Declining to endorse either candidate. Melania trump breaking from her husband by making her support for Abortion Rights public. The timing of her announcement raising questions as former President Trump prepares to head back to butler, pennsylvania, this weekend, the site of the first attempt on his life. Live to israel as The Middle East braces for Potential Retaliation by the netanyahu government against iran and ahead of the first anniversary of the act 7th terror attacks. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell. Economy and the inflation the top issue for voters. A nearly perfect Jobs Report blowing past all expectations. Heading into the final weeks of the campaign, the Labor Department reporting employers added more than a quart billion jobs. That drives the Unemployment Rate down to 4. 1 . Harris Targets Union voters today. Those are critical in battleground michigan. The campaign has been having Labor Pains after the Firefighters Union, perhaps joe bide n bidens most stallworth
It is good to be back with you on this second hour of chris jansing reports. At this hour, the bombardments around beirut. Massive Fire Balls as israel carries out some of its biggest strikes yet. A live report on that, and the disturbing new comments from irans supreme leader. Plus, hes the governor who Donald Trump torched as disloyal, bad, and very average but today, a reunion, four years in the making. Will it all be water under the bridge between trump and Brian Kemp . A blue Collar Pitch in the battle for the blue wall. Were live on the trail with Kamala Harris in michigan. And the second to last Jobs Report before the election is now out, and it is crushing expectations, weve got the numbers. Our Nbc News reporters are following all of the latest developments. We begin with nbcs Matt Bradley live on the ground in beirut. Matt, israel carried out one of the biggest bombardments yet. What do we know about what happened, what they were targeting . Reporter they were targeting what
We ve seen no agents here. Where is our government? jesse: biden round out of money for hurricane victims because he spent it on migrants. The entire hotel has been booked for federal employees. I was like i have people that were pulled out of the mountain. You ve had for years as vice president. To do all the things you promised in the campaign. But haven t done it. Jesse: kamala harris under pressure. The former president is. . . When you are using a drag queen to recruit for the navy, that s not what we want to. We need alpha females and alpha females who are going to rip out their own guts, eat them and ask for seconds. Jesse: plus. Who is this guy? over 220 americans dead from hurricane helena, hundreds still missing and loved ones are crying in agony. Cadaver dogs have joined search and rescue crews to sniff out bodies stuck under structures. One north carolina woman lost her parents and her 7yearold. I was stuck there for a very long time in the water and i was held down by
Gulf coast ports shut down. That was going to be disastrous. President biden helped get that thing fixed fast. They have agreed, tentatively, to a 62% increase in wages over the next six years. The first offer that the union turned down, to show you how far apart this was, was 40%. That is where this began, so the pressure that the union put on related work and of course the port companies, they were hoping that president biden would feel the pressure of this and just order a tafthartley return to work by that union to get through the election and you can imagine how the company s thought the president will have to do this because this will be so difficult for the harris campaign, but the president kept the administration pushing both sides to an agreement. At 5:30 you can imagine how this was at the white house. The white house chief of staff is on zoom. Pete buttigieg and others in the administration, with both sides forcing them to get together and so both sides understood that it l
Also tonight, melania trump in a major break with her husband on abortion rights, saying it s a woman s fundamental right. And what donald trump just said about this. Vice president kamala harris at this hour appearing with liz cheney. And bruce springsteen endorsing kamala harris. And tonight, the developing headline involving the menendez brothers. First tonight, this verdict just in in the police beating death of tyre nichols, following a traffic stop. Three former memphis police officers accused of violating his civil rights. Federal prosecutors say the officers laughed and bragged about beating him, saying they never called medics in order to protect themselves. What the jury just decided and we ll go live to the courthouse. Tonight, former first lady melania trump and that major break with her husband, taking a stand to support abortion rights. Reportedly writing in her new memoir, abortion is a woman s fundamental right. Melania trump makes no mention of her husband, president t