we are going to take -- >> governor walz: promise? >> governor walz: yes, promise.ghs] it's a stressful time. >> jon: it's a stressful time! now for you, is your day now, you wake up, are they hitting you with -- we get inundated with the polling data and they are really digging down into each thing and it is, quite frankly, the 24 hours, ratchet up, i think some of the anxiety around all of this. is that what your day is like? are you protected from that? >> governor walz: yeah, somebody is doing that. whether it is saginaw and i will be off with tomorrow, looking forward to this, we will be in madison, wisconsin, with president obama tomorrow. [cheers and applause] >> jon: but will they say to you, like, we've got that data in and today, if you don't get betsy from outside of bucks county, we are done? >> governor walz: but it is the overarching message. it is saying, look, we know that suburban women are deeply concerned as they should be, and i will add to the men here, you should be deeply concerned about the choice legislation. [cheers and applause] it is less

walz should have been able to go up there and be tim walz. i think we saw a little more toward later in the debate. in the beginning it was clear he was doing what they had agreed upon the strategy and debate prep. >> i disagree with you on i do agree he was following the strategy he was given by the campaign, but i don't think this was a debate that was designed to move people off of their team if they were already on it. this debate won't move very many people. there is a very small, narrow group of people, when you poll them they seem to want more substance, they keep asking i need to know more details. tim walz was very detailed, and he spoke the way a governor speaks but really specific issues, like gun violence, like healthcare. he was of substance and knowledge. was keeping you on the fences you need more details then, he give you more details. number two, i don't think that small, narrow group of people wanted to see a fist fight. and so, i think the people who want the fistfights are the base of the democratic party. democrats want t

walz. >> thank you.cheering and applauding) >> he really honed in on agriculture, veterans' issues, and local projects. >> gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. >> hwas never somebody who was considered to be on the leadership track of anything. and he really was not somebody who staked out one end of the, you know, party or the other. he was not a progressive. he was not a blue dog. he was not there to become a star, was not there to make waves. >> jd vance, welcome to the "newshour." >> narrator: it was the fall of 2016. >> jd vance is here. heas raised in the rust belt city of middletown, ohio. >> narrator: the paper vance had begun at yale was now a bestselling memoir. >> jd, thank you so much for being here. i have read so many think pieces about your book. >> narrator: and he was a fixture in the national media. >> jd, uh, thanks so much for being with us. that sure doesn't look like the hills of appalachia there behind you. >> narrator: his journey from a hardscrabble

tim t walz called himself out o it. no, no, no, i am not lying, let me tell you why i am calling them illegal immigrants even though they are not illegal. they said thank you for explaining the law. that is annot what we are askin you about. >> that is when he complained about being fact checked, saying the rules said you can not fact check me. that is one of the thing that is in the video that we will be hearing a lot of. norah o'donnell did a fact a check indirect at the end of the climate change discussion, the discussion ended and she just said directly, the overall consensus that climate change is happening. that is enthat, but then when i was a direct fact check to j.d. vance he did complain that cbs was violating its own rule. >>> it is the top of the hour. super grateful to have you watching our coverage of the vice presidential debate. it started as a slow burn. not sure what is happening on the substance, the pace was slower at the beginning and then about midpoint it really took off. and then we had what i th

vance and tim walz.st, the mideast on the brink of war as iran launches over 200 ballistic missiles at israel. iranian missile strikes in response to israel taking out the leader of hezbollah. iranian terror proxy based in lebanon, which is been shelling israeli neighborhoods from the north. israel's iron dome and u.s. missile defense intercepting the iranian barrage. the pentagon sending additional service members to the region, bracing for potential attacks on u.s. military bases. israel will certainly respond with precision strikes inside iran proper. >>> here at home, over 45,000 dockworkers went on strike today, shutting down ports along the east coast and a gulf coast. the head of the union threatening to cripple the economy if they aren't given a hefty rays and a guarantee that robots won't take their jobs. >> people never gave a [bleep] about us until now, when they finally realize that the chain is being broke. cars won't come in, food won't come in, clothing won't come in. you know how many peo

walz has not been doing it. >> jesse: vance's edge over walz was undeniable.ad a hard time processing it. >> it's the audacity. i agree with you that we are in year nine and no one knows how to cover the audacity. the audacity is that someone should have said stop. are you kidding me? they should have dropped that. >> jesse: the media who slimed vance out of the gate as a sketch ball set such low expectations that when democrats laid eyes on him unvarnished, they like him. >> i was getting texts from democrats panicked quite frankly saying he's really moderating himself on a lot of issues, he's the most likable he's ever been. >> jesse: j.d. charmed the socks off the country and now the media looks even more dishonest, if that was possible. vance's talent as a debater is too big to rig and he's gotten himself into fighting shape, sparring with the press for months, fighting off cheap shots, working out his policy jobs. just like the biden debate, the media can't spin it. >> j.d. vance came to this debate to land a bunch of punches and he did. >> the two issues

