♪♪ it is good to be back with you on this second hour of "chris jansing reports." at this hour, the fierce fighting on the ground in lebanon. israel, rushing in additional troops as hezbollah forces vow they're standing fast, and this is just the start of a long battle. we're live near the border. plus, nbc news goes one on one with a senior hamas official. what he told our keir simmons about iran's missile attack on israel. into the storm. and from the stage to the stump, tim walz and j.d. vance return to the campaign trail this hour after a debate that was heavy on policy and maybe surprisingly light on personal

attacks. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with nbc's richard engel on the ground in lebanon. we know eight israeli soldiers in clashes with hezbollah forces. what more can you tell us? >> so hezbollah has claimed that it has carried out numerous attacks against israeli troops, and this is just the beginning of a ground campaign, a ground campaign that is escalating. the first 24 hours to 48 hours after israel announced that a limited number of troops crossed into lebanon, a few hundred at first in walking distance of the border. in the first 48 hours, let's say, hezbollah was hanging back. there were not any direct confrontations. it seems that hezbollah was assessing the israeli strength, trying to do some

reconnaissance. now that has changed. that change today, hezbollah says that it is directly encountering, confronting israeli troops in close quarter combat. it does seem that this has entered a new phase of the war. hezbollah says it is using weapons as booby traps, it has been firing at israeli helicopters, and then israel today confirmed the death of so far eight israeli soldiers and prime minister benjamin netanyahu paid his respects and offered his condolences to the families. >> richard engel, thank you. let's go to nbc's keir simmons live in doha where he had a rare conversation with a top hamas official. what did he tell you? >> reporter: what he wouldn't tell me is whether hamas officials in qatar will meet with an iranian delegation that is here now. no idea, he said. that either means that they are

going to meet with the delegation or he doesn't want to say. either way, pretty illuminating. he did say that yahya sinwar, the leader of hamas is still alive, despite reports that he had been killed. he's still communicating on the ground there, and still communicating with the leadership of hamas outside of gaza. but i wanted to ask him specifically about since october 7th where hamas finds itself now, with all of the bloodshed and the tunnels destroyed in so many of their battalions broken. and i was speaking to him just hours after that attack by iran on israel. >> iran finally last night launched less than 200 missiles. are you disappointed by the support or reaction that you've seen from iran? >> it is war crimes, the top leadership of hamas, in teheran

and beirut, it's their decision, how to do it, operational decision, logistical decision to do it. >> would you expect more support from iran? >> look, we are expecting support not only from the iranians, we are expecting support from anyone in the region and outside the region because we are under occupation and we are looking for our freedom. >> reporter: in understanding what hamas thinks is trying to understand more broadly what iran thinks, whether it is holding back, at what point it will decide to unleash more munitions, more missiles, more rockets. as i mentioned, the president of iran is here in qatar. here's what he said just in the past few hours about that attack overnight. he said, the europeans in the u.s. said if we do not act, there will be peace in gaza in one week. we waited for them to have

peace, but they increased their killings. so the president of iran there appearing to suggest that iran was holding off, was slated to hold off because it was told there would be a resolution to gaza. whether you believe that, there will be many who do not. >> keir simmons, thank you. let's go south now where president biden and vp harris are visiting hurricane helene survivors today. nbc's antonia hylton is in western north carolina where the president will be getting an aerial store. what is the reality on the ground. what is the president going to see and hear there? >> chris, well, the president is going to see devastation, homes completely unrecognizable, a vibrant, artistic community that is, you know, it's just never going to be the same until the years and months it's going to take to rebuild for all of them. what's still here, though, is the spirit in nashville. this community is intensely

close, and the people who you see here volunteering at this manna food bank, the organization running this, they lost their entire operation. their building destroyed, all the food that they had gone. and still, they have managed to do all of this, and just so you know, the line that you see here around me, that is the level of need here. the number of people who need simple things like water, hygienic supplies, and food for the kids, take a listen to the conversation we have had today. >> we can't call our people. >> and we got a writer, and the station is finally get engaged. get the gas cans. >> we didn't have any way to get the generator to get me to

