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Michael steele here in washington, d. C. Rolling out the heavy hitters. The Support Vice President harris is receiving from President Obama on the Campaign Trail. Plus, the quote, depravity on the Campaign Trail. The dark, dangerous lies republicans are spreading in the aftermath of hurricane helene. North carolina gubernatorial candidate Josh Stein is here to respond. Grab your coffee, settle in. Welcome to the weekend. We are now just 31 days from election day. 31 and there is still a lot to d...

Values of fairness, dignity, and opportunity. With just five weeks to Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump make their pitch to voters on the economy and immigration with strikingly different approaches. He prefers to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem. You have to get them the hell out. You have to get them out. Whose message is resonating in this final sprint . Steve kornacki has the results of the latest poll. Plus, faceoff. Are you better off now tha...

Last week, a grand jury indicted u. S. Senator bob menendez. This past week, dozens of members of his own party have demanded his resignation. I have been watching along with all of you as it is citizen and also as his daughter. I will not be reporting on the legal case. That said, my colleagues across msnbc and nbc news, they have aggressively covered the story. Theyll continue to do so as they should. Now, to capitol hill in the possibility that a Government Shutdown could be averted despite t...

military truce. u.s. diplomats are scrambling to extend that agreement since a number of hostages are still being held captive. >> also, the red cross that was supposed to gain access to them, has not had access. we know a key part of the ongoing talks is getting adult males released. its been women and children so far almost entirely with a few exceptions. we know israeli troops are at the ready, prepared operat operationally, along the truce lines in gaza should this pause expire and...

Earlier i spoke with matthew schmidt, a professor of national security and political science at the university of new haven in connecticut. i asked him about why the russians would use tactics which are designed explicitly to terrorize the civilian population. >> what the russian troops are trying to do right now, what theyve been ordered to do is essentially to put so much pain, put so much horror into the civilian population, that that forces zelenskyy to negotiate from a position he may not b...

Population to control the negotiating standpoint of his enemy. >> well, we heard from the russian president vladimir putin actually talking about those peace negotiations that have been ongoing. he spoke publicly. its been a while since he has actually made any kind of public remarks, and he said that ukraine had violated agreements which had been reached during those talks earlier by trying to apply security guarantees to areas of ukraine which are under russian control. i want you to listen to...

Are focused mostly on their economic consequences, his election is two years away so he has no reason really to distract with a war or anything like that, but the fact is he has caught himself in this pickle on one hand and on the other, he played his cards very well, which is a little embarrassing for us from a negotiating standpoint so the thing that i would tell president biden, we have to flip our position on its head where were in the ones in a position of power and were portraying military...

Borrowing a tit for tat, thats what happens. they slap us, we take tentative step towards trading off of tariffs. but barring that, the market is he economy.corporate earnings if they go there, if they start doing, you know, were going to do this to you, you do this to us, if nafta does unravel, thats not good for the markets. just from a negotiating standpoint, it sounds odd that they literally had china in the corner. donald trumps very large shoe was on xis head on this zte thing. he had them...

Goods that were trying to sell overseas and get some better negotiated deals. then as a warning shot, saying guys, you really have to think about the tariffs and the restrictions you have in japan, in south korea. we protect these countries, and they really treat us -- they put restrictions on rice exports, for crying out loud. this is not high-tech. >> thats what the president is trying to do here. from a negotiating standpoint, do you think hes just trying to set a playing field here for negot...

Replaces the 1400 that were just pulled out of afghanistan in the closing days of the obama administration. >> bill: why send more troops now? what is happening on the ground that would necessitate this? >> part of it are the recent gains on the battlefield by the taliban. if you remember last month taliban militants killed afghan soldiers on an assault on a military base. president trump is going to the nato summit later this month where he promised to pressure other nato countries to contribut...