i am alicia menendez with symone sanders-townsend and symone sanders-townsend. breaking news.e president harris plans to release her medical records today. the campaign asked , how has donald trump not released his? >> team harris' uniquely broad coalition on display this week. the pitch to voters. the ex-president delivering a new, hate filled speech full of lies. he is no longer running for president, but a disinformation campaign. grab your coffee, settle in. welcome to "the weekend". ♪ ♪ d". ♪ ♪ >>> just breaking this morning, which is 24 days until election day, vice president harris is set to release a report in her medical history today. the report will show she is physically and mentally fit to serve as president and by making this public, the harris team hopes it underscores donald trump's lack of transparency, let's just say, when it comes to his health. on the campaign trail, trump rambles through speeches as the "new york times" puts it, quote, trump seems confused, forgetful, incoherent or just disconnected from reality lately. frankly, donald trump's rallies are

. >> we are not, thank you, i wish people would get off this, it goes back to what symone said about real numbers from real people, and understanding what's actually happening on the ground. i really appreciate eugene, your point about how voters are consuming this election and particularly consuming kamala harris. i will draw your attention to political, noting they watched 2020 -- 20 trump rallies. he's no longer talking about building a wall and banning muslims from entering the united states no, trump, he now warns that migrants have already invaded, destroying the country from the inside, which he uses as a means to justify a second term policy agenda that includes building a massive detention camp and conducting mass deportation. half the american people thinking i just don't know kamala harris, what is she going to do about my gas prices, trump is talking about locking your behind up and putting you in a concentration camp, and i don't understand the disconnect on that. >> michael, i would say i think we need to remember that not everyone is watching these rallies. people have

i am alicia menendez with symone sanders-townsend and michael steele here in new york city.ay, in formation. team harris pulling out all the stops in a series of high profile star-studded events to close out the campaign. >>> also, billionaire mark cuban joins the conversation and discusses the president's economic plans. >>> plans are under way. we have breaking news in the middle east as israel retaliates against iran. grab your coffee, settle in for "the weekend". ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> we are just 10 days away from election day, folks. already across the country, more than 36 million americans have cast a ballot today in person. early voting start statewide in michigan today. that is what former first lady michelle obama will join vice president kamala harris for get out the vote rally in kalamazoo. last night beyonci brought megawatt star power in her hometown of houston, where harris focused on reproductive rights. >> i am not here as a celebrity. i am not here as a politician. i am here as a mother. [ applause ] >> a mother who cares deeply about the world my children and all of

she's going to win, but may not win by as much of a margin as she expects. >> symone?just would note i'm interested -- i think new york is just as much about making this play for voters and his home state as it is about the house races as well, and we spoke to governor hochul and she said donald trump and his house race is not necessarily helpful for republicans. it reminds them, in the districts that are purplish-type districts it doesn't help those candidates that are trying to distance themselves from trump. >> the trump campaign does seem to feel pretty confident. they're feeling in the last nine days good about where they are even with the polling showing and steve kornacki laid it out at the top of the show, this is such a close race and the harris campaign looks at it it's a different electorate in pennsylvania versus michigan versus wisconsin. it's not the same kind of voter that they're trying to target. >> it's a mars/venus scenario, of the two parties right now, democrats are fueled with things and republicans are cool as cucumbers. we have a much closer pop

symone sanders-townsend, julian castro, thank you for your friday night.is hour of television tonight. i will hand it over to the mc want for something like this. lawrence o'donnell and "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" he will get beyonce tonight and kamala harris. >> thank you, alex. i have never said this before from this anchor - but we are standing by for beyonce. we will do exactly that here as we cover other news breaking

. >> the redacted stuff is real juicy, symone. >> yes, i'm just trying to figure out why-- mary uses specific words on purpose. it is sensitive, but likely not classified. we are not talking about the documents case. so what is sensitive, and why can't we know? >> sensitive are the things designated that way in the protected order, way back last year. that was originally designated that way for purposes of discovery. jack smith and special counsel wanted to make sure when they provided discovery, that is all kinds of materials relative to the defense to donald trump, that he would not go out and make all kinds of things public that would have witness names, other information, things that might subject them to threats and harassment, and intimidation. now, it is jack smith's choice in many ways. he is under that protective order me but he can come in like he did with respect to the motion and say to judge chutkan, here are things we now feel comfortable going ahead , being out there putting in the public. no, it is donald trump saying wait a minute, you said this stuff was sensitive a