breathe. >> reporter: and what we're hearing from residents, too, chris, frankly is they understand the federal government is on the ground and trying to help. they say they're not actually getting a lot of messages. they don't have cell service. it's hard to make phone calls. it's the local organizations that they say if you are watching this right now, and you're trying to figure out a way to support them, it's go directly to food banks. or there are all kinds of family foundations of western north carolina, for example, that could directly get the money to the people they know, the towns they are familiar with, and that's what people are asking for. they say it's a little bit of a gap, a delay as they wait for that sort of federal presence to be felt on the ground, chris. >> a quick turn around for the vice presidential candidates, both back on the trail today after their big debate last night. nbc's dasha burns is following this for us. what are we seeing today?

>> yeah, a quick turn around, vance is in michigan, walz is in pennsylvania, both, of course, critical battleground states, both camps saying is momentum from the debate last night, which, chris, i've got to say was surprisingly nice, congeniality, policies, some empathy. >> i believe the phrases i agree and i don't disagree were used a dozen times to find common ground. they did have sharp exchanges and criticism for one another's running mates, take a listen. >> the world saw it on the debate stage, a nearly 80-year-old donald trump talking about crowd sizes is not what we mean in this moment. >> if kamala harris has such great plans to address middle class problems, she ought to do them now, not when asking for a promotion. >> 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, in his last year as president. >> the real family separation policy until the country is kamala harris's wide open southern border. >> >> a lot of consensus i have been hearing from operatives, vance came off more polished, better command of the stage. walz came off as the mid western character he's been known for. there is some consternation among some democrats. walz was perhaps too nice, didn't prosecute the case and missed some opportunities to press vance a little bit more on issues like abortion rights, chris. . >> dasha burns, thank you. in 90 seconds, running for number two, but fathers first and foremost, the hot luton issue that turned into a surprisingly emotional moment between the candidates.

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>> tim, first of all, i didn't know that your 17-year-old witnessed a shooting. i'm sorry about that. christ have mercy, it is awful. >> joining us is eugene daniels, "politico" white house correspondent, playbook coauthor, and msnbc political contributor. jeremy peter, michael hardaway, a former spokesperson for hakeem jeffries. good to have you on set. michael, agree was the big word, the buzz word last nigh. did being civil help either candidate? >> this is the way it should be, right? >> really? >> we should be in a situation where we can disagree respectfully. however, i have bad news. >> i knew there was a however. >> j.d. vance did an excellent job of being sort of like the mike pence nice guy, good guy thing, but he lied most of the night. the idea that donald trump saved obamacare is egregious. that's not true. he had a litany of those things.

from a substance perspective, we can't lose sight of what was said and whether those are accurate. i want to give j.d. vance credit for being adults, which is what we need in this era. >> a panel of swing voters, surveyed by "the washington post" gives the win to vance, and so do "the new york times" writers, one who suggests trump will be enraged by vance's good reviews. did you hear in vance's answers, i don't know, a 40-year-old who's trying to preserve a post election political career? what did you make of last night? looking ahead. >> yeah, i mean, when you think about the way that he was kind of packaging everything, he -- it was as if you put all of the things that donald trump says and believes in the heart of trumpism and put it through kind of a machine that put it out in words, that made it not feel like a lot of democrats that i talked to, even they would say not as scary for voters. that was really fascinating. so it was definitely someone putting his stamp on the next it

ration, whether it be in 2028 or past that. either way, 2028 for republicans, kind of figuring out what their party is going to look like no matter what happens in november. and repackaging it as a calmer version of donald trump, and still being kind of feisty, i think the headline about donald trump not liking that vance is getting all of this praise is true, which also means people should not think -- not put out of the equation that we might get another debate because i don't know, i still am not convinced and lot of reporters aren't that donald trump is going to allow j.d. vance to have kind of the final say on a big stage for his ticket. >> that's interesting. >> and so watching that is something that folks should keep their eye on, especially given how well j.d. vance did last night. >> okay. so that's a provocative point

