Welcome to The Weekend. I am Alicia Menendez with symone sanderstownsend. Michael steele is off at we began with news is from the Middle East. Hezbollah, the iranian backed militant group based in lebanon confirmed its leader has been killed. The news broke from the Israeli Military who said it targeted Hassan Nasrallah in a series of airstrikes in southern beirut friday. Overnight, hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets across the border towards israel. The Israeli Military continued intensive strikes across lebanon. Smack joining us now from beirut is Msnbc Correspondent Matt Bradley. A lot of new information to cover this morning. Give us the latest. Reporter yeah, guys, first of all, the reason i am wearing all this Body Armor is in an abundance of caution. Ever since immediately after the announcement by hezbollah they confirmed the death of Hassan Nasrallah have been killed, we have experienced a burst of gunfire from right behind me from the neighborhood and possibly on the bea
Come to you 808 to 14000 and right now, Vice President Kamala Harris is in the critical Battleground State of pennsylvania, where minutes from now, she is expected right here to deliver a wide ranging economic micks speech. Her goal to chip away at former President Trumps lead on this top issue among voters have seen a national politics correspondent, Eva Mckend live for us in pittsburgh following the Harris Campaign Pain what she going to say today, eva well, brianna, the goal here is for her to expand on her economic agenda. We know in part we are still waiting thank for the details, of course. But that she is going to focus on american manufacturing perhaps no better place that argument. And right here in pittsburgh, in the Battleground State of pennsylvania, where it the economic club on the campus of carnegie mellon. Were hearing from senior advisors that this is going to be a pragmatic speech that she is going to talk about the power in heart want to sing american innovation that
Everybody and Martha Maccallum and this is The Story. We have a very big hour ahead. It was speak to robert f. Kennedy jr. This afternoOn And also the White House John Kirby both joining me here in studio. Buffers, Form President Trump eking to real and specific threats on his life by ironic. He did that today in Battleground North carolina just moments ago, he says he believes based on the briefing he got last night from u. S. Intelligence officials that they will try to strike again. Mr. Trump meanwhile we have the president of iran in our country this week, they have large Security Forces guarding him, yeah, that are threatening to a former president and leading candidate to become the next President Of The United States break certainly as strange set of circumstances around the world, our enemies are desperate to prevent Donald Trump from returning to the White House because they know i will make America Great Again and they dont want that. Martha so now a Scaving Report on the Jul
Jobs. There is very little out there about what she will unveil, specifically today. And so were going to have to wait and see what she says when she takes the stage, which is just a few minutes from now. Dont go anywhere. Heres what shes already announced, broadly speaking. Theres a Child Tax Credit, a corporate tax hike, an elimination of federal taxes on tips. Incentives for housing, incentives for building, money to start new businesses, and fines for Price Gouging along with an elimination of some medical debt. All of this, along with her performance at the debate have brought her closer, yes, closer to Donald Trumps polling on the economy. In fact, the financial times found that those who watched the debate said she would do better on the economy than trump. Thats one poll. Theres a new Fox News Poll that shows her within five points of the former president on the economy, a lot better than the 15point Deficit President biden had against trump back in march. So what does Vp Kamal
Staying on those live pictures out of spacex hq. Historic moment as Spacex Polaris Dawn crew is expected to begin the first ever commercial spacewalk. They were supposed to start two minutes ago. I got a feeling its going to happen in a minute or two. Ainsley get to see it live. Billionaire Jerrick Isaacson and Sarah Gillis. They are going to exit to Dragon Capsule. Steve open that thing up. Brian all these newhouse are from earth originally and plan on coming back. The other two Crew Members will Stay Inside the capsule to help make sure the walk goes smoothly. Lawrence Jonathan Sire is live with the details. What are we looking at right now . Yeah. Very exciting. They are pressure rising the Space Suits, these new extra vehicular Activity Or Eva suits designed by spacex as two members of the four member Polaris Dawn Crew prepare to exit the space capsule. Jerrick Isaacman The Billionaire who is financing this mission, paying spacex undisclosed amount of money to send him and three ot