Good morning. 37 days until election day. In todays tim Walz And Jd vance will take the stage for the first and likely only Vice President ial debate of this cycle. Tuesdays matchup will be the first time the men will meet in person. It will offer a chance to reintroduce themselves to the country. Since joining their Campaigns Walz and vance paths have diverged. Voters have found him to be likable which has been a boost for his and Kamala Harris campaign. Vance history of comments has been a liability for Donald Trump and polls show his favorability ratings are underwater. The stakes are high. Especially with early voting underway in many states. This may be the last marquee event of the election cycle. Harris accepted a proposed debate for October 23rd but there hasnt been Indication Trump is going to change his mind about doing another. I want to talk about a key part of the economic argument thats been playing out the cycle. Tariffs. The Word Tariff properly used is a beautiful word
plus, israel is barring refugee camps as part of new efforts to find hostages. the head of the idf insists the war will go on for months but some critics think that will not be enough time to wipe out hamas. and jack smith calling on the d.c. court to do something that sounds almost unthinkable. stop donald trump from injecting politics into his election interference trial. we re going to start with secretary of state blinken. all right. we re going to start with blinken and dhs secretary set to meet with mexico s president as we speak. the two countries grappling with what the u.s. is calling quote unprecedented levels of migration as well as security challenges on both sides of the southern border. now, these discussions taking on even more urgency as a massive new caravan of roughly 8,000 mie migrants or more are making their way to the united states. the u.s. is already struggling to deal with a record number of migrants. nearly 50,000 arriving last week alone, overwhel
storytelling with one of the very best storytellers around. our friend, the award-winning documentary filmmaker ken burns. country music comes from right in here, this heart and soul that we all have. you can dance to it. you can make love to it. you can play it at a funeral. it has something in it for everybody. let s say something here. when a final accounting is made of the age we re living in now, there will hopefully be a large section devoted to the thanks of a grateful but distracted nation, thanks to those who have contributed to our culture like writers and composers and soldiers and astronauts, like country music musicians and the filmmaker ken burns. he has given us so much, reflectsing so much back to us, our national pastime, and now our highly decorated national filmmaker gives us country music, 16 hours of it airing on
of it airing on pbs. we are so thrilled to have ken burns here with us. thank you for coming. thank you, my friend. thank you. how on earth is there a white board in your studio that we need to see? like a beautiful mind? are there post its? how do you take something this vast and organize them into pieces. well, most of the credit goes to my longtime producing partner and writer dayton duncan who wrestled the larger intertwining of this sort of russian novel of a story into the eight episodes. and our coproducer, julie dunn fee who found the photographs and the footage and conducting the interviews. it s been an amazing thing. i remember in jazz a lit critic told us of charlie parker perfecting the bebop that he
of it airing on pbs. we are so thrilled to have ken burns here with us. thank you for coming. thank you, my friend. thank you. how on earth is there a white board in your studio that we need to see? like a beautiful mind? are there post its? how do you take something this vast and organize them into pieces. well, most of the credit goes to my longtime producing partner and writer dayton duncan who wrestled the larger intertwining of this sort of russian novel of a story into the eight episodes. and our coproducer, julie dunn fee who found the photographs and the footage and conducting the interviews. it s been an amazing thing.