out there, jeremy. trump made it clear on truth social yesterday, he's not debating kamala harris again. he pulled out of his 60 minutes interview, so what's going on, and do you think he could change his mind? >> i think he could. you never know with trump until the last minute. in 2015, during the republican primaries, it was last moment that he pulled out of the debate with a republican candidate. things can change on a dime with him. i'm not ruling that out at all. what i do think not participating in a debate does is it really complicates a rather effective argument he has had against kamala harris, why isn't she doing more interviews so if his brand, his image is that he wants people to see is strength and confidence, it doesn't seem very strong or confident to be pulling out of interviews and hiding from

debate moderators when your opponent has agreed to one already. >> trump likes to say i answer questions all the time. vaughn was here earlier and pointed out he has done two sit-downs in the last several years. it's a very different thing. michael, right after the debate, the harris campaign put out a digital ad attacking vance, but also donald trump's age. >> not just weird or dangerous, he could be a heart beat away from the oval office. >> can he govern from prison? >> people should be concerned. >> the former president has been off his game. >> ominous. >> he's so disoriented. >> want to take bets here? >> i think democrats leaning more into the age argument? >> they have to. what's good for the goose is good for the gander. donald trump spent months attacking president biden for his age. they're very similar in age, and also, let's just look at donald trump over the past few months. his mental acuity is off.

he can't finish ideas or thoughts or sentences. things he says don't make sense. windmills causing cancer is a crazy thought. we should figure out whether he's okay, and another debate would be perfect for that. >> so, eugene, trump is getting a lot of attention for some, let's call them hard to follow comments he made while speaking in milwaukee. here's a sample. >> global warming wasn't working because the planet has actually gotten a little bit cooler recently, but climate change covers everything. it can rain. it can be dry. it can be hot. it can be cold. climate change, everything is -- look, i believe i really am an environmentalist. >> you got to see the bathrooms they project for people. i can't talk to you about it because they're so gross, but basically water free bathrooms. no water. this is not good. >> they were like rambos, sylvester stallone is my friend.

a million rambos, great fighters. give them a knife. that's all they need. >> there have been some questions, eugene, about his cognitive fitness, my question is this actually a notable shift or is this just trump's streak of consciousness? >> yeah, he's always had tangents right? that's something donald trump has always done. >> he says that's part of his brilliance, he can keep following different tangents. >> he said say that, there are a lot of things in there at the same time. i think what you're ending up seeing when the tangents in 2016 and 2020, there was kind of a coherent strategy to it, right? he was talking about in 2016 in his words, lying hillary or why you shouldn't trust hillary. the same thing in 2020, biden, why you shouldn't trust biden and biden is bad for the

economy, et cetera, now it's all over the place, right? there's been a lot made about hannibal lecter and him talking about windmills all the time. cognitive side, i'm not a doctor, what you're seeing is this happens when someone doesn't really have a policy north star. right? like he doesn't really care that much, it seems about policy across the board, and so the things that he really cares about, immigration and the economy, things he knows voters are focused on, even those now, those tangents don't seem to make the lot of sense. it doesn't matter for people that love him. they don't see a change. there's clearly a change in the way he's speaking. it's those independents, those people in the suburban areas who are looking at this, and they are having concerns, especially, as michael said, we spent months, years, talking about whether or not president biden had diminished because of his age. right? and so when you look at the

comparison between the two. you look at the age difference, it does make pundits say, and yes, wait a second, there's clearly something happening here with guys in their late 70s and 80s, and when you compare him to vice president harris, who is so much younger and doesn't have these issues. >> i'm going to interrupt if i can because tim walz is taking questions. take a listen. >> we're talking about everything except school shootings. i sat as a member of congress with the sandy hook parents. david hogg is a good friend of mine. i need to be more specific on that. but i am passionate about this. this one for my wife and i as teachers and parents is so personal. i have become good friends with these parkland students and of course the sandy hook parents who i credit and thank them for a profound change in how i

viewed. we have to make this happen. >> i had my dates wrong. i was in hong kong and china in 1989. that move from hong kong into china, it was profound for me. it was the summer of democracy. it's where i understood how sacred democracy was. it encouraged me with back and forths with my students, taking them to china to understand both first of all, the culture, but also to teach chinese students about democracy. one of the first groups of high school teachers. you've seen me. these teachers see me. i speak like everybody else speaks. i need to be clearer. i will tell you that, but here's my whole point on that thing with china. i understand china a hell of a lot better than donald trump. kamala harris understands china. i will tell you this, xi jinping

