Good morning, it is Saturday September the 28th. I am Ali Velshi. Hezbollah has confirmed that Israel Has kept the groups longtime leader in strikes late last night on an Apartment ComplexIn Beirut. Which is the capital of lebanon. Israel says hezbollah was using the complex as a headquarters this represents a major escalation of ongoing Back And Forth between Israel And Hezbollah. Israel has intensified in last couple of weeks. Israel also says the strikes killed a Highranking Commander and other senior leaders of the organization. Israel says other strikes in Beirut Yesterday targeted weapon caches. Nasrallah is a cleric and led it has blossoms 1992. He has grown the group into the most powerful iranian backed force in the region. Both militarily and politically, building has been a lot into what has been called a state within a state. He led the group for decadal conflict and is made in a Civil War on behalf of the regime. They have help train other i running back regional militias including hamas and the houthis. In a statement the head of iran supreme national Security Council said that it axis of resistance will, quote, respond with force at the right time and that Israel Has, quote, Open The Gates against itself. This Morning Israel carried out more strikes in Lebanon And Hezbollah fired more rockets into israel. Joining me now from beirut is international correspondent matt bradley, who has been following this Story And Hezbollah for a long time. Give me a sense of what is going on where you are and what is likely to happen as a result of these attacks. Reporter we do not know what will happen but as i told you earlier, i have been hearing gunshots behind me and actually further Explosion Right in this neighborhood. Which is exactly where we saw yesterday at the huge, not one explosion but multiple explosions. A succession of what some might Bunker Buster bombs which were underground and struck, not just this area but several senior leaders. Now we have also been hearing, like i said, gunshots, successive rounds of firing. That could either be out of morning, most likely because coming from the neighborhood and mostly residential area where hezbollah had its headquarters. A lot of people were living. It could also be celebratory. This is a country that was not necessarily in my love with hezbollah. Even though they probably were a lot of people will be pleased to see hezbollah loosen its grip on the nations politics. You had mentioned a moment ago that, you know, this was a state within a state. It could be more like a state within a failed state. Now we are hearing the Casualty Number has increased to hundreds and hundreds more. This Recovery Effort could go on for quite a while. We will stay close to over the course of next few hours. Matt bradley In Beirut. Turning back to u. S. Election, 38 days away. Kamala harris is going on the offensive in an effort to close the gap between herself and Donald Trump especially in the key Swing States along the sunbelt. The democratic nominee has spent the last week trying to make and roads on what voters have set are two of the top issues this election cycle, the economy and immigration. Earlier in the week both candidates held events and gave speeches focused on the economic vision for the country with harris getting to flush out her policies while trump continue to blame her and the biden administration for the high cost of goods. Yesterday, harris shifted the conversation to the topic of immigration as she visited the southern border for the first time since becoming the democratic president ial nominee. Harris travel to a portion of the border located in douglas, arizona. She met with Border Patrol agents and gave a speech detailing her plans while criticizing trump for intervening in and ultimately tanking a bipartisan Board Reform Bill in congress earlier this year. It was the strongest Border Security Bill we have seen in decades. It was endorsed by the Border Patrol union. And it should be in effect today. Donald trump tanked it. He picked up the phone and called some friends in congress and said, stop the bill. You see, he prefers to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem. Trump was hyperaware of Harris Visit to the Border Yesterday before the democratic nominee even left on her trip to arizona. The former president was offering about his handling of the countrys immigration dilemma. Since then he sent out more than a dozen posts on Social Media related to, harris and the border. Most polls continue to show that voters think the former president has an edge over his democratic opponent on this issue. Latest national poll shows that 54 of registered voters that trump would do a better job securing the border compared to 34 who think harris would be a better leader on that issue. That is actually an improvement from joe bidens number from the last time nbc asked the question in january of this year when only 22 said they thought biden would handle immigration better compared to 57 who chose trump. Harris campaign is looking to undercut trumps advantage on the issue calling attention to her past work prosecuting international gangs and Organized Crime during her tenure as Attorney General of california. Trump continues to use inflammatory rhetoric about immigrants. He is continuing to single out the migrant population in specific cities and blaming them for rising crime, which has resulted in some pushback from within his own party after trump reviewed unfounded and unflattering stories about arm immigrants taking over the city of aurora, colorado. The republican mayor said he hoped the former president would visit his city so he could quote show him that the narrative is not accurate by any stretch of the imagination. If the story sounds a millionaire it is because it is out of the same Playbook Trump has been using from the moment he entered the national political scene. Donald trumps politics of grievance are a central component of the maga movement. He links immigrants, democrats and others to the economic pain and other problems that his supporters are experiencing. He reinforces their worldview that they have been left behind and shut out of the political conversation by these specific identifiable groupof it has been incredibly effective. It has been key to trump staying in power, which is why he rehashes the narrative time and time again especially when he is forced to go on the defensive. Joining me now, jason stanley, professor of philosophy at Yale University and author of books. Also with us Staff Writer for the atlantic and a msnbc