point i thought elon reeled it in. at one point there's a delaware county activist trying to give him a book about election fraud. you can tell his interest was peaked. the politician is intrigued by the hat but they know they wouldn't put the hat on. elon would not take the book and afterwards i talked to the guy who tried to hand him the book and he said elon handled it like a politician, which he did. >> in the audience for dark maga, first time solo. thanks for your time, teddy. that is our show for this evening. "way too early" with jonathan lemire is coming up next. this war can end tomorrow. it can end if hamas lays downs

its arms and returns our hostages. hamas is holding 101 hostages in gaza where citizens of 23 countries, citizens in israel, but citizens of many other countries. israel is committed to doing everything in our power to bring all of them home, and israel will guarantee the safety of all those who return our hostages. but to those who would harm our hostages, i have another message. israel will hunt you down and bring you to justice. >> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu speaking yesterday following an operation that killed hamas leader yahya simwar. we'll have the latest out of this major development out of the middle east straight ahead. plus we'll have an update on the campaign trail as vice president harris made stops across the battleground of wisconsin. but she skipped the dinner traditionally attended by both candidates.

meanwhile, donald trump spent part of his day on social media pleading for president biden to get back into the presidential race. and choice news for fox news as well. we'll show you some of his online tantrums. good morning and welcome to "way too early" on this friday, october 18th. i'm jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we have so much to get to this morning, and we will, of course, begin with the death of hamas leader yahya sinwar. they posted this on social media yesterday announcing they have eliminated the head of the terrorist organization. they found him by chance yesterday ending the yearlong search of the man believed to be the architect of the october 7th attacks. officials say troops were patrolling an area of rafah when they noticed three terrorists fleeing from house to house. the two sides then engaged in

gunfire and all three militants were killed. it was then that israeli forces -- and only then when israeli forces suspected that one of those terrorists might actually be yaha sinwar. photographs and later dna tests confirm his identity. nbc news correspondent hala gorani has more on this from tel aviv. >> reporter: we have new details about the operation that led to the killing of yahya sinwar, the leader of hamas. we were briefed by one of the spokespeople for the israeli military. he showed and projected drone video showing the last months of yahya sinwar sitting slumped in a big chair in a bombed out house. the drone captured images of him. he appeared injured and threw pieces at the drone as it was flying and then we understand that israeli forces fired at the

building, killing the individual. it is only the following day israeli forces conducted a sweep of the area and realized that the man they had killed looked, according to the soldiers on the ground, a lot like yahya sinwar. they identified him through fingerprints and dental records. they had all this information about yahya sinwar, because this is a man who had spent 22 years in israeli prison and was release only in 2011. two other people were also killed. we don't know what their names are or what ranks they held within hamas. now, the hostage families have reacted. of course they are hoping that this development will bring them closer to the day they are reunited with their loved ones. and palestinians as well inside the gaza strip. one of our teams caught up with ordinary palestinians in the besieged enclave. they, too, were hoping that the fact that yahya sinwar is now

dead means perhaps the end of the war is near. but the israeli prime minister has said that is not the case, that, in fact, the war will continue with full force until all the hostages are released. >> the united states is, indeed, expressing optimism that the death of sinwar can now spur a cease-fire deal between israel and hamas. in a statement president joe biden praised israeli forces for their operation in gaza, writing in part this. this is good day for israel. there is now the opportunity for a day after in gaza without hamas in power. biden later told reporters on the tarmac in berlin that he spoke to israeli prime minister netanyahu. >> it's a good day for the world. he had a lot of blood in this thing, american blood, israeli

blood and others. now's time to move on, move on towards a cease-fire in gaza, moving toward a direction we're going to be in a position to make betr for the whole world. >> senior u.s. officials tell me as well that they hope this moment relieves some of the pressure on netanyahu from the far right where he could make a deal. we will see what happens in the coming days. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is heading to the region in a few days. we'll have more on that and the efforts to secure a cease-fire deal when state department spokesperson matt miller joins us later today on "morning joe." to domestic politics now. fox news anchor bret bair is apologizing for what he claims was the wrong clip that played

during his must-watched interview with kamala harris. during the sit down bair and harris sparred over trump's repeated use of the term "the enemy from within," which he uses to describe political opponents. bair said trump was asked about the term by fox news earlier in the day but instead ran a video clip showing the ex-president accusing democrats of launching phony investigations. harris immediately called out the anchor for sanitizing trump's rhetoric. here's what bair told his audience last night. >> i did make a mistake, and i want to say that i did make a mistake when i called for a sound bite i was expecting a piece of the "enemy from within" from maria bartiromo's interview to be tied to the piece from your town hall where you asked the former president about the enemy from within. it just had the piece about the town hall. just take a listen to what i meant to roll. >> bair went onto play the clip of trump talking about the enemy