is not someone you should look up to. xi jinping is not someone you should say does a good job as donald trump did on covid. donald trump got played on a trade war. he created the largest deficit with china in american history and cost us 150,000 jobs. my clarity to take away from the message is something i want to be very clear, august of '89, into hong kong, into china, 15 times with students to try and do this. my point being on this, kamala harris and i understand. american jobs are more important than when donald trump tried to save chinese jobs. the passion and speaking on this, and i think being a teacher and being around teachers, trying to convey these messages, but especially on the school shooters, and i think for all of us here, pretty damn clear that i stood with the victims. i passed legislation to make sure this is less of an issue in trying to get at the heart of it, pretty clear my wife and i have dedicated ourselves to

making gun violence a top priority, and i'll continue to do so. i'm grateful and using david hogg's name. he's a friend of mine. so thank you all, i'm excited about this. i think in the midst of this, you saw something very clear. it is disqualifying to not acknowledge that the 2020 election was won by joe biden. it's as simple as that. and the idea that donald trump tried to save obamacare is an absolute falsehood. that did not happen, and of course they have said time and time and time again they want a national ban on abortion. if this comes down to the final days, let's be very clear where we're headed. let's be very clear about the excitement. listening to these folks today, we're winning pennsylvania, and we're going to get this done. >> well, tim walz is fired up. i mean, john fetterman went back to the bus a couple of minutes ago, but he had things he wanted to say. before we went into him, i don't

know, do you watch that, jeremy, and say, where was that guy last night? i mean, i think the warmth he has, the teacher and persona was evidence. that's a different guy. >> it's clear debate settings are not his strong suit. >> and also maybe a little terrifying. i go back to my college debate years. >> it would be terrifying for me too. this is the biggest stage of his life. it's understandable that he had some nerves but i also don't think all that many voters will be making their decision for harris or trump based on that. >> do you want to guess how many people watched last night? sarah palin numbers? >> no way. >> do you want to know yet? >> i'm not going to leave you

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the united nations security council is holding an emergency meeting today following iran's strikes on israel with the secretary general warning this deadly cycle of tit for tat violence must stop. israeli prime minister netanyahu has filed, which left homes in the central part of the country with broken ceilings. here's donald trump on the escalating conflict. >> this would be bad. they have to finish the process, however it turns out, they have to finish the process. this is a little bit like two kids fighting in a school year. sometimes you have to just sort of let it go a little bit. and we'll see what happens. >> i want to bring in msnbc contributor and foreign affairs columnist for "the washington post," david ignatius. also here with me, director of

research at the sufan group, colin clark, it's good to have both of you here. david, is it just two kids fighting in a school year? >> it's a lot. beyond that. this has been now a year of war. almost to the day. it began with israel just shattered by a surprise attack, and my sense is that in the last week, both with the killing of hezbollah leader nasrallah in lebanon, and then israel's ability to absorb, it seems, iran's counter attack, we're seeing israel, a year later in a position of real dominance, a regaining its middle east military power, its enemies, without suffering a major response. it's the middle east, so there's another round coming.

there's more danger for israel. but at this hour, you'd have to say that israel continues to escalate. it's kind of a steamroller, and i don't see a way that iran can stop it. >> israeli's former prime minister said this about what israel's next move should be. >> this is a once in a 50-year opportunity. what israel needs to do immediately, we need to take out iran's nuclear program, we need to attack iran's energy facilities, and we need to attack the regime itself. >> what do you see as the next step? >> i agree with david, and as he wrote in his column yesterday, this is about the israelis regaining escalation dominance. to that end, i think the israelis, there's mounting pressure on netanyahu from some in his cabinet and other hard

