yesterday s hearing. why is he more willing to fight the case in the court of public opinion than in actual court of law? plus, the former chief financial executive in the trump organization could have him testifying against the company in another trial that is expected to run up against the november elections. and speaking of the midterms, mitch mcconnell downplays now republican chances of retaking the senate, blaming the, quote, quality of his party s candidates. we ll have the new polling and reporting that shows mcconnell s concerns may be well-founded. joe, some more polls in the critical senate races across the country show why mcconnell may be concerned in august. word is they ve already given up on pennsylvania. they ve already given up on dr. oz. they re probably going to focus more in ohio and j.d. vance, hoping that he has a chance. but we have polls showing that this area, this stretch of critical swing states in the upper midwest all breaking against the r
Israel hamas war. Msnbc Special Coverage continues now with katy tur. Good to be with you, im katy tur. An extensive attack against military targets in gaza strip is underway. Thousands upon thousands of leaflets dropped by the Israeli Military warning everyone in the north to get out. The flyers telling the people there, according to a translation by reuters, gaza city has turned into a battlefield, for your safety and the safety of your families, evacuate your homes immediately and head to the south. But how do you get 1. 1 Million People to evacuate, and to do it quickly. And thousand do you do it amid the rubble of an already destroyed city . And how can you do it when the Group Governing them, hamas, is telling them to stay put, that israel is conducting psychological warfare in an attempt to displace them from their homes . Or when that same group uses civilians as Human Shields that is reportedly blocking the path out, according to Secretary Of State Antony Blinken. The u. N. Is
you got to show us something here. we had that conversation the day after the raid, about how much transparency there needed to be. exceptional transparency from the doj in this case. they waited, what was it, three days before we saw the warrant. in that three days, what happened? the conspiracy theory world got just full of crazy information that is then feeding the prospect of violence in the country. they left a vacuum open that all of the crazies jumped into as quickly as they could. now, i mean, the risk here is that there is a no-win situation. you have a document that is so redacted that, as david says, it then fuels more of the crazy conspiracies because you have a whole black page. mindful of the fact that the judge has read the affidavit, right? right. the judge knows what s in it. right. the judge may have some idea. now, he could hear argument from the government and from the
young couple about to get married. they shared their plan with me. eat vegetarian. vegan two days a week. drive no more than 1500 kilometers a year. this was in europe. have a maximum of two babies. i was really moved and also embarrassed, to be honest, because i didn t have such a plan. it inspired me to create one. and i think it is something that we could all do as individuals and with our families to sit down, take a piece of paper and say, look, guys, this is obviously something we know about. we re not ignorant. this is obviously something that we care about. because who is the person, conservative or liberal, old or young, religulous or secular, that doesn t care about the fate of the planet. we are then held accountable. the last question about this crisis of leadership. we talk about climate and the fact that the u.s. has left this vacuum open. the u.s. isn t leading on the issue.
the obama administration tackled this in a crisis mode and it feels similar to how they handled the gulf spill clean-up. it looked messy at the time. but the result is a result. it was a successful clean-up. one of the things i think the obama administration realized they didn t approach this with the urgency and president obama was never a high drama person. no drama obama. so without that, they left the vacuum open for the fear monger that you talk about. and they fix that in the evidence responsibility to zooezooe zika. and they were tackingling the problem even though it has a mortality rate not even comparable to ebola. reid wilson. good for you for digging into this. because these are the type of contexts that we don t everybody said you don t do this. yes, we do as journalists, just go read it. and it is a good news story