Right now. Of all the crazy weeks in this campaign and there have been many, this one has to be right up near the top. I mean, Donald Trump was at a Rally Yesterday in North Carolina without the republican nominee for governor who he once called Mlk On Steroids . Why . Because the world learned this week that he called Himself A Black Nazi on a porn site. Cant make this up sometimes. The real Martin Luther King jr. Preached and hes Coming Up first. Also today . Mary trump joins me to talk about all the ways in which Kamala Harris is completely rattling her uncle. And on that point, the vp accepts an invitation for another debate. But trump says its too late. The Harris Walz campaigns deputy Cam Pin Manager Quentin Februaries joins me with his response to that very chicken response. Okay. I think its safe to say that Donald Trump would desperately like us and all of you sitting at home to be thinking about certain things and im talking about certain things like say, the crazy conspiraci
Within the next few minutes, the former conservative Home Secretary, James Cleverly, will try to win over his fellow conservative mps as he launches campaign to become leader of the party. Mr cleverly is one of the front runners to replace Rishi Sunak following the Conservatives Defeat atjuly s election. He is among six candidates vying for the job, and those candidates will be whittled down to four by the time of the conservative conference at The End of the month. After that, mps will carry out further rounds of voting to select two final candidates for the conservative members to choose between, with the result announced on 2nd november. Lets speak to our deputy political editor, vicki young, who joins us from westminster. Hello. Any hint as to what we are likely to hear from James Cleverly. I think he will talk about some specific policies. We can really say this Leadership Election has been rumbling along in the background over the summer. We have had a bit from all of the candida
i think the concern right now is really kind of concentrated on the longer shipping time. the market is not pricing in that we actually lose barrels from the market as a result of what is happening in the suez canal. what it is concerned with right now and the reason it has risen 6% is because the shipping costs associated with travelling around the southern tip of africa to reach its destination adds around 15 days of travel time. it increases freight costs. and it has increased insurance costs. so that is what the market is pricing and looking at this point. the market has not entered a panic mode, as we ve seen in the past with other geopolitical events, where it starts to price in supply is lost from the market. right now, it is a logistical re routing, what we are seeing, and not kind of that panic and fear that we are going to lose barrels. that obviously can change very rapidly, and we have seen that obviously can change very rapidly. the venezuelan president nicola
fighters will withdraw from a high profile battle in ukraine next week. the major blow to russian president vladimir putin and what it could mean for the war if they do retreat. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments here. i want to begin in ukraine with the latest commenting from the leader of russia s wagner group, threatening to withdraw from bakhmut if he s not supplied with more ammunition. this graphic video with the bodies of russian soldiers, he would draw as soon as next wednesday, significantly after victory day celebrations in russia. this is a guy trying to earn putin s good graces, the latest declaration is shocking. reporter: the words in the declaration are not necessarily so surprising because we have heard him in recent days since last week make this claim that he says russia s ministry of defense is not providing his group with enough ammunition in bakhmut. what is surprising here is the tone that he has in these videos and the
gold. your strategic advantage. sandra: all new at 2:00, chaotic withdrawal that left our afghan allies behind gets the hollywood treatment. a new movie showing the american troops and their translators and the debt we owe them. you think if i could be shot of this debt i wouldn t be. you think if i could just go through the usual channels i wouldn t. that is not how this debt works. john: the story behind that movie actually goes back even further, all the way back to 2007. inspired by one marine s fight to save his iraqi interpreter when the american government failed to do it. that marine joins us all new at 2:00. sandra: looking forward to that. we could as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m sandra smith on this friday, john. john fri-yay. and waiting to hear from homeland secretary mayorkas, live on the border and this showing migrants on raft crossing the rio grande was shot last night in the very town where secretary mayorkas will speak. we ll se