Hi, everyone. Dont you love that music. It is 4 00 in New York. The prosecutor versus the felon, the want to be autocrat versus the democrat. A candidate weighed down by incumbency in the eyes of the voters, a candidate who will be the oldest president in our history should he prevail. Versus the candidate of change from a much younger generation. Every contrast that defined the 2024 president ial election could very well be distilled in to 90 minutes on one of the biggest stages of this Campaign Season so far. With the mics muted and no audience with only the moderator as loued to ask the questions and two minutes to answer and two minutes for rebuttal, Vice President Kamala Harris will be up against a candidate who at this point is defined by his lies. As we reported before, he told more than 30,000 lies over the course of his presidency. Countless more since then. A candidate who has no problem spewing disinformation no matter the consequences, as long as it serves had im. Here is h
Who loves Cheese Sandwiches believer, Jake Tapper starts right now could, tomorrow, Nights Debate prove even more consequential than the last one. Probably not. The lead starts right now Kamala Harris and Donald Trump preparing pairing for tomorrows Highstakes Debate and very different ways, Vice President harris calling on two people who have debated trump in the past while trump himself is getting ready for a public quick appearance tonight, was yet another investigation of the tragic u. S. Withdrawal from afghanistan. Is it a coincidence that the Committee Report is coming out right before the debates, both in top republican and the top democrat on the relevant committee will be here with two very different takes and alarming new details tell us about the tragic shooting at that georgia high school. I had the suspected shooter is cryptic text to his mother and her urgent call to the school before the horn unfolded welcome to the lead. Im Jake Tapper and happy president ial debates e
Thats to be expected. The alternative, however, is simply untenable. At home, another four years of Donald Trumps chaotic leadership, this time focused on advancing the dangerous goals of project 2025 will hurt real, everyday people and waken our sacred institutions. Richard, which are the reasons who have not stood up yet, who served in the Trump Administration, who could actually make a difference in terms of persuading those very few, unpersuadable voters who are left . And do you expect any more of them to stand up between now and november . I mean, theres the former Vice President who has, shall we say, a certain physical and political incentive to stand up, given how he was do you think hes going to do it . No. Look, i think if people were going to stand up, theyve had now, shall we say, several years to do it. Several people simply have not. Disagree with me or not, but how much of a difference will it make . Its certainly not going to shake trumps base. Im not sure many of thes
Powering smarter savings. Powering possibilities. Hi, everyone, its 4 00 in new york. Ten tuesdays, 70 days to a Flashing Red Crossroads in our shared North American future. Both president ial campaigns this afternoon on pace with whats going to be a dead sprint to election day. Vice president Kamala Harris and her running mate tim walz at this hour preparing for what will be their tickets First Campaign stop since they formally accepted their partys nomination. A Bus Tour Of Georgia starting tomorrow. Meanwhile with Donald Trumps running mate jd vance campaigning in michigan and indiana, that campaign is adding new voices. An interesting voice. Nbc news adviser confirming that both robert f. Kennedy jr. And gabby is moving with trump. Lets go to North Carolina voters in ten days. Four days after that, the first president ial debate between trump and harris, which now appears to be all systems go. At least right now, according to donald trump. Disgraced expresident a little more than a
it, with a republican primary dominated by an ex-president who has centered his candidacy around his legal woes, look no further. this morning donald trump, fresh off a decisive win in the iowa caucuses, was at a federal courthouse in manhattan as the defendant in a second defamation trial brought by the writer e. jean carroll. this time there s no question of whether trump defamed her. judge kaplan has ruled trump is liable for remarks he made in 2019 mocking carroll s claim that he sexually assaulted her in a chance encounter at a department store dressing room in the 1990s. and trump is not allowed to dispute carroll s account. the question now is how much a jury should award e. jean carroll in damage for those comments. opening statements are currently under way. we ll have a live report from the courthouse when the trial wraps from the day. so far, donald trump was in the courtroom. alongside his lawyer, alina habba, as well as e. jean carroll and her attorneys. the firs