Circo donald trump was it with you there is a link between hurricane helene aid and migrants. What is behind melania trump's endorsement of enforcement rights? i am ayman mohyeldin. Let us do it. For the middle east is on edge yet again. Waiting is really a salivation to both and ron's attack on tensions are flaring up as the whiting war washington sought and failed to prevent intensifies by the hour. Israeli strikes pummel beirut. Nbc news crews reported seeing 20 flashes per the largest they have seen in the nighttime strike so far. At least two plumes of black smoke were seen rising from the area where the strike hit. Israeli drones were also heard circling over the neighborhood with lamb booms. It is also to the north the country will continue to bomb the south and clash with horses along the border. The u. S. Central command set it struck transiting targets with the u. S. Military sending dozens of fighter jets and thousands of troops to the region. Meanwhile the israeli military says action the country may take in response to iran's ballistic missile attack will take place, quote, in the manner, place and time we decide. President biden says his administration is in constant contact with israeli officials about it. Here is what he said at a press conference yesterday. The israelis have not concluded what they will do in terms of a strike. That is under discussion. If i were in their shoes, i would think about other alternatives. As we highlight these direct military confrontation between the two countries being waged on multiple fronts in the region. It is worth looking back to where we were one year ago this week. National security adviser jake sullivan on september 29th 2023. The middle east region is quieter today than it has been in two decades. Here we are, one year later and those words could not be further from the reality we face right now. The widening word that biden administration is still talking about preventing is already here. A new report from the washington post this week highlights just how little biden's influence has mattered in those prevention efforts. According to interviews of more than a dozen senior u. S. And israeli officials it points to two key moments. First israel's incursion into rafah, the southern border city where more than 1 million palestinians were sheltering. U. S. Officials pushed for a more restrained approach in order to avoid casualties. After warnings from washington, guess what happened? israel carried on with their plans anyway. As the invasion started the u. S. Worn that with one making people, hitting the road israel better have suitable shelter and care for them. Israel ignored those concerns and lied about having a full plan in place. A second inflection point according to the post came when then yahoo's targeted leaders in the region without approval or consultation from the biden administration, who feared that this would put u. S. Troops in danger. In july retallick guess i ron's first airstrike the israeli military killed a highranking hezbollah operative in beirut. Hours later hassan nasrallah was assassinated in a guesthouse. Lloyd austin privately characterized moves like this as netanyahu's government playing with house money. Taking big shots at the adversaries knowing that the united states as israel's chief ally with is military and diplomatic weight behind him. While the washington post notes that some speculated that biden's new lameduck status would further embolden then yahoo for a possible trump return to the white house would mean more u. S. Support for israel and less complaining. That does not seem far off. Based on netanyahu's indifference towards u. S. Objectives in the region, the administration is now having to address the speculation that indeed netanyahu wants trump in the white house and the democrats out. This week senator chris murphy set is a possibly that the israeli government is not going to sign any diplomatic agreement prior to the election. Which is what you have been calling for for so long. Potentially to try to influence the result. Do you have any worries that netanyahu may be trying to influence the election and that is why he has not agreed to a diplomatic solution? no administration has helped israel more than i have, none. I think we should remember that. Whether he is trying to influence the election, i don't know. Biden is trying to remind then yahoo what he is done. Too little too late, i don't know. Then yahoo does not care about his friendship with biden the president's actions over many months suggests that israel can determine when and where the united states goes to war in the middle east. That is unacceptable. With me now spencer ackerman, author of forever wars and the book reign of tower. How the 9/11 destabilized america and produce trump. We will start with the last bit. What you make of joe biden think i don't know what he was asked with benjamin netanyahu is trying to interfere in american elections or he favors someone in this election cycle. More importantly the fact that he reminds netanyahu how much he has done for israel. I'm sure that you will get right on board the gratitude train right now. What is one more case of political malpractice from joe biden after everything we have seen over the last year? if this is biden's theory of the case, as it has been ever since october 7th, the unwavering, unconditional support for israel in gaza will get some measure of u. S. Influence. He looks like an idiot right now. He is making the united states of impotent right now. Or to so many in the arab world, he is making the united states exactly like it is right now, which is complicit. Not only in gaza or the west bank but not only in lebanon but quite possibly very soon in iran. That is a very important question but whether it is impotence on the part of the biden administration or complicit in this with everything israel is doing. We tried to make the case based on the reporting that is out there that there is probably an argument he made with a lot of this incompetence and impotence that benjamin netanyahu's that will bring the administration to quote lloyd austin saying that he is betting the house money that america will come to his defense. What you think it is? i think it is what you might call it helplessness. That is such a traditional role of the united states. Really, not super traditional because we have seen presidents before my 11 thank different routes towards restraining israel. Over the course of time, we haven't seen that with the rise of the war on terror, the broad sense that america has its necessary proxy in the