i think this is going to be tough for tim walz.gest advantage in my my sense of it is just sort of personality. i mean, i think that's what got him here. the whole weird. thing was something that came out of his brain that is going to be his biggest advantage. >> try let me bring in david axelrod, who has helped to prepare people for debates, as well as helped cover debates in his previous life as a journalist david what are the challenges you see for vance and walz? all right well, first of all, let me just say parents statically, that bone crushing rebuke of benson two quail where he said, senator, you're no you're no, jack kennedy. >> we should note that he wasn't a jack kennedy, but he was vice president after that debate, which tells you just how much vice presidential debates may not matter but they, they matter in the sense that if people can make the case for their, that their candidate wants to make it what's interesting about the packages that we just heard is each candidate says they want to paint the other as extreme an

it was a tough moment for tim walz. are the debate, but at the end of the day, he showed something that most politicians don't show, which is a little bit of humility calling himself in knucklehead, saying he misspoke. i think that that as you go through out the night, i mean, the issues of abortion, the issues of iran and israel the issues of the economy, the issues of immigration are going to far outpace whether or not he was in hong kong on whatever specific day that he said he was or whether he was there later in the summer. i think the way that he answered it would just an ounce of humility and simply saying, look, i was i was a knucklehead. i misspoke. i get caught up in the rhetoric, will go a long way. i don't think that's it's going to if you look at the fact of where he was that summer versus the fact that jd vance wants a nationwide abortion ban and has lied about that. i think that issue of abortion will far outweigh what happened in hong kong and whether or not tim walz was they are not alex thompson. >> i

vance's and tim walz response when we come right back. tim walz respon come right back.ter with age. here's to beating these two every thursday. help fuel today with boost high protein, complete nutrition you need, and the flavor you love. so, here's to now... now available: boost max! pete g. writes, "my tween wants a new phone. how do i not sobreak the bank?".. we gotcha, pete. xfinity mobile was designed to save you money and gives you access to wifi speeds up to a gig. so you get high speeds for low prices. better than getting low speeds for high prices. right, bruce? -jealous? yeah, look at that. -honestly. someone get a helmet on this guy. xfinity internet customers, ask how to get a free 5g phone and a second unlimited line free for a year. switch today! >>> we turn back now to last night's vp debate. governor tim walz called out senator j.d. vance over his false claims about haitian migrants in springfield, ohio. walz blamed vance and donald trump's divisive rhetoric for creating bomb threats in the city. here's a part of that exchange. >> this is what happens wh

here is jd vance and tim walz. >> governor walz and i will debate the issues that matter to people, and i will show it is very simple, the candidacy, the team of substance, the team with a plan is the team of trump-vance. >> it is obvious to us that donald trump and jd vance do not share values. elections have consequences. it is donald trump or kamala harris. joe: we will hear from a range of voices, democrats and republicans with reporting down the middle. we begin with annmarie hordern at the debate site, a few blocks from where we are sitting in midtown manhattan. annmarie: you are already seeing surrogates come out from both sides to do their best to spin before the debate. i caught up with jason miller, senior advisor to the former president. he had an interesting moment where he said this is the last debate we will see before the election. probably sounds like there is wiggle room for another harris-trump debate. he said he does not like to speak in absolute terms and says this is likely the last debate. that is why it is so important, you see the polling of these individuals nec

i will vote for walz. do want to make it clear when i saw at the end that vance was talking about donald trump's achievements. it seems that, they seemed to forget the year 2021. and it goes by the wayside. i think the idea of all of the stuff that happened during covid is being cast lighted to the american public. host: what surprised you? you said you were surprised by this debate. caller: both of them spoke extremely eloquently, as much as i am not a big fan of jd vance. walz in particular had his stuff down. he answered questions in a way that didn't seem rushed. he did not seem -- what is the word i am looking for? he did not come across angry. i do know that vance did appear to be, like trump, a bit peeved when something was brought up that didn't go along with their agenda. they pushed back with alternative -- what i would call the kellyanne alternative facts. i give them credit for a lot of stuff he has tried to stand up for, even though he has flip-flopped a lot. you are talking about a man who ca

