Top of the hour, a very good day to all of you. Welcome everyone to Alex Witt Reports. 100 days to go until election day. 43 of respondents see her in a favorable light, compared to 36 of you Vice President. Trump had a higher on Favorability Rating compared to 42 for harris. The latest Battleground State Poll shows are tied with trump in michigan, 1 Point Behind in wisconsin, and she leaves white 6 points in minnesota. One congresswoman who accompanied Vice President harris described to me just a short time ago the Energy Levels that she is seeing among voters. Women got up at 4 00 in the morning to make sure they could get through security to be in the Convention Hall to hear her. And when they did, she raised the roof. I got on the plane to go back to washington, d. C. To vote on those crazy bills put up by the republicans, and there was an older white man who fist pumped me in the plane and said, were you excited to see Kamala Harris . Are you fired up . Are you ready to go . I am.
Killed an isisk fighter alleged to have been involved in planning future attacks. But the threat of deadly violence continues. According to the pentagon there are specific, credible threats on the ground in kabul. The president s national security team has warned him another terrorist attack is likely. For more on this i m joined by ali arouzi in tehran. Ali, what is the latest on the ongoing threat of more violence in kabul? good morning. According to centcom, the u. S. Conducted an over the horizon counterterroism operation which involved a drone strike against an isisk member in nangarhar that was believed to be involved in the attacks in kabul. The u. S. Military said that the air strike took place in nangarhar province, east of kabul, bordering papakistan. Initial indications was that the target was killed and they don t have reports of civilian casualties. According to officials, a reaper drone took off from somewhere in the middle east, struck the militant while he was in a car
We re going to bring in latasha brown, cofounder of black voters matter, who is right now at the lincoln memorial in washington, d. C. Latasha, are you with me? all right. We re going to stand by for latasha. She will be joining us as soon as she s mic d. We want to check in. Are you with me yet? can you hear me? i can t. Can you turn it down a little bit? okay, we can hear you. We re going to see you in just a second. I want to make sure that you can hear me. Latasha, do i have you? i can hear you. Great. We ll see you there you go. We see you. We see you, and we hear you. Okay. The peril of live tv. We re happy to have you. Hi. You look great. Let s get into it. I want to know what is the point of this march, and what exactly are you hoping to accomplish? you know, today we re doing this make good trouble march because what we rally because we need to make good trouble. You know, we are right now in 2021, we have less voting rights now than we had in 1965 when the voting rights act w
Hitting the roads. What one u. S. Airline is doing to stop passengers from fighting onboard its planes. Good morning, it is saturday, may 29. We kick off memorial weekend. I m kendis gibson. I m lindsey reiser. No matter how miserable i am on a plane, stuck in the middle seat, i would never get violent or angry. We will have to put our minds, you know, ourselves in the minds of people who do that. You got off an airplane last night. Exactly. We do have a team of reporters all over the place covering the very latest for us. Including travel. We are looking at some of the different scenes all over the country, including hartford right now that is dealing with some rain. But we are going to begin on capitol hill. Congress now out of session for memorial day weekend but the fallout to senate republicans blocking the creation of the january 6th commission continues this morning. Msnbc s amanda golden is there with more. Amanda, senator schumer says he might bring the bill back to the floor.
Future peace talks. None of those are small tasks. Now, over the weekend, secretary blinken defended the biden white house s quiet diplomacy behind the scenes of the conflict. It was critical to get to the ceasefire. President biden s focus on relentless, determined, but quiet diplomacy is what got us to where we needed to be, which is to get the violence ended as quickly as possible, to stop more human suffering and to at least put ourselves in position to make a turn, to make a pivot to building something more positive. Again, that fragile ceasefire is still holding with both sides declaring victory. Over the weekend we saw a rare show of strength from hamas when hundreds of masked and armed militants paraded through the streets of gaza city, an uncommon public display from a u. S. Labeled terror group that normally operates underground. And back here at home, president biden is denouncing antisemitic attacks across the u. S. During the conflict between israel and hamas. Biden callin