes the ceo of Emgage Action. Its an organization aimed at boosting the muslim american vote. And they have endorsed the harriswalz campaign. Thank you so much for meeting with me this morning.
palestinian civilians. hezbollah speaking publicly for the first time since the start of the war. his message as concerns grow of a multifront fight. also ahead, eric trump back on the stand for a second day. his contentious testimony in his family s fraud trial, and his high wire act to escape blame. and later, the crypto king found guilty on all counts, the quick deliberations in sam bankman-fried s trial and how long he could face behind bars. hello and thank you for joining us on this friday. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york, and we continue with the breaking news this morning. secretary of state antony blinken back in israel meeting with the prime minister, as well as his war cabinet pushing for protections for palestinian civilians. on the ground in gaza right now, idf forces say they have encircled gaza city as israel pushes forward with its ground assault, and to israel s north, the leader of hezbollah just spoke publicly for the
hello., everyone.d. it is 5:00 in new york city and this is the five.si ngpresident biden facing criticm for focusing on islamophobia despite a despicable wave of anti-semitisofm in america.-d there has been a staggering 400% rise in incidents since the war in israel. a student charged with threatening to shoot, stab and students at a campus. the university s president says they are working to fight all forms of anti-semitism on ca campus. the administration is rolling out a strategy to counter hate towards muslims. kamala harris making this announcement on social media. as a result of the attack and the humanitarian crisis in gaza, we have seen an uptick in anti-palestine, and is ainci bahama and islamophobic incidents. the white house, when askedtt about it, they apply they have a handle on anti-semitism.orce and related forms of hate. there were 100 actions agencies were able to take to counter the scourge of anti-semitism in the next step was to counteromes is
is about donald trump but it s in a very civic-minded message about voting. is the idea here that young are people, people who are into popular culture are naturally anti-trump or what? what is the idea here? who are you trying to motivate? i am trying to motivate the people who might not otherwise vote because they ve been so beaten down by this campaign. it s a partisan issue to try to get out the vote because the republican party is actively trying to suppress voting. particularly we re seeing it north carolina but we re seeing it all over. to remind people this is happening and, therefore, if somebody doesn t want their voices to be heard, that s an even better reason to get out and make sure they are heard. i may be inspiring trump voters to go out and vote but i think once people make the decision to back donald trump, they re already in the game.
at some point the dnc refused to acknowledge the change within the demographics. we do need more turnout. bush won with 10 million more voters for his base, george w. did and obama came in and got 10 million more behind his base and romney couldn t duplicate the numbers. bush is around 84, romney was around 78, evangelicals, didn t even try to get them. trump is around 68%. not to mention mormons. exactly right. i was in georgia about a week and a half ago and women were leading in early vote in that state. when you look at florida, you