walz: yes. thank you.amala harris and i believe in the middle class because that's where we come from. those of you out there listening tonight, you are hearing a lot of stuff back and stuff -- back and forth. how is this going to impact me? the forward plan that kamala harris put out there is talking about this housing issue. there's 3 million new houses proposed under this plan with down payment assistance on the front-end. i houses much more than just an asset to be traded somewhere. it's foundational to where you are at. making sure the things that you buy every day, that there is fairness in that. it cost five dollars to make insulin. they were charging $800 before this law went into effect. as far as a housing goes, i've seen in minnesota. 12% more houses in the opposite, prices went down on rent 4%. it's working. and then making sure tats cuts go to the middle class. it reduces childhood poverty by a third. we save money in the long run and we do the right thing for families. and getting business of

i am supporting harris-walz and i want walz to answer the inevitable undecided queion, how will americanslives changing -- change with progressive programs? she wants the moderators to ask that question. page, is voting for trump and vance and says i am voting for my paycheck. norah o'donnell is one of the moderators this evening along with margaret brennan. nora o'donnell joined cbs news in 2011 and is currently the anchor of cbs evening news. margaret brennan joined cbs news in 2012 and is the moderator of face the nation and chief foreign affairs correspondent. those two ladies will be the moderators this evening. from salt lake city, utah, independent. we will go to you next. >> good evening and thank you for giving us this opportunity to share our views. i will be voting for the green party candidate jill stein. i am not -- the harris and walz position on the middle east has made me turn away from the democratic party. i think what we are seeing is truly an escalation by israel and i believe the only way we can see things calm down is if we hold back the aid to israel. we need to see

walz being the one that actually brought it up.d of seeing in springfield is just recently this week we saw the governor allocate $1.3 million to springfield schools. we have seen a mobile health unit come up within the county. we are seeing the community really come together. a lot of church leaders. a lot of people around here say that theis noise has kind of tod down a little bit and they are really hoping that it can kind of stay that way leading up to the election. >> thank you for that special report. very good to hear. some sense of normal is starting to resume there in springfield, ohio j. jd vance was asked about not supporting donald trump back in 2020. here is what he said. >> why should americans trust that you will give donald trump the advice he needs to hear and not just the advice he wants to hear. you have two minutes. >> i have always been open. sometimes i disagree with the president, but i've always been extremely open about the fact that i was wrong about donald trump. i believe some of the media stories of his

how is governor tim walz?od place but i want to say my heart goes out to all the folks in south carolina, georgia, tennessee impacted by the i live in south carolina and in these times of trouble we have to rally together as one country to support our brothers and sisters who are experiencing so much pain right now. �* ,, , ~ , now. cbs news keeping the questions — now. cbs news keeping the questions close _ now. cbs news keeping the questions close to - now. cbs news keeping the questions close to its - now. cbs news keeping the questions close to its chest| questions close to its chest tonight. do you think that issue will be one that gets a lot of attention, the natural disasters and how they are handled? it disasters and how they are handled?— disasters and how they are handled? . , ., handled? it may. one of the stark contrast _ handled? it may. one of the stark contrast between - handled? it may. one of the stark contrast between the l stark contrast between the parties is donald trump and jd vance's pro

walz: let's go do this thing, georgia. ♪ [chanting] ♪ ♪ >> one we got from election day, governor walzharris continue to make their case to the american people. recent polls seem to give president trump a slight advantage in the state. ♪ >> we have more from campaign 2024 later tonight with bo donald trump and kamala harris. the former presintill be in allentown in the swing state of pennsylvania. you can watch that live starting 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. vice prede harris will speak to supporters omhe lips on thnaonal mall in washington, d.c. we will have live cerage of that at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. if you're away from your to, you can follow along live online at c-span.org or with our free mobile video app c-span now. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more, including comcast. >> are you thinking this is just a committee center? no, it is way more than that. >> comcast is partnering with more than a thousand committee centers students and low income families can get the tools they need to be ready for anythin >>

but if you think we will get policy -- policy specifics from walz... >> tim walz needs to be tim walzl do for america, the hope and joy to malls brings. a talk about my football team that walked out on that stage of the dnc. that was a moment. >> i think the joy moment, i think those are over. i think people do want to deal with these issues. i don't know how walz will deal with the criticism but i think that vance will probably be pretty good. all the things that vance said, the criticism of trump in 2015, said a lot, all on the record. when vance ran for senate, somebody on his campaign said he had 75 town halls and it everyone he was asked that question, why did you say all those bad things about trump and now you like him? he's dealt with this stuff, specifically about donald trump, for many years. >> speaker-01: it looks like right now we have kind of frozen election. if you like the status quo, you have to vote for kamala harris. with all that entails, the joy, the so-called abortion for people in alabama. but other than that, if you like the status quo, over her, if you like ch