symone? >> i remember standing in the boiler room in the 2020 campaign.donald trump go to the east room of the white house and said he had won when he didn't. what happened after that is a week long of briefings in the campaign being very clear of what their data is answering the press' questions and that is something that we could potentially see going forward. donald trump goes forward. >> some of the states like pennsylvania, as you know, cannot start counting their ballots until the polls close on election out in. it's not nefarious. it's simply a matter of the state law, we're probably not, america, going to get the results of the election on election night and nothing to be alarmed about. >> let me show the graphics and it is such an important point, jonathan. it's not just the harris campaign. the public seems to agree. take a look at those numbers. over 70% of voters think harris will accept the results of the poll. what do you make of these figures? >> just based on behavior you would expect that poll result, but having said that -- >> precedent.

to pick up off the stop where symone took us, what is driving the concern?an see unpress tented voter registration put in to a play not only battleground states but across the country, and there's a nervousness, oh, i don't know, i don't know, if the voters are going to come through. what is your assessment of the fear or that sort of doubt? and what can be done to stop the bleeding there, if, in fact, there is bleeding there? >> so, good morning to all of you. always great to be with you. there's several issues at play. i want to first say to you that at this point, i said to two of three of you in 2016, donald trump is going to win. at this point, neither candidate has won michigan. it's competitive and going to be down to who turns out to vote. there's four issues. one, a problem that we had in 2016, the union vote. we have got to get into the union halls, and they have to see the real kamala harris. so while we have the union leadership and the union leadership knows they have a problem, we still have to get to the union voters. two the mideast makes mic

. >> it really kind of goes to what symone said, did you hear what he said? when you heard what he said, you saw the reaction in the room. you saw the head, what the heck , no, what? ashley babbitt was killed, nobody was killed. the woman was like, no, i just know you did not say that. i just think there is something in this critical two weeks about moments like that that need to get plate over, and over, and over again to understand to symone's point, did you hear what he said? do not give me how you felt four years ago when people were dying from covid around you and you thought everything was just fine. did you see hear what he said last week? did you hear what he said to this community and that community? >> there has always been a question in the medial world, like don't take it literally, don't take him seriously, just don't take them literally. what we have seen over time is that, as his remarks and rhetoric have gotten darker, at some point, you have to believe something. you have to believe, it is not just them saying things to get elected, that they

i am alecia menendez with symone sanders-townsend and michael steele here in washington, d.c. >>> rolling out the heavy hitters . the support vice president harris is receiving from president obama on the campaign trail. >>> plus, the quote, depravity on the campaign trail. the dark, dangerous lies republicans are spreading in the aftermath of hurricane helene. north carolina gubernatorial candidate josh stein is here to respond. >>> grab your coffee, settle in. welcome to "the weekend." >>> we are now just 31 days from election day. 31! and there is still a lot to do. that is why former president barack obama will hit the campaign trail for vice president harris next week in pittsburgh. this is the start of a battleground to her that he is launching. as for the vice president, she held events in detroit and flint, michigan yesterday. while there, here is with motors from the muslim and arab communities. her campaign is also ramping up for the latino and black voters. here is nba legend magic johnson, urging black me to show up for the democratic ticket. >> kamala's opponent promised a lo

also with us, symone sanders townsend, co-host of "the weekend" here on msnbc. and david drucker, senior writer at "the dispatch" and mark mckinnon, former adviser to george w. bush and john mccain. >> jacob, how are voters there in michigan reacting to what they saw last night? >> reporter: oh, jose, ana, they are reacting, i can assure you of that. there is a reason for that. jd vance will be not far away from where i am today in oakland county, michigan, and when you talk to people at oakland university, they'll tell you, you know, it is not one, two, or three days before one of the four candidates for president or vice president will come through here. oakland county, not an exaggeration to say, will be one of most consequential counties in the swing state come election day. it was 100,000 vote swing from former president trump in 2016 to president biden in 2020. and even next door, macomb county, which leans republican, the student body populous at oakland university made up of largely young people from both of those key counties in michigan, all of these i

