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Grown on our farm, enjoyed at your table. welcome back to our Special Coverage, msnbc reports Debate Day live from philadelphia. It is a gorgeous day here. Hello, im chris jansing. As a democratic strategist put it, its like running a 5k after riding a tiltawhirl. Thats how hes describing Tonights Showdown between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. 90 minutes that could reshape the final 55 days of a race that has been stubbornly tight. Heres our first look at the stage inside the national constitution center. Were told harris has just arrived for a walkthrough ahead of her meeting with Donald Trump, who she has actually never met before. We have details on how t ....
shelby county commission just voted to send justin pearson back to the tennessee state house. his colleague justin jones was reinstated monday. both were protesting for gun reform after three kids and three school staffers were shot and killed by someone who legally bought the weapons and used them to murder school children and teachers. and both lawmakers were expelled from the state government for speaking out republicans said it was because they lacked decorum on the house floor. the backlash to the gop decision has been so intense, it s only helped to fuel the debate on guns in tennessee. and now the southern states governor is actually pushing for some gun reform. governor bill lee signed an executive order on tuesday, strengthening background checks, and he s now calling for gop state lawmakers, the same ones who expelled pearson and jones to pass a red flag law let s first listen to justin pearson. guilty of not expanding health care. guilty of not giving us ed ....
Economic correspondent and cnbc contributor, ben white ben, good to have you here let s talk about these emissions rules. explain the reasoning behind them explain what they are. right well, the reasoning behind them is this is a legacy issue for president biden, obviously, and a major problem facing the united states and the world so they wanted to go big on speeding up this transition in the u.s. to electric vehicles. we ve started to do it as my friends, your friends, a lot of folks either get hybrids or all electric but the rate is not fast enough. they want to speed it up by 2032 to get two-thirds of passenger cars, half of light trucks and trucks by that time. so it is putting the regulations on to the industry to make sure the cars they sell are electric vehicles or hybrids that reduce our carbon footprint by a lot. it s a problem that requires a big fix and this is a big reach ....
Back with me now. ari berman senior reporter from mother joan and from the rachel maddow show, cnbc contributor. i go on and on and on about how everybody has to be a foot soldier for it and i suspect i bore people and even bore myself sometimes, but the bottom line is we don t have the luxury of being bored with this one. we will realize it like every country, every nation, every civilization that loses democracy, they realize it s gone too late. so now you know what we do, let me start with you, steve. what are the mechanisms available to stop this? i have an answer, but i m not sure you re going to like it. ari has explained it very well and it s a problem and attack on ....
Over the past few years. when a company like apple comes out with a big cut in its guidance the way it did last night. so rare. let me bring in politico s chief economic correspondent, cnbc contributor, ben white. just mentioned tim cook. i want to play a little more of what he said. it s clear the economy is slowed there for the second half. what i believe to be the case is the trade tensions between the united states and china put additional pressure on their economy. maybe there s actually something going on in u.s. policy. indeed there is. apple has managed to escape some of the direct impacts of the trade war in that stuff it exports from china the u.s. iphones that it makes there protected from these tariffs. more broadly, the trade war is ....