Welcome to The Weekend. I am Alicia Menendez with symone sanderstownsend. Michael steele is off at we began with news is from the Middle East. Hezbollah, the iranian backed militant group based in lebanon confirmed its leader has been killed. The news broke from the Israeli Military who said it targeted Hassan Nasrallah in a series of airstrikes in southern beirut friday. Overnight, hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets across the border towards israel. The Israeli Military continued intensive strikes across lebanon. Smack joining us now from beirut is Msnbc Correspondent Matt Bradley. A lot of new information to cover this morning. Give us the latest. Reporter yeah, guys, first of all, the reason i am wearing all this Body Armor is in an abundance of caution. Ever since immediately after the announcement by hezbollah they confirmed the death of Hassan Nasrallah have been killed, we have experienced a burst of gunfire from right behind me from the neighborhood and possibly on the bea
Longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and strikes last night on Apartment Complex In Beirut. Israel claims that hezbollah was using the complex as in underground headquarters. This represents a major escalation of the backand forth between Israel And Hezbollah, which israel has intensified in the last couple weeks. The strikes killed several other Highranking Hezbollah officials and the iranian State News that says in revolutionary Guard General was killed in the same strike. Lebanon lawns and more than 100 wounded in the strikes. That number is expected to rise. Nasrallah is a travertine cleric, who has led the group since 1992 and has grown the group in most powerful Running Back and forth and the reason both militarily and political terry. It is what is called a state within a state. He also led the group through decades of conflict with israel, participate in the Syrian Civil War On Behalf of of the regime and help back others in the region including the houthis in yemen. The national
It was a really busy week. So lets get right to it, some of the conversations you might have missed. Billionaire mark cuban, a Kamala Harris supporter, appeared on a Cnbc Squad Box and shared his thoughts on the Vice President s vision for the economy. Lets take a listen. How much more do you think the public knows now, and how much more do you think the public should know . Obviously, she is talking more, giving speeches, she was very clear about tariffs right there and shes got 40 days to communicate about other things. Think of this as a business and she is the ceo. She went from lack of favorability, lack of awareness, and way behind Donald Trump, to here we are, 50 days later from where she started, she is oh worst tide, people on her economic policy, she was by trump 20 , now she is behind 11 . She is making progress. If she just continues along the trend, the trend is her friend, that means, she is doing the right thing. She will keep communicating new ideas, new elements. She w
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