A very good day to all of you from new york. Welcome to Alex Witt reports. We begin with a new Nbc News Poll with 44 days to go until the election. Kamala harris leaving Donald Trump 49 to 44 . The candidate best representing change, Kamala Harris with 47 to Donald Trump with 38. Steve karnak keep pointing out this Morning Harris is seeing additional growth. Some of the groups that have gravitated the most toward harris is independence, 20. Joe biden was putting up very poor numbers here. For harris you can see a 26 point jumped. As far as issues go, inflation is the top concern for voters. 65 of the people in your poles say the country is on the wrong track. Who is best able to solve the Crime Problem . Trump by six. Who is best on the economy . Trump by nine. Inflation, trump by eight. The election will be close. Weve always known that. Thats what happens in these president ial elections. We know this will be a close race. Vice president harris will be in new York City for an event.
The International Red Cross says three of its staff have been killed by shellfire in the eastern Donetsk Region of ukraine. They were Unloading Supplies for ukrainian villagers when they were hit. President zelensky called it a russian war crime. The head of unrwa has told the bbc that israel has a deliberate objective to dismantle the organisation after six of its members were killed in an Air Strike in gaza. The israeli military published a list of nine men it says were members of hamas killed in the strike on a school in nuseirat refugee camp. The un says the names do not tally with previous lists given by israel. If you are just if you arejustjoining us, welcome to the programme. Post debate, some new polling is also out tonight. Reuters ipsos have Kamala Harris five points ahead of Donald Trump that is a wider margin than the four Point Lead she had in late august. But then, the Popular Vote is not the deciding factor. The winner of a us president ial election is the candidate tha
Son of a former for republican president ial nominee is slamming the partys current nominee for the first time. Youll hear Jimmy Mccains searing reaction to trumps conduct. The hallowed grounds were several generations of his family are buried im Phil Mattingly in for Dana Bash. Lets go behind the headlines and Inside Politics and first up ninE Weeks away, 63 days away, just 1,500 hours or so. Not that anyones counting Election Day right around the corner in some States Voting begins jusT Days from now. IF You live in the Battleground State of North Carolina ballots, they actually go out on friday, which makes the first and potentially only debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump that much more crucial, it happens onE Week from today in the Mustwin State of pennsylvania and it comes after weeks of back and forth between the two campaigns of her scheduling and rules as botH Sides realize this event could transform this. Now final stretch of the race
Money. He has a long history of allegedly not paying officials where trump holds he rallies. To quote wall street journal, hes left a trail of unpaid bills in his wake, but theres just some you cant weasel out, at least without posting a massive bond first. Thats a lesson donald trump is learning the hard way, when it comes to the 464 million judgment in the Civil Fraud Case brought by tish james. With a deadline looming, today trumps lawyers said its not going to happen. They claim are Feigneding Insurmount appear difficulties, calling it a, quote, practical impossibility to get a bond for that amount, says trump went to four brokers, and everybody turned him down. Its a scenario new York Attorney general tish james saw coming, and shes absolutely clear on what shes prepared to do if and when trump comes up empty. If he does not have funds to pay off the judgment, then we will seek, you know, a Judgment Enforcement mechanisms in court, and we will have the judge to seize his assets. W
Weekend. We are still here. Prosecutors carefully laid out the plans to put donald trump on trial, and those plans have nearly all been appended with less than eight months until election day. Politico said its conceivable trump could face a jury in two or three of the cases before the year is out. Each day that passes makes cramming multiple trials into 2024 unlikely. We are starting a lookat what comes next in georgia, florida, new york, and washington, d. C. , as the clock keeps ticking towards november. Joining us is msnbc legal analyst mary mccord, the form from the Justice Department and cohost of an amazing podcast. Also with us is palm beach state attorney dave aronberg. Perhaps we need to take the party to miami next time. Right now here with mary in washington, and thank you for being here. If you can just do us sort of a Scene Setting for us about where the State Of Play in the cases are, my contention has been for some time that donald trump was going to use this system to