make my happy mistake ♪ [ cheers and applause ] this is nightline. tonight matchup in manhattan. >> we need to figure out how to solve the inflation crisis caused by kamala harris's policies. >> donald trump made a promise, and i'll give you this. he kept it. he took folks to mar-a-lago. he said, you're rich as hell. i'm gonna give you a tax cut. >> vice presidential contenders tim walz and jd vance facing off in their only debate before the

election, making their pitches, taking their shots. >> their project 2025 is going to have a registry of pregnancies thanks to kamala harris's open border. >> we've seen a massive influx in the number of illegal guns run by the mexican drug cartels and taking the heat for the candidates at the top of the ticket. >> he is still saying he didn't lose the election. i would just ask that. did he lose the 2020 election? >> tim, i'm focused on the future. did kamala harris censor americans from speaking their mind in this neck and neck race? >> did either candidate win any new votes tonight? plus, tensions escalating in the middle east after iran launches the largest missile attack ever on israel. what we're learning tonight. and celebrating a century. the oldest former president in u.s. history turns 100. what jimmy carter says is the secret to his longevity.

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>> good evening. thank you for joining us i'm jonathan karl. tim walz and jd vance just wrapped up the one and only vice presidential debate of this campaign. we'll have full

coverage of their face off in just a minute. but first, we turn to mounting tension in the middle east. the region has been on edge since hamas terror attack on israel. nearly a year ago. the targeted killing friday of hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah by israel triggered today's response from iran, the largest missile attack ever on the state of israel. joining us now is matt gutman from tel aviv. matt, what's the latest? >> john, what we saw out here tonight was arguably the largest ballistic missile attack in history. and a short time ago, israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu went on tv to warn iran that it has made a big mistake and that it will pay. it's unclear when that will happen or how severe it will be, but we're told it will be ferocious. now those missiles, over 200 of them, came pouring into israel, apparently targeting three israeli military bases, including the mossad intelligence headquarters north of tel aviv. israel, along with the u.s, which helped manage to

knock out most of those missiles from the sky. but some made it through, even slamming into an area north of tel aviv and we saw that massive missile crater. tonight gives you a sense of the power of these bus length missiles. right now, we are in a retaliatory cycle, you could call it, which will demand attention from the next president. but these are candidates who've avoided talking about specific middle east policy. but tonight, for these two vice presidential candidates, it's basically being shoved in their faces. john. >> matt. thank you. those tensions in the middle east were part of tonight's vice presidential debate. tim walz and jd vance on stage for the most part, it was a strikingly cordial debate, but there were moments of intense disagreement, especially at the end of the debate, and a reminder that this election is unlike any we have ever seen. just 34 days to go until election day, minnesota governor tim walz and ohio senator jd vance taking the stage at the sole vice presidential debate hosted by

cbs. with events still unfolding and uncertainty in the middle east, the two sparred over who offers stronger leadership at this critical moment. >> our allies understand that donald trump is fickle. he will go to whoever has the most flattery or where it makes sense to him. steady leadership like you witnessed today. like you witnessed in april. both iranian attacks were repelled. our coalition is strong and we need the steady leadership that kamala harris is providing. >> governor waltz can criticize donald trump's tweets, but effective smart diplomacy and peace through strength is how you bring stability back to a very broken world. donald trump has already done it once before in a presidential campaign that has been anything but civil. >> this was a strikingly civil and substantive debate. >> well, i've enjoyed tonight's debate. i think there was a lot of commonality here, and i'm sympathetic to misspeaking on things. and i think i might have with with the senator, but me too. there's one. >> it wasn't until 90 minutes into the debate that the contentious topic of the last

election came up. >> i would just ask that, did he lose the 2020 election? >> tim, i'm focused on the future. did kamala harris censor americans from speaking their mind in the wake of the 2020 covid situation? that is a that is a non-answer. >> vance insisted it is democrats who are the biggest threat to democracy. >> kamala harris wants to use that power. hate speech, government and big tech to silence people from speaking their minds. that is a threat to democracy that will long outlive this present political moment. >> a president's words matter. a president's words matter. people hear that. so i think this issue of settling our differences at the ballot box, shaking hands when we lose, being honest about it, but to deny what happened on january 6th, the first time in american history that a president or anyone tried to overturn a fair election and the peaceful transfer of power. >> in the first part of the

debate, governor walz seemed nervous. he had trouble answering a question about whether or not he was in china during the tiananmen square uprising. >> my commitment, whether it be through teaching, which i was good at or whether it was being a good soldier or it was being a good member of congress, those are the things that i think are the values that people care about. >> governor, just to follow up on that, the question was, can you explain the discrepancy? >> all i said on this was, is i got there that summer and misspoke on this. so i will just that's what i've said. so i was in hong kong and china during the democracy protests went in and from that i learned a lot of what needed to be in governance. >> in contrast to his often combative tone on the campaign trail, may respond to that. >> first of all, governor, i agree with you. amber thurman should still be alive and there are a lot of people who should still be alive. and i certainly wish that she was. >> senator vance appeared measured and polite. >> i'm sure. governor walz joins me in saying our hearts go out

