Reduced workloads. In moments, unpacking Donald Trumps everchanging position on abortion, plus the false information he keeps on spreading. Good day to all of you from Msnbc World headquarters here in New York. Welcome, everyone, to Alex Witt Reports we begin this hour with a charge of Breaking News right now. Protests are erupting over israel six hamas hostages found in gaza. Including the families of those hostages blaming prime Minister Benjamin not due for stonewalling a Ceasefire Deal that mightve saved their lives. This past hour, Vice President harris said he spoke with the parents of Israeli American Hostage Hersh Goldbergpolin and expressed her condolences. The other five hostages are all now identified. An israeli source tells Nbc News if forensic examinations are correct, they were shot shortly before they could be rescued. Their bodies were found in a tunnel in gaza and returned to israel. Several democratic lawmakers have renewed calls for cease fire. We have several repor
Let s get some of the conversations you might have missed. Some new polling to begin this hour. Vice president, kamala harris, and former president, donald trump, are essentially tied in every sunbelt swing state. According to be a latest, fox news polling, harris leads trump by registered voters in arizona and two points in both georgia and nevada. Trump, meanwhile, leads by a single point in north carolina. All of those results, we should make clear, are within the margin of error. But there are some trendlines here. In previous fox polls conducted before president, joe biden, exited the race, trump led by five points in arizona and nevada and north carolina and by six in georgia. So, charlie, we apply all of the usual caveats, pools are just a snapshot in time, we are two months before the election, but the trendlines do matter. And the path to 270 electoral votes matter and this polling suggests that, with the sunbelt back and play, harris has got options? yeah. I mean, obviously t
And the concerns that he could still play spoiler. And breaking news, the fbi holds a briefing on the gunman who shot donald trump, revealing images of the weapons discovered and new details about what he was searching for online. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. Lets start in battleground georgia, the big kickoff for Kamala Harriss statewide swing, just a couple of hours away now. Nbcs mike memoli is in savannah. What are we expecting, mike . Reporter well, chris, the Vice President now on her way here to georgia, and the goal for the harris walz ticket is to take the energy, the Excitement We Saw in the arena in chicago and bring it to the battlegrounds into southeast georgia, part of a Battleground State where we havent seen much president ial activity. The stat of the day, chris, is this, there has not been a general election president ial Campaign Event for a democratic candidate in this part of the state since the mid90s. That just tells you th
To sit down with the journalist to face tough questions. The latest from the Campaign Trail in just a moment. Plus jack smith files an appeal asking the 11th Circuit Court of appeals to reinstate the Trump Classified Documents Case. And the chair of the Georgia Democratic party joins me about their challenge about new rules to the Election Board and how those changes could impact vote this is november. Good to be with you. Im katy tur there for Andrea Mitchell. With the election just 70 days away, donald trump and j. D. Vance are picking up pace. Visiting michigan, wisconsin and pennsylvania and as Kamala Harris heads to georgia with her running mate tim walz. Harris is out with two now ads on the economy, trying to eat into Donald Trumps polling lead. Where she admits the Cost Of Living is too high. And touts her plans to make things cheaper. Shes also trying to tackle another issue trump holds better on, that is immigration. But did texas just make that harder . As a judge there temp
Characterized by an uncontrollable or insane impulsion to wander. So that was the problem. It wasnt they disliked being enslaved or yearned for freedom and basic humanity, no, no, the problem according to Samuel Cartwright was that black people as a group were inherently defective. They were maniacs, always running away. Thats what he said. 107 years later it is embarrassing to repeat something this stupid out loud. So obviously insane. But heres what you should know. It was taken very seriously at the time and so was Samuel Cartwright. Cartwright was not a french character at all. He was a nationally prominent physician, a highranking officer from fairfax, virginia, peered he went to penn medical school. He was a credentialed man of science, a man who commanded the respect of the country. 50 years after the civil war, one of this nations leading medical dictionaries continued an entry for this. So with retrospect, we would call Samuel Cartwright a bigot, which He Undoubtably was. But