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
Well have the latest reporting from cnbc. Also ahead, an update on Recovery Efforts across the southeast at President Biden is set to get a firsthand look at the devastating Storm Damage in North Carolina. Well also have a live report from The Middle East as israel launches a Ground Offensive into Southern Lebanon after weeks of deadly Air Strikes targeting hezbollahing the militants. And what could be the final debate of the 2024 president ial debate. Jd vance and Tim Walz set to square off tonight in New York. With us, the host of way too early, jonathan lemire. Bbcs Katty Kay. And the president on the council of foreign relations, richard haass. Author of the Newsletter Home and away. Well get to it all in a minute. Pete rose died. Kept out of the hall of because of the betting scandal. Talent was huge. Member of three World Series Championship teams. The Cincinnati Reds in the 70s. Got a third with the philadelphia phillies. The alltime hits king, a record that i dont see being bro
Walz campaign will talk about the debate tomorrow. Rachel, i knew that aljd vance weird. I knew that even before tim walz told me that jd vance is weird. But until i watched your jd program tonight, to say i didn t know the half of it i did know the tip of the iceberg , it turns out in the tip of the iceberg is a lot and rich an amazing and stranger than most politicians. But what you reported on tonight is just stunning. It left you at a certain part i noticed speechless and like the commercial came just in time because what else is there to ca say about this madness? i mean, there is a very traditional political science 101 way to look at jd vance which is like, less than two years as a senator and never held public office before that other than his time in public he service and all he has done his work for this guy peter and there is a political science way to look at it and then also your like dive in and look at the stuff he said on tape and who he says he gets his political ideas
Presidential election regular things. But if these two guys in particular, what you re talking about, about j. D. Vance, i feel like that s more so more true than evero this year. Yeah. They don t typically matter. But this one may. On yeah. O and we don t know which j. Vance we may know but we really don t know which one will come tomorrow night. So, we ll see. I ve got a big rachel maddow show style spiel, a big story that i think people don t know about vancedo coming up a littl later on in the show. Oh, good. That s my homework assignment for tonight. We ll be watching. Thank you, jen. Muchnk appreciated. Thanks at home for joining us this hour. This is one of those news day where everything isho busting o all over. There s a lot going on. And a lot of the big news in the country and the world is still developing tonight. So, i have to tell you, tonight we are keeping our eyes trained on the middle east. A suggest nif can t expansion in the conflict between israel and hezbollah in
Starts now. Tonight on the reidout you know, these are smart, smart people. They re not so stupid. But they have to be taught. If you had one really violent day, one rough hour, and i mean real rough, the word will get out and it will end immediately. End immediately. A new low as trump advocates for a day of violence. A national blood letting, essentially the purge. That s his rhetoric takes an even more sinister and dangerous turn. Also tonight, bernie moreno, the republican running for senate in ohio, doubles down on his weird comment that women over 50 need not be concerned about abortion because apparently their bodily autonomy doesn t matter anymore. His opponent, sherrod brown, joins me. But we begin tonight with an answer, at long last, to the question many in the political world have wondered over the last eight years since trump went from reality show host, failed casino magnate, and frequent wwe performer to presidential candidate, declaring he would make america great agai