If it's Tuesday, campaign crunch time starts now, which is nine weeks to go until

election day as both campaigns prepared to hit the trail and face off on the

debate stage.

Plus, grief, protests, and arrests across Israel as demands for a ceasefire and hostage deal grow louder.

And the Biden administration considers offering a final ticket or leave it deal

to Israel and Hamas. And Ukrainian President Salinsky meets the press telling

NBC news he won't back down from his military operation inside Russia as Russia was the Welcome to Meet the Press Now. I'm Yamie Schall Sundor in Washington.

There are just nine weeks to go until election day,

and the first presidential debate between Vice President Harris

and former President Trump is in just one week.

With that on the horizon, both candidates are kicking off the final stretch of the campaign

with very different strategies.

Former President Trump was off the campaign trail over Labor Day weekend and his opponent hit

key battlegrounds using the holiday to amplify her economic message. Vice President

Harris appealed to union workers in Pennsylvania while campaigning alongside President

Biden for the first time since she became the nominee. At the event President

Biden he'd praise on Harris an emotional tribute to his potential

successor. It really is all about the dignity of work.

Then there's all, if you care about the dignity of work, there's only one person you have a rational choice with this time. That's

Kamala Harris. And she has a backbone like a ramrod.

And she has a moral compass of a saint.

This woman knows what she's doing.

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