he may even lie about uh, about waltz's record and walz has a temper walz gets angry. how does that how does that work in this debate? how does he handle those things this is the problem that people often have in debating donald trump or in dealing with donald trump because he's serially lies about stuff and you can't keep up with it. and here he'll be doing it about walz, the question is, how does he deal with that? >> well, david, your point the the gender gap is very real. it's gender canyon. and i would guess that j.d. vance actually plays even worse than donald trump with some voters. so i'm going to be very curious how he deals with one of the most important issues this cycle, which is reproductive rights. he's actually to the right of donald trump on it. he knows he has to stay within the bounds of saying, throwing it back to the states. but he's expressed some positions that are going to be i think he's going to be challenged on in a major way by a candidate who himself has talked about he went through iui with his wife that's going to be interesting to see if

what do you think walz should be like okay. >> and governor walz's is a happy guy, right? and he's a good communicator. so i think he should show his personality and yes, he could go on the offense. you know, he should ask j.d. vance why to defend summons that donald trump said he should ask j.d. vance, hey, why he's the vice presidential position even open what happened to the last guy jd given how tight the race is, do you think this debate is important >> i really don't think this debate is going to matter. i mean, just ask the debate was admiral stockdale, you know who remembers that? and so vice presidential debates don't really matter. i think governor walz will hold his own tonight. i think j.d. vance will try to go on the offensive to make up from the disastrous debate that donald trump had over a month ago i remember the guy, this guy, i remember admiral stockdale that was that was an important debate a source tells you cnn it didn't. >> the performance was not as good as yeah. i mean, it could have been better, but moving on from the 1996 vice presidential debate

walz: i misspoke. i was hong kong and china during the democracy protests and from that, i learned a lot of what needed to be in governance. >> in 2016 you called donald trump unfit for the nation's highest office and said he could be america's hitler. you have been asked many times and you said you regret those comments and then said you voted for donald trump in 2020. the "new york post" reported that you disparaged his economic record writing to someone in 2020 quote, trump thoroughly failed to deliver his economic populism. you are now his running mate and you have shifted to align with his. if you become vice president why should americans trust that you will give donald trump the advice he needs to hear and not the advice he wants to hear. sen. vance: sometimes i have disagreed with the president and i have been open about the fact that i was wrong about donald trump. i believed some of the media stories that are fabrications of his record but donald trump delivered, rising wages and take-home pa

okay tim walz coach walz your boy fumbled bigly on tiananmen square. i mean, he was talking about i'm human. instead, he looked yeah, he lied about that. and maybe people reminded him of his lies about his time in uniform. and so that was bad. not bad. i was i was i then the other thing i was struck by no question on ukraine. one of the biggest issues facing our country and the globe, no question on ukraine. and then my final thought was, what would josh shapiro have done up there tonight? well, my friend governor josh shapiro up on that stage with jd vance. it would have been world heavyweight slugfest between two really intellectual great candidates. and i just wonder if the harris people are thinking maybe we should have picked josh shapiro. >> when you say ten out of ten and velvet fist and so on, by the end of the debate, he was like the guy with like fleet gym shoes on, running away from the question. he wouldn't answer the question about the election. couldn't, because donald trump would not allow him to say that the election was legitimate but

tim walz and j.d. vance. standby. >> bret: good evening i'm bret baier it's five weeks until election day. >> martha: we are waiting for the debate to get started with ohio senator j.d. vance from the top -- from the trump ticket and minnesota governor tim walz coming face to face as there is an active backdrop in america for issues for them to deal with tonight. >> bret: it's the cbs vice presidential debate beginning in moments thanks for watching it here with us on fox news. tonight it the matchup comes as the u.s. faces escalate in crises at home and abroad with devastation of hurricane helene to iranian strakes in israel. all that weighing heavily on the campaigns and on stage tonight. >> martha: they both share a midwestern background and are expected to have stark views on opposing issues and we'll see how that plays on the debate stage. postgame and analysis afterwards. ♪ ♪ >> norah: i'm norah o'donnell and thanks for joining us for the cbs vice presidential debate. we welcome our viewers on cbs and o

you obviously have governor tim walz. he's from right here you have wisconsin, here you have michigan. he has been to wisconsin five times, michigan four times. senator jd vance has been to both states six times. they're hoping they appeal to those voters right here in the midwest, in these critical battleground states, these blue-collar voters. senator jd vance is from that critical battleground of ohio right next to it. all-important pennsylvania, you mentioned it, both candidates see this as a must win. >> we're going to come back to these polls a little later on. again, it's what everyone wants to know, just how close is this race. >>> when we come back, terri moran standing by in springfield, ohio. that community came under intense national scrutiny during the presidential debate. we're going to go live to terry moran there. what voters in that community expect to hear tonight in this vice presidential debate. >>> and donna brazil, priebus, what would they tell both of these gentlemen they have to do tonight? we'll h