there's a lot of money that's been donated, symone, to her campaign.e can keep running ads like this. and i think where you think it's most effective. obviously they want those undecided voters. they want maybe some of those nikki haley voters. is it a reminder to some folks who were conflicted and maybe even conflicted in '16 and '20 of the reason they were conflicted? in a way that some other things weren't. just because it's gotten so much traction. just because it's been dominating google searches. just because wherever you go i don't know where you go but i overhear people talking about this. about what happened at msg. >> yeah, and i mean this comment about -- the derogatory comment about puerto ricans is just one of the many things that happened there. i mean, rudy giuliani said on the stage that palestinian children are taught as young as the age of 2 to hate and kill people. there were derogatory comments made about black people. there were many things said on that stage. someone got on the stage and said i thought i'd just come to the nazi ra

symone sanders townsend, thank you, as well. willie?ry right now, specifically in the state of michigan. elon musk recently amplified a misleading claim that michigan has more registered voters than eligible citizens. in response, the state's democratic secretary of state, jocelyn benson, corrected musk's disinformation, telling the billionaire not to, quote, feed the trolls. secretary benson joins us now live in studio. secretary benson, thank you for being with us. again, elon musk tweeting that there are more registered voters than eligible citizens. he's pushing these pernicious lies out on his platform, the one he owns. making sure they're amplified. he knows better, of course. what is your response to what he continues to push? >> you know, he clearly googled my name so find out my full and middle name and didn't take time to actually google the facts about our elections in michigan. to me, it's just a misuse of an extraordinary platform, an extraordinary influence. at a time when he could be using his platform to educate every vo

it goes a little bit to what symone elicited just now. you listed black insurrectionist with this white organized group. the reach that they black insurrectionist from trump and his allies, demonstrated can metastasize online to shape public opinion. the speed and scale of this information has been a force in the presidential campaign. potential to affect the outcome in a close election. twitter account has amassed 300,000 followers with conspiracy theories. your group released analysis that the campaigns targeting black americans in june, noting if you want to and authentic dissuasion of black voters, you must constantly between now and the election. focus groups show again and again that shows like the breakfast club are still the main engagement for black voters. talk about the striking disparity were you got a group of white boys pushing out negative narratives and something -- sucking in the black electorate through those efforts. and the efforts you are talking about, you are actually engaging legitimate black influencers in authent

symone sanders-townsend, julian castro, thank you for your friday night. that is it for this hour of television tonight. i will hand it over to the mc want for something like this. lawrence o'donnell and "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" he will get beyonce tonight and kamala harris. >> thank you, alex. i have never said this before from this anchor - but we are standing by for beyonce. we will do exactly that here as we cover other news breaking tonight. we will be going live to that stage in houston, texas as soon as anything important happened. >> enjoyed, lawrence and have a great show. >> thank you. that is the live shot of the stage in houston, texas where the harris campaign is holding a rally for an audience of 30,000 people. 30,000 texans in houston have turned out to tonight for beyonce and the vice president. we have breaking news as we await that and it is from the washington post. the washington post announced today they would not be endorsing a candidate for president. apparently, the endorsement was written and ready to go but it was c

symone, did she answer the question?> she did not go into detail, no, about how she's going to pay for the plan. but i would argue that's not uncommon with presidential candidates or maybe gubernatorial candidates. it's not like there are no contours of how that's going to happen. she ease talked about racing taxes on the richest people in this country, the proposal that you've heard about no one making under $400,000 will see a change and raise on their taxes. that is a piece of that. if vice president harris is elected as president harris, then her administration during the transition will go through the rigorous task how they plan to rally congress to get this done. in that dana bash interview the vice president had, she noted this would be her day-one agenda. i thought it was a good interview. the vice president knew she was going in for an interview where there was going to be some skeptism about her economic proposals. she today her ground. >> extra tax credit, helping small businesses, helping you buy your first h

symone we are eleven days out. is this escalation in the middle east likely to be a factor in the campaign? >> it could be, fur sure trump is talking about it. to be clear he has been on stage the last couple of nights talking about him being on the phone with prime minister benjamin netanyahu. we know there is new reporting from "the washington post," he has spoken, trump and benjamin netanyahu have spoken at least twice in the month of october as recently as october 19th. don't know about the additional conversations trump is claiming to have. we also know that donald trump allegedly spoke tone vladimir putin. we know he has entertained folks like orbon down at mar-a- lago it is unusual to be clear that a former president, a candidate, a current candidate for the precedency is having conversations with world leaders that are actively involved in so many conflicts right now. potentially those conversations, knowing about trump's policy and opposition to what the current president, president biden and his administr