from within being radical left lunatics. meanwhile, new data shows just how many people were tuned into that interview. according to nielsen more than 7 million viewers watched. harris also handily beat trump in term of numbers on that. his fox news town hall a few hours earlier garnered about 3 million viewers. meanwhile, vice president harris made several stops in battleground wisconsin yesterday. at a rally of more than 3,000 supporters she called out former president trump and also addressed a group of protesters there. let's take a look. >> and then consider the comments that he made just in the last few days because he just -- he's got more. he said he will target and punish those who disagree with him or refuse to bend to his will. he calls these americans the enemy within. and says that he would use the

american military to go after american citizens. journalists whose stories he doesn't like, nonpartisan election officials who refuse to cheat by finding a few extra votes for him. judges who insist on following the law instead of following him. we're not going to be gaslighted on this. we remember donald trump hand selected three members of the united states supreme court with the intention that they would undo the protections of roe v. wade, and they did as he intended. oh, you guys are up the wrong alley.

no, i think you have to go to the smaller one down the street. >> joining us now white house correspondent for the hill. alex, good to see you again this morning. let's start there with domestic politics. certainly that was a good moment for the vice president sparring with those hecklers. she said the day in wisconsin it's one of those trio of great lake states that she basically needs to win. talk to us about where her campaign feels right now in the wake of that fox news interview. they think that interview with bret bair accomplished what they wanted? >> what i heard is they're feeling pretty good with that fox news interview especially with that 7.1 million viewers you mentioned. i think they're hoping a source told me if 1 out of 1,000 people watched that interview and thought, you know what and i'm going to vote for her instead of trump, that's a win for them. and in certain demographics

first of all we know the vice president has been reaching out to republicans and independents. that's, of course, a clear reason why she went on fox news. but i also think the way she held her own against bret bair, they were able to spar back and forth with one another, i think that could appeal according to the campaign to women voters who want to look at her as this tough person who can, you know, be on this world stage and spar, you know, in large situations. whereas this was an example of that. and i also think that they think it's a win because she was able to get in some of her policy points. she was able to say, you know, i have a plan for affordable housing, i have a plan for small businesses. and if someone was able to hear just that, who wouldn't otherwise be watching her rallies, that's a win for them too. >> the harris campaign told me yesterday the way she was constantly interrupted by bret bair that would resonate with

people especially women who have that in their own lives. she's had an interesting week where on one hand she played to those republicans and audiences who wouldn't necessarily vote for her. she also made a strong base play to the black vote. there's a sense here her support unlike trump, trump's hit a ceiling. she has some room to grow. maybe seniors part of that. what's next for the campaign? >> that's right. she is not only trying to rebuild the coalition that won president biden and the white house in 2020 but trying to grow that. and we've seen that with republicans and seen that with her outreach. of course to young voters and some new voters, but senior voters like you mentioned who i think are a really interesting demographic because they show up on election day and they vote, but, you know, democrats typically don't do as well with them as republicans do. you know, later we saw she did three stops yesterday. she has three more stops yesterday in michigan, another critical battleground state.

she talked a lot in wisconsin about women voters, attacks from former president trump about ivf and how he's proud to have a hand in overturning roe v. wade. i think in michigan we're going to hear her talk about plans for increasing manufacturing and take jobs with trump about his plans for tariffs that could affect jobs here in the u.s. so she's trying to appeal to multiple demographics here as you're talking about to really expand that coalition well. her campaign is very aware at this point that the polls are tightening. they're neck and neck. and in a place like wisconsin, trump is actually gaining some ground on her. >> strong reporting for us this morning from white house correspondent for the hill. alex, thank you for starting us off. we'll talk to you again soon. next up here governor tim walz and former president bill clinton hit the campaign trail together. we'll show you what they had to say to voters in battleground north carolina. plus, donald trump once again calls for joe biden to replace kamala harris at the top

of the democratic ticket. pretty sure that's not going to happen. those stories and a check on sports and weather when we come right back. sports and weatherhe wn we come right back

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welcome back. governor tim walz campaigned in north carolina yesterday alongside former president bill clinton. it's the first day of early voting in that battleground state. at a rally in durham governor walz criticized republican senator j.d. vance for admitting he doesn't believe trump lost the 2020 election. walz then slammed trump for pretending to understand what it's like to be a working class american. >> if you remember back a couple weeks ago we had a little debate in new york city, and i asked the simplest question that you could ever be asked as an american. did donald trump lose the 2020 election? pretty simple. every court in the land, every person knows this. and on that night, i got kind of

a smug nonresponse to it that, oh, tim, we're thinking about the future or something like that. well, yesterday they just start saying the quiet stuff outside. he got asked about it yesterday and he said, no, donald trump did not lose the 2020 election. now, the job that we're asking for to serve the american public, we don't serve an individual. we serve the constitution and the people of the united states. that's who we serve. i'm going to be generous. we are all products of our past. when you grow up a middle class kid in oakland or buttener, nebraska, you care about social security. you care about these things. when you're sitting down in mar-a-lago and you tell your rich friends, you're rich as hell, i'm going to give you a tax cut, it doesn't matter to them. you know what when my mom looks to that social security deposit in her bank account, that's how she feeds herself.

