Letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. We are grateful. The beat with Ari Melber starts right now. Hi, ari. Hi, nicolle. Thanks so much. Welcome to The Beat. Im aarri melber. It is tuesday, exactly one month out from the election. I can tell you off top one of the most common maga Talking Points about Kamala Harris that youve probably heard is taking a hard fall today. Trump has been arguing that she wasnt doing any or enough press interviews. And youll remember when she first stepped up as the nominee. It was a frenetic stretch where she launched a new campaign, a convention, a fundraising operation, and picked a running mate. All of that over several weeks, faster than anyone in history because of the switch. And trump and his allies had been hammering that she wasnt doing interviews then or enough. Theyve been hammering this line of attack. Well, the harder they come, the harder they fall, one and all. As Jimmy Cliff famously put it. Respect. Because that would
Can with hurricane milton. Now cat five storm heading straight for tampa, florida, which hasn t taken a direct hit since 1921. Also live the latest from hardhit north carolina and the lies the former president continues to tell about the relief efforts. And later on the oneyear anniversary of the october 7 terror attack would check back in with a woman still waiting for her family being held hostage to come home good evening. Thanks for joining us. It took hurricane milton less than 24 hours to go from an 80 mile an hour storm to 100 names 80 mile an hour monster, one of the fastestgrowing hurricanes ever. And on the path that its on, it could also be the first in more than 100 years to directly hit tampa, florida, a city largely at sea level, or even a smaller storm could do serious damage and which is still cleaning up from his brush with hurricane helene, which may be why people began leaving today and why as many as 6600 ambulances today began evacuating patients from area hospital
More hours, if you re one of those states. It s not close of business, it s at the end of the day. Exactly, you ve got a few more, have a great show. Thank you. Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. The date, october 7th, was previously known for one reason, it is vladimir putin s birthday. He s 72 today. Congratulations. But now, for me and for you and for everybody, the date, october 7th, is its own unforgettable, indelible thing. The same way that 9/11 is an unforgettable, indelible date for us forever and ever. October 7th is when 1,200 people died in the hamas attack. October 7th, 2023, one year ago today. They lost 1,200 people. If you sort of extrapolate that, given the relative size of the population of our two countries, an attack of that size in our country, that would have been the equivalent of us losing more than 35,000 people. We lost 3,000 americans on 9/11. They lost, relative to their population, the equivalent of 35,000 people on october 7th. And they didn t
That s going to do it for our special vladimir putin birthday edition of the rachel maddow show tonight. Now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. I would not have known whose birthday it was today, rachel, if you didn t deliver that what do we call that? is that good news? i m not sure what that is. It s the opposite of me singing happy birthday. It s a fact, that s for sure, characterizing it yonder that is not easy. Thank you, lawrence. Thank you, rachel. Thank you. Thank you. We are separated by an entire country right now. I m in los angeles. She s on the east coast so our connection has a little bit of a gap in it when we are chatting , which explains our little pauses with each other right there. Now it is an election night in america and it will be election 19 america every night for the next 29 days. That s until november 5th, the final election nights of the season. Voting is already underway at early voting locations and with mailin ballots in this country. Ov
As always, thank you very much for joining us. In moments, our exclusive Behind The Scenes look at the return to butler with former President Trump. But, first, less than a month now before the elections about time there are fresh indicators that trump is picking up steam. Betting markets show Donald Trump surging and the harris campaign, they are in such a panic as their internal numbers are not goodbye The Way. They are actually allowing her to speak. To a Gen Z Podcaster Sex And Dating advice. I have been do you know where a tampon do you know how many we use. I was the first Vice President to ever in office go to a reproductive healthcare clinic. Laura after getting slammed for doing few real interviews, kamala did a taped sitdown with 60 minutes as well. How are you going to pay for it . Well, one of the things im going to make sure that the richest among us who can afford it pay their fair share in taxes. Were dealing with the real world here. Laura you dont send her out right no