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
Your people back into their homes, you dont escalate to deescalate. And obviously now, with the iranian retaliation, israelis are in their shelters as they go into the new years holiday weekend. Ben . Yeah. I think, you know, since October 7th, the Biden Administration has had a number of goals, one was to provide support to israel as it aims to go after hamas, but then also one of the principle goals of u. S. Diplomacy since October 7th had been avoiding deescalation into lebanon, precisely because i think there was an understanding that lebanon could be kind of the Trip Wire to this broader regional war that essentially, you know, it is one thing if there is a conflict In Gaza, that alone is destabilizing enough and is obviously brought a tremendous Human Toll and has grinded on for a full year. But the concern has always been that if israel launched a Ground Operation and significantly escalated things in lebanon that could draw iran into a conflict in a direct way as were seeing to
Hes had a lot of endorsements over the course of his career that dont matter so i think that is probably part of what is informing his calculus here. Track that is all in tonight. The special editions of Alex Wagner starts right now. Of Alx Wagner starts right now. Not in our usual new York City Studio Tonight instead, we are coming to you live from lancings midtown Brewery Right here in the Battleground State of michigan this is one of the crucial states that will decide who the next president is, and both campaigns know it. Later this Week Donald Trump will be headed back to the detroit Metro Area meanwhile, the Harriswalz Campaign is barnstorming the state with a Bus Tour focused on the issue of reproductiv that bus just rolled into town this morning, and were going to more on that later on this hour including an interview with one of the very important people riding on thatop bus. It is ath critical time for the Harris Campaign in the state of michigan. He today a new Usa Today Pol
Reports, escalation in the Middle East. A new bombardment of israeli strikes against hezbollah targets in lebanon and an unprecedented warning to civilians. The fears its stoking of a larger regional war. Plus disturbing new evidence tied to the suspect in that apparent second Assassination Attempt of Donald Trump, including a letter where he appears to confess to the plot. What it means for his case when he face has judge next hour. And new Nbc Polling on the 2024 race showing a historic surge in favorability for Vice President harris. We will look at whats driving that and why this contest is still neck and neck. Good morning and thanks for joining us, it is 10 00 a. M. Eastern, 7 00 a. M. Pacific, im Ana Cabrera reporting from New York. We begin with the Breaking News in the Middle East. Lebanese officials say more than 180 people have been killed after intensifying israeli strikes there overnight. The idf Issuing A first of its kind Evacuation Warning to civilians in Southern Leban
Today for to 79 at cardiac. Com or amazon. This is cnn the Worlds News Network thank you so much for joining me this saturday. Im fredricka whitfield, and we begin this hour with our breaking news. Vice president then Kamala Harris has accepted an invitation from cnn to debate former President Trump on October 23. This would be their second meeting on a public like Debate Stage and would take place in the final few weeks of the campaign. After initially rejecting a second debate with harris following his September 10 showdown with her in philadelphia, less quick, trumps suggesting he might be open to another debate saying im quoting him. Maybe if i got in the Right mood and quote the Cnn Debate would mirror the June Debate between Biden And Trump with a similar format in which trump and this time harris would field moderators questions for 90 minutes without a live studio audience. And it would take place at the networks studios in atlanta. Weve got a team of correspondents and analyst