Out the facts. But more and more and in the world in which we live but it has always been the way, ever since there has been war conflicts and wars always unfold on two levels. One is the facts on the ground and the other is the perception of the facts on the ground. And these perceptions now have become an increasingly hostile battlefield. I don t need to tell both of you that it is nothing less than a battle for the truth. So, that it s notjust that something happened, it s what other people think happened. And that feeling of what they think happened can matter more in the evolution of the conflict and in terms of how the story is told and retold and told again and then, it becomes history. And the efforts of the people within these stories to influence how the media helps shape those perceptions, they must ve changed the way that they try and influence how you and many others cover the stories? they have many more tools now. Before, it was simply face to face. Then, we went thr
Tonight on the reidout watch his rallies. He spends full time engaged in grievance about what has happened to him. He spends full time perpetuating lies and misinformation. He spends full time talking about fictional characters, you know, i mean name calling. And name calling and demeaning people, belittling people. What he does not talk about is you. Vice president kamala harris on the view today with a strong rebuke for donald trump. Part of a wideranging media blitz that included 60 minutes last night and howard stern and stephen colbert today. Meanwhile, donald trump skipping 60 minutes because he didn t want to be fact checked. Plus, stunning revelations in bob woodward s new book including details on how trump secretly sent covid tests to vladimir putin when those tests were still so hard for americans to obtain. And then trump secretly stayed in touch with putin after leaving office. And the texas senate race is surprisingly close. We re going to talk to ted cruz s opponent, c
Enjoyed at your table. tour thats going to do it for our special vladimir Putin Birthday Edition of the Rachel Maddow Show aired now it is time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. I would not have known whose birthday it was today, rachel. What we call that . Good news . Im not sure what that is. The opposite of me singing happy birthday. Whatever that is. Its a fact, thats for sure. But characterizing it beyond that is not easy. Thank you lawrence. Thank you, rachel. We are separated by an entire country right now, i am in los angeles, or east our connection has a little bit of a gap in it. Which explains our little positive with each other right there. It is an Election Night in america, and it will be Election Night in america every night for the next 29 days until november 5th. The final Election Night of the season. Voting is already underway, at early voting locations and with mailin ballots in this country. Over 2 Million votes have already been cast. 53 of those votes are
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
Tonight. What we re dealing with the real world here. With the real world includes how are you getting this through congress? jesse: kamala youth campaign strategy, is it working? no. No. [laughter] mr. Trump: and as i was saying i love it for other reasons to make isn t it a beautiful thing? jesse: donald trump back in butler. Fight fight fight. Lgbtq people are already you are a disaster on top of that by not paying attention to this community. Jesse: premar goes full dei for hurricane helene. It s misinformation. Jesse: plus. . . [cheering] there s no blues around here i ll tell you that. jesse: it s getting spooky! democrats haunted by the echoes of hillary clinton. That s from politico. Kamala went from being the next obama to being hillary. There were read she s running the same play it safe campaign up to this point, she had about the same number of events at hillary. And crooked had pneumonia. Since the dnc, kamala spent half of her time in d. C. A third event without any