Governors. Was she a chinese agent . Also tonight, just one week until the abc News President ial debate. The new poll tonight. Where this race stands after Labor Day. Kamala harris and donald trump. And tonight here, we remember a famous Teen Idol. First tonight, the arrests on long island. A former aide to two new York Governors and her husband both arrested. The former a er aide accused of spying for china. The abc News President ial debate, just one week from tonight. The consequential showdown between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. How theyre pre pairing now in very different ways for this debate. And the new Abc News Poll tonight, in a very close race. Who is ahead coming out of Labor Day . Tonight, Breaking News in the war in ukraine. Russia with one of the deadliest attacks on ukraine since the start of the war. More than 50 people killed, nearly 300 injured by two russian missiles targeting a Military Academy and a nearby hospital. In israel to
I will see you tomorrow at 11 00 a. M. Eastern. We will be back next saturday and sunday at 1 00 p. M. Eastern. Prime weekend is next. Welcome to primetime weekend. I am rachel maddow. Lets get right to the weeks top stories. The past 24 hours have been kind of microcosm. Kamala harris and Tim Walz are doing the Stander Campaign Work for any major candidate, and even keel with a major interview Last Night that went through a lot of the republican charges against them. While they are doing that, trump is out there stumbling to put together english sentences. His campaign keeps stepping in misses of its own making, including an enormous one tonight which we will get to. Both the candidate and his aides are, as usual, posting from it. The fallout continues from trumps political fallout in Campaign Commercial on tiktok at the in Arlington National Cemetery earlier this week where he gave a thumbs up at the graves of veterans, including many who did not consent to any of these, blaming the
Polling that come out, both the national polls and the swing state polls. Are generally telling the same story right now, they re telling a story that vice president kamala harris is doing significantly better against donald trump than president biden had been doing in his campaign. That is comparatively good news for the democrats. They are, apparently, better off now with harris as their candidate than they were before the switch from biden to harris. That said, in absolute terms, the polls, national polls, and the swing state polls, broadly speaking, don t really give either party a reason to celebrate right now. Vice president harris may be doing better than biden was against trump, but it doesn t mean that she is clearly winning against trump. It s basically a tie between the two candidates right now. And that produces all sorts of interesting dynamics to watch for, when it is this close, little differences between the candidates and their campaigns can make a very interesting not
Trolling trump, the Harris Campaign tonight, taking on the former president as he threatens to drop out of the upcoming debate we have some new reporting this hour on whats happening inside the trump campaign. Plus carville and begala together again, out, why they both insist trump is still going to dump fans. But tonight, they actually have an idea for who the replacement for vance to be and Breaking News this hour, two major developments on the trump legal front tonight is doj is trying to revive the Trump Classified docs case lets go by friends and good evening. Im erin burnett and outfront tonight, trump threatening to drop out of the upcoming debate. The former president casting doubt about whether he will in fact debate Vice President harris. That is scheduled to take place on september 10, the participate in the abc debate. When you watch this weekend and its the worst of all networks. When i looked at the hostility give that i said, why am i doing it . Lets do it with another n