Democratic nominee Tim Walz and his republican Rivaljd Vance, prepare to go head to head in a live tv debate. Lets return to our continuing coverage of developments in the Middle East. Israeli Ground Forces have crossed into Southern Lebanon, marking an important new escalation of their offensive against hezbollah. The incursion follows weeks of heavy blows by israel against the lebanese armed group, including the killing of its long time leader, hassan nasrallah. As israeli Artillery And War planes hit sites in lebanon overnight, its military says a Return Barrage of about ten rockets was fired at its towns. Chi Chi Izundu reports. Explosion. A dangerous and pivotal moment in the Middle East. Escalation amid fresh missile strikes overnight. A Ground Offensive launched by israel into lebanon. In Southern Beirut, less than 30 minutes after israel told residents to leave three neighbourhoods, a huge blast was heard. Explosion. Then the confirmation came. Israel began its Ground Operation
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al sand alexandria hoff with the latestest on all of this. reporter: so the president tried to the use the 2003 heroes act as a route to usher in this loan forgiveness plan. of course, the supreme court shot that down yesterday. now biden administration is looking at something called the higher education act as a means to the become a plan b. we re not going to waste any time on this. we re getting moving on it it s going to take longer, but we re getting at it right away. reporter: president sd the higher education act will allow the secretary the of education to waive or release are loans under certain circumstances. very few details on how or why this route could work, and it s likely to face the the same legal challenges. as part of a joint statement released yesterday, republican senator bill cassidy wrote, quote: president biden s sunt loan scheme is still illegal and does not forgive department, but with instead ares it to to those who willingly took on the d
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america. the president saying today s gop is, quote, dominated, driven, and intimidated by maga republicans. we ll have complete political and historical analysis of his address to the nation. plus, the latest developments in the investigation of former president trump s mishandling of classified documents, as another conservative legal voice predicts trump will be indicted. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, september 2nd. with us, we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay with us. the host of way to early, white house bureau chief at politico and the author of the big lie, jonathan lemire. pulitzer prize-winning columnist at the washington post, eugene robinson. and nbc news presidential historian, michael beschloss joins us this morning. glad to have you all. so much to talk about. jonathan lemire, i must start with you. it is like secretariat at the kentucky derby in 1973. starts out slow and then, boom, takes off. i kn