There were two reasons, really. One, because it was a lengthy interview, and i do think a large number of the short interviews i see merely produce sound bite answers they don t really inform the public. And secondly though i probably shouldn t say this it s 65 years since ijoined the conservative party. I was, am, and always will be a conservative. But for in recent months a little longer than a few months there s not been a great deal i could say that i would wish to say in favour of what the previous government were doing. With that being so, i thought it betterjust stay off the air. Now, of course, the election s behind us, the party s looking again to the future and i can i can return to speaking out, hopefully in favour. Well, there s a lot to get into. Let s start with where we are as a country the country that you led for seven years. You used to say vocally, publicly that you dreamt of a nation at ease with itself. Has your dream come true? emphatically not
Start of the gaza war and we will bring you more information on both stories as that comes into us but turning back to lebanon because early in the day israel carried out air raids against what it called hezbollah s intelligence headquarters in southern beirut. Our middle east correspondence sent us this report. Another night in beirut and more israeli air strikes. War returns to this city. And this attack came with no warning. We went to inspect the damage. A residential building near the lebanese parliament. Beirut appears increasingly under threat. This is where an emergency response group linked to hezbollah operated, now gone. There were just emergency service workers. This is the truth. We only saw them helping people out, says mustafa, who lives on the tenth floor of the building hit. The damage in this building gives you a sense of the power of this attack, and they ve been cleaning up the rubble here, but we can still see some surgical masks and gloves and bandages as well. An
These two men were both a heartbeat away from being interesting this evening. It was a Vice President ial debate. One of these men will lose and we will never from him again. The other one will become vp again and we will never hear from him again. 4144. All right. A look at the late night takes of Vice President ial nominees tim Walz And J. D. Vance. The Ohio Senator largely kept things cordial in last Nights Debate focusing most of their attacks at their Running Mates at the top of the ticket. We are going to go through the big moments from what could be the final faceoff between the campaigns before election day. We will bring you a live report from The Middle East following a major escalation by iran launching a massive ballistic Missile Attack on israeli. We will have the very latest developments just ahead. Two major stories this morning. Good morning. Welcome to Morning Joe. Its wednesday, october 2nd. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of Way Too Early white House
Now and see how much you can save im Elizabeth Wagmeister in Los Angeles in this is cnn ever want to thank so much for joining us. Im Jessica Dean dean in washington alongside my colleague, jim sciutto, who is in Tel Aviv. And we begin in The Middle East where fears of a wider war are growing. Israel and hezbollah, again trading fire across the lebanon border today. And theres this, israel also attacking targets in houthi controlled parts of yemen the idf saying it attacked our station and a seaport. We learned just moments ago, president biden will be speaking with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. Lets send it over now to jim, who is in Tel Aviv and jim, i know youve been monitoring so during all of these developments, what are your takeaways its a multifront war, right at each of those fronts is growing. Israel and hezbollah. They continue to fire at each other today. Of course, the most extensive attacks or by israeli forces on targets inside lebanon. And now you have isra
As chaos, with ambulances rushing to the scene through roads packed with people trying to flee. Our correspondent hugo bachega has the latest from beirut. Explosions scenes of war in beirut. Hezbollah s conflict with israel returning to its stronghold of dahieh, with a series of massive explosions and an escalation with unpredictable consequences. Explosion. An attack so powerful that it was seen and heard across the city. Lebanon now on the brink of another war. Chaos on the streets and here is what they are running from. Dahieh, in southern beirut, now looking like gaza. But amid so much destruction, jubilation. Two children rescued from the rubble alive. Hezbollah s backers, iran, say this strike marks a dangerous game changing escalation in the conflict. For israel, it s a strike targeting the heart of hezbollah s operations. Moments ago, the israel defense forces carried out a precise strike on the central headquarter of the hezbollah terror organisation that serves as the epice