Can you believe it . Rachel maddow on bravo. Never thought i would see the day. For all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with me. Ill see you at The End of tomorrow. Today started with bomb shell news. Last monday, Jd Vances Team contacted officials in Springfield Ohio to Fact Check claims on haitian immigrants eating pets. Springfield City Manager told vances people pointblank there was no verifyable evidence of immigrants eating pets. The claims were baseless, but still, Jd Vance repeated them online. And the next day, trump used one of the biggest platforms in the world, an american president ial debate, to push the claims again. Claims the campaign knew were lies. The new reporting from the Wall Street Journal should be devastating to the trump campaign. But the stunning thing is they probably wont care. Because trump and Vances Invocation of springfield was never about the truth to begin with. Springfield is less important to them as an
Dangerous for Everybody And America is bankrolling that. And then there is the naked political reality that anything that benefits netanyahu in this period is not necessarily going to benefit Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are democrats in this period. You are talking about Vladimir Putin who wants Donald Trump to win. Benjamin netanyahu wants Donald Trump to win. The differences the biden administration is in many ways helping Benjamin Netanyahu providing him the impunity to do things that wind up with Killing Palestinians and lebanese and endangering israelis but also increase the possibility of Donald Trump pain president. Then there is just the whole human told. There is the expectation that there is going to be retaliation on the part of hezbollah and i wonder how you are girding yourself as we are in this strange interregnum period. I guess there could be more explosions tomorrow, but as we and global Community Sit and wait for retaliation from hezbollah for taxes real began. The bi
Many decades. It hasnt been done for a long time, but we are going to win new york. We are 47 days away from election day, and instead of rallying in a Battleground States, Donald Trump was on Long Island Last Night vowing to win new york, a state, of course, he lost by wide margins in both 2016 and 2020. Well have more from that event in just a molt. Meanwhile, on capitol hill, a small group of house Republicans Yesterday killed speaker Mike Johnsons Plan to fund the government. Well look at what could come next in that spending fight. And also ahead well bring you the latest out of lebanon following a second day of targeted and deadly Device Explosions. Good Morning And Welcome to Way Too Early on this thursday, september 19th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And we have a lot to get to this morning, and we will begin with the road to the White House. Yesterday was supposed to be the day that Donald Trump faced sentencing for his 34 Felony Convictions in the
All time. They didnt correct her once, and they corrected me on everything practically, Nine Times. The audience absolutely went crazy. And the real i thought it was i walked off and said, that was a great debate. I loved it. Well, i mean, yeah. You know, the stage hands were going crazy. Did he know there was there was a Hound Dog howling up in the balcony of abc. You know, Peter Jennings brought it originally. Willie, the crowd went crazy. What debate is he talking about . Is he confusing the debate with the Taylor Swift concert . Our crowd in the studio, joe, every time i provide a piece of analysis or as you did there, they go bananas, leaps to its feet. Yeah, baby, Come On. Sometimes they go into The Wave when theyre in here. Oh. Its fun to watch. Not the weave, The Wave. It energizes you. I mean, theres so much there. They say, who is they saying he is the g. O. A. T. . Calling himself the g. O. A. T. talking about the rousing ovations he got in a completely empty constitution ce
It is just coming in right now. The federal reserve announced half a point. That was not the most expected. 48 days to the election, great news for the economy. Critics said it could not happen, but our policies a little policies are lowering costs and creating jobs. As a republican nominee plans to raise your grocery prices. How can a family of four that, like cheerios? i haven t seen cheerios in a long time. And nancy pelosi on the state of the race and the maga threats in the house. And growing calls for center in the senate as a hate crime hearing flies off the rails. You do not support hamas. I oppose you should hide your head in a bag. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. I am chris hayes. We are so back. This afternoon federal reserve chair jerome powell took the stage to announce the feds first cut in interest rates since 2020 and the beginning of the pandemic recession and it was a big one. A half percent interest rate reduction to stimulate borrowing and