Welcome back to the weekend, we began with Breaking News out of The Middle East. Hezbollah has now confirmed israel killed its longtime leader. Just last hour the spokesperson for the israeli military confirmed that. His killing under the command of, Choice Chuck chose to join the war that hamas started. There are consequences for that decision. Aaron mcglocklin is live in tel aviv. Bring us up to speed on the latest list our. Symone, around 6 00 yesterday evening, a massive explosion rocked the city of beirut and minutes later, israeli officials were Briefing Members of the press that he was the target of an israeli airstrike on a residential building. They were saying that the Command And Control headquarters for hezbollah was located under then the building. And there was a question whether they had carried out the assassination effectively. They released the Audio Exchange between the Fighter Pilot who carried out the attack and his commander moments after the airstrike was carried
Die roman. I m jessica dean in new york and we begin this hour with vice president kamala harris today agreeing to a second debate with former president donald trump right here on cnn on october 23. Of course, that s just days before the election. Harris now channeling, challenging her rival to another facetoface showdown. But it s trump up four, we re going to talk more about that in just a moment trump held a rally in the key battleground state of north carolina today as the republican candidate for governor in north carolina basis major scandal this week, a cnn investigation uncovered racist and deeply inflammatory comments made by mark robinson on a porn website years ago the trump campaign has yet to comment on this, despite some republicans in north carolina calling on robinson to drop out of the race, was just 45 days to go until election day cnn s steve contorno has more on how trump is handling this from the site of that rally in wilmington, north carolina donald trump arrived
Everyone. Thank you so much for joining me this saturday. Im fredricka whitfield, and we begin with new details into cnns exclusive investigation about disturbing online Post Made Years ago by the republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, Mark Robinson and new Questions Today about how former President Trump may deal with the Brewing Scandal in the crucial Swing State as well, where he will be taking this stage in just a matter of hours. Cnn has now learned that the lewd, racist, and antisemitic posts first uncovered by cnns Kfile Investigative Team have been removed from the Porn Forum called Nude Africa its unclear whether the comments were removed by robinson or the sites administrators. Neither the Robinson Campaign nor Nude Africa responded to inquiries from Cnn Robinson, who is currently North Carolinas Lieutenant Governor denies making the comments despite Cnns K File discovering that the User Profile contained his full name plus an email address, he used on numerous we
Jessica dean in New York and we begin today with Vice President Kamala Harris agreeing to a october 23rd. Of course, just days before the election, harris is now challenging her political rival to another facetoface showdown. But its trump up for more. Were going to have more on that just a moment. Also Day Trump is campaigning in the key Battleground State of North Carolina as the republican candidate for governor in that state faces a major scandal. With just 45 days to go until Election Day. Cnns Steve Contorno is live in wilmington, North Carolina, where trump just wrapped up that rally. See first off, what did trump say about the possibility of this second debate with Vice President harris . Jessica Donald Trump wasted little time telling this crowd what he thinks of our offer for another debate. He said no, thank you. He said its way too close to the election. And while Vice President harris is eager to debate because shes called losing badly, he sees no reason to do it. Take a l
Developments here, One By one, these states came forward throughout the week to say that they got envelopes that were mailed to them that contained some substance that they thought was concerning some places had to be evacuated the fbi so far has said that it seems to be relatively innocuous, but its got people rattled and worried. This is what were talking about when we say over and over that election, workers are facing threats like never before thankfully, no one got hurt and the fbi is looking into it to try to figure out who was responsible but officials from both parties have said that this is just making it harder for them to do their jobs, right . Marshall cohen. Thank you so much. The next hour of Cnn Newsroom starts right now. All right. Hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me on Fredricka Whitfield and were following major new developments in the race for the White House moments ago, former President Donald Trump rejected another debate with Vice President Ka