to those innocent people. our prayers go out to them, and we want, as robust and aggressive as a federal response as we can get. >> but in a recent poll, more than half of registered voters, 51% said they view vance unfavorably, while just 32% said they view walz unfavorably. governor walz aimed his jabs at the top of the republican ticket. >> if you're going to be president, you don't have all the answers. donald trump believes he does. my pro tip of the day is this if you need heart surgery, listen to the people at the mayo clinic in rochester, minnesota, not donald trump. and the same thing goes with this. and i ask you out there, teachers, nurses, truck drivers or whatever, how is it fair that you're paying your taxes every year? and donald trump hasn't paid any federal tax in the last 15 years. and the last year, as president. that's what's wrong with the system. there's a way around it. and he's bragged about that. >> most americans didn't know either of them just a few months ago, but their names are now on lawn signs all over america, and each was parodied on saturday night live this weekend. >> folks, i haven't been this

excited since i got a 10% rebate on a leaf blower from menards. what can i say? i got that bad big dad energy. >> how much do you love donald trump? just this afternoon he told me, jd, you're like a son to me because i don't like you and i'm stuck with you. >> before he became trump's running mate, vance was most recognized for his best selling memoir, hillbilly elegy, made into a netflix movie. >> is this seat taken? >> go ahead. hi philipp rosemann jd vance, a yale educated lawyer and silicon valley venture capitalist. >> the 40 year old republican from ohio was elected to the senate just two years ago. once a never trumper, now a fierce defender of all things trump. >> i've disagreed with the president, but i've also been extremely open about the fact that i was wrong about donald trump. >> walz, who is 60, was a former teacher and high school football

coach for over two decades before running for office, he served in the united states house of representatives. a democrat serving in a rural district that leans republican, becoming governor of minnesota. >> i grew up in small, rural nebraska town of 400, a town that you rode your bike with your buddies till the street lights come on. >> both men are military veterans. their midwest backgrounds contrasting with the coastal upbringings of trump and harris, both brought on to the ticket to appeal to voters from middle america. one of the few heated exchanges came on abortion and reproductive rights. vance, who is in the past favored a national abortion ban, softened his stance to try to align with trump. >> i want us as a republican party to be pro-family in the fullest sense of the word. i want us to support fertility treatments. i want us to make it easier for moms to afford to have babies. >> while walz continued to attack trump for appointing the justices that overturned roe v wade, this issue is what's on

everyone's mind. >> donald trump put this all into motion. he brags about how great it was that he put the judges in and overturned. roe versus wade, 52 years of personal autonomy and then he tells us, oh, we send it to the states. it's a beautiful thing. >> the latest polling averages showing very tight margins across all seven battleground states. at one point, the two seemed to be having a real conversation about a tough issue gun violence in america. these are things that shouldn't be that difficult. >> you can still keep your firearms and we can make a difference. we have to. if you're listening tonight, this breaks your heart. >> senator tim, first of all, i didn't know that your 17 year old witnessed a shooting, and i'm sorry about that. and i hope that he's okay. christ have mercy. it is. it is awful. >> while both agreed there's a problem with gun violence, sometimes it just is. >> the guns. it's just the guns. and there are things that you can do about it. but i do think that this is one. and i think this is a healthy conversation. i think there's a capacity to

find solutions on this that work, protect second amendment, protect our children. that's our priority. >> there was no real agreement about how to address it. >> we have to increase security in our schools. we have to make the doors lock better. we have to make the doors stronger. we've got to make the windows stronger. and of course, we've got to increase school resource officers, because the idea that we can magically wave a wand and take guns out of the hands of bad guys, it just doesn't fit with recent experience with the one and only vice presidential debate over. >> both candidates are now back out to the battleground states. when we return our powerhouse roundtable breaks down the hits and misses and surprises of the night and tells us what it can mean. with just five weeks to go until a presidential election that both sides claim has the that both sides claim has the future of america at stake without daily hiv pills. good to go unscripted. good to go on a whim.