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you watched walz who really is not in the right league. walz should not be out there.s not a national player, he's not fast enough, he doesn't know enough, he's not confident enough. i almost felt sorry for him because he had been put in a position where, at one point j.d. vance said, you know, you have to play whack-a-mole because every time you turn around something would come up where he would have to somehow defend kamala harris. i thought that j.d. won by such a big margin. i did a newsletter today and i said, you know, a star is born. i think j.d. vance now absolutely vindicates donald trump's instincts in picking him and represents the kind of clear, compassionate, genuinely conservative and genuinely tough leader that we are going to need for the future. i think it was an enormous victory for trump and vance last night. >> sean: i can't tell you independently how many people use the analogy to me, elmer fudd. he was just out of his league. i don't think he's ready to be president and i don't think kamala harris is ready to be president. i did think that moment

the harris-walz strategy of all but hiding walz since he was in early august roll-out showed tonight.president harris and walz have only done a combined 23 interviews two months ago. trump-vance ticket during the same time 61. liberal media with tough words for walz performance. >> a clear lack of preparation and execution here. i think the lack of interviews that he has done with national media, with local media, it showed. he needed more reps. >> jd vance is much more experienced at this at public speaking, at defending himself. >> it reminded me of the june 27th debate when kamala harris said of joe biden it was a slow start but a strong finish. that's how it felt tim walz did tonight. jd vance needed to come away as the humble, likable guy from hillbilly el eligy. >> harris: what were the initial reactions inside the campaign last night? >> i can tell you, harris, the vibes in campaign headquarters are very high. we are proud of him. he won last night's debate and trump was right to choose him. he prosecuted the case against kamala harris's failed record and perfectly outlined the

so tim wams has a whole concern walz has a whole bunch of problems.supposed to be this person to help bring the midwest together. the reality is when you compare his life to senator vance's life which has been an american success story, there is no comparison. tim walz exaggerated his tenure in the military, said he carried a weapon of war when he was overseas. we know that was never if true are. so he has to answer for those things on the, and i'm sure the american people are finally ready for him to sit down and answer some questions because after 70 days of being part of this ticket the, he's never sat down for a one-on-one interview. elizabeth: are you worried about the cbs moderate ors? will they be biased, do you think? people are saying, no, that they'll be middle of the road. what do you think? >> i don't want to to say they're going to be middle of the road, but j.d. vance has done every sunday show and take every shot that the mainstream media has thrown at him. he's incredibly articulate and smart, he fact checks people in realtime, so we'r

walz as you do. everyone is doing their expectation setting. >> when we talk about the issues, when president trump is making those type of criticisms, he's pointing out the fact that we have allowed 20 plus million illegals into 24 country. the language might be tough. how does tim walz stand on that stage tonight and explain why kamala harris allowed 21 million illegals into the country, how does tim walz stand on the stage and explain why kamala harris had two deciding votes s s tha to this near record inflation? we have to call out these tough issues. to me, people are struggling. this isn't time for powder puff football. we'll get down to it. >> by the way, the former president was talking about his debating skills. that was the issue. jason miller, thank you so much. we'll see you later. appreciate it. >> all right, let's bring in our chief white house correspondent peter alexander who is covering the maris harris campaign. what are they signaling tonight? >> among the things i heard is his pri

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jessica, you say the attacks on walz aren't working. walz isn't working.he harris campaign. he is doing worse than biden was against donald trump, and the re favorability is the media treats him like this white male mascot. and they don't ask him anything. and harris campaign doesn't put him out there. so he is hiding. he is a coward. and everybody knows that. so tonight, if it is about tampons and sex changes and him going to china and the snitch line, fine. walz wants it to be about j.d. said this and trump said that, okay. the american people are going to look at that and just be like, god help me. this country is dying for solutions. and if j.d. vance can make this about the american dream, she killed it, with biden, put a steak right through the american dreams heart, and donald trump is here to restore the american dream. if he can tell that story, he will win. >> dana: just watching that, that is a lot of hand gestures. the full arm and everything. all right. up next, thousands of dockworkers sad to say are on strike and about to wreak some havoc on

tim walz seemed very nervous tonight.ind of walked away with the impression, i guess maybe i felt. maybe this is the reason he doesn't do interviews. he seemed to take come as you never see you? >> senator vance: i didn't notice adrenaline was going so much i was nervous, i could do a lot of these interviews but i was nervous as the biggest age of my life excellent and focus on much on his demeanour. i just had to focus on what he was saying, and to be fair to tim walz. he had a very tough job. and that is to defend the policies of kemal harris. >> hannity: he did have a tough job. >> senator vance: he does that it is kamala harris has done this, her policy failures have made food, housing, energy unaffordable. we just need a change in this country, we need to get back to the common sense leadership of donald trump. i am not surprised that tim couldn't defend that record. who could? if you put me on the debate stage, you clearly thank i did a good job, i hope i did a good job. but if you ask me to defend kemal -- kamala h

