New pictures of a massive strike in beirut. Tonight, the explosion lighting up the night sky here in these hours of the morning, all happening as israeli strike against iran appears to be imminent. Now we do have full team coverage here in tel aviv first though, of course you just watched the vice president kamala harris are wrapping up a rally with former republican congresswoman liz cheney cheney making a forceful argument for harris, a formal endorsement, which you just watched lasting former president trump. She says that quote, our republic faces a threat. Unlike any we have faced before. Tonight's rally coming in a county famous for being the birthplace of the republican party. In fact, donald trump won the county where you just saw liz cheney and kamala harris by 26 points in each of the last elections but tonight, it is clear harris and cheney see an opening 33 days to actual election day. Here's what we just heard from liz cheney, her message to republicans there is not an ounce, not an ounce of compassion. And donald trump he is petty he has vindictive, and he is cruel. And donald trump is not fit to lead this good and great nation i ask all of you here and everyone listening across this great country to join us i asked you to meet this moment. I asked you to stand in truth to reject the depraved cruelty of donald trump and i asked you instead to help us elect kamala harris for presidents philip bump is with us now, the national correspondent for the washington post, along with ayisha mills, democratic strategist and marc lotter, former trump 2020 director of strategic communications i usually look, this is an important moment. You had liz cheney with this introduction formally with her endorsement of harris appearing together at a county that was the birthplace of the republican party, setting up the vice president to give a 20minute address for the nation to hear how impactful is what we just heard. From cheney with that fullthroated endorsement, reaching out to republicans to moderates listen, erin, when she categorized donald trump as being someone who has depraved cruelty. That's the language that xi used to praise cruelty. I got chills i think it's very impactful to hear her who let's be clear, she is not a progressive republican by any stretch of the imagination. This is someone who probably fundamentally disagrees with the biden agenda and certainly with many of the things that harris is proposing that she would do when she becomes president but at the core of it is really this question that we have right now before us about what america we want to be. All we going to be in america that lifts up people who are cruel and who do harm and who do not reflect the character that we deserve to be led by or are we going to come together despite our differences? to put someone in place who is actually going to carry on the american ideal and preserve our democracy. So i think that was powerful and mark that's the argument. Of course, that liz cheney is making the harris is making that this is about democracy. In fact, liz cheney said mark in just a moment ago that she has never voted for a democrat before. Just to make it clear, that would mean she didn't vote for joe biden, but she will vote for harris so mark my question to you is, we all knew where liz cheney stood before this, but now we saw her stand there with harris and that is perhaps a distinction that makes a difference. Are you concerned that liz cheney gives any antitrump republican voters the permission and perhaps the inspiration to vote for harris no i think any if there if there's still antitrump at this point, they've already made up their mind they're i look i think if you're still undecided, if you're in that what, three to 4%, whatever the number is, it's probably because you're waiting for kamala harris to answer the question on your mind, the number one issue on your mind? if it's mike, most americans is how are you going to lower gas and grocery prices? how are you going to seal the border? how are you going to deal with the war that's raging in the middle east and she can't answer any of those questions. She hasn't. And that's why you're probably still undecided. And at the heart of the matter, you know, things were more affordable, border was more secure world was safer when we had donald trump, liz cheney can't change that well, marked. Okay. But i'm wondering, you know, what about the people who say they can't stand trump's character? they're not sure if they can go that way, right? but they don't like harris policies and they don't want to go that way either. People who perhaps don't feel about democracy, the way that liz cheney does. But maybe they feel about policy the way liz cheney does. Does this open that door well i don't think so because at the end of the day that policies of kamala harris are more of the same failures from joe biden. She wants to turn the page. She wrote the book along with joe biden's. So you're not gonna get any different policies. So voting for someone who is opposed to everything please stay in four is going to actually make things continue to be more expensive. Border still going to be unsecure. That's not going to change things. And i think that's why that small slice of people are still undecided moment, i'm gonna get some sound here of how harris reacted in her 20 minute speech. But i do just want to play one other thing that liz cheney said, this is about january 6, which right. She has made the entire core of why xi is going to vote for harris, right? she says democracy is on the line. So specifically she talks