liners to go after the nuclear sites. president biden said today the united states doesn't support that. the israelis would be hard pressed to do a thorough job going after hard targets, without u.s. logistical assistance. israelis continue to buck u.s. opinion. they very well could go for it, and they do see a window of opportunity, given the quasi lame duck status of biden. this is a bit of a perfect storm. we could see that in the coming days. >> is it an inevitability, david, or is there still room for the diplomacy that continues to be pushed by the u.s.? >> i don't think it's an inevitability, chris, i think there's a real danger for israel in this position of renewed dominance to overreach. i have watched that in the past. i have been covering israeli wars in the middle east now for 45 years. i think the biden administration is trying to signal as strongly

as it can that there needs to be a proportionate israeli response to the iranian retaliation tuesday night, and i think biden, for once, really means it in counseling against striking the iranian nuclear facilities. while israel may be attempted to go all the way, all the way to try to take out the iranian capability, but i think that would lead to a real rupture with president biden. >> david ignatius, colin clark, thank you both. and still ahead, donald trump drops a major announcement on abortion just as his running mate was on the stage trying to defend their position. position.

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it's one of the top issues in november, and abortion rights sparked one of the longest and most passionate exchanges in the vp debate. >> we're pro women, pro freedom to make your own choice. we know what the implications are to not be that. women having miscarriages, women not getting the care. physicians feeling like they may be prosecuted for providing that care. we have got to earn people's trust back, and that's why donald trump and i are committed to pursuing pro family policies, making child care more accessible. making fertility treatments more accessible. we've got to do a better job with that. >> as vance was talking about

earning backseat voters' trust, donald trump wrote for the first time he would veto a federal abortion ban if it made it to his desk. that follows months of shifting stances. >> would you veto a national abortion ban? >> i wouldn't have to. >> i didn't discuss it with j.d. in all fairness. i think six weeks, you need more time than six weeks. i disagreed with that right from the early primaries. when i heard about it, i disagreed with it. >> i think abortion has become much less of an issue. i think it's going to be a very small issue. >> joining us now, political strategist and former senior gop congressional adviser, and julie roginsky, democratic cofounder of lift our voices. >> do we have a good sense? do we know what trump would do if elected? >> i think at this point, you

know, what former president trump is trying to ask everybody to do is to trust him, which is a very hard thing to do because we have his track record to look at. 2020, we couldn't trust him. what's changed between then and now? nothing. when he talks about abortion, there's where you see the break up, particularly with center right women, and also with some degree of maga types are willing to break from what they believe is trusting this former president on the issue of abortion. you hear both camps. some say he's going to do that federal abortion ban. some say, no, he won't. we don't know. there's no indication. all we know is that the republican party seems writ large happy to have this issue, talk back to the states. now, this is hard for them. that was one place where j.d. vance was unshaky ground last night. walz had a good come back saying we trust women, we trust doctors. what has the gop got that counters that messaging, not much. so right now, no indication that we should not trust trump, but

also no indication that we should when it comes to abortion. >> well, julie, the counter messaging i heard is that in winning back the trust of women, what you do is you put in place programs that make it easier for them to afford to keep the babies. is that the answer that women -- and i'm also speaking about women in the republican party, some of the maga women, we're looking for. >> there are women who desperately want to keep babies, but whose bodies are rejecting the pregnancies, those are miscarriages. those women are bleeding out, and some of those women are dying, and that's because donald trump points us to overturned roe v. wade. to be very clear, this is on him. there are millions of women out there that would love nothing more than to be mothers. they can't be, they can't carry a pregnancy to term, and at the same time, they're risking their lives to have those babies, and when they can't, donald trump is making it almost impossible for them to get the medical care

they need. if we want to talk about making it easier for women to afford babies, there's an ivf on the table to give women and men who want to have children tremendous incentive to be able to do that to create a family, and yet, j.d. vance, and the republican party killed that legislation. the time and time and time again, the pro family party is making it virtually impossible for people to have families in the way they want. >> rina, nbc news watched the debate with six middle of the road voters in pittsburgh. i want to play what a couple of them had to say on what they heard. >> it's hard to listen to two men telling you what to do. decisions are between a woman and their doctor, and there should be no one that interferes with that. >> i'm very concerned about women's rights and the fact that the government feels they can be my doctor's office, my bedroom, anywhere else in my life quite honestly. i want a hands off approach on that. >> the key question really is will this be the issue that

