States have sued the Social Media platform, accusing it of helping to drive a mental Health Crisis among teenagers. A bipartisan group of 1a Attorney generals from across the country allege the company uses addictive features to hook children to the app. They also claim its intentionally misled the public about the safety of prolonged use. Tiktok has called the lawsuit disappointing. The platform is already battling a law passed by congress in april that would ban it from the us unless a chinese Parent Company agrees to sell it. Details now from New York. To sell it. Details now from New York to sell it. Details now from New York. , ,. , New York. The lawsuits from more than New York. The lawsuits from more than a New York. The lawsuits from more than a dozen New York. The lawsuits from more than a dozen states New York. The lawsuits from i more than a dozen states argue tiktok was deliberately designed to keep young people hooked on the service. The massively popular Video App is used
That s going to do it for our special vladimir putin birthday edition of the rachel maddow show tonight. Now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. I would not have known whose birthday it was today, rachel, if you didn t deliver that what do we call that? is that good news? i m not sure what that is. It s the opposite of me singing happy birthday. It s a fact, that s for sure, characterizing it yonder that is not easy. Thank you, lawrence. Thank you, rachel. Thank you. Thank you. We are separated by an entire country right now. I m in los angeles. She s on the east coast so our connection has a little bit of a gap in it when we are chatting , which explains our little pauses with each other right there. Now it is an election night in america and it will be election 19 america every night for the next 29 days. That s until november 5th, the final election nights of the season. Voting is already underway at early voting locations and with mailin ballots in this country. Ov
Taxes on fourtime no tax on social security, no tax on tips 15 tax on us manufacturers. Now, trump says he would pay for all of this by imposing massive tariffs of cost. Of course, there are massive cost to that as well that Harris Plan calls for a number of things would cross a lot of money, including partially extending those 2017 and Trump Tax cuts that would cost three chilean dollars. Shes also got plans to expand the Child Tax Credit and earned income tax credit, expanding Prek Childcare Ac ece, aca subsidies that paid family medical leave. So the add all this up. This is very, very expensive and get to remember that this comes at a time when the national that is already spiking, write 35 35,000,000,000,000 national debt right now, it has doubled in the last ten years. Queen toppled over the last 20 years. And yet neither Harris Nor Trump really have a plan to tackle this John Member when the national that used to be a campaign issue, not so much anymore at least for the candidat
Smerconish in philadelphia, the final day of voting is four weeks from tuesday. And even without my showing you the latest polling, you already know the State Of Play while Vice President Kamala Harris has a slight edge over former President Trump at a popular vote the seven widely recognized Battleground States are within the margin of error this after a long strange trip in which nothing has moved the nation from an intractable divide when it began, there was a lot of talk about a third Party Factor but they couldnt find a ticket to meet the moment. And the fresher face from florida never got the traction that some had anticipated so trump cruised to the nomination without ever having to debate his opponents and was actually bolstered by four indictments and suffered know setback among republicans, even after being convicted. The general election field, then took shape. Age was immediately a factor. The only thing these candidates could agree on was to debate at the start of summer a
Our coverage continues on the last word with my friend lawrence o donnell. Good evening. A big newsnight. Yes and minutes before you started your live coverage, we just got the news and i was reading it as you are handling it live. I have been following these swarming investigations of city hall and eric adams at what i felt was relatively closely, but i have never been able to describe to anyone the full shape of it. I think by tomorrow we will have the diagrams built to put on screen to show you the number of commissioners who resigned from this administration. The number of people in the adams administration alone who have had telephones seized. I first covered it on this program two weeks ago for the first time when the police commissioner was forced to resign. That had reached a level that really made it feel like it was now happening at the very top and here we are tonight at the top of the top, at city hall. Stunning news and new york city history in the making. Have a good show