Conflict escalating even more this morning, israeli airstrikes have targeted 140 hezbollah sites in beirut including weapons storage, and missile facilities embedded beneath civilian buildings. Thats according to the idf, the strikes are part of an ongoing campaign by israel to degrade hezbollahs military capability. The lebanese government, responding to the widespread destruction calling for intervention on an international basis, the country has recorded more than 100,000 people have been displaced by the conflict. Authorities claimed that number is actually much higher. Our chief national Security Analyst, Jim Sciutto in Tel Aviv with the very latest jim, tell us first, who was this . Hassan Nasrallah Hassan Nasrallah was a defining figure in hezbollah in the region for more than three decades. Leave getting the terrorist organization, going back to 1992. And we making it over the course of that time into a formidable force, certainly plead with irans help with many Tens Of Thousan
Watching at fubo tv. Com friends are turning 30 and tbs is hosting the ultimate Friends Celebration celebrate 30 years of friends all this weekend on tbs and stream every episode on max shrugs as World War iii approaches, im Chael Smerconish in philadelphia that provocative headline caught my eye this week in the Wall Street Journal. It accompanied an essay written by walter Russell Mead is a professor of Strategy And Statecraft at the university of florida. Professor meade was shining a light on a report from the commission on the national defense strategy, which you can be excused for lack of awareness after all week hed been busy discussing the Trump And Vance comments alleging the eating of pets in ohio and counting the number of times that Kamala Harris has answered questions, as well as how often she repeats her replies and dont get me wrong. Those issues matter. But each of us has only bandwidth and while we and the campaigns are consumed with such inquiry, there are more import
X and tiktok. Thank you so much for joining me today. First of all, was going on a short hiatus. Im taking two weeks off to go enjoy the warmth of other suns. Ill see you back here saturday, october 5th. Smerconish is up next they or wont day im Michael Smerconish in new York City today, ballots are now being cast in alabama, were 52 days away from the final day of voting. But whether there will be another debate remains in doubt. Tuesday night in philadelphia ended with a nearly unanimous decision, but no Knockout Blow before it began, i said Donald Trump needed to exhibit discipline and Kamala Harris needed to show depth she met her mark. He missed his. I locked in my own assessment of the debate Via X just prior to delivery of closing statements before i might be swayed by anybody elses spin. Among my points, that trumps claims about migrants eating pets and abortions being performed at nine months would be a fact checkers dream, but not decisive. I wrote this, she won the debate bu
We might not know. Im Michael Smerconish in philadelphia, the final day of voting is 59 days away. That used to mean wed be that many days in a couple of hours away from figuring out who would be the next president but maybe not this year for at least two reasons. First, by all accounts, the race is razor thin. New Cnn Polling of six Battleground State shows a dead heat while harris has the edge in michigan and Wisconsin Trump has the advantage in arizona, theres no clear leader in pennsylvania, georgia, and nevada overall too close to call and its not just cnn, a variety of other respected pollsters have similar results. The real clear politics average for pennsylvania as of yesterday, trump 47. 2 who harris, 47 point to the washington post, just by illustration of another measure, nevada is a tie North Carolina and arizona, its trump by less than one. Georgia trump Plus Two michigan, harris Plus Two Pennsylvania Harris plus three Wisconsin Harris plus four curiously, youve got Pollin
231231 this is cnn. the world s news the next verdict will come on election day. i m michael smerconish and philadelphia donald trump is the first former us president to be a convicted felon. but will the verdict help or hurt is 2024 campaign non-white voters may have the answer. here s a part of what some of the callers and the popular morning radio program, the breakfast club had to say after the verdict faster, like trump s 30 trust the system at all. i feel their railroad and body system and you see that when she walked in the courtroom to be guilty, you gonna be guilty? how can anybody blackboard provide it trump? were you i d rather have president wright, who s going to be honest and show me a whole, then have a president who s going to allow me to try to get me up, to get my vote breakfast club, host charlemagne, the god is going to join me in just a moment in the most recent poll of battleground states, which included third-party candidates, biden had only 49% support