contributor, author of the Book Romney a reckoning, which is now out in paperback. Thank you for being with us. Mckay, good to see you as well. Let us talk about this. Donald trump, this is working for him. It is dangerous rhetoric. It is hateful at a level that we are unused to have been accustomed Donald Trump for last eight years. What you think is going on . Back to Platos Republic. Tyrant so fear and promise that they represent themselves as the nations protector. This is a playbook that is as old as democracy itself trump is trying to distract attention from the wealthy corporate elites whose taxes he is promising to cut and blame, instead, the inequality we are seeing in the united dates on those who also suffer from that inequality. It is straightforwardly incoherent. Immigrants are supposedly these criminals, who are coming here to do criminal enterprises and are lazy in taking money. Somehow, they get it together to vote in elections. That is part of the interesting thing because this is playing into the big by 2. 0. He said it in the debate. They come to this country and do not speak the language. They sometimes do not know what country they are in. Somehow, they vote illegally in elections. And perhaps you will hear about this after november 5th. That is why he lost the election if he does not get as many votes of Kamala Harris does. There is no question. I think it is important to note that anyone who spent time with immigrants, documented or undocumented, knows that they are just good hardworking people trying to make a living for themselves and their families. Turning them into this kind of criminal conspiracy that not only is it making your life worse, which the Argument Trump is making but also endangers our Country And Republic by trying to steal the election, is going to be central to Donald Trumps narrative. It was central to his narrative coming out of the 2020 defeat. I am sure we will hear it again. I want to make one quick point. I cannot take you back to Platos Republic as jason did but i will take you back to 2016. Donald trumps very first speech when he announced his president ial campaign, 2015, was framed around this idea that mexico was sending Drug Dealers and criminals to our country and that he was going to put a stop to it if there is one single thesis to Donald Trumps entire political career over the past decade, this is it. It is fearmongering about immigrants. In some ways, i am surprised that what was supposed to be a more professional discipline campaign, we heard that from republicans over and over. They are focusing on this in the final weeks of the election, voting this obviously false conspiracy theories. On the other hand, there is a logic to it. The Closing Arguments in the campaign, it makes sense that it is framed once again around Fear Mongering around immigrants. This is been a single thing that he talks about most of the last decade. It is interesting because i think some of what he does is that the average person would not know where he gets it from her what truth, if there is one. When he talked about haitian immigrants in springfield, ohio, most people have not been there and do not know what the story is. There are haitian immigrants there but theyre not doing what he said they are doing it causes reporters and others to dig in and tell you where the light came from it and then he talks about gangs shooting up aurora, colorado. You have amir come out and say that is not happening. It gets everyone chasing their tails to find out what the real story is. At no point to further the discussion. We have to understand the republican party is entirely based on completely fictional voter fraud. Voter fraud is almost unheard of in the united states. Top to bottom, the republicans are claiming it is one of our central problems if not our central problem. How do you deal with the fact that one political party is essentially running on a lie that is no more plausible than the claim that the number one problem in the nations magical pink bunny rabbit, who are going to eat your children. How do you run against that . The media is complicit because theyre representing this as a Horse Race. In a Horse Race in a democracy, truth is important. You do have to look at who is saying what and compare them. If you treat this as a Horse Race and one party is saying, magical pink Bunny Rabbits are threatening your children, then you are just going to you have to call that what it is. You have a book about Mitt Romney at a very interesting time in history and the politics of this country. Which always makes me wonder what your take is, if Donald Trump loses. We have people on the show who are republicans, former republicans and they all have different views about what should happen to the republican party. Does it burn to the ground and a phoenix rises Out Of The Ashes or are there mainstream republicans, like Mitt Romney or Liz Cheney or others, who can usher this party back to some degree of normalcy . This is a conversation that i have had with Mitt Romney many times. He goes Back And Forth on this as i think a lot of republicans like him do. On the one hand, i think that if Donald Trump were to lose this election and finally go quietly into that good night or loudly, as the case may be, you know, i think that some of the toxic elements of trumpism would go with him. Specifically the Personality Cold Stuff the republican rush to defend every outrageous thing that he says and does some of that would fade away with him. The republican party is ideological transformed during the trump era. It has become more nationalistic , more isolationist in foreign policy, more nativist. I do wonder if that ideological transformation, which frankly maps on what is to happening to Consumer Parties across the Western World will change. People like Mitt Romney, you know, wish it would go back to the reagan era of republican party. I am not sure that will happen. I would also just note because this relates to the conversation we have had, for there to be a real Potty Party wide reckoning would require the majority of voters and political leaders to acknowledge they lost the election in 2024, if that is what happens. I dont have any confidence that that is going to be the case. If republicans lose i think you see a lot more conspiracy rising and big Lie Stuff going around in the conservative media i think that will prevent any real grappling with what the party has become and how it needs to reinvent itself to be successful in the future. Thank you so much. 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