region with the israelis against all sort of terrorist threats. We have seen nothing but relentless growing support in the united states government and the united states military and the diplomatic corps. For what ever it is israel decides to do. Accordingly, if you are israel, you know to bank american support. You know that american called for restraint and for the audience that are not israeli audiences and not american audiences. It is really just a kind of kabuki in order to get and this is, shall we say, generous interpretation. To get the israelis to know they are supposed to get this unpleasant stuff done and out of the way. Instead, what does it do puma in so many cases that you have seen over the years, it encourages this behavior. I want to ask about this piece because you touched upon it right now about the post 9/11 era. The piece is titled the year after october 7th was shaped by the 23 years after september 11. At the beginning of the war biden called the hamas attack 15 9/11. We have heard a lot of analogies made to 9/11. What was the purpose behind comparing it in this way and how did this fifth team phrasing shape the year ? is his running one of the main reasons that the u. S. Finds itself involved in this current war the way that it is ? i strongly believe so. It is a message that is taken in two different directions. One is for the american public to understand it is supposed to empathize with israel. Because october 7 was a terrific attack. It is easy to understand on a visceral and emotional level. That as americans felt on 9/11, israelis feel on 10/7. It is also a message to the american government and the biden administration saying, you back after 9/11, the united states did not listen to any calls for restraint it operated contemptuously to any that existed. Whether that in popular circles or in government to government circles. That is we intend to act right now. This is not going to be an issue where there is going to be restraint placed on israel. That is what the israeli message was supposed to be they understood over the course of the year that without the american government using its actionable material leverage over the israelis, which is to say, all the billions of dollars in weapons and financial assistance that the united states extends to israel , there is no reason that the israeli government should listen to any calls from biden or anyone else saying, please do not do this while we continue to fund you. Are you surprised that democrats, specifically this administration, who served as obama's vice president had to deal with that yahoo coming to his congress and undermining them directly at the time to the american public and to the house of representatives? that the current vice president, kamala harris, is not distancing herself enough from the biden presidency on the relationship that she has been coming out more forcefully and saying, this will end. It is going to be different when i become president. It will not be netanyahu running circles around biden and previous and american administrations. We met at this point and we are so close to the election that if kamala harris had that position, she would be saying that freely. After a certain point, there has to be an inter rationalization about kamala harris' statements in policy. What she is saying is how she intends to govern. Which is to say it is going to continue to be unconditional support for israel. This is a circumstance in which we are a hair's breath away from being at war with iran. If kamala harris is really going to put any additional pressure on the israelis, this is not the time for her to be silent but this is the time to be vocal. Joe biden has no excuse. As you mentioned, he saw this in the obama administration. He saw netanyahu all closeup. What he learned from that is that he did not want that smoke. He saw the deterioration of the relationship between obama and netanyahu and decided he wanted none of that in a way that he would and what it was to embrace that yahoo as hard and has tight has he could. Netanyahu is laughing at him. This is joe biden's legacy and it is a shame. The most prepared president for foreign policy with entire generation, if not longer. As someone who saw himself as a statesman in the mold of george h. W. Bush. Made to look like an absolute full made to look like a bum because he has decided to make the painful decision to not challenge them yahoo. Knowing what netanyahu would do. Spencer, thank you so much. I greatly appreciate your insights. Next up, we set the record up about an outrageous light that donald trump is telling about migrants. Good, real food is simple. It looks like food, it smells like food, it's what dogs are supposed to be eating. No living being should ever eat processed food for every single meal of their life. It's amazing to me how many people write in about their dogs changing for the better. The farmer's dog is just our way to help people take care of them. ♪ kamala spent all her fema money, billions of dollars on housing for illegal migrants. They have given over $1 billion to illegal migrants. They are missing $1 billion that they gave to migrants coming into our country. That was donald trump peddling a new conspiracy theory an outright lie about immigrants casting them as the reason fema does not have enough funding to make it through the hurricane season. Let me be clear, yet again. This is a complete lie. More than $600 million was earmarked from services during the 2024 fiscal year. The funds were for fema's shelter and services program, which is completely separate from the agency's disaster relief program. Trump is choosing a convenient time to spread more disinformation about immigrants when many americans already are feeling pourable in the aftermath of hurricane helene. Let us bring my pain daniel moody, host of the daniel moody show on youtube and hayes brown, msnbc daily writer and editor. Great to have both of you with us. Here he is, yet again, spreading the lies. It is not only donald trump it is is mini me you have texas governor greg abbott as well as congressman and paulino luna of florida that disaster relief went towards housing immigrants. I feel like whatever we are in a situation when we have to debunk donald trump slides, then we are already losing. We are not having the real conversations about what is actually happening on the ground in these places. We already know that the republican governors came out and said from georgia to, you know, and other places, thank you to joe biden. Thank you for initiating a before the storm actually hit. Thank you for