Welcome to The Weekend. I am Alicia Menendez with symone sanderstownsend. Michael steele is off at we began with news is from the Middle East. Hezbollah, the iranian backed militant group based in lebanon confirmed its leader has been killed. The news broke from the Israeli Military who said it targeted Hassan Nasrallah in a series of airstrikes in southern beirut friday. Overnight, hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets across the border towards israel. The Israeli Military continued intensive strikes across lebanon. Smack joining us now from beirut is Msnbc Correspondent Matt Bradley. A lot of new information to cover this morning. Give us the latest. Reporter yeah, guys, first of all, the reason i am wearing all this Body Armor is in an abundance of caution. Ever since immediately after the announcement by hezbollah they confirmed the death of Hassan Nasrallah have been killed, we have experienced a burst of gunfire from right behind me from the neighborhood and possibly on the bea
barack obama was way behind hillary clinton in african-american voters leading into iowa. anyone on the stage is going to get 90% plus african me-america voters in a match up against donald trump. but it s turning out african-american voters in a significant fashion. i know in my races statewide in new jersey, when i m on the ballot, we ve seen the african-american turn out go significant up. i m confident by the time we get to south carolina, the ability to win in iowa we know we re going to see a shift away from joe biden and we ll be able to win down here in south carolina. that s my confidence. that s my experience. and whoe be to the democratic party if we don t have someone who has an authentic connection to african-americans where people can trust because there s been a lot of things we ve done in the democratic party. i say we, not me. but the 1994 crime bill.
individual, a candidate s history. now, of course, just after that joe biden, the former vice president, fired back at booker saying that booker knows that he is wrong in his assessment of his record, even taking into question, cory booker s record as newark mayor, saying take a look at the doj s investigation into his police department back in 2011. now, cory booker spoke this morning encouraging folks to take a different look when they are having that conversation about electability saying they need to focus on turning out african-american voters and they need to turn to somebody who has fought diligently in recent history for criminal justice reform efforts. of course booker was central to the passage of that first step act, which was the criminal justice reform measure that passed at the end of this last year with bipartisan support and was signed by president trump. kamala harris will actually also be here tomorrow and i just want to make one other note there. just a few moments a
philadelphia. nobody can bully the city of philadelphia. there s a great feeling in that room, jonathan. it s obvious a diverse crowd, african-american, white guys, different ethnic groups. they all get along, they all know each other. this is an old, encrusted machine. but the ladies. i love the way bob brady talks. he s messing with the ladies. yes, that is bob brady, right? he s a union leader, he s carpenter. right, carpenter s union leader. he s real. even when he s down here, he s a congressman, but that s kind of how he is all the time. i ll tell you guys, hallie and joy, you re younger than me and you re watching this and so is jonathan, the old political touch is something to watch. joy, you know what i mean? yes. the ability to connect with everybody of every background, fence mend, if somebody gets a little offended, immediately make friends with them again. it s a joy to watch the old politics. whatever you think of political machines and i know republic
wisconsin, colorado, iowa, new hampshire between now and monday. let s bring in the hardball roundtable. cornell belcher is a pollster and covers politics for the washington post. and matt schlapp is president of the american conservative union. right across the room here, what can you read from the geography of these guys as they two campaign feverishly in the next several days? i m surprised by it, because we saw this head fake also in 2012, when i was tonight obama campai campaign. i m surprised by how many times republicans go down the rabbit hole in pennsylvania? i really do. i think outside of pittsburgh and philadelphia, they see alabama, and they think, this state should be ours. right now, if i were in the trump campaign, i would be spending a lot more time in ohio and north carolina, than i would be falling for the rabbit hole that s what we did today. you see the big city numbers, they re awesome. right, and you see clinton spending a lot of time in pennsylvania