about what we just learned last night in that new filing from the special counsel, which is that trump told his aid. So what when he heard that his vice president mike pence life was in danger. Liz cheney just spoke about that democrat or republican or an independent that is depravity and we must never become numb to it any person who would do these things can never be trusted with power. Again, we must defeat donald trump on november 5, that haven't long ago made up their mind for whom that january 6 democracy argument will not resonate it's, probably not. I mean, this is something that, you know, the smith filing was very interesting and contain new details, but all of us knew from the house select committee's work led by liz cheney, what exactly happened over the course of the months after the 2020 election? honestly, we all watched it unfold in real time. We saw what happened in the weeks after the election. And on january 6, we have polling the consistently shows that republicans in particular are trump supporters, have not had their minds changed the same way that their minds never changed on things like the russia investigation or the first impeachment of donald trump they have stuck by donald trump and are not wavering. But this is an election in which we're gonna be looking at seven states, probably six so seven states that have very, very close margins. And so i think the intent of this is not to try and peel away hardcore trump voters. That's not why liz cheney standing with kamala harris. It is instead to either have people who are sort of indifferent to donald trump don't love them, don't love harris, give them either permission to potentially cast a vote for harris or just stay home. And it's field i can't go out and vote for that person, which is almost as good as a vote for kamala harris so harris also took on this issue. I mean, it's quarter liz cheney there appearing together. That's part of what this platform and this moment was about in that speech. But she did also talk about trump and january 6 in a very direct way. Here she is therein lies the profound difference between donald trump and me he, who violated the oath to uphold the constitution of the united states of america and make no mistake. He who, if given the chance, would violate it. Again, anyone who has called for i quote termination of the constitution of the united states, as donald trump has must never again stand behind the seal of the president of the united states are some for whom that resonates right? that is the choir, right? that is the preaching to the choir that was a rally. But do you think at this point but that does, you know, bring in new people or give permission and how come well, you know, what, as i watched this, one of the things that jump out at me is not so much as what's being said, but what's being seen in this image where you have liz cheney standing there right behind kamala harris what that looks like to me is too strong and powerful women who are done with the patriarchy, who are done with the cat lady memes, who are done with the meanness and the nastiness. And if anything, i am sitting there watching them united as women that are more than 50% of this population. Remember? for 57% of women fired donald trump and rejected him in the 2020 election so to have the two of them standing there, even though they're ideologically not necessarily the same i think sends more of a powerful image than anything that either of them could say mark, what do you think the image itself of seeing them together sidebyside well, i think obviously anytime we have women that are trying to to rise to the top of the ticket and take over this country. It's a great sign for our country and our maturity as a nation. But to the point that that you were making a moment ago, it's like 57% voted in 2020 and now they're living with the consequences when many women are having problems putting groceries on the table for their family, worry about the security of themselves and their families because kamala harris led in 13,000 convicted murderers who are illegal immigrants in our our country. All of these things are very real. They're now living with the consequences of that election. And i think quite a few of them are gonna go back and say, i may not love how he tweeted, but i definitely life was better under donald trump no women is buying that argument question though all right. So philip, let me ask you that. There's there's a strategy which harris is engaging and by the way, of going to deeply red counties. I mean, i just pointed out this is the county where they're speaking. That was the birthplace of the republican party, where she knows she's going to get killed, but she's just trying to get a live do a little bit better. Right. And if you do that lot of different counties, you can still win wednesday's, then there's another strategy, right? which is trying to win, win over those moderates and their son of democratic party who think these republican dortmund's that harris has been touting is a mistake and it's not going to move the needle and she should just focus on getting out her base even in those deeply red counties right? that that should be the way to go. So what are you hearing yeah. I just want to say, first of all, what mr. Lawler just said about the 13,000 immigrants is absolutely false. And i think it's important to point that i came from ice absolutely not true a reporters were people that were immigrants recontact many of them are in custody currently because they were charged with murder. I've actually done the reporting on this. So