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Welcome to welcome to primetime weekend. I m rachel maddow. Let s get right to the week s top stories. The past 24 hours have been a microcosm of the race. Kamala harris and tim walz doing the standard campaign work for a major party candidate. They kept an even keel at the sitdown interview last night that went through a lot of the republican charges against them. While they are doing that, trump is out there, honestly stumbling to put together english sentences. His campaign keeps stepping in masses of its own making including an enormous one tonight which we will get to. Both the candidate and his aides are, as usual, posting through it. The fallout continues from trumps a political photo op and campaign commercial on tiktok at arlington national cemetery at the beginning of the week where he gave the thumbs up over the graves of veterans, including many who did not consent to any of this. He cut a video blaming their deaths on democrats. Now, his campaign is openly doing battle wi ....
Ties with israel. And in fact, israel has stayed largely neutral, in the war in ukraine or, in what is perceived to be partially because it is trying to maintain its relationship with moscow. And, so russia clearly has some allegiances, on various sides of this conflict, and it remains to be seen how, and whether it is going to try to insert itself, diplomatically, to play either a productive, or a counterproductive, role in bringing an end to this. Violence yet, not to mention it still has relationships with iran, and that also complicates everything even more. Iran, be accused of being the backer of hamas, and being a proxy to both hezbollah and hamas, and other militant groups in the region. And, obviously because of what is happening in ukraine, israel, sorry what has happened between russia, it has relied heavily on iran for some support, on that front with ukraine. Dan, do we have a sense of what intelligence capabilities the Uni ....
Columbia university has just set a new rule. It is now telling students who do not leave the Protest Tents on campus by 2 00 p. M. Eastern today they will be suspended. Now you know ive had students on this program tell me that its not just students inside those tents who are antiisrael and hateful. Some of them prohamas savage killers. Some of them are insurgents who come onto the campus and now inside the tents. So what about those . They cant be suspended. What will you do with them . Today the school failed to reach an agreement with protestors who have taken over part of the campus for more than ten days now. Boy, columbia is really patient with the protestors and the haters. Amazing. The university has not said whether it will call in the police. Growing calls for greater crackdowns on campuses. Agitators in some places are digging in despite efforts by schools and police to clear them out. Columbia now becomes, oh, kind of t ....
judge pirro dane and perino and greg gutfeld. as the squad reaches a disgusting low in defense of hamas. i ve condemned what hamas has done. the rape, of course, but we have to remember that israel is a democracy. that is why they re a strong ally. i asked about hamas. i answeredier question. i think rape is horrific, sexual assault is horrific. i think it happens in war situations. terrorist organizations like hamas obviously are using these as tools and however i think we have to be balanced about bringing in the outrages against palestinians. but you don t see israeli soldiers raping. i don t want this to be the hierarchy of oppression. yeah you do. jaya paul thinks we need to be balanced. october survivor said he witnessed as many as ten terrorists assaulting a israeli women. the victim who screamed to be killed was shot in the head and where are the women s groups? we reached out to top female organizations in the country that support liberal causes, so ....
along with jeanine pirro, dana perino and greg gutfeld. this is the five. shocking silence from the biggest women s groups in the countries as the squad reaches a new low in their defense of hamas. downplaying the numerous and well-documented of israeli women by terrorists. i have condemned what hamas has done. the rate, of course, but we have to remember that israel is a democracy and that is why they are a strong ally of ours. i think is horrific. terrorist organizations are using these as tools. we have to be balanced about bringing in the outrages against palestinians. you don t see israeli soldiers rating i don t want this to be the hierarchy of oppression. jesse: we need to be balanced when talking about atrocities like this. a survivor says he witnessed as many as ten hamas terrorists assaulting and gang rating an israeli woman. the victim screamed out to be killed, she was tragically shot in the head. where are the women s groups? we asked if they co ....