Original series real time with Bill Maher start the clock hi, everybody how are you doing hey thank you all right. Thank you very much thank you people. I appreciate it. How are you doing all right, well okay. All right. Weve got a big show. Thank you very much. I know its very exciting. Time of year. Its Labor Day. Fuck is the year already . Its christmas already. Its its Labor Day weekend. And right on cue. This is as they say. This is when the president ial race really starts and it really did. We finally had an interview Last Night with kamala harris. Did you watch it oh, wow. Thats a lot of people watched it. Not just her with Tim Walz. Her emotional support, vp well, i mean, it was it was a little odd. He was just sitting there for a very long time without saying anything he did. I mean, he was just. He was just nodding while she did all the talking. The womens Focus Group said he must be a wonderful husband really . I mean like, it just kept going. And he was saying nothing. It
damage done to people and ideas. the wagner group mercenary fighters pulled out from the southwestern russian city which they basically took over as well as other locations that they reached including points closer to moscow. they are now headed back to their base camp in ukraine, with , it is said, their boss, pr ogosia. it has wees anger with the russian military and running of the war in ukraine that triggered this attempted upris ing as the symbols of russian power only to be diffused at the last minute in a deal brokered by belarus president with the agreement of russian president putin that saw all pretty much get off the hook for this attempted insurrection but he is being sent in exile to belarus. it s reported to the that u.s. intelligence was aware that something like this was going to happen especially as we kept a close eye on russia s nuclear arms. they wanted to keep an arms length so moscow would not accuse washington of meddling in russian internal affairs and
war against hamas as fears of a potential escalation in the region intensifies. plus, russia pounds ukraine s two biggest cities in a new wave of attacks. the assaults are likely to strain nuclear s defenses as the country continues to plead for more military assistance from the u.s. and donald trump is appealing the landmark ruling from maine that disqualified him from the state s primary ballot. later in the program, we ll be joined by maine s secretary of state to talk about her decision there and charlie sykes with his new piece that asks, is disqualifying trump anti-democratic? we ll get the answer along with willie and me, we have the host of way too early jonathan lemire, u.s. special correspondent to bbc news, katty kay, and founder of the conservative website, the bulwark, charlie sykes is with us. willie, we are going to start with some political snapshots of where the race stands, and then we ll get to all the big major news breaking overnight. we have a lot to
killed in lebanon. why the strike is sparking new fears that the war could spill into the wider region. and breaking news out of iran. more than 100 people killed in explosions commemorating an iranian general killed by a u.s. drone strike back in 2020. children amongst the dead and nearly 150 injured. we re going to have the very latest in just a moment as well. good morning, everybody, it s 10:00 a.m. in the east. i m yasmin vossoughian in for ana cabrera. good to see you this morning. we re going to begin in iran in the city of care monowhere just within the last couple of hours two explosions killed 100 people and injured nearly 150 people at the memorial site for ha sam soleimani. he was the head of the revolutionary guard corps. i want to bring in ali arouzi in tehran to talk more about this. this morning iran saying more than 100 people were killed in these blasts. what do we know? reporter: yeah, i mean, this just broke a few hours ago, yasmin, as you said. w
from actual voters and caucusgoers instead of faceless polling percentages. what will they say and how much say will they have? there s so much swirling around the republican primary this year. so much that could change everything and yet so much that could change nothing. let me explain. the accepted wisdom right now is that donald trump will be the nominee. but what happens if he can t get on the ballot? there are two states, maine and colorado, saying someone who incited an insurrection can t run for federal office. will other states follow? and if they do, will the supreme court be forced to get involved? there s also the issue of the other legal cases against donald trump. the federal criminal cases. the election interference case is still technically scheduled for march 4th. will it still happen? briefs are due today at the d.c. appeals court where a three-judge panel is going to decide whether donald trump immune from prosecution. if they say no and the case does go to