you can trust me, viewers now, agresti dies in darkness fell, and that's right. That's right. That's why we're honest with our with our viewers and with our readers. Okay, so to your point, erin, i will say that i think that again, this is going to be an election that comes down to who comes out and actually votes, right? but what we're going to want to see if we are harris deem harris is we are going to want to see people come out and cast a ballot who might otherwise not do so. Look, we're still five weeks from election day. It seems very close because we've all been doing this a long time, but it's really not that close to the election. Early voting has only barely started. It's going to ramp up here very quickly. Election day, obviously still well his way. That's when you actually have to do turn out. And so i think over the over the shortterm, what they're doing is creating these permissions structures for people who may not feel excited about voting for donald trump or may want to potentially vote for harris and giving them the opportunity to do so. Of you. I appreciate the conversation and appreciate your facts and all the reporting that you have done on that issue of immigration and crime, phillip, and thank you very much so thanks to all of you. And next, the breaking news here in tel aviv, israel, right now, unleashing a wave of new strikes against lebanon. This is what is happening on the skyline explosions, lighting up the skies. We're going to take you to the front lines. What we found today, sobering as we await as this potentially imminent israeli in response to tehran plus a top political forecaster with a brand new analysis tonight. 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Today, president biden, not shutting down the possibility that israel will include iran's oil facilities will carry out what it calls a crushing response when israel strikes. Today, we went to the front lines in the north just a couple of miles from the border with lebanon, surrounded on two sides by lebanon and on one via syria, at least ten hezbollah rockets are fired up on the town where we were today. We heard about 22 outgoing artillery and projectiles in 118 minute period in another 30 minute period, we heard 28 that should give you a sense of just how constant and relentless this is. This is about one explosion a minute. This is video of what appeared to be a defensive rockets fired near our location you can hear the sound of it, the direction that it was heading was lebanon chicken crt. There on the ground was just down the hill from where we were by the lebanon border. Now, we then drove to the closest israeli town to our location. It was completely abandoned like so much in the north now, driving through it, it looked like some sort of a zombie apocalypse. Things on touched or some kind of a virus had come through. But yet the place completely empty we did see the aftermath of some of hezbollah's missile strikes with damaged buildings, homes, with holes in them, cars completely destroyed of course, it is significantly more widespread in terms of the damage on the lebanese side, just miles away we also saw plenty of idf soldiers and a few of them talk to us at the only store open in this entire ghost town they had been deployed to the north to lebanon border where we were from gaza. And they were fired up, i would say that is the best way to describe it. To go into lebanon yelling and that sentiment very widespread from what we are seeing here as we headed out of the conflict line, when you talk about the massive onslaught on lebonon, we came across this field hold where you can see tanks lined up one after the next, one after the other. If they are called this is a country that right now i was sitting with its finger on the trigger of a much bigger war nic robertson joins me now in tel aviv. Jomana karadsheh is standing by in beirut, which of course has been under such onslaught nic since you're here with me, let me he just start with you, of course, of jomana hears anything in these next seconds, we'll bring her in immediately, but when you're looking at israel to hit back at iran important to note that they had a strike on a hamas leader tonight, it has been relentless that artillery fire that we're hearing is a hot war. Going on. It's a hot war and a strike on a very, very significant hezbollah leader you're not clear if he's dead yet, but this would, this will also be significant. And what we're looking for when we try to see when and how israel will strike back at iran is what one of the things is, how will they get their weapons systems in place? and they'll have to overfly a rock lately, i'm going to have to overfly syria likely. And when you think about syrian air sprays, you think about the russian presence there and it was noted the ball that last night a russian air base in syria was struck. Now is ron didn't say it was them and there have been a number of strikes at syrian airports over the past few days. I think a bit of clearing the way on a path where there are air defense systems in the way, make them blind for a few days and it can get your aircraft more safely. To where they're need to see an absolute shape, shaping of what could be here. And as we say, literally hand on the trigger, that is true. Many triggers though it's not going to be one thing. It's going to be a lot. It is. All right. So i want to go to jomana. She's in beirut and that's where the bombing has been so relentless. Jomana, and we show those images that nic and i are looking out of the skies behind you that you are actually standing there