Hi everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. There is no shortage of big news stories to cover today.

In just a few minutes, Vice President Kamla Harris

and second gentleman, Doug Em Hoff,

will mark the one year anniversary

of the October 7th terror attack in Israel to commemorate the victims and the

hostages of that devastating attack will bring you those remarks live as soon as

they get underway but we begin with the 2024 presidential campaign now

roiled by a deadly natural disaster

and a Republican presidential nominee who

was defined by his never ending pension for lying.

Here's what here's what vice president Harris said to describe

Donald Trump in a podcast last night. This guy is full of lies. I mean I

just have to be very candid with you. You know, so in my career, from the time

I got out of law school through most of my career as a prosecutor.

I understood that the words that I spoke

and what I did with those words would be the difference

between whether somebody was charged with a crime or went to prison, maybe prison for life.

When I was attorney general, I was the top law enforcement officer of the biggest state in this country.

And I was acutely aware that the words I spoke could be the difference between whether a corporation

was in business or out of business, that the words I spoke could move

markets.

The idea that someone is not only so careless and irresponsible and reckless, but out and out lies

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