October 2, right now On Cnn this morning i actually think i agree with you. Im in agreement with him on that a civil Debate Something we havent seen in awhile, the vp candidates taking the biggest stage of their careers focusing on policy over personal attacks and this israel, promising iran will pay after they launched more than 180 missiles in the largest, their largest attack ever and viewing the Damage President biden will get a firsthand look at Hurricane Helenes wrath as he visits the visits the hardest hit Areas Today A. M. On the East Coast, heres a live look at new York City, home of last nights first and only Vice President ial debate wrapping up last night. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. And its wonderful to have you with us weve got two major stories that were following this hour, one abroad and of course, The One at home last night, the Vice President ial debate between Jd Vance and Tim Walz, the Highstakes Showdown could be the last major Campaign Event between now and Election Day this morning, we are also waiting to see what Israels Response to a massive aerial assault from iran might be around launching its largest attack ever on israel tuesday, firing about 180 ballistic missiles at least one person was killed, several are injured, even though israel and its allies were able to intercept most of the missiles my direction i say its military, actively supported the defense of israel. They attack appears to have been defeated and ineffective and this is testament Israeli Military Capability and us military make no mistake. The united states is fully, fully, fully supportive of israel the question now, how will israel respond . This of course, was the first topic of the first question posed to the candidates at last nights debate. Tim Walz Answering first, he appeared visibly nervous as he took the biggest stage of his political career in a positive view i ran our eye. Israels ability to be able to defend itself is absolutely fundamental. Getting its hostages back fundamental and ending the humanitarian crisis in gaza Jd Vance also talked about supporting israels right to selfdefense with his first answer of the night it is up to israel, what they think they need to do to keep their country safe. And we should support our allies wherever they are when theyre fighting the bad guys. I think thats the right approach to take with you as real question those answers, setting the tone for a debate that stayed remarkably civil and policybased featured it seemed plenty of midwestern nice moments between the candidates from Ohio And Minnesota i agree. It should not take seven years for an Asylum Claim to be done. I agree with you. I think you want to solve this problem, but i dont think that Kamala Harris does. I agree with a lot of which Senator Vance said about whats happening. His Running Mate though does not. And thats the problem, governor, i agree with the Amber Thurman should still be alive and there are a lot of people who should still be alive. And i certainly wish that she was im in agreement with him on this first of audit. Know that youre 17yearold witnesses shooting, and im sorry about that. And i appreciate his christ, have mercy all right. Joining us now to talk about all of this. Errol louis, cnn Political Commentator Matt Gorman, former senior adviser to tim Scotts President Ial Campaign. Meghan hays is former biden white House Director of Message Planning and Margaret Talev, senior contributor at axios. Good morning to all of you. Thank you so much for being here after what was a late night for many of us watching the debate. Maga tell, let me start with you just as we look at The Big Picture here. Obviously midwestern, nice, minnesota nice, doesnt always mean actually nice. But there did seem to be this interest, especially from Jd Vance, who has developed this reputation as a sharp, someone who throws elbows. He clearly seemed to want to present a different version of himself to americans. And in fact, some of the polling, the instant polling that we got back after the debate shows that both of them, both Jd Vance and Tim Walz now have higher Favorability Ratings than they did when they went in to this debate at what was your takeaway from last night yeah. I think if youve been watching Jd Vance in the political space for the last few months and you think of him as the guy who hates childless cat ladies. And is willing to make scapegoats or caricatures out of legal status immigrants in ohio, you would have seen a very different candidate last night. You would have seen someone who was gentle, poised who listened, who found ways to agree, even on what problems are, even when you disagree on the solutions. So i think that was in terms of sort of image Rehab Weve seen in polling Jd Vance since being just underwater in terms of favorability and i think we saw really different side of him last night and that probably helps him with some voters but but you know, fundamentally, there were also a lot of missed mistruths and on accuracies that reveal themselves in and last Nights Discussion and some weak points on the part of both candidates. So im not the fact that civility was one of the takeaway headlines that we keep saying is in theory for american democracy. But it probably neutralize some of the other headlines that could have been coming out of that debate. Errol louis, one of the obviously key exchanges in this debate was on the issue of Abortion Rights and the two have very different positions. But i thought the Way Vance tried to talk about it was pretty interesting because he was, he acknowledged, we need, republicans need to win voters trust back on this issue. What did you make of that and what overall were your stood out to you the most about the debate last night, well, look on that issue as on several others, but mostly on that issue, both candidates are trying to run to the center this is the system working by the way both the civility and the move toward the center are really is what you want to see in the closing weeks of a debate. You want people to try and kind of claim the broad middle thats how we get a stable democracy. So Jd Vance had the harder assignment when it came to that because hes defending something that we know from the polls is pretty much out of sync with a lot of where for the rest of the country is. He tried to make it seem reasonable. He tried to make it seem that he was both 100 prolife, but also not in favor of a national abortion ban. That just is not a coherent position. And Tim Walz, i think it took advantage of it. He had three different anecdotes of the kind of Horror Story trees that have already started to pop up as a result of some of the restrictions that are in place with the ending of Roe Versus Wade Jd Vance didnt really have an answer. He had his own anecdote, but it was for an anonymous person, a very sort of suspects story, frankly Matt Gorman i want to ask you what about what Jd Vance had to say or didnt have to say about the 2020 Election Results as January 6 became a topic of