the other is tim walz. [ laughter ] walz and vance, they stuck to the issues.hey showed each other a lot of respect. it was -- it was very boring. [ laughter ] i'll be honest. i like these better with trump, i really do. [ laughter ] i don't know that anyone's vote was changed tonight. watching a vice presidential debate, it's like taking your kids apple picking. about halfway through you're like, okay, you know what, should sounded like it was going to be fun, but what's the point? [ laughter ] it did help us to get to knot candidates a little. it was weird to see tim walz being so serious. i kept expecting him to reach down to his podium and come up with a corn dog. [ laughter ] he had a serious haircut, too. it looked line somebody got out the flowby before the debate tonight. tim walz is a very likeable guy, very normal, which is a problem for fox news especially because he looks like all of their viewers. [ laughter ] they are now desperate to exploit any tiny bit of oddness they can conjure up. >> timmy was at the michigan/minnesota game saturday, hugged

he's real tim walz as a hurt walz tells cnn that state agencies have implemented suggestions from the state auditor and sometimes they disagree with the auditor's findings. adding quote, we are constantly evaluating ways to eliminate fraud and improve government programs that spokesperson also added that the walls it's ration has beefed up oversight of the department of education and spent millions to add staff to help root out bad actors. >> aaron and such important information to have out there with all that investigation. thank you. >> and next, new reporting on how israel expected the united states expects the united states to help with its retaliatory strikes on iran, not just to be okay with it, but to actually participate one of the top reporters in the middle east will be outfront with this new reporting after this plus james carville on his fiery, decades-long marriage to a woman from a different party talking points like you do check check, check >> he can't write this tomorrow at seven on cnn doctors recommend colaio stool softener for gentle dependable relief from constipa

vance. >> walz did seem unsteady and friendly what i saw and walz is somebody who has not faced questionstional stage since he became the democratic nominee. in contrast, j.d. vance was very smooth. >> i was getting text from democrats panicked, quite frankly, who were saying wow, he is really moderating himself on a lot of these issues, he is the most likable he has ever been. >> he seemed that many moments to be reasonable. >> walz did not seem prepared for it. >> a lot about this debate tonight was weird. >> there were on comfortable, cringing moments. >> there were so many niceties on that stage tonight. i'm kind of like, well, if you agree so much with j.d. vance, why should they vote for you? >> dana: judge, take it away. >> judge jeanine: i got to tell you, it is clear that even they understood that j.d. vance was solid, he was friendly, he was polite, he was disciplined, and he was the kind of guy that for the first time -- and by the way, 88% of the american people said that this was a debate that was civil and that they enjoyed, that's a wonderful thing. and that's because of j.

tim walz was tim walz.t put on the ticket because he was everybody's grandpa and the football coach showed up tonight and this is clearly what the harris campaign wants to present. it was unpolished, rough around the edges sometimes, but i would say delivered a lot of good hits against donald trump, which was his job, in a very compelling final argument on democracy in the 2020 election at the end of the debate. so is anybody going to stop the momentum the harris campaign has right now? probably not. will they augment the trump campaign somehow? probably not. i thought both candidates today tried to actually get along with one another and for the purposes of a political campaign, this ability probably neutralized a lot of the attacks. >> rick and jeannie will be back with us in a minute. first we want to get back to anne-marie on the spin room floor. >> i'm joined by the governor of illinois, jb pritzker. i want to get your reaction to how you thought governor walz did. >> tim walz did what he does best, he

tim walz and j.d. vance will face off for their first and only debate, a debate that you can watch right here. both candidates have now visited the debate site to get their first look at the debate stage. mj lee is there and she joins us now, mj, i know you've been talking to the walls team. how are they preparing to answer questions? obviously, we're going to be talking tonight but what we're seeing unfold between israel and iran yeah, kasie, there's no question that given the events of the past 24 hours, governor walz aides going to be paired to address the situation in the middle east in whatever form it might come up. >> but it's interesting the walls team for the most part, even just in the final hours leading up to tonight s debate has continued to try to lower expectations as one campaign official put it to me, governor walz wasn't picked because he was a great debater. they said j.d. vance will probably we have a good night. look. that is of course part spin that you expect ahead of any debate.