moves at least some undecided voters. we know it's not going to take a lot of movement because it will be a small number of voters who decide this election, and if so, how, in which direction? >> well, look, last night what we saw was both of these vp picks exhibit their own mid western sense and sensibility on that stage. it's hard to hear, again, two men talk about reproductive rights in the way in which they did. walz obviously did better because he's coming from the party that does so much better that frankly has women's backs every day of the week when it comes to their freedom, bodily autonomy is central in a representative democracy like ours. and i think so many republican women out there know that, they understand that. and many of us believe it was baked in, and we didn't have to fight for it. i'm a mom of three young daughters, and i'm tormented by a vision of an america ten to fifteen years from now that does

not allow for me to let my daughters know that whatever choices they need to make, should they be the victims of something absolutely horrific like rape or incest, those decisions should lie within the family. should be between the woman and the doctor, the girl and the doctor, the parents are involved, but what we're seeing now is such an increased level of government overstep, and reach into our personal lives that you have to wonder what does clear cut success look like to republicans anymore? i don't even think any of these people on capitol hill can talk about it anymore in that way because what they know is by saying it's back with the states, that hasn't worked. when i think about abortion and the critical considerations these women in swing states are making, i know that the democrats and harris/walz have the advantage when it comes to abortion, and particularly at this point in the race, no matter how well senator vance did last night on that stage, even offering his own personal vignettes, nothing is turning back the clock on that. we're going to see people swing left when it comes to abortion being

top of ticket and front of mind for them on election day. >> and bigger picture, julie, there was also a key moment on health care. >> donald trump could have destroyed the program. instead, he worked in a bipartisan way to ensure that americans had access to affordable care. >> on day one, he tried to sign an executive order to repeal the aca. he signed on to a lawsuit to repeal the aca, but lost at the supreme court. and he would have repealed the aca had it not ben for the courage of john mccain to save that bill. >> if you're one of the tens of millions of americans who now depend, julie, on obamacare, or your health care, what do you hear there? >> well, you hear that you're going to be able to keep it. you hear that you're not going to be tossed off of your insurance if you have a preexisting condition. it means if you're a woman, you're not going to pay more for

your health care than a man. when you go for your annual checkup, you're not going to get a bill for it. >> did j.d. vance say what he said thinking that it would -- because it is provably untrue as tim walz pointed out, right, so why did he say it? >> because j.d. vance lied time and time again. let's call this for what it is. everybody is being nice saying he was slick. no, he lied. he lied and he lied and he lied, and he got upset about it when the moderators for one small instance fact checked him. he should be fact checked again. i'm surprised governor walz didn't fact check him more. the only reason obamacare is here today because john mccain, decided to save it. >> great talking to you both. thank you. the mayor of new york returns to court with the news that he could soon face more charges. face more charges. (man) these men of means with their silver spoons.

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music mogul sean diddy combs has been hit with a wave of 120 new sexual assault allegations. attorneys representing the accusers say the allegations go back 20 years, and involve victims from 25 states including some who were as young as nine years old at the time of the alleged incidents. they also said many more have come forward. >> we represent thousands of

survivors of abuse. and never ever in a ten-day period have we seen over 3,000 people come forward. >> i expect that through this process, many powerful people will be exposed. many dirty secrets will be revealed. >> combs is currently being held at a brooklyn detention center after being charged in a sex trafficking probe. he has denied the accusations. there could be more charges coming soon for new york's embattled mayor. he was in court today following his indictment in a federal corruption probe. msnbc legal correspondent lisa rubin is here today with more. what did we learn today, lisa? >> we learned a couple of things. we learned that not only are there potentially additional charges against mayor adams, but the governor could supercede or replace their indictment with an incident that also charges other defendants. they were very clear that there are a number of related investigations that they are ongoing and therefore, if they

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good to be with you, i'm katy tur. almost exactly one year since october 7th, after months of escalation, and following last week's israeli assassination of hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah. the wider war the white house has been cautioning against is precariously close, if not already here. right now, israel is fighting for its adversaries across the middle east. hamas in gaza, the houthis in yemen. hezbollah in lebanon, and also iran. how does it hold each off? and what will israel do in response to iran's barrage of ballistic missiles last night? some