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i'm alicia menendez with symone sanders-townsend and michael steele. we have fresh details on the harris' campaign sprint to the fineish line as donald trump focuses on lies and retribution. >>> talk with a senate candidate in florida and in nebraska aiming to upset republicans incumbents with in balance of power at fake. >>> plus, tomorrow marks one year since the october 7th terror attack on israel. what is ahead for the region still on edge and a very busy morning so grab your coffee and settle in and welcome to "the weekend." >>> ooh, 30 days. 30 days from election day. just one month for candidates up and down the ballot to make their case to the american people. they're on the campaign trail and today, we have new details about the road ahead for vice president harris. the vp is launching what the campaign is calling a media blitz this week including interviews with "the view" and howard stern and stephen colbert and a town hall with univision and also campaign in nevada and arizona. yesterday, harris traveled to north carolina to meet with volun

msnbc's "how to win 2024" podcast claire mccaskill and msnbc host and former harris senior adviser symoneders townsend. so good to have you here. >> you said democratic senator, i thought, oh, claire, that's you. >> host, both are hosts and have so many hats that you wear and have worn in the past. let me start with you, senator. given how tight the polling overall has been, given this could be the last debate of this election season, what are the stakes tonight and who do you think has more pressure? >> well, they both have a lot of pressure. and, listen, this is a country that still doesn't know these two guys very well. i think they still have to do some work in terms of introducing themselves. but the contrast is significant. you have a yale hedge fund guy that got to the senate on the back of a billionaire writing a check for -- i don't know what it was, 15 or $30 million to put him in the senate, versus a high school teachera, a coach, and somebody who is very comfortable talking about changing the oil on his truck. it's a contrast of style and tone, i think. j.d. vance always talks

symone, you're absolutely right with what josi said. not some constituency you just pull off the shelf. these are blended americans. they are part of the fabric of this country. they are schoolteachers and firemen and, you know, scientists. they are not a set-aside community you just kind of go back to. yet and still the conversation kind of boils down that way. so donald trump levels of some ugly and everyone sort of, what's the response of the latino community? the response should be, what is the response of the american people, all of us, collectively coming together to say this ugliness shall not stand and, as a member of our community, we got your back. >> well, i mean, yeah. >> i'm just saying -- >> yes. yes. >> that is what this should be. she can't, i mean, everyone doesn't give her credit for making that case. >> i guess i was like, caught up with my words because two months ago, maybe 2 1/2, vice president harris was not the top of this ticket. so part of the gaps, i think, we are seeing isn't that voters have wrapped their he

i'm alicia menendez with symone sanders-townsend and michael steel. today the candidates are crafting their closing messages. vice president harris focusing on the issues, and donald trump, we will show you his off the rails remarks soon. >>> and elizabeth warren back on the campaign trail as the vp makes her push on the economy. >>> michael cohen is at the table to respond. grab your coffee and settle in. welcome to "the weekend." set welcome to "the weekend." >> we are just 16 days now from the end of voting, talking about election day, and the splint screen could not be more clear. has night donald trump hurled obscene at his opponent. >> arnold palmer, the man was strong and tough. i refuse to say it, when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there and said oh my god, that's unbelievable. i had to say it. >> i just -- i don't -- i don't know what to say. luckily for you all out there, vice president harris isn't letting donald trump go unchecked. she has scrutinized his fitness for office. >> i keep talking about someone needs to

catch me on the weekend along with co-host symone sanders town sunday and michael steele.w we will talk to jaime harrison, dnc chair, and sunday elizabeth warren joins the conversation. that's the weekend. thank you for spending this friday with us. do not worry, nicolle will be back with us on monday. "the beat with ari melber" starts right now. >> i want to welcome everybody to "the beat." harris continuing to do what trump won't, capping her intense fox interview with a new exan

catch me on the weekend along with co-host symone sanders town sunday and michael steele. tomorrow we will talk to jaime harrison, dnc chair, and sunday elizabeth warren joins the conversation. that's the weekend. thank you for spending this friday with us. do not worry, nicolle will be back with us on monday. "the beat with ari melber" starts right now. >> i want to welcome everybody to "the beat." harris continuing to do what trump won't, capping her intense fox interview with a new exchange with nbc today. peter alexander caught up with her at her rally. she's also going to sit for a more extensive interview with our colleague, al sharpton, this weekend. we have more on that coming up. trump critic and "art of the deal" co-author is back with a warning. and making waves with this times piece about donald trump's rerun problem, wrestling to the wwe and how it is all starting to fade at the very time he needs more energy on the campaign trail. as if that was not enough, i am thrilled to tell you we also will by the end of the hour and the week, end it with kenny g's beat

