These two men were both a heartbeat away from being interesting this evening. It was a Vice President ial debate. One of these men will lose and we will never from him again. The other one will become vp again and we will never hear from him again. 4144. All right. A look at the late night takes of Vice President ial nominees tim Walz And J. D. Vance. The Ohio Senator largely kept things cordial in last Nights Debate focusing most of their attacks at their Running Mates at the top of the ticket. We are going to go through the big moments from what could be the final faceoff between the campaigns before election day. We will bring you a live report from The Middle East following a major escalation by iran launching a massive ballistic Missile Attack on israeli. We will have the very latest developments just ahead. Two major stories this morning. Good morning. Welcome to Morning Joe. Its wednesday, october 2nd. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of Way Too Early white House
Your people back into their homes, you dont escalate to deescalate. And obviously now, with the iranian retaliation, israelis are in their shelters as they go into the new years holiday weekend. Ben . Yeah. I think, you know, since October 7th, the Biden Administration has had a number of goals, one was to provide support to israel as it aims to go after hamas, but then also one of the principle goals of u. S. Diplomacy since October 7th had been avoiding deescalation into lebanon, precisely because i think there was an understanding that lebanon could be kind of the Trip Wire to this broader regional war that essentially, you know, it is one thing if there is a conflict In Gaza, that alone is destabilizing enough and is obviously brought a tremendous Human Toll and has grinded on for a full year. But the concern has always been that if israel launched a Ground Operation and significantly escalated things in lebanon that could draw iran into a conflict in a direct way as were seeing to
Pacific, israeli forces say its military forces are carrying out new strikes against targets in Southern Lebanon. It follows two straight days of Surprise Explosions of pagers and Walkty Talkies Targeting Members of the iranbacked militia hezbollah. Lebanese Health Officials say 37 people were killed and nearly 3,000 were injured. Just the last hour, the head of hezbollah accused israel of violating a Red Line and explosive devices could be a declaration of war. Joining us, Raf Sanchez and Fourstar Jienl and Marc Polymeropoulos for the Cia And Security intelligence analyst, raf, what can you tell us whats going on right now . Jose, the Israeli Military has announced thousands of strikes in Southern Lebanon since this war broke out, but the strike they announced earlier this morning is different. Rather than saying they are targeting a specific Hezbollah Operative or responding to a specific rocket they announced what sounds like a broad effort to, in their words, degrade Hezbollahs Cap
on the financial side. as you know, the rnc is out of money. they re looking for loans themselves. they don t want to support donald trump or be anywhere near him. there is a cataclysm coming in the second half of 2024. you think you might have to liquidate sayings. can i just ask, does a bank loan for things like that? can you get loans pay that? certainly he could get loans if he has the collateral. if he has equity in these properties, these golf courses, these buildings that he owns he could certainly pose those as collateral and get loans. he probably has more cash than people think though. it s been exaggerated how poor he is. my guess is he does have the money to pay the 83 million very quickly. of course he will appeal it but again, if you go 83 plus three 70, that s another 150, that s a problem for most people, alex, no matter how rich you are, that s a big problem. i was going to say. that s not coach trump change. anthony scaramucci, good to see you my frien
headquarters here in new york city. we continue our breaking news coverage of this evening of u.s. air strikes against iran- backed militias in iraq and syria. the military action is a sharp escalation in the administration s effort to stop the rising threat from iran- backed groups across the middle east. earlier this evening, u.s. central command released video of one of the b one bomber s used to carry out the air strikes, and in a call with reporters and national security council spokesperson laid out the details of the attack. u.s. military forces struck more than 85 targets at seven facilities utilized by the revolutionary guard groups. three of the facilities in iraq, four of them are in syria. numerous aircraft, including b1 bombers, dispatched from the united states were involved in this operation, firing more than 125 precision guided munitions over the course of about 30 minutes. target facilities included command and control centers as well as headquarters build