Your show. I was. Have a good night. Thank you. We re just 24 hours out from the vice presidential campaign. And already the harriswalz campaign has picked the most important part of that debate. It s really rich for democratic leaders to say donald trump is a unique part of democracy when he overturned peaceful power. Who won the election? i would rather focus on the future. You have a real clear choice of who s going to honor democracy and who s going to honor donald trump. That was an absurd statement that donald trump peacefully turned over power. If you watched the debate you would have seen j. D. Vance trying to put a normalcy. It is hard to defend donald trump s action. There s a lot of bad data points there. Tonight today it sort of feels like the news gods watched last night s debate and saw j. D. Vance appalling answer and decided to highlight the whole issue. Because today a federal judge in washington, d. C. Unsealed a partially redacted a statement from jack smith in which
Invasion of lebanon. Hezbollah says it fired guided missiles at their tanks, as israeli airstrikes have continued across the south of lebanon and here in beirut. We have heard more loud explosions and the sound of strikes in the last 15 minutes. Iran s response to the operation, a barrage of missiles fired towards israel Last Night, has raised tensions in this region even higher. Both sides say they re preparing further attacks. President biden has warned against any strike on iran s nuclear sites, but says israel has the right to respond. In a moment we will get the latest from our international editorjeremy bowen, whos injerusalem, but we start tonight in northern israel. 0ur middle East Correspondent Lucy williamson sent this report. Israels Air Force was defending other targets when irans missiles came. Slipping through defences to hit several air bases, like this one at nevatim. Another narrowly missing an Intelligence Base in tel aviv. The crater it left filled with visions of wh
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Areas that threaten is really targeting the north of that country. In response we have seen hezbollah Firing Missiles again today towards israel into central israel, Hitting Highway and also again the sound of sirens in Tel Aviv sending people running to shelters. Hezbollah s response and how it will look at how sustained and the scope of it will be something we will see over the next few days, whether they still have the infrastructure to strike back at israel as they have said they would do. I just want to show you a map of the area we are talking about between Southern Lebanon and northern israel. You can see the border between the two countries but you can also see the tiny river which is a key marker because after the last war between these two sides and 2006 that what is to mark a Buffer Zone and they wont suppose me any hezbollah fighters in the Buffer Zone but there has been and that is why israel says it is trying to move now hezbollah back out of that whole area to meet the t
Middle east very closely. The united states is committed to Israels Defense. We are watching developments, as i said, very carefully this morning. U. S. Officials tell Nbc News they expect this iranian response to involve more fire power. Israel is trying to push hezbollah forces north. The israeli defense Forces Spokesperson announced israel uncovered Hezbollah Tunnels in Southern Lebanon. One of the buildings that our troops raided, we found proof of this. This is a map that hezbollah planned to give its terrorists at the time of a widescale invasion of israel. It was to cover out a massacre in israels north. Joining me from jerusalem is nbcs Erin Mclaughlin. Also with is monica alba. Monica, what are you hearing from the White House . The State Department ordered all u. S. Government employees and their families to shelter in place and that this is supposed by in response to the killing of nasrallah on friday in a massive Air Strike by israel as well as previous fronts to hezbollah