symone, i'll start with you, i'd like to talk about the enemy within based on what we just played.s of america, michelle obama. to me that's unacceptable. i also heard a lie, you know, he said i tried to be very nice and respectful. i don't know how that is possible when donald trump literally built his political career, foundation, on birtherism and questioning the authenticity of the american papers, if you will, of first black president of the united states of america. i think this is who donald trump is. it is not ever going to get better. the presidency amplifies who you are, it does not, you know, transform one. donald trump has been president once before and all it has done is shone a light on who he truly is. look, i think ms. obama knew that coming out and speaking and campaigning would put a -- would put her squarely in donald trump's, you know, ire, if you will, but she said she was there not just that night in michigan, but last night even in atlanta because she felt the need to make the case. she said she had to do something and she wanted to take her own advice. >> i

symone sanders townsend, adviser to harris and it campaign communications for joe biden in 2020 and bernie16 and is the cohost of the weekend on msnbc. i was lucky to speak to her about this topic on my podcast, why is this happening? >> i think donald trump has ruined many of us. >> ruined everything. >> he ruined it all. every interview is not supposed to be adversarial. there are times where the interviewer has to get in the proverbial tail of the interviewee because they're not answering the question. lies. there are many things. in general, why does every interview has to be interview -- adversarial? you don't have to -- it doesn't have to be, but we have gotten into this wall that, that's what people were saying about the call her daddy podcast. they were like, she's going to do easy interviews. that interview, these were straightforward questions. it was very interesting but it was not adversarial. >> the whole conversation was interesting to hear her perspective. you can scan the qr code to hear the full interview. you are in luck, as a bonus for msnbc premium subscribers , sharing

and you hear that from symone sanders.th teller on that panel and boy did they jump her for speaking the truth. they should be concerned because of this candidacy and the issues they aren't speaking to at all. >> laura: how about their record stinks? how about that as an issue? their record is terrible and americans are getting poorer. and i see michael steele on that set. considering what he did to rec the republican party, i hope he stays over with the democrats for a very long time. god bless him with that. that's a tragedy to see that on that panel. raymond, great to see you as always. thank you. up next, republicans seizing the momentum on a key race that could determine, yes, the control of the senate, next. ♪ hey everybody, fall is back and the leaves are flying. and if you don't have leaffilter, guess where they're going? you guessed it right, into your gutters. and that's going to cause all kinds of problems. we're talking rotten fascia, rotten soffit, mildew, mold ...not to mention all kinds of problems in your a

symone sanders-townsend joins us now and ari melber as well.e that clip from a couple years ago does that give us a keyhole view of what we will see tonight? >> i think the campaign is trying to lower the expectations for governor walz, so when he does well, the bar was so low-end he comes out and does a great job. look, debate prep works. no, governor tim walz is a former high school teacher. he coached football. his skills were literally honed in the lions den. a former chairman of the democratic governors association. he knows how to go in and lay down an argument. i have heard he also was the architect of weird, so the idea that he is someone who is not as good as j.d. vance. i understand the messaging strategy -- >> you don't buy it. >> debates are about a lot of things, but they are always about contrast. i think that is a problem for donald trump and j.d. vance, because donald trump seems to have second thoughts. j.d. vance in these forums can come off like a phony trying to be too smart or too cute. there is a difference between debate

you can catch michael steel tomorrow along with symone sanders townsend at 8:00 a.m. eastern right here on msnbc. >>> coming up in 90 seconds, new hints about how israel should respond to iran's massive missile barrage and the risk it's willing to take. we're back right after this. it's willing to take we're back right after this. swiffer duster traps 4x more dust, for a clean even mom approves of. that reach! making hard to reach... so easy. swiffer. wow. the mother of all cleans. love it or your money back! hi, my name is damian clark. if you have both medicare and medicaid, i have some really encouraging news that you'll definitely want to hear. depending on the plans available in your area, you may be eligible to get extra benefits with a humana medicare advantage dual-eligible special needs plan. most plans include the humana healthy options allowance. a monthly allowance to help pay for eligible groceries, utilities, rent, and over-the-counter items. the healthy options allowance is loaded onto a prepaid card each month. and whatever you don't spend, carries ove

