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Can a war in the Middle East be averted?
The region braces for further attacks after Israel’s killing of Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut.
Hezbollah is still reeling from the killing of its longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah.
As the group mourns his death and weighs its options, Israel has carried out more strikes, killing another of Hezbollah’s top leaders.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argues that Nasrallah’s assassination will reshape the balance of power in the Middle East.
And he has warned Iran, Hezbollah’s main supporter, that Israel’s military can strike anywhere in the region that it needs.
Tehran has promised retaliation, saying Israel will regret its actions.
But beyond words, what does this mean for an already volatile region?
Presenter: James Bays
Guests
Mehran Kamrava, professor of government at Georgetown University of Qatar and head of Iranian studies at the Arab Center for Policy Studies and Research.
Robert Geist Pinfold, lecturer at Durham University and author of the recently published book, Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits.
Muhannad Ayyash, professor at Mount Royal University and policy analyst at Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network.
Harris releases medical report saying she’s fit for office; Trump has yet to provide his
Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday released a summary of her medical records from her White House physician, who deemed her to be “a healthy 59-year-old female who has a medical history notable for seasonal allergies and urticaria.”
The physician, Joshua Simmons, added that she’s been treating her seasonal allergies with over-the-counter allergy medicines and that her urticaria — commonly known as hives — has been treated with “allergen immunotherapy (AIT) for the past three years.”
“Notably, she has never experienced severe symptoms, angioedema, or anaphylaxis,” the physician’s report added.
Simmons also wrote that the vice president eats a healthy diet and engages in regular daily aerobics and core strength training. He added that she drinks occasionally in moderation and does not use tobacco products.
“She possesses the physical and mental resiliency required to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency, to include those as Chief Executive, Head of State and Commander in Chief,” the vice president’s doctor concluded.
Harris’ last medical exam in April was “unremarkable,” Simmons said, adding that all of her routine exams and bloodwork were “normal.” The report noted Harris’ skin was “normal apart from mild sun damage in sun-exposed areas.”
Presidential candidates typically release their medical records, and presidents tend to have annual exams.
This is the first time Harris’ medical records have been made public.
Former President Donald Trump pledged to CBS in August that he would release his records but has yet to do so.
In a statement on Saturday, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said Trump “has voluntarily released updates from his personal physician, as well as detailed reports from Dr. Ronny Jackson who treated him after the first assassination attempt. All have concluded he is in perfect and excellent health to be Commander in Chief.”
Cheung went on to blast Harris, saying Trump “has maintained an extremely busy and active campaign schedule unlike any other in political history, whereas Kamala Harris has been unable to keep up with the demands of campaigning and reveals on a daily basis she is wholly unqualified to be President of the United States.”
Trump’s most recent medical report of any kind was a three-paragraph letter in November 2023 that he posted to his Truth Social account, in which Dr. Bruce Aronwold said the former president was in “excellent health.”
The letter said that Trump, now 78, had undergone a number of exams which had all come out “normal,” but it lacked specifics, such as blood test results, blood pressure, weight, conditions or medications.
Whereas President Joe Biden’s age, 81, was a top concern for voters during his re-election bid, the Harris campaign is seeking to put the focus on Trump, a senior Harris aide said. Trump would frequently attack Biden over his age, calling him nicknames like “Sleepy Joe,” but Harris is now using that playbook against him.
Harris, 59, released an ad this month hitting Trump’s age, asking viewers what would happen if he became incapacitated as president, leaving his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, at the helm. The ad shows a video of Trump appearing to slur his words at an event, and a Fox News host saying, “The former president, he’s been off his game.”
“Excellent health”: Harris shares medical history to highlight Trump’s age
The summary of Harris’ medical history revealed she has seasonal allergies, but is otherwise in “excellent health”
Published October 12, 2024 10:45AM (EDT)
Vice President Kamala Harris addresses the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Ill., on Monday, August 19, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
The White House shared a letter from Kamala Harris‘ physician on Saturday, detailing the vice president’s full medical history and declaring she’s in “excellent health.”
“She possesses the physical and mental resiliency required to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency,” US Army physician Joshua R. Simmons wrote in the letter.
The rundown, which revealed that Harris is near-sighted and suffers from seasonal allergies, among other minor ailments, is a clear shot at Donald Trump. While her election opponent has released doctor’s notes in the past, the glowing language has raised questions about whether or not his physicians were being entirely truthful.
Trump is nearly two decades older than Harris and would be the oldest president ever elected were he to win in November, knocking off a record set by current President Joe Biden. Harris’ one-time running mate dropped out of the presidential race earlier this year after a terrible debate performance raised questions about Biden’s age and mental acuity.
While Trump has had no such public mishap, questions remain about the former president’s fitness. Fellow Republican and former booster Chris Christie told the New York Times earlier this week that Trump has clearly lost a step.
“He wasn’t as good in 2020 as he was in 2016,” the former governor of New Jersey said. “I saw decline in his skills in ’20 from ’16, and you see significant declines still. What masks it is that he is still physically pretty vibrant and energetic, unlike the president. But if you listen to him and his ability to make a point, it’s not nearly as good now as it was in 2016, not nearly.”
Adam Schiff Offers a Crash Course in How to Leave Republican Opponents Speechless
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Democrats campaigning in blue and purple states should follow Schiff’s lead in making an issue of the GOP’s Trump cronyism.
Democratic Representative Adam Schiff, left, and Republican Steve Garvey, meet for a live debate hosted by ABC7 on October 8.