being so responsive. I feel like when we are in this situation where we have to play catchup or try to get in front of one of donald trump slides, he is winning. We should not call out the fact that he is lying? i think we need to continue to have a conversation about what the biden administration is doing and try and ignore donald trump. Say, let us have a conversation about what brian kemp set over in georgia. Let us have a conversation about what north carolina democratic governor said about how his needs are being met and how all of these mayors are coming out and talk about how their needs are being met. When we talk about whether or not hurricanes are manmade, like marjorie taylor greene offered up this week and then j. D. Vance praised her about it. We are behind the eight ball now. I am always down for a little bit of discussion on the show. What do you think about? is that the right approach? i think there may be people out there who watch that. I have seen people send me, friends of mine who are republicans, send me the clip and say, we do not have money for fema because we are using it for housing immigrants. We need to fact check that. Are there people out there who will believe the lie. What do you think? i agree in spirit that we should talk about the real things. Part of the problem is that he says things that if you do not know any better could sound kind of true. This thing about fema spending that money that is release siloed off. People do not know how different programs work. They hear fema and they think one thing, disaster relief. They do not know there are different programs that congress gives funding to. As you brought up that was $640 million for specific programs. Congress, they are strict on say you have to spend money on this. You cannot move that around even if they had wanted to not spend the money that was allocated to refugees and resettling them on disaster relief, they couldn't. That is a different pot of money. It is important to educate people about the way that things actually work. That is a part i would agree with. I would love to ignore donald trump but i feel like it is kind of rich coming from him. When you think about it and i have his number here. It was actually trump who did this. Back in 2019 trump administration told congress that it was taking $271 million from dhs programs including $155 million from the disaster fund to pay for immigration detention space and temporary hearing locations for asylum seekers who have been forced to wait in mexico. It is not joe biden a kamala harris, that is donald trump who took money away from fema to do that. That is the pushback we need to have. It is to talk about what donald trump actually did. And you talk about the fact that why is remote winning of money when it comes to disaster relief? because of the republicans that are in the house that control the house of representatives that voted against funding. And now all of a sudden when the storms hit their states, talking about where is the money? you denied funding so how is the money supposed to materialize. Those are the conversations that we need to be having about exactly the reality that they have created. They have created a disaster so they have talking points and not that they have anybody in support of their actual constituents in the. We like to make danielle happy on the show. I will play usm but of the governor of north carolina praising harris and biden for the work of this administration. Take a listen. This has been a massive unprecedented response. We are deeply grateful for the federal resources that we have. To danielle's point, governor roy cooper of north carolina talk about the response from the biden/harris administration as being sufficient and on the ground doing the work. Brian kemp echoing that same sentiment in his exchange with the present when trump said he had heard from him he came at, governor of georgia, i have been speaking to joe biden. We are in touch. He has declared a federal disaster and relief funds have been released. The thing about how yeah, roy cooper said that but we watched him say that. The people who are losing to trump live at rallies and looking at history social account, they are not hearing that as easily. I am glad that you played that clip and hopefully that can look at things instead of the lies being told. Trump is hoping to sow division in these places that have been hurt but especially considering the fact that some of the places that have been hurt our trump country. He does not care about them. He wants him riled up so they can vote against biden and harris or the biden/harris administration because they are upset about things that are happening and they might be happening slowly. That is everything you have to think about. Logistics are hard. It takes a lot of work for fema to coordinate and for people who are waiting and but i have not that my help yet or there has been some help and i'm waiting for more as the floodwaters receded. They hear, things may not be coming, that makes them worried. Trump is hoping that as we have delays or other things in the swing states, that the people who are now worried about what the government has or has not done are going to vote for him because they think he would have done it faster somehow even though we know that is not the case. You make danielle and hayes, stick around a lot more discuss after the break but what is behind melania trump's support for reproductive rights? ve rig? individual freedom is a fundamental principle that i safeguarded. Without a doubt, there is no room for compromise when it comes to this essential right that all women possess from birth. Individual freedom. What does my body, my choice really mean? of bizarre move that no one saw coming. Melania trump publicly declared her support for abortion rights, was who has been takes credit for dismantling roe versus wade. Coincidence? maybe not because republican ticket is trying a new approach in this final stretch but a softer stance on abortion. The vice principal debate on tuesday j. D. Vance launched into a lengthy digression of how the republican party needs to win back americans trust him issue. Trump was right there along with embedded rage posting on his fails and social media site everyone knows i would not support a federal abortion ban under any circumstances and would veto it because it is up to the states to decide based on the will of their voters, the will of the people. There is a lot to unpack. For one, noticing that congress would pass a new federal ban and hannah to talk to sign or veto. Rather, trump's misdirect