walz really pressed j.d. vance whether he would serve the election results so certainly a moment i think we will see the campaign clipping and sharing on social media. >> democrats reaching out to me wishing governor walz had done more interviews and maybe he would be sharper and he seemed nervous but he did close a strong january 6th moment. thank you as always. thank you for you getting up "way too early" for us on this wednesday more. "morning joe" starts right now. >> walz and vance stuck to the issues and showed each other a lot of respect. it was very boring. i'll be honest. i like these better with trump. i really do. i don't know that anyone's vote was changed tonight. watching vice presidential debate is like taking your kids' picking and halfway through sounded like this was going to be fun but what is the point? >> these two men were both a heartbeat away from being interesting this evening. it was a vice presidential debate. one of these men will lose and we will never from him again. the other on

jason miller said tim walz is wily political veteran. walz is leaking that tim walz is nervous.l consider tonight's debate a success if? fill in the blank. >> we need to talk about policy. this is about donald trump and kamala harris. from j.d. vance you will hear reintroduction of him. you will hear about his upbringing and his desire to work with president trump to make the american dream achievable to efrp else. main focus and j.d. vance will hit a home run is talking about policies voters care about. i think tim walz will have a hard time, how does he defend kamala harris' record. kamala harris has said we need to turn the page. that is right, from them. they have failed on economy and inflation and failed on the border and with fentanyl powering in and chaos at home and abroad, that is the key to success. voters want to hear about issues that are important to them. >> todd: i think j.d. vance is well primed to deliver that. we'll see. in town for the big night, appreciate you coming by at 5:00 a.m. americans in southeast suffered during hurricane helene, kamala harris was h

so i will quote tim walz. she did come across something of a knucklehead to some people, his word, when you think about this, the golden rule of the vp debate is do no harm. you are number 2 in command. i would make the argument vance helped trump and selecting him as his number 2 as vp shows that trump has good judgment, good leader puts solid people underneath them, perhaps smarter than they are. you are not seeing that the other way around. stuart: thanks. back to the markets. dow down 40, nasdaq down 40. tesla just reported third-quarter deliveries, 462,000. what does that tell you about toes look, stock is down 5%. >> a lot of it was priced in earlier. tesla is still growing, still selling vehicles. whether you loved a elon musk or not, people find value in the vehicles and down to the point only a few competitors left, down to gm in the us, the chinese are taking the markets by storm around the world so those guys are the ones driving that. learn new thing is people trying to get excited about october 10

tim walz is known for many things. his dad style, and of course, launching this weird attack, which has clearly stuck at times. so will we see that presented right to jd vance? and how will jd vance go at tim walz? that's what we're watching for, the debate is two hours away. rachel maddow and our whole team begin special coverage here on msnbc right now. >> good evening. >> good evening. >> good evening. >> the candidates need no introduction. >> i can't wait to debate the guy. >> the first and only

one of the things that walz -- one of the monikers walz put on republicans and j.d.as weird. said he is a weird guy. they're weird. it's a weird party. last night, j.d. vance did really good job and dismantled the weird label. because he was relatable. he was likeable. what went on between the two of them was civil. and ultimately, i think the benefactor was the american people. you actually got to see two diametrically opposed points of view, oftentimes. but it kind of hearkened back to a time when politics was civil. and respectful. and people got answers. and i think people -- you know, it would be nice to get back to that more often. >> brian: i watched jimmy carter and ronald reagan. they were civil. nixon and jfk, they looked like two professors. >> steve: right. >> brian: with a third professor called moderator. >> steve: those were the days. last night was a great debate if you wanted a debate. janes. >> ainsley: i thought j.d. vance really excelled at doing. every response he would answer the question but always bring up their records and compare kamala harr

so governor walz, you are first. you have two minutes. >> walz: well, thank you, senator vance.k you to cbs news. and most importantly, thank you to all of you, if you're still up and the folks who have missed dancing with the stars, i appreciate it. look, the support of the democracy matters. it matters that you're here. and i'm as surprised as anybody of this coalition that kamala harris has built from bernie sanders to dick cheney to taylor swift and a whole bunch of folks in between there. they don't all agree on everything but truly optimistic people that believe in a positive future of the country and one where our politics can be better than it is. and i have to tell you, that better than it is is the sense of optimism that there can be an opportunity economy that works for everyone, not just to get by but to get ahead. and the idea that freedom really means something. not the freedom of government to be in your bedroom or exam room but the freedom for you to make choices about yourself. now, look, we all know who donald trump is. he's told us and as maya angelou said, be

