Not. We are glad to see you back. I am a covid magnet. I was on my fourth covid. Everyone is leaving the studio. Come back, i am good. I am negative. The most he will ever be. Correct, for the next three or four months. I watch my show an office in the morning the tv went on and i had myself a bit of a nap. We are getting going. You know what i am saying . We are going to roll. Is bringing the covid energy this morning. It is good to see you back at work. Velshi starts now. With 52 days left to go into Election Day one debate in the books. Kamala harris is touting her bid as, quote, a new way forward. While Donald Trump is starting to sound like a broken record. In the days since the debates, the democratic nominee has returned to the Campaign Trail and shifted her focus back to the Swing States that could be key to her victory in november. Yesterday harris returned to the allimportant State Of Pennsylvania where she held rallies and a pair of counties that Donald Trump won in 2016 and
Week. Lets get to some of the conversations you might have missed. Lets talk about the debate. In your latest piece you write quote, the most important thing i saw Kamala Harris who was pre blocking, not debunking, was waiting for someone to lie, and hit back with the truth. It is not working politics as much as you would hope it would in saturated lies, but free bunking is explain to people how they are being, or better yet will be related, what the motive is, how the con works, how the lie will be crafted and will function, and for extra credit, who benefits from it and how. In the age of trump, too any of his appointments have been debunked and no prebunked. And she said it at the outset, she said, let me say, you will hear a whole bunch of lies. And as he rolled them out, she explained why they were lies. We have talked about one of the most interesting stories about the ascension of Kamala Harris at the top of this ticket is that she has brought with her a lot of new thinking that
And fleeing. That will do it on this edition of Alex Witt reports. See again tomorrow. Up next, The Beat weekend. Welcome to the b weekend. Let us get right into the headline. Campaign boiled down to two big factors. The message, which takes endless repetition from the candidate, the surrogates, the ads. All the millions of dollars spent repeating the message. That is one part of the campaign but you might have heard some of the lines are variations on them from harris and her allies before. The other part is momentum. What we are seeing this week, they might have been seemingly logical Tuesday Night and even Wednesday Morning as it sunk in that room had a terrible Debate And Harris had a good one. It was only built in the last few days and harris doing, as i mentioned, a new television interview. She is ditching the Debate Performance and the perception of that performance, not really close, not one of our pole arise contested things where republicans and democrats see the economy dif
It s fu him to end this but today was about having the chance to not talk about a tactic but a strategy in relation to ukraine. Russia s president vladimir putin says lifting these restrictions would represent the nato alliance s direct participation in the ukraine war. We heard the same argument from russia s representative at the un. Translation: if the decision to lift restrictions is really taken, from that moment, nato countries are conducting direct war with russia. In this case, we will have to take the relevant decisions with all the consequences for this that the western aggressors were phase. Ukraine very much wants to be able to use these weapons. Our security correspondent gordon corera explains why. These are the western weapons at the heart of today s debate. They include american atacms and this, the british storm shadow system, which has a range of at least 250 kilometres. Storm shadow has already been used by ukraine against a russian base in occupied crimea last year,
It s a great book from a great reporter. I m glad you had him on, chris. Agreed. Have a great weekend. You too. Okay, well, today started yet again with news of bomb threats in springfield, ohio. Yesterday two elementary schools, city hall, dmv and the county court facilities had to close because of bomb threats. Today two elementary schools were evacuated and a middle school had to close. Yesterday the mayor of springfield told nbc news he believes these bomb threats are directly connected to the baseless rumors spread online in the wake of viral social media posts claiming haitian migrants were abducting people s pets in springfield in order to eat them. I should note that the claims about haitian migrants eating pets in springfield are lies. There is no evidence to back up any of those claims. But that does not seem to matter. Here s the thing, a week ago today, on all of twitter, there were only about 1,000 posts mentioning haitians, migrants or immigrants eating animals. Twitter i