he doesn't care if that social security check comes or not. if they tell us, well, donald trump understands us, that's bull [ bleep ]. he does not understand. he does not understand. >> and when former president clinton spoke, he started off by mocking trump's recent town hall where he dance and swayed and played music for more than 30 minutes. >> i don't know moum more elections i'll be involved with. heck, i'm only two months younger than donald trump. good news for you is i will not spend 30 minutes swaying back and forth to music. i played enough music.

i will not clap off beat. nor will i pretend to be a conductor because we got a race to win and we have to win it. still ahead, we'll turn to sports with a recap of a thrilling night in cleveland as the guardians pull off an incredible comeback victory against the new york yankees. meanwhile, the mets, oh, the mets. at least for now they appear to be no match for the star power of the los angeles dodgers. we'll have those highlights and a look at the weekend weather forecast when we come right back. a dark morning in new york city sports scene indeed. morning in sports scene indeed. oh... stuffed up again? so congested! you need sinex saline from vicks. just sinex, breathe, ahhhh!

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david fry lights up the cleveland night! >> what a game last night. and that was david fry with a walk off home-run in the bottom of the tenth ending a wild evening in cleveland. the yankees who have been trailing all game had a huge eighth inning to take the lead starting with this two run line driver by aaron judge. just got out, hits the top of the wall and bounces over. that tied the game to 3. stanton also went deep right here, deep out to center field. both of these homers coming off the guardians closer. he'd been unhittable all year, has been bad in his playoffs. that's a worry. yankees add another run top of the ninth, up 58-3. surely going to win. but with the guardians down to their final out, the last batter available on cleveland's bench delivers a towering two-run shot that ties the game at five,

sending it to extra innings. his last name noel, the name big christmas. game four tonight 8:00 eastern in cleveland. yankees lead the series 4 games to one. meanwhile, the los angeles dodgers are one win away from the world series after another dominant game last night in queens. superstar shohei ohtani got l.a. on the board with a second pitch of the game, drilling a home-run into the mets bull pen and into right center. ohtani and mookie bets, another superstar going for a combined 5 for 9 at the plate and 5 rbis. the dodgers with an easy 10-2 win. the dodgers have been outscored 8-2 and history not on their side. teams leading two games to one after four games have gone onto

win the series 85% of the time. game five is at 5:00 p.m. eastern still here in queens. dodgers up three games to one. can the mets revive some of their magic or their season will end? to football now. week seven of the nfl season kicked off last night in new orleans with the saints hosting the denver broncos. it truly wasn't much of a game. denver jumped out to 18 point lead after a couple of field goals. qb bo nix didn't do much in the air. denver also got a defensive touchdown in a deeply boring 33-10 win. time now for the weather and let's go to angie lassman for the weekend forecast. how's it looking? >> it's looking pretty good for of the mideast and northwest. right now 48 million people under these frost and freeze alerts. 40s across much of the

southeast. tallahassee upper 40s this morning. so an extra layer that you'll be able to peel off later today. you can see why. 68 for green bay later this afternoon, 78 for kansas city. in the afternoon 70 for new york. we'll see those temperatures tick up just a touch. by the time we get into the end of the weekend, though, and into next week, we're going to see a bit of a cool push of air working across parts of the pacific north west. you can see seattle goes from the low 60s to low 50s on tuesday. that's partly because we have a couple of systems working to the west. when i say the east is nice for your weekend i really mean it. we've got mild conditions, sunny conditions. it's parts of the southern plains and southwest we'll see rainy conditions, specifically parts of the southern rockies we've got the chance to see additional snow and atmospheric weather event developing across the pacific north west. to watch for the potential of flooding concerns for places like new mexico and wind alerts up for parts of the southwest

including los angeles here as we get through the weekend. we could see wind gusts up to 30, even 40 miles per hour with that those storm systems working through. >> looks pretty good. angie lassman, we'll talk to you next weekmism. next up here the rnc promised a major election integrity team in arizona in 2024, but dozens of republican lawyers are staying far away from that effort. we'll get into that new reporting and why it's significant ahead of november when we come right back. signifi when we come right back. the need to screen when due... for colon cancer's a priority. indeed! everyone 45+ at average risk should screen for colon cancer. these folks are getting it done at home with me, cologuard. cologuard is a one-of-a-kind way to screen for colon cancer that's effective and non-invasive. it's for people 45+ at average risk, not high risk. false positive and negative results may occur. ask your provider for cologuard. i did it my way.

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