(David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News / SCNG)
Adam Schiff is a safe bet to win the open seat representing California in the US Senate—in a race where he is likely to win more votes than any Senate candidate in this year’s high-stakes battle for control of the chamber.
The often controversial Democratic representative from Burbank holds a lead of around 25 points in most surveys over Republican Steve Garvey, a 75-year-old political newcomer who won the GOP nomination primarily because older voters recalled his professional baseball career, which began during President Richard Nixon’s first term.
But Schiff has something to show Democrats who are running in closer contests for Senate seats representing blue and purple states.
When Garvey tried during Tuesday’s California Senate debate to present himself as a mainstream candidate, Schiff wrapped Donald Trump’s record around the Republican.
Schiff dismissed Garvey as a “MAGA mini-me in a baseball uniform.”
That’s a good line of attack—sans the baseball uniform reference—for Democratic candidates, particularly for those running in states where Republicans are more politically viable than California. In this era of deep political division and hyper-partisanship on both sides of the aisle, candidates are often too cautious about how they frame their outreach to the broader electorate. Some of that caution is understandable. But it should not preclude a sharp focus on the lawless Republican presidential nominee.
The mistake that too many Democrats have made in this election cycle is to imagine that edgy criticism of Trump will somehow narrow their appeal to independents and wavering Republicans. That makes no sense in a campaign season where mobilization of the broad anti-Trump base is critical for Democrats.
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris is reaching out to Republicans, as her recent visit to Wisconsin with former House Republican Conference chair Liz Cheney made clear. Yet, as anyone who watched the September debate between the two major-party presidential candidates well understands, Harris is also running hard and smart against Trump. It is hard to think that a substantial number of enthusiastic Trump backers will choose a Democratic candidate for the Senate in their states. Yet Republicans are currently mounting campaigns that imagine they can grab up independent votes, and even some Democratic votes, for GOP Senate candidates in blue and purple states.
This is the sly focus of campaigns for Republican Senate candidates such as former governor Larry Hogan in Maryland, Nella Domenici in New Mexico, Mike Rogers in Michigan, and Eric Hovde in Wisconsin. All of these GOP contenders are making major pushes to attract votes from moderate independents and Democrats.
In his race against Democratic US Senator Tammy Baldwin, Hovde is quoting Democratic presidents such as John F. Kennedy on his website. In his race against Democratic US Representative Elissa Slotkin for an open seat in Michigan, Rogers is pitching himself as a candidate who “will look for every opportunity to be bipartisan” in the Senate. In New Mexico, where she faces Democratic US Senator Martin Heinrich, the Republican is mounting a “Democrats for Domenici” campaign. In his Maryland open-seat contest with Angela Alsobrooks, the Democrat who serves as Prince George’s county executive, the Republican candidate is running a “Democrats for Hogan” campaign, mimicking Harris’s “Country Over Party” slogan, and saying he won’t vote for Trump in November. But the notoriously thin-skinned Trump has endorsed Hogan, saying, “I’d like to see him win. I think he has a good chance to win.… I can just say from my standpoint, I’m about the party, and I’m about the country. And I would like to see him win.”
Why is Trump for Hogan and for other Republicans Senate candidates who have tried, in at least some instances, to distance themselves from the GOP nominee? That’s simple. If Trump wins a second term as president in November, his ability to appoint cabinet members who will implement his Project 2025 agenda, as well as Supreme Court justices and other federal jurists who will protect him from accountability, will be determined by which party controls the Senate. Trump knows that if he has a Republican Senate, and especially if the Republican majority is padded with GOP senators from swing states and blue states, there will be no stopping him.
Similarly, if Harris wins but ends up with a Republican-controlled Senate, her ability to govern will be severely limited.
The stakes are too high for Democrats to pull their punches in blue states and swing states.
Schiff, a former United States Attorney who led the first of two congressional efforts to convict Trump for his many high crimes and misdemeanors, got the calculus right in his debate with Garvey.
The Republican tried to make Schiff’s record as an impeachment manager a liability for the Democrat, griping, “I can’t imagine, Mr. Schiff, how you could get up every morning and have one mission, and that’s to go after Donald Trump.”
“How can you think about one man every day and focus on that when you’ve got millions of people in California to take care of?” asked the Republican. “I think it’s unconscionable.”
But Schiff recognized that voters, be they Democrats or Republicans or independents, want their elected representatives to be willing to hold the powerful to account.
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“Mr. Garvey likes that particular attack because that’s what Trump likes to say. It’s his way of telling MAGA viewers out there, ‘Hey, I’m one of you.’ That’s not what Californians are looking for, Mr. Garvey,” said the Democrat. “Mr. Garvey, I stood up to a corrupt president. Yes, I investigated him. I impeached him. I led the trial in the Senate, and he incited a violent attack on the Capitol. And I was there that day, Mr. Garvey. I was there on January 6 as those insurrectionists were breaking down the doors and windows. The fact that you think that’s perfectly OK, that you still want to support the guy who incited that [violence] tells me that you would never take your oath of office as seriously as I do.”
It was a takedown that put everything in perspective.
The debate moderator invited the Republican to respond. But when the camera focused on Garvey, all that viewers saw was a long, awkward silence.
Schiff finally said, “I’ve left him speechless.”
Garvey eventually mumbled a few empty words. But they did nothing to right the course of his sinking ship.
In his takedown, Schiff revealed the reality that the Republican is a partisan who, by Garvey’s own admission, “did vote for Donald Trump three times.” And the Democrat left no doubt about why he has been so outspoken in his opposition to Trump—in the past and in this campaign. “Donald Trump, I think, was a disastrous president,” said Schiff. “I think he has threatened our democracy.”
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