conversation, i walz, Tim Walz took the Question And Kind of turned it on Jd Vance. Lets watch that moment and i want to ask you about it i would just ask that did he lose the 2020 election tim, im focused on the future. Did Kamala Harris Censor Americans from speaking their mind and the wake of the 2020 covid situation. That is that is a nonanswer. Is that a nonanswer . Matt . Okay. Let me quickly step back for a second. I think to the Civility Point to both kanye saw in their interest to not attack the other person on that stage and keep focus on the top of the ticket. I think thats where the civility in name only kind of came from. But its really kind of focusing on the person and look, i will say this. Vance was clearly prepared for that sort of question. And that pivot talking about kind of the misinformation, talking about the Kamala Harris and Facebook And Misinformation on the 2020 election i think spoke to the fact that he was ready for it. Number one, he had and pivoted out of it. And number two, i think the story of it with vance was, you saw all the interviews in the prep he had done over the last, you what, 34 months that hes been on the ticket, if not more, really show up. And when you saw with walz who hasnt done really many interviews, only really want outside of it with dana bash, obviously, not having that interview prep, that having the tough questions and the ability to refine your arguments made him a little tougher to kind of pivot out of those trickier subjects. We saw that with a bunch of things to that hes really forced show to me that he was very experienced in pivoting out of it. Jd. Yeah. Actually, meghan hays, thats exactly what i wanted to ask you about because i mean, you can really see a Tim Walz obviously seem to relax as the debate went on, but he was really nervous at the top and if he had done more of this, might theyve been able to avoid this and do you think he met the kind of do no Harm Threshold last night considering that . Yeah. He absolutely method do no Harm Threshold that there is no major slipups, there is no major cleanup that has to be done from the campaign are from or from the top of the ticket for either Candidate Today really, except its probably the january makes answer on the trump side, but i do think he probably should be doing some more interviews. I im Big Fan of local media, so should probably get out there more to do local media. But i just think, look, i think that there was a good debate. Theres a good Policy Conversation whether or not you, who are you agree with on the side, they laid out Policy Initiatives here and it gives the american people some more meat to hang now on onto when theyre starting to look now at who theyre Gonna Vote for. But i do think he met the donoHarm Threshold. I think he surpass that. I think he did a good job. Of course, its youd be nervous, it is not a natural format or a natural thing for most people to do so. I mean, i get him a lot of credit for even showing that he was nervous like a normal human being. Well, certainly fair enough. Although he is obviously running to be Vice President united states, so guys, thank you for starting us off with this conversation going to stick around throughout the hour as we actually have a very big News Morning already unfolding coming up On Cnn this morning, iran launches a barrage of missiles, attacking israel and now israel is vowing, i dont think back what that response might look like. Plus the Hurricane Helene Death toll is rising as the search for the missing grows more desperate in hard Hit It North Carolina and in a debate full of midwestern nice some moments got a little contentious. Like when Donald Trumps 2020 Election Loss came up judge, did he lose the 2020 election . Tim, im focused on the future ive been saying publicly, what people say and turns out i have enough money. 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Com Carolina Cnn that is the message from prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the iranians launched a deadly Missile Attack against israel missiles those were fired at israel. Many of them intercepted, but a few got through killing at least one person and injuring several others out in the streets of tehran moments after the rocket attacks subsided, the world now waiting to see how israel will respond Scott Iran made a big mistake tonight, and it will pay for it. The regime in iran does not understand our determination to defend ourselves and our determination to retaliate against our enemies. Now, we will stand by the rule we established. Whoever attacks us, we will attack him around him armed forces, chief of staff, dismissing that warning, he says, israel should prepare for more strikes. If it continuous aggression you missile unit d, if the Zionist Regime that has gone crazy, its not controlled by America And Europe and wants to continue these crimes were wants to do anything against our sovereignty do you in territorial integrity. Tonights operation will be repeated several times stronger in all their infrastructure will be targeted cnn, political and national security analyst, David Sanger, also, of course, longtime New York times correspondent joins us now, david, honestly, theres no One Id rather talk to on a morning like this as the world waits for to find out what israel is going to do here. And i was just reading your piece in the times and, i actually wanted to ask you, i mean, it seems like the question about how israel is going to retaliate here does seem to come down to, i mean, there were several israeli officials that were on with my Colleague Wolf Blitzer last night, Naftali Bennett, former prime Minister Michael oren the former israeli ambassador to washington. And they both had pretty hawkish things to say about israel seizing this moment to take on an attack. Frankly, the iranian nuclear facilities and you write in your piece that that is something that benjamin netanyahu, the Prime Minister, has been looking for an opening to potentially do for many years. Do you think that is on the table here . And what does that mean in terms of escalation but i think its on the table. Kasie, im not sure theyre going to go that far and certainly the biden administration is urging them not to well lets just step back for a moment. The wider war that we were trying to really spent the past year of trying to avoid its here, its upon us. Right. I mean, what what it meant was dont spread the gaza war, the war against hamas elsewhere. And now of course we have seen Israel Go after Hezbollah Kill its leader. Weve seen israeli attacks and are houthi attack on israel and israeli Counter Attack and now weve seen for the second time in six months iran sending missiles directly it israelled, not really done that since the 1979 iranian revolution. So on all fronts, were there and then the question is, does prime Minister Netanyahu choose this moment to escalate further and take out whats the true longterm threat to israel, which of course is the nuclear program or does he say this is going to get us on a