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>> welcome back! we are joined now by our abc powerhouse roundtable. former dnc chair donna brazile and former rnc chair and trump chief of staff reince priebus. thank you both for being here. donna, i got to start with you. this debate struck me as different from most of this campaign. this was cordial. they were civil to each other. they complimented each other and particularly walls seemed to pull his punches. were you surprised by that? i'm sensing some democrats a little disappointed. maybe that he did a little bit too much of pulling of the punches. >> no. look, i mean, as you well know, vice presidential candidates rarely move the needle. less than 5% of the american people will will likely

change their vote or even decide to vote based on watching this debate tonight. but, you know, tim had one important job, and that was to try to close the deal with some of those undecided voters, especially in those crucial battleground states. he came in as a teacher to explain things. so, you know, when people look at the debate, they will say, wow, he was a little slow. no he was trying to make sure that he could set out the policies of a harris walsh administration, not to relitigate the past, but to look forward to the future. i think overall, tim did very well. his job was just to go in there and to try to close the deal, to try to move the needle just a little bit, but more importantly to do no harm. >> but but donna, you've got to acknowledge he seemed very shaky in the beginning of this debate. and as i was watching that the obvious nervousness, the unsteadiness i kept on thinking about an astounding fact, which is he has not done a solo

national television interview, a significant interview of any kind, since he became the nominee almost two months ago. i guess it makes sense. you'd be a little out of out of practice. >> i don't know if it's out of practice because he's not talking to the media or the fact that this is his big job right now on the national stage. look, jd vance is a bestselling author. he has done more podcasts, jonathan, than you and myself and the chairman combined. he is much more polished. he's slick. and he came in here to clean up. tim job was to explain to reassure and to really set the record straight on some of the on some of the policy issues with the administration as well as the campaign needed to go forward. so i think he did his job. >> but ryan, jd vance was the maga choice for vice president. he's a guy that appeals to the base. but what i saw him do tonight, i thought it was very interesting. he tried to kind of soften some of those sharp

edges. what was he what was he trying to accomplish? it seemed like he was speaking to a different audience than we usually see jd vance speaking to. >> well, i think what he was doing was he speaking to those undecided voters. i think he wanted to speak to people that were worried that maybe he was a, you know, snarky, mean, sort of harsh guy. he was polite, calm, intelligent, complimentary. so he was speaking to those swing voters that were may have been a little bit nervous, but he reassured them. and then he reminded people that the economy was better under donald trump and that the world was safer under donald trump. and he did it in such a nice sort of logical, intelligent way. he clearly won the debate. now i'm not i'm not just being a hack and waltz was not terrible. it was just he wasn't very good, that's all. >> vance is a guy that dismissed the democrats that were opposing him as childless cat ladies in the past. by the way, i'm amazed that walls never brought that up. but but but he definitely

softening that tone. and then we got to the very end of the debate. i mean, we were 90 minutes in when finally we heard two words that i thought would have been front and center on a vp debate in this election, mike pence. >> yeah. and you know, it took a long time to get there. i don't know how many people were paying attention, quite frankly. i know people don't want to hear this, but i don't really think voters are moving on that issue. maybe some people are, but the reality is, is that this was all about two things. one, making reminding people that kamala harris is the current vice president. she's in charge. the economy is not good. you blame her. she's there right now and tim walz wanted to remind people about donald trump and his personality. but the one thing that people haven't been talking about, though, is that the disastrous moment for tim walz, which was when he he basically said, i lied about tiananmen square and being in china. well, he missed i lied because i talk a lot and i get excited. i mean, come on. i mean, he called himself a knucklehead.

>> okay. hey, we're out of time. donna brazile, reince priebus, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> when we come back celebrating the 100th birthday of the oldest former president in american former president in american history, jimmy carter ♪ ♪ . >> you probably seen all these negative ads against me. well, here's the deal. they are designed to tear us apart. but here's the truth. my life's work has been fighting on behalf of others. it's why i became a prosecutor, district attorney, and attorney general. i took on

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>> finally, tonight, jimmy carter reaching an incredible milestone in his birthplace of plains, georgia. jimmy carter turned 100 today, 39th president. celebrated surrounded by family and friends and with a flyover by the u.s. air force across the country, tributes to the oldest former president in american history. he was born

when calvin coolidge was in office and has been alive during 17 presidencies. so far. the carter center marked the day by swearing in new citizens on the north lawn of the white house. a huge birthday greeting. president biden posted a message for his good friend, mr. president, on behalf of the entire biden family and the american people. >> happy 100th birthday. >> three years ago, in his last interview with his longtime wife, rosalynn, by his side, they said it was their love that kept them strong. >> president carter, you say often that marrying mrs. carter was the pinnacle of your life. oh yes. >> staying with me all this long has been the most wonderful thing in my life. >> he's pretty wonderful in my life, too. >> his grandson, jason carter, said his grandfather knows the world is celebrating with him today. and he loves every bit of it. >> i mean, the world is so much better today in many, many ways

than it was 100 years ago. and he played a role in that. and it's been a remarkable century, that's all. >> tonight you can watch our full episodes on hulu. we'll be right back here at the same time tomorrow. thank you for staying up with us. good night. america >> the case against sean combs might as well just be called the freak off's freak offs. >> what prosecutors described a, sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, interstate transportation for prostitution, the ak 47 seconds, the thousand bottles of baby oil. in court pleading not guilty and denied bail. >> this very powerful man in the music industry decided to use his power to hurt others. time is up diddy. >> drugs, lies and freak offs now streaming on hulu. abc's david muir the most watched newscast in america. more americans