that's what tim walz is proposing.would be death to any political cloud that any other state ever had in any presidential election moving forward. that's what tim walz is suppsupporting and many act sure when had he says thing and upsets the apple card and people say you're the candidate for vice president now saying things like that. it has impact. liz: we should point out top democrat tim mcgovern pushing back and not certifying that and what's happening too and 30,000-foot perspective and democrats started attacking trump well before he was elected in 2016. hillary clinton, dnc, trump alphabet and rallying for foreign lobby violations and geared up to impeach trump before sitting down in the oval office and bullying began with no crimes or misdemeanors cited and raising resolutions to impeach trump and six months before sitting down. nancy pelosi leading the democrat charge of 14 committees this is the bullying of par left party and calling them democrats but far left bullying party. >> well, that's exactly right. i

walz. walz, he's an expressive man and you can read him by his face. but... the harris-walz ticket, they troubled me. i keep them in prayer all the time. they are not america first. because when walz was asked a question about i think the tiananmen square subject? he went into his harris bid. i was born. i was raised. middle-class family. this, this, this, this, this. when the commentator said you didn't answer the question and they repeated it, he said i did, i think i misspoke, that was it. now i have, i had to poke the bible upside my head because of osmosis, wondering what they missed. walz, the harris campaign, deceived. host: all right. maryland, democratic line, good morning. caller: this is hank. i thought the debate was very civil. seemed like vance moderated quite a bit and didn't really espouse the extreme views of trump. he sort of tried to show that he was somewhat more on republican in general. i didn't think that he addressed climate change very well. went towards the democrats as well. as far as foreign policy goes, leaving it up to israel. i

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walz got on it.ke conversation with top democrats, they need him to come through and his appeal to western p.a. >> cecilia: you were talking to the walz-harris campaign, who do they feel like they need to win over? >> major was talking about blogs. you're going to see more blobs over the next month in michigan and wisconsin because walz is a midwesterner and he's been in michigan for the last several days doing debate prep there. that's no accident. we have been seeing him at football games. he was at the minnesota-michigan game. seeing him at farms and fall fests. i saw him buying a pumpkin the other day. he's out there in his plaid and his flannel making the case "i'm one of you" because those are pivotal states. as john delano was pointing out, half of pennsylvania kind of falls into that midwestern bucket. that's who they are hoping he appeals to tonght. we were talking about some of the darkness. what walz has brought to the ticket, democrats argue, is this notion of joy. he talked about republi

and she picked walz.e was asked what her best decision was by our colleague stephanie ruhl. she said my gut told me to pick tim walz. i think there will be a moment where it all sort of makes perfect sense to ofeverybody watching that this was a perfect compliment to her. >> also, i would say. one of the things in terms of your heterms rachel that this i a last shot. don't under estimate what people don't know. that's a lot of negatives. but i read an undecided voters. i don't like trump but i don't know where harris is on climate change with trump. are there voters who don't know that rowe v. wade was overturned v.by donald trump an will keep it overturned and will urprobably do worse. and the harris campaign wants to bring back rowe v. wade. >> or that the state of the economy is fantastic. the walz or the trump-vance ticket they think they're running on the economy trbut it only where they can lie about the economy. walz is a fantastic economic guy. >> when trump picked vance it was after vance made cl

you know, look, i think tim walz needs to be tim walz. i agree. don't you know, he's going to he's going to say what he wants to say. i think j.d. vance is the one that may go down these rabbit holes with things that he said. he said some crazy stuff. but, you know, he came to springfield, ohio. >> i know. but but tim walz nice to talk about where he is in this race, what they're doing. >> i'd stay away from the childless cat. ladies, stay away from springfield. those are going to come out anyway, talk about what they're going to do for america and the hope and the joy that tim walz let's brings. i talk about my mole football team that walked out on that stage at the dnc. that was a moment, folks, i got to tell you home and spoke to a lot of people across this country. >> all right. you can watch tim walz and jd vance's first face off in their vp debate hosted by cbs news tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. and i'll be heading to you or to do some of our pre debate coverage. don't miss it straight ahead here on cnn this morning, we con

governor walz.d you were in hong kong during the deadly tiananmen square protests in the spring of 1989. minnesota public radio and other media outlets reporting you actually didn't travel to asia until august of that year. can you explain that discrepancy? >> governor walz: to the folks out there. i grew up in small, rural nebraska. a town of 400. a town where you rode your bike with your buddies until the streetlights came on. i joined the national guard at 17. worked on family farms and then i use the g.i. field to become a teacher. passionate about it. a young teacher. my first year i got the opportunity in the summer of '89 travel to china. 35 years ago. i came back home and started a program to take young people there. we would take basketball teams love baseball teams, dancers. we would go back and forth to china. the issue was to try and learn. my community knows who i am. they saw where i was at. look, i'll be the first to tell you i have poured my heart into my community. i've tried to do