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a closer look at two critical battleground states that could decide who wins the white house in 16 days, michigan and wisconsin. both counted ballots late in the the next day sparking protests in places like detroit and this year only one of them is making moves to count the votes faster and we report from both states . >> reporter: they are two

battleground states whose late into the night vote counts a few years ago descended into chaos, but only one is made major changes to help avoid this. >> what we see here is an increasing mob like scene. >> protesters harassing poll workers in detroit scrambling to count the surge of absentee ballots. >> my life was threatened and my staff life was threatened. >> reporter: a new law in michigan gives clerks a head start allowing them to process absentee ballots well before election day. >> i think it will show voters the process is clean, that the process is open. >> reporter: it will likely limit a so-called red mirage on election night which is what happened in 2020 where many people reported in person voting results first which favored republicans but

absentee ballots, more democratic leaning took longer to count. >> 100% reporting didn't take place until wednesday morning. >> reporter: trump's lead vanish that morning when the county reported 150,000 votes and predictable changes that were used to fuel false claims of illegal ballot dumps. >> and then boom all of a sudden i go from winning by a lot to losing. >> reporter: with this new law when does detroit have results posted? >> we will have the results posted by 11:00 news and 95% should be posted by then. >> reporter: in the week before the election, you will see these envelopes opened and the ballots put into vote tabulator's in michigan and in wisconsin you could see results coming in later because absentee ballots sorted here can't be opened until election day. >> regardless of the efficiencies we make, the sheer number is one of the last jurisdictions to always result

or show results. >> reporter: here they reported at 3:42 a.m. pushing ahead and wisconsin. >> reporter: do you have any projection of when milwaukee will have the vote reported this year? >> i don't. what we should expect though is not before midnight. >> reporter: 43 states allow clerks to process envelopes before election day but despite efforts to change laws for election, it doesn't include pennsylvania and wisconsin. >> if the american public wants to see our results sooner, there has to be legislative change. >> reporter: a change to speed up the count the most competitive states. >> reporter: breaking news on a new investigation featuring a leak of top-secret documents is next. is next camilla tried the new scent of gain relax flings

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breaking news. u.s. intelligence is investigating the unauthorized leak of top-secret documents assessing israel's plans to attack iran. they have so far been labeled authentic by four u.s. officials in the israeli security cabinet is scheduled to meet later tonight. we will bring in our reporter in tel aviv. welcome. if proven authentic, how significant is this intelligence breach? >> significant and it confirms

that israel is really preparing and has prepared over the last few days with large deployment exercises for an attack against iran and it has promised to carry out that since iran attacked israel on october one following the assassination of nasrallah, the leader of its proxy in lebanon in two of these documents, which appeared on the telegram messaging app, there were details that were divulged in these documents were marked top-secret about deployment exercises and also about the use of spy drones and anticipation of an attack against iran and another interesting element in these documents are that there are indications that israel is installing additional ballistic missiles to protect itself against an eventual retaliation and this is happening as israel has announced today in the last hour that it is preparing to attack targets in lebanon which

would be a very widespread attack across the entire country because it has said that this is a senior defense official that conducted a briefing in the last few hours and they will target the hezbollah banking network and there is a network that has been sanctioned by the united states for the last 15 years are so that they have physical branches across the country including about 15 in beirut itself. the military of israel said it will warn the residents that live in and around these structures to evacuate, but one has to wonder how these messages will make it to the people who need to hear them in order to protect themselves? this is a very openly telegraphed attack that we are all expecting to happen in the overnight hours in the middle east. and one last thing and the head

of some sort of opportunity for a cease-fire and it seems like the opposite is happening in the spokesperson said this about what to expect in the aftermath of the killing. >> there were no hostages when he was eliminated. killing him would be a result of a year of operational and intelligence efforts to bring him and other hamas leaders to justice. he has been eliminated, but our mission isn't over. we will not rest until we bring all of our hostages home. >> as you see, alex, strikes on

lebanon, expected strikes on iran and gaza, peace seems very far away and this part of the world right now. >> it does indeed. approaching 9:45 in tel aviv and we will keep an eye out for that which you think is coming on the financial targets in lebanon. thank you for all of that. >> what we know about a key voting block shifting away from the democratic party. yep, had. c'mon bo! so we got him and he is a, an absolute joy. daddy's puppy. once we got on the farmer's dog he just attacks it, it's incredible. they're so tuned into you and they have such, such personality.