i'm alicia menendez with symone sanders-townsend and michael steele. bringing out the heavy hitters. vice president harris rallies for the first time with michelle obama and breaking this morning, new details on the campaign's final week sprint to election day. >>> plus, senators tammy baldwin and gary peters join our conversation on the fight for control of the senate. >>> and with trump set to rally at madison square garden, new york governor kathy hoe cull is at the table to respond. grab your coffee and theme music and settle in and welcome to "the weekend." . >>> well, greetings folks and there are just nine days until election day. across the country, more than 40 million americans have already cast a ballot and breaking this morning, the harris campaign just announced that over the next four days, the vice president and governor walz will barn storm all seven battleground states. focusing on get out the vote efforts and now the vp's busy schedule includes a major address on tuesday at the ellipse near the white house. the campaign is billing tha

bring in now the co-host of "the weekend" on msnbc, symone sanders-townsend and president and ceo ofis here with an exclusive poll of hispanic voters in battleground states. i just want to repeat what i've said before, simone, you know, it's -- you know, if i didn't have so many friends that freaked out, right, and if i wasn't having to spend so much time on the phone telling people to relax, it would be a lot funnier than it is. but instead, you know, a "new york times" sienna poll comes out and people go crazy. an nbc poll comes out and it's tied. i'm not exactly sure what people expect in presidential politics in 2024. cbs poll comes out has harris up three, an abc poll has harris up three. forgive me for going on but i want you to follow what i'm saying here because you know so much more about this than i do because you've lived it in campaigns, but i remember in 2016 telling people on this show that donald trump can get to 270. people freaked out. do you remember nate silvers' needle, 98% chance hillary is going to win. exactly. >> uh-huh. >> and then in 2020 i remember tweeting

i'm alicia menendez here with symone sanders townsend and michael steele. as of this minute, we are 34 days from election day 2024. a short time ago, democratic governor tim walz of minnesota and republican senator j.d. vance of ohio faced over the first and only vice presidential debate this cycle. folks, let's be clear. the debate might have seemed normal but must nothing was normal on what happened on that stage. j.d. vance tried to rewrite swaths of terms policy positions. flat out lied about issues like abortion, health care, and immigration. arguably the biggest moment of the night was the final moment. j.d. vance was on the debate stage tonight. mike pence, donald trump's former vice president had the audacity to certify the 2020 election results. here is what j.d. vance said when he was pressed tonight and trump's long- running election lies. >> would you seek to challenge this year's election results even if every governor certifies the results? >> first of all, were focused on the future. it is rich for democratic leaders to say that donald trump

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. >> we have david french and symone sanders townsend. david, i'll start with you.hat interview last night that we just showed followed by the real clip. what the vice president did when she called out bret baier and fox news for showing a misleading clip, she gave americans an extremely valuable insight, an extremely valuable lesson, because there's a whole ecosystem in the world of fox news and their viewers that feeds information to the viewers this way in a misleading way, either leaving out key points, avoiding key parts of a story, trying to protect donald trump in their narrative. and she pulled the mask off in realtime and said, look at what you're doing, you're misleading the american people. you showed a clip that had nothing to do with what we were talking about, and he did address it in that town hall, and you chose not to show the information that would be valuable to your viewers. it was a service. it was an incredible realtime explanation of what happens with misleading information, and if i may say it, disinformation. but the question, david french,

and co-host of "the weekend" on msnbc, symone sanders townsend. good morning to you both.ght for what they're calling a targeted operation, aimed at pushing hezbollah farther away from israel. comes days after israel killed the terrorist group's leader, nasrallah. both sides escalaing their attacks in recent weeks. according to the lebanon health ministry, 1,200 people died since mid-september. not clear how many were hezbollah members. last night, u.s. secretary of state -- secretary of defense lloyd austin wrote, "israel has the right to defend itself but a diplomatic solution is still required." earlier, president biden commented about israel's plan. >> i get the fact that israel may be launching a limited operation into lebanon. are you aware of that? are you comfortable with their plan? >> i'm more aware than you might know, and i'm comfortable with them stopping. we should have a cease-fire now. >> coming up in a bit on "morning joe," we will speak live with israel's ambassador to the united states. >>> meanwhile, tens of thousands of dock workers are on strike from