The network at nbc news, thank you for staying up late with me. I will see you tomorrow. Thank you for joining us. Super happy to have you here. It is september nine today and you know what that means. Obviously, it means happy birthday, North Korea and i hoped you remember to get them something nice. It traces its founding to this date in 1948. Today was full of terrified North Korean citizens marching through the streets dressed Identically Doing Synchronized things with flags and banners all pledging loyalty till death to this third generation of totalitarian dictators who have ruled that country since its findings in 1948. The cult of personality that is the North Korean dictatorship involves essentially the worship of the Kim Family Is Gods on earth. And today on the occasion of North Koreas birthday, the chinese president and the president of russia Vladimir Putin send warm congratulations to North Korea and warm congratulations to kim jongun praising his dictatorship promising c
News out of israel. Thats where a nationwide Labor Strike has begun in the international, the largest International Airport in the country is now closed. The countrys largest Labor Union called for the strikes after the bodies of six hamas held hostages were found in underground tunnels in gaza on saturday. Union leaders hope a strike will put additional pressure on the government to reach a Ceasefire And Hostage deal with hamas. The strike was set to start at 6 a. M. Local time, 1 a. M. Eastern time, and its expected to last for one day. Israels main International Airport shut down in solidarity. Its expected to be closed for at least two hours. Israels Finance Minister was working on sunday to stop the strike from happening, but his attempts appeared to have failed. This all coming as massive protests continue to erupt across israel. In response to the six bodies recovered by the idf. One of those victims was a 23 year old Israeli American. An estimated 550,000 protesters reportedly
For stephanie ruhle. We are 71 days away from the election. Early voting starts in less than a month in the first mail in ballots will be sent out next week. The conventions are over and the threat to election day is an. One of the biggest days between know when that, the president ial debate scheduled for september 10 on abc. Now, donald trump is threatening to pull out. Here is nbcs Garrett Haake with more. Reporter tonight, the trumpet heres campaigns drooling over the residential debate. This Morning Trump casting doubt about attending and now a new wrinkle. The deal is we keep the same rules and now they want a change in the rules because she cant answer questions. Reporter in the last face off at the bys campaign request, candidates megaphones were muted while the other candidate was speaking to prevent interruption. Now heres campaign is asking for the microphones to be left on at all times. Trumps Campaign Objective but the candidates seeming to acquiesce today while taunting t
gaffes and a special counsel report highlighting his cognitive struggles. but as per usual, the mob, m the media, they raceedia to defense. take a look. i thought it was a ihot waught s good for him to show who he is. this is not handlers. this is no, thist pollsters. this was joe biden. you knowsters, t, sort of lettia everybody know kind of where he s coming from and how he feels. nd hows. i think that makes hm more youthful, more engaged, more humanaged, more relatable. do you want to give the age thing? because this is let s call it o what it is. this is ageism. snuck into a report clearing the person of any wrongdoing. if someone says you re too far left, you can tack to the centerfa. 0 year there s not. the man is 80 years old. he rides a bike. let me educate our friends in the mob, in the media, because this sea is very seri. according to the special counsel s reporto ,e bide biden presented was presented as, quote, a sympathetic, well-meaningn esented eld
alleged that biden accepted a million dollars bribe from a ukrainian oligarch, the owner ,burisma, and 83% of voters in the new harvard harris poll believe that the fbi should make that file public. now, it s not just the scandals either, because biden s approval numbers on the issues that matter most to people, well, they re upside down in every category. 62% of the country say we re on the wrong track as well. so if america has a car, the dashboard lights are all flashing red now on edge about the future. the american people know that this really isn t the same country they grew up in since the george floyd riots. young people believe that they can wreak havoc with no consequences as they did the juneteenth holiday weekend in l.a.. oh, more on other weekend celebrations later in the show . now, meanwhile, as the chaos unfolds here, our beloved president can barely speak without some verbal interlude. all right. god save the queen man or find his way off the stage with