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we are just 16 days away from the presidential election and the kamala harris campaign is attempting to shore up support from a demographic that has shifted somewhat from the democratic party with black male voters. it is a problem that the vice president has addressed sitting down for interviews with several black focused media outlets including the program hosted by my next guest and joining me now is the host and managing editor of the unfiltered chauffeur roland martin. it is good to see you, my friend. let's get to this sitdown you had with her. the vice president zeroed in on the racially charged comments that donald trump has made against black americans going back for decades and called him dangerous for the country and let's look at this. >> look at him in a context about how he thinks and talks about black folks in america. you and i have talked about

this before. he is not looking out for folks when he was a landlord and wouldn't rent to black families. so the first black president of the united states and he had birther lines and you look at these immigrants in springfield, ohio, and he gets on a debate stage and says they are eating their pets? come on? >> what was your overall take away from your interview with the vice president? >> that she understands you have to compete for votes and we talked about a lot of issues in the 30 minutes. and no vote could be taken for granted and democrats have not been paying attention. there was a gap between lack men and women in 2012 between obama and romney. i was one of the folks saying that you better understand what is going on and 5% of black men voted for republicans in 2008 and it went to 11% in 2012 and

jumped in 2016. everybody assumed it was massaging sexism. that wasn't the case. what you have is folks focused on a lot of black men talking about economics and then also democrats were in the house that got it past the democrats have failed to properly message and we have to communicate with black votes differently and i am here at the baptist church in dallas which is where we got the early voting locations here in dallas county and texas and democrats haven't talked about what they have done and they made assumptions and, no, you have to compete and communicate and talk to and target and micro target. she understands that much better than the last three presidential candidates. >> to that end, despite black voters we know overwhelmingly supporting harris and she was behind by 10 points or so and it reflects a longer trend of

black voters. and let's listen to some conversations that nbc news had from pennsylvania. here it is. >> i think both parties make the mistake of assuming that when you talk to black men about criminal justice reform, you have answered our questions . but we are entrepreneurs. we are business persons and we are homeowners. we are people with student loans because he graduated from college. we want some real discussions around economic matters in the community. so a myopic and parochial view of black men makes some think we have nothing to say. that isn't the case. >> that man we just listen to reflected what you just said but i want to ask you if the panic around black male voters is exaggerated or warranted in this razor thin race but big picture. how do you account for the

gradual erosion of overall black support for democrats. >> here is the first thing. i literally talked to the campaign and talk to folks high up in the campaign and you have to understand that the campaign was built for president joe biden and not built for kamala harris. that changed in late july. you are not talking about a long period of time. you see some significant adjustments. i was at a dinner with her at the vice president's residence in november of 2023. she has been talking about the issues and i covered her in detroit and atlanta and she was in charlotte so she has been discussing those issues where she hasn't been the focus for a lot of national media because biden was. that has changed. this is what democratic, and i will be very clear, democratic white strategists have to understand.

and this could end the democratic party. i am 55 years old and i will be 56 in november. i am the first generation of black kids born after king's assassination. so when we go to college, we are actually making more than our parents and opening businesses which means we are now focused on corporate tax rate. the further you get away from the black civil rights movement, the less black people identify as democrats but they will likely vote democrat and they don't self identify. this means you have to now target the black voter in 2024 different than in 1984 and that is the key. and i can't be anymore frank. the problem, alex, is these campaigns and the money and the super pacs are largely run by white democratic strategists who don't understand of only coming to a black church or

going to the naacp. boom, there you go. it's gone. you now actually have to micro target african americans in a much different way than they have ever done. that is been a mistake. harris gets it, but now you are trying to play catch-up because she came in late in july but that is really what is going on here. it has been trending this way for the last 20 years. they said we weren't paying attention. >> i am glad you are. i love talking with you. you are definitely unfiltered and i appreciate your candor and expertise and insights. i will see you again soon. thank you, my friend. >> a new interview with reverend al sharpton just held minutes ago. we will have that next. that net . you'll never truly forget migraine. but qulipta® reduces attacks, making zero-migraine days possible. it's the only pill of its kind that blocks cgrp - and is approved

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exclusive interview with vice president harris. i'll take a look at part of their conversation. >> a little over two weeks until the election. i have to ask you about your opponent. he used a very ugly term about you last night, using the s word as vice president. and how do you react to this kind of street talk from someone who wants to be president again, that was president? i have known you a long time, and i know you have thick skin, i am not asking you as a person, because i know you are used to that. but what does it do, in your opinion, for the standards we are setting for our young people all over the country, when we are using this kind of locker room street talk about an opponent for president of the united states? >> so, the american people deserve so much better. that's how i come at it. and to your point, the presof