and explained as it just was. there may be no malice at all or anything wrong with what he s presented to go back to the al gore comparison. what his parents told him. he could explain, you know, his suggestion that he had helped to create the internet. he could explain that he helped to inspire the story love story, but it became a part of gore s character to say he had these embellishments. i just thing as a matter of politics when you have this fundamental narrative undermined in this way that it s going to come back and haunt him. i m not quarrelling about whether he should have asked his parents. i m just saying when it comes out this way, this is something that s going to haunt him for a while. well, we shall see. we shall see. he is definitely a rising star in the republican party. thank you so much. of course, you can watch jose week nights on telemundo s
we ll be going live to las vegas to catch up with jim in just a second. all right, meanwhile, let s go to senior political editor mark preston, also in vegas while we re waiting to hear from our jim acosta. mark, we have just been talking about these new polls that were released a few moments ago as we are preparing for the presidential debate tonight. okay. this is live television, folks. it s like a juggling act when you have about three live shots to get to in las vegas. jim acosta, are you in place? there we go. we got you. this is a, this is of no fault of my own, kyra. i promise you. did you have a late night in vegas, jim? listen, what happens in vegas, kyra. that s all i have to say. no. the lovely carol costello, carol had to move off and mark preston and i had to move in. this is live tv. we have to roll with the punches here. we got a little debate tonight, what do you think, kyra? yes, we do. we have been talking about, you know, just who, i guess the
create jobs, or to help create jobs in this country, is the number one question. but i also have a number of other questions that i hope to be able to ask tonight. 8:00 p.m. eastern time, and if you want to watch the debate in espanol, 11:35 p.m. on telemundo. i want to talk about the parts of our community that don t often get a chance to speak up at events like this. or be able to ask a question of the men and women who wish to be the next president of the united states of america. and i always think format is important. and it s tough sometimes for moderators to get these guys, and women, off their talking points. could this be free-wheeling? what s the format like? we certainly hope. i know the organizers have some nice surprises planned. the fact of the matter is these are very lively candidates. we saw in the last couple of debates how the interaction kind of can change, in just a second. with something a candidate says or with a question by one of the
again. thanks for coming back on the show. happy to be here. build the dang fence. i never said immigrants started the fire. i just said immigrants start fire. there s substantial evidence that these fires were it was because john mccain some time ago said that the huge wildfires in arizona may have been set by illegal immigrants. his words not mine. later he claimed he was misquoted his alter egowas on john stewart s show with that explanation. this wraps up an incredible week for me. i want to thank you because you by watches us on msnbc have given people like me and colleagues of mine and telemundo network are the opportunity to kind of share some experiences and sensitivities with you.
rico. we re still having audio issues. i wanted to use this time that we have that msnbc so graciously has given up us is privilege of talking about issues like this. eileen, what we re seeing on spanish language television as i said is being seen in 110 or 115 countries, what is your favorite part of being seen in the united states and throughout the world? the great opportunity is not only the latin audience kind of watch the novella and the part that we are portraying and producing in telemundo if not the rest of the world. sometimes when i go to poland, for example, the people can practice the spanish with our novellas because we have the closed caption and they can practice the spanish. the other thing it s not only the latin audience watching the novellas in telemundo, it s very