Good afternoon, i am Alex Whitney we will go to the B Weekend with Ari Melber first, we want to get update on the developing news in the Middle East upon the death of Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah and a second senior position in hezbollah. This happened in israeli strike on an Apartment Complex in a beirut. Israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu releasing a new statement just this afternoon taking credit for ordering the assassination sang, quote, nasrallah was not a terrorist. He was the terrorist. According to lebanese Health Ministry at least 11 people were killed and 108 injured in the attack protesters took to the streets of tehran as the Supreme Leader declared five days of mourning, urging his people to stand with hezbollah. Officials claim a general was also killed on friday adding they expect to soon deployed troops to lebanon. President biden calling to enhance the u. S. Military Defense Posture in the area to deter aggression and reduce the risk of a broader regional
Month. What the feds are now revealing about ryan routh, his weapon and his getaway car, and the letter he Left Behind in case he failed. That fast moving president ial campaign, 43 days out from the election it found two seemingly contradictory facts are both true, Donald Trump continues to be battered by challenging headlines and yet his race against Kamala Harris is still shaping up one of the tightest in history, new Sun Belt Polling from The New York Times Today Trump has gained a lead in arizona and remains ahead in georgia, two states that he lost in 2020. But in North Carolina, which has not voted for a democrat since 2008, miss harris trails Donald Trump by a narrow margin. Our Weekend Poll shows harris up nationally by five. But more dramatically her favorable score is up 16 points since july, now surpassing trump. It comes as trump heads to pennsylvania later today amid Ground Game concerns, the Associated Press reports that dozens of republican officials, activists and oper
it seemed related to the dna test. the willingness of democrats to vote for her had fallen. and the unfavorability number was up and the favorability number was down. in terms of the dna test, is that a blip? will it be forgotten or was there more damage revealed? it will certainly be an issue that she ll have to address. two things that happen. the conservative energy that tries to slur her as poke honlt as, using those racial terms that native americans have called racist. when she took the test and angered some progressives and some native-americans, in taking the test it acted like it is related to blood when it is cultural kinship. and she s aware of that. she is known privately with
a proud mississippian. and the incumbent cindy hyde smith has a 54% favorability number. and welcome in my panel. matt, to you, you have been doing a lot of reporting on the racial issues there. tell me about cindy hyde smith and her connection, you know, the introduction of the legislation on jefferson davis highway. and bring us up today. yeah. so cindy hyde smith has made sort of her political career out of defend iing the confederacy, and one of her first pieces of legislation was to rename a portion of a high wway in her state senate district after jefferson davis. she s visited the jefferson davis homestead. she has been, kind of draped
look at the stock market, i mean, americans are living better than they ever have and you are going to question his leadership? steve: when you watch the mainstream media though, according to the media research center, 90% of the coverage of donald trump is negative. yet, you know, his popularity, his favorability number has remains steady or has gone up a little bit, which is a shocking number, considering all the vast avalanche of bad publicity he has gotten. what s interesting is i looked at the media yesterday and they all wants to talk about what the world view of the president is. what they need to understanding is the world doesn t understanding the media in america right now. like they see what the president is doing, that is what makes us look bad is when they are constantly i was talking to a world leader yesterday, i won t name which leader it was, and he said i can t believe that they would ever talk about